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Does anyone remember.....

Mint cracknell .... chocolate coated strands of mint .

Tiger tails ..... chocolate coverered marshmallow and biscuit .

Opal mints ..... chewy mints .

Imps ..... little things that burnt your mouth .

John .

Mint cracknell was my all time favourite John.

How I used to love slicing my tongue open on a bar of it each afternoon on the way home from school !

It probably wouldn't get an H&S certificate nowadays.

How about sweet tobacco ? I hated it

Another one I hated was those awful peanut bars, stuck together with toffee or something. Not sure if you can still buy them.

As a child bought up in Scotland, we had sweet rationing for alot longer than here in England, boo hoo
But I do remember Cinder Toffee, which was like the present day Crunchie Bars, but without the chocolate. Something called Slab, which was a toffee, and not much else.
In later years I can remember Spangles, Love Hearts, Opal Fruits, Opal Mints, and all the selections you bought loose in Woolworths.
Julia in Derbyshire

Oooh yes, something I think was called Fry's Five Boys, which was a bar of chocolate that you broke off in five segments, each with a different flavoured cream inside

Hi Julia,you can still get cinder toffee, it also comes with chocolate coating as well.

Well John, I havn't seen Cinder Toffee since thos days.
Golden Girl, I don't remember them.
I know when we came back to live here, my elder sister, by them fourteen, had a perchant for Cadbury's Flake Bars. If it was the only thing on offer, she had one of them. Must remember to ask if she still eats them. She also had fresh Pomegranites, which she ate with a safety pin. But, there again, she never went short of chocolate or bananas during the war, either.
Julia in Derbyshire

Anybody remember "Liquorice Wood"? very chewy and stained your mouth and teeth yellow.**M**.

Heres Puff candy.

http://www.gardiners-scotland.co.uk/bar_puff_candy.html

Or make it yourself.....

http://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/puff_candy_cinder_toffee

I'll bet nobody on that side of the world remembers Molly-O bars. ;)

Milk chocolate-covered coconut and superbly tasty and chewy sweet.

And special for me, because my mum's special maiden Auntie Dud (born in the late 1800s in Nottinghamshire to her unmarried housemaid mother, before her marriage to a man who never accepted Dud as part of the family) worked at the factory that made them most of her life.

And she would bring us the, er, rejects from the line: the double-sized ones that got made, er, accidentally. ;)

I miss them both!

The lime barrel was My favourite Martyn.

Chocolate covered sweet bananas were another favourite.

They still make a coconut bar covered in chocolate mainly got at visiting fairs,,coconut ice I think ,pink and white,?

Coconut Ice Bar

http://www.treasureislandsweets.co.uk/acatalog/Coconut_Ice_Bar.html

Looks disgusting. ;) Lucky, 'cause you can only order in the UK ... and they're @#$% expensive!

Molly-O was a bumpy long log, chocolate on the outside, coconut inside. Much like a Mounds I guess. But lumpier, not as prefab looking. At least, the ones Auntie Dud brought home.

Isn't Molly-O just a great 1950s kind of name? Like the old predecessor / outranked local competitor of the Dairy Queen ice cream stands where I lived: Merla Mae. That is so 40s it kills me. Oh my goodness, it still exists in my old home town! (And it was actually 1957 it opened.)

http://www.merlamae.com/

Remember saving the bazooka joe comics that came with the gum. You could send them off for toys and things.

Janey - that sounds similar to a chocolate bar we have here called Bounty. Not sure if it's in the UK. Just out of interest British chocolate tastes different from Aussie chocolate.

S x

Yes, Bounty, very similar, but again, not lumpy. ;) I'll have to ask my mum -- maybe Molly-Os had something besides coconut in them. Like maybe caramel ...

Those round silver and green peppermint patty ones, what were they? I'm assuming they've gone the way of the dodo too. I went through phases as a kid (still do): Caramilk, Jersey Milk, KitKat, Cherry Blossom, peppermint patties.

What's the Brit/Aus difference?

Canadian chocolate is sweeter than US chocolate. Although a few years ago their slightly bitter Hershey bar suddenly converted to the Canadian way of thinking, and is now a delightfully smooth and sweet milk chocolate. ;)

SueMaid,

we have Bounty over here,its been here for ever..just gets smaller with each passing year...!.

yep tell me about Ozzy chocolate tasting different....I'll soon be getting the delivery sent over,,and I aint got the heart to say I dont like it...

its just awful....}

Caramilk is probally = to our Dairy Milk or any milk chocolate., light.in colour.

I bought some cough candy the other week from T***os. Yum yum, hadnt seen them about for years.

I think Brit and Canuck chocolate are about identical: sweet milk chocolate. We get all the Cadbury's here. (The long-time president of Cadbury's was a cousin of a good friend of mine!) Maybe Aussie choc is like US choc.

Violet Crumble? I've always wanted to try one of them. ;)