Post by: Glamrocker on October 24, 2005, 10:20:48 am
Hi guys n gals
I'm trying to build a website dedicated to all things 70's and have already got a selection of sweets from this era but as I can only remember a few myself I was hoping I could call upon the experts to help me out a bit.
I would love for you all to take a look and let me know what I'm missing and what descriptions are wrong.
This is a great site by the way and I would like to put a link on my sweet page if that's ok.
Rennie aka Glamrocker www.escape-to-the-seventies.com
Post by: Forth Bridges on October 24, 2005, 11:50:48 am
well if it help we have had a list on the site of every thing that has goen an dhere it is:
WE HAVE..........
Texan
Galxey counters
Cabana
frys five centres and secrets
milk tray bar
Goldmine
Golden Cup
bounty what was a goldmine
Pyramint
Bitz
Wisper
Dainty Bars
boxes of Weekend
Carousel
Mint Cracknell and Lime Cracknell.
Lime Barrels in Milk Tray selections.
Gooseberry Creams in
Turkish Delight ones in Revels.
Old English Spangles.
Opal Mints (or if you must - Pacers).
Amazin Raisin bars
Spangles just added.
jolly rancher
Aztec
Wispa Mint, Wispa Gold, Wispa Bite
Ice Breaker
Lime Aeros
Orange Aeros!
Old
Top Deck
Chocolate Apple (long before my time - apparently a variation on Chocolate Orange)
Ovaltine Bars
Cadbury's Country Style
Savanna
Amazin Rasin Bar
Aztec
anytime bar (mint honeycombe like middle in thin choc coating)
old
super mousse bar
secret bars -- new one
think it was called golden nugget (choc with honeycombe peices in it)
banjo
ENJOY! 
Post by: on October 24, 2005, 12:45:07 pm
How did you spell all those words?
Post by: Glamrocker on October 24, 2005, 12:54:20 pm
LOL loads there. Thanks for that.
I can remember the Weekend boxes. Weren't they all fruity ?
Savannah? don't recall those see this is where I fall down. What were they like?
Post by: Forth Bridges on October 24, 2005, 02:14:55 pm
How did you spell all those words?
wel everyoen eles suggested thes so I just and pasted!
look under "everything we have lost" therd in thsi old product for more infor!
Post by: Forth Bridges on October 24, 2005, 02:16:07 pm
I can remember the Weekend boxes. Weren't they all fruity ?
Savannah? don't recall those see this is where I fall down. What were they like?
SO everyone wer weekend bar 0 Fuilty ?
savannh what were there like
Post by: oldspice on October 24, 2005, 03:08:03 pm
How can you say that Aztec Bars had no chocolate on them! That's total rubbish if I may say! They were chocolate-covered nougat and caramel bars and were marketed as Cadbury's answer to the Mars Bar! The bar with peanuts on the outside and fudge on the inside was something else entirely!
Amazin Raisin bars did not have a rum flavour. They had a white nougat, caramel and raisin filling with a milk chocolate top and plain chocolat bottom. The song went:
It's amazing what raisins can do!
All that goodness and it's all for you
It's got two kinds of chocolate and caramel too and it's got raisins and they're good for you
Oh it's amazing what raisins can do!
All in all a good website but you have repeated errors that have appeared in a similar website so your research is secondary - not primary - always risky!
Post by: Glamrocker on October 24, 2005, 03:14:23 pm
There's quite a few on list I don't have.
Cabana, Bitz, Pyramint, Dainty Bars, Carousel, Jolly Rancher, Biarritz, Tiffin, Top Deck, Ovaltine Bars, Country Style, Anytime Bar, Super Mousse, Secret Bar.
Also was there a triffic bar?
Are these all from the 70's and does anyone nice persons have pics and info?
Vaguely remember the Country Style and Top Deck but I think my brain has been fizzled out by too many Lem Fizzes.
Post by: Glamrocker on October 24, 2005, 03:18:45 pm
Old Spicey,
Thanks for the comment.
Yes I know they are but I was very young and my memories of the sweets are pretty vague. Hence my call for help, I would like it to be accurate therefore my reason for coming to you people, the choccie experts.
Post by: Glamrocker on October 24, 2005, 03:23:04 pm
I also think I cut and pasted that to the wrong thing. That I think is the *nutty log* type bar.
Need some editing to be done ..............
Post by: oldspice on October 24, 2005, 05:50:22 pm
No probs Glamrock - you are doing a grand job. here are some things for you to consider or add as you wish:
Mint Cracknell and Lime Cacknell - Chocolate covered bars with a shard-like filling. Mint came out first. Lime did not last very long but both were quite popular and are much missed by us 70s veterans.
Milk Tray Bars - a moulded chocolate bar made up of chocolates from the Milk Tray Selection. Fillings included starwberry cream, fudge, lime barrel, turkish delight and hazelnut in caramel. Cadbury's also did a plain chocolate version called Plain Choice.
Frys Five Centres - a bar the same size, shape and style as Frys Chocolate Cream (still available) but with different fruit flavoured fillings. Also made in milk and plain versions.
Aero bars came in many different flavours in the 70s. There were milk and plain chocolate versions, a version with milk chocolate outside and plain chocolate inside, a coffee-flavoured version, peppermint and orange versions and also a lime flavoured one and a strawberry flavoured one.
Tic Tacs came in many flavours in those days too including cinnamon, spearmint, orange, tangerine, lime and aniseed.
Chocolate Treets, made by Mars, were very popular. there were toffee, peanut and chocolate versions. The chocolate version was flat with a hardh shell and chocolate centre. They were re-named Minstrels and still exist. The toffee flavour and peanut flavour were round, had a hard shell coating and a chocolate and toffee or chocolate and peanut centre. They were discontinued, although some people say the peanut ones were coloured and re-packaged as M&Ms. I think they taste completely different.
Galaxy Counters were the same as the flat chocolate counters you can still get in bags of Revels. Everyone loved them so why they got rid of them I don't know.
Opal Fruits were the original Starburst sweets before being re-named and having their flavours messed around with. Also, there was a sister sweet called Opal Mints. They were delicious, chewy, creamy, spearmint chews. Eventually they re-named them Pacers, stuck a green stripe through them - then got rid of them altogether!
There were dozens of other great sweets, chocolates and lollies that I can't remember right now but I will add them as I remember them. I am sure other members of the Forum will join in too.
Post by: Glamrocker on October 24, 2005, 06:02:22 pm
You are a star Oldspice, I shall sort them out tonight along with the amazin Raisin bar.
Post by: oldspice on October 24, 2005, 06:02:38 pm
Top deck was a fizzy drink. They came in three flavours that I remember:
Shandy
Larger and Lime (my fav)
Bitter Lemon
Spangles went through some changes during the 70s. They had been around a good time even in the 70s and there were about 6 or 7 flavours available. In the 70s Mars decided to get rid of some of the flavours (like acid drop flavour and a few others) and launch new, larger sweets with hard shells and chewy centres. They introduced fizzy orange, fizzy lemon and cola flavours. They also kept some of the old favourites going like Old English Flavour and Blackcurrant Flavour but these packs kept the old-fashioned look and the new packs got a package make-over.
Chocolate box selections in those days inlcuded Reward, Something Special, Spartan and Weekend. (There is a pic of them somewhere on this Forum)
Post by: Forth Bridges on October 24, 2005, 06:14:24 pm
OLd spice
Post by: kevvosa on October 25, 2005, 12:31:18 am
Post by: Forth Bridges on October 25, 2005, 12:37:36 am
. I wish I lived in the 70s.
yes with the Stirke, powercuts, entreing teh EU, loseing teh FREE milk, going to pence adn pounds, more stirke, adn powercuts, No oil, teh start of rasing unemployment! sound fun!
Post by: oldspice on October 25, 2005, 09:07:22 am
Well it was fun! Power cuts? They make you thankful for having energy and the flick of a swtich. Strikes? they made you think about all the people who do filthy but important jobs to keep us safe/warmfed etc.
The EU? Well, we ARE in Europe so who else should we trade with? Think of all the bad influences on our society - do they come from Europe? NO! They come from the USA! Europe pumps MILLLIONS into the UK. I should know, I deal with some of it in education
Post by: goldencup on October 25, 2005, 09:11:00 am
And at least we kids could play outside all day and nobody bothered where you were as long as you came home before it got dark!
Post by: on October 25, 2005, 09:25:47 am
Well it was fun! Power cuts? They make you thankful for having energy and the flick of a swtich. Strikes? they made you think about all the people who do filthy but important jobs to keep us safe/warmfed etc.
The EU? Well, we ARE in Europe so who else should we trade with? Think of all the bad influences on our society - do they come from Europe? NO! They come from the USA! Europe pumps MILLLIONS into the UK. I should know, I deal with some of it in education
ALL the bad influences?
Have you read any of the EU Directives?
I know who I would rather have as a friend when I really needed it and it would not be France or Germany (nothing to do with "the war" incidentally).
Yes the USA's greed and waste of resources is terrible but let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
Post by: Forth Bridges on October 25, 2005, 10:28:00 am
i'm sorry but I Don't liek EU it like your loacl council CORRUPTED TO THE VERY ENDS!
US are worse!
Post by: Glamrocker on October 25, 2005, 12:53:24 pm
LOL I think this subject got a little interesting.
Oldspice I have added the new details you gave me to the site.
Thank you very much for your help.
Post by: Forth Bridges on October 25, 2005, 08:39:50 pm
LOL I think this subject got a little interesting.
Oldspice I have added the new details you gave me to the site.
Thank you very much for your help.
Well You mius tout Galxy counter!!!! there must be put in! 
Post by: oldspice on October 25, 2005, 08:41:04 pm
Post by: Forth Bridges on October 26, 2005, 12:19:19 am
RATS I need new glass although I'm short slightred!
Post by: Glamrocker on October 26, 2005, 01:45:01 pm
Had me going for a sec....
Post by: Forth Bridges on October 26, 2005, 08:12:38 pm
Had me going for a sec....
I go for me eye test in 2007 that when it complerey FRE fro EVERYONE!
Post by: Glamrocker on October 27, 2005, 12:13:15 pm
I think I need a new pair of glasses, might go for the Elton John look.
Now he had some wild specs.
Post by: oldspice on October 27, 2005, 07:11:43 pm
It's amazing that when I was a teenager, he had almost no hair and now he has a bloody great thatch of it! Even more amazing, Madonna used to be two years older than me. In recent years however, she has become two years younger!
Now how does that work?
Post by: loulou on October 27, 2005, 07:24:21 pm
Elton had hair stitched in to his scalp.
Geri Halliwell whenever interviewed claims to be 25!
Post by: oldspice on October 27, 2005, 08:16:32 pm
Whose hair is Elton wearing then? Was it a transplant from another part of his body?
25? That couldn't be her waist measurement could it? I didn't look that lived-in at 35!
Post by: Glamrocker on October 31, 2005, 10:11:45 am
lol just trying to picture him with curly hair!!
Post by: Bunny on November 06, 2005, 02:21:00 pm
Post by: cocoacat on November 13, 2005, 05:36:20 pm
I'm amazed - there are people out there who actually remember Galaxy Counters!! I've asked just about every soul I've newly encountered for the past 16 years whether they remember Counters and I've yet to meet anyone who didn't think I was imagining things... I was beginning to think maybe I had. Weren't they white, packets with various cartoon 'zoo' animals next to a variable number of counter? I seem to recall a giraff and maybe a camel... what other animals were on the backs of them - anyone remember?
Post by: goldencup on November 13, 2005, 07:22:17 pm
Post by: Daisychain on October 02, 2007, 11:08:28 pm
I remember collecting wrappers from Cadbury's Super Mousse and sending them off to get stickers about the Apollo missions. There was a little area that you rubbed with a pencil and if you got two with the same number you could get the sticker for that Apollo mission...
Post by: smurfboy on October 02, 2007, 11:58:12 pm
Post by: oldspice on October 03, 2007, 07:59:01 pm
I remember collecting wrappers from Cadbury's Super Mousse and sending them off to get stickers about the Apollo missions. There was a little area that you rubbed with a pencil and if you got two with the same number you could get the sticker for that Apollo mission...
What about Caramac? Do they still make that one? And Bar Six...Do you remember an ice lolly called a Lollygobblechocbomb or (my favourite) a Fizzbang? It was lemon with sherbet in the middle...mmmmm.
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Post by: oldspice on October 04, 2007, 06:56:28 pm
Post by: naxos on October 04, 2007, 08:07:05 pm
In the 80s, Finlays newsagents were in dispute with Nestle (then still Rowntree's, just about). They refused to stock KitKats, and offered Bar Six as the alternative. Now, both Finlays and Bar Six are gone.
It's the Curse, I tell ye!
Post by: oldspice on October 05, 2007, 08:03:50 am
Post by: naxos on October 06, 2007, 07:31:59 pm
Post by: Daisychain on October 18, 2007, 11:18:05 pm
Post by: Glamrocker on December 04, 2011, 02:07:09 pm
hey Goldencup you still about? I still have some pics of you ;)
Post by: goldencup on December 04, 2011, 06:56:24 pm
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Post by: oldspice on December 05, 2011, 06:54:35 am
Post by: Glamrocker on December 09, 2011, 06:57:11 pm
Post by: Glamrocker on July 06, 2012, 02:01:26 pm
Just thought I'd post a little thank you for all your help with my 70s site and to let you know I've posted up a link on my sweets section with credits going to all you people especially Oldspice & Goldencup.
Many Thanks
Rennie
x x (one each) :)
Post by: oldspice on July 06, 2012, 07:12:04 pm
Post by: goldencup on July 07, 2012, 11:05:36 am
Whoops - forgot the x!
Post by: Glamrocker on October 22, 2012, 02:43:12 pm
Just spotted these for all you retro wrapper fans, http://www.totally70s.co.uk/cadburys/?sort=pricedesc (http://www.totally70s.co.uk/cadburys/?sort=pricedesc) I love the storage tin as it has a brilliant pic of the Milk Tray Bar. :)
Post by: oldspice on October 22, 2012, 05:41:13 pm
Post by: Glamrocker on December 06, 2012, 04:13:35 pm
http://escapetotheseventies.com/70s-community/forums/ (http://escapetotheseventies.com/70s-community/forums/)
I do think I got your good side ;)
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