Someone else loved Nutty bars? superb! a lump of caramel, covered in nuts ,like a MARATHON turned inside out & George Melly sang the jingle to the tune of Peanut Man .Also loved Coconut Boosts the plain one is tasteless!
ah, these are british candies! No wonder, had no idea of these candy bars and sweets until now, and I'm thinkin' the Peanut Marathon bar is the same as the Snicker's bar? No wonder this se Utah hillbilly was totally in the dark regarding these candies!
So good Blobs aaaaa Texan bar Why aren't these companies jumping on the obvious market for these discounts lines Marvelous vid Thanks so much Ant P UK teacher
I remember some of these, nutty was a fave, Did you know why alot of these brands and other favourites have been sliding into memory lane, Its because of the fiat currency advent, that along with the stealth tax of inflation, basically print more money, making the system continue to work, which means there is a downward value of your savings and the unit value of the money reduces, That's why a house in 1980's is 2-5k, now its more like 80-100k. Admittedly these days money is simply made by numbers on a screen!!!! Checkout fractional banking, another creating money out of nothing, Welcome to the real world, I was too unaware of the system, It's like playing a computer game, that the manufacturers aka makers of the game omit some very very important information about no need to buy add ons or in game purchases, as its not in "THEIR" benefit to do so,
Yeah .... Nutty Bars and Topic's .... How about Bazooka Joes and the Jelly Snakes called Wrigglers .... The early seventies .... The U.K. was a brilliant place to be as a child .... What happened to it ???
I make them. Mix shredded coconut with condensed milk and add glace cherries(halved). Shape into a bar and put in freezer. When firm take out and cover in chocolate. Melt the chocolate in a pan then dip the bars in. Leave to set
Those were the days sweets tasted like sweets ..All the proper colourings and proper tastings..Now they have removed everything and sweets are tasteless and boring
Remember butterscotch in those strange bars, fangs crisps, bazooka Joe, were you could order stuff,like xrey speks, etc, pez tubes , with that croc thing, 76 long summer t.v strikes Robinson crusoe in the morning followed by banana splits and the monkeys and clangers around 4 and captain pug wash good old days as a real kid with my tomahawk bike .
my awareness of british sweets has been limited since emigrating in 1980. but when encountered the delta is overt. eg. walnut whips are hardly there compared to what they were in the 1970's, with a thick plate of chocolate and another nut at the bottom.
We often bought our mam boxes of chocolates - but we ended up eating the majority of them because mam couldn’t chew the ones with hard centres (she had no Hampsteads), didn’t like coffee flavoured chocolate (though she’d happily drink a cup of Maxwell House or Nescafé), couldn’t chew nuts or nougat - out of a box containing some 30+ types of confectionery, mam could only eat about six! 1:38 Toffee bon-bons - can you still get them? I loved them as a boy! You can still get Marathon bars today under the name of Snickers and Opal Fruits are now called Starburst! As to sherbet fountains - we tried to make them into a fizzy drink - but we put too much water in it and ended up with a concoction that was like a cross between Andrews Liver Salts and Steradent! Looked a bit like fireworks - how many parents, in poor light conditions, made their kids eat the gunpowder out of a firework, while trying to set light to the liquorice stick that comes inside the sherbet fountain?
Anyone remember Moose bars? They were a dark chocolate equivalent of Milky Bar. In 1972 when I started school at 4 they were 1 and a half Pence each. The half Pence change from my 2p tuck shop money got me a Highland toffee. At primary you left the School at 3pm. The Primary School was 1/3 of a mile from home. Walked it there and back. 50p bought you a week's dinner. I always went into my Granpas for a glass of lemonade and a tunnocks biscuit. It was either a teacake, a wafer or a caramel log which was my favourite. He died 42 years ago. 15th February 1977. 13 days after his 84th birthday.
Must be a regional thing. I don't recall seeing Moose bars in my part of the UK (South Wales) when I was kid. I do remember the fizzy cider Blobs very well...they were my fave in junior school - as well as Fruit Climpies. They were very small round fruity boiled sweets in a see through cellophane tube.
@@dawnfinch9935 Because the UK was the only region that called them Marathon so they changed it in 1990 to make it universal in all markets. I'd refute that it "never tasted the same after that" because only the name changed not the recipe or ingredients. Snickers was the world's number 1 biggest selling chocolate bar so there's no way they changed the formula. And after changing the name it went from the 9th popular choc bar in the UK to the 3rd. But you say it tasted different? Surely it would have become less popular if they'd changed how it tasted along with the name change. Don't let 'Rosy retrospection' deceive you! web.archive.org/web/20060706162521/www.csmonitor.com/durable/1999/03/18/p23s2.htm
@@joannesaltfleet2071 Again, I think this is Rosy retrospection rather than a change in the recipe or formula. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosy_retrospection
I can still picture myself going the corner shop, (so essential in those days, I miss them still(😥), and buying, & enjoying the vast range /choices of confectionery. Childhood memories are made of this. D.
Oh my days they were the best! Golden cup was just absolutely delicious too and coffee walnut whips were gorgeous!!! Also loved a caramac mint cracknell and milk tray chocolate bar. Other thing was lime barrels you used to get in Milk Tray......revels too with coffee creams in them and a bag did last ages and ages.....better days....
i remember i had sore leg. dad bought me a texan bar and miracle. achy leg was gone! who needs jesus. really need to bring them pacers back. first time i saw celtic football team i thought they looked like pacers
Ahhh, Treets, I miss them. Cadbury's Blackcurrant eclairs and Callard & Bowser cherry nougat were favourites in my house in the 1970s, as well as Cadbury's Dairy Milk individually wrapped chocolate that came in a push up box.
If you go into any of those American Candy Stores in the U.K.Today.The U.S.Version of the Payday Bars are just like those Rowntree's 'Nutty' Bars only with a slighty salty content on the peanuts nowadays.
Rowntree nut bar roll looks something similar to Pearson's salted nutroll sold in the States, that nut roll is so CRUNCHY good, crunchy peanuts and a soft, white nougaty center! :)
Good point but they do still make Caramac bars. Apart from the big brands that were (and still are) available in international markets too, this is mostly a list of discontinued chocolates and sweets from the UK.
Yes I remember Martin's the newsagent. Had one at the end of road and bought weekly sweets and beano comic. Come Christmas used to buy the annual. Happy times and wonderful memories. What Martin's was it incidentally as all in Essex I believe?
@@katharineh.7560 indeed, I don't know why I thought they were only within Essex. Remember very well with fond memories. Walking my dog Nebo, to collect the Sunday papers. Penny sweet counter and the jars at the back from which my favourite, a quarter, or half pound of chocolate raisins, would be weighed and then placed into a white paper bag. Staff in pale blue uniforms if I remember correctly. Evoking many happy memories
I used to like spangles and I think they should bring back the old sweets with the English names like opal fruits instead of them being called starburst marathon bars instead of calling them snickers we live in England we do not need the American sayings for or British sweets we do not live in America stick to our own sweets and stop changing the names of them
I remember the Nutty Bar ad had an astronaut reporting that he saw the nuts but couldn't see the fudge. I can't have been older than 7 or 8 and astronauts were cool. They still are to be fair.
