Just looking at these you soon realize that already you got more value for your money. It's all come flooding back. Thank You guys for many fantastic times and memories.
I remember the Horror Snacks, they were definitely the precursor to Monster Munch.. Love the Roobarb & Custard music - that's the epitome of being a toddler in the 70s lol
Yes! 20p could get you lots of sweets and a toy in the bag! What can Children, or anyone, buy for 10 or 20p today? Yay for the jamboree bags, they should bring them back at the same price..
Really glad you posted this up. I used to collect sweet wrappers as a hobby (sad I know) and remember Mars with 7p marked on it. But the reason I love this video is at 0:43 is the Smiths crisps that I collected for the 'Chartbuster' flexi-disc record - I've still got it with the same picture on! (But mine is Bay City Rollers). Hahaha! Thank you!!!
I've got a box of sweet wrappers from about 82-89. I don't know why I collected them, but no-one else did, so I expect some are now quite rare, though perhaps not sought after.
I found a shop that sells the Bazooka Joe gum the other day and bought a dozen of them and to my suprise they still tastes the same [for at least a couple of minutes before turning to a tasteless pink glob of hard rubber,as they used to do] Truly wonderful took me back in time to the 80's.... Space Dust next on the list and i'm willing to take my dental chances. Lynn xXx
Does anybody remember Smiths Tubes crisps? Pretty much Square crisps except they were simply rolled into a tube. I fookin' loved them. Ready salted flavour came in a green and red packet I think and there was an advert involving a tennis rally (the ball zooming back and forth over the court was the ''tube' if I remember correctly?). There were other flavours too. Cheese & onion, salt and vinegar and I think beef as well. But I could be wrong. Circa mid to late 80s. Prob the texture I loved.
Pacers is a discontinued British brand of mint flavoured confection, manufactured by Mars. Originally known as Opal Mints, they were plain white coloured chewy spearmint flavoured sweets, launched as a sister product to Opal Fruits (now known as Starburst). The product was subsequently relaunched as Pacers around 1976, and later, three green peppermint stripes were added to the sweet,[1] possibly to align it with a similar American product of the same name.[2] Television commercials for the sweet alluded to sport and fitness, with participants wearing green and white-striped kit, featuring the slogan "Peppermint striped for two-mint freshness".[2] The brand was discontinued in the 1980s
@TheRenaissanceman65 I've heard that Americans have been travelling to England for a really long time now so perhaps Mark tried them when he was over here. Or maybe a relative brought them back to him. Interesting facts about the crisp wars. You certainly know your stuff.
I would never have remembered the horror crisps bags if I hadn't watched it here. I was really into the bones and claws flavours😁 Bazooka Joe was another one I liked but deleted from memory.
@julesthemadman You can still get Rancheros in Ireland, we had a 1970s themed party for my wife's 40th, complete with projected music and TV clips on to the wall and a John Cleese/Basil Fawlty impersonator, and people LOVED the Rancheros and kept commenting they wished they could still get them in the UK. They still taste just as great as they did back then!
This takes me back... thank goodness Frazzles and Chipsticks still exist, but what happened to Rancheros? They were a rarity in the Welsh Valleys and consequently a treat, but they disappeared around 1981 if my memory serves me correctly...
Thank you for appreciating my little mash-up! Most comments simply point out minor flaws or to point out what's missing! So thank you for taking the time to comment and for cheering me up!
Wow, thank you for the stroll down Nostalgia Road! And the great comments it has inspired. Am I the only one who remembers Aztecs? Loved them. And Old Jamaica! My mom´s treat. It was quite expensive, by those days standards, and we didnt have much money, so she would treat herself to a bar when she was a bit flush and share it with me. And thinking of mom, Frys, Turkish Delight, she loved them! And thinking Frys, Chocolate Creme (My favourite) Five Centres, and what about Walnut Whips? Did you eat the nut first or last? They used to put one at the bottom too, but then that disappeared, presumably cost cutting. . I would make them last ages, nibbling my way around and around the spiral. Can you still get Elkes Malted Milk biscuits, the ones with the cows on? I used to nibble them too, all the edge off first, then the biscuit, and try and leave the cows until last!
Aztecs ? Yummy, loved these and Amazins too, best combination you can buy, Chocolate and Raisins. Fruit 'n' Nut for 5p I think it was. Be careful though, the only reason for bringing back the 70's is for the prices, EVERYTHING else sucked. BAD fashion, No real tech to speak of TV's were still in the dark ages for design and performance and the stations went off at midnight Special effects in films and TV were awful, Battle Star Galactica, Meteor, Blake Seven, (Ha Ha Ha Ha Haaaa Haaaa!!!) especially Blake Seven, Milk and just about every other consumable went off 2 days after you opened it I was still at Senior School 75-80, when we didn't have the American graded system I could go on.
Oh, come on, Blakes Seven was so bad it was good! They shared the same quarry as Dr Who at the time, served for any planet they wanted! And acually the script was good, it was just the crap (not so) special effects that killed it. I reckon in years to come modern series will look as creaky! Lol
Today Old Jamaica bars look very similar to Bourbon bars. Yet they used to have a wonderful etching of a ship in port on them seemingly on yellowed paper.
OMG Rancheros ha! I'd forgotten all about them. My fave crisps were Golden Wonder Rock n Rollers, KP All Stars, The Horror Snacks and my fave Saucy Tomato Wotsits. Does anyone remember a soft drink called 'Portello'? Choc bars I liked best were Banjo, Texan, 5 Centres, Cabana and Milk Tray Bar. Ahh all back in the day when they were bigger and cheaper.
I remember buying refreshers chews when I was 8. There was a flash on the wrapper saying 'new' - that was in 1970. The wrapper still says 'new'. (I still love them though)
You can still get Chipsticks and Frazzles today - Opal Fruits are still being sold under the name of Starburst and you can still get Wrigley's gum - my sister works in their head office in Chicago! Used to get these things called Jokes & Tricks that weren't sweets - but one was cleverly disguised as Wrigley's spearmint gum - even going so far as to (in order to avoid copyright infringement) spell Wrigley's wrong - it was spelt Wriggeyl's - when you pull it out, it snaps down on your finger like a mouse trap!
Frazzles are a bacon-flavour corn-based snack sold in the United Kingdom, once manufactured by Smiths, now by Walkers. The packet has kept to the same brown background with yellow writing style throughout the years. The snacks have been produced since 1975, as printed on recent packaging. Frazzles are styled as rashers of bacon and because of this are very recognisable. Leslie Ivey, a tool maker working on behalf of Smiths' West London factory, managed the design and build of the first machine to draw the signature stripe on Frazzles. Many supermarkets have since released their own-brand bacon corn snacks due to the popularity of Frazzles. Despite their bacon styling, Frazzles are suitable for vegetarians.[citation needed] In 2005 Frazzles were relaunched, with the Smiths branding replaced by Walkers.[1] By 2008 the label had been changed back to Smiths.
Yes, i was hoping they'd show up on this as nobody i know remembers them, I'd forgotten the horror bags though, unhealthy snacks were so exciting then...
Cadbury's Spira's were short lived too. They were lush. Used to drink hot (or cold) drinking chocolate with the Spira finger as if it was a straw. They melted whilst drinking the hot choc (or coffee). Remember them being really creamy. Mmmm! There's a possibility they're still available in Wales, not 100% certain on that though. I have a good memory from 1982/83 onwards, I was born in January 1979...
I certainly remember Saucy Tomato Wotsits - a veritable treat. Also Cabana bars and Texan, together with a bar called "Nutty" which was a sort of peanut brittle if my memory serves me correctly. Fortunately the local post office does KP Beef Crisps still, but Golden Wonder Sausage and Tomato are a thing of the past. Believe you can still get Cheese and Onion Ringos, but not often. Rancheros are still available in Ireland apparently according to another poster here. Don't recall Portello, sorry.
A little research tells me that the Robirch company still exists, but I haven't seen any of ther products for years. Their sausage rolls were delicious, particularly with Hazlewood Beetop Sauce, sadly discontinued in the 1980s.
Completely agree. Without exaggeration in the late 70's I could get the bus to our nearest town centre, the cinema in time for 'kids club', then had chips and sausage and the bus back for under £2.00.. great times
@hellomcflyy - sadly as a 9 year old growing up in the 1970's I didn't have the foresight to begin collecting sweets and crisp wrappers so my trip down Memory Lane comes courtesy of researching other people's collections on the Internet, the local Library and Robert Opie's mercurial collection of memorabilia. The music for the video is on an LP which I do own, bought in a local charity shop.
My favorite flavour of crisp was sausage and tomato or just chicken flavour.. At Christmas they also had turkey and stuffing flavour. Not so many flavors these days.
All true, but I remember in Autumn 1986, they introduced 'squashed hedgehog'. flavour crisps. Us teenagers loved them. I wonder if that was just in Wales or UK wide.. great days, I miss Highland toffee and Wham! bars, the toffee could take your fillings out! 😅😅
Barry and Porthcawl it was for us too - annual trip with Cwmtillery Workingmen's Club... egg sandwiches with sand in. Space Dust was brilliant stuff. Also liked Ringos (cheese and onion) which outlived the Rancheros by years but now seem to have disappeared also. Moving up the food scale, remember Robirch pies and sausage rolls?
Lol, your memories made me laugh out loud. Mine were very similar, though it was Pembrey beach for us,or as a special treat, Tenby! Let's bring back 70's holidays, including the warm pop! 😅😅
yes, it was banned at my school too and generally taken off the market for the same reason you gave - it's been relaunched and is now called Fizz Wizz.
It wasn't the correct wrapper for Bazooka Joe's, and Chipsticks haven't change one bit, lol. Pacers were the real blast from the past, I'd forgotten all about them, gone now, but most are just packaging (and in some cases, flavour) changes. I wish you could still get the 'Nutty' bar from Rowantree's, came in a brown translucent wrapper with typical 70's font. Fudge rolled in peanuts coated in a thin caramel to hold it all together, that was awesome. The closest thing you can get to it now is the American 'Babe Ruth', it's virtually the same thing but covered in chocolate, but the choc isn't very good and the whole thing is a bit sweet and sickly, not a good version.
0:42; I've got one of those 'Chartbuster' flexidiscs. It's a Status Quo one featuring 'Down, Down' and another Quo track. Nice to find out theres only 7 more records to collect! Better get saving those tokens...
Jelly tots, Wrigley's spearmint and chipsticks still going, of course. "Horror Bags" were amusing - fangs and bats were a good start with the obvious Dracula theme, but they were scraping the barrel a bit with "ribs". Hardly anything to do with horror movies is it? More like what you get at the chinese takeaway!
in the 70s my brother collected 30 bags of fangs and bones to receive a wicked mask ! well he ended up having to wait months for delivery...... and after all that waiting it turned out to be a crappy cardboard one LOL
Did anyone notice the date stamp on the video right at the end? I first noticed on the first video and again on this one. MCM Huh?, can't be right, that's 1900 I think you may have meant MMX (2010) as the video was uploaded in 2010
OK old timers like myself, I need help! There was a bar I remember from way back which was made of puffed rice, like Krispies and was square, and orangey in colour, it tasted like caramel and came in a clear wrapper with red writing on (I think). It has been hurting my brain trying to remember the name and I cannot find them on Google based on this information.....anyone remember these?
