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A girl at work yesterday had some hubba bubba bubblegum. I said I hadn’t heard of it in years. It started a reminisce about old bubblegums and sweets in general. I was on about the Bubblicious advert and jingle. What was the bubble/chewing gum that had the liquid in the middle when you first chewed it? None of us could remember.
I’d love to try the old crisps and sweets from back in the day again. Crisps: Bones, Fangs, Rancheros, Outer Spacers. Sweets/chocolate: Texan, Banjo, Bar Six, Treats.
Where I used to work - a big industrial park with over 1000 workers on site - small businesses used to regularly set up stalls at lunchtime and a frequent visitor was a purveyor of traditional sweets. I used to buy these for Mrs R from Afar, she loves them: https://www.handycandy.co.uk/chocolate-limes Other brands are available, I believe.
Brian, when Rancheros originally came out, they were delicious! Or is it just that my memory is fading and that I am looking at my past with rose-tinted specs?
"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."
Where I used to work - a big industrial park with over 1000 workers on site - small businesses used to regularly set up stalls at lunchtime and a frequent visitor was a purveyor of traditional sweets. I used to buy these for Mrs R from Afar, she loves them: https://www.handycandy.co.uk/chocolate-limes Other brands are available, I believe.
Brian, when Rancheros originally came out, they were delicious! Or is it just that my memory is fading and that I am looking at my past with rose-tinted specs?
"Brian, when Rancheros originally came out, they were delicious! Or is it just that my memory is fading and that I am looking at my past with rose-tinted specs?"
I don't know. I used to love them too!
"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
Coincidentally, someone’s posted this on twitter today. An old sweet shop on the portobello road.
My grandfather’s shop at 340 Portobello Road. Thank you @OldLondonW14 for prompting me to ask my dad to search out some photos - I’ve never seen these before. Sadly the shop was compulsorily purchased and flattened to make way for new buildings in the late 60s ☹️ pic.twitter.com/u2DYF2VPWv
Coincidentally, someone’s posted this on twitter today. An old sweet shop on the portobello road.
My grandfather’s shop at 340 Portobello Road. Thank you @OldLondonW14 for prompting me to ask my dad to search out some photos - I’ve never seen these before. Sadly the shop was compulsorily purchased and flattened to make way for new buildings in the late 60s ☹️ pic.twitter.com/u2DYF2VPWv
My Great Grandmother's family had a sweet shop on Edware Road, 317. This thread prompted me to look it up. I remember my Grandmother talking about her Uncle Syd who kept the shop. I don't know how long it lasted after the war but I do remember meeting the David Bailin who wrote this and must be a distant cousin of mine.
Fry's chocolate cream Walnut Whips (made with real chocolate - unlike those things now which must be made out of vegetable matter / plastic) Golden Cup Cadbury's Old Jamaica
Makes me recall my first day at school when my folks moved from London to Camberley. I went up to some kid and said "gissa sweet" Got mocked for my accent. W@nker Surrey posh o's
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