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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.
I saved up the wrappers and got a Bazooka Joe watch. My first proper watch. I think I was more pleased with that than the Tissot or Tag Heuer I have now.
No sign of Pacers - Opal Fruit's b*stard brother, which looked more like a bar of soap. I do remember Spangles quite well - the font on the packet was the same as The Goodies logo (I think).
Slightly off topic, my favourite breakfast cereal as a freckly youth was Golden Nuggets - as mined by Klondike Pete.
"Thank you for supporting Queens Park Rangers Steep Staircase"... and I thought I'd signed up for a rollercoaster.
When I was about 13 there was a banana and soft toffee center lolly, I can't find a reference to it anywhere so may have been short-lived I always got one after swimming at Lime Grove
The closest to it is a Walls chocolate with a soft toffee center
Think that was short-lived too.
Edit just found out that was the one and it was banana
American hard gums, pear drops and a quarter pound of pineapple chunks in a bag in your school blazer, the odd thing I remember most was that after a couple of weeks of being in the bag in your school blazer the last few pineapple chunks always seemed to be sharing the bag with largish lumps of fluff. No idea where the fluff came from.
My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.
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
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