Quote: BILLYBOB BOB BOB @ September 5 2009, 7:19 PM BSTWagon wheels when they where the size of bin lids. (Not wheely bins that would be ridiculous)
I wonder if my hands where smaller??
Yes, and the makers still swear that they're the same size as they have always been. The used to be in a pale gold wrapper.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ September 6 2009, 1:15 PM BSTI have enjoyed so many drunken Casey Jones' burgers, that it's not even funny. (Throwing them up later was funny though). For the drunkards who went partying in London but lived in the 'burbs, Casey Jones was the penultimate step for them in getting home on a Saturday night. It was an institution dammit.
Chocolate bars are indeed smaller and you know how their PR departments are spinning it? 'We're very concerned about childhood obeisity, so that's why we made them smaller.'
By far the biggest reduction in confectionary has to be 'Choc Dips', when I were a wee nipper, the biscuits were a foot long and you could go for a swim in the chocolate pot.
I am now utterly confused about your age!
I remember Casey Jones were sort of like Wimpy and they did a funky Terriaki burger.
Secret bars though? Are you wise? They were the sort of thing impoverished Communist countries produced when the chocolate resources ran out.
Count Dracula's Secret was an ice lolly filled with ice cream.It was black on the outside with white ice cream filling,and had a mysterious blood red jelly centre.It was absolutely delicious.A mate of mine use to buy boxes and boxes of them from iceland when we were in the school first year,and we use to sit and eat as many as possible every saturday morning,sitting outside a newspaper printing factory.
Someone remembers them,and has the wrappers etc on his site:
http://cobwebbedroom.blogspot.com/2007/11/count-draculas-secret-lolly-wrapper.html
http://cobwebbedroom.blogspot.com/2007/08/count-draculas-secret-ice-lolly-ads.html
http://cobwebbedroom.blogspot.com/2007/12/count-draculas-secret-lolly-trace-face.html
I wish somebody would find out how to make them and sell them again.
Quote: Sammy @ September 5 2009, 6:36 PM BSTI really miss those flipz - the pretzels with the chocolate on them. Especially the white ones. Some people hated them but I thought they were amazing.
I wish I'd been to CyberCandy before Saturday! I'd have got you some Flipz!
Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ September 22 2009, 8:05 PM BSTI wish I'd been to CyberCandy before Saturday! I'd have got you some Flipz!
Oh you are just too cute! Although I probably would have been too squiffy to actually open the packet!
Oh just thought of another thing I can't find now. Decent strawberry laces. Not the really soft ones you get in packets in supermarkets. The really tough long ones you used to get in the cinema pick n' mix.
Quote: The Rook @ September 6 2009, 9:08 PM BSTYes, and the makers still swear that they're the same size as they have always been. The used to be in a pale gold wrapper.
Back in the late 50s me and a mate used to buy a wagon wheel every Monday.
The two of us could just about manage to carry it out of the shop (end on through the door) and we could make it last until about lunchtime on Friday when we'd have to go and buy a 1,000,000 chews each to get us through to Monday !
I would have said Wispa Gold's but they have made a triumphent comeback. Get in.
I want a mint one. Now!!!
Quote: Leevil @ September 5 2009, 6:36 PM BSTAsbestos Bars.
Just thought of one.
Chocolate dodgers. They were like Jammy dodgers but chocolate.
And those monster feet yogurts!
May have been said put I used to LOVE pacers.
I'm not keen on sweets. I miss those fish and chips crisps. I really wanted some of them when I was pregnant. And Branigans roast beef and mustard crisps.
Quote: Nil Putters @ September 5 2009, 8:16 PM BST
I used to loved the chocolate stuff (Chocolate Concrete apparently) they covered in pink custard (from a metal jug).
Ohhhhh, spot on! At last, someone in the universe who knows what this is! Did you ever have it with mint custard, Nil? Now THAT was good.
Quote: dannyjb1 @ September 23 2009, 12:49 PM BSTMay have been said put I used to LOVE pacers.
What were Pacers? Those stripey, mint sweets?
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ September 23 2009, 12:58 PM BSTI'm not keen on sweets. I miss those fish and chips crisps. I really wanted some of them when I was pregnant. And Branigans roast beef and mustard crisps.
The guy outside my office sells those Branigans crisps from his van, I'm not so keen though.