I was a packet a day kid!
I’m sitting here remembering some of the lollies we used to have as kids back in the 50s to the 70s.
There were Fags of course, the cigarette lollies that we used to buy in little packets and walk around pretending to smoke, like dad.
I remember Columbines that came in a long blue packet and each lolly was individually wrapped in a blue silver paper. Jaffas were made by a company called Sweetacres and came in a cardboard box. They were ideal for rolling down the aisle of the local picture theatre during the Saturday afternoon matinee.
There was gob-stoppers and conversation lollies, all-day suckers and fruit tingles. We used to buy nigger blocks (no offence intended), four in a square and from memory they use to cost 1d. There was Hoadley’s Polly Waffle and the original Violet Crumble bars, Minties and Fantales came in boxes not plastic or cellophane bags. There was Wrigleys Juicy Fruit and PK chewing gum in little packs of four pellets and from memory they were tuppence each.
Haven’t had a Polly Waffle for years and Violet Crumble is definitely not the same anymore
There was sherberts that came in a white packet that had a licorice straw and MacRobertsons made the original Freddo frog, barley sugars, Cherry Ripes and Old Gold chocolate. Allens had Tootie Frooty and Steam Rollers in those little cylinder packs and they also made packets of Coconut Quivers
There were Choo Choo Bars and Red Skins, White Knights and Milko, Life Savers came in all sorts of flavours including Musk.
And remember going to the corner shop to buy 6d worth of assorted lollies in a bag?
Conversation Lollies, a great favourte from the school tuck shop.
Then there were home made lollies too including toffee apples. stickjaw toffees, toffee in patty pans, Russian toffee and coconut ice.
They’re just a few that I can remember, I’m sure there was a lot more. How on earth did we escape with any teeth left in our head?
What was your favourite lollies when growing up?
Cobbers, Pink Panthers, Sherbies, Lolly Gobble Bliss Bombs.
Fruit tingles licorice blocks 8 for a penny
Cbocolate bullets 8 for a penny. I also remember a chocolated coated biscuit similar to a timtam which i think was called Zac or -Zack . I think came in 2 flavours and was wrapped in foil wrapper. Anyone else remember them?
I sure do!
I remember a bar of 2 biscuits in a dark blue (I think) foil type wrapper called the kooka Bar and was very much like tim tams but actually nicer.
Yes they were great. I think tim tams copied them.
Yep, dark blue foil wrapper & much nicer!
I remember the biscuits called Zacs but I cant find any photos online of them. My great aunt used to always bring one for my sister and I when she visited. They were wrapped individually in a green foil wrapper (possibly other colours also?) I strongly suspect that they were the forerunner to Tim Tams because in my memory they were exactly the same. Yum!
I remember getting a zac on very rare and special occasions for little lunch.
I remember blue waxy foil wrapping.
Absolutely they were the predecessor of the ubiquitous Tim Tam; but much more prized and exciting. Thanks for the memory.
Yes Fiona…I also remember these. I have a vivid memory of them coming in a strip of 6-8 with assorted colour wrappers. To separate, one would tear along a perforated line. Bright Blue, Green, Purple, Pink and Orange foil wrapper. Precursor to Tim Tams…I’m certain of it.
I do! And I think before those it was called a KOOKA. It was like 2 original Tim Tams!
Hey Marg yes I do! My partner and I are wracking our brain to remember what sweet or lolly came with the paper tattoos you had to wet to wear?
That was a bubble gum I’m pretty sure. Maybe Black Cat? I remember those ‘lick and stick’ tattoos from the very late 60’s or early 70’s.
Three flavours.Choc,choc mint and choc orange.
Yes they were called Zac’s I think wrapped in foil. I cannot remember the manufacturer. I lived above one of Darrell Leas Chocolate co. @ Emma as street, Leichhardt. My father was the delivery driver for Ricci’s Remone Chocolate Co.wd used to supply our chocolates to other chocolate companies/ wholesalers RG Allen’s Sweet’s, McRobertsons, etc. So kn see the industry quite well.
Does anyone remember Musk knights, omg they were just the best.
my favorites were rainbow balls which you would get 4 for a cent so we would go to shop (deli) with 20 cents and come out with a bag of 80, also not sure what they were called but they were little choc balls, about the size of rainbow balls but they had little flecks of coconut through them. haven’t seen either since the early 70’s, wish I could find them again…yum yum….
They were coconut balls .. then there was cannon balls and butter buttons .. I used to get a bag for 20c and the white bag would be full to the top .. wish we could still get them ?
I LOVED butter balls.
I worked in the corner shop near school at lunchtime and the owner would offer to pay me 10c or 10c worth of lollies. Guess what I always chose?
That was when the kids would come in and say “I’ll have 1 of those, 3 of those, 1 false teeth, 2 cobbers, etc
Cobbers were the best:)
Absolutely Cobbers we’re my favourite of all.
Came from England 1971 aged 11 have always called them sweets, Tex bars were brilliant as were Dinosaur chews anyone remember them ? choo choo bars, hard toffee that would last cobbers etc, mojo chews 2 for 1 cent, milk bottles and false teeth that were chewy not soggy before damaging fillings became a litigation issue I guess, chikos, black cats, chewy not soggy redskins the list goes on magic memories and I do have a few teeth left !
Hi Michael, when is your birthday? ? I was also born in 1960..
1960 What A great year..me too
Jon
Hello Michael can you remember a sweet with the same texture and size as a Choo Choo bar but was a caramel colour had planets and maybe space ships on the wrapper, I thought it was a Mars Bar, unlike the Mars Bar that we have today
Space Bars ? I was beginning to think they were a figment of my imagination because no one else remembers them,
They were Space Food Sticks inspired by NASA of course.
yuk they were horrible weren’t they?
For many years i have been looking for the same product they were great
But cannot find any history of same
Jupiter bar perhaps? That was a caramel and cereal concoction (supposedly ‘healthy’ but still loaded with sugar. I think there was also an Apollo bar that was a white nougat with nuts & maybe fruit. Jupiter bar was my fave. Loved the caramel!
Fantales were a favourite of mine: blue box with a fan on it. They were chocolate covered toffees (which removed to odd filling, I remember) and they were individually wrapped. The wrappings had details of film stars on them.
still miss Tex Bars, and they haven’t been around for god knows how many years! and home made lollies … spuds and toasted marshmallows were yum! and it all tasted so damn good .. nothing tastes the same these days 🙁
Oh and Kooka Bars .. always loved those!
Yes – kookas! My dad used to buy me one every week. I was beginning to think I imagined them. I a purple foil wrapper and looked a bit like a tim tam. Who made them?
I use to love kookas as well and really enjoyed them especially because there were 2 in each pkt seperated by cardboard
I went through the same thing, Lisa, thinking I must have imagined Kookas. My sister and I used to buy them at the corner shop on our street. They came two colours of foil wrapper, in purple or green, and the first time I bit into a Tim Tam I was transported back that little shop. It’s sixty years or more since I’ve seen a Kooka bar.
Cadbury’s Kookas. I’ve been googling them for years and this is the first time I’ve seen anybody else mention them. Thank you all. And Cadbury’s if your listening: BRING BACK THE KOOKAS!!
I am so happy you all remember Kooka Bars, My friend and I used to share one most nights walking home from work. From an old type of milk bar with lounge chairs and tables. I’m thinking it was at least 50 years ago. Now they are Tim Tams.
Yes I loved loved them and I remember them being a little different from tim tams,,,,Kooka Bars were nicer and I think made by Cadbury not arnotts.
Does anyone remember back in the 60’s the nougat bars with scorched almonds covered in dark chocolate. They were in an orange coloured wrapper with I think blue n white writing. I loved them. No where can one find nougat anything like it these days. I cannot remember the brand name. They were superb
If I remember correctly, Kookas were the forerunner to the current Tim Tams. YUMMY.
Yes but the kooka bar was even better than the tim tams. The biscuit inside was so delicious and choc. coating reminded me of Cadbury chocolate. Wonder if they were made by Cadbury. Wish they would bring them back.
Acid Drops, and Cobbers.
I would crawl a mile over broken glass to have a 1950s Tex Bat or Mintex Bar. Bill.
Oh, to have a Tex Bar again. It is good to see that others remember them too. 🙂
I lonnggg for a Tex Bar still. Mars are awful in comparison. I need a recipe.
Sorry, Tex Bar.
In the late 50’s we were given scorched peanut bars. Drool. In one of the licorice show bags we used to get dumbbells. I cannot remember whether they were aniseed or licorice flavoured. Did I ever hang out for them. We also used to have fun peeling the licorice into fine strips or strings then eating it.
Growing up in Adelaide early fifties….Tandy’s tuppeny toffees…a square of caramel toffee on a toothpick with a square paper sleeve you pulled off and stuck the toffee in your mouth to last about an hour if you didn’t suck too hard on it. Tandys was an Adelaide company.
I vaguely recall Tandy’s lollies. What happened to them?
Yes!! I remember licorice straps, and pulling them apart!
And the ‘sample’ bags from the Easter show, when they were FREE, because they we’re promoting their samples!
Does anyone remember milky stars? White chocolate ones in particular, think there were milk chocolate ones too. And white chocolate sheriff badges, oh yum, my sister and I still dream about them! Jo from Canberra
I work at the WEA centre, 223 Angas Street, Adelaide and it was once the Tandy factory!
Ironic that WEA offers a course in Belgian Truffle Making.
I have fond memories of the mashmallow bar, a slap of coloured mashmallow with wafer biscuits top and bottom and the sides of the mashmallow diped into coconut….mmm
Do you remember the checkmate chocolate block, a mixture of milk, white & dark chocolate squares in one clever block.
Who could for get marshmallow bars
@Karen … thanks for confirming that I hadn’t imagined once having a couple of squares of my father’s checkmate chocolate bar. He left us when I was 4, and that was one of my earliest memories and one of only a few memories I have of him. Am I remembering right … that it was made by Smalls? I can’t remember if it was milk chocolate and white chocolate on a base layer of dark chocolate, or white chocolate & dark chocolate on a base layer of milk chocolate? I can still remember the taste & smell of that combination. I only ever had that one taste of it, as we couldn’t have afforded anything like that after he left us as there was no social security back then. Anyway,
Cheers!
The Checkmate chocolate block was made by Nestles at their Sydney plant in the early 60’s.
It was a thin type of block with a milk chocolate base and dark and white chocolate squares that resembled a chess board. The nicest chocolate ever in my opinion.
Marshamallow bars (wafers top and bottom, coconut on the sides) are still sold in Tasmania. Milk Buds were heaven. I can taste them now.
Finallllllly!!!!!! ?. I belonged to site of around 3000 teenagers that grew up in my town back in the 70’s and 80’s. The topic came up regarding sweets we used to eat. When I mentioned Tex bar , no-one knew what I was referring to. Similar to a Mars bar but nicer . I have looked online every now and then to no avail. Finally, someone has a pic of the bar I loved so much. Second to the Kooka bar but no less important. Yes I agree that the Kooka bar set the precedent for the now infamous Tim Tam. But Ohhh do I miss my tex bars. Someone bring them back !!!! ?
Tex bars were and are still my favorite. Every week at the pictures i would buy one or when we went on holidays the shop at the beach always had them. But alas when Nestles yes Nestles not the politically correct Nestlay bought out nearly all the others except Cadbury they decided to cull all sorts of our favorites. Scorched peanut bars were mums favs they are gone now. Green frogs and Mint Leaves last year got Axed. They now have a Tex Bar of sorts on sale but it has wafers in it the original Tex Never did
Why is the French pronunciation of Nestle “politically correct”? I still call them Nestles which reflects my age, my memory and my family but I would nt say that is not PC?
I had a scorched peanut bar yesterday. Still sell them here in Tasmania.
Sounds like we all have to retire in Tassie! ????
Hi Tess, a Tex Bar was THE most delicious treat. In the late 50’s and early 60’s I just loved them
Traffic lights round toffee lollies came in red Amber and green. And cocktail fruits. Good because they lasted longer
I remember the traffic lights but started to think I was imagining them as looked for years but never found them. Until today, yes today. Melba’s chocolates in SA still makes them.
I still miss Tex Bars. There is no equivalent these days.
I still miss them too. Nobody knows what I am talking about when I mention them.
Tex bar there was no flavor like it and the size of the white knights peppermint and spearmint and I think that they had a musk one also polly waffles were a meal
Yep my favourites White nights musk bars , and spearmint bars were amazing bring on a recharge !!!!!! Who madd them Nesles’’
Does anyone remember Mexican jumping beans
Yes! I literally came on here to see if they were in my imagination. I remember being in primary school and any leftover lunch money was spent on the Mexican Jumping Beans.
I loved nigger blocks. I believe they were 8 for a penny when I was at school. At no time did I associate them with anything other than my favourite lollie which I must add gave me black teeth. But I could get a brown bag full for sixpence.
I remember all the lollies and chocolate bars back in the sixties and seventies.
The lollies these days r nothing compared to back then. My favourite were nigger blocks Choo Choo bars, Space bars like the Choo Choo bar but brown yummy ? the good old days!
Wish they would bring them back.
Thanks for the post I was flooded with great memories.
Sharon,what were the bars of chocolate that had the noughts and crosses inside them please?
Would love to know too Gail but few people I speak to remember them. I certainly remember them. I think they might have been just called noughts and crosses.
they were indeed – noughts and crosses bars – marshmallow with chocolate coating 🙂 I used to get one each week in the grocery shopping when I went with mum in the late 70s 🙂 pink and white marshmallow inside. I can’t even find a pic online of them but was talking about them myself recently.
Oh yes Bronwyn Camilleri – Nigger Blocks!! And Choo Choo Bars. And Spuds. And Fantales. Used to love playing “who am I” with the wrappers. And now I have to search markets etc for Spearmint Leaves (Stansbury market in SA have the best Spearmint Leaves) and I miss my green frogs soooo very much. I don’t understand companies disposing of life long favourites and then someone starts importing garbage like Oreos. Many years ago my top drawer at work was full of my favourite flavours of Life Savours – you could buy whole rolls of individual flavours – lime was my fave, and spearmint, and musk. Smyths Confectionary used to make something called a Toffee Crunch, looked like little pillows, came in bags in the lolly section of the supermarket and when I was a little girl you could go into Coles and buy them lose by weight. I really miss my little toffee pillows. And please bring back the Polly Waffle!!!!!!!!
Hi you all, I have read all your comments but does any one know what happened to Tandy’s. I worked as a tray boy for 5 years from the age of 11 to 16, the cinemas were: The Theatre Royal, Majestic, Civic, Mayfair and the York and they were all serviced by Tandy’s confectionary and chocolate. I worked there from 1951 to 1956.Has any one any photos of the old theatres. I was not one that had a camera and have no photos of that era.
18th post from top has this to say is that what you wanted?
Karen September 22, 2016 at 4:17 pm #
“I work at the WEA centre, 223 Angas Street, Adelaide and it was once the Tandy factory!
Ironic that WEA offers a course in Belgian Truffle Making.”
FRIDAY WAS DADS PAY DAY, HOME HE’D COME WITH A SHILLINGS WORTH OF MIXED LOLLIES, A WHITE BAG FILLED TO THE TOP.
THEY WENT ON THE TOP OF THE FRIDGE AND WE HAD TO ASK FOR ONE.
Putting them up on the fridge and making you ask for one is bordering on torture …….
Hi everyone, I agree with you all, sweets and lollies just have no individual taste any more. As I got older I loved LLC,s and SOS,s does anyone remember them an acquired taste but I loved them. Also remember a lollie on a stick striped red and green and pink on the inside but I can’t remember what they were called.
I loved LLC’s I wish we could still get them now.
Hi Craig I used to also love LLC’s
I started to think they were a delicious figment of my imagination , im so glad other people remember them tooooooo .
SOS Cough Lollies! They were the best. So miss them!!!
LLC’s were a favourite of mine too. I often wonder if they had something in them that we shouldn’t be having though…lol. I have moved onto Campari now that I can’t have an LLC anymore ?
Also loved LLCs. Been looking for them for years with no luck.
Oddly, I needed to use some topical wart treatment and the smell was weirdly like those jibes you’d buy in a roll.
Hey Leith
I too loved LLC jubes. I believe they were taken off the market because yes there was something in them apparently.
Very disappointed.
I loved LLCs, they tasted just like ether smelt which is probably what the mystery ingredient was.
Wow.. hadn’t heard that before. I’ve been searching for them for years… Yeah an ingredient that worked. They were my life savers literally… as I used to(luckily) get a type of whooping cough & within moments of having an LLC I’d stop. If you hear or know of anything more about them please let me know.
Yes I remember buying a packet of llc,s every Saturday afternoon in the autumn of 1974 and eat the whole packet at the age of 15 then lay in the sun on the front verandah with this very pleasant carefree light headed head spin like I was drunk or something for the rest of the afternoon,
LLCs were like drinking chloroform, with a few drops of Pernod.
Hey sweetie, are you thinking of the good old Jupiter bar ??
My mum and brother worked at Sweet Acres and at the end of the week, they’d bring home a great big brown bag if OS’s (Orange Squash’s) and/or black jelly beans!!!!!
Yes I remember them well as a kid. Absolutely loved them. Who made them.
Can you still get the orange squash gums – does anyone make them
Maz, you are thinking of Rosy Apples!
Yes Rosy Apples, I loved them. LLC and SOS one of my favorites as well. White Knights and Scorched peanut bars and original Whip bar.
Were LLC ‘s a round aniseed lolly in a packet similar to lifesavers? I have been trying to see if you can get them from anywhere
Yes l sure do and back in the 70s they were very popular
I remember when you could buy 50c worth of lollies n 2c would get you 3 lollies so 50 cents worth was a lot of lollies back then. You known those where the good old days when people talk, more and fun times come from warm laughter not heaps of technology. I am so glad I experienced that in my life it made a better person.
No one has mentioned one of my favourites ‘MILKY MAXMUM BAR’. Sooooooo much better and not as ‘sickly’ sweet as a Bounty. It’s a compressed bar of coconut covered in chocolate, about the same size as a Peppermint Crisp.
Why do they stop making our most loved sweets
ZACs, from the ‘Sixties.
Peppermint & caramel.
Wrapped in foil.
Were they biscuits or confectionary? And, who made them?
No photos seem to exist.
Does anyone remember I’m not sure of the name
But they were flat fruit flavoured candy covered in a wax paper and then plastic
Came in orange, strawberry, lime, I think banana
They were A type of nougha
I loved these bars. I was trying to remember what they were called so thanks for reminding me. I only ever had the mint ones
I wondered if Tex Bars are still made
Like Carolyn, I hanker for a Tex Bar. Long gone unfortunately and nothing remotely like them now. Someone suggested that a Mars Bar is a close equivalent. They obviously have a poor memory. The only similarity is that they are both chocolate coated.
Who remembers SOS lollies they were red and hard
I do. Seem to remember liking them but didn’t make it into my huge list of repeat lollies.
Yes I loved them during primary school around 1985
I remember I used to buy them when I was sick and pretend they made me better.
Looking for a “GIGGLE”
I was 7 years old when we moved into a country fruit and veg/general store which had aside from packet lollies, an amazing lolly cabinet…
Yes remember well what you could get for 10c back in the early 70’s, however I seemed to always get a bigger bag full. There were sherbet bombs, sherbet fountains, bellboy and black cat bubble-gum, metro gum, smarties, choc drops, caramel swirls, freckles, aniseed blocks, bullets, chicos, sherbies, red and green frogs, cobbers, clinkers, jaffas, fizzos, cigars, candy sticks, false teeth, snakes peppermints, spearmint leaves, witchity grubs, pineapples, milk bottles, fruit tingles, jelly babies oranges and lemons, wow I could just keep going as I remember sometimes sneaking a handful per cent…..
The regular monthly arrival of the “Allens” truck was always my favourite day. The regular driver always had something new to try and of course he had a box of broken packets to hand out.
So many of the favourites are long gone and ALAS the inhalation of sweet treats as a boy and up until recently, finally took its toll with a top set of false teeth and a doctors instruction to get off the sugar..
Lesson learned over a long time indeed but by crikey I could list hundreds of favourites, consumed in copious amounts.
I have been looking for information about a choc/marshamallow bar on the net to assist my search for its TV commercial which my brother and his school class were in.
The Choc coated Marshmallow bar was called “GIGGLE” Its centre was white marshmallow with either a Nought or Cross running right through it.
Hoping someone took the time to read my banter above and might remember the choc/marshallow bar and possibly who made it.
Thanks for reading..
Hi Rob!!
Tell me more?!
Did you ever find more info??
What school was it and what year?
I remember most of those from the 80s but also recall my favourite from mixed lollies were little June hats and battleships that had the same texture as Jet planes by Pascal (still available in NZ)
No problem me seems to remember them which makes me wander if they were real lol
I recall my favourite was a purple one that had so much flavour and when you bit it the inner edges would go white.
Also recall Toffe Apple bars and pretty sure a similar one called a space bar that had tingly bits inside.
I am so happy that so many people LOVE Tex Bars. I was starting to think that were a figment of my imagination because nobody that I speak to has ever heard of them and they were my very favourite. It’s hard enough to try to describe the taste and unique texture without everyone screwing up their faces and looking at me like I’ve come from another planet.
Maybe if they can resurrect the Polly Waffle they can do the same with the Tex Bar – I live in hope…….
Thanks Molder and Sandra!
We were having a discussion at work about lollies from the 60s/70s and I could remember a red ball that you used to suck on for ages, but I couldn’t remember the name of them – they were SOS cough drops. Did some research and found they first came on the market in the 1920s. I imagine like me, that you both ate them as lollies rather than as a cough lolly. Wish I could find them again!
So many memories.
Does anyone recall the hard black aniseed (I think) drops which came in a white plastic tube with a stuck on label? These things were tiny but packed a flavor punch.
So long ago I hope I’m remembering correctly…
Cure ’em Quick
The tex bar was also my favorite from when I was about 5 or 6 years old in Brisbane in the very early 70s. Likewise this is the first time I found a website describing it, which I found difficult to believe, and made me question my memory. The only other tex bars I had been able to find descriptions of on the interest had wafers or ripple airy chocolate, nothing like I remembered. I am having trouble remembering it or describing it precisely but it was the caramel in it that I really liked. It had a texture and mouthfeel that nothing today really replicates, It had a CARAMEL TASTE, but the texture was not caramel or toffee or marshmallow, but a strange combination. Chewy but light, substantial not airy, not hard like a toffee or caramel can be, firm, not runny. As I said I cannot think of anything that replicates the mouth feel. It was sort of like a caramel nougat jelly with no wobble. I also really liked that there were two small bars in a packet. There was no wafer or crunch from memory, but I sort of half remember there being two layers a lighter and darker inside the chocolate coating, but that memory is hazy and I am not sure… but I know I loved the feeling in my mouth as well as the taste.
LLC’s were a type of medicated cough lolly that came in a roll. They were hard jube jelly discs with a unique flavour that is similar but not quite like anything I have eaten has today. Sort of an aniseedish irish moss favour, but milder in some ways. They were aromatic as you would expect a cough lolly to be, and would sooth a trickly throat, but it also had flavour notes that were more like sarparilla or cola. There were not harsh like lollies with menthol in them. They were black, and would stain your mouth a black green colour. Probably a bit liquoricey like the indian/pakastani cough remedy JoharJoshanda.
Hey does anyone remember a couple of chocolate bars called Long Tom and Short Sam ?
I reckon about the mid to late 1960’s – from memory the Long Tom had a sort of lime green mint flavoured jelly stuff in it, looked a bit like a flattened Chokito.
The Short Sam was – obviously – shorter in length, and I think a strawberry or raspberry jelly sort of flavour. Both in layers like a Chokito was, with the wafer stuff in there too. Anyone recall who made them ? Any pictures – long shot I know – would be sensational.
Long Tom was caramel and short sam my personal favourite was peppermint
Omg I loved that chocolate bar
It was made by nestle
Used to love Spuds. Marzipan rolled in cinnamon to look like potatoes. Also liked the assorted boiled lollies in the shape of fish from Adelaide markets.
I used to line up for my penny sticks at the school canteen every day holding my penny, so more 60s than 70s but the name followed for awhile – think they call them musk sticks nowadays
Thanks for all the memories everyone
I was born in 1945 and I remember Tex bars very well. I think they disappeared by the mid 1960s. I always bought one at the Saturday matinee. I agree with others comments on them. There is nothing today that comes anywhere near them. The centre did indeed have 2 layers from memory and they had a slightly different texture. Some people have described the flavour as caramel and they may have had some in them but I recall that they had a very malty flavour. Absolutely delicious and incomparable.
I was born in 1940 and find it hard to find anyone who remembers them. My recollection of the taste was of a slightly mint, malt caramel and chocolate. It’s very hard to describe, but oh we’re they good.
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Does anyone remember Coffee Crisp, made by Rowntree Hoadley’s. I worked in the wafer room, in Campbellfield in the early 80’s, & they were yummy. Haven’t seen them for many a year.
Oh thanks so much for relating to the coffee crisp. As a child a didn’t like coffee but these bars
were not like coffee in flavor but I loved them so much. I remember my favourite aunt loved chocolate
and she always had an assortment in her bag. She would give me Bertie Beetles which I loved and
the coffee crisps which were my favourites. Also I remember a Crispin bar and a Tosca bar, all really
yummy. Such a shame they stopped making these popular sweets. The Kooka bar was another
memorable bar also not available for years. I do remember a bar called (I think) Butternut Brickle, it
was an imported sweet I thin. Used to get them when in high school, would buy a box full if I could
get them now.
YES!! Loved coffee crisp- almost forgotten they vanished
Yes I remember them very well as my favourite auntie always had them whenever I visited. They were another top of my list and why do they discontinue some really exceptional chocolate bars and substitute others that dont come close.
I. Used to buy one every day along with a nougachew.
What I remember is a red toffee that came in a small patty pan and if you were lucky you might get one that had a threepence in the bottom. lol. I also remember a block of chocolate called “Checkmate” the bottom layer was dark chocolate with squares like a chess board on top made from milk chocolate and white chocolate. yum
Tony, it sounds like you’re describing Necco’s.
I think my all time fav. lolly of the 60’s was the black aniseed balls & Nugat (in the orange wrapper). A few years ago,Darrell Lea had them under a fifferent name, then they went & changed the nugat to more of a fudge, so I stopped buying them. I also loved the “original” choo-choo bars. The ones they have now are more like caramel, not licorice. I have found the closest thing to the real choo-choo bar. They come in a breakable slab. I’ll have to find the company name. I usually find them (strangly enough) in some fruit shops for $2.99. loved the fags with chocolate wrapped in thin paper; The other fags mentioned on this page were good as well,but I really loved the chocolate ones. Violet Crumbles; Crunchie Bars; black aniseed balls (loved them!!!!); creamy bats; the real milk bottles (not the garbaggy one now); those little red really hot balls; ironically, a toothbrush made of some kind of jelly (was it turkish delight? wrapped in chocolate + the bristles were while. Good thing, brushing your teeth with sugar hahaha. Polly Waffles (before Nestles bought the company & destroyed the taste, just like they did with Quality Street. I’ve got a carton of Polly Waffles in my kitchen. Just before they died out, there was a sale on them. I nought them mainly as a rememberance thing. It was the new awful tasting Nestles ones, so it wasn’t hard not to eat them. My all time fav dark chocolate was CLUB, ehich fisappeared just last year. What in the world were they thinking, Honey Smacks were fabulous! You can still get them from a company called USA Foods. There is an old lolly shop near me that makes the hood old lollies, so I’ll have to check it out. I know they have the “real” milk bottles. I don’t know the name of this lolly, but it was in the shape of a rectangle with curved edges , has some kind of see throigh jelly, tasted like aniseed, & was covered with purple hundrefs & thousands. Does anyone remember the name? I also loved that long thin, wide licorice that you could lick untill it disappeared. The closest I’ve found is called BLACK KNIGHT. There are different lengths, etc of licorice. Last year it was in the international section at Coles, in a yellow box, but I havem’t seen thrm for quite a w. They really need to bring all these back, with the ORIGINAL TASTES.
No one seems to remember Tongue Tongue Balls. They were available in Australia late 60’s / early 70’s. Candy stick sized packet with aniseed balls and a small toy in the top flap. Balls were released by pulling a tab as the woodpecker on front of packet poked out his tongue. Can’t find pics anyway on the internet.
Does anyone remember in the late 60s eating a small chocolate bar called Zac I think, it was a hard chocolate biscuit coated in chocolate with a layer of mint as in mint slice but not soft like mint slice
I would give my soul for a Tex bar…. I was born in 1940, and my recollection of the taste and texture was as being similar to a mars bar, only better, but with a slight minty, malted layer with a caramel layer and coated with chocolate. What has happened to our modern world. Don’t they have any taste any more. What about sherbet cones, they used to be soft with lovely fluffy sherbet. Now they’re hard and dry,!!! I could go on about modern hamburgers, ugh! Does anyone remember what a real hamburger tasted like?
What were the ones kids rolled down the aisles at the movies?
Colin
They are called JAFFAS.
The boys used to sit up the back, roll them down the aisles & throw them at girls heads in front of
them.
Does anyone remember the forerunner to Bounty,? It was compressed milky coconut covered in
chocolate, about the size of a Scorched Peanut Bar, but flat, like Choo Choo & called, I think, called
Milky Maxum Bar? I loved those, Coconut Quivers, Choo Choo Bars, Scorched Peanut Bars,
Peppermint Crisp, Polly Waffle,& Jaffas.
Hi, does anyone remember battleships and stetsons? I think they were through Allen’s, also arctic mints they were similar to Jaffas and came with both a green and white shell covering milk chocolate and a mint centre.
Hi John I remember battleship lollies also fried eggs and top hats good ol do days?️
Penny blocks in pink and pale blue. The goal was leaving a neat coloured square after sucking them through my hanky.
Remember the Cadbury add
THERES A GLASS AND A HALF OF FRESH FULL CREAM MILK IN EVERY HALF POUND BLOCK OF CADBURYS DAIRY MILK CHOCOLATE
How true all those sweets and going to the shop
And driving shop keepers nuts with 2bob and I have one of those two of them three of them and so on to fill the bag I was born 1947 so was in those times
Can anyone remember the chocolate bar that had marshmallow inside with a pink face??
Hi Brett. I am also searching relentlessly for that chocolate covered marshmellow. I remember a thin layer of chocolate. The filling was white and the when you bit into the bar there was a pink skull or face as you recall. Also the bar maker made different sorts of centres. I also recall that there was also a checkered pattern like a flag in the centre too.
I CANNOT FIND THIS ANYWHERE ON GOOGLE IMAGES.
I’ve also posted this question on Facebook, but No responses as yet.
I remember these, I would buy them on occasion from the local corner store. This would have been around 1978-81. I can’t remember the name or brand but “Mellow Logs” comes to mind. They were not wrapped just stacked in the display box with either wax or tissue paper separator. In those days Mastercraft brand was prevalent along with Allens and also Scanlens who offered Footy cards with bubble gum stick. They also did Swap Pops and Cricket Cards. Metro Gum individually wrapped bubble gum. The slogan was “Metro gum with the star on the wrap, Metro gum won’t leave you flat!” More memories found at http://www.scanlensmuseum.com.au
Oh, I could go a Streets (McNivens) Triple Treat ice cream and some Scanlens Black Jack bubble gum.
Remember Butterballs? They used to be red or yellow as I recall and they used to leave a grease pattern as the real butter soaked through the bag. There were also Tarzan Jubes (hard as rock) and Big Charlies (bubblegum). Truly loved the Scorched Peanut Bar.
Does anyone remember Lypties – a hard shelled white cough lolly with a eucalyptus flavour. I loved them.
The other lolly I’ve been thinking about was a golden colour, round & hard. I think they were called Golden something. Loved them as well. They were a bit chewy towards the centre & delicious.
Tex-Bar by Hoadley’s Chocolates: A twin-layer bar with a caramel base and a malt cream fudge top coated in dark chocolate. Advertised as “the King of candy bars”. Discontinued sometime in the 1970’s soon after the purchase of Hoadley’s by Rowntree Mackintosh Confectionery in 1972. The company became Rowntree Hoadley until it was sold to Nestlé in 1988. Where they went on to ruin Smarties, Kit Kat and most of the loved Australian flavours with a completely different sweeter flavoured chocolate.
Texan Bar
Texan bar was a nougat and toffee candy bar covered with chocolate, manufactured during the 1970s and 1980’s Made by Nestlé. The advertisements for the Texan showed a cartoon cowboy, who was captured by bandits and tied to a stake. When asked if he had a last request he asked for a Texan bar which took him a long time to eat, during which time his captors fell asleep, allowing his escape. The cowboy’s catchphrases were “Someone should have told ’em, Texan takes time a chewin!” and “Sure is a mighty chew!
History shows people are confused and think these to bars where one in the same but they are/were different. Even though Nestlé went on to own both recipes through business takeovers and amalgamations.
Going back to the 1930’s and 40’s, I remember Ruggles which came in a bar shape and were very similar to today’s chocolate crackles. Also Kurls, which was a longish slim chocolate coated toffee. Comversations were popular, also Texas chews and sherbets, soearmint leaves and clinkers. Boiled lollies and licorice all-sorts. Guess my favourite was Hoadley’s Violet Crumble Bar.
In the 80s our primary school canteen had lollies called “stix”. I never saw them anywhere else. They were about 10cm long and had 3 strands that you could pull apart, and they came in different colours/flavours – I remember red, green, yellow. They were the best!
Yes! They were mine & my partner’s favourite confectionery of all time ! If I had the recipe & machine to make those as they once were, that would be my new business adventure!
Does anyone remember a lolly that came with fake plastic fingertips that had long red fingernails? I think it was one fingertip per lolly. It would have been the late 1960’s / early 1970’s. I used to wear mine on every finger, but I have no memory of what the lolly was. I think l do remember there were toy rings on them too, but might not be. We bought them from the corner shop in Thornbury, Melbourne. I over them so much!
Does anyone remember a lolly that came in a packet and they were wrapped individually and were called Sweet n Sour? I used to buy them in the early 70’s and loved them!!!! (In Tasmania) I have tried but can’t even find a picture of them or any info on them and no-one else remembers them and say I am dreaming lol. They came in a packet like Anticol n Throaties do.
I remember them.
Does anyone remember a Lillie maybe in the 90’s it was a hollow ball of bubblegum covered in a layer of hard clear candy???? Im thinking maybe it came with a trading card or something but not 100% sure about that. I vividly remember this Lillie but can’t remember what it was. Did it maybe only come in a show bag or something???
Hi Christine J. I lived in Sydney and also remember the Sweet and Sours. As I recall they were at least yellow and orange (maybe other colours too). Seem to recall a small gel centre as well although I may be imagining it or confusing with another sweet. Definitely remember the S & S though
Hi does anyone remember the name of this lollipop from the early to mid 70’s ? It was a round white lollipop with fruit specks of flavors throughout it. It was flat round vs round like a ball. I remember them hanging on racks individually wrapped mainly in drug stores which are now called pharmacies lol! In the store my mom went to they were near “ the bags of gold” gum lol. Funny I can remember that, but not the names of these pops. Idk if I ever new their name because they hung on a rack and never in a box. Any help would be greatly appreciated. ( I can’t even find a picture of them on the web)
I remember Melody bars, and Razzle Dazzles which had bubble gum in the centre.
I remember a soft bar Lolly that you could break off a square at a time.
It was in clear plastic wrapping they were about 10cm long and 2cm wide and came in green orange and yellow and maybe pink. The texture of soft nougat but not a nougat and really chewy. As a kid I called them chew bars but I’m not sure if that was their actual name
Hi everyone. I remember loving Choo Choo bars, Musk Knights, caramel buttons, and I loved Cocktail Fruits (1″ long hard lollies wrapped in clear cellophane) and they came in various yummy flavours. Also absolutely loved and miss these oval shaped biscuits (yes I know they are not sweets) and they were called “Bacon Thins”. Why on earth did they stop making any of these things!