Lost Sweets You Wish Were Still Around Today

From Toffos to Tooty Frooties and Pacers to Spangles, today’s Stuview TV video remembers those classic sweets from the past that you wish were still around.
So far in the Lost and Forgotten series on Stuview TV, we’ve reminisced about chocolates, ice creams, crisps and fizzy drinks from the past that are sadly no longer available. If there are any of these videos you haven’t seen, I’ll put some links up at the end of the video and here in the description (check out below). Today’s nostalgia trip takes us back once more to the sweet shops of the past to remember a few old favourites that no longer exist.
10 Lost Chocolate Bars You Wish Would Come Back
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More Lost Chocolate Bars You Wish They Would Bring Back
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Lost Fizzy Drinks You Wish They Would Bring Back
• Lost Fizzy Drinks You ...
Lost Crisps and Snacks of Days Gone By
• Lost Crisps and Snacks...
Lost Ice Creams and Lollies You May Have Forgotten
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Whatever Happened to Spangles?
• Lost Ice Creams & Loll...
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[@jeanlongsden1696]

does anyone else remember the chocolate cigarettes? they was basically chocolate with white rice paper wrapped around it.

[@julesb7707]

Yes, the chocolate always tasted greasy! Lol

[@giuglianacamelia217]

Yeah could find them in the pick n mix section in the sweet shops 😁

[@danieladams9950]

They were awful. About as chocolate-y as cucumber.

[@julianaylor4351]

They had names the parodied real cigarette brands.

[@cigmorfil4101]

I remember the paper being more normal paper, not rice paper (as used to be on the bottom of nougat pieces my dad got us).

[@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684]

Mackintosh's "Golden cup" anyone? A foil covered choccy confectionary shaped like a dog's bone and filled with tooth rotting soft toffee.... GORGEOUS !!!

[@stuviewtv]

Oh yes, Golden Cup was great!

[@sallywalton5375]

Tooth rotting!!!😂😂😂😂😂

[@penelopepitstop1437]

Omg that was my favourite. It was yummy

[@Lamby1010]

Very sickly though

[@rw8733]

Not a sweet but, toffee and mallow eggs, anyone?

[@jofisher9692]

Bring them all back. I was born in 73 so I think I've chewed my way through them all and I remember Space Dust and I don't know if anyone else remembers Gold Rush bubble gum. It came in a drawstring bag and was made to look like gold nuggets. Thanks for the nostalgic video ❤

[@stuviewtv]

My pleasure. Thanks very much for watching!

[@wulfgardtt6483]

Yeah i remember those lol.

[@rw8733]

Gold Rush. I remember. Gritty and flavourless. I'd still go back.

[@jstanders6973]

Omg I do remember them lol. Oh I got through a few bags of them even though they were pretty nasty looking back 😅

[@twood7759]

There is an old fashioned sweet shop in lincoln that had some gold rush bubble gum when i was last there pre covid!!

[@alisonmcveigh3571]

Pacers and toffo should definitely make a comeback.

[@owenmcghee1666]

This is a BRILLTASTIC look back. I probably had lots of these sweets back then which explains why I keep my teeth in a glass by the bed overnight. ❤

[@stuviewtv]

Thanks as always!

[@Unemployed_Jedi]

I remember all those sweets, fruit salad and black Jack's I bought a lot as they were only half pence each. I used to love the big gobstopper called 'Jawbreakers' too. Oh those simple slow paced days when it was sunny in summer and snowed in the winter.

[@stuviewtv]

Great days.

[@HB-oi3lb]

Apparently, if you didn't know, jawbreakers are still around in different flavours. Available do corner shops. The huge ones are only one flavour I think. Used to be called gobstoppers 😂

[@TheHominidShow]

You can still get fruit salads!

[@spookybaba]

Fruit Salads, pineapple and raspberry. A flavour I couldn't decipher until I bothered reading the wrapper.

[@supergran1000]

I was born in 1955. My favourite sweets were milk bottles, sweet peanuts, chocolate limes, and Old English Spangles. I also loved the chocolate with the liquid lime centre in Milk Tray!

[@spendor9377]

I mentioned the Dracula ice lolly that was sold in the 70s to two women in their 60s, but they couldn’t remember it. It was black on the outside and had a red jelly inside that looked like a tongue. I loved those.

[@user-qh8nh7oe6d]

Yes, it was lime barrel I think! They were much better then, than now

[@user-qh8nh7oe6d]

There were other boxes of chocolates too. I can remember Good News, Contrast and Weekend boxes . I can remember long twisty sticks which were a sort of butterscotch with chocolate in the middle. The little corner shop near my primary school had a tray of sweets in the window, either 4 for an old penny or 2. I loved wrapped solid squares of a fizzy sweet in 4 fruit flavours, the pink foam shrimps and stretchy jelly snakes. There were threepenny Lucky Bags too which contained a few sweets and little toys. I once got a tiny green plastic bear which I loved. And the packs of chewing gum I think which gave free cards of the Monkees.

[@Leon-lt5gv]

The milk bottles ' lovley ' i just use my imadgination now 😫👀

[@Mike-vd7ee]

born in 65 so remember most of these..so lucky to have lived through the 70s...Awesome decade..for kids anyway😂

[@Genevieve-qe1br]

Yes, absolutely 😊

[@dalesmith1275]

Way better than this BS world we live in today😢

[@SlackHoffman]

I grew up above my mum n dads sweet shop,tobacconist,newsagent, in the late 60’s until the early eighties so I remember all of these incredible sweets n chocolate bars . I still have a couple of double agents badges 😊. I loved Texan Bars and Sugar Tots and Walkers Toffee and also Bluebird Toffee was my favourite and I’ve still got a little bluebird toffee hammer 🔨😎🙂😊 Loved King Kong chews and space dust but wasn’t so keen on spangles 😊😝. Also loved black jacks, fruit salad and Anglo Bubbly n Bazooka Joe 😜✨🙏💙thanks for the memories so much . I just lost my mum so this really bought back some wonderful memories as a child in mum n dad’s shop ! My favourite bar of all time that I wish would come back was rowntrees Nutty Bar 😋😋😋 Thanks again 😊

[@Pooky-Cat]

I loved Nutty too. Made a change from the choccy bars. Thanks for the memory jog.

[@stuviewtv]

So glad the video brought back such wonderful memories for you.

[@witchelm3734]

Do you remember black cat bubble gum ?

[@SlackHoffman]

@@witchelm3734 yes I do ☺️🤘

[@sallybannister6224]

News, con, tob shop! I was about 12 when I got it !! 😂😂😂

[@KarrierBag]

Fruit Polos were lovely, I miss them. My parents second house was an old closed village shop in the late 60's, in 1970 my mum opened it for the summer as a music festival was put on by Led Zeppelin, I remember the hippies coming to buy sweets and cigs etc, she kept it open a few years and when it closed as she had another kid, we got to slowly eat our way through the sweets and ice cream 🙂

[@stuviewtv]

Must have been great eating your way through all that.

[@KarrierBag]

@@stuviewtv Oh was the best, so much ice cream and choc bars, as a kid I was so happy.....till it all ran out 🙄

[@wulfgardtt6483]

One of the earliest sweets i can remember were Mojos, they were wrapped chews similar to opal fruits and were sold separately for half a penny each.

[@stevenaveriss5761]

Who remembers the Cabana chocolate bar? and Old Ship sweet tobacco?......these old ads really bring it back 😁

[@victoriasmith2512]

Tobacco made with coconut yummy

[@yodenman]

I remember the sweet tobacco. It came in a pouch to mimic loose tobacco and was called Spanish Gold

[@charlesjames799]

Yes I remember that like hand rolling tabacco very sweet. Obviously it’s been many many years since I’ve had these confectionery 71 now.

[@jc-246]

Yes, I remember in the 80s the cherry pieces. So yummy. The closest to that today is Cherry Ripe.

[@karenh-r7845]

Love cabana

[@kennethmacgregor-Gregorach]

As someone that's (a little) over 50, this is my childhood flashing in front of my eyes here. I remember eating the assorted Toffos and ripping a filling out.

[@stuviewtv]

I love Tic Tacs too. The orange and lime ones are my favourite.

[@kennethmacgregor-Gregorach]

@@stuviewtv Oh yeah! had forgotten about those! I had a flashback to Cola Cubes (don't know f you remember those) they used to scrape the skin off the top of your mouth when you sucked them long enough.

[@sallywalton5375]

@@kennethmacgregor-Gregorach yes and coconut t cakes, were yummy

[@sallywalton5375]

Oh dear!!!

[@jofisher9692]

I've had a flash back to Sherbet Fountains chocolate logs and Mojo chews which were 2 for a penny. I loved Friday when I got my pocket money ❤

[@gillianhutton9776]

I was born in 1969 and have therefore eaten many packets of all these sweets! I’m sure that they are the reason why I have so many fillings today! Thanks for this video, it brought back so many good childhood memories 😊

[@stuviewtv]

Glad you enjoyed the memories. Many thanks!

[@steunited1969]

Same here lol

[@dkane2067]

@@steunited1969me too 🙈😂

[@peterbarker6249]

Anyone remember Cherry Drops . They were hard boiled and (not sure ) soft centred ? Think they were made by Pascall / Murray . Had a much stronger flavour than cherry Tunes , and the round shape meant you could quite easily accidentally swallow them whole !

[@Dollypops43]

Cherry drops can still get them Home bargain

[@mikkifly]

They were really sour if I remember

[@iliketowatchvideos47]

Yes they are hard no soft centre

[@SL0409]

Can still buy cherry drops

[@mikeraphone6745]

I remember. They still sell lots of these sweets at St Fagans Museum in south Wales . Cherry drops , sherbet pips . Army and navy , dried flies . All sorts they have .

[@groundhoglife]

Double agent sweets brings back memories I’d totally forgotten about them. The sweet cigarettes I always bought with my pocket money but the ones I liked the most were the chocolate ones and you could eat the paper. I also remember the chocolate cigarette sets which had a lighter and cigars. No wonder so many of us took up smoking back in the day 🙈. Excellent video as usual 👍.

[@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684]

Yeah, I remember white "chewy" ciggies (made from the same type of stuff as the "Pacers" wrapped in "rice paper" that you ate (well at least WE ate it). Another one I remember but no-one else I know EVER remembers were "cigars" made from a brown chewy type of foam which had a gold label wrapped around them like a "cuban cigar".

[@hazeyjane119]

There’s something strangely compelling about your videos. The reverb in the room gives your voice a mesmeric lo-fi quality that I can’t get enough of. I’m not sure how much material remains for you to plough this particular furrow, Stu, but I don’t want you to stop. It’s fab!

[@stuviewtv]

That's fantastic to hear. Thank you so much for that. Lovely comments such as this are always an absolute tonic. I've got ideas for a few more so should be good for a little while yet!

[@grahamdrummond2412]

​@@stuviewtvyeah, I'm enjoying them as well, I've not watched the crisp one yet.

[@anjkovo2138]

Lol. Toffo's were notorious for pulling tooth fillings out👍👍

[@steevobarker581]

And teeth 😮

[@jonathanfinan722]

Big fan of tooth looseners like Toffo and Highland Toffee. I recall Spangles having stronger flavours than others of its type. I know they're not lost, but I can get lost in a bag of Midget Gems even now.

[@ramblingrob4693]

Lol@@krankinkogs

[@Tidybitz]

​@@krankinkogs... true, I remember one pulling my only filling out at the time. It put me right off Toffo and toffee in general.

[@Stevefoster80]

I’m lucky I live near walkers nonsuch toffee factory , as a kid we used get all the seconds from a guy who worked there. Huge bags of toffees that couldn’t be sold

[@Julie-sm7sp]

Loved tooty fruities and spangles ❤ i used to love those sweets on elastic as a necklace, you could wear them and eat them at the same time 😂

[@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684]

Aye remember them pastel coloured hard little "beads" on the elastic. Sis wore them as a necklance, we wore them doubled up as a "bracelet".

[@Julie-sm7sp]

​@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 yes that's them 👍loved that idea as a 'bracelet' bet your sis wondered where all her necklaces were going 😂

[@clarewillison9379]

Mint Cracknell. I miss it almost every day. (Apart from razoring your soft palate occasionally on the harder shards.)

[@derekmiller6091]

That REALLY hurt

[@Tony-ke1ce]

I Cut my tongue on a bar of them ❕🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👍🏻

[@mikeswift6713]

WOW, I was born in 1946 and your videos really take me back. I remember some of the sweets from this episode but a couple stick out that weren’t mentioned probably because I don’t think they lasted long. My aunt had what we now call a corner shop in the early 1950’s and took me to a Confectionary Exhibition at a large hotel in Leeds. She concentrated on the sweets, biscuits and cake sections, an Aladdin’s Cave to a 5 - 6 year old after years of sweets on ration, although with two aunts with shops, cough, I didn’t go without. As a youngster I was given lots of free samples, the two I remember were Penny Arrows and Pez. I came home with two carrier bags full of the full range of Penny Arrows and Pez tablets complete with half a dozen Pez Dispensers. Pez were little oblong tablets of various flavours which you loaded into the dispenser, when you pressed a catch on the side a tablet was ejected, my brother and I were kept in sweets for months. My aunt also came home with lots of confectionary items some of which she passed on to my mother.

[@julesb7707]

Someone else mentioned Pez, they have a website & you can still buy them today although the only shop I’ve seen selling them was on Scarborough beach.

[@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684]

Great memories. My god "sweets" to a child born in the late 1930s early 1940s must've been like a long cherished dream come true !!!! All the best.

[@stuviewtv]

Marvellous memories. Aladdin's Cave sounds like a very apt description!

[@janetmcneice6246]

I loved tootie fruities and arrow bars, spangles and fizzy spangles

[@SL0409]

Toffos we're my absolute childhood 😍😍😍😍 Even peeling off the waxy wrapper around each sweet was a joy

[@davidboyce8683]

Magic ,as usual Stu .I loved Tooty Fruities and the minties as well as a kid .Toffo 's all the flavours were excellent. So many memories, cheers mate .

[@stuviewtv]

Many thanks as always!

[@iliketowatchvideos47]

You can still get tooty frooties

[@SNUSNU-lz7dh]

Absolutely loved fruit toffo’s and fruit polo’s “ put 3 flavours in your gob at once “ epic 😋

[@chatteyj]

Why can you buy Toffos in the UAE ?

[@michaelfleming9757]

Pink panther chocolate bar, my favourite 70s classic.

[@helencook9055]

My grandmother used to buy nutty bars, covered in peanuts and a soft carmel centre i loved them, another bar i miss was pink panther bars made with real strawberries and i loved the milk tray bars yummy

[@witchelm3734]

Old English Spangles were my favourites 😊

[@nicolasykes6637]

I loved toffos and fruit polos, but my favourite was tootie frutis and I actually thought they’d gone a long time ago, but discovered them again when my daughter was having swimming lessons back in 2004, so like the dutiful parent got her addicted to them as well. 😂

[@stuviewtv]

Such a shame they discontinued Tootie Frooties.

[@Snootyboss]

I'd forgotten about fruit polo's! Loved them, if you could get them apart after being in your pocket

[@chatteyj]

Toffos were the dogs b.......x! And yes snooty hat was a problem but they were tasty, but i never remembered pacers as born 81. Were the any good?

[@janelake6076]

How I wish cabana would come back ...I loved seeing those bay city rollers cards I was obsessed with collecting those.😊

[@julesb7707]

I said that about Cabana too, my fave ever bar.

[@aclubcalledRAGE]

Cabana ruled. I remember it being one of the most expensive bars so was a real commitment to buy one vs more of ‘lesser’ sweets and choc. FYI there’s a lady on Etsy making homemade cabana. I haven’t tried yet….

[@julesb7707]

@@aclubcalledRAGE I also make my own version…just for myself though! 😁

[@aclubcalledRAGE]

Oooooh clever! How close are they? How many out of ten do you give yourself ? Do you use glacé cherries or dried sour? Something else maybe? @@julesb7707

[@pathfinder1962]

Hi everyone wants the cabana bar back. I don't know what it was taken off the shelves in the first place. There must be literally hundreds of discontinued chocolate bars and sweets that should never have been taken off the shelves

[@Spiderbaby66]

Another wonderful nostalgia fest, in a world that's slowly falling apart your videos take us back to much simpler, happier times.

[@stuviewtv]

That's great to hear! Many thanks. Glad you enjoy the memories!

[@evacuatedspace6946]

Also miss the sweet shops with tons of plastic jars full of different sweets you pick, awww. It was heaven going in there and deciding what you could afford. :-)

[@maymcilvain687]

oh yes - remember lemon, strawberry and white bonbons with the powder

[@elemar5]

I loved Tooty Frooties and Glees. Nicholas Lyndhurst in the Spangles advert.

[@alisonmcveigh3571]

I thought that was him

[@grahamdrummond2412]

I forgot about tooty fruities, so chewy & sweet crispiness on the outside

[@andystreet4022]

Well spotted. Did you guess who the girl was ? Pretty sure it was the little girl off The Double Deckers...Debbie Russ I think.

[@elemar5]

@@andystreet4022 I wasn't a DD devotee so wouldn't know.

[@peternicol6527]

Loved pacers always remember black jacks and fruit salad loads more to think about

[@gazinessex2]

8-a-penny. Those were the days!

[@aggie5490]

I still crave the original Rowntrees fruit gums which came in boxes. Vile now.

[@shauncunningham8628]

i agree, now theyve made them 'vegan' they are horrible, same as Fruit Pastels, they are vile now too,

[@aligiff17]

I remember those, always bought a box at the cinema & got one in my xmas stocking too, you're correct, they're not the same now, nothing is.

[@anniemacdonald3957]

And fruit pastilles

[@alisonmcveigh3571]

Agreed - a box of them could last you all evening. These days they are soft like wine gums

[@spookybaba]

Fruit shapes in the box, in contrast to the knobbly flat bottomed pastilles in the tubes. They were a lot harder back in the day.

[@RedLimeVideo]

Such GREAT memories Stu. I was a Pacer fan for sure. On the subject of Candy Cigarettes, my brothers and I used to get the chocolate and paper wrapped ones in a soft pack - you could eat the paper they were rolled in too. One final memory which your video brought to mind was Golden Nuggets. random chunks of yellow/gold bubble gum in a cotton draw-string bag. I used to use the empty bag for my Action Man :)

[@stuviewtv]

Oh yes, I remember the chocolate cigarettes with the paper wrapping. As a kid I used to think they were more like thin cigars!

[@janetmcneice6246]

Ahhh yeah, I remember the golden nuggets,

[@SlackHoffman]

Yeahhh I remember golden nuggets in the little white material bags !!😁😄I think I used em for my Britains Toy Soldiers lol 😜

[@ArtJourneyUK]

I my dad worked at the Bubble Gum factory (as we called it!) in the 1970s and we had a pretty endless supply of Bazooka Joes and Gold Nuggets! I too used the little drawstring bags for my Pippa Dolls 😂

[@kn0t2brite]

Wow. Yes I remember golden nuggets. Thanks for jogging that memory from my aging brain. I used to get the candy cigarettes too. If I remember correctly they were coloured red at the end so it looked like they were alight.

[@Richard-fv7rq]

Absolutely glued to your nostalgia trips as i find as I get older (now early 50,s) these memory lane trips become fascinating. Must admit, pretty much liked all of the sweets you reviewed 🙂

[@stuviewtv]

Glad you are enjoying the memories! Many thanks for watching. It's much appreciated.

[@gloomyvale3671]

I loved traffic light lolly pops.

[@harpersmythe658]

Old English flavour Spangles, McCowans Highland Toffee and Mint Toffo were my favourites. I remember Promise bars and Tiffin bars, but they were more of a 60’s thing, still nice though 😋😋

[@julesb7707]

Cadburys recently brought tiffin bars back.

[@dryflyman7121]

You have great taste 😂

[@solatiumz]

You can still buy the highland toffee.

[@harpersmythe658]

@@julesb7707 did they? Not seen them in the shops. Bet they don’t use the same recipe

[@julesb7707]

@@harpersmythe658 You can easily find them online, I’ve had the new version but I don’t remember the original so I can’t say if it tastes the same or not.

[@christastic100]

I get more nostalgic every year. It’s great watching these memories. Thanks Stuveiw-TV

[@stuviewtv]

So glad you ere enjoying the nostalgic memories. Many thanks for watching.

[@caberet]

my most missed sweet was a Nutty Bar, it was nuts with like a fudge type center i think.

[@davidpaterson3443]

Absolutely loved them 👍

[@OllyBockus]

CENTRE! CENTRE!CENTRE!CENTRE!CENTRE!

[@lottiecooke9262]

I wrote a poem about sweets and got first prize for it in college The time has come to vote on sweets. To choose the greatest sugary treats. As we revisit childhood shops. With flying sauces acid drops. Sherbert stuffed in cardboard tubes. Jelly babies cola cubes. Sherbert lemon chocolate lime. (The easiest sweet of all to rhyme) Drumsticks blackjacks penny chews. They made us a toffo we couldn't refuse. All these sweets where childhood fixtures. (Also wine gums dolly mixtures) But who will win this championship. Something old like Sherbert dip? I'm sure that retro sweets can do it. Fruit gum? Allsort? Maybe Chewit? Those days all seem long ago. We hadn't heard of haribo. We didn't have those new recruits. Like starburst (clearly opal fruits ) Skittles where unknown to us. As we sucked spangles on the bus. These days there's a lot of pressure. Of love heart tic tac and refresher. Time to get your forces mustered. Strawberry cream and rhubarb custard. By the end they will be one winner. And you won't have room for dinner. Enjoy the vote enjoy the sweeties. I hope you don't get diabetes.

[@Julie-sm7sp]

Brilliant well done 👏

[@stuviewtv]

Love it!

[@williammcgrath5928]

😊

[@clarewillison9379]

👏🏼💐👏🏼🏅👏🏼💐👏🏼

[@JAY-lo3sx]

Fantastic 🎉.

[@rw8733]

Brilliant memories. Thanks, Stu. 😊

[@stuviewtv]

Thanks as always for watching!

[@stephen3511]

What a great blast from the past! Pacers were my favourite

[@stuviewtv]

Mine too!

[@dklabratful]

I’d completely forgotten Tooty Fruities! I adored those.

[@DarylJewkes]

I remember a fruit flavoured product called Frosties that were similar in size to Fruit Pastels, but were a hard candy with a sugar coating. The packet was about half the length too. There was also a cola flavoured variety, but I don’t recall the name

[@gilgammesh1]

I remember Frosties, they were kinda chewy in the centre and cola flavoured from what i remember.

[@DarylJewkes]

@@gilgammesh1 yes that's right! I don't remember if there were other flavours apart from the fruit and cola varieties

[@jrsc01.]

Yes they looked like red fruit pastilles, used to buy them in the 90s, 10p a pack, tasted like red cola cubes.

[@aclubcalledRAGE]

Yes Trebor Frosties. You used to get them in the excellent Trebor Booty Bag

[@iliketowatchvideos47]

Cola frosties where lovely

[@nurserytime2299]

I used to love toffee Treats. The peanut and chocolate Treats seamed to turn into M&M’s but they didn’t ever taste the same. Toffee Treats were really chewy with a crisp candy shell, delicious 😋

[@mrsgenehunt48]

My favourite too. I miss peanut banjos aswell

[@jimjones1652]

Same here M&M’s just taste of the colouring.

[@80sandretrogubbins25]

It's not really fair that M & Ms spawned such a huge phenomenon when Treets were here before them. You are right about the ones filled with caramel, they were fab.

[@user-ld6ik5qm4m]

I remember the IPSO name from the 70s. The boxes were like giant Lego blocks that clipped together. I used to get asked to keep the empty boxes by younger relatives so that they could be used to build Lego walls because of their size. A real blast from the past.

[@Jon6429]

Was quite partial to a Cabanna (Coconut, Caramel & Cherry, like a Bounty crossed with Mars bar). Presently addicted to School Chalks (peppermint liquorice). I know, I got problems, my confectioner says I'll be ok so long as Tovali stays open.

[@jono.pom-downunder]

Fan bleedin tastic. Makes me feel old as buggery. Remember All the different flavour toffos, my faves were liquorice and the mint. I even remember Opal mints, one of my faves. Oh hell, blobs yum. 😊

[@jonathanh2605]

Now there's a walk down memory lane....happy days!!

[@mrzathrus]

Miss Toffo, always a huge favourite back in the 70s.

[@stuviewtv]

One of my favourites back in the day.

[@lonequark2224]

Hey Stu, I really enjoy all of your uploads. Really transports me back to a time when life was simple and uncomplicated... Keep up the great work. Always look forward to new videos - puts a smile on my face every time...

[@stuviewtv]

That's really great to hear. Many thanks!

[@barrymurphy1337]

Fantastic trip down memory lane Stu! I'd completely forgotten about Secret Agents, I used to have some of those badges. I've realised I'm old enough to remember Opal Mints, before Pacers! Your mention of sweet cigarettes reminded me of sweet tobacco (grated coconut in a pouch).

[@stuviewtv]

Glad you enjoyed the memories! You can still get the sweet tobacco from online sweet shops, just not in the pouches anymore.

[@merlin5476]

Pacers were lovely ! This has also bought back the memories of Spanish tobacco 👍

[@martinwebb1681]

I loved spangles and Tooty Frooties, pacers were also nice. Toffos were okay but a little boring although I did like the banana ones. The secret agents ones were okay but there were so many similar hard boiled sweets about that I only had them a few times. As for the sweet cigarettes I thought they tasted awful and always dried your mouth out, but it didn't stop me eating them and all because of the picture cards 😂... UFO, Doctor Who, Captain Scarlett, I loved them collectors cards. 🙂

[@The_Capri_Kid]

The McCowans toffee factory used to be close to Stenhousemuir FC's football ground. When we had an away game there some of the younger fans would disappear to apparently rake about in the skips looking for discarded factory seconds sometimes with success. Free toffee, a kiddies dream!

[@sjstu]

So glad a channel like yours exists. Cheers.

[@stuviewtv]

That's great to hear! Many thanks for watching.

[@JAY1892]

Another melancholy trip down memory lane Stu. I enjoy your uploads yet always feel a little sad after as I miss those days terribly. Does anyone remember Fresh n Up? They were a square shaped chewing gum with a liquid centre.

[@derekmiller6091]

Yeah, they were gross. You could add to the grossness by washing it down with a can of Fresca.

[@beckysmithers8094]

I was born in 72. Weirdly, i don't remember spangles. Most of the others though. I remember the gold rush bubble gum too. It is lovely wandering down memory lane.

[@clairrollings3988]

Spangles hold a special place in my heart as I remember my Father bringing them back from working in London.

[@pazthakrar9270]

I was a huge fan of Toffo especially Banana flavor, i was not a huge fan of Spangles, but Tutti Fruiti and Pacers yes please, thanks for another great trip to good old innocent and happy times.

[@stuviewtv]

Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks!

[@JohnSmith-ki2eq]

The one I miss is "Spanish Gold", it was shreded coconut dyed brown to look like tobaco and loded with sugar, it even came in a pouch that looked like a tobabco pouch.

[@timothylakin5035]

Yes remember that

[@davidpaterson3443]

Trevor Toffee Apple Blobs, the greatest sweet of them all. Nobody else seems to remember them, they were like the Trebor Double Agent sweets.

[@robbrittain9369]

I remember Blobs. They were my favourite. Some very strange flavours. Strawberry & cream was my favourite. I still have my Blobs disc, which is a yellow plastic Frisbee style disc that you could get by sending off loads of wrappers to Trebor. The plastic used was so brittle that the disc would easily break when it hit a hard floor surface. The remaining I have is kept safely away from children who would destroy it in 2 seconds. Bring back Blobs!!

[@rustymackemingrancanaria6360]

I remember them too.Sadly 😂 (or not ?!) I can even bring to my minds eye (thoughts of this particular flavour sweet is always this memory) sucking on them trying not to crunch to get to that inner heaven too soon .Wow, what a taste ... with my brother and mates walking through our town's car park's dark basement, discussing the merits of the various flavours each of us had bought. Toffee apple always being mine.❤ Strange things memories 😊

[@pauliesk.7102]

Great video, as ever: I can just taste Pacers now! I remember a sweet called 'Bon-Bons'. They came in a big bag, were covered in a yellow, semi-crunchy sherbet coating, and had (I think) a chewy chocolate centre.

[@borusa32]

I thought they were toffee in the middle?

[@pauliesk.7102]

You're maybe right: I just remember it was a sugary, chewy concoction of some kind!@@borusa32

[@JuliaHarrisx]

@@borusa32yes and they were covered in white powder. I think they did a lemon one with yellow powder. I used to buy them by the quarter.

[@eleridragon]

They're one of my mum's favourites. The plain ones with toffee centres are white, the lemon ones, unsurprisingly, are yellow, and there are pink strawberry ones as well. You can still get them from some of the online sweet shops, i buy her some every so often. Think I preferred fizzbombs over bon-bons though, especially the blue ones, although they ripped your mouth to shreds if you had too many.

[@Lamby1010]

Still get them everywhere

[@weekenderTone]

Loved Toffos. Surely I didn't dream of the divine coffee flavoured Toffo. I need to know it existed.

[@martinwebb1681]

It didn't exist, Toffos came in Plain, mint, Blackcurrant, Strawberry, Apple, Pineapple and Banana flavours. Your memory is playing tricks on you.

[@derekmiller6091]

Don’t forget the chocolate toffos…kinda like the inside of Riesens today.

[@tracy6568]

OMG!! I forgot about some of them!! Oh man do I miss them especially Pacers footie frooties and spanles 🤦 can't stan them horrible jelly sweets they have today!! This brought back memories of the taste 😔 they were really popular back then why they got rid is ridiculous nothing comes close these day! Thankyou for the trip down memory lane! 💪👏👏

[@stuviewtv]

Glad you enjoyed the memories. Thanks!

[@jstanders6973]

Born In 69, I loved Beech Nut chewing gum, Toffos and Munchies. Also I loved Merrymaid chocolate caramels and a nice can of Top Deck off my Nana lol. Oh the dreaded Spangles which were always in every selection box at Christmas, I wasn't fussed on them 🤨.. Oh happy days (sort of) New subscriber for you Stu 😊

[@stuviewtv]

That's great to hear! Many thanks!

[@debbiesayer4303]

Loved tootie fruties!

[@stevedavis6879]

Except the purple ones. Those were baddd 🥴🤣.. I was a 10p wham bar kinda guy haha

[@99fruitbat94]

Chocolate smokers kit. Got one at Christmas most years 😂

[@stuviewtv]

Fantastic! Can you imagine that these days?

[@michaelshearing6410]

Space dust is still available but is now known as popping candy. Last Isaw of it it was available in poundland stores

[@julianaylor4351]

There are chocolate bars with it in and packets with a dipping lolly too. 😋

[@iwasglad122]

My dental cavities were weeping with nostalgia!!! Thank you SO much for this blast from the past! I remember that in a packet of clear fruit Spangles, every so often you would discover an opaque one which was a mint. The kudos of finding one of these and the competition between us kids for that 'special' spangle was like searching for a Wonka Golden Ticket. God, what simpler pleasures we had as kids in the 70s!!

[@Clara-ph7my]

I used to eat Pacers stripe by stripe. Loved Assorted Toffos and Tooty Frooties. These definitely need to all come back!

[@johnwheelan3703]

I will always miss my tooty fruitys. I remember eating them at school and I used to share them. I used to pretend that they were indigestion tablets. Precious memories.

[@giuglianacamelia217]

I was born in 1980 & to this day have wondered what those striped spearmint sweets were. Pacers!!🥳

[@markuk7935]

I liked Texan bars, and the advert "a last request gringo"..... "sure is a mighty chew". Hahaha.

[@gabbymcclymont3563]

So many great sweets, Tooty Fruties and Toffos, loved the fruit ones.

[@julesb7707]

I love reminiscing about old confectionery. Does anybody remember Ipsos, they were like tictacs & came in a square plastic box that fitted together like Lego?

[@juliejones2103]

I remember them. Miss all these old sweets. They were the best 😊

[@WadeyUK]

ipso right here in the video 8:54

[@the-icephoenix]

Yes ,yes I do

[@robbrittain9369]

Bring back Blobs!! The sweets with the weirdest flavours. Glad that you mentioned them as I thought everyone had forgotten them.

[@lucius4556]

I was trying to think of the name when he said about that other boiled sweet, I had forgotten all about them then could actually taste them😅..think they did a cherry one. Bring back Blobs lol.

[@robbrittain9369]

@@lucius4556 I think you are correct, but I don't like cherries so that was a no no for me. My favourite was strawberry and cream. I ate loads, mainly so that I could collect the wrappers to send off to Trevor for Blobs disc frisbee. Not surprising that I have loads of tooth fillings.

[@Michelle-qd9gm]

Loved tooty fruiities these lots of them I miss loved the yorkie bar I k ow you can still buy these but back then they were really thick chocolate bars lovely thankyou for all the memories

[@alexkane5608]

When the kids ask 'what's for dinner?', my favourite response is 'SPANGLES!'. They haven't a clue!

[@j0hnf_uk]

I remember those Double Agent ones particularly well. Definitely on my list to buy on a Saturday, back in the day, with my pocket money. I think the lime and chocolate ones were probably my favourite simply because they were pretty unique at the time. Sweet cigarettes never encouraged kids to take up smoking in later life. It was just the idea that they were deemed a, 'gate way', to such habits that was enough for the usual malcontents to moan and groan enough to get them changed. I'm sure they used to have a confectionary that was actually like rolled up cigarettes, make with candy styled, 'tobacco', and paper you could eat. I haven't a clue what they were called, though. Fruit Polo's were another of my favourites. Anyone else see a very young Nicholas Lyndhurst in the Spangles ad? 😁

[@stuviewtv]

There used to be a sweet tobacco called Spanish Gold, which was basically coconut shreds. Very tasty. Actually, it's still available now from online sweet shops, it's just not called Spanish Gold anymore.

[@Pythonaria]

Yes. I saw him too. Also remember the chocolate cigarettes wrapped in paper. Tried them once and once was enough. The chocolate was similar in taste to cheap cooking chocolate.

[@ashfaq1999]

Classic sweets !! I lost a few teeth eating these 😂

[@PlasticGirl65]

I'd completely forgotten about Pacers until I saw this, I now have the taste in my mouth.

[@alanglasgowbassist]

Toffo! Loved them. Totally forgot about them ( and the ad ) until I watched this

[@TensaiDragon]

omg..i loved pacers..its so weird, every so often for the last 30+years i'd been trying to remember them! I moved abroad in 82, came back in 84(i suppose shops/supermarkets stop picking them up around then), and being young, never remembered them. But over the last 3 decades the vague chewy spearmint sweet would pop into my head, and i'd go, what was that again..? British sweets, theres nothing like em! 😍

[@stuviewtv]

Absolutely, there's nothing quite like a classic British sweet!

[@gwheregwhizz]

I'd like the return of Oveltine chocolate bars, Rowntree Secret, Harlequin neopolitans, Terry's Pyramint and Cadburys chocolate that tastes like chocolate.

[@Brytonrock]

I used to love getting a quarter, now that'll bring back a few memories, of Callard and Bowsers Creamline Toffees from my local sweet shop while on my way home from school.

[@marian6593]

Frying Pan Lollies, Rhubarb Rock, Penny Dainties and little wrapped caramels called Hobo (Banana was my favourite). Cornish Mivi ice lollies, Chocolate Tools, MB Bars, Pink Panther Chocolate....I want to go back to the 1960's and 70's. 😀

[@marian6593]

...and I've just remembered Lucky Potatoes and tiny packets of BonBons (from the 3d tray)

[@clarestephanie5557]

I remember frying pan lollipop wooden stick with foil pie tin filled with toffee or the red sugar coating on a toffee apple..

[@TheMeerkat2323]

I remember all of these except double agents, dandies, blobs, star wars, king kong, buster, bay city rollers and fizzy lizzy. Spangles were my all time favourite childhood sweets, and I absolutely loved toffo's as well, their creamy flavour of the toffee was like anything I'd had before or since

[@markuk7935]

Can anyone remember the chewy tobacco, it was wrapped up to look just like rolling or pipe tobacco.

[@stephenderbyshire7849]

Yes, I believe you are referring to 'Spanish Gold'.

[@dianebusby7047]

Ah, Pacers, Toffos, fruity Polos and Spangles! Memories!! I remember bettabars too.

[@dianebusby7047]

Oh - and Tooty Frooties too.

[@Mistysmudge1]

Oh my gosh the nostalgia, loved Toffo's and Spangles and Pacers, Tootie Frooties loved those :D

[@lilac9639]

Can anyone remember when shops only opened half days on a Wednesday and very few if any on a Sunday? I told my son but he thinks I'm winding him up lol

[@stuviewtv]

I remember that. Sundays were more special before Sunday opening came along.

[@julesb7707]

Wednesday was always ‘half closing day’ where I live too with very little ever opening on a Sunday. This was in the 70s.

[@alexandramassey9258]

Yes I remember too. And all shops shut at 5

[@lilac9639]

@@stuviewtv I can remember the uproar when they finally opened on a Sunday. They were worried they'd end up working all hours but reassured that wouldn't happen..fast forward to now! 😳

[@lilac9639]

@@alexandramassey9258 lol, I forgot about the closing times.

[@garypayne6233]

God that was a huge blast from my childhood I remember the sweet tobacco also and the gold nugget chewing gum in small sack

[@pershorefoodbanktrusselltr3632]

I lived in a village in the mid 80s, back then a lot of weekly comics were delivered with the Saturday newspapers and one week we were all waiting eagerly for the Beano as that week as there was a nice big free chewy bar with it, as a seven year old that was very exciting because basically I lived for sweets at that age, anyway all the kids on my street were devastated as non of us got the free chewy bar? There was a sign printed on the comic saying “Free chewy bar” with just a tear in the comic where it should have been. It later turned out the young lad who sorted the comics out at the newsagents for delivery had literally pilfered all the chews out of the comics and scoffed the lot himself! The lady at the newsagents after a brief investigation eventually let us all the kids come down to the shop and we all had a 25 pence bag of penny sweets each 😊 They were the days! I loved Wham bars by the way.

[@IronJohn164]

Pacers & especially spangles... dang regressing @ the speed of light! top upload. The double agents sweeties were lite & the added spy tip just shouts out, a time when kids used imagination instead of having game consoles. 💥💯

[@RUSH2112RUSH]

I remember a 'bar' of toffee from the early 70s that had similar dimensions to a six inch ruler, and about as thick as one as well, and it would snap into shards of rock hard toffee that were very sharp and it was a wonder we children never cut our mouths on them.

[@hairydonuts6024]

Great video & love the ChewTV gag. My God, I totally forgot about Pacers. Ate hundreds of them which, probably, accounts for the fillings. That took me back! Thank you! 'Forgot about Double Agents too, until now, but that's not surprising: they were horrible! Another horrible sweet was IPSO, over-sized Tic-Tacs, as I recall? They didn't last long. BTW, you can still get Space Dust only it's called Popping Candy & it's, sometimes, used in posh desserts, of all things. At school, kids used to empty a whole pouch on it in their gobs & runabout the playground with their mouths open in an attempt to stick them close to some poor victim's ear & annoy the crap out of them with the popping sound. Regarding tobacco sweets, remember Spanish Gold (brown-dyed sugar encrusted strips of coconut, made to look like pipe-tobacco)? Loved it as a kid, though the brown coloring would go everywhere.

[@stuviewtv]

I used to love the Spanish Gold tobacco. You can still get buy it today, it's just not called Spanish Gold anymore and doesn't come in the pouches. Glad you enjoyed the video! Many thanks.

[@johnnyboy-f6v]

OMG! Pacers. I remember them. Thankyou for this!

[@dklabratful]

I just adored Toffos. Especially the liquorice flavour.