Still thinking about childhood, I've moved on to sweets. What child wouldn't?
We didn't get a lot of sweets but sweet rationing ended in 1953. It had been lifted in 1949 but had to be imposed again after just four months because demand exceeded supply.
So many goodies from those days are no longer available. I loved Spangles in all their manifold flavours. Recently a Blogger (Sue?) mentioned sweet cigarettes. They made us feel very grown up as we pretended to smoke them. I'm very glad they are no longer sold!
Cadbury's had a very wide range of chocolate bars. The ordinary mlk chocolate was available in 1d, 2d, 3d and 6d bars. There may have been bigger bars but not on the shelves which tempted a primary school aged me. They also sold 6d bars in a wide range of flavours: I can remember strawberry, orange, and lemon but I think there were far more.
I remember Milky Way being introduced at 3d, much more affordable than a Mars Bar at 6d. They were "The sweet you can eat between meals without ruining your appetite".
Some sweets have been renamed - I think Lion Bars were called Picnic Bars and Snickers were called Marathon.
Come on, which sweeties can you remember from childhood?
Ooh, sweets! I think my favorites were small hard candies known as "naran bik" which would translate into English as tangerine segments. Then there was a black and white striped peppermint candy which was three cornered. And jujubes. :)
ReplyDeleteYour black and white goodies sound like humbugs. They were alway three cornered when I was a child but not necessarily now.
DeleteI loved a finger of fudge, and fruit salads and black jacks, I often would get a 3d mixed bag of sweets.
ReplyDeleteOoh, fruit salad and Black Jacks were 4 for 1d! Doesn't fruit salad sound healthy - it wasn't!
ReplyDeleteFruit salad, black jacks, sherbert fountains, sweet peanuts, pineapple chunks and rhubarb and custard. Trays of Blue Bird toffee that the shopkeeper would break up with a metal hammer. Don't think my teeth would take them these days. Xx
ReplyDeleteMy brother and I were both Cadbury Bourneville dark chocolate buffs like my father, my mother was the Dairy Milk aficionado. We always had a big box of Roses at Christmas too.
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