Whatever Happened To The Retro Sweets You Loved As A Child?
Everyone had their own particular retro sweets favourites, but I bet these names get you reminiscing…
Boiled Retro Sweets like
- Rhubarb and Custards – that wonderful combination of sharp rhubarb and sweet custard
- Sherbet Lemons with the fizzy centre (I used to find that, if I sucked them in a certain way, I could suck the sherbet out through the ends well before I’d finished the boiled lemony bit!)
- Blackjacks and Fruit Salads
- Shrimps
- Strawberry Bootlaces
- Anglo Bubbly – with its lurid electric blue, shocking pink and yellow wrapper. Did you realise that it was pear flavoured? Me neither.
- Golf Ball Bubblegum – I used to buy that on the way to school to chew in the playground!
- Jawbreakers – never did break my jaw though!
Gobstoppers - classic retro sweets you can still enjoy today
And other retro sweets that were just impossible to categorise…
- Space Dust – that caused a sensation when it hit our school in the late 1970s
- Gobstoppers – I just couldn’t resist keeping on whipping mine out to see if it had changed colour
- Sherbet Fountains – what was it about the combination of sherbet and liquorice that made it so utterly brilliant!
I could go on and on. There were so many sweets in those days that made childhood so much more fun.
Nowadays the selections are just so much more boring… you see the same prepackaged sweets in supermarkets, the little sweetshops have pretty well all disappeared and the fun sweets have been consigned to the term ‘retro sweets’, implying that they don’t make them anymore.
Retro Sweets Are Not Dead!
Well if that’s what you believe, then think again! Many of the retro sweets that were so brilliant are still being made… it’s just really hard to find where you can get them.
At lease it used to be.
www.AQuarterOf.co.uk is THE old-fashioned sweetshop online… they have around 650 different sweets including all of the ones that I’ve mentioned on this page.
Take a look at www.AQuarterOf.co.uk now… and prepare to get all nostalgic. And best of all, you could be enjoying your favourite childhood retro sweets all over again… as quickly as tomorrow. That will bring memories flooding back!