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Title: 70’s Sweetie Help!
Post by: on January 04, 2007, 10:24:31 am

OK, this is not really chocolate as such, but it's been bugging me for years.  In the late 70's, there used to be a brand of fruit flavoured boiled sweets that were a bit like Spangles but round.  There were loads of different flavours and they may not all have been fruity.  I think the advert featured a cartoon boy and a dog, but that's probably my mind playing tricks on me.


Can anyone help?

Title: 70’s Sweetie Help!
Post by: loulou on January 04, 2007, 11:02:11 am
fruit polos?
Title: 70’s Sweetie Help!
Post by: oldspice on January 05, 2007, 06:49:59 am
There used to be sweets called lemon drops, orange drops, cherry drops and I think they did an aniseed one too. They were round, flat on top but curved at the sides and came on rolls, not bags. I think they were made by Trebor.
Title: 70’s Sweetie Help!
Post by: goldencup on January 05, 2007, 07:55:50 am
I'd forgotten those!  I used to love the cherry ones.  I reckon you're right Oldspice - as usual!
Title: 70’s Sweetie Help!
Post by: on January 05, 2007, 10:09:09 am

Quote from: oldspice
There used to be sweets called lemon drops, orange drops, cherry drops and I think they did an aniseed one too. They were round, flat on top but curved at the sides and came on rolls, not bags. I think they were made by Trebor.


Yes, this is sounding good.  They definitely came in rolls, but I thought they had a collective name?  My memory doesn't go back that far.

Title: 70’s Sweetie Help!
Post by: oldspice on January 05, 2007, 08:25:58 pm
No, the ones I am thinking of didn't have a collective name. If I remember  right, the orange ones had a soft centre.
Title: 70’s Sweetie Help!
Post by: jumppilot on January 10, 2007, 10:37:44 pm

Heres one from the late 70's could this be the answer  Double Agents


 


They were in rolls (tubes) like Toffo and soft mints etc are now

Title: 70’s Sweetie Help!
Post by: goldencup on January 10, 2007, 10:49:55 pm
Yes it could be Double Agents but didn't they have a sherbet centre?
Title: 70’s Sweetie Help!
Post by: oldspice on January 11, 2007, 06:34:12 am
I've never heard of Double Agents. They're not the ones I'm thinking of.
Title: 70’s Sweetie Help!
Post by: Double Agent on April 14, 2007, 01:47:28 pm
There is a website on Double Agents, featuring the wrappers, spy hints and other items such as badges:
www.double-agents.co.uk
Title: 70’s Sweetie Help!
Post by: oldspice on April 14, 2007, 01:53:53 pm
Blimey, don't remember these at all. Must have been in love or something.
Title: 70’s Sweetie Help!
Post by: dundeetinker on April 24, 2007, 02:11:25 am
Hi the only thing i remember up here in scotland was sweeties called BLOBS they were round boiled sweets that came in lots of different flavours hope this helps...
Title: 70’s Sweetie Help!
Post by: Freddie on April 24, 2007, 06:23:33 pm
Quote from: dundeetinker
BLOBS ...

 

didn't there used to be toffee apple ones or was it apple and something else ?

i'm sure they has a soft chewy centre
Title: 70’s Sweetie Help!
Post by: dundeetinker on April 26, 2007, 06:42:11 pm
Hi freddie thats right they were toffee apple flavoured and chewy in the centre i'm sure their were other flavours too can't rem at the moment though...
Title: 70’s Sweetie Help!
Post by: Freddie on April 28, 2007, 01:13:45 am
i'm sure there was a strawberry and something flavour..
maybe strawberry and chocolate !!!
Title: 70’s Sweetie Help!
Post by: dundeetinker on April 28, 2007, 04:10:52 am

Hi freddie it was strawberry with cream the centre was like a sherbet centre cream flavour..

Title: 70’s Sweetie Help!
Post by: Freddie on April 28, 2007, 12:49:13 pm
that's the only 2 flavours i can remember..maybe someone else will come along and remember..Smile
 

where abouts in Dundee are you from ?
Title: 70’s Sweetie Help!
Post by: DrewsMilitia on May 02, 2007, 11:43:00 pm
I'm sure there was a fizzy cola type Blob also.
Title: 70’s Sweetie Help!
Post by: Freddie on May 03, 2007, 04:42:35 am
yes there was..that's 3 we can remember can someone make it 4..Big%20smile
Title: 70’s Sweetie Help!
Post by: dundeetinker on May 06, 2007, 01:17:58 am

hi freddie i'm up in whitfield on the outskirts of dundee..

Title: 70’s Sweetie Help!
Post by: lorri on May 07, 2007, 04:17:54 pm
i had forgoten about blobs till i read this, i used to love the toffee apple ones,they tasted burnt but in a nice way LOL
Title: Re: 70’s Sweetie Help!
Post by: drterror666 on April 29, 2010, 06:45:46 pm
Quote from: drterror666 on January 04, 2007, 10:24:31 am
<P>OK, this is not really chocolate as such, but it's been bugging me for years.  In the late 70's, there used to be a brand of fruit flavoured boiled sweets that were a bit like Spangles but round.  There were loads of different flavours and they may not all have been fruity.  I think the advert featured a cartoon boy and a dog, but that's probably my mind playing tricks on me.</P>
<P>Can anyone help?</P>

Does anyone want to have a go at what these were?
Title: Re: 70’s Sweetie Help!
Post by: cinabar on April 29, 2010, 08:22:44 pm
Fruit Toffos?
http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/assorted-toffo-p-269.html (http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/assorted-toffo-p-269.html)
I used to love them!!!
Title: Re: 70’s Sweetie Help!
Post by: drterror666 on April 30, 2010, 06:33:14 pm
No, definitely not Fruit Toffos.  They were hard, boiled sweets, like round Spangles.  We used to have tubes of them at Xmas, but I can't remember what they were.  They were well known during the end of the 70's at least.