Sweet sweets nostalgia

[paulham]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7423087.stm
[Spangles: Dimpled, square boiled sweets in fruit-flavoured and Old English varieties
Cabana bar: Very sweet coconut-centred chocolate bar with cherry twist
Pineapple Mars: This early tropical-flavoured prototype was not a lasting success
Fry's Five Centres: Follow-up to famous Fry's Five Boys
Banjo bar: Wafer-based treat remembered for jingle]
Ewwwwwww!

[paulham]

["People always ask why things like Spangles were dropped. Basically it's just that they weren't selling."

And that perhaps is the reason why Mars, which made them, is unmoved by the rose-tinted reminiscences on the message boards.

"Any brand or marketing activity, including the reintroduction of past products, is thoroughly researched among our key consumers before being launched back into the market. Currently there are no plans to reintroduce Spangles," a company spokesman says. ]
I don't remember any of the manufacturers coming and asking OUR opinion!

[oldspice]

I wish people would stop connecting Frys Five Boys with Five Centres. Five Boys was a milk chocolate bar with no filling and for a long time it was available at the same time as Five Centres. Five Centres was originally called Frys Medley.

[loulou]

It's like comparing a bounty with a cabana.

[harryhaflinger]

I'm glad someone mentioned the late great 'Jamboree Bag', 3d worth of large paper bag with half a dozen sweets and a rubbish plastic toy ( reminiscent of xmas cracker novelty ). I bought one every week when I went Saturday morning pictures and thought they were a rip off then !!

[oldspice]

Lol.  My mother didn't allow me to buy Jamboree bags because they were such poor value and she was afraid the sweets would poison me and the plastic toy would choke me!  I wasn't allowed gum either. She didn't like me having chews, and only reluctantly allowed them but would have preferred me to always have chsen 'nice' sweets, suitable for 'nice' children and these included dolly mixtures, fruit pastilles, Smarties, chocolate buttons and Milky Bars!!

[goldencup]

And were you a 'nice' child Oldspice?  I don't remember any sweets being banned but I wasn't allowed to read comics!

[loulou]

I was allowed comics and sweets but never bubble gum and if I ever had a boiled sweet all my mother ever shouted was "sit still while you eat that or you'll fall and knock your teeth out".