🍬 Sweets & Chocolate

Discontinued bars, quarters from the jar, and wrappers that are worth more empty than they ever were full.

11 things

1960s 1960

Jars on a shelf, brass scales, and a quarter of whatever you pointed at, twisted shut at the corners.

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1970s 1970

Cadbury's lattice of caramel, advertised by Terry Scott dressed as a schoolboy, and the subject of a national shrinkage conspiracy.

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1970s 1970

The sweet everyone over forty brings up unprompted. Discontinued in 1984, briefly revived, and mourned ever since.

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1970s 1973

Butterscotch or strawberry powder that turned half a pint of milk into a mousse in about ninety seconds.

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1980s 1980

Carbonated sugar crystals that crackled and fizzed, accompanied by an urban legend about a child who drank cola afterwards.

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1980s 1983

A ten-pence chew bar with a raspberry flavour that does not exist anywhere in nature and sherbet pieces embedded in it.

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1980s 1985

A thin chocolate wafer in a red wrapper, permanently at the bottom of the biscuit tin.

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1980s 1986

The greatest confectionery format ever devised, weighed at the till and eaten before you got to the bus stop.

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1990s 1995

Looney Tunes and Pokémon discs given away in crisp packets, which drove sales to extraordinary levels.

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1990s 1999

A small chocolate frog that cost 10p and has become the standard measure of how much worse everything has got.

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