Spangles!

By heck! These were a staple part of my diet as a schoolboy! I wasn't keen on the lime flavour and don't actually think I'd ever seen a lime at that point. Lime was something you had in a lemon and lime drink or was a ghastly threat in a bottle of Robinson's lime cordial. Why a lime Spangle is being held out as though it were the best is beyond me! Orange and strawberry were my favourites.

How about you?

A big thanks to Bruce Seaton for reminding me about these!

Don't Forget The Fruit Gums, Mum

Are these still going? I have a feeling they might be actually. Unlike many of the sweets I enjoyed as a child.

Some of them just changed name - like Marathon becoming the slightly disturbing Snickers, or Opal Fruits (didn't like them - they used to make my mouth water...) becoming Starburst. A snazzier name it may be but Opal Fruits described them better and even after however many years it's been I can still remember the song...

"Opal Fruits made to make your mouth water
Fresh with the tang of citrus
Four refreshing fruit flavours
Orange, Lemon, Lime, Strawberry..."

Ooh ah... Come on now, admit it... how many of you were singing along? How many people can sing the Starburst song??? Is there even a Starburst song?

And whatever happened to Spangles, Tiffin, sweet cigarettes and a stick of licorice in a quarter pound of kay-li? Or Space Dust from the 1970s - now that was a surprise, the first time I tried it!

Anyway, Fruit Gums! Remember the satisfaction when your teeth finally met in the middle of one?