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Trying Sweets From My Childhood
In this post I share some of my favourite sweets from my childhood.
I grew up in the 90’s and enjoyed some delicious sweets (or candy) in my childhood. The highlight of my day was popping to the corner shop to get a bag of my favourite sweets in a white paper bag. Not much has changed – I now get the same kick from going to Asda.
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Chocolate nibbles were one of my all time favourite snacks growing up. The soft, nougaty chocolate covered in icing sugar gave me many joyous afternoons. I used to love buying choc nibbles from the local shop and walking back home munching on them. Yes they were finished by the time I got home 🙂
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The combination of biscuit sticks and chocolate dip was genius – whoever came up with such a concept deserves a prize. Choc dips was definitely another of my favourite snacks. I would make sure that I had enough chocolate for all my biscuit sticks, and I loved having extra chocolate dip left over at the end to lick clean.
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Double dip is such a nostalgic sweet for me – the compartments for the different flavoured sugar powder and the swizzelstick! Memories!
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I was so excited when I saw chocolate ice cups on one of my shopping trips last year. I couldn’t believe that they were still in production. I remember buying these individually, and yes I would take them home in a white paper bag. Peeling the foil off to reveal the lovely smooth chocolate – pure joy!
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Wham bars and other similar chewy bars are made to destroy your teeth as I discovered at around age ten. Not that it stopped me from buying them again – who can resist the stretchy, sweet chewiness? Not me. Whenever I have these bars I am taken back to the time I was walking home from school with my friends enjoying an Irn Bru bar when I felt something rock hard as I chewed. What was it you ask? My tooth. It had literally ripped out my tooth. Did I finish the Irn Bru bar? Of course 🙂
Strawberry Bon Bons
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Looking through this list, I was clearly partial to powdery sweetness, or maybe that’s what was popular in the 90’s. Strawberry bon bons were so yummy, I loved making my way through the powdery strawberry layer to get to the strawberry toffee which tasted so good. Sadly, I couldn’t find any strawberry bon bons on my latest trip to the shops, but I did manage to find some Vimto Bon Bons which gave me a little of the enjoyment I used to experience.
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If you grew up in the 90’s, you didn’t have a childhood unless you had love hearts. I am glad to see that they have made a bit of a comeback. Looking back, some of the messages on the sweets were a bit cringe, but my teenage self loved them. They were loads of fun, and I would anticipate the messages that I would get in my packet of love hearts – oh the excitement.
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Hubba Bubba was a delicious chewing gum and there were some yummy flavours back in the day. I managed to find some ‘Seriously Strawberry’ Hubba Bubbas, and the sweet juiciness of the chewing gum took me right back.
I hope you enjoyed reading this post and taking a trip down memory lane with me 🙂