Top 10 Favourite Retro Sweets

Top 10 Favourite Retro Sweets

Here is a list of 10 of the most well known and popular old fashioned sweets. Many classic sweets are no longer widely available and can only be found on niche websites online or in a specialised sweet shop.

The sweets below are some of the best nostalgic sweets and candy that are sure to remind you of your childhood days.

10. Anglo Bubbly Type: Bubblegum Flavour: Pear Bubblegum Make: Tangerine Confectionery Description: The most retro bubblegum around! Huge pink discs of bubblegum packed with a memorable pear flavour. They are now bigger than ever before so make incredible bubbles and are individually wrapped with brand new packaging.

9. Black Jacks Type: Chew Flavour: Aniseed Make: Barratt Description: A retro sweet favourite for all generations! Aniseed flavoured chewy sweets that make your tongue go black! Black Jacks are one of the oldest retro sweets that are still loved today, they were originally made in the 1920s when Trebor Bassett manufactured them.

8. Foam Shrimps Type: Foam Chew Flavour: Raspberry Make: Barratt Description: Soft and chewy raspberry flavoured sea creatures that are one of the most popular ever retro sweets. The look and ingredients of these nostalgic sweets have changed very little over decades, a true show that if it isn't broke, don't fix it.

7. Cola Cubes a.k.a Kola Kubes Type: Hard Boiled Flavour: Cola Make: Taverner's Description: The perfect hard boiled sweet to take you back to your local sweet shop.

Delicious hard, cola flavoured cubes with a surprising chewy and soft centre. There are many other manufacturers of cola cubes such as Kingsway and Tilley's.

6. Fried Eggs Type: Foam and Jelly Flavour: Fruit Make: Haribo Description: A classic pick 'n' mix sweet from Haribo. Soft and foamy round the outside with a chewy fruit flavoured jelly yolk in the middle. Haribo fried eggs are one of the sweets that feature in Haribo Starmix.

5. Flying Saucers Type: Sherbet Flavour: Fruit Make: N/A Description: Fizzy fruity sherbet encased in a thin wafer shell that melts in the mouth. A popular sherbet classic that comes in mixed coloured UFO shaped rice paper shells.

4. Jelly Babies Type: Jelly Flavour: Fruit Make: Bassett's Description: Thick, juicy and dusted baby shaped jelly sweets. There are many different types of jelly babies around, the larger dusted variety is the most popular but haribo make a smaller and slightly more tangy jelly baby. Each Bassett's jelly baby has a different name, face and flavour.

3. Porky Pigs Type: Chocolate Candy Flavour: Strawberry Make: N/A

Description: Strawberry flavoured chocolate candy sweets with cute little piggy faces on.

Each pig has a different face, either with a smile or a shocked face. Porky pigs are of a similar texture to candy ice cream cone sweets.

2. Candy Necklaces Type: Candy Flavour: Fruit Make: N/A Description: Remember this tasty retro sweet bling? Colourful edible candy necklaces that look and taste great! Small hard circular fruit flavoured candy on an elastic string to use as a tasty necklace.

1. Cola Bottles Type: Jelly Flavour: Cola Make: Haribo Description: Everyone's favourite retro sweets! Chewy, juicy and packed with tasty cola flavour! It can only be Haribo's cola bottles. Cola bottle sweets also come in other varieties and flavours such as fizzy cola bottles and fizzy cherry cola bottles.