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What was your favourite snack from shop growing up?

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Financial_Breath5433@reddit

Walnut whip
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Ehhitiswhatitis@reddit

20p mix up
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Rockpool500@reddit

Chocolate, fruit pastilles or crisps. Still the same today.
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GregoryTec@reddit

Anything that you could afford with the scraps of change you had on the way home from school. OG Space Raiders, those jelly spider/bug things, pops with the red straw, ice pops, fruit salad & black jacks.
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Call_Me_Janice@reddit

Calypso cups were the ones with the red straw, and Jubblies were the triangle shaped cardboard ones you could freeze Loved the black jacks/fruit salad
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GregoryTec@reddit

I remember getting cuts on the side of my lips from tearing open ice pops and those cardboard ones used to go all fluffy at the point of entry 😁 Thanks for the reminder on the names, they had long disappeared from memory 
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Call_Me_Janice@reddit

Yeah I can always remember random facts like this, but not useful stuff like where I left my car keys 🤣
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kimlesim@reddit

The bus was 90p so your mum would give you a £1 and you’d spend your 10p on sweets to get the right change.
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Slight-Brush@reddit

Space Raiders and Cherry Drops the best value in terms of mouthfuls / spend.
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Fioreborn@reddit

Chipsticks
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lightfollower42@reddit

Still eat these from Tesco but they not quite the same:(
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lightfollower42@reddit

Pickled onion transformer snacks, numb my mouth for days after two bags 🤣
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oooohshinythingy@reddit

10p mix ups in the late 60’s/late 70’s. We could get 3 mojo chews for 1/2p so there was loads of stuff
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Call_Me_Janice@reddit

Only 2 mojos for 1/2p for me. Loved a 10p 'penny mix'. Also Tom Thumb pips from the jar, could get a big bag for your money but they became one huge sticky lump of concrete overnight if you didn't eat them all at once
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TotallyTapping@reddit

Early 1970's, no idea of correct spelling, but we called it Kayli(e). It was a multicoloured sherbert (sugar granules) and the shopkeeper poured 2oz of it into a little triangular bag. If you were posh you used a spoon, but we mostly just stuck our finger in the bag and licked it. Ended up with a coloured fingertip for the rest if the day!
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Purple_Committee_216@reddit

Came here to say kayli but wasn't that the pink powdered sherbert? I remember the rainbow sherbert too. Feeling posh - had a penny lolly to dip 😋
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LegitimatePowder@reddit

Kayli was the granulated, sherbert the powder. Always loved both. Can you remember cream soda sherbert? One of my faves.
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Purple_Committee_216@reddit

I'm not certain. The pink powder sherbert I'm remembering was sold by the quarter and wasn't quite as "fizzy" as the stuff in sherbert fountains. We called that kayli, maybe it's a regional thing (like breadcakes=buns=barm cakes etc). Talking of fizzy - can you remember Cresta? Strawberry was my favourite. Ditto Cremola crystals.
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AdOk9572@reddit

Beefy Quaterbacks crisps.
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DaisyLea59@reddit

I loved the cheeseburger ones! Blast from the past!
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Usual_Associate9939@reddit

BlackBerry Clearly Canadian water and a small box of Wheat Thins
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IntrepidMaybe8579@reddit

The free pick n mix we stole
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Affectionate_Leg_339@reddit

10p taz or froggy chocolate bars, my fave was the caramel one think it was froggy…I can’t really remember now.
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Simply444@reddit (OP)

are you thinking of freddo’s?
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Affectionate_Leg_339@reddit

Yessss! Thank you! 😂
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Jemassi@reddit

Those tomato crisps, or sherbet sticks.
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FunnyVehicle7664@reddit

Fry's fondant
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Defiant_Attempt1469@reddit

Tomato snaps, cola frosties and a fuse bar.
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BigUnderstanding3751@reddit

Wham bar, giant cola bottle, traffic light lolly
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Hot-Box1054@reddit

Irn bru bars, very missed
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captain_crackerjack@reddit

Mr Tom
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Minimum-Bad-6472@reddit

You need to specify categories cuz i cant say just a few without categories(sorry autistic) Like crisp,chocolate,cake, bars, biccies etc then ill narrow it to a few but even then ill not be able to go all out cuz lil me had so much nice shit I miss childhood good grief
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AgingLolita@reddit

Tangy toms
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ThatBlokeYouKnow@reddit

Banana chomp
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UpstairsLocal3378@reddit

Milky Way crispy rolls. The new ones aren’t the same
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Simply444@reddit (OP)

this.
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Tiny_Size2037@reddit

Curlywurley's and a packet of spangles
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Exact-Reference3966@reddit

Mr Freeze ice poles Shandy bass Fizzy jerks Campinos Toffos Fuse bars
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TaffWaffler@reddit

The little turtle chews
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Remilia333@reddit

Beef space raiders, those little blue tongue painter lollies, caramel freedo
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Environmental-War383@reddit

Burton's potato puffs, pineapple cubes, sherbet pips.
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Green-Dragon-14@reddit

Was a long time ago but it was comics (whizzer & chips beano dandy etc) all I would only have left would be for penny tray, black Jack's & fruit salad, white mice, bubbly etc. Nowadays I'm a grown up & buy multi packs.
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Interesting_Fish309@reddit

Fake edible money. Oh my did i love that weird stuff. Flying saucers and a carton of juice opened uppside doen by chewing the corner off a little. Jelly sweets too 10p mixes freddos and chomps. Or aload of them 10p chew bars. Wham was my fave
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Amazing_Fennel_1542@reddit

Mars delight. Or those 10p rainbow sherbet straws.
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Panicking12@reddit

The big bars of white chocolate for 50p
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colin_staples@reddit

[KP Skydivers](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/91/d1/ae/91d1ae11baaa0caf98e616844fa97c24.jpg) Early 1980s Little corn crisps (think Quavers or Pom Bear) shaped like little men who were supposed to be parachuters
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Embarrassed_Money472@reddit

Transforma snack saucy bbq, love hearts, fruit salad, kitkat chunky peanut butter
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Goatmanification@reddit

Whatever corn snacks the shop has (i.e. Nik Naks, Space Raiders etc) and one of those jelly sweets that came on a reel that cost like 10p each
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Chickenshit_outfit@reddit

Sherbet Dips and cola bottles , usually mixed
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Alicam123@reddit

Panda pops with a wonka snozzberry bar. 😂
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AkihabaraWasteland@reddit

Pickled Onion Monster Munch.
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Dishtothefish@reddit

Jelly snakes
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kernowgringo@reddit

At one point as a kid I figured out I could have a pot noodle for a similar price as a snack, so I started getting them instead, was big in to Beef and Tomato
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YorkshireMary@reddit

The top one, and still is, is Kit Kat. Due to clever marketing - " Have a break, have a Kit Kat".
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Redditbutasmymind@reddit

Snickers
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Unhappy-Jackfruit279@reddit

KitKat chunky
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