Sweet Rationing

[Guinness]

Fascinating little video on sweet rationing...lookout for the Spangles advert at the end....much simpler times before words were hijacked

BBC News - The time when sweets were strictly rationed

 

[jaysay]

Fascinating little video on sweet rationing...lookout for the Spangles advert at the end....much simpler times before words were hijacked

BBC News - The time when sweets were strictly rationed

Hell I'm glad it isn't now Guinness, a few sweets are the only pleasures I have these days

 

[Retlaw]

Fascinating little video on sweet rationing...lookout for the Spangles advert at the end....much simpler times before words were hijacked

BBC News - The time when sweets were strictly rationed

I remember when it came off in 54, the shop in Abbey St near clives barbers, the number of women wi fake fur coats and big hats shovin and pushing commoners out of the way, and loading the back seats of their cars with jars and tins of toffee was disgusting.

 

[JCB]

lookout for the Spangles advert at the end.

And Spangles were the first sweets I bought when rationing ended .

 

[davebtelford]

Would have been better for my teeth if rationing had continued !

 

[susie123]

Do you remember Old English Spangles, in the black packet?

 

[Guinness]

Do you remember Old English Spangles, in the black packet?

The Marmite of boiled sweets....definitely on the 'Yuk' side myself

 

[vecrra]

Do you remember Old English Spangles, in the black packet?

Oh yes. Used to love those. Lasted for ages too