Following on from remembering favourite sweets we enjoyed as children this is about chocolate! Fry's chocolate cream bar is a favourite and is still as popular today as it was when first created. It was Joseph Fry who created this chocolate bar in 1866 and it is the oldest candy bar, still made, in the whole world!
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That's really interesting how a chocolate bar an stay popular for all those years. I wonder if Queen Victoria liked it. xx
They sell it in poundworld and have the orange cream bars there as well as the original and mint
RoadRunner44 in reply to
I havent seen the orange version but Id like to try it as I like orznge aefo, and chovolate oranges. I'll get my daughter to get some for me to try. Didn't there used to be a fruit flavoured one too!
I think it used to be called Frys 5 centre
I remember my mum buying me Fry's 5 boys chocolate. Small bar with 5 segments each with a picture of a boy
I remember that one too. The boys face was sad and got happier, I think. Maybe in anticipation of having a chocolate bar.
That's right, had forgotten that
wasnt that 5 boys
There was the one bar of chocolate called 5 boys also made by Frys. it featured the five different feelings of the boy on the wrapper front. Each picture had a word for each of the different feelings the boy was experiencing.
There was orange, blackberry, strawberry, pineapple and lime. My auntie used to bring us one every week. x
Your right! That's the fruit one I was thinking of. Members on the forum say there's lots of different fruit flavours made now. I'd like the 5 centre bar if they still make it.
I think the 5 centre one was called Fruit Salad. Haven't seen it in years, even in a retro sweets shop.
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It was called 'Fry's Five Boys,' and I loved the lime centre piece. You can buy all of the other flavours now in one single bar, but I have not seen a lime bar. There used to be a picture of five young boys on the wrapper, and they all looked identical. I wish that we had those days back again.
Here where I am in Scotland we have a Home Bargains store , they sell them in mint, orange , strawberry and raspberry flavour😊
You are do lucky. I havens seen them ihere in Wales. We have a Home Bargains Store near me I'll ask my daughter to see if they stock them.
GhoundsReading Rabbits
I used to like those, they also did one with various fruit flavour fillings.
I thought so. I wonder when that one came out? Can you still get it?
I don't know, I can't have regular chocolate now as I'm allergic to milk. You could try their website?
They are milk free. I’m allergic to milk and gluten but I can eat them
I can't remember seeing raspberry. Can you still get it?
Oh but good news for chocolate lovers who have to eat gluten free food.
I tried making scones with gluten free flour. They were awful,
I bought a packet mix they were lovely but I can’t remember the name now so don’t know how to get more. I think Tesco do one
My favourite was the Fry's Five Centres bar. I have just seen that four years ago, there was a petition on Change.org to bring it back, they only had 415 supporters.
I would have signed the petition but didn't see or hear there was one.
Me neither, more's the pity.
Nor me Id love to have it back
Oh yes RoadRunner44, it's survived a long time. What about Fry's Five Boys? The five boys' faces of Desperation, Pacification, Expectation, Acclamation and Realisation. (I doubt that would fly as an ad campaign these days!) 😀 My preference was always a Tiffin, which Fry's also originally made.
springcross in reply to
Hubby's just told me that you can get Tiffin bars at Tesco, I've just had a look and it's now made by Cadburys. x
Miggins60 in reply to
I used to love Tiffin bars. I used to also like thimble- shaped soft fondant fruit centre chocolates individually wrapped in coloured foil. They came in a slide out drawer type box. 60 years ago probably.
I recently read an article about favourite chocolate and Tiffin bars are being re-launched! Whether the Corona Virus will delay the launch we'll have to wait and see.
Good news though.
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Yes RoadRunner44, I do remember the Fry's Chocolate bar(s).
Do you remember Aztec Bars? An absolute favourite, when I was a child- I even ate one, at the top of Ben Ane (I think that's right) a Scottish Mountain😋.
AndrewT
Yes, all these posts from members bring back lots of memories, An Aztec bar was OK but I prefered a Milky Lunch. Unfortunately, I don't think these are available any longer either.
Isn't it amazing how your memory of an Aztec bar is linked to that Scottish mountain.
My link to a Milky Lunch is a very old lady who walked with crutches. She had a little old fashioned sweet shop in the front room of her house in the street where I lived as a child. That room was packed with old fashioned jars of sweets. I can hear her voice now saying I could have a Milky Lunch for the little threepenny bit I clutched in my hand.
So many memories.......
Cheers for now.
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I didn't know they were still around but I shall now be on the hunt as I really used to like them a long time ago. Never keen on the fruit one though.
Hubby liked the Aztec bars. I always loved and still love Twix, always had it at half time at football, Oldham's my team!! I have been going since I was 6 years old but these last few years I haven't felt well enough 👎, it's the highest ground in England and I know it was always freezing especially when there weren't many of us there!! Fond memories of Dad, myself and my brother and then waiting at home would be my Mum having cooked spare ribs and pea and ham soup or meat and potato 😋. Oops I've done it again, I've gone off on tangent. Sending all my love and hugs to you all Lynne ❤️🤗 xxxx
mattymoo33 in reply to
Lynne, my boys are Rochdale fans, even though they were born in Nottingham. I'm from Oldham/Rochdale and they've been visiting Spotland whenever they can, but always boxing day.
My mums cheese and onion pie 😋, and meat pies from Smiths in castleton with pickled onions.. only at Christmas? 😍
Now I'm hungry 😀xxx
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I don't know why I remember this but I do. It was half time, this fella went for a pie, tried it, chucked it away in disgust., A dog came running along as happy as a sand boy, took one snug at the our and walked off , tail between its legs, think that said how bad the lies were then!! 😂
RoadRunner44 in reply to
Now isn't that an interesting bit of information.... Oldham football ground being the highest in the UK. The Frys chocolate bar is the oldest in the world. Isn't it surprising the little snips of information we pick up on the forum? In fact I will add these two things to the next quiz I hope to plan for my WI group.
Cheers for now.
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I'm full of useless information 👍
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I think it's just England, not UK !!
Oh wow I love peppermint creams of most sorts. Elizabeth Shaws. Bendincks. Yummy. I loved the green peppermint Fry’s one. Also the Milk Tray bar of chocolate. Seven or eight chocs moulded into a bar of Cadbury’s ... When Cadbury’s was dusky and gorgeous and not shiny and full of palm oil and overly sweet like it is now.
Elizabeth Shaws - yummy. I had three boxes of that over Christmas.
I remember the 5 flavours one but don’t see that here in Australia anymore,I really loved it.
Just reading this makes my very touchy tooth twing.
Hiya. I'm not a massive chocolate fan, but found myself buying a Frys cream bar in our local shop. Discovered a week later I was pregnant...21 years ago. Still my go to comfort choc 😁
Gobstoppers and flying saucers. Yum
As you sucked the gobstopper they changed colour as they got smaller. I didn't like the flying saucers they tasted a bit like cardboard to me.
One thing I have forgotten was the big round lumps of pink bubblegum. I used to blow gigantic bubbles with it and I loved every minute of it. 😋
Vegan too luckily for me 🌱 they sell mint, strawberry and orange bars in packs of 3 in B&M and I saw the mint bars in Morrisons.
Does anyone remember luch bars we use to get them from school tuck shop waffer type chocolate treatin a pinky coloured shiny wrapper not seen em since juniors over 40 years ago but they were my favorite just cant finf any one who remembers them or smacks bacon flavoured little round biscuity snacks xxxx
Not keen on dark chocolate but love mint so after eights suit me
I think was strawberry,orange,raspberry,lime and pineapple they were the best 😊
They certainly were the best.
Yes, orange, raspberry, lime, strawberry & pineapple but that was many years ago probably in the early 60s (ish). They were lovely.
My Husbands favourite treat x
Because its still so popular its still being made!. Obviously, your husband is contributing to its popularity by the sound of it!
Cheers. 😁😃😅
MidoriVisually impaired
Anyone remember Spangles? They were very popular in the 50s and 60s.
Yes, in a long pack. Square shaped fruity sweets.
I remember Spangles - they were yummy too.
If I remember they had minty ones and a one called 'Old English' which was a humbug/aniseedy one?
Yes, if my memory serves me well they did. Just been looking at a lot of old stuff. Do you remember the orange jubilee drink which used to be frozen in summer months? It used to come in a triangle wax carton - it was about early 60s.
Oh yes.They used to sell them at the fish n chip shop in our village.A treat when we were kids.
We used to queue for them in the newspaper shop and on the really hot days, the queue used to come out of the shop and down the road.
Talking of ices someone on the local radio was talking about raspberry mivvis yesterday.
Oh yes, I remember RaspberryMivvis, my favourite of those times along with Orange Maid lollies. I'm pretty sure they were made with virtually all natural ingredients but if it was now, it would probably be made with artifical colours and sweeteners.
Unfortunately yes.Last Summer I heard ice cream van chimes down our road.I was really excited but later found out that it was in fact the 'sandwich lady' who goes round the factories Now-mobile shops and vendors-that's another story.......
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Yes, I agree with you. Those were my favourites too. You don't notice these things slowly disappear and are not available any more.
oh my god I remember spangales .I got some at xmas in a selection box early 70/s. I was 5 and not allowed to have them so stole a pack and hid behind sofa and chocked on one! lucky for me mam heard me chocking and fished it out! oh the memories.
Lovely memory and a lovely story.
Good job your mam was there! 😊
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Yes!! Really good!
It was great think phased out in maybe the 90s unfortunately.
One of my favourites!
As a child, we used put a fry’s chocolate cream bar in a bread roll as a sandwich, mmmm
We used to have sweetened condensed milk and sugar sandwiches.No wonder I have such a sweet tooth now and have needed quite a bit of dental work over the years😊I did enjoy them though.
One of my favs was brown sauce sandwiches and also butter coated (both sides) dry Weetabix. 😋
I liked tomato ketchup sandwiches.And cheshire cheese and strawberry jam!I also used to sandwich those morning coffee biscuits together with lots of butter,squush tvem together until the butter oozed out of the small holes then lick it off. What a disgusting child I was😊
I used to love doing that too so we must be disgusting together! 😂😂
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This is my favourite chocolate bar, and as well as being vegan it’s quite low in calories! I always have some in the house.
What flavour would you say it is? After years of independent research (purely in a professional capacity lol) I think it’s lemon?
I loved the fruit cream centered ones! Do they still make them?? Will have to look when I go shopping.
Yes I know, they tried four years ago on Change.org but it only got 415 supporters.
Good idea! Frys is made by Cadburys now. Who owns Cadburys?
in reply to RoadRunner44
Kraft
I'll certainly put my name to it.
Omg I just asked my Colin the question and he got it right........can’t believe he knew the answer, going to enter him for who wants to be a millionaire after the lockdown 😂🤣😂🤣
focused1Reading Rabbits
Thinking of that bar I loved the 5 fruit cream bar that had lemon , orange and strawberry cream in it .
A few of us on the forum would like to see that one return. Delicious!
Ern007Visually impaired
We have it delivered with groceries ever week from my wife who loves the stuff, I am no a chocolate eater normally but from time to time, will have a piece - but prefer plain chocolate with out the cream if any. I used to like things like spangles which have disappeared and fruit gums - "Candy" - You from the US then?
No, Wales UK! I read the article about chocolate on line and used the acual words there. Perhaps, when the original bar was invented it was referred to as candy.
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Ah OK - Wales my son loves to holiday there. I mention US because they refer to Toffee or Choc bars as Candy..
Where in Wales does he holiday?
Near Rhyl - I can't remember and doubt I could spell it, I was for a short time in Wales with the Army in the 1960s, near Ryhl in a place starting with Aberg - Pubs had to shut on Sundays in those days I remember,
Rhys is in North Wales. I live in South Wales. There are many beautiful places in all parts of Wales. The place you possibly mean could be Abergele, that's in North Wales. Yes, I remember the pubs being shut on a Sunday. I believe many people used to nip over the border into England to get a beer.
Cheers!
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Yes that was the place - Not been to South wales
I've heard that about the beer! My sister lives in south wales, about six miles from Brecon. Asda sell the frys peppermint cream in packs of three.
I remember my gran giving this to myself and my brother - chopped up and put in a buttered roll!! Our mum was horrified when she found out!!
I liked Fry’s five centre yum x
Yes I remember the 5 boys bar.It was my favourites.I know you can get orange mint and raspberry in B&M.
For anyone who wants a trip down memory lane,Robert Opie,who founded the Museum of Brands in London,has brought out some 50s 60s and 70s 'scrapbooks' with lots of merchandise of tbe times-food,household goods,toys,cosmetics etc I bought them for my husband for Christmas.We have spent many happy hours browsing through them with constant 'I remember that...'s.We were planning an outing to the museum this year but the books will have to do for now☺
That is so interesting and I'd lije to get a copy of that book. I'll check on Google about the museum. I'd be like you and your husband.....Oh, Oh, I had one like that......
Thanks.
It started when our friends had the 60s one.So many things Id forgotten about.Although I was born in the late 50s many of the things in that volume were familiar to me as a child growing up in the in the 60s. The sweets sections are great!There are some jigsaw puzzles around with pics of old sweets on too.
My mouth is watering, I loved that chocolate. Another favourite was the Cadbury’s milk tray bar of chocolate, I loved the lime barrel. Every square had a diff flavour.
My goodness, I had forgotten that one.
Oh yes!!!That was a real treat for special occasions.I loved the lime barrel too.It sadly doesnt exist in the milk tray boxes these days.
No, so many changes to so many things and rarely are the changes for the better. x
Definitely not.Even the old ones which are still around dont taste as good.And I dont think it's me looking at things through rose tinted specs either!
I agree.
I wish that one would come back. It was nice having a selection in one bar.
euuugghh !! so sorry I didnt like that as a child - I was a malteser /mars bar & milky way kid myself
Who owns cadburys
Love it. Had it since childhood. Like the original one. Can’t always find it though.
Remember them well but my favourites from years ago were ice breakers and mint cracknel anything with dark chocolate like old Jamaica a x
They are great. They are dairy and gluten free so all good
what a brilliant conversation from everyone. that has brought back many childhood memories, my husband loves the Frys' choc cream, i prefer the mint, Oo I see a trip to B&M when we get let out. I remember going on a tour of the Frys' chocolate factory in Bristol in about 1965. and Bournville was near Birmingham. I was allowed to go to the sweet shop on a Saturday, there was a little shelf much lower for us little ones, and it was things like 4 black jacks/fruit salads for an old 1d. o happy days. what about sherbert dib dabs?
springcross in reply to
Hi Annjen. Are you from Bristol? I remember going to Frys in the early 60s, the smell of the place turned my stomach, I felt as sick as a pig for a good week afterwards and it put me off chocolate for quite a while.
in reply to springcross
No about 20 miles along M4- j17 I agree it put me off chocolate for ages. Ugh! I was working just the other side of Bristol at Winford. so got to know some of Bristol quite well.
Take Care x
springcross in reply to
Thanks, you too. xx
RoadRunner44 in reply to
I agree Annjen3, it seems like everyone has enjoyed going back in time to enjoy our memories. Like you, I remember getting 4 black jacks and fruit salad for an old penny.. Seeing all those sweets in jars was magical to me. I had my family sweet coupons when rationing was still in evidence in the early 50 s. Unfortunately I developed a sweet tooth from then on. and I still have it. Knowing now how sugar is frowned on I get embarrassed as I still add it to tea and coffee.
Cheers.
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I can still get the Fry's fondant cream bars locally as well as separate peppermint and orange flavours bars. They come in packs of 3 for £1 at our local Home Bargains. I do keep an eye out for the Fry's bars that were 5 separate fruit flavours in one bar. Now they were special! My all time favourite though has to be the peppermint lavour bars. Yummy!
I wish I could get one but I don't think they make them any longer.
I’ve got a Fry’s peppermint bar in my bread bin for later this week. I love all chocolate bars with Cadbury’s Dark chocolate and Lindt’s mint bars among my favourites.
I don't usually like dark chocolate only milk. But I like peppermint with dark chocolate.
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Yes dark chocolate and peppermint definitely go well together. I used to buy chocolate as a treat once a week but since this lockdown has been in place it’s become a daily treat especially with a nice mug of coffee! 😊
Watch your weight now HissingSid!
I do my best to walk it off with my daily exercise. This morning I walked 8,500 steps when I’ve usually being doing less than 5,000 steps. It’s the sugar content in chocolate that I’m concerned with.
I read somewhere that there might be a sugar tax in the near future, Oh dear, chocolates will go up in price again!
Just about everything will be taxed once this lockdown is over. 😢
All this talk is making me want one.I think I'll have to send my husband out to try and find some.Failing that a peppemint aero.
My mum likes Fry Chocolate bars and Raspberry Ripple coconut bars but all time favourite is Fry's Turkish Delight
So many to enjoy. Yummie!
How to choose can be difficult!
Wow, I've never heard of it, sounds really good. Where are they sold?
Hi, Well reading the replies on the forum these bars of chocolate are available in individual flavours now apart from the original fondant flavour.. Major supermarkets sell them as well as many individual smaller shops. So find one and try one Spanaway. Like Marmite, you will love it or hate it.
Cheers.
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Me and my wife are definitely going to try them. Thanks for the info! Have a great day and stay safe!
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My mom and I used to walk to the next village where there was a grocery shop and as a treat we had a Bounty Bar on the way back over the fields.
You obviously have some lovely memories spent with your Mum. This one memory is evoked for you each time you have a Bounty bar. So sweet. Everyone on the forum has gone back in time and each of us has rekindled our memories in soje way.
Lovely story.
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Home Bargains, and many supermarkets do them x
Loved blackjacks and adore Fry's chocolate-but my waist disagrees.
Happy happy memories you have made my day
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Fry's chocolate cream bar is an enduring memory of my childhood. Given every Saturday when we visited my grandparents.
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