Whatever Happened to Spangles? Britain's Most Missed Lost Sweet
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- Whatever Happened to Spangles?
Do you ever find yourself reminiscing about lost sweets from the past? Maybe it's the taste, the texture, or even just the packaging that brings back a flood of memories. Whatever it is, there's something about lost sweets from the past that gets us feeling all nostalgic In today’s video, I’m going to be looking at one lost sweet in particular that invariably gets mentioned when talk turns to confectionery that we would like to see make a comeback - Spangles!
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The Olde English ones captivated me. The only way I can relate to the black one was when I tried Japanese food and got the 'Umami' flavour. It wasn't sweet or sickly, it was dark and unusual. Sounds a bit ponsy but it's true.
olde english were my favourite too, I always thought they tasted a bit like stewed tea
Olde English are the ones I remember the best. Strange flavours but still good. What even is Olde English? probably stuff like coal tar and mothball flavour!
The Black one was Liquorice from what I read.
@@dddayesq5061 The Yellow one was Treacle which is similar to molasses.
I remember them as like Dandelion and Burdock.
fizzy cola the best,and old english.
I bought them when Woolies briefly reintroduced Spangles in the 90s, but they weren't the same. They also missed a trick by not using the 'Goodies' font on the packaging. The one sweet I do really miss from my childhood is Cabana Bars. It was like a cross between a dark chocolate Bounty, a Mars bar, but with added cherries!
Oh yes, Cabana bars were great!
@@stuviewtv I actually bought some custom-made Cabana Bars from an online shop called The Shop Around The Corner a while back. They were really nice, but they had a more homemade feel like something my Gran would've made back in the day. Bit pricy, but not too expensive at £12 for a box of 6. They also do a version of Fry's Five Centre, Texan Bars as well as a bunch of other stuff!
@@Rr0gu3_5uture Fantastic. I may have to try their version of a Texan.
@@stuviewtv Yep, I loved Texans. Don't think I've got the teeth for them now, lol.
I thought I was the only person who called that the Goodies font (Goody goody yum yum). The only other place I ever saw it used was on the Harry Hill Show.
I went to school a mile or so from the Mars factory where they made Spangles in the 60s/70s (and from where Thunderbirds was produced and the first prototype of the Ford GT40 Le Mans race car). Whenever they were brewing up a batch of Old English Spangles we knew all about it from the smell.
Slough really was a hotbed back then!
I loved old English spangles
Classic sweets!
Me too! ❤🎉
Who didn't!?
They were my favourites too.
Me too!
Along with panini football stickers, and Mr benn, spangles take me right back to the 70s! The thought of them makes me smile😊😊
Do you remember the football cards? They used to have a strip of bubble gum in the packet as well as about 5 cards with players on.
They were around during the mid to late 70's.
@@inspireyou2396 lol I sure do, Topps were the company, and I finally completed the 76/77 set thanks to eBay😂😂
Mr Ben was the biz lol
@@biggdogg99848 maybe the greatest....😂😂
@@markpotter6594 😂
Bring back Spangles, Chocolate Logs, Tootie Frooties, Tootie Minties and Mojos. Anyone reading this would probably think I've got a sweet tooth. 4:26 4:29
Tootie Minties were the best sweets ever!!
Tootie Frooties rocked
@@markbrown4955 Fruit Bonbons as well!
@@NOWThatsRichy now you're talking, happy days
Tooty Minties - now you're talking.
Edit - Sorry hadn't even seen Mark's comment!
Over night the Spangles stopped production and switched to making Tunes on the same machines.
As well as Nicholas Lyndhurst being in the ad, it looked like the kid that played Pogo Patterson in Grange Hill was in there too
Absolutely! Well spotted!
Who misses the fruit flavoured polos? I used to love them as a kid being born in 2000! it's sad they are discontiuned!
If you had a half a pack left in your trousers and forgot about them they would stick together like welded steel
I think they should bring back Space Dust .
Can't remember Spangles but it reminds me of Albert Tatlock.
Isn't space dust called popping candy these days? Every now and again my kids have tried something that I would have remembered as space dust. I do remember Spangles, it's funny how I never thought about it for 40 years until I saw this video and wondered where did they go ! Cola spangles were the best
Space Dust! I remember that! It came out around 1978, in little sachets.
You missed out Acid Drop Spangles which by far were the best
My memories of spangles is how they stuck to their wrappers, which always then ripped. I do miss "Victory V" "cough" sweets, which changed drastically in taste (for the milder) in the late 1980's, thanks (I think) to safety concerns over their wonderful original ingredients...
Never liked Spangles .😊
Yeah, the wrapper thing. I spent hours trying to peel it off for my little brother. I suppose it kept me occupied. At the end of the day. There's a certain inventiveness in confectionary and sweets that is quite mesemerizing. I think I was more intrigiued by that than the actual consumption.
Fiery gobstoppers, Sherbert Fountains and Soce Invaders, nuts.
I remember eating many a Spangles wrapper because I couldn't peel it off the sweet, oh, happy days!
@@gingerninjawhinger9986 You still survived. Just a bit of paper. Lol.
Ah, Victory V - used to eat those like sweets - didn’t realise there may be something harmful in the ingredients!
Butterscotch was my favourite flavour. That reminds me, I used to love Horlicks tablets too.
I used to like the butterscotch too. Never had any Horlick's Tablets though!
Callard & Bowser butterscotch foil wrapped. Our anti car sick travel sweets
@@warringtonminge4167 My Mum used to buy this as a treat when we took the bus into town, happy memories. Used to love Horliks tablets too with those little cardboard discs at each end.
I'm afraid I'm (just) old enough to remember the 1960s and 1970s branding! We should launch a campaign - 'Bring Back Spangles (BBS )'.
Spangles were as synonymous with being a 1970s child as Space Hoppers, Quosh orange squash in glass bottles, Raleigh Choppers, The Red Hand Gang on TV, Star Wars bubblegum cards and reading Whizzer and Chips. It should be noted though that the medicated sweets, 'Tunes' , are a cousin of Spangles, as they were made using the same process, although obviously they were not fruit flavoured. I think Tunes are still on sale.
Never seen tunes for sale yet.
@@melgrant7404 Tunes still exist, but they have a different shape and totally different packaging
@@stephenpalmer9375 OK I shall have to look out for them.
Tunes are fruit flavoured they are cherry flavour
@@melgrant7404try cornet shop, petrol stations or near the vitamins in a supermarket. That’s where you’ll find the cough sweets like cherry Tunes and those Soothers sweets
Why did they ever change Marathon to Snickers! I remember Bar Six and spangles.
Think it had something to do with a high ranking employee and the name of his daughters horse?
Maybe wrong like, but rings a bell.
@@steevobarker581 Why did they change Opal Fruits to Starburst?
I am a child of the 70s but spangles have passed me by. My husband is exactly who you are talking about though. He is always talking about spangles. I think it’s because they were hard sweets, my mum probably didn’t buy for me. I feel I have missed out😢😂😂
You didn't miss out, they were nothing special, not by today's standards..just a boiled sweet
When I was a boy in the 1950s and 60s in Dublin, Spangles, Mars Bars, Bounty, Milkyway and Opal fruits were not available in the Republic of Ireland. I've no idea why. However, when we visited our cousins in Belfast we always stocked up in the local sweet shop. And of course when the cousins came to visit us, they always brought plenty with them. Happy memories.
"Opal fruits made to make your mouth water" 😁
The weird thing is that an identical product called Jolly Rancher is available in America!
It's not identical at all
Cola Spangles were my favourite, however if you kept Spangles in your trouser pocket too long they'd go sticky and the wrapper would glue to the sweet 😂
I remember this very well....!
Never went anywhere without a pack of Barley Sugar Spangles, Mother said I wouldn't get travel sick sucking on a Spangle.😅
A mum always knows best!
Bring back spangles, they were my favourite!!!!
I certainly remember spangles they certainly should bring them back
I hope not, they are best remembered as they were, a comeback would only bring disappointment as like everything else today they would be full of artificial sweeteners.
I remember Old English but had forgotten there were different flavours in the pack, Liquorice, Mint humbug, Pear drop, Aniseed and Treacle, I liked the fizzy cola as well.
I never liked the Olde English ones but the fizzy orange, lemonade and cola were the best. I remember them being re-introduced in the 90s. The font reminds me of The Goodies.
Nice video, Stu.
Many thanks!
Weirdly, the Olde English ones are the ones I remember most clearly, a variety of flavours which can all be described as "slightly unpleasant".
You're right about the font. Nothing screams "1970s!" more than that.
@@andygriffith5160 ... The old English ones were my favourite, especially the light brown one and the black one. I didn't like the clear whitish one though as it tasted funny.
Golden Mint/Pepper Mint/Fizzy Cola were my favourite in the mid 60's and 70's. They should bring it back in the shops again..
The font. Shared by the Goodies TV show. The shape of the sweets, like a 70's ashtray. The colours, the flavours. Absolute 70's heaven
I miss the long....about 10 inchs long, barley sugar twist with a shot of chocolate running all through the middle, yum yum 🍭🍬
As a kid born in January 1965, I love this channel. 😊 Thank you, Stu. 👏
That's great to hear! Many thanks.
Did you not approach Mars for comment? What kind of journalism is this?
Why have Mars stopped making Topic bars? Madness. Loved cola Spangles
They have been made smaller over the years and contain fewer nuts. Mars have themselves to blame.
Texan bar greatest choc bar ever
Fizzy Spangles with my Raleigh Chopper. Nice memories.
Woolworths tried to bring back Spangles in the 90s but sadly they didn't take off as they were only around for a matter of weeks.
Woolworths Pic 'N' Mix is something I miss as well.
@@NOWThatsRichy Yes. The original Pick'N'Mix as theirs was quite unlike any others. I am so ancient I can remember being served my sweets from behind a counter by a lady whose name was Dolly. Woolies was so much more than a shop. It was a friends' meeting hub which seemingly sold everything you ever needed and which you could afford. Ah, memories.
I preferred Blobs, I don't know who made them, AND before says it, it was NOT Durex
I miss Imps...They started off in a small cardboard box, then later on, were packaged in a while plastic box, with a hinged lid.
Loved them as a child in the 70s. I had no idea they had such a long history.
Ahh spangles I remember nearly choaking on them in the early 80s 😂
Same a was 74 as well loved the tangerine ones 😋
Pacers were an old favourite of mine. A green striped minty chew, similar to Opal Fruits and. apparently, originally called Opal Mints as a spinoff. I read that they were discontinued in 1985, though it surprised me to learn it was as early as that.
Wonderful little video that confirms I WASN'T dreaming!!! They DID exist!
The bloke who thought me how to play D&D had fond memories of spangles from his time as a Sapper in the British army.
He told me that when they got stuck on several weeks of beef curry rations, the spangles used to end up in the communal pot with the rest of the "variety" in the ration packs, even if they had to be extracted from their owner with a lot of implicit threat.
There was an advert in the early 70's with a tune that haunts me Fizzy cola pops snap your fingers get happy.
Sweet peanuts were my fav and as for the texan bars a tasty way to remove your teeth.
Spangles were my favourite especially old English flavour start the campaign now "bring back spangles"😀😀😀😀😀😀😀jx
I joined the RN in '73. Part of the training was how to use the 25 man life raft. The rations inside were water (none for 24 hrs, then1 pint per man per day, and a packet of Spangles per day. They reckoned max time in a raft before rescue was 4 days.
I'm glad I caught this one, although a month after it was posted. Spangles are the stuff of legend and I'm currently going through a mid life crisis trying to find my old boiled sweet favourites🤣 like pear drops, rhubarb and custard, strawberry and cream, aniseed balls etc. I've got back into them again but spangles just remind me of after school on a Friday and going to our local shop and having a packet(not before Friday tea of course🤣) brilliant, great memories thankyou👍
My local Londis does lemon sherbets and pear drops in the sweet section.
How I used to love clove sweets white and red stripes. Near on impossible to get these days, everything is mint humbugs ... Yuk.
My faves in the 1960's were Golden Mint and Old English.
To stop selling them because "boiled sweets were seen as old-fashioned" sounds a bit odd. Either they were profitable or they weren't .
Early werthers original 😊
Spangles were just a sticky mess. I dream about having Savoury Rissoles again. Were they Birds Eye? My dad used to cook them for me. They were lovely!
Spangles always reminded me of Tunes.
I grew up in the 60s and 70s and I remember all iterations of Spangles. If my memory serves me correctly, and I’m actually 99.9% certain, you’ve missed a variety. This variety was one of my favourites: acid drop flavour! It used to be a blue packet.
Now here’s a story about Spangles. My dad used to take us for two weeks every summer to Skegness (Skeggie) Butlin’s. He was a teacher and needed a rest and wanted mum to have a rest from cooking too. Every day, when I was around 3 or 4, he’d take me to the fair. There was a woodsman statue near the entrance and I used to call him the big man. My dad would tell me to see if the big man had left me a sweet (wouldn’t get away with that nowadays!) I’d run off, my dad was paralysed down his left side so was a lot slower at walking. I’d look all over the plinths that the BM was standing on, and eventually I’d find a …..SPANGLE! I only figured out that the sweet was only there when my dad turned up! …….Spangles…..truly the greatest sweet to be robbed from us (perhaps that big man has a stockpile ;)
What great memories.
@@stuviewtv Thanks Stu for making such great videos and reminding us all of happy times.
Oh yes you’re absolutely right! I think they were in the blue and white packet in the photo
They were fabulous!
@@catherinewoolf504 I knew I wasn’t going mad!
Lovely story thanks for sharing it with us ❤
God they were awful! There was always a packet of Spangles in a Mars selection box, which was such a Christmas disappointment. 😉😂
Love the sweets from the past❤
I can't remember the flavour, but the black and white pack of Spangles in the 1970s were ALWAYS included in the Mars Christmas netting stocking.....My Granny always bought me a Sweetie stocking until her death in 1982....
BRING SPANGLES AND WOOLWORTHS TO THE UK CONSUMERS IN 2023 ❤❤❤❤
old sweets shops were just fantastic
Do you remember Poppets, chocolate drops? You could buy ones with mint fondant centres or fruit fondant or raisins. They were sold from vending machines at London Tube Stations.
Another thing, seeing old adds from the 60s/70s featuring little kids makes me feel sad, cannot help thinking how old they will be now and that sone will have grandchildren of the age they were then.
There was also the medicated throat sweet version-Tunes-'help you breathe more easily'.
Tunes are still around. 2nd comment I’ve seen. Cherry Tunes are popular cough sweets
I remember macs cough sweets.
Great memories of Christmas time Spangles were always in the Mars Selection Box....Old English were my fav
2:35 The Old English Spangles were yellow-treacle, brown-mint humbug, red-pear drop, green-aniseed & black-liquorice although there were guest flavours every so often.
I think spangles were fruit flavoured Tunes made by Mars,we always had them in our selection boxes at christmas,I miss the old stocking by Mars or Cadbury that resembles a stocking with the orange plastic netting,not like todays cardboard boxes
Born in 74 I remember my mum buying me these sweets, the good old days 😊🤍
The company did bring them back some years ago but only the fruit flavoured ones-bring back the old english flavours--yummy.
It seems like there is definitely a market for Spangles if only some bright enterprising spark would bring them back. I’d buy them!
Nicholas Lyndhurst in the advert, or Rodney from only fools aka Dave 😂
I loved Spangles in the 60s, I don't remember the fizzy ones I probably got too old for Spangles by then. Bring back the Spangle.
Oh you've done it again. SPANGLES. Old English. mmmmmmm.
The opaque mustard coloured Old English spangle was lovely.
I think it was originally in the normal pack then they got their own weird flavour pack?
I've never had spangles i'm probably too young and i grew up in the 90s (born in 89) im not sure if i would of liked them i'm thinking they might taste like fruit polos and they got into a sticky mess very easily. however i do enjoy looking at old packaging and learning about what things were like
I remember my Dad always had a pack of Spangles (assorted flavours) but he wouldn't have the green ones. Instead of either throwing them away or just offering them to us, he would discard them into an old bicycle puncture repair tin and there they would sit congield and sticky still in their wrappers. My Mum would dispose of them after a while though.
Nothing wrong with the advertising, unless your vocabulary is limited? Loved "Olde English" in the 60's and 70's. I thought they were really grown up sweets as my Dad liked them too.
Mars marketing executive back in those days was Murray Walker, better known as the voice of F1.
I loved Spangles, Opal Fruits and later Topic bars.
Just 1 comment to make: "Bring back Spangles"
Bring it back please,all flavors
I also remember sometimes buying menthol Tunes. When they were packaged in the same way as Spangles. Barley sugar sticks were also a favourite of mine.
Mint Toffos,Fizz Bombs and Space Dust. Oh,and Golden Nugget Gum ( in the draw-string pouch).
You say it was discontinued as it was considered 'old fashioned', but the US equivalent are Jolly Ranchers and they are as popular as ever!
I have no doubt that Spangles can make a comeback, with new smoothie flavours for example, but as long as they bring back the Old English version.. just the name brings the taste back!
Anyone remember Jamboree Bags? IIRC they used to have a small lollipop (the stick stuck out the top of the bag), some sherbet, several assorted sweets, and a small plastic toy - all in a bag with a grinning boy scout on the front. Something different every time.
A very very young Nicholas Lyndhurst ( Rodney in Only Fools & horses) in the ad at 3.11!
When I was at primary school in the mid 1970s, everyone who took part in sports day would get a pack of Spangles. Can you imagine schools doing that nowadays?!!!
I can remember the fuss in the late fifties when Spangles went from 3d (three old pennies) per packet to 3½d because of a decision to extend sales tax to confectionary. "A direct tax on children's pocket money!" fumed one commentator. And it wasn't that long before it went up again, to 4d. You think double-digit inflation is a recent phenomenon?
If you're desperate for spangles they are still actually made!!!!
They're disguised as Tunes. Tunes are basically a medicated spangle. They look the same and are made the same way and until recently the packaging was virtually the same. So if you have a "cough" go and get some tunes.
Old English was my favourite, what haappened when you sucked them is they would dissolve unevenly and leave hard "shards" in places which cut your tongue.
Never mind Nicholas Lyndhurst, did anyone spot a young Pogo Patterson from Grange Hill at the end of the Spangles advert?!
Remember having them in the 1960’s
I was eating spangles in the back of the car when i was about 7 (no back seat belts un those days!) and we went over a bump and i swallowed the spangle whole and almost choked!! Chaos ensued with me being thumped on the back alot to remove offending spangle and my home knitted white cardi was ruined with spangle juice all down the front!! Spangles were banned in our house after that😂😂😂😂
I turned 30 this years so spangles are a bit before my time but I’ve heard a lot about them through parents etc and it’s the one sweet from times past that I’d love to try most!
I’ll tell you what you should try ,a Werthers original mint sweet with a fox’s fruit sweet eaten together . Magnificent.
I thought they got rid of Spangles because people were choking on them. I had a choking fit myself
Me to i swallowed one, .mom whacked me on the back
They should bring them back, and Toffos loved the mint and fruit flavours
Mark E Smith and The Fall.....' spangles weren't that good'
As a child in the 1950's spangles were the sweet you were after, on holidays if you went on the pier and played the old fashioned penny slot machine your prize was a packet of spangles or Wrigley's chewing gum, you had to flick a handle to get the ball in a hole to win your prize. Happy day's
loved spangles and pacer mint chews, the texan was the best though, toffos and rolo was great. the 70s just the best era for nearly everything. sweets tv movies music books soft drinks
Awww I remember when Spangles would cut your tongue and cheeks 🙂ahh childhood memories 😊
I liked the Old English Spangles. Another sweet I liked was the Winter Mixtures which may be still available in specialist sweet shops such as the one in the Arcade in Bedford. Before the pandemic many of the traditional sweets were lined up in jars. I assume the shop is still open.
I loved spangles my grandma's would always give me a pack when I visited their houses, I miss the good old day's aswel as my grandparents!😊✌️
Spangles. Immortalised by the Kinks in "Come to Daddy".
I do miss Spangles, I have fond memories of spending my pocket money on them, I would love to see a return of the mighty Spangle. Anyone notice Pogo Patterson on the add too ( Grange hill )
Spangles were my favourite sweets ever. They need to be brought back now!!! ❤
Spangles were great - I loved them and still miss the original version.
Spangles were great the orange were my favourites, but if I could bring back one sweet it would be Cadbury blackcurrant ecair toffees ,
I always seemed to get the butterscotch one (which I always detested). Loved the cola flavour though