Horlicks Tablets

You used to be able to get small rolls of about 9 or so Horlicks tablets wrapped in foil with a paper label rolled around. I used to buy them as a young girl from the local swimming pool after a swimming session. Delicious!

Gwen Biviano

Comments

Phil,
I am only 45 but remember buying the Horlicks tablets. My sister and I, along with 2 friends always used to buy a packet on the way back from our St John's class. I think I was about 11 or 12. They cost 5p a packet (roll).
I also love eating the dry powder - in fact it tastes better than it does as a drink.
Grem27-Feb-2013, 09:37:16 PM

People thought nothing odd about eating these, but if I reveal I eat the powdered form, they look as if I had just crawled out from under a rock.
Phil Drackley22-Jan-2013, 01:49:47 AM

ZODIAC, LIKE YOU I REMEMBER THOSE SUCCULENT TABLETS, BACK IN THE 1950's PLEASE , PLEASE, PLEASE, BRING THEM BACK
TOWERWAY11-Mar-2011, 06:42:22 PM

I remember buying Horlicks tablets in the 1950s. They were sold in oblong tins, cream with blue lettering, sealed with blue tape. The tin contained two packets of oblong tablets wrapped in greaseproof paper. Loved them and still miss them.

Also Ovaltine tablets in a round tin sealed with orange tape - both obtained from chemist's.

Can anyone else remember these tins?

Zodiac

Zodiac19-Oct-2010, 01:48:33 PM

I still keep looking in Boots and any Chemist I go to. Oh how I wish I could still get them. Come on Beechams, put them out again please!!
Devine22-Jan-2009, 10:16:00 PM

Oh these were wonderful! My sister and I used to buy them from the chemist's in town. These days they are more keen to sell you products that keep you awake rather than induce sleep. Say's alot about today, I guess!
vixsta3310-Oct-2008, 02:11:38 PM