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Remember the little cardboard boxes decorated like a child's ABC building blocks? Inside were those hard candy alphabet sweets (still sold by the gram). I only ever saw them in supermarkets. I think Marks & Sparks might have sold them in multipacks for a while too. Whilst they no longer come in small cardboard boxes, the same alphabet letters can still be bought by weight today. A traditional sweet shop "Sweet Treats" in Lincolnshire still stocks them today.  

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  • littlegrandma1963
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    There is a lovely sweet shop in the arcade in Skipton that sells them! I saw them there the other day and you can buy them loose aswell. Fantastic little shop that sells loads of retro sweets!
  • Anonymous user
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    My gran used to buy me these in the 60s. We used to call them cashews. No wonder I still have a weight problem. I think they were made of sugar, colouring and not much else! They were lovely!
  • Anonymous user
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    There were two kinds of these - One recipe tasted of sugar but not much else, but the GOOD ones had more of a "tang" to them, and these were the ones I liked the best. Trouble was, both kinds looked identical, so it was hard to tell when you were in the sweet shop what type was in the jar!
  • Anonymous user
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    I remember Woolworths selling the little square boxes. All the ones on sale today DO NOT TASTE AS GOOD. How I miss those now-banned 1970's colours & flavours. Never hid me any darm...

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