Horlicks Tablets

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You used to be able to get small rolls of about 9 or so Horlicks tablets wrapped in blue 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! I used to buy them from local chemist as a child, they were yummy. I so wish they were still made.

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Do You Remember Horlicks Tablets?

JABBERWOCKY1 on 2020-11-11 19:18:33

IN DARLINGTON 74 YRS OLD SIPPING CHOC HORLICKS AS I TYPE FROM MORRISONS BOUT 3.60 A PLASTIC BOTTLE I REMEMBER THE TABLETS MMMMM WOULD LIKE SOME

Watsit on 2020-04-17 19:52:52

We used to be able to get them instead of sweets, which were rationed, during Ww2. The tablets were sold in tins, cream coloured with blue print. If we couldn’t get these, we bought licquorish root. Or there was lemonade powder,which was sour, and fizzy, when you licked it off your finger.

rogerh on 2014-10-30 15:23:39

I was 5 years old in September 1939, and associate Horlicks tablets with air raid shelters and siren alerts. We seemed to spend quite a lot of time in air raid shelters in the first years of the war, and I have a feeling we were routinely given Horlicks tablets to make the experience more bearable. Perhaps they were issued by the school? which was a primary school near Rochdale, Lancashire. Roger Hargreaves

deafalbert on 2014-10-01 16:45:46

used to get them from the Rendezvous Café on Whitley Bay seafront, the best place, still there after about 65 or more years, for total nostalgia trip that's the place to go, hasn't changed (updated a little obviously!) and still does banana splits and Knickerbocker glories.

Watsit on 2020-04-17 19:43:25
I remember the Spanish city... figure of eight, house of horrors, the ballroom (with beauty queen contests),,

keno5164@yahoo.com on 2013-10-20 19:38:52

I am looking for the Chocolate Horlick Tablets. I remember buying it in the little bottles. Do you know where I can order it? Please..craving it like you won't believe. I'm 63 years old and been looking everywhere for it. I live in Vegasd and I cannot find it. Please let me know where I can find it. Thank you.

pippin on 2019-10-18 05:42:34
Are you sure that you are thinking about Horlicks tablets?, I don't ever remember them having a chocolate flavour orthem being packaged in a bottle, Horlicks tablets were always a malted milk flavour, in the form of a flat oblong shaped tablet, they came as a single roll or 2 rolls in a small flat tin. I think that you are confusing them with Ovaltine tabets that were a small round disc and came in a small brown coloured bottle.

Grem on 2013-02-27 21:37:16

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.

Phil Drackley on 2013-01-22 01:49:47

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.

tobachow on 2012-10-18 10:39:28

Hi, let me know if you would like to order any Horlicks tablets, USD7.49 for 2 boxes including delivery charges, 54 tablets in total. my contact: tobachow@email.com