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Does anyone else remember Quirks chocolate? They were similar to Smarties but in a little brown box and instead of being colourful and shiny like Smarties, they were in pale pastel colours and had a matt finish to the sugar shell, and they had chocolate inside. I remember buying Quirks from a vending machine within a building in Portsmouth Naval Base in the mid-1980s - only time I ever saw them.  I think they cost 20p pack then.  There was a second machine alongside which sold 5-fingered Kit Kats - also 20p each, and I believe sold only in vending machines, as the more usual 4-fingered version cost 17.5p in the shops at that time.  Sweet memories and good value! 

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  • Anonymous user
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    Yesyesyes!!!!! Weren't they mint flavoured?
  • Anonymous user
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    yes i was the promotion girl for the sweets i remember them!
  • Anonymous user
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    Yes i do, ive asked so many people if they remember them and no one has a clue wot im talking about...i loved them
  • Anonymous user
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    yes they were mint and my gran used to buy me them from Bury market!
  • Anonymous user
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    Here they are being advertised: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59HylfZ6VDY&list=PLNVDpILlmTieJ7-cApbqj6ACtAQO8Nv05
  • Anonymous user
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    Yes yes yes no one I ask remembers them either . Pastel shells with mint chocolate inside in a flip top cigarette type packet !! Yummy!! I'm from altrincham too . Would love to buy some now!! Not a figment of anyone's imagination !! They were real!!!
  • Anonymous user
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    :-) no idea where these came from but I remember these.. I loved them! Nobody I know knows what I'm talking about though! Pastel green and pink, with white ones too. Smartie size but with much softer shells. In a brown box with pictures of the quirks on it, lid flipped up so you could tip a few into it at a time! Yummy!
  • Anonymous user
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    Thank goodness. I thought I was going mad. Use to buy them in copelands chemist in Altrincham. I've never found anyone who remembers these!
  • Anonymous user
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    Exactly the same experience. I thought I'd dreamt it as no one else has heard of them. They were good I remember from the Majestic cinema in Macclesfield (R.I.P). Think it's a northern thing as people give me strange looks when I mention here in Somerset. So glad I share this memory!
  • Anonymous user
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    Yes I remember Quirks...used to get them out of a vending machine at Stretford Sports centre and also at the Curzon Cinema in Urmston, Manchester...out of everyone I've asked about these nobody remembers them...thought I'd dreamt them actually!!!

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