I recently got asked if I’d like to review some retro sweets from The Gobstopper, an online shop specialising in a vast collection of 80s and 90s retro sweets as well as some old fashioned classics.
I got to pick 3 I’d like in a kilner jar and after much though I went for some Double Dips, sherbet flying saucers and Sherbert fountains, because I am a grown up. They were awesome. I’ve since been eating them stealthily with my head in the kitchen cupboard.
The shop obviously does a lot more than just sherbets (they also do sherbert crystals if you’re interested). Other choices include, and aren’t limited to, white chocolate mice, candy necklaces, bon bons, cola pips, black jacks and more.
The kilner jars come in 3 different sizes and there’s also unique section boxes that would make nice presents.
The site is easily navigable with deprecate sections for medicinal, sugar free, vegetarian and halal sweets.
As always one of the things i look at is if they would make good alternatives to sending flowers. I would definitely recommend them for anyone that has a sweet tooth and has a love of old fashioned sweets.
If you’d like to win your own kilner jar full of sweets then step this way. All you need to do is visit The Gobstopper site and leave me a comment below telling me what your favourite retro sweet is.
One winner will be chosen at random and will get a kilner jar with their choice of 3 sweet collections in it.
For additional entries you can:
Tweet the following:
“Win a retro sweets jar with the @the_gobstopper and @notmyyearoff http://wp.me/p2ZHox-1Az ”
Follow @The_gobstopper on Twitter
Follow Not My Year Off on Facebook
Please leave a separate comment for each.
This giveaway will end on Friday 24th January at 11pm, after which a winner will be selected at random.
Please note this giveaway is only open to UK residents.
This competition is now closed. The winner is Anna McLean Fleming
Bang goes my new year’s resolution lol! I love Retro and my favourite sweetie form the site is are the Fizz Wizzes! Yummy!
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I love Bumper Bananas yummy
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My favourite sweets are strawberry bin bons – love them! Xx
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lemon bonbons!
I like milk gums and fizzy cola bottles.
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Fizzy cola bottles.
Tweeted the message. @prwilson101
I love the cola bottles too!
I really like the Alphabet letters.
Following on Facebook
My favourites are love hearts.
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Sherbet Dip
tweeted and following on Twitter @JackieMONeill
Flying Saucers
Retro sweets omg!! ha loved Aniseed rock and Anglo Bubbly these used to cost me 2 pence 🙂 a bubbly
spaceships! 🙂 x
Fizzy Strawberry laces
Cola bottles
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love blackjacks
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emma j walters
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Flying saucers
Flying Saucers!
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i love double dippers
Sour Cherries
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Fruit salads and black jacks….Yum
I love the Buttered Brazils
http://www.thegobstopper.co.uk/retro-sweets/blue-raspberry-taffy
Love that stuff!
My favourite retro sweets are Floral Gums and Parma Violets – since childhood I have loved the ‘perfumy’ sweets, though I’m certainly not averse to lots of other sweeties too!
I have tweeted about the comp so friends and followers also get the chance to enter (Twitter username: @Loreleigh)
Coconut mushrooms
Is it just UK residences??
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black jacks
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Cheery Lips will always be a winner for me.
I have tweeted. Here is my link https://twitter.com/ElvinFairy/status/420929866293194753
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I ❤❤❤ Parma Violets but there are lots of other retro sweets that I ❤ too.
I always LOVED Double Dips!
flying saucers 🙂 x
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Mega Bubblegum Lollipops! Ahh could eat them until my teeth fall out!
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the aniseed twists and black jacks would be my choice
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Choc nibbles has to be my favourite.
Coconut Mushrooms
Jelly Babies.
Sherbert fountains for me, please!
Love the fizzy taste – and they’re especially good with lemonade!
ooh my favourite is definitely the coconut rolls! 🙂 with love, faye xx
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Lemon Bonbons
tweeted 🙂
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Yum aren’t they?!-did a review and doing a giveaway too!
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Heheh just been commenting on retro sweets as my review went up today too! They are just fabulous aren’t they. Shamefully I’ve eaten all of mine from The Gobstopper so I’ll be back to enter your competition to win some. Will take me an hour to decide what I want! Funnily enough we have to make s snowman for a competition at POD’s nursery mwhahaha :))
so much to choose from and so many i love but im going to say Edinburgh Rock is my fav 🙂
I like Aniseed Imperials – they are lovely!
Tweeted on twitter @green_day87
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Wine Gums.
Def the flying saucers. So may different ways to eat them and the fizzier the better x
The Alphabet Letters
I love fruit salads
Fruit Salad Chews
Milk Teeth!!
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Heart Throbs – I always steal a few from the kids
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I love RAINBOW DROPS
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Rainbow Twists!
Chewing Nuuts!! Not had any of those since I was a kid!
Chewing Nuts!! Not had any of those since I was a kid!
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Strawberry bonbons
yeeeeeeeeeh get to re-live my child hood naming sweet :)))))))))
i loved the sweets from my childhood,even though i srill love sweets now,retro sweet where the best,just tasting them now takes you back to the playground after school,when my mama would bring me either a 10p mix or a double dip dip as i would call them,or some blackcurrant giant flyers,magic colour changing space dust!!!!!!! Am loving this remembering all my favourites 😀 SHERBET FOUNTAINS!!!! O i soooo loved these,my favourite would have to be??? its so hard to choose would be either tootie fruitees or dib dab’s….i cant choose… ok all of them…hahahaha
DIB-DABS HAS TO WIN…AWWWW I SO WANT ONE NOW…
Really enjoyed thinking about my favourite retro sweets cant you tell ??? lol
GOODLUCK EVERYONE,IF YOU WIN PLEASE SHARE WITH ME :)))
I love lemon sherbets
liquorice comfits
Fruit Salad Chews 🙂
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http://www.thegobstopper.co.uk/icy-chocolate-cups – These chocolate icy cups. I adored these in school. They are amazing.
Cola Spangles
Flying saucers
My favourite retro sweets are sherbert fountains.
I am following The Gobstopper on twitter
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I am following Not My Year Off on Facebook
cherry lips
tweeted n following @dancehall_izzy
I love cola bottles 🙂
Banana flavoured Toffo were my favourite retro sweet
Black Jacks were my favourite.
anglo bubbly
CHOCOLATE CINDER TOFFEE
followed on twitter and my fav were cola cubes
FB Follower; beer-flavoured gummies all the way for me.
Sour cherries
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Tweeted and following on twitter @pphil10
love jazzies
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Drumsticks
Love Jelly Babies 🙂
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Coconut Mushrooms, I didn’t even know they were still about I LOVE THEM.
black jacks are my fav sweets
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kola cubes
i love alphabet letters
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I love cola cubes 🙂
I love the milk bottles 🙂
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Sour cherries are my favorite 🙂
My all-time favourite retro sweet has got to be Cola Cubes 🙂
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fizzy cola bottles!
Bumper Bananas are my favourite 🙂
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I like cola cubes, lemon sherberts and flying saucers.
So many to choose from but I think my favourites are flying saucers.
Flying saucers 🙂
Has to be pear drops – yum!
nut cluster/peanut brittle 🙂
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Fizzy cola bottles
I have tweeted
flying saucers 🙂
Giant Jazzies
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oooh double dip, havnt had one for agesssss love them!!!
Can’t decide between Barley Sugars and Caramac…
Definitely milk bottles!
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Lemon BonBons
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I love midget jems
Proper fizzy cola bottles – not the fake ones you get nowadays!
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I love fruit salad chews mmmmm!
Sherbet Fountain! Oh yeah!
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Sherbet Fountain – what a magical sweet and a blast from my past!!
I love black jacks!
I love jazzies!
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giant strawberries
there is sooo many,wish i didnt scroll through everyone elses favs now,lol.i love liquorice torpedoes (though my teeth dont now!!),butterscotch lollies,bon bons.actually maybe better to list the retro sweets i dont like,lol!!!!
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