Top 10 Sweets from the 1990s

1. Tooty Frooties
Fruit chews in five flavors:lemon, apple, orange, blackcurrant and strawberry. The green ones were always that last to go.

2. Flumps
Not just a kids tv programme, also a soft marshmallow rope-like sweet that could be picked up in a similar manner to oakum in hard labour camps.

3. Wham Bars
Long, pink and sticky interspersed with fizzy specks. The wrappers were a nightmare to peel off, but the cement effect on your teeth was worse.

4. Highland Chews
The first taste was glorious, but they were so chewy you could be stuck with the same mouthful for 30 minutes. Hard work at parties.

5. Sherbet Dip Dab
The red lollipop was a child-friendly strawberry, and consequently, was crunched well before the sherbet was used up. Cue the trustworthy wet finger…

6. KP Chocolate Dips
The refined choice. Although the chocolate spread had to be rationed, as any confectionery connoisseur will tell you, as there is little to enjoy in dry crispy sticks.

7. Chocolate cigarettes
Cheap milk chocolate wrapped in rice paper that came in a faux-fag packet resulting in a whole generation entering, adulthood au fait with handling ciggies.

8. Rainbow Drops
Matlow’s pastel-coloured sweetened puffed rice. What’s not to like? Not a lot until after you realised you were still starving after eating them.

9. Fizz Wiz
Bought almost entirely for the sensation of having strawberry crystals pop on your tongue. Even better when left out in the rain…

10. Flying Saucers
You had to leave these in your mouth until the rice paper went soft and the bust of sour, wince-inducing sherbet was released.