Long before the days of sugar taxes and draconian sweetie control legislature, Glasgow was a veritable playground of all the best teeth-decaying sweets the United Kingdom had to offer.
Walking into the tuck shop after school was like walking into an Egyptian bazaar - with the rich multi-coloured boiled gems, jars filled with luminescent rainbows of sweeties -whether they be hard, soft, or somewhere in between - and hidden treasures dotted all over the store.
Forget thinking about your subjects at school, or what you wanted to be when you grew up, the hardest decision any young Glaswegian had to make is what type of sweetie they wanted - the choice for a bairn in a sweetie shop seemed unending.
Soor Plooms, Kola Cubes, Chocolate Bananas... how could one small human possible decide? Whatever your choice, the feeling of opening that wee paper bag and popping your chosen sweetie into your gub had to be one of the best feelings of childhood.
Hours would be spent in school thinking of how to convice your parents (or better yet granny or grandad) to take you into the tuck shop after school.
Here is a selection of some of the sweets you’ll remember if you grew up in Glasgow:
5. Yoyo biscuits
Yoyo biscuits were made right here in Glasgow at the old Macdonald & Sons bakery in Hillington, and they were a firm favourite of many young Glaswegians back in the day. Pictured here you can see the factory workers mid-packaging of the classic yoyo biscuit | Contributed
6. Kola Cubes
Kola Cubes were everywhere, if we used them for construction instead of consumption, we probably could have built a scale-model Kola Glasgow - they were the quintessential sweet of the 60’s all over the UK, so it was no surprise to see so many of them around the city. | Contributed
7. Wham bar
A stone-cold-classic amongst 80s kids. Garish pop art packaging, massive tongue tingling flavour - the Wham bar was as iconic a sweet as you could buy. Our favourite had to be the Barrs Irn-Bru knock-off however, so popular that WHAM created their own ‘Brew bar’ in the same style. Photo: Third Party
8. Bandit
The Bandit biscuit was a chocolate covered wafer also produced by the Hillington bakers, Macdonald & Sons, similar in essence to a Penguin - they were much different in style. These biscuits were for the bad boys, the Dennis the Menace type characters. | Contributed