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:
9. Snowies
Snowies (also known as Jazzies) were a white chocolate button decorated with candy bits - what more could you want from a sweetie? | Contributed
10. Flying saucers
Flying saucers were all the rage - perhaps no ones absolute favourite sweet on the playground, but it made for a refreshing addition to any good mix-up Photo: Shutterstock
11. Ibrox Balls
Take one look at the sweets and you can see why they were called Ibrox Balls - the boiled sweets were well-loved by at least one half of Glasgow!(Pic:Saltire Candy) | Saltire Candy
12. Chocolate Bananas
This sweetie is a firm favourite here at GlasgowWorld - many rubbish school days were made that much better by stopping into the shop on the way home and grabbing a chocolate banana or two. | Contributed