Boiled Sweets and Beer

[securespark]

Racking my brains now.

My Gran used to have tins of boiled sweets in the car. I'm sure the name was X and Y but can't remember the names. Can anybody help?

Also, I was thinking about a beer advert in the 80s using Frank Ifield's song "I remember you".

Trying to remember which brewery the ad was for. I think it was either Wilsons or Greenall Whitley.

Both NW breweries and both long gone now....anyone remember?

 

[Odds]

Mintoes were the gobstopper of choice back in t'day.
Dunno 'bout the beer ad' but i can tell you the best ever was Carling's Squirrel negotiating an obstacle course to the Mission Impossible theme.

 

[Brigadier]

Dunno 'bout the beer ad' but i can tell you the best ever was Carling's Squirrel negotiating an obstacle course to the Mission Impossible theme.

Carling challenge-anneka-parody.

Carling windscreen-wipers-making-goalie-saves.

Carling towels-on-sunbeds.

 

[securespark]

It's coming back to me a bit... Think it was Smith something for the sweets.

 

[JohnD]

not Callard & Bowser, then.

 

[diy_fun_uk]

The sweets could have been Smith Kendon Travel Sweets? I remember my uncle having these (or a variant of) in the car.

 

[nwgs]

I remember the fruit ones wrapped in white paper with a soft centre.

Surly the best beer advert had Melanie Sykes in it

 

[carmanmemoranda]

Marks and Spencer

Beer advert.. " I don't fancy the journey home"

 

[JohnD]

I remember the fruit ones wrapped in white paper with a soft centre.

Surly the best beer advert had Melanie Sykes in it

Creamy.

 

[JonathanM]

The sweets could have been Smith Kendon Travel Sweets? I remember my uncle having these (or a variant of) in the car.

I used to love those!