Barratt's Natural Candy Sticks

There seem to be a small range of sweets that have defied the odds and kept going through the last twenty or so years. For whatever reason, Barratt's Natural Candy Sticks have been a firm favourite over the last quater century, and for me personally they remain one of my first choices of sweet. To look at, they're pretty odd: a small cardboard carton, similar to a matchbox, is filled with long white sticks. They used to have red tips, as they were supposedly simulating cigarettes (great idea) but those have long gone. Now what you have is a long chalky stick that is made up primarily of sugar. The sticks themselves are chalky in texture, and are ...  Read the complete review

I fond memories of this from my childhood. I remember buying a pack for around 5p and then sitting at the bottom of our road pretending to smoke them. I don't know how many times I made an idiot of myself by trying to convince my friends that they were real cigarettes that I was smoking because they look nothing like a real one. I soon ditched these and tried the same trick several times when those chocolate cigarettes appeared on the shelf, remember those??? I picked up a packet of four of these from approvedfood.co.uk for around 20p but they do them individually down our local Spar for around 10p each. The pack is made of thick card and you can slide the ...  Read the complete review