Wham Bar

If you have never heard of Wham bars, where have you been? lol Since ive been a child, i have been completely addicted to Wham bars and that habit hasnt stopped now that i am an adult. I remember getting my pocket money and going down to the corner shop and buying a few Wham bars at 10p each. Of course, you wont get them for this price now and if you know of a place where they are still this cheap, let me know! I hadnt eaten one for ages and i was in Poundland yesterday browing through the sweeties section. I noticed a big massive bag of mini Wham bars with at least 40 little bars in it. I was chuffed to be able to get so many for a ...  Read the complete review

Wham bars are chewy candy bars made by Millar McCowan and have been around since the early 1980s. They are chewy but you can snap a piece off the bar by bending it swiftly. Alternatively you can just chew on the end of the bar as these soften up when you start to eat them. What do you get? Miniature, standard or Mega sized bars. Miniature Wham bars come in assorted flavours are available in most pound shops. There you get Original, Cola, 'Brew' (similar to Iron Bru), Sour Apple, Sour Cherry and Strawberry. A standard bar will cost you 10p and you can buy these in the sweet sections of most supermarkets and also in newsagents and sweet shops. ...  Read the complete review

Okay, first off for those of you that are in their late 20's and upwards you will know what I mean when I start ranting about price. I remember when I was younger I used to go to my newsagents near school and shell out a massive 10 pence of my hard earned pocket money. Wham bars were not the cheapest option when there were penny sweets on offer (and even half penny sweets in my case) and as such were regarded as a real treat. So when I went into my local shop and saw them the nostalgia returned in shedloads. Excited by my purchase I got to the till and nearly passed out when the man said 30p. YES THATS RIGHT 30 PENCE. To say I was outraged is somewhat lacking! I have ...  Read the complete review

I was so pleased to find these again in the union shop, I used to love them when I was younger but hadn't seen them for ages and thought they had stopped making them. They cost 12p this was quite a disappointment as they used to only be 10p and were quite a bit bigger then aswell. The wrapping is bright and attractive probably aimed at younger people but I just can't help myself when it comes to sweets. It has a list of ingredients and calories on the back (something I have avoided looking at ). The sweet itself is bright pink and it has multicoloured sugar bits in these are quite hard but this makes it a bit different from other chew bars of the ...  Read the complete review

There's something about summer and the light sunny evenings that gets me craving the 'kiddie sweets' from my childhood. Tonight I took a nice walk down to our local off-licence and came across the Wham bar, which I haven't had in years. Still 10p in my local, but appears to have shrunk since I was 12... Unwrapping the bar, the usual fight to get the first inch unstuck from the wrapper commences. I think on this occasion I managed to get 75% of the sticky sweet free from the wrapper and get my fingers covered in sugary, syrupy substance in the process. A good tip in the summer is to put it in the fridge for a while before you eat it - also makes it ...  Read the complete review