Cadbury’s is one of the biggest and most popular brands of chocolate in the UK. They’ve made all sorts of different chocolate bars for us over the years but there are some chocolate bars that we might have forgotten about from the 70s and 80s that they just stopped doing!
Most of us like taking a trip down memory lane from time to time, and sometimes all it takes is a picture or a quick reminder that takes you straight back to that time in your life when you didn’t have a care in the world.
When it comes to our childhoods, there were certain sweets and chocolate that we all enjoyed and then one day they just stopped making them anymore. We questioned it at the time and was devastated for a few weeks but then we forgot that they even existed!
Here are the 12 best Cadbury’s chocolate bars from the 70s & 80s you might have forgotten about! Enjoy 🙂 And don’t forget to share this with your friends if you enjoyed it!
1. The shoe people chocolate.
Who remembers these little beauties? They came out in 1986 and only cost us 10p! BARGAIN!
We assume it was the Shoe People chocolates that inspired Freddos. They’re both a smaller chocolate bar than the rest and only used to cost 10p. We all know that Freddos now cost more than 10p which is an abomination but it’s something that we’ve all have to get used to.
2. Milk Tray.
This box was a mixture of all sorts of flavours. Strawberry cream, fudge, turkish delight…you name it. I wonder why they stopped the lime barrel? It was bloody delicious. You are missed zesty old friend.
I know what some of you are probably wondering, why is this still featured on this list when they still produce them today? But we all know chocolate back in the 70s and 80s were better than what they produce today. Some even taste completely different!
3. Fuse.
Nuts, raisins, fudge and cereal pieces all in one bar…. I’d like to meet the person who came up with this and shake their hand.
Fuse is one of them chocolate bars that has unfortunately discontinued in the UK in 2006. Who remembers the tagline? Don’t blow a fuse eat one.
Only eat while wearing rubber soled shoes.
4. Aztec.
If you were a 70s kid you’ll remember this beauty. What an iconic chocolate bar this was, with its bright purple wrapping, I can almost taste the caramel nougat centre.
This chocolate bar was in rivalry with the Mars chocolate bar that we’re all still very aware of. We’re not too sure why they discontinued this one, Mars might have won the popularity contest but we will always remember Aztec bars! YUMMMMMM!
5. Wispa mint.
Why can’t they bring this delicious mouth watering chocolate back? Wispa was a bar that was discontinued in 2003 and then Cadbury’s ended up bringing that back for good in 2008. So why couldn’t they bring this back too?
It’s always good knowing you lived in a time when certain things were available for us that aren’t now. But then when you think about it, there are certain things we’d love to bring back into todays decade.
6. Amazin’ raisin bar.
The brightly coloured packaging reflected the bar inside, bursting with nougat, caramel and raisins. It’s basically rum and raisin ice cream in sweet form. What more could you ask for in a chocolate bar?
Back in the 70s it only costed 5p as well so it was a win win whenever you could buy one of these. Rum and raisin bar was the winner in the 70s. Another big shame that we won’t get to try these again.
7. Spira.
You got two of these bad boys in the packet. This one had no extra bits in, it was just pure chocolatey heaven. The dairy milk chocolate bar just doesn’t cut it for me if I’m being honest. Bring back the Spiral.
This was my favourite chocolate bar from back in the day. For those of you that don’t know what the Spira is, it’s basically a mixture of a Ripple, Flake and Twirl all in one. You can’t get much better than that!
8. Marble.
Milk chocolate, white chocolate and praline all in one bar? Then it was taken away from us……WHY?! We need answers.
This chocolate bar is another one that so many people won’t know about. The only thing we can really compare it to is Guylian chocolates. We’ve all been bought a box of Guylians at some point, so imagine that in chocolate bar form? We could eat at least one a day!
9. Nuts about caramel.
I’ve heard you can get these in ice cream form? I need to find out more and go to the place that does it. IMMEDIATELY.
Imagine the stereotypical Cadbury’s Caramel chocolate bar, and then add nuts to the equation. Sounds very simple but it works so well together. It wouldn’t be hard for Cadbury’s to bring these back!
10. Milk chocolate coins.
These little coins of joy always remind me of Christmas, my gran got us them every year without fail. For some reason, they stopped making them in 2014? Another heartbreak.
The chocolate coins that kids get for Christmas today don’t really compare to the Cadbury’s ones we used to get but they will never know! There are so many chocolate bars on this list that we just wished we could bring back!
11. Touch down.
You got these more in Ireland really, and these tasty little bundles of joy went out of production 10 years ago.
Who remembers when chocolate bars were as cheap as 10p? In the 70s and 80s, a lot of chocolate bars were sold for as cheap as this one and we really took that for granted back then. You wouldn’t even be able to get yourself a Freddo for that cheap anymore, shocking!
12. Rumba.
A delicious combination of fudge, chocolate and rum flavour. This one was huge in the 70s. It came in two sticks like a Twix.
Thinking about it, Cadbury’s was huge on the rum flavouring back in the day and we wonder why they ever stopped? Again, another chocolate that only cost you a quick 5p. You literally can’t go wrong!
Which chocolate bars would you bring back from this list and how many did you remember for growing up in the 70s and 80s?