Retro sweet of the week

February 28th, 2012

Sweet greetings Chewbz fans!

Thanks so much for all your fantastic comments on last weeks post. We love reading through all your brilliant entries, and hopefully this week’s sweet will bring back even more sweet memories!

We’ve chosen a little something chewy, zingy and totally retro-tastic…

Refresher Jar

Yep, we’re giving you the chance to win this here jar of tasty Refresher Chews!

Doesn’t that yellow and blue wrapper take you right back to the days of pocket money and trips to the corner shop on your bike? Ahhh :) .

If you’d like to win this jar, then all you need to do is leave a comment on this post. So tell us why you love Refreshers the most, describe your favourite retro sweet memory or just try and make us smile!

The winner will be the comment that is voted favourite by us here at Chewbz HQ. Just make sure you enter before 9am next Monday the 5th March.

WINNERS!

Wow, thanks SO much for another week of fab comments Chewbz fans. We really really love reading through all your sweet memories, poems and declarations of retro sweet love! It makes it really tricky for us to pick winners though, as you are all so brilliant, but we have finally chosen our three lucky sweet fans….

Congratulations to: MichaelMichaela Smith and David Nixon.  A jar of Refreshers will be heading your way later today. We’ve just sent you all an email, so check your inboxes!

A massive thanks again to everyone who commented. This weeks competition is now open if you weren’t lucky this time. Check it out here :) .

Michael
Michaela Smith
David Nixon
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146 Responses to “Retro sweet of the week”

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  1. 121. Elizabeth Murray says...

    Retro from the get-go and chewy to the max. As my mom always said, ‘it’s what’s on the inside that counts!’. Refresher Chews are jaw-achingly great!

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  2. 122. Nadia Mitab says...

    Just seeing that familiar yellow and blue design makes me smile and take a trip down memeory lane :) I loved to buy refreshers when I was little from the corner shop with all my pennies that I saved up during the week, simpler times x

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  3. 123. Roo Black says...

    I like refreshers because….. my mothers maiden name was refresher, so I guess I have some sort of natural affintity with them. And if I was to win them, it would be kind of like they were coming back to a loving home!

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  4. 124. joanne pooley says...

    they have there own unique flavour and taste and are totally refreshing

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  5. 125. Jeremy Andrews says...

    Refreshers refresh my mouth and memory at the same time. I have great childhood memories of collecting glass coke bottles around the park and trading them in for refreshers at the park sweet shop. On a good Saturday I could get over 10.

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  6. 126. Arthur Wilson says...

    Its often said the summers where longer and the sweets were bigger and maybe maybe that is true. But the sweets of my childhood tasted great and to be honest still do

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  7. 127. Meryl Rees says...

    I remember I used to have a ‘Ten Pence Mix’ from the shop and most things were half pence, but these huge refreshers were 1p. I always chose one though, they lasted in my mouth for ages and ages!! I love childhood sweeties :)

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  8. 128. Lesley Wright says...

    Just seeing the blue and yellow wrapper makes me smile and takes me back to my childhood, you always felt you were getting lots for your money because they lasted ages,I am 60 and dont remember a time when there were no refreshers. My grandchildren now like them as well

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  9. 129. Joanne Hover says...

    They remind me of being at boarding school and I was always very homesick. Our treat was to take our ‘pocket money’ and go to the tuck shop where I would always zoom in on the refreshers!! It was one of my sunny moments in some unhappy times.

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  10. 130. Mel K says...

    I used to love refreshers, I think I still do but my teeth might not be so keen!

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  11. I remember when I was a kid, my friends and I used to have competitions to see who could finish a refresher without chewing. The tingling on the tongue was unforgettable and I never did win.

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  12. 132. Gareth says...

    I love the memories of the sweet chewiness before the hit of the sharp sherbert. Then trying to prize your jaw apart again :-[]

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  13. 133. aisha says...

    they remind me of when i was younger and my mum used to come home with big bags full of them , we never had a day where they were not in the cupboard

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  14. 134. steve baggott says...

    nom nom nom :-) get them in ya!

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  15. 135. e scott says...

    refreshingly delicious!!
    what more does a girl need to say :D

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  16. 136. fiona mcbride says...

    They remind me of childhood fun and sweetie jars at granny’s

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  17. 137. NIGELWV says...

    Who needs Botox when you can have refreshers! At Christmas I was given an alternative selection box, full of retro sweets, my face hurt for days after hours of chewing and fizzing,and contortionist face pulling. What a refreshing change from chocolate

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  18. I love the way you chew them until the insides come out and you pull a funny face as the sherbet hits ur tongue….then you spend the next 10 mins chewing the rest of the sweet and picking it off ur teeth ;)

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  19. loved them as a kid – now i buy them as an excuse that they are for my grandaughters – but they don’t get much of a look in – lost count the amount of times i have lost a filling chewing them – but cant resist them – still love them the taste is irresistable – yummy x

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  20. 140. mellissa williams says...

    A fruity, fresh and tasty sweet on the tongue,
    Refreshers makes me feel forever young.
    Bringing back memories of my walks home from school,
    The thought of buying 10 pence worth,
    Would make me happy and drool.
    It’s a sticky, chewy, yummy sweet,
    Trying to eat it without chewing,
    If you can that’s some feat.
    So Refreshers thanks for reminding me of my childhood
    Now I buy them for my son as they taste so good!

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