Retro Sweets
Retro sweet of the week
Afternoon Chewbz fans! Fancy making your Monday a little bit sweeter? Well, here’s your chance to… by WINNING some proper tasty retro sweets :D.
If you’re a fan of us on Facebook (if not, er, why not?!) and saw our cheeky clue on Friday, then your mouth is sure to be watering at the thought of our classic choice.
Get ready to get transported back to the good ol’ days, as this week we can’t get enough of…
YUM. How good is chewing your way through a tasty tube of Chewits? We reckon these come pretty close to retro sweet heaven, and bet you always picked up a pack or two from the tuck shop too!
If you would like to win a few packs of these (we have Strawberry, Fruit Salad and Blackcurrant) then all you need to do is comment on this blog post, and tell us why you love Chewits. Don’t forget to tell us your favourite flavour too!
We will then have a little vote here at Chewbz HQ, and the favourite commenter will nab a stash of Chewits. So make sure your comment makes us smile :).
The competition closes next Monday the 26th March at 9am, so get posting!
WINNERS
This week, your comments were all so great, that we had to choose ten lucky winners!
Congratulations to Kelly O’Neill, John Meredith, Sharon Griffin, Tammi Brook, Ally, Elizabeth Smith, Rose, Scott Carruthers, Teresa Hewitt and Hayley Todd.
All winners have been emailed, so go check your inbox if you’ve not send us your address yet!
Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who entered and helped us spread the Chewit love!
Luuuuuurve Chewits oh! the transportation back in time… total nom noms
Chewits are awesome. I love the fruit salad ones 🙂
chewits are great chews
I think my daughter who is 10 deserves these sweets. She has spina bifida and is due an operation on her leg so she’ll be in a frame. Thing is there’s been a problem so her op has been bought forward. Which means we’ve had to cancel our holiday in June. She’s gutted! Please give her these sweets so I can be in her good books again (as its all my fault obviously. Lol)
Has to be blackcurrant…. drooooool
blackcurrant are my favourite flavour ever. I remember when I was a child having competitions with my friends to see who could get the most chewits in our mouth. I still try it now sometimes when my kids have them!!
id love some
Love chewits fruit salad, Nom nom
I love the fruit salad chewits, yummy yummy , well in fact any flavour love them all : )
Strawberry chewits are the best , have been eating them for years
I aboslutley love the ice cream chewits along with all the others especilly straberry. I love chewits because they are a bit hard but soft at the same time. they are my favorite sweets ever and i deseve these sweets beause Im doing tests at school and I need some happiness in my life and these sweets will bring that to me!
My favourite flavour is Blackcurrent. I used to try and eat a single chewit without actually chewing it. I always failed! If I win these I will relive my childhood and once again try and keep one in my mouth without chewing it.
I love stramberry chewits bacause No fruit chew chews chewier!!!! .. Ahh these bring back memories!! 🙂
We were so upset when the chewits factory closed down in our area. My husband would love this prize so much. He loves bannana chewits and can’t find them anywhere, if you could find them it would make his day ( actually his year lol)
Mmmm, I love chewits – all of them are delicious but fruit salad ones are my ultimate fave.
I remember the dancing green Chewit dragon in the adverts and there was a song on the advert too (which is now stuck in my head!!) …
“We like to Chew it Chewit, we like to chew it, Chewit!”
Decisions decisions – i think its gotta beBlackcurrant though i recent found “cola” flavoured and they were diivviiinnneee tooo. One packet is never enough though. Delliicciiooouuusssss
Ohhh i just thought about sour chewits – omg – lemonade ones were superb!!!
When I was younger,
Along with my brother,
We used to skip and hop,
Down to the shop,
Where we would find,
Sweets that are one of a kind.
There were blackjacks, fruit salads,
Flying saucers and more,
So much to choose from,
In one little store,
My favourite and you knew it,
Has to be the chewit.
orange
You don’t need a permit, you don’t need to speak sanskrit, you really have to admit, there’s nothing like a chewit
Omg I love chewits….My favs are fruit salad, yum yum xxx
I find them very nostalgic , and take me back to my teenage years .
My favourite has to be blackcurant flavour .
omg i love chewits the strawberry ones hit the spot everytime x
Chewits were my favourite sweet
One thing that I’d love eat
Strawberry and Blackcurrent tasted great
Fruit salad were the one I’d really rate
It has to be strawberry flavour! Chewits bring me straight back to being happy as a kid. My favourite nan always used to bring us them when she came to visit.
Good times 🙂
I love chewits especially the strawberry ones yummy!!!
Wow, haven’t had chewits for years! My favourites were the ice-cream ones, they only did them for a while I think! Soooo yummy 🙂
i love the them all but strawberry is the best
I love chewits, they instantly make me feel like an 8 years old, which is great especially when I’m nearly 30. Strawberry is defo my favourite. Mmmmmmm Strawberry Chewits….. (drool)
Ooh The fruit salad ones, but do they count as one of my 5 a day.
if i won this i would chew my way to chewbz
Chewits, now that takes me back! I can even remember the jingle from the advert. I think it went “you can chew-a-chew-a-chew-a-chew-a-chew-chew train”. How sad!
Ok, I can’t write poetry and I’m no use at clever catchphrases, but I must say I used to love the advert with King Kong eating that huge pack of chewits! Cook website Chewbz, glad I found you 🙂
OMG I love them and always have and the thing I always remember with them is the advert that mentions Barrow In Furness and that was where I was born so very fond memories of a child when I see them
Strawberry Chewits every time. I adored them 30 years ago as much as I love them now.(and the packets haven’t got smaller like other confectionery).
Absolutely in love with these little old sweets, especially the red ones. Although however had I try I struggle to share them so I eat them all really fast so I don’t have to!
Loved the fruitiness of the Blackcurrant flavour remember trying to suck them to make the most of the flavour but losing out to chewing very quickly.They are one of the few childhood sweets memory hasn’t overegged and they still taste as good today as they did in my childhood of yore!!!!!
My Nan and Grandad used to buy us chewits for long car journeys, think it was to keep us all quiet really 😉 i love the strawberry ones the best x
They remind me of my childhood. My grandma always had a packet for my sister and I 🙂
i would love to share these sweets with my kids,ive always loved the flavour and remember the advert for them with King Kong up the tower with the chewits lol! xx
mmmmmmmmmmm orange chewits mmmmmmmmmmmm still the hardest to get hold of but love them and so do my kids
I remember the Blackcurrant flavour, and the juiciness of it and they had a great smell too, they were so chewy and delicious that I’d have to keep my mouth shut tight otherwise I’d drool.
I love fruit salad chewits 🙂 I remember as a kid getting all excited when my mum used to come back with a packet each for me & my sister and the way they made my mouth ooze of drool whenever I started chewing them 🙂 x
yum i love strawberry flavour because they taste so juicy lots of taste
Chewits are the fabist chew around
As a child they were always found
Blackcurrant are the best
Ice cream were yummy for a rest
As a child i loved chewits when i nip to the shop i still look for them and treat myself once in a while. I have given up sweets chocolate crisps and all the yummy things for lent. I have my son home from college and my niece and nephew here for easter would be nice to share them…… well ok they can have a packet the rest are all mine!!!
Chewits are the best
How i love to chew
Everyone loves a chewy chewit
Whereever you may be
I love to chew
Two at a time
Strawberry is the best
lOVE CHEWITS TASTE EVEN BETTER THAN THEY DID YEARS AGO <3
Oh Strawberry is my favorite
When your are on parade stick one in your mouth and it keeps you on going.
I like to chewit, chewit, I like to chewit, chewit, I LIKE TO CHEW IT
Fav flavour was the ice cream flavour they did
they are juicey and fruity and above all mouthwatering tasy mmmm yummy yummy
I love love LOVVVE the blackcurrant flavour, I also love strawberry. Definitely they bring back memories from childhood which make them all the more enjoyable. I love how juicy they actually are, much more than you’d expect. Yummy.
Reminds me of childhood! My fav is fruit salad!
Has to be the fruit salad for me, reminds me of the days my mam worked in the shop and i used to annoy her untill she agreed to buy me some!!
What is a Chewit??
A Chewit is….
Irresistable
Scrumptious
Naughty but extremely nice
Delicious strawberry will entice
…..you cant help but chew a Chewit!
fruitlicious chewylicious got to be the puplelicious blackcurrent for me
I would say my favorites are the blackcurrent as they are the best ones as keeping my kids mouths quiet for at least 5 minutes lol
Fruit Salad for me. I used to love Chewits, I remember the great ads which had giant monster in them!
i luuurve fruit salad, always top of the list from the tuck shop at school. Just need my kids to be big enough to chew them so i can nick some!
I love them all so fruity and chewy, but my favourite is blackcurrant
I loved this blog chewits are awesome & yummy! Live all flavours but fruitsalad my fav!!
‘ i like to chew’it chew’it
i like to chew’it chew’it
i like to.. CHEW’IT!!!!’ 🙂
I love chewitz, my fav flavour of all time was the ice cream flavour remember those?? they were amazing!!! if i could find them i always had blackcurrent but i hated when u where a kid and had them in your pocket or held onto the packet to tightly for too long and all the paper stuck to the sweets lol! my brother if the paper ripped and left a bit would still eat them where as i would spend ages getting it off getting stickier and stickier lol! xxxxx
Ice-cream flavour was my favourite, but it’s very rare to find these now. But never mind ‘cos there’s a few other flavours to chew my way through (keep me going for a while)!
Strawberry are my favourite but i certainly wouldn’t turn down any other flavour as i love them all.
They remind of me of when i was younger, always had them when i was little.
They last longer than most other sweets & so juicy & tasty.
They are so tasty!!!It is wonderful!!!
Chewits = Awesomeness!! Strawberry for me mmmmm
“I like to Chewit Chewit….I like to Chewit Chewit…….I like to Chewit Chewit…I like to………CHEWIT!” Reminds me of the cartoon add with the Dinosaur on double decker bus skates….oh the memories!
I love chewits because everybody has a different favourite flavour which means they’re so easy to share with friends! My favourite is strawberry
Tasty, sweet, unforgettable.
I want to!
Like and can taste them now. Wow
strawberry cheewits rock
Yummy! The dream of my childhood! Dreams Come True?! There’s nothing like a chewit!!!
Forgot: how to choose a particular taste – they’re all delicious, the language can be fun to swallow. I love Chewits. Tweeted!
Do you remember the advert with King Kong? Classic just like the sweets
mmmm love chewits! really take me back to when I was a kid. used to be able to go to the papershop and get 4 packs for 50p (bet you can’t do that now, don’t see them about as much now though) The orange ones were my favourite but used to love them all. Much nicer than Opal fruits any day
Cannot think of anything clever to say, my mouth is watering at the thought of these and it’s hard to concentrate…. Abhhhhh salivating !!!
My reason for loving it as clear as can be,the flavours are varied,and so apt for me,fruity and full,they are not dull
I love chewits, as I find their flavours tangy and refreshing.
I once had one of these stuck in my hair (some grubby little boy at school) which resulted in having to get my hair cut – didn’t hold a grudge though, still love em 🙂
so many flavours
Chew it’s are iconic! Been munching on them since I was iddy biddy. Totally yumtastic 🙂
*chewits 😉
give me jaw ache but cant stop chewing
its in the name
cos there chewy :/ x
Ohh my fav chewits are the fruit salid ones 🙂 yumm
a chewit a day keeps my cravings away
xxxxxx
There soo chewy and full of juicy flavour. yum yum
I aboslutley love the ice cream chewits, before going for a walk with son buy a pack and enjoy a walk twice!Unfortunately, very often one pack is not enough and have to wait for tomorrow.
I love the fruit salad chewits as I rather like fruit and occasionally eat salad.
I likes to chew it chew it I likes to chew it chew it I likes to chew it!!!!!!
I love Chewits because they are so chewy and fruity
fruit salad fruit salad !!! thats my fav flavour ever since i was 10 !!
i love chewits because i always thought id grow up to be as big as the
muncher monster in their ads !!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IG-NTcx3Ojg&feature=related
i would love to win lots of chewits !! the wife just dont understand
lol … pick me pick me !!! 🙂
Retro sweets are cool to eat
So if your gonna do it
Choose a chewit
Forget the rest
Ice creams the best
So let me win
And watch me grin!!!! 😀
I like to chewit chewit, i like to chewit chewit, i like to chewit chewit, i like to….chewit
blackcurrant chewits childhood revisited. :} x
Chewit should keep me quiet for a while, My colleagues would be well happy that something has shut me up lol.
My parents were really strict about sweets and we were only allowed a small amount on sanctioned days. We were allowed one pack to take with us on holiday, and I always chose orange Chewits – so they are always associated in my mind with exciting times.
I went on a school trip to France for a week when I was about 10/11. We’d all been told not to bring anything to eat, including sweets, and were given minimal pocket money daily. Needless to say we all smuggled bags of sweets onto the coach then wondered why we all felt sick and several ended up spending a rather long time in the toilet. Perhaps my parents were right!
Chewits were my favourite childhood sweets. I loved the orange ones and black currant ones the most! I even remember having the chewits pencil case at school!!
Chewits were (and still are) my favourite sweet, just watched the ad you posted on fb for them, brought back memories of me as a kid, setting up my toys beside packs of chewits, and pretending i was the monster 🙂
chewits i love tthem lol
Ice cream chewits are my favourite.
They take me back to my youth….which seems a long way away now!
coz the teacher thinks im chewing gum…… and im not.
oh wait… IM THE TEACHER NOW!! lol
Chewits are the best I still remember them when being a lil kid now all grown up you still love them. My favourite one is the strawberry one omg its lush and has that mouth watering feeling 🙂 xxxx.
chewits fruit salad mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
i used to love the dino adverts for these 🙂
if im eating a chewit i can avoid conversation with people 🙂
I love Chewitts
‘cos my name is Hewitt
What more can I say?
Please send me some today!
PS when I worked in a playgroup, some of the little kids couldn’t quite manage ‘Mrs Hewitt’ and I got quite used to answering to ‘Mrs Chewitt’.
i always had to squeeze the middle of chewits before eating em love the strawberry ones :O)
We are all kids at heart, and who of us can forget these sweeties that were around when we were really kids? Imagination and memories are wondrous things.
My fave?—–strawberry!!
I love chewits! So do my kids!!! Send us some please and we can Harry Hill style fight over them!
I love Chewits because they remind me of being younger and repeatedly singing the advert ‘I want to Chewit Chewit’ to everyone until I got told off!!
I love the fruit salad ones, and I also used to love the incredible strawberry ice cream ones (I think that’s what they were called, although it might have been raspberry ripple!), but they were hardly ever available :'(
My favourite flavour is strawberry. I love their chewiness and nostaligic quality. I also used to love their adverts with the dinosaur
My son never stops talking from the min he gets up to the min he goes to bed but if I give him a packet of chewits I get a few mins peace and quiet x Therefore chewits are mums life savers (well for 5 mins) x
Love Chewits,when i was a kid, my Grandad always used to buy me a pack when he visited. Fruit salad were my favourite and still are to this day 🙂
I absolutely adore Chewits and have sat for ages trying to think of a witty memorable little quip to put in my comment, but in the end, thought I would just tell the basic honest truthful reason why I love Chewits and why they make me feel so sentimental. My gran was the best gran anyone in the world could ever dream off, she was a constant in my life and would always be there for you no matter what, she was a typical white haired lovely old lady. I was lucky in that she lived around the corner from me and I would see her every day, even when I was into my teens and early twenties I would still see her every day as she was just wonderful. She would always buy fizzy pop from the ‘pop man’ – you know the lovely fizzy pop that used to come in glass bottles!! And she would always make tons of cakes and pancakes. The other thing she would always have for us in her pantry was Chewits. I can even still see which shelf they were on and there would be packets and packets of all different flavours for us grandchildren to choose from. I would always choose strawberry or blackcurrant. It’s strange, but even thinking of Chewits transports me back into my gran’s house which I can see in minute detail, even the smells and sounds associated with her house and still see her beautiful smiling face. That is why I love Chewits so much.
These were one my absolute favourites when I was a child! Absolutely adore the strawberry ones & I get them for my children too! I bribe them to do their chores & pay them in Chewits LOL!
Chewits, simply the best!!!
Strawberry is the best – used to buy them for my kids and eat them myself
love chewits, remind of you of your younger days!!! what memories!
Blackcurrant is the taste for me
But husband, he will disagree,
Fruit salad! He will always cry
But as I’m the one who shops, I buy
BLACKCURRANT! he he he
knowing he won’t share them, you see? 🙂
I used to love chewits. I’m sure there were banana ones the were lovely! I can remember a big monkey and a packet of banana chewits (or it may have been a dream??)
i love the juicy, delicious irrisistable blackcurrant ones
I remember as a kid stuffing 3 in my mouth at once all that lovely juicyness! My favourite flavour is orange but they did do a raspberry ripple as a limited edition once which was yummy too
chewitts – juicy fruity chews – yummmmmm
I like the sound of chewits, I love anything blackcurrant so would like to give them a try 🙂
i cant get enough of these
blackcurrant is me fav
I wanna win a packet of chewits, because I like to Chew it chew it… yeaaah!
I love Strawberry Chewits remind me of being a child. I always tried to suck them to make them last longer but it never worked!
I lived on fruit salad chewits when I was a kid! Nothing beats them!
MMMMM – I LOVVVEEEE CHEWITS!!! <3
i like to chew it chew it!!!
My faves were ice cream chewits! Nom nom!
Mmmmm blackcurrant chewits, the perfect sweet to eat whilst trying to ignore the teacher in class many moons ago!!
Love chewits, takes me back to my childhood, sharing them with my brother. They’re really juicy sweets that are full of flavour, and i’d love to get my hands on the Fruit Salad flavoured ones
Chewits always remember me of my childhood, my mum used to buy a pack of 4 on a Fri, this was our treat for the week. I always got the strawberry ones and my sisters had te fruit salad and blackcurrant ones. The orange ones got shared out lol
I LOVE CHEWITS AS THEY ARE SO CHEWIE JUICEY AND MOUTHWATERING. THEY ALSO KEEP MY SON QUIET FOR A WHILE. I LIKE TO GIVE HIM A PACKET WHEN I HAVE IMPORTANT PHONE CALLS TO MAKE. THEY ARE THE ONLY WAY I CAN HEAR MYSELF AND THE PERSON ON THE OTHER END OF THE PHONE!
I love Chewits cos they’ve stood the test of time & they ooze fruity flavours. Blackcurrant is my favourite.They remind me of my childhood and when my son was 7 or 8 – about 10 years ago – he won his height in Chewits!
i love chewits because they are really tasty
They are so fruity and very sweet.
They are so juicy and full of flavour.
My favourite is strawberry flavour.