My own personal favourite was the inappropriately named "Daintee" chew. For the princely sum of 1penny (and I'm talking pre-decimalisation) you could attempt to dislocate your jaw and extract a molar or two with this delightful, individually wrapped piece of confectionary. When correctly inserted, this toffee lump would extend both cheeks so that you couldn't close your mouth properly and brown, toffee spittle could run freely from your mouth, down your chin and onto your clothes. Always a bit hit with the grown-ups!
On a good week my pocket money might extend to a handful of "Fruit Salads", available in a range of chewy flavours and very popular at four for 1p, followed up with a "Sherbert Dab" which was nothing more than a small packet of sherbert with a liquorice stick for dipping/dabbing.
The sherbert was great at sticking to the Daintee-spittle and we all went home with white beards and black tongues and lips!
"Pop" was something of a luxury item which, if any kid had enough money to buy a bottle, was routinely passed around from one dirty mouth to the next and eventually the empty bottle would be filled with water and "flavoured" with the remaining dog-ends of liquorice sticks from the sherbert dabs.
I'm sure that our immune systems were strengthened as a result of all that exposure!
Happy days!
C-flat.