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A space-age adventure of pink, sticky, chewy bar laced with tongue-fizzing green pieces, an excellent buy at only 10p a slab! These have recently been relaunched by Tangerine confectionary, a British based sweets manufacturer behind the likes of Sherbet Fountains, Refreshers and Black Jacks. Mmmmm, what I'd give to work at that factory! The recipe was taken over by Tangerine after previous Wham manufacturer Millar McCowan went bust in 2011. According to Tangerine, this stick of amazement hit 30million sales a year at its peak. The new bars are priced at 20p and a mega one at 29p.

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  • Anonymous user
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    Never liked 'em...Ironically in the 80's my uncle was a rep for McCowans who made them and I spent an all too large portion of my childhood raking about in the cupboard under the stairs amonst the many boxes of sweeties he gave us for something I did like. My fave was fizzy lizzies and I quite liked the licorice, and egg and milk flavoured penny chews- there was also banana, orange and treacle flavours, cant remember any others. There were penny dainties, highland toffee, chocolate coated highland toffee (used to sook the cheap chocolate off and throw away the toffee), the chunky toffee and fudge bars (fudge was quite good), Crystal bars I think they were called - kind of like a chewy boiled sweet bars (liked 'em), and the green and black variation on the wham which might have been gargoyle bars (for some reason there werent ever many of them in the boxes). Best ever thing I had though was another relative had something to do with cadburys and they appeared with a huge (and I mean huge) bag of lumps of cadburys chocolate. I turns out that they transported it around in tankers that were heated to keep it liquid. On this occasion something had gone wrong and the heaters had packed in so once they drained what they could, someone was sent in with a hammer and bolser to chisel the solidified chocolate off of the inside of the tanker. I have never tasted chocolate like it since.
  • Anonymous user
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    Dr deaths were better
  • Anonymous user
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    Still around. I make them
  • Anonymous user
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    i had one a few weeks ago and although they taste the same they did used to be much bigger ..and no it's not just because my hands were smaller! I i remember rightly Wham bars used to cost 20p. They also did something similar but it was green . Think they were called a slime bar??? Near me there was a road called Wham Lane! How cool would it have been to live there as a kid. lol
    • Anonymous user
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      The Lime Green Bar version was called a Gargoyle bar (In UK anyway)
  • Anonymous user
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    REMEMBER SIMILAR LIME GREEN BAR WITH BLACK TONGUE FIZZING BITS?
    • Anonymous user
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      Yeah I remember that version too. It was called a Gargoyle bar!
  • Anonymous user
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    I got a mega wham bar today.Tastes nothing like the original. tulip
  • Anonymous user
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    I have only ever known the new Wham bars (thin and chewier apparently) and I really wanna try the original version! Does anyone know where I could get some? Or who makes them so I can go straight to the top! Haha. Thanks
  • Anonymous user
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    Was there not a bar called a stinger bar- similar in texture to wham bars- a bloody nightmare on the teeth, but inside, aah, heavenly, sour shertberty stuff to make the eyes water!!
  • Anonymous user
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    Wham bars were a bit dangerous when came to teeth/filling extraction. My most abiding memory of them though, was cycling along no-handed trying to open a Wham bar and then crashing straight into a wall. Broke a couple of toes.
  • Anonymous user
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    We used to buy them from the school tuck shop at break time, we also got HIGHLAND TOFFEE BARS & These multi coloured chewy bars called STRIKE

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