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For the fast food restaurant chain, see Spangles (restaurant). Spangles were square boiled sweets, bought in a paper tube with individual sweets cellophane wrapped. They were manufactured by Mars Ltd in the United Kingdom up until the early-1980s, and were briefly re-introduced in 1995. Spangles were available, among others, in red wrappers (fruit flavour) and black (liquorice) (known as Old English Spangles). There was also a mystery flavour variety where the wrappers had question marks on them. Nowadays the Tunes brand is the only remaining relative of the Spangles brand, sharing the dimensions and wrapping of the original product.
In popular culture Spangles were mentioned in the Kinks hit song "Art Lover". In the UK, Spangles are associated with the 1970s and they, like Space Hoppers, have become shorthand for lazy nostalgia, as in the phrase "Do you remember Spangles?". | ||||||||
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