Retro Sweets Traditional and Old Fashioned: Retro Sweets, Traditional sweets or Old Fashioned Sweet all refer to the old favourites of days gone bye. Such lovely retro sweets like, Pineapple cubes, Kola Cubes, Aniseed Twist, Cough Candy and Army and Navy. Ginger Creams and Winter Mixtures were more sophisticated and were for Mum, Dad and Nan. Take your time to browse and remember the days when you wanted to have these but for various reasons they were strictly of limits! Usually because you didn't have the money, pocket money never did stretch to all these lovely things.