General Chat

There's a "Sweetie" shop about 30 minutes drive from me, with lots of UK sweets. I got some jelly babies there a couple of weeks ago. What have they done to jelly babies? They looked the same, with the white powdery sugar (as a child I thought it was baby powder lol), but they weren't soft. They weren't like gummi sweets, just different from babies I've had. Maybe they were stale.

I always get the boy jelly babies, you get just that wee bit more :-D

Flying saucers, spangles and spanish, sherbert dips and Jubblies. Still have my sweet tooth but now its Twix bars.

Can you still get Pontefract cakes?

SHERBERT LEMONS,
DRUMSTICKS,PARMA VIOLETS YUK,
CURLY WURLY,
MIDGET GEMS,
FOAM STRAWBERRY"S,
JELLY SPOGS,
DOLLY MIXTURE.
Oh the list goes on.

funny but i hardly ever eat sweets now and never eat chocolate(i hate it) :-D

Coconut mushrooms, I used to go to the cinema every Saturday night with my G Grandma and she always bought me a quarter, still love them, those and liquerish alsorts.

Caz

Think we can still get fruit pastilles.

Foggy said I liked them, never said I ate them ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-)

Carol

Gob stoppers, followed with a swig of Tizer

Roy

Forgot about the old Penney arrow liquorice flavour :-P

iwant some sherbet now lol x

Used to love gob stoppers and bonbons :-D

I liked cough candy, spanish wood, red shoe laces ,
but my favourite favourite one was a piece of honey comb
the shop keeper would have a slab of it on the counter then break a piece off it , later on it would be pre wrapped

Janet I so remember Mcgowans toffee :-D I loved all the flavours apart from Banana.....they used to be 2p from our village mobile.......

Also loved Astro belts too, still do.....tangier the better......

When I was ickle my Dad loved a chocolate bar called a "toffee cup" you cannot get them now I dont think....he also liked Frys Five Centre.... :-)

Spangles.....nom nom :-D :-D

Had an discussion with one of our carers.She is about 22 and seriously addicted to DipDabs. When they were not available she was forced to resort to sherbet fountains which she ate by dipping the liquorice in the sherbet.

Surely the correct etiquet in these matters is to bite the end off the liquorice and suk the sherbet up the tube.

Not having been brought up properly,she didn't know the liquorice was a tube.

McGowans toffee= 3d -jl

I loved Rowntrees Fruit Pastilles.......... are they still available?

Lemonade crystals. Can't remember whether it was liquorice or liquorice root to scoop them out. Lovely.

Vera

'Sherbert Fountains'?.......We called the Sherbert Dips in South London

Rhubarb and custard

Sherbert lemons

Milk bottles


Mum still loves the pink shrimps

Gobstoppers and Toasted Tea Cakes

You can still buy both but I don't think they are the same