Sweets from our childhood

[SarahJane]

sherbert pips
white choc buttons with hundreds and thousands on them
cola cubes
1/4 of sherbert and using your finger to eat it

[mrsflibble]

for me there's not a lot of sweets I remember other than chocolate cos i reacted to artificial colours from an early age... I remember boots starting to do a natural sweet range though and it was sooo tasty cos they were like nothing I'd everr had. my grandad worked for boots so i got them on a regular basis lol.

[Shirley]

Gobstoppers.
Winter mixture .. especially the red & white striped clove flavoured ones.
Old English Spangles.
Liquorice bootlaces.
Victory V lozenges (although I think you can still get those)

All those and....

cherry lips
shrimps
anglo bubbly
mojos
Mighty imps
Hmmm could be back with more. Good link from TG!!

[invisiblepiper]

Chelsea whoppers and Lucky Tatties

[Millymollymandy]

Opened that link TG and the first thing I saw were sugar mice - yummmmmmy! Also loved acid drops and pear drops.

Oooh I've just remembered, my all time favourite sweet (apart from chocolate) is Edinburgh Rock!

[Millymollymandy]

OMG that website is a real trip down memory lane!

[The Riff-Raff Element]

Bullseyes. I've not seen them for years. There's something in France called Bêtises de Cambrai, which are just about passable, but I would really, really like some bullseyes.

[Graye]

There were a couple of particulary disgusting ones I used to love. Fortunately I had very indulgent grandparents as my Mom and Dad wouldn't have let them through the door otherwise...

Firstly some strange little candies that looked like a fried egg but were made from the same stuff as those pink shrimp things, about two inches in diameter and coated in sugar. Then the sugar mice or pigs at Christmas. But can anyone remember some orange/tangerine flavoured boiled sweets which came in a little straw basket, about a dozen to a pack? Divine!

[mamos]

Yeah, I love shrimps and the similarly textured banana sweets

Old Jamaica rum and raisin chocolate and what was that packet of tobacco made of dessicated coconut?

mamos

[JulieSherris]

Aaahh.... parma violets - loved 'em! Even if they tasted like my nan's perfume smelt - if you know what I mean.....

But plain crisps with the blue twist of salt...... and a bottle of coke with a straw, & sitting on the pub step waiting for a refill from me mum..... memories, huh?

[Millymollymandy]

Aaahh.... parma violets - loved 'em! Even if they tasted like my nan's perfume smelt - if you know what I mean.....

But plain crisps with the blue twist of salt...... and a bottle of coke with a straw, & sitting on the pub step waiting for a refill from me mum..... memories, huh?

Twas cheese and onion for me and salt and vinegar for my brother, and we always fought in the car or out of it and one or the other would end up getting locked out of the car.... those cokes always tasted so good though.... and my grandma always had parma violets in her handbag!

[Penny Lane]

I remember cola cubes that used to cut your gums and aniseed balls that smelled lovely but I always spat them out after a minute!

[Sally Jane]

Yeah, I love shrimps and the similarly textured banana sweets

Old Jamaica rum and raisin chocolate and what was that packet of tobacco made of dessicated coconut?

mamos

I would kill for a bar of Old Jamaica - was the coconut tobacco called Spanish Gold?