I thought I would have a nostalgic trip down memory lane. Incidentally, I've borrowed pictures from a wonderful sweet shop with many of my favourites, so you can follow the link if I've made you hungry or you want to try them!
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| https://sweettreatco.co.uk/product/vanilla-fudge/ |
Mmmm....I like to nibble at this like a squirrel- taking little pieces- definitely do not eat it all in one mouthful!!
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| https://sweettreatco.co.uk/product/candy-shrimps/ |
The originals are the best.
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| https://sweettreatco.co.uk/product/laces/ |
I associate these with my older sister. When I was 10-11 and she was 14-15, she used to take me to Junior Woodwind ensemble at the Music School. Mum was at work at the Vets on Fridays so my sister took me on the buses from home to the music centre. We had to get two buses to music schoo and Mum used to give us the money for two buses each. However, we discovered that one of the two buses went further than we used to get it to so we decided to get one bus- it ended up on a high street where there was a Woolworths and we then walked the last mile to the music centre. It meant we had the second bus money at our disposal. So, every Friday, we went into Woolworths. We had 80p with our bus fare combined and the bags of licorice bootlaces were 79p. We used to choose a different one each week- Cola laces, green laces, Strawberry laces, orange laces and gleefully scoff them on our way to Windband. It was our little treat and we used to love it- having sweets. Mind you, we got some extra exercise! I used to love nibbling at them!
4. Fizzy peach sweets: those round sweets that are half orange, half pinky red with sugar granules on the outside and taste oh so wonderfully peachy- just like Body Shop's original Fuzzy Peach perfume! CBC and I ate loads of these on our honeymoon as Switzerland sold Haribo Peach slices!
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| https://sweettreatco.co.uk/product/soft-rhubarb-and-custard/ |
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| https://sweettreatco.co.uk/product/flying-saucers/ |
I must add here that I am pretty annoyed that they seem to be skimping on the sherbet in these nowadays! But they are still tasty!
7. Strawberry Skittles:
I DO like Skittles! The first time I ever tried these was aged 7. My sister had gone on tour to Austria with a nearby school (not her school but they needed violinists) and she came home with a bag of them before they were sold in England. I remembered thinking they were so tasty!
8. Fizzy worms:
There's something wonderfully tangy about these!!
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| https://sweettreatco.co.uk/product/jelly-babies/- Yum! |
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| https://sweettreatco.co.uk/product/white-mice/- but the brown ones! |
The absolute cheapest, low-quality chocolate but there's something superbly nostalgic about them!
11. Opal Fruits
I know they are Starburst now but to me, they are Opal Fruits. One thing I miss is that there used to be seperate yellow and green ones- Lemon and Lime respectively. Nowadays, they are combined into one and we got a blackcurrant one instead. Bring back the discreet Lemon and Lime I say. They are tangly and superb! I associate these with trips to the Kenneth Moore theatre in Ilford- they used to sell boxes of them in the snack kiosk!
12. Strawberry Chewits
I must confess that I eat Chewits in the most disgusting, unladylike way. I attribute the eating of them to a car journey with my best friend Lucy, aged 8, in the car on the way to Southend. We had a game to try and see how long we could make a chewit last and I discovered the pulling pieces off technique- it stretches beautifully into a long strand of strawberry goodness which can be nibbled at. Warning though- you need to warm the Chewit in your hands for a few minutes though to ensure it is malleable!
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| Image from https://sweettreatco.co.uk/product/flumps/- who seem to sell these delicious things! |
13. Flumps:
Those wonderfully, really soft marshmellows of pastel colours- twisted cylinders or the ones with very thin strands on the outside! I loved them!
If you eat any sweets still or used to when you were younger, which were your favourites?
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We all have our vices! I like salty treats instead of sweet ones.
ReplyDeleteAlways savoury stuff for me. Used to love Spicy tomato Snaps which were 2p a packet back in the 1970s! x
ReplyDeleteI have a sweet tooth too and sometimes have a hard time controlling it. Sugar is so bad for our health but at the same time, it's so hard to resist it.
ReplyDeleteWhile I now prefer savoury snacks like Vix, I sometimes still get a craving for sweets. But if I do give in, I know I'll suffer with lethargy and tiredness, so I'm trying to avoid them altogether. Apart from laces and flying saucers, we did have quite a few different sweets here in Belgium when I was a little girl, and got to spend 1 Belgian Franc at the corner shop! I think the shrimps are the same kind of sweets that we had in a different form, called Lieve Vrouwkes (tiny Our Ladies). What we do still have are those Haribo Fizzy Peaches. I'm actually salivating at the thought ;-) xxx
ReplyDeleteThose rhubarb and custard sweets are so often over-looked, but one of my favourites by far!
ReplyDeleteI love flying saucers, I used to love to suck the rice paper until it dissolved leaving the sherbet on your tongue. I also loved chewing nuts if you know of them. Hard toffee balls coated in milk chocolate. Mmm. If I'm in the states I buy Milk Duds, which are a little similar.
ReplyDeleteMmmm, now I'm hungry!
ReplyDeleteWe seem to have different sweets here in Australia, but your favourites look interesting. X
Oh, I do love a white chocolate mouse. I also like chocolate limes (I know most people don't) but my ultimate favourite is milk bottles. You can't get any of those in Switzerland though. Here I go for chocolate raisins.
ReplyDeleteHow lovely to see your sweetie favourites Kezzie. Some of them are mine too. But best of all is the fact that you do actually eat sweets. I have you on a be-halo'd pedestal where you only eat all things organic and here you are acting as if you've an ordinary human like the rest of us. Hurrah, and now I love you even more xxx
ReplyDeleteI like all of these! I have a very sweet tooth. I also like aniseed balls, and twists. And those peanut shaped sweets. And coconut mushrooms.
ReplyDeleteI love how strawberry laces bring back memories for you. And it made me smile that you used the bus money for treats!
I want to visit the olde sweet Shop in Ipswich now...
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