D'ya Like Kids Sweets?

Jemisa | 22:23 Sat 31st Jul 2010 | ChatterBank

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I've just eaten a Sherbet-dab.G/children have been round today after tidying up I found it. Put it on the shelf to give 'em next time.
I could see it from my pc out of the corner of my eye. I could have sworn I heard it call my name.as well. I haven't had a sh/dab since I was a little girl, and it tasted oh soo good. Friends and schooldays came flooding back.
Have any of you got childhood fav sweets? I loved Shrimps, and sweet cigarettes too.

What were yours?

jem

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craft1948

Sherbert lemons......

4getmenot

I've got a wham lollypop

sherrardk

Got a thing for Jelly Tots at the moment - pretend I am buying them for the kids but eat them when they've gone to bed.

Buenchico

I've worked my way through a 215g bag of Baseett's Liquorice Allsorts in the past hour or so, 'cos they were on a BOGOF promotion in the Co-op when I went to get some vino just before 10pm. I'm trying to avoid the temptation to open the second bag!

Usually, though, when I buy a bag of sweets down at the Co-op it will be good old jelly babies for me, but my favourites (which I've only discovered in adulthood) are really the cola flavoured sweets.

Buenchico

I wonder why it is, Craft, that your avatar makes me think of a Cadbury's Flake ;-)

4getmenot

I only like the bobbly pink and blue ones buen

sherrardk

I opened a box of Milk Tray (a raffle prize) and shared them with the kids earlier but they weren't as nice as some brightly coloured kids sweets.

Prudie

Not sweets as such but potato puffs and Walls did a lolly called Whiz i think that was banana ice-cream with toffee inside.I used to get one every day in the summer.

craft1948

Does it Chris?

Answerprancer

I used to love stuff with 'bite'; Extra Strong Mints, Army And Navy, Cough Candy Twists - all bought by the 1/4 and occasionally 1/2 pound - scooped out of large jars and lovingly thrown into a white paper bag then twizzled !
Whatever happened to Imps - anyone remember them? Tiny little black square hard bits of liquorice with added menthol etc - they were sold in tiny little carboard boxes.

My ALL-TIME favourite used to be Victory Vs - when chloroform and ether were in the ingredients. Sometimes I would get through a half pound and my head would be spinning, I think this was probably my first drug experience at about 11 yo.

Buenchico

Oooh, I like all of those things as well, Answerprancer.

You can, I believe still buy Victory V and, if you know where to look, you can even find Imps:
http://www.aquarterof...ighty-imps-p-432.html

mike11111

I remember that although sweets were priced by the ¼ pound Vicory Vs were priced by the oz. You can still get the equivalent of Imps at chemists' shops. They go by different brand names, one of which I remember and which you can still get is Meloids. They came in a tin with a small hole in the corner.

hogbody

Jelly beans (note not babies) tesco's own brand of them are superb. Well recommended for any adult with a sweet tooth. (hide them if you have to ;-)

Answerprancer

Thanks for the link Buenchico - looks pretty much like the same thing, not sure why I remembered this ingredient "oleoresin capsaicin" but it stuck in my memory!
Yes Mike - Victory Vs were pretty hardcore, I have a distant memory of the day I bought some, ate one and thought "hmm, something's changed" read the ingredients and found that chloroform was no longer there - tha's when I stopped buying them.

Jemisa

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My old dad used to like Brompton Lozenges, anyone remember them?

craft1948

When I was little you had to but Victory Vs from the chemist, not the sweet shop. My sister's favourite was Sherbert Crystals,

looobylooo

i used to love, and still do the lemon sherbet/crystals you used to get, we used to call it something like kalei(?) - used to love eating it with a stick of liqourice.

i remember our corner shop selling it, and the lady owner used to scoop it out of the jar with her bare hands - no scoop! that were still everso slightly grubby from handling muddy potatoes out of their sack just minutes before, and weighing a quarter of the 'kalei' out on the scales! - eeeeweeeegh! lol ... but we didnt care! :o)

craft1948

and at school we used to swop Love Hearts.....