D'ya Like Kids Sweets?

[Jemisa]

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

[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]

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.....

[ginvodka]

Two and Two bars . Would love if they reinvented them:)

[looobylooo]

snap! craft .. lol



(sorry, too many 'used to's' in that last post of mine!)