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Old fashioned sweets, Nigel Slater programme
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GinN | Report | 6 Nov 2012 14:47 |
Yes, I remember chewing on liquorice root, and I agree, it doesnt seem the same now. I also loved tiger nuts, though they are real nuts, not sweets. Guess this makes me old and poor! :-( |
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Bobtanian | Report | 6 Nov 2012 15:10 |
you are not alone!! |
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BarbinSGlos | Report | 6 Nov 2012 15:21 |
At least I had a sweeter version Bob |
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JoyBoroAngel | Report | 6 Nov 2012 15:24 |
we used to buy something called shag |
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Joeva | Report | 6 Nov 2012 15:59 |
Barbinsglos, |
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BarbinSGlos | Report | 6 Nov 2012 16:11 |
Glad I wasn't the only little un chewing on a stick lol Joeva and Lynda |
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GinN | Report | 6 Nov 2012 16:18 |
Yes, Barbinsglos, those where chewing nuts, and you can still get them. Tiger nuts were little wrinkly things, and I think you can still get them in pet shops. (says a lot about me!) The Spanish make a drink out of them, called Hortcha.Never tried it , though. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 6 Nov 2012 16:25 |
Yes Barb I remember liquorice root, like chewing a flavoured twig :-D There was also a sort of flat bean like 'thing' we used to get, had a strange smell but can't remember what it was called. |
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Malcolm | Report | 6 Nov 2012 17:00 |
Kola Kubes, Sherbet Lemons, Wagon Wheels, Aztec Chocolate bars, Liquorice Torpedoes and Pontefract Cakes. Sweets go back to Elizabethan timeswhen a "Lollipop" was a sweet treat. The Victorians made sugar boiling a speciality and that's where it really took off with flavours, colours and the art of "pulling toffee". Cadbury Brothers pinched their recipes from the Swiss but took it to a new level. Sadly now Kraft bought them out so it's "Milka". |
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Sue | Report | 6 Nov 2012 17:34 |
Yes, i used to love that coconut baccy, they showed that on the programme, and sweet cigarettes, which then had the red top removed,. Crazy really, as if that would encourage a child to smoke. You could say the same thing about rock.!! |
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Cooper | Report | 6 Nov 2012 17:58 |
I loved flying saucers. I tried some recently and they were not the same. Also loved the sherbet lemon sweets and chocolate eclairs. :-D |
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GinN | Report | 6 Nov 2012 18:41 |
Everyone seens to remember thier favourite sweets as tasting better than they do now. Is this down to nostalgia, or are they now so mass produced and full of chemicals? Makes you wonder. |
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DazedConfused | Report | 6 Nov 2012 19:25 |
Watched the programme this evening (Tues) and was amazed that although they mentioned 2 Quaker families, Cadbury's and Rowntree, there was no mention of Frys. And as they were in York nothing about Terry's of York, whose chocolates were always the most expensive, my mum loved Terrys Allgold. |
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Phyll | Report | 6 Nov 2012 21:47 |
I Loved boiled sweets shaped like fish and barley sugar twists. Found the fish sweets on IOW a few years ago- lovely |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 6 Nov 2012 22:34 |
I think there are 3 'old fashioned' sweet shops in Winchester, and liquorice root can be bought in a health food shop in the city. |
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GinN | Report | 7 Nov 2012 21:23 |
Talking of Scottish sweets, whenever we went to Scotland as a kid, I used to get Oddfellows: tablet shaped sugary sweets that tasted of spices - Iloved the cinnamon ones. :-) |
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