General Chat

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. :-)

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.

Do any of the Scots on here remember sweet 'Tatties'. Cinnamon coated lumps of hard stuff with a toy in the middle (usually a tiny black cat)
Wonderful choking hazard!!

I Loved boiled sweets shaped like fish and barley sugar twists. Found the fish sweets on IOW a few years ago- lovely
Phyll

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.

Weren't some of the old ads lovely.

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.
P.S. please bring back Old English Spangles! :-|

I loved flying saucers. I tried some recently and they were not the same. Also loved the sherbet lemon sweets and chocolate eclairs. :-D

Teresa

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.!!

Thanks for all your replies, really takes you back..............................!!
Glad to hear there are still sweet shops around. Funny, there arent any around here that i know of.

Sue

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".

Most popular sweet in history..the MARS Bar...by Mars, now Wrigley. Rowntree's fruit gums, Spangles, Love hearts anyone.... :-)

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.

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.
Coconut baccy was lovely, and I'm sure I've seen it recently.

Glad I wasn't the only little un chewing on a stick lol Joeva and Lynda

Mum was good at making "taffy" and breaking it all up. Also chopping up some sticks , quite rough as I remember and making taffy apples for all the kids in the street. The Elf and Safety mob would have had a field day.
This thread is bringing back loads of things forgotten
:-D

Barbinsglos,

I remember the licorice root, we used to call it Spanish Wood, still available in health food shops I believe.

We also had cones made out of newspaper, the sweet ration was shared between us every Friday. Our mum used to buy a quarter of different sweets and share them amongst us all. My favourite was 'Dolly Mixtures' as there seemed to be so many more of those to the quarter!

we used to buy something called shag
it was coconut baccy strips :-D

At least I had a sweeter version Bob

OH just said you were all alucky lot as 1 of 5 kids and not much money about him and his little pals used to chew the black pitch from when the roads were being resurfaced. No wonder he has such a sweet tooth now. :-D

Remember tiger nuts but as being chewy toffee covered in choc. No nuts though

you are not alone!!

I used to enjoy chewing on a liquorice root........thought that it was extinct but a friend got me a stick..........as you say

""not as we remember it.Jim!""

him talking of the sherbert dab reminded me of something I had at about age ten.......a paper cone, but with dry porridge oats and sugar

lick finger, dip it in, lick finger.......repeat till all gorn!!.

Bob

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! :-(

We had sweet rations until I was 8 years old. Lost me sweet tooth after that. Must have had a deprived childhood. LOLOL

Julia in Derbyshire

What about 5 Boys choc bar. with the boys faces on.

Looks like nobody else was poor enough or old enough to have the liquorice root then :-( :-( :-(

we called them jelly mushrooms
i am going to try sainsburys see if they are the same ones

What about the Cadburys Milk Tray in a Bar,,can,t get them now, mind Cadburys have gone to pot now. :-S