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Old 09-06-2011, 21:33
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I love old fashioned sweets. So much so that I actually work in a 1930s style sweet shop. It is the best job ever! It has got me wondering. What is your favourite sweet? Does it depend on where you bought up?
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Old 09-06-2011, 21:37
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floral gums..barley sugar tablets,liquorice torpedoes and coconut macaroons
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Old 09-06-2011, 21:37
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I love old fashioned sweets. So much so that I actually work in a 1930s style sweet shop. It is the best job ever! It has got me wondering. What is your favourite sweet? Does it depend on where you bought up?
There use to a sweetshop near my high school.
Now, it is a hairdresser.
Nowadays, I go around me nans, and help myself to her sweets. I love coconut teacakes though. She doesn't have them.
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Old 09-06-2011, 21:37
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Chewing nuts.
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Old 09-06-2011, 21:40
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oooh I love them, also cough candy twist and sherbert pips
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Old 09-06-2011, 21:40
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Spogs, those pink and blue sweets from liquorice allsorts, though you can buy them separately, thank goodness.
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Old 09-06-2011, 21:46
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we have a few mr simms sweets near us very very old fashion sweet shop love it.
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Old 09-06-2011, 21:48
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Old 09-06-2011, 21:49
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Sweet peanuts,Cola Cubes,Spanish Gold,Pineapple Chunks,Liquoirice Comfits,Crispets,Spangles(old English and fizzy),all flavours of Bon Bons,Sherbert Lemons,bags of sherbert.
Used to love the tablet i bought at primary school.A woman whose garden backed onto our playing fields used to sell it to us over her hedge at break times.Used to put different colourings in it just to catch our attention.I guess if she tried it these days she'd get arrested!.

Funnily enough after all of that abuse.I still have my own teeth!.
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Old 09-06-2011, 21:51
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Yeah, i liked them too.If i was feeling flush i'd get a quarter pound bag.If less flush just 2 ounces please!.
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Old 09-06-2011, 21:52
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oooh I love them, also cough candy twist and sherbert pips
Sherbert Pips,i'd totally forgotten about them.So many for the money!.
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Old 09-06-2011, 21:55
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Pear Drops, Cola Cubes, Chocolate Limes, Flying Saucers
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Old 09-06-2011, 22:03
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Sweet peanuts,Cola Cubes,Spanish Gold,Pineapple Chunks,Liquoirice Comfits,Crispets,Spangles(old English and fizzy),all flavours of Bon Bons,Sherbert Lemons,bags of sherbert.
Used to love the tablet i bought at primary school.A woman whose garden backed onto our playing fields used to sell it to us over her hedge at break times.Used to put different colourings in it just to catch our attention.I guess if she tried it these days she'd get arrested!.

Funnily enough after all of that abuse.I still have my own teeth!.


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Penny Arrows, torpedoes, cider toffee, liquroice sticks, Pink Panda Candy, Mojos and Black Jacks, Aztec bars and Frys Chocolate Cream Bar
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Old 09-06-2011, 22:05
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Sweet peanuts,Cola Cubes,Spanish Gold,Pineapple Chunks,Liquoirice Comfits,Crispets,Spangles(old English and fizzy),all flavours of Bon Bons,Sherbert Lemons,bags of sherbert.
Used to love the tablet i bought at primary school.A woman whose garden backed onto our playing fields used to sell it to us over her hedge at break times.Used to put different colourings in it just to catch our attention.I guess if she tried it these days she'd get arrested!.

Funnily enough after all of that abuse.I still have my own teeth!.
Love your story. The good old days when this kind of thing was acceptable.
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Old 09-06-2011, 22:06
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Some of your replies are making my moth water. My favouroites are Sherbet Dip Dabs, Chocolate Limes and Rosey Apples.

Have any of you ever heard of Troach Drops?
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Old 09-06-2011, 22:14
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I used to love Fruit Thins but you can't get those any more
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Old 09-06-2011, 22:16
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Pear Drops, Cola Cubes, Chocolate Limes, Flying Saucers
Ah,Flying saucers.Brought a tear to your eye that sherbert did!.
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Old 09-06-2011, 22:19
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Penny Arrows, torpedoes, cider toffee, liquroice sticks, Pink Panda Candy, Mojos and Black Jacks, Aztec bars and Frys Chocolate Cream Bar
Aztec Bars,there's a blast from the past!.Do you remember Ice Breaker chocolate as ?.Came in aan electric blue wrapper.And those pieces of apple coated in chocolate.They came in a kind of foil bag,painted like an apple?.I don't think they were around for long mind.

And Triffic nougat?.The chocolate would all fall off it.Nutty bars,Texan bars.Happy days.
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Old 09-06-2011, 22:23
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I used to love Fruit Thins but you can't get those any more

I've never heard of these. What did they look like?
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Old 09-06-2011, 22:23
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I used to love those 'flying saucers', Sherbert Fountains, those solid black sticks of liquorice, and 'rhubarb & custard' boiled sweets!
Does anyone remember liquorice imps - they were in a tiny box, half the size of a matchbox.....sooo delicious!! They had loads in my schools 'Tuck Shop' !
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Old 09-06-2011, 22:24
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Some of your replies are making my moth water. My favouroites are Sherbet Dip Dabs, Chocolate Limes and Rosey Apples.

Have any of you ever heard of Troach Drops?
I liked the dib dabs.Never heard of Troach Drops.Where they a 30's style sweet?.What other 30's style stuff do you sell?.Do you do stuff from the 40's and later as well?.
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Old 09-06-2011, 22:24
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Aztec Bars,there's a blast from the past!.Do you remember Ice Breaker chocolate as ?.Came in aan electric blue wrapper.And those pieces of apple coated in chocolate.They came in a kind of foil bag,painted like an apple?.I don't think they were around for long mind.

And Triffic nougat?.The chocolate would all fall off it.Nutty bars,Texan bars.Happy days.
Aztec Bars = Cadbury's answer to the Mars Bar. Did they taste like Mars bars too?
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Old 09-06-2011, 22:26
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I've never heard of these. What did they look like?
I remember them.They were square and thin(funnily enough).Kind of semi see through,different flavours each individually wrapped.Bit like old English spangles sort of consistency if my memory serves me correctly.
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Old 09-06-2011, 22:31
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I used to love those 'flying saucers', Sherbert Fountains, those solid black sticks of liquorice, and 'rhubarb & custard' boiled sweets!
Does anyone remember liquorice imps - they were in a tiny box, half the size of a matchbox.....sooo delicious!! They had loads in my schools 'Tuck Shop' !
Rhubarb and Custard sweets were brill.And then they brought out the cartoon!.But Mary,Mungo and Midge were always my (70's favs).
Loved Sherbert Fountains too.
When we used to go to Church on Sunday morning.My Mum would always give us money to put in the collection 'plate'.But we always spent it on bags of sherbert on the way back.I'm sure i'm going to hell for my sins.
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Old 09-06-2011, 22:32
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Oh thought of some more too, milk bottles and spazzles (Those white chocolate circles with hundred and thousand like topping on them.)
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