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#76 |
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Same, I used to have them at least twice a week... now I've not had them for nearly two years...
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Your post has made me feel so sad. Where abouts do you live? Surely there must be somewhere where you can get them?
... so I think I'l have to get some of the Internet if I ever want some but that is extremely expensive to do...
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Can I just say.... Strawberry bonbons.
![]() Oh, and the white ones! ETA: When I used to visit my grandmother when I was young for a couple of weeks each summer, I used to go to the local newsagent and buy a quarter of chewing nuts. Strange name as no nuts were included! I also discovered double-lollies at Toogoods, the local sweet shop. Happy days.
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Can I just say.... Strawberry bonbons.
![]() Oh, and the white ones! .
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Ah yes, I love them... the vimto ones are my absolute favourite though
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Ooer - I never knew there was such a thing!
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Ah yes, I usually get them now as well as small pieces of rock from my local sweet shop now I don't get Cola Cubes... they are amazing... you should look out for them
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P.S. Last time I was at Stansted, I noticed a new shop selling sweeties by the quarter. I went in full of excitement but soon did an about turn when I saw their prices! Jeez, I'd have needed to remortgage my house.
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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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I haven't seen them for a long time. Bought some in a shop in Whitby once.
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I remember buying kali from a glass jar. It looked lovely in the glass jar as it was in layers of different colours. When it was mixed in your tiny triangular paper bag it became pinky brown colour. I got such a sore finger and tongue!
Also remember spanish gold and paper covered choc cigarettes. I got four black jacks for a penny or one for a farthing! |
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Ah yes, I love them... the vimto ones are my absolute favourite though
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I live in a place called Bredbury, it's in the Stockport/Manchester region... I checked all the sweet shops around including Asda/Morrisons etc and nowhere sell them
... so I think I'l have to get some of the Internet if I ever want some but that is extremely expensive to do... |
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I remember buying kali from a glass jar. It looked lovely in the glass jar as it was in layers of different colours. When it was mixed in your tiny triangular paper bag it became pinky brown colour. I got such a sore finger and tongue!
Also remember spanish gold and paper covered choc cigarettes. I got four black jacks for a penny or one for a farthing! ![]()
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Cola Cubes... nowhere around my area seem to do them now-adays though
.http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/kola-kub...bes-p-509.html |
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You can get from this site 'A quarter of'. I buy a lot from there, (Christmas and Birthday presents) it's a safe site. Happy shopping!
http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/kola-kub...bes-p-509.html .
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As a kid, I used to pop to our local sweet shop twice a week for 22oz or 1/4 (if it were pocket money day) for a bag of sweets. I miss the real old fashioned sweet shops. The closest I came to one was by chance 10 years ago when visiting Wallace & Grommit country - Wensleydale and was served by a litle old lady in her 80s. It was so nostalgic, I felt very moved.
Anyway, my faves were: rhubarb & custard sherbert lemons lemon and strawberry bonbons fruit thins blackberries & raspberries satin cushions cola cubes cherry cubes jelly teddies (NOT gummybears!!!) milk bottles and teeth! flying saucers banana toffos sherbert pips Use to buy them when I popped in for my comics - Beano, Whizzer & Chips, Beryl The Peril - my fave!!!, Jackie and Smash Hits! So very long ago ![]() In packets, sweets I miss are Toffos and pacers. This is very nostalgic but when we went on holiday to Cornwall, we would have a giant (I was tiny) bag of Opal Fruits and Pacers. Only at Christmas we would have Cola, during the rest of the year we would have orange juice. We didn't even have the fluorescent bottles that used to come round on the lorry (yes a lorry for soft drinks). Funny, lovely memories are coming flooding back. ..oh and iced gems from the new fangled dispenser at the swimming balths and hundreds and thousands sprinkled on a spray-cream cone from the bakers-come-post office on Family Allowance day. LOL!!
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As a kid, I used to pop to our local sweet shop twice a week for 22oz or 1/4 (if it were pocket money day) for a bag of sweets. I miss the real old fashioned sweet shops. The closest I came to one was by chance 10 years ago when visiting Wallace & Grommit country - Wensleydale and was served by a litle old lady in her 80s. It was so nostalgic, I felt very moved.
Anyway, my faves were: rhubarb & custard sherbert lemons lemon and strawberry bonbons fruit thins blackberries & raspberries satin cushions cola cubes cherry cubes jelly teddies (NOT gummybears!!!) milk bottles and teeth! flying saucers banana toffos sherbert pips Use to buy them when I popped in for my comics - Beano, Whizzer & Chips, Beryl The Peril - my fave!!!, Jackie and Smash Hits! So very long ago ![]() In packets, sweets I miss are Toffos and pacers. This is very nostalgic but when we went on holiday to Cornwall, we would have a giant (I was tiny) bag of Opal Fruits and Pacers. Only at Christmas we would have Cola, during the rest of the year we would have orange juice. We didn't even have the fluorescent bottles that used to come round on the lorry (yes a lorry for soft drinks). Funny, lovely memories are coming flooding back. ..oh and iced gems from the new fangled dispenser at the swimming balths and hundreds and thousands sprinkled on a spray-cream cone from the bakers-come-post office on Family Allowance day. LOL!! ![]() |
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In Birmingham we still have a "pop man" who brings pop ona lorry, a bit like a milk float.
Are they in glass bottles? I remember watching the kids along the street run out with their empty bottles and take away illuminous green and orange bottles - mid 70s / pre sodastream craze.
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Some photos of my favourite sweets, they are scrumdiddlyumptious!
http://flic.kr/p/9ScXLK http://flic.kr/p/9SfQhd http://flic.kr/p/9ScWmD |
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In Birmingham we still have a "pop man" who brings pop ona lorry, a bit like a milk float.
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My faves are rhubarb and custard, cola cubes, and milk bottles.
Also, did anyone actually like the pint pots? I thought they were disgusting! http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/pint-pots-p-100.html |
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space dust was good
![]() Those sherbit dips,made your tongue go all red..nice and sheberty with a red lolly
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You seem to know a lot about sweets. I envy your knowledge!
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Also remember spanish gold and paper covered choc cigarettes. |
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