Candy and that

[BekyLou]

Sorry if there's another thread like this, but I did search...a lot.

Reet, me and me mates we in the local last night, somehow we got talking about the sweets you could used to buy out of tubs from behind the counter. You know...you'd go in and ask for "a quarter on those" or "50p's worth of them there thingamybobs".

Got me thinking...and soon craving...all those old school sweets, like the coconut mushrooms [That you have to take the bottom off and not eat], and those flying saucers, you know, they were like sugar paper with sherbet inside.

http://www.lebonbonshop.co.uk/i/DSC01275.jpg

Anyone remember any others?? It brought back memories pour moi...

=]

[T-Bear]

I remember little jelly snails and turtles, that had a weird filling inside them. They were rly nice, and i still know a shop that sells them.

[Tiode]

We still have a sweet shop like that where i live.

[FuriousPanda]

Yeah, the shop i used to go to (and now work at since this morning ^.^) used to have rows and rows of sweets in tubs. I grew out of those as i realised how much people sneeze on them...

[ray]

i had a whole box of gummi bears once,

i miss that box :(

[Thomp]

They still have them in Woolworths in Liverpool I think, and a couple of newsagents by mine

I loved (and still do) those jelly turtles and chocolate mice. I wouldn't leave my newsagents or Woolworths, when I was little, without begging for these.

I usually got my way :D

[Hydralisk]

Aah chocolate mice, flying saucers and a great big handful of jellybabies, washed down with cream soda. That comprised my lunch for the first few years of high school (and I wondered why I was so spotty :/ )

In the summer, I'd live soley off Ice-poles and double deckers.

[Nocashvalue]

Whatever happened to fizzy jerks :(

[Smartie]

I'm going to direct you to... www.aquarterof.co.uk

knock yourselves out....

[Tweekish]

I used to those prawns and shrimps.... And those white chocolate mice. Mmmmm :)

EDIT - and dracula fangs

[Haroshi]

I used to love Custard creams,

old skool and tasty. ;)

[i_stalk_badgers]

Smartie, I love you.

My bank balance and my teeth have just melted, though.

[Gonk]

I'm going to direct you to... www.aquarterof.co.uk

knock yourselves out....


Smartie, you ROCK!

recently I've rediscovered Gummy worms! now they are Fun to eat!

[Smartie]

It's so easy to spend like £10 on that site without even blinking.
Mmmmm.

my personal faves are:
Anglo bubbly bubble gum, lipstick bubble gum
Fireballs
mint/ orange poppets
Skull crushers and porky pigs
Foam shrimps and bananas
Cinammon balls (mmmm cinammon.... hot :D)
Sherbet dibdabs
Choc Lick
Black jacks/ banana mojos
Space dust (popping candy)

if anyone wishes to buy me any of these things then feel free.

Also TOPTIP: Oldham indoor market has an excellent sweets stall.

[GregHeikel]

When I was younger there was a shop right next to my school that sold 1p sherberts and the little chocolate disks with hundreds and thousands on. Good time, good times ...

[RadioactiveHam]

When I was younger there was a shop right next to my school that sold 1p sherberts and the little chocolate disks with hundreds and thousands on. Good time, good times ...

I loved those little chocolate disks, especially the white choclate ones. But I can't find them anywhere now. :(

[Smartie]

They're commonly called Jazzies.
At the very least you'll find them at the sweet counter in Odeon Cinemas

http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/gfx/browngems.jpg

[Fish Finger]

Eugh, hate flying saucers.

Where I live there's a little Woolworths (with the sweet thingy), and there's a 'proper' sweet shop with the plastic tubs and bags. It's brilliant but I try to avoid it else I'd be poor and fat.

[asmodai]

I used to get a 25p sweetie mix every friday. Blackjacks, apple jacks, postman pats and fruit salads. Cola bottles. God I miss that shop so much.

[feeshy]

Aren't I the lucky one with a shop with lots of those sort of sweets down the road, and a shop with loads (and I mean loads, even the really obscure ones like Kop Kopps) about 5/10 mins away :)

Oh, and just to increase the jealousy factor, a couple of months ago I got a whole box (about 500) of white chocolate mice from the local wholesalers. Still got a few left :)

[Mittwoch]

Rainblo bubblegum is where it's at. I ruined countless fringes as a young'un with them.

[Midget]

*snip*

Choc Lick

*snip*

Also TOPTIP: Oldham indoor market has an excellent sweets stall.
choc lick is fucking godly

and yes, that is an excellent sweet stall

i really should go there more often

[edit]
that site is amazing smartie, as soon as i get some money i'm ordering a kg of choc lick

[Erskien_Parkour]

Is it just me who hates all sweets apart from haribo sometimes? They make me feel BLERGH. :(


*looks around*

yes.

*leaves thread*

[Smartie]

Incidentally....

At Asda Bassetts jelly babies... £1.08 per pack or 2 for £1.

Figure that one out...

[Mr.Death]

i had a whole box of gummi bears once,

i miss that box :(

ever fit one of those huge jawbreakers in your mouth, I won a bet on it...... 20 bucks ( euro blech) But then I had a numbing sensation in my mouth for about a day

[Thomp]

I am so buying some sweets off that site now :D

[Mash89]

Is it just me who hates all sweets apart from haribo sometimes? They make me feel BLERGH. :(


*looks around*

yes.

*leaves thread*

Strawbs wins!

[Smartie]

I must remember to ask quarterof for some commission from all their weebls sales! :D

[Sebas]

Incidentally....

At Asda Bassetts jelly babies... £1.08 per pack or 2 for £1.

Figure that one out...
On a slightly similar note. AH to go. Half a litre of coke: 1.70. A litre and a half of coke, same brand and everything, 1.50.

[ZOIDBERG]

This one time I had about £5's worth of Pick 'n' Mix. I don't think I've had any since :D

You wouldn't think it if you saw me, but trust me, I will eat ANYTHING. Especially mint chocolate sweets and the jelly dolly mixture things... too bad it's so expensive in some places, and that I overdo it slightly.

[gembird]

Shrimps for the win.

I love kid's sweets, even now I buy ridiculously huge bags of pick n mix, eat it and then feel a bit sick. It's worth it though. Oh yes.

God I love sugar *twitch*

[CheHamstera]

Aniseed balls - hard, round and dark red. Could break your teeth on them.

And white chocolate buttons with hundreds and thousands on them. They only taste right if you get them off a market stall.

Oh, and white and pink chocolate mice.

[Lewiji]

They're commonly called Jazzies.
At the very least you'll find them at the sweet counter in Odeon Cinemas

http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/gfx/browngems.jpg
Woolworth's pick and mix for the win.

It's not weight based, you pay about 2 quid for a massive drinks cup which you fill with pick and mix, usually overflowing :p

I just fill mine with jazzies. Mmm, diabetes

[Fish Finger]

Do they still make Hullabaloo?
I used to love that!

Oooh and those swizzle sticks !(i think thats whats they're called) Sometimes you could get them free with the beano.

Ahh, Swizzle Sticks.

[Monique]

its funny going through here and seeing all the same lollies called something else.

eg: jazzies are called freckles in aust.

[BekyLou]

I remember those really sour, pink and blue coke bottles, got a right craving now. Can't wait to get spending on that site now too.

White mice ftw.
But shrimps?? eurgh!

[queenofself]

I remember those really sour, pink and blue coke bottles

eww. i always thought that must be what toilet cleaner tastes like. those beer bottle ones were always strange too.

theres a little shop in one of the arcades in leeds that sells lots of these things (i mostly go in there for whole packets of the gummi rings) but sadly its not cheap.

someone brought iced gems into work the other day...i dont know if theyre still easy to get hold of but i hadnt seen any for a long time.

[*Ooh Sparklies*]

someone brought iced gems into work the other day...i dont know if theyre still easy to get hold of but i hadnt seen any for a long time.


Yeah they sell them in Asda. I used to love them, my nan would give me pack every time I went down.

Now though they taste like ass. It's ither me growing out of them, or, being overfed on them!!

[Mash89]

Well, the milk bottles are the best bottles in my opinion. So nice. *Come*

[BekyLou]

I don't remember beer bottles but I do remember mini pints of beer, which was odd seen as kids were eating them. I used to think they had alcohol in them. How naive was I?
They tasted foul though.

[queenofself]

Now though they taste like ass. It's ither me growing out of them, or, being overfed on them!!

they did rather. ass mixed with cardboard.

[poliobear]

I remember when I was about 5 or 6 I went to an ice skating class and I'd always get Caramel Creams. mmmm...

BTW does anyone else pronounce caramel "Carmul"?

[BekyLou]

I remember when I was about 5 or 6 I went to an ice skating class and I'd always get Caramel Creams. mmmm...

BTW does anyone else pronounce caramel "Carmul"?


Yeah :)

[poliobear]

Every time I say "Carmul" around my grandmother (she lives below the Mason-Dixon) she corrects me and we get into an "argument":D I think I started pronouncing it that way because I couldn't fully pronounce it when I was little and no one ever corrected me.

[Mash89]

It's not hard to say. Cah-rah-mell. Say it slowly.

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<patronising>Very good!</patronising>

[feeshy]

I think half the trick is actually finding sweets that taste 'right'. For instance, most of the jazzies/snowies you get now are awful. We don't want real chocolate for those sort of sweets- we want the cheap artificial stuff that's much yummier.

I remember the bottles/pints of beer- they're odd things. I don't exactly *like* them, yet they're one of the things I keep thinking 'hrm, could really do with some of those....'. The pink and white milkshake bottles are the best, but even better are the ones with a white, really soft foamy bit on the back and a sweet, pink jelly-ish bit on top in the shape of a bottle. They rock.

[poliobear]

It's not hared to say. Cah-rah-mell. Say it slowly.

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<patronising>Very good!</patronising>

When you're 5 it's hard to pronounce certain words such as "Caramel", so I started saying "Carmul" and I've never wanted to change the way I say it. Care-uh-mell is just too slow and odd sounding to me, anyway.

[Cerberus]

Haribo Peaches.

It's not hared to say. Cah-rah-mell. Say it slowly

Actually, I would say Ca-Ra-Mell. I've never heard anyone say it like that.

[Lucage]

Not so much candy, but I used to love Mountain Dew. I have to order it online now if I want any.

[Mash89]

Not so much candy, but I used to love Mountain Dew. I have to order it online now if I want any.

I tasted it for the first time today. It tastes like fruity grass to me...

[Lucage]

Mmmmmm fruity grass. Stop it, you're making want some!

[Cerberus]

Sounds addictive, I have a friend who talks about it a hell of alot.

[Smartie]

Sounds addictive


That's just the E numbers and the colourants...