I don't eat sweets, but I used to.
Amongst my top favourites as a child were these wonderful Sherbet Fountains.
Sherbet filled Flying Saucers.
Anything made from Licorice.
Maynards Wine Gums (I do still occasionally have some of these).
And those very non-PC wrapped Black Jacks (I didn't dare show the original wrappers).
Even thinking about them.... and I'm back to 8 years old again.
I like homemade sweets better, but would love to try some of these ones.
ReplyDeleteDo you not have any of these where you are KK?
DeleteNot a single one of those treats are familiar to me! Well, except for licorice. My dad LOVES licorice and always has. He's the only person I know who really likes the stuff (and now you). I never could bear the taste of it!
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised.
DeleteI like licorice too. In Finland they have very salty licorice (salamiaki) no one exept them and my son can it it.
ReplyDeleteI've heard about salty licorice. I've not tried it, but it sounds nice.
DeleteIt is so bad dont even try.Only Finish people can eat it,
DeleteThose sherbert flying saucers were a particular favourite. I have always liked liquorice and can remember buying very hard sticks of it from Boots the Chemist. unfortunately, it is not good for diabetics.
ReplyDeleteI also remember father coming home on a Friday night with a Mars bar which was cut into slices and shared.
Post war Mars bar wrappers were printed showing how to cut them up.
DeleteI never liked liquorice. I spell it with a Q too. We still have Mars bars and cut them up just like we always used to. I liked sherbet lemons.
ReplyDeleteThe spelling seems to be optional.... I use the easy way in honour of Licorice McKechnie; the missing singer from The Incredible String Band.
DeleteShe probably lives in Bath now, they seem to like folk music there.
DeleteMaybe, but Licorice doesn't play the Ukulele.
DeleteI've just eaten a whole bag of liquorice allsorts. Don't know how that happened!
ReplyDeleteMy favourite ones were the coin shaped ones with the blue Hundreds & Thousands.
DeleteBut you know what - if you try them now they just don't taste the same as they did to you as a child.
ReplyDeleteI think that's much the same with almost everything; maybe not Marmite though.
DeleteYou could buy 4 blackjacks for a penny. I enjoyed all those you show above plus pineapple chunks, sherbert lemons, Fry's 5 Boys chocolate, and even a black bubblgum called, unbelievable today, Sambo, and also gobstoppers.
ReplyDeleteI always loved those pictures of the 5 boys with their changing expressions.
DeleteI am joining you on the swings at eight years old, sucking a sherbet fountain. Those were the days.
ReplyDeleteThe licorice straws never worked did they!
DeleteI used to buy these with my thrupenny bit pocket money. I just googled the old blackjack wrappers...as a child I never made any connection between a golly and an actual human being...I guess I thought of them in the way we might look at some cartoon characters now. My kids would be shocked to see stuff from the 60's now.
ReplyDeleteI still can't see Gollys etc as racist; but I'm told that I have to.
DeleteI still eat jelly babies. my faves are the green and yellow ones. Do you remember Kayli ? I don't really know how you spell it. Kayli was different coloured crystals layered in a jar (similar to those different coloured sand thingys) that you stuck your wet finger in and then sucked . A drink could also be made, but didn't give the same sugar rush.
ReplyDeleteKayli doesn't ring any bells. I do remember buying yellow sugar/lemon crystals that sound much the same.
DeleteI still love wine gums - especially the green ones.
ReplyDeleteI used to be scared of the old man on the Hacks sweet jar. I never knew he was sneezing, I always thought he looked like that because there was something frighteningly wrong with his hand!
Green and black wine gums are my favourites.... but they MUST be Maynards.
DeleteIf it's chocolate I love it, the darker the better.
ReplyDeleteI loved all of those Cro ….. and, fruit salad { 4 a penny } shrimps, aniseed balls, rhubarb and custard, spangles and, do you remember Lucky Bags ? XXXX
ReplyDeleteLucky bags...yes, I'd forgotten all about them!
DeleteI've always loved Easter candy available in the spring...Cadbury Eggs, jelly beans, and marshmallow Peeps (more for the fun factor than the taste).
ReplyDeleteSo long ago...so VERY long ago....a kit could go to the corner store and get a little paper bag filled with assorted candies for a penny. I loved black balls.
ReplyDeleteI bet you still do, Delores.
DeleteI well remember sherbet fountains, we used to call them sherbet bombs. I loved licorice straps, they were about an inch wide and a foot long. You ate them very very slowly, if you were careful you could make one last for days. Lips and tongue used be stained a scary shade of black by the time you finished them. They don't seem to exist now, or I might be tempted to buy one.
ReplyDeleteMy favourites were sherbert lemons, sherbet pips, cola cubes and floral gums. Bought by the quarter in a paper bag. Don't think my fillings could take them these days (thinking about it they probably had a fair bit to do with the state of my teeth now)
ReplyDeleteTwiggy
In the 70's I used to work in Lavells the confectioners. I used to measure out the quarter bags of all the sweets they sold. I can remember on several occasions my "tab" being more than I earned on a weekend! My favourites were those peanut shaped sweets with real peanut bits in the centre, I loved cough candy, sherbert lemons, lemon bon bons, strawberry bon bons, cola cubes and the most expensive of all 45p a quarter (the only price I can remember because it was so mind bogglingly expensive at the time) miniature candy coated solid chocolate eggs. I also remember when a curly wurly was the most economical sweet to buy as it was really long and lasted ages. The only liquorice allsort I liked was the coins...same ones you liked Cro.
ReplyDeleteThose were the days!
Jo in Auckland, NZ