Sweeties

[Mi-Amigo]

No - not the lovely posters here but Ch 5 recently showed programmes on the nation`s favourite sweets and chocolates and I was wondering what your favourites are and are there any you miss?

Me? Fav chocolate - Cadbury`s Fruit & Nut; and sweets I miss are Spangles and Fruit Gums

I used to love the TV ads - "Everyone`s a Fruit & Nutcase" and "Dont forget the fruit gums, Mum"

[Cleoriff]

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@Mi-Amigo wrote:

When I was a kid and came to my Gran`s in Birmingham, she`d take me to a local shop where they sold sugar almonds - almonds coated in a shell that was so hard you had to keep sucking it to get to the almond  I bet they`d be declared a health hazard today!

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I remember those @Mi-Amigo

I only liked the sugar coating. Used to throw the almonds away

[Mi-Amigo]

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@Cleoriff wrote:

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@Mi-Amigo wrote:

When I was a kid and came to my Gran`s in Birmingham, she`d take me to a local shop where they sold sugar almonds - almonds coated in a shell that was so hard you had to keep sucking it to get to the almond  I bet they`d be declared a health hazard today!

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I remember those @Mi-Amigo

I only liked the sugar coating. Used to throw the almonds away

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Same shop sold peardrops @Cleoriff so no nuts to throw away

[Anonymous]

Yorkshire Mixture

 ... I've got some in a plastic container as a treat I love 

[Mi-Amigo]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Yorkshire Mixture

 ... I've got some in a plastic container as a treat I love 

They look good - jealous of @Anonymous

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[Anonymous]

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@Mi-Amigo wrote:

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@Anonymous wrote:

Yorkshire Mixture

 ... I've got some in a plastic container as a treat I love 

They look good - jealous of @Anonymous

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 There's a sweetie stall on the market which sells lots of traditional sweets in jars or bagged up for £1 ... we have a traditional old fashioned sweet shop in town with one window full of USA confectionery = sometime I plan to treat myself to a Wonka bar or 2 

[Mi-Amigo]

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@Anonymous wrote:

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@Mi-Amigo wrote:

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@Anonymous wrote:

Yorkshire Mixture

 ... I've got some in a plastic container as a treat I love 

They look good - jealous of @Anonymous

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 There's a sweetie stall on the market which sells lots of traditional sweets in jars or bagged up for £1 ... we have a traditional old fashioned sweet shop in town with one window full of USA confectionery = sometime I plan to treat myself to a Wonka bar or 2 

 Nowt like that where I am except coffee shops - we are swimming and drowning in the stuff but no sweety shops

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[pgn]

Chocolat... I miss Cadbury's Fuse bar. 

On the sweets side, Spangles Cola flavour. 

[TallTrees]

Cinder toffee a great name for it @Anonymous Those sugar coated almonds are dangerous to teeth, my dog loved crunching those! @Mi-Amigo. That reminds me of peanut brittle, that's nice.

[Anonymous]

Penny Toffee Arrow - my fave as a little kid - cost one old penny

I had threpence daily sweet money & as usual there was a sweetie shop near the Infant & Junior schoool ... I usually spent up each day, but occasionally I would manage to save it up to sixpence (old money) & that would get me a Lucky Bag = you didn't know what was in it until you opened the paper bag 

This pic came up when I Googled penny toffee arrow 

[Mi-Amigo]

@Anonymous

I well remember Lucky Bags.

We had

Note the price - 4d [old money]. With 2d a week pocket money, took two weeks to save up for a bag.

Imagine kids today being told they`d have to save up for two weeks to get a bag of sweets....