Favourite Sweets

Wee man said:
Good old Maynard wine gums for me used to like raspberry ruffles but they changed the recipe and I now find them sickly sweet. Cannot eat chocolate ( mood swings) but find Hersey bars OK but hard to get.
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Now Maynards Basset branded and soft and horrid.... I used Wine gums as emergency sugar source if I have a diabetic 'hypo'... Jelly Baies have now replaced them :-(
 
jonbeeza said:
Love them, trouble is the acid in them burns my mouth.
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I'm glad I'm not the only one on this! I have to take breaks between batches to let my mouth recover. I just cannot leave a half open packet for the next day.

Where it says on the front "perfect for sharing" . . . I think to myself "No! It is all mine. My precious!".
 
Just remembered Bazooka Joe chewing gum, loved this as a kid especially reading the little enclosed cartoon. It was worth risking a bashing off your mum for buying it, as most mums thought it was filthy nasty stuff :D
 
Hugh Jarse said:
Now Maynards Basset branded and soft and horrid.... I used Wine gums as emergency sugar source if I have a diabetic 'hypo'... Jelly Baies have now replaced them :-(
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Difficult to get a decent Jelly sweet now, I have tried midget gems and sports mixture recently, but just not the same. They are now very gooey and soft, and have a strange artificial plastic texture :dummy:
 
jonbeeza said:
Just remembered Bazooka Joe chewing gum, loved this as a kid especially reading the little enclosed cartoon. It was worth risking a bashing off your mum for buying it, as most mums thought it was filthy nasty stuff :D
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I used to get them from the Ice cream van as a pre-teenager in the early 80's. However, my love for them came to an abrupt end when I stuffed 20 of those things into my mouth hoping to make the world's biggest bubble gum, but ended up being very sick for the rest of the night.
 
jonbeeza said:
Difficult to get a decent Jelly sweet now, I have tried midget gems and sports mixture recently, but just not the same. They are now very gooey and soft, and have a strange artificial plastic texture :dummy:
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Sport Mix was very grown up but trashed with Maynard/Basset branding.

Still watching Gunness being poured for others this evening - none for me - no booze no decent jelly swèts...aaarrrggggghh
 
Ian D J said:
I used to get them from the Ice cream van as a pre-teenager in the early 80's. However, my love for them came to an abrupt end when I stuffed 20 of those things into my mouth hoping to make the world's biggest bubble gum, but ended up being very sick for the rest of the night.
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Its all down to what sort of acid they use in their sweets, acetic acid for example is not too good for your mouth...
 
Hugh Jarse said:
Sport Mix was very grown up but trashed with Maynard/Basset branding.

Still watching Gunness being poured for others this evening - none for me - no booze no decent jelly swèts...aaarrrggggghh
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I think we first discovered sports Mixture in the 70s, everyone raved over them. Gone really poop now though :(
 
jonbeeza said:
I think we first discovered sports Mixture in the 70s, everyone raved over them. Gone really poop now though :(
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They were really nice when I was a kid.
Hard and fruity.
 
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OldCarlos said:
Aye I'd forgotten those. (y)
Was partial to the Anglo bubble gum. Quite soft stuff when chewed but great for................... BIG bubbles. :cool:

Looks like you can still get it too; http://www.poundland.co.uk/anglo-bubbly-180g
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Was not allowed to do bubbles with ours, our mum would bash us for buying chewy. Teacher hated us chewing bubble gum in class, we were always told to spit it out, we never did but swallowed it instead. Teacher always said it would wrap around our intestines and we would die. We all swallowed it, and none of us ever did die. We never trusted the teacher after that :)
 
A vague memory of liking Galaxy. I say vague as I gave up eating sweets around 30 yrs ago.
 
I seem to remember a sweet that looked a little like loose tobacco, the stringy type. Can't seem to remember what it was called :thinking: But anyway, it was nice..
 
Yelkrub said:
Oh yes. Gutted when they stopped making them:(
I have a terrible sweet tooth and like most jellies but not jelly beans. Recently been hooked on Vimto chewy bon-bons.
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Ahh yep, forgot about the good old Jelly beans. I loved those, but they too went poop. Not too keen on bon bons, my fillings tend to come out chewing them :D
 
jonbeeza said:
I seem to remember a sweet that looked a little like loose tobacco, the stringy type. Can't seem to remember what it was called :thinking: But anyway, it was nice..
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It was simply called sweet tobacco :)
 
jonbeeza said:
I seem to remember a sweet that looked a little like loose tobacco, the stringy type. Can't seem to remember what it was called :thinking: But anyway, it was nice..
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Spanish Gold; had to look it up, but I do remember it. I used to love some of the sweet cigarettes too.
 
jonbeeza said:
I seem to remember a sweet that looked a little like loose tobacco, the stringy type. Can't seem to remember what it was called :thinking: But anyway, it was nice..
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I think it was called Spanish Gold or Pirates Gold? :)
 
What no Jelly Belly?

I'm also partial to a Polo Mint.
 
jonbeeza said:
victory v lozenges
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As a kid I lived near the Victory V factory & loved the aroma emanating from it. They used to contain ether & chloroform originally, but not sure when that ceased. They also made `Jelly Babies`. Never a shortage of sweets in town! I lived in a great place as a kid. :cool:
 
viv1969 said:
It was simply called sweet tobacco :)
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That's how I remember it too.

And along the same lines, there was the "seaweed" bright green and extremely sweet.
Flying saucers stuffed with sherbet, and the lemonade powder, that you were supposed to mix with water, to make erm .... lemonade.
But it never made it home, wet finger, dip in packet, and repeat, ends up with bright yellow finger and tongue.
All these and more were full of "E numbers, which no one had ever heard of in those day's, until years later when a generation suddenly became "allergic"

OldCarlos said:
Victory V
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Ah yes I loved those as a kid, even though they burned your mouth :D
 
Cobra said:
That's how I remember it too.

And along the same lines, there was the "seaweed" bright green and extremely sweet.
Flying saucers stuffed with sherbet, and the lemonade powder, that you were supposed to mix with water, to make erm .... lemonade.
But it never made it home, wet finger, dip in packet, and repeat, ends up with bright yellow finger and tongue.
All these and more were full of "E numbers, which no one had ever heard of in those day's, until years later when a generation suddenly became "allergic"


Ah yes I loved those as a kid, even though they burned your mouth :D
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Flying saucers....popped them in your mouth and waited for the rice paper to melt, and the sherbet to hit your tongue :D
 
I was munching away all yesterday on my bag of MAOmix pack. Still got some left for today from the same pack. very good value at £1.38 I think it was :). Forgot about Refreshers, both in a tablet like form, and the chewy sweet. I think they are still available, probably not the same taste though..
 
jonbeeza said:
I was munching away all yesterday on my bag of MAOmix pack. Still got some left for today from the same pack. very good value at £1.38 I think it was :). Forgot about Refreshers, both in a tablet like form, and the chewy sweet. I think they are still available, probably not the same taste though..
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The little hard ones in a roll aren't very nice anymore :(
 
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