Sweets

Yammy...yes...jamboree bags.My little sister loved them.We had a mobile green grocer and he sold them and bar six which I liked. Imagining all us kids with our thr' penny bits, pennys, h'pennys and the older ladies on here a farthing, going to the sweetshop !!

Our village shop had a "penny tray" offering a choice of sweets for that price. I usually went for a huge unwrapped gobstopper, which lasted ages. Who knew how many grubby little paws had handled it before I came along!

Old English Spangles, total yuk! Sherbet dip and flying saucers , lovely. Sports mixture were a fave too

Sherbet Lemons, Mint Imperials, Troach drops. Love them.

I loved Satin cushions. Such lovley pastel colours. I loved sherbert Pops too,same colours

Pips not Pops.. 🙄

Bought my son in law a confectioners size jar of ‘flying saucers’ for Xmas …. They’re sitting on his fireplace and the grandkids are forbidden to delve!

Loved Merrymaids and raspberry ruffles, think the pink bubbly gum was a Bazooka Jo

Black bullets. Think they were just in the North.

I also think it was great that we could buy 2oz, or if feeling flush, a "quarter" of sweets, that were weighed in little scales, and put into white paper bags. Very nostalgic!

I loved flying saucers.(still do when im given the occasional one!) My eldest son also loves them.😁

Never heard of black bullets.How far north?

I disliked liquorice root. you could buy small pieces of it. It tasted awful and made your mouth feel foamy!! Unfortunately I liked everything else!!... cola cubes, penny dainties, fruit salad, gypsy tobacco, lucky charm tatties, and anything with aniseed.

Saggi😄😉

Fruit salad chews, flying saucers, sherbet fountains, liquorice allsorts, frys five boys chocolate.......loved them all.

Mayisay- i know its not same asking for a hundred grams! Theres a little sweetie stall in market where they are all in glass jars and as stall lady is in her 60's you can get away with asking for 'a quarter of so&so'....

Anything that smelt of flowers or herbs. I loved liquorice and butterscotch. Chocolate not so much.

Im in the North.we call toffees, toffees! No one says caramels for them(maybe thats just the posh northerners?🤣😂)But yes we have treacle toffee and treacle toffee lollies at bonfire night.

Some of my friends used to chew those liquorice roots- i hatedthem- i still hate liquorice or aniseed flavours. My mam used the root to soak in water to use for sore throats.

Love butterscotch.

Could black bullets have been a local nick name for pontefract cakes? Hated those also.

Do you remember the sweet shops we got as Christmas presents? The tiny jars were all filled with the really small sweets like cherry lips, midget gems and floral gums.

I also loved Cherry Lips, there are some old fashioned sweet shops that still sell them, and some on-line. I love most sweets as I still have a very sweet tooth, love all the jelly style sweets made for kids these days but I am still a big kid at heart.

MrsKen33- i loved Crunching Horlicks tablets- they were sold in our local chemists in a tiny pack (about as long as your thumb) and my mum got me one as a 'reward' if we'd been at the drs! Strangely though i disliked Horlicks to drink! (Still not keen)😆

Zines also Spanish wood..