Sweets

Spanish Gold. Adored it.

There was a "proper" sweetshop near where I lived as a child which I'm sure sold beautiful little shiny sweeties called Satin Cushions. They were an odd shape (like cushions?) and in the loveliest colours like lime green, pink, mauve and lemon yellow but I've never met anyone who's also heard of them... did I dream them?

You can Crispets online at Toffeeworld

dogsmother

Crispets, I would love some now but haven’t seen them for years.
Toffee Bon bons but they always break my teeth and I mean always 😜

Oh my, when i read the title of the post i thought Crispets ! I have never found another soul that knew what they were

Oh dogsmother I loved Crispets, it was always a toss up between them and Chewing Nuts. They had an odd name as they were just a small toffee covered in chocolate, not a nut in sight. Tom Thumb Drops and Sweet Tobacco were my favs as a child, now it's Raspberry Ruffles and Golden Crisp bars.

There was sweet rationing when I was a child, but some things counted as medicinal so weren’t rationed. Horlicks tablets and Ovaltine tablets were among them, and very posssibly Victory V gums as well.

How well I remember the day sweet rationing ended. I rushed along to Mr Mattingly’s shop by the station with my pocket money, and bought more liquorice comfits and mint imperials than I had ever had before. I was about 13.

Oh yes, Parma Violets. My young boyfriend said he loved kissing me after I'd just eaten one. Perhaps he was trying to tell me my breath was bad otherwise. I hope not!

I loved chocolate caramels which clamped your teeth together while they slowly dissolved (the sweets and the teeth!).

I never liked Edinburgh Rock which had a strange texture and made me feel sick.

Horlicks tablets mmmmm

I adored Old English Spangles - beaut !!

Ooooh, I loved Victory Vs. Asa child, then an adult, I loved kali with a stick of liquorice, as I grew older I adored Terry`s Neapolitans, sadly no longer available. If anyone knows where I could get some I`ll be your friend for life!

I have never liked strong flavours like liquorice, Fisherman’sFriends, menthol, peppermint. There were horrid hard brown things called Victory Vs and lumps of orange pumice called Crunchy bars.
Nowadays I only like chocolate.

Thanks Sallymander,Parma violets!
Dogsmother...I've never heard of Crispets? and some of the others aswell. Merrymaid toffees were good and honeycombe.Do you remember the big pink penny chewing gum?It would make a huge bubble when you puffed it out and pineapple cubes,apple and custard and what about rock from the seaside?I'm working my way through a bag of giant white chocolate buttons at the mo.Some of us never grow up!!

I wish you hadn’t mentioned BillyConnolly*Granmardeby10*. I’ve just spent (too long) ages watching some old clips of him on YouTube. Some isn’t ‘politically correct’ for these days, but absolutely hilarious and his swearing never seems offensive.
A master of observational comedy with a bit of exaggeration thrown in.

Craven’s Old English mints. Crunchy on the outside and chewy inside. Peanut brittle and sour apples.

Those soft mushroom shaped sweets with coconut on top.

Georgesgran Highland toffee- remember it well. That must be the one Billy Connolly referred to in one of his routines about childhood. sweeties that hurt “which sadist came up with that?” 🤣

McCowans Highland Toffee was always a favourite. We called it cow toffee, as there was a picture on one on the wrapper.

I loved Payne's Poppets Fry's 5 Boys, Fry's Chocolate Cream (which I still buy), Fry's 5 Centres and if I had extra money a quarter of Lucky Numbers.

I liked Cherry lips and also the white chocolate ones called Jazzies.

I had flying saucers brought back from a seaside town recently so they obviously still make them AGAA4

Me too Sallymander. I liked the very floral cachoes too which were similar.

I also miss the Callard & Bowser rather beautifully packaged "sticks" of liquorice toffees, butterscotch and a sort of torrone (maybe nougat?).
Just lovely.

Flying Saucers filled with sherbet. They were pink or yellow if I remember rightly.

Crispets, I would love some now but haven’t seen them for years.
Toffee Bon bons but they always break my teeth and I mean always 😜

I loved them. You can still buy them.