Sweetie shops

Correction said in my OP fizzy planets but meant fizzy spaceships.

Penny tray used to be brilliant at the corner shop! I loved Kali/rainbow crystals with “spanish” (liquorice). I remember Bazooka bubbly and you could join the Bazooka club and get merchandise.

There’s a brilliant online shop ( I know there are lots) This one has all the old favourites. Good for gifts and there’s a newsletter you can get via email. Full of nostalgia!

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My old dad loved Pontefract cakes and my mum would get pear drops.

It was Kali in Yorkshire as well. Nothing nicer with small sticks of hard liquorice to dip in it.
The liquorice that looked like twigs was bought from herbal shops, it was actually a laxative, but I loved it!

Sherbet fountains, with the liquorice tube.

Mum used to send me to Mrs Galbraith's shop for a quarter of mixed boilings. I favoured cinnamon balls and would sook and crunchy them to my heart's content.

Pineapple cubes were another favourite

@spanielCuddler
We only ever called liquorice Spanish.

When my dad retired, around 1960, he and mum bought a corner shop.
It sold newspapers and sweets. All the sweets were in big glass jars.
There was also a couple of big chest freezers, holding ice cream, lollies, frozen peas etc.
Dad used to make paper cones for the children when they bought their sweets, and they were preferred to a paper bag.
Even though they would close on Christmas day, there would still be customers knocking to collect their ice cream at lunch time.

Ah the memories. I loved sherbet lemons. Also remember buying pink sugar mice.
Now even most newsagents have closed down as the supermarkets have taken over

There’s a great sweet shop at St Fagans. I’ve tried to source my favourites, Toffee Crunch, which were hard and shaped like pillows, but they are no longer made sadly.

Army and navy tablets were my favourite and rainbow sherbert

Our Italian café has many shelves of sweets in jars. I always buy cinnamon balls for DH and toffee bonbons for me.
I loathed soor plooms, kola and pineapple cubes and still do..

Casdon

There’s a great sweet shop at St Fagans. I’ve tried to source my favourites, Toffee Crunch, which were hard and shaped like pillows, but they are no longer made sadly.

The toffee crunch you mention was called cinder toffee in our neck of the woods, I loved it, was a bit honeycombed in the middle like the stuff inside a crunchie. Would love to know if you can get it now, but as you say is probs impossible.

We also had sweets on the penny tray that were squares wrapped in sweetie paper, the texture was a bit like an antacid tablet - powdery/chalky - but the taste was fruity and fizzy.
Don't know what they were called but I loved them.

We are lucky to have a proper sweet shop in town. It’s a treat to take the g’children when they visit. It gives their mental maths a holiday workout!

As children we took it in turns to go to the newsagent on a Saturday morning and would share our ‘tuck’. I loved the liquorice twigs, my brother preferred fruit salads. We would be allowed to choose a selection to share but always included those two.

They sound a bit like Refreshers.

MissAdventure

They sound a bit like Refreshers.

They do but we’re not in fact refreshers. It was square in shape and sold as single sweets on the penny tray.

We used to be able to buy a cone of paper with the scrappings from the bottom of the sweet jars. If you were lucky you might find a whole sweet! I always thought they were called police bags but were in fact called penny piece bags.

Anyone remember minor’s breakfast.

Cola cubes and pineapple chunks were my favourite!
Someone earlier mentioned Jamboree bags, I had forgotten about them!!

Babs03

Casdon

There’s a great sweet shop at St Fagans. I’ve tried to source my favourites, Toffee Crunch, which were hard and shaped like pillows, but they are no longer made sadly.

The toffee crunch you mention was called cinder toffee in our neck of the woods, I loved it, was a bit honeycombed in the middle like the stuff inside a crunchie. Would love to know if you can get it now, but as you say is probs impossible.

Its easy to get here in Glasgow, the pound shops sell it in bags. I have also seen it in Home Bargains.
It is lethal, if you have crowns!

Maynard’s was our local sweet shop. My favourites were Collard and Bowser butterscotch in individually wrapped oblongs. They always had trays of toffee on the counter that they broke with a small silver hammer. I loved bitter lemons but sucking them gave you a sore tongue! A quarter of Winter Mixture when I had some pocket money left kept me warm on the mile long walk to school in winter time.

Me and my siblings loved jamboree bags, such happy memories! I remember acid drops , sweet cigarettes! , aniseed balls and kali. Was Kali a northern sweet treat? It was quite different from sherbet. Kali was like coloured sugar but had a variety of flavours. It was sold in a cone shaped paper bag and we dipped our finger in to suck it off - it stained our fingers. I also remember twisted barley sugar sticks , coltsfoot sticks and liquorice root. As I chewed the root it became tasteless and raggy and my Dad used to cut it off with his penknife so I could begin chewing a fresh bit of the root. I also recall a sort of puffed rice , it was coloured but unable to remember it's name. The memories are flooding back !

Think Kali was in Yorkshire - I grew up there. Sherbet was finer , like icing sugar whereas Kali had the texture of sugar.