Sweetie shops

Babs , I also called liquorice
' Spanish ' remember well the circular ones that resembled a spinning wheel firework but my favorite was the pipe with red sugar sprinkles in the bowl !!

Aniseed balls in a paper cone.

Does anyone remember 'cherry lips' and 'floral gums'? These were my favourites when I was a child but a recent purchase of both was very disappointing as neither tasted anything like they did years ago.

Shelflife

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

Was in Lancashire too.
I loved it.
X

Gin, I loved those butterscotch sweets, they were a special treat in our house.
Nothing today, tastes anything like them.

Marydoll

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!

The toffee crunch I loved have definitely gone to the sweetie graveyard unfortunately. They were made by Pascalls, and when they were taken over they discontinued them. Other brands make toffee crunch, but they are not the same sweets - these were shaped like pillows, they tasted like, and had had the texture of butterscotch with added toffee taste. My memory can still taste them though!

I’d still treat myself to a sherbet fountain if I ever saw any on sale.

Witzend

I’d still treat myself to a sherbet fountain if I ever saw any on sale.

I did that but it just didn’t taste the same, either they change the recipe or my taste buds are not great 🤔

Witzend

I’d still treat myself to a sherbet fountain if I ever saw any on sale.

My mum always hung them on her Christmas tree.

Some of the sweets mentioned here are too modern for me. Fizzy spaceships indeed!

When sweets were still rationed we could buy lemonade crystals (lick them from the palm of your hand), also Horlick's tablets and Ovaltine tablets, which claimed to be medicinal.

PS I know there isn’t an apostrophe in Horlicks, but with no editing possible I can’t change it now.

MissAdventure

Sweet peanuts were my favourite, but my mum made me have spearmint pips, because they were hers.

Oooh I remember those sweet peanuts, they were delicious!

I also loved real proper chewy humbugs!

I used to love the Barley sugar sticks. Used to watch the woman in the shop roll them out and as a young child this was fascinating. It was a special treat to visit her shop and it was like a Willy Wonka world. Such a great range of old fashion sweets.

Peanut cracknell, I think it was called, was another of my favourites.

I've not found any that taste the same, these days, Cossy.

Not sure my teeth would be up to the challenge, either.

We have a Sweet Shop here in Conwy on Castle Street.

Shelflife

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

Brought up in Lancashire and in my parents shop they sold Kali and Spanish. I have often thought of it, and whenever I have mentioned it before no one knew what I was talking about. Weirdly I never knew how to spell it before reading these posts!

Loved them especially the soft butterscotch 'gems' which are not being produced any more. 😢

I don't like sweets. Only chocolate (the darker the better).

GrammarGrandma

I don't like sweets. Only chocolate (the darker the better).

I adore dark chocolate but can’t eat it, within a v short time would get a cracking migraine. 😩

I used to get migraines from chocolate when I was little.
Not just headaches; th full works.

Clawdy

I remember sherbet lemons, and weird liquorice flavoured sticks that looked like twigs!

Liquorice root, we all used to call it Spanish Wood, shewed till it was tasteless then spat the rest out. Lovely stuff.

Great post ...I used to run an old fashioned sweetshop which was on the front of Old Holborn Tobacoo 🙂

JamesandJon33

Aniseed balls in a paper cone.

these were my favourite too

Loved space dust that cracking and popping . Fruit soft rock at the seaside. Happy days , not the same anymore and the smell of the shop itself. Red laces, dolly mixtures jelly babies. Don't taste the same anymore. Happy times though.