What are your favourite sweets?

I never have sweets if any sort in the car. As a child I nearly choked on a bitter lemon sweet when my dad drove over a bump in the road. I was only saved by mum screaming at my him to stop the car then dragging me out and performing the Heimlich manoeuvre. Luckily she’d recently attended a St John’s Ambulance first aid course so knew what to do. I have had some issues with swallowing ever since (mainly psychological I think) and when I’m stressed I just can’t eat in case I choke. It was far and away the most terrifying experience of my life!

I only eat sweets if they are chocolate.
Absolutely love chocolate, not keen on sweets... except occasionally chocolate limes.

Sherbet lemons, rarely buy sweets though prefer a chocolate bar

I'm diabetic so rarely eat sweets now, just the occasional square of chocolate. My favourite sweets were chocolate limes. Loved them

We don't just sit in the car and eat them continuously, just we may have one or two on a journey, one on the way home from shopping, a packet lasts a long time!

Only eat sweets Christmas and Easter and that tends to be chocolates that I have been given. I am actually not very fond of chocolate.

Having said all that, my favourite sweets are Liquorice Allsorts and if I am very lucky Santa Claus sometimes puts some in my stocking.

Actual boiled sweets of my childhood would be sherbet lemons, in fact I remember them in other flavours too. Ruinous for the teeth of course, I haven't had a boiled sweet for years unless throat sweets count. I also loved wafer type circular things, again with sherbet in the middle known as flying saucers, they're still around. My treat now would be chocolate, I try to make that occasional though.

Marg75

We don't just sit in the car and eat them continuously, just we may have one or two on a journey, one on the way home from shopping, a packet lasts a long time!

Same here, either Werthers or boiled sweets such as fruit flavour, humbug type ones sometimes.😋

Licorice Allsorts or revels.

Recently I got a craving for Jellybabies!

I’ve got M&S mint assortment in the car. They aren’t my favourites, it’s because I know I’ll only eat one per journey. My favourite is jelly beans, I buy the Lidl ones because they are proper jelly belly, unlike the other supermarket ones. One pack lasts me about a month, they are just there when I get the urge.

I don’t eat a lot of sweets, but I love liquorice allsorts - but they have to be Maynard Bassetts. They are still made here in Sheffield, so there’s a connection, but I had some recently from M&S and they were truly awful - a travesty.

I love Kendal mint cake, but at the moment my favourites are the jelly beans sold in garden centres. They have different flavours to the usual sweet shop variety.

Another vote for sherbet lemons-much loved by my insulin dependent neighbour !
She always had a quarter of them even though they were forbidden. As a child she'd give me one of her precious sherbets .
Just thinking of them makes my mouth water.
Here's something which whetted my appetite for the origin of words -
Sherbet is from Arabic and is found in Turkish and Persian languages .
It means a drink - probably a fruit based one .

Esmay

Another vote for sherbet lemons-much loved by my insulin dependent neighbour !
She always had a quarter of them even though they were forbidden. As a child she'd give me one of her precious sherbets .
Just thinking of them makes my mouth water.
Here's something which whetted my appetite for the origin of words -
Sherbet is from Arabic and is found in Turkish and Persian languages .
It means a drink - probably a fruit based one .

You are spot on.
Sherbet, in Iran they pronounce it ‘sherbat’, is a drink made from the syrup produced when making jam, though it can be bought ready made, and is mixed with ice cold water and ice cubes to give to visitors when they first arrive. On a red hot day is much appreciated.

I have always loved flying saucers, but my favourite sweets are mini bags of Tang fastics.
70% dark chocolate too, but have to be careful.

I’m sucking one of thr fat black liquorice all sorts that lurk in the bottle f the bag

I’m not really bothered by sweet things now, but as a youngster I really liked Caramac, very sickly.

Fruit jellies or maltesers

Peanut M&Ms for me. Wine gums for Orlin.

Werther’s original and Cadbury’s Caramel chocolate

I'm chobbling on liquorice at the moment but love sherbert lemons. In fact most types of boiled sweets, would rather have them than chocolate.

I always get a dry mouth and so carry Werthers Original (not the chewy one) or Fox's Glacier Fruits in my pockets.
Still love Licquorice All Sorts, the real ones by Bassetts. None of the copies come close.
Jelly Babies are fondly remembered but I could eat a whole bag at one sitting.
Chocolate I can take or leave.
My mouth is currently watering at the mention of the lemon sherberts.

I like Haribo sweets but don't often buy them. My husband likes Liquorice Allsorts and Humbugs