Sweet recollections!

Blackcurrant barley sugars from the chemist - wonderful treat. Also a ha'penny sherbet round lolly on a stick as I waited for the school bus. I still like licorice. DD bought GD and GS a 'sweet shop' one Christmas complete with proper jars - small size - and a selection of sweets. They've learned a lot about purchasing sweets, profit and loss by selling them to family members. I've got a bag of white chocolate mice I couldn't resist at the time. There are some pluses to wearing dentures

I have vague early childhood memories of something that tasted a bit like refreshers, but it was a large tablet shape, I think over 1" square - anyone remember what they might have been?

Dad used to bring home 'Lucky Tatties' covered with Cinnamon and a small trinket inside if you were 'Lucky' loved them.Also MB bars. Delicious

We had a local ice-cream man on a trike with a freezer on the front called Medlocks. Beautiful lollies, I remember the orange and cream two toned one. Have never found anything so wonderful since.

Can anyone remember 'laces' filled with chocolate, my BF remembers me buying them on the way to school but I cannot remember at all. Would love to buy her some for her birthday. She fantasises about them and said I would not share mine with her, can't believe that.

I to love sherbert fountains and buy them now and again for myself. I love sweet tobacco too. We have a local sweet shop who sells these things, hard to walk by.

We had a Walls ice cream man who used to call around the houses on a bike with his ice creams on a tray like a cinema usher.

Fruit salad and Black Jack chews - 1 farthing each or 4 for 1d and Liquorice Boot Laces

Nanapug It was called Kali where I came from as in "KayLie" sherbert powder.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherbet_(powder)

Many of those have disappeared from our daily life...

There were sherbet pips on the sweet display next to the checkout in our local Budgens yesterday, bought a bag and you're right, they are rather good!

I loved sherbet pips, the tiny little round sweets, as they were small enough to suck in class and not get caught! I also loved that lemon powder stuff that you dipped your finger in and it turned your finger yellow. Can't remember what it was called.

When we had one of those long thin packs of Walls ice cream, my dad used to wrap it in several sheets of newspaper to insulate it. It worked well.

Oh, I had forgotten about the wafers Lullydully! Our ice-cream man would give us a large cube of vanilla ice-cream, frozen solid, and a stack of loose wafers, on a tin plate that my mum would send us out with. This would stay in the cold pantry till after dinner, then we had wafers. Lovely!

I do remember that ice cream at home was a treat before anyone had a freezer. Mum used to send us out with the money for raspberry ripple just before lunch. She would cut it in slices and we had it with wafers. Great.

Sherbert lemons, Spangles, and those tiny chocolate covered caramels from a glass jar - can anyone remember what they were called? I loved 'Spanish' - didn't even know it was called liquorice till I was older. Wednesday was half day closing, so my dad would shut his shop and bring home quarter pound bags of sweets to share out after tea, plus a walnut whip for my mum and a bag of mints for him.

Sweet day was a special treat, and my children only had sweets once a week when growing up.

I adored aniseed balls. Had a filling this morning. #lateral thinking

Oh numberplease how that took me back? Our favourite was to say: 'My dad wants to know if you've got any Wild Woodbines?' Invariably, the answer was in the affirmative, to which the retort was 'You'd better tame them, then' before legging it out of the shop.

One of our favourite things to do was go into the shop, and ask, "how much are your ha`penny spanishes?" As kids, we thought it was hilarious!

Coconut mushrooms, kayli and spanish*, licorice allsorts, Kendal mint cake, and mars bars. The mars bars were in my cycling days: I worked out that if you got the wobbles (which we called 'knock') you could eat a mars bar and you were good for riding another 20 miles.

* kayli was a sort of coloured fizzy sugar, and spanish was a hard strong stick of licorice.

When I was learning to drive my instructor kept mint imperials in the dash. if I made a mess of a manouver he would make me stop for a mint imperial, seemed to work.

Agree about teeth, really don't want dentures.

Children don't seem to lay into the sweets like we did or is it my imagination?

The need to preserve my teeth saves me from such temptations nowadays, but I was fond of mint imperials and rhubarb and custard.

In my defence,* Ana*, they do live 200 miles away, so this was a special treat. Usually, I have to steel myself to walk past and not go in! I do allow myself a teensy lapse from time to time.

£17!

All of the above are unfortunately available at the old fashioned sweet shop round the corner from my house. I say unfortunately as I am a person of weak will - cinder tofee, toasted teacakes and coconut mushrooms amongst my personal favourites. Last time I visited with my DS and DGC, the damage was over 17 quid! But it was worth it

Rainbow drops (chocolate drops covered in 100's&1000's){grin]

YamYam.........Yes!!
Re sherbet founntains, they`re still available, I get them for myself, but not keen on the new packaging, it`s more solid, and so is the sherbet inside, no way could it be sucked up the liquorice straw anymore, not that I want to, I just tip the thing up into me gob!