Favourite Old Fashioned Sweets - what's yours?

Rhubarb and Custards by the quarter.

Thats exactly what I was going to say Pittcity, they are lovely. Also the Barley Sugar twists.

Welcome Pittcity ..yes they were nice too...do you remember those lucky dipper bags?

Hi Emmasnan

do you remember the coconut tobacco too?

Uncle Joe's mintballs.-Made in Wigan.

Welcome Maniac

Wow they are new to me! Who was Uncle Joe?

Great to have you on board x

Sorry I've strayed into Dorset local gp.
Look up balls on google for picture of Uncle Joe!!

Oops! try joe's mint

I give up

Hey Maniac - you are welcome here even if its not your Local!

my Fav old fashioned sweets are caramel log and cherry drops, I still have those two sweets to this day and why not

Welcome to GN Dorset Local CathyBee and why not indeed!

I'm just munching on a Hobknob - maybe we need a new thread for favourite biscuit!

Are you in Dorset?

Maybe its Hobnob!!! heck I don't know...but I like em!

Aniseed balls! My DDiL brought me a bagful from a shop in York. Thanks for letting me comment in your forum, Dorset!

LilyGran - you are more than Welcome - its lovely to have you here x I just bought a bag of pink shrimps this lunchtime.

I'd forgotten all about coconut tobacco Fontana, it was lovely.
Does anyone remember having tiny pink and white sweets called rosebuds or rosehips I think?

As far as biscuits go I love Custard Creams.

Custard Creams emmasnan...mine is shortbread - has to be really short and crispy...

Nope don't remember the rosebuds - do remember sherbert pips though... :0)

My favourite old fashioned sweets are maple brazils - wickedly expensive, but truly delicious. Sadly they're getting harder to come by every year.
For those of you who are rhubarb and custard fans; I visited Claridges for afternoon tea with my daughter and we were each given a small pack of these with the bill.

Barley sugars! Liquorish alsorts. I too seem to have strayed into Dorset.

Nelliemoser - you are most welcome!

Nellie I love liquorice allsorts, but I loathe barley sugar. I used to be very travel sick as a child and every long journey I ever went on resulted in me being sick. And every single time I was going on a long journey my mother or grandmother would make no preparations for the journey other than to give me barley sugars to suck. No paper bag or towel in readiness, just the certainty that sucking on a barley sugar would stop me from vomiting - and it never did. I used to beg and plead for a bag or towel to be sick in and all to no avail. Eventually I used to start gagging as soon as I put a barley sugar in my mouth and to this day I feel sick just at the thought of one. [yuck]

Grannyactivist - I know what you mean about the taste of things evoking bad memories, I was often poorly as a child and the medicine I was given was cherry flavoured, its only recently that I can eat Cherry flavour yoghourt, but cherry sweets or similar make me retch!