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I want Galaxy Minstrels.

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pony

22:53 / 23.08.06

some question for the british:

does "boiled sweet" involve everything that starts with boiled sugar (i.e. fondants, carmels, hard candy) or just a specific sort?

what differentiates wine gums from normal fruit gum[mi]s?

i've been looking at a lot of candy reviews online today, and the british have a tendency to think chocolate far superior/seperate from "plain old sweets". why?

Jub

07:02 / 24.08.06

because our chocolate is the best in the world. Never mind high coco content! We have vegetable oil and other yummy goodness in it too.

Jub

07:09 / 24.08.06

incidentally, quick question for all you sweetie senders. Are you allowed to send food in the post? When I go to the post office and they ask what it is I'm sending, can I tell them it's the finest confectionary the UK has to offer, or shall I say it's a very light book?

MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!

09:03 / 24.08.06

I will be shopping after work. Maple cookies are not a problem, nor is Cadbury. The mustard I don't know about.

Peek

09:06 / 24.08.06

Cybercandy is indeed scandalously expensive, but the question is, how badly do you want grape soda?

I've always taken "boiled sweet" to mean a rock hard, probably fruit flavoured, clear sweet, often wrapped in a cellophane twist.

Kit-Cat Club

09:22 / 24.08.06

Boiled sweets are probably the equivalent of hard candy (though rock, interestingly, is hard but not a boiled sweet). Caramels and fondants aren't boiled sweets. Toffee is toffee, but I've never been sure whether butterscotch counts as boiled or not. Boiled sweets can be fruit flavoured, mint flavoured, barley sugars, winter mixtures (including clove or cinnamon flavours), acid drops, etc. etc.

Wine gums have 'port', 'sherry' etc. written on them but other than that don't bear any relation to actual alcohol. The taste is different to fruit gums, though - it's, erm, a bit richer maybe?

I now have a huge desire to go home and make butterscotch.

Kit-Cat Club

09:24 / 24.08.06

I mean, rock must be boiled, but it's not a 'boiled sweet' as such... it's rock.

Smoothly

09:29 / 24.08.06

what differentiates wine gums from normal fruit gum[mi]s?

Wine gums tend to be larger (compared with your cola bottle, Gummi Bear, Haribo family of sweets) and, as KKC says, are embossed with the name of a type of alcoholic beverage. They’re gelatinous and firm, not very stretchy. And yeah, they have a richer, darker flavour somehow – somewhere between sweet and sour rather than one or the other.

I’m Brish, but don’t consider chocolate to be superior to other confections. But I know what you mean, to say don’t particular like chocolate is generally greeted with incredulity.

MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!

13:42 / 24.08.06

Jub: Perishable seems to be the dividing line for foodstuffs that you're not taking particular caution with in Canada, and I assume this would apply equally to most other countries.

Whisky Priestess

14:37 / 24.08.06

These guys are great:

GOODIE'S

5 The Straight, Lincoln, LN2 1JD · 01522-525-307

At this traditional sweet shop, you can purchase Old English treacle toffee in vintage tins or choose from among several different nostalgic favorites such as mint rock candy, tiny toasted teacakes, clove balls or peaches and cream candy. All of the classic sweets are on display in large glass jars, ready to be chosen and served to you by the kindly man behind the counter. You'll also find a good selection of nostalgic toys and collectibles.

Also try some other links

mondo a-go-go

17:15 / 24.08.06

This thread makes me want to cry.

For it was precisely this sort of thing that I wanted to do the Barbelith Dance Card, only no one wanted to help me with it when I had no time to do it, and it fell by the wayside.

And that makes me cry.

Kit-Cat Club

17:33 / 24.08.06

Well, I should wait and see how many packages actually get sent before getting too downhearted.

MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!

17:56 / 24.08.06

At least two packages will: Mike Modular, I need your address for maple creme cookies; and I'm sending Cadbury carmel-stuffed goodness to Kali.

Kali has PB Twix in her area, so I might ask her to send some on to Boboss (no PB Twix around here, Boboss) in a bold "Pay It Forward" move that increases boardwide karma without involving Kevin Spacey or that annoying kid.

No joy on Swiss mustard, Whiskey Priestess. Sorry...

EDIT: Packages sent! Jeebus, air mail is expensive. I'm developing more sympathy for the mail-order companies. But the expressions of joy on little 'lithers' faces as Christmas comes early to their mailboxes is worth more than filthy lucre.

Olulabelle

18:05 / 24.08.06

I have MattSheperd's Minstrel parcel labelled and ready to go to the post office in the morning. Bizarrely there was a deal on Minstrels in the shop. Bonus.

In Australia they sell sour skittles in green bags and they have special sour fizzy coating on them. Here the sour skittles don't have the coating on, and that's the best bit. Why is that? Why must the British be denied the coating? Can we not be trusted to take the sourness? Are we too weak?

Tryphena Absent

19:15 / 24.08.06

had some sort of hazelnut-creme hippopotamus from the UK (happy hippo, maybe?). they were awesome.

Like this?

Can anyone send me some of this stuff...

Ticker

19:19 / 24.08.06

huh Tryphena Sparks for some reason your wanted pic is not showing up.

whachoo lookin' fer?

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

19:38 / 24.08.06

Olulabelle, I have those sour Skittles and would be glad to send you some, if you would like.

Jub

09:21 / 25.08.06

huh Tryphena Sparks for some reason your wanted pic is not showing up.
whachoo lookin' fer?

Works for me; it's Chocomel - the Netherlands' most popular drink.

Whisky Priestess

09:36 / 25.08.06

CHOCOMEL!

Of course. Please add to my wishlist. Are there any Netherlandish Barbefolk at all? If so, I would very much like to place a large order for Chocomel (also known as Cecemel) and about eight kilos of zout dropjes.

Smoothly

09:44 / 25.08.06

Ooh, I love Skittles. In fact I lived on Skittles for 2 weeks during a strange period in my youth. Actually, it wasn’t just Skittles, but only confectionary. Mostly Skittles.
If there’s anything you would like from Britland in exchange, Kali, I’d love to try some of those.

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

13:01 / 25.08.06

I can think of a few things I'd like from Britishland in exchange for some sour Skittles. I'd even send a pair of the really BIG bags.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

13:13 / 25.08.06

Chocomel r00lzor2. I put it down to drugs, myself. Any country with such a high level of hashish intake HAS to have good chocolate milk. It's like Mexico and snack foods.

MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!

13:37 / 25.08.06

There's a whole Skittles family, though... Plain and Tropical and Sour and Wild Berries* and Great Modern Philosophers** flavours.

*may not exist
**may be wishful thinking

Ticker

13:41 / 25.08.06

Works for me; it's Chocomel - the Netherlands' most popular drink.

super weird. Any othe US folk unable to see that image?

MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!

13:45 / 25.08.06

No image in Canada.

Squirmelia

14:01 / 25.08.06

When I visited Miami, I remember eating chocolates with dulce de leche inside them at an Argentinian ice-cream shop. Can anyone send me such things (if they are vegetarian)? (Bear, when you go to Argentinia, maybe you can?)

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

14:51 / 25.08.06

I can get all kinds of Skittles, man.

Oh dear me, I sound like a pusher.

Ticker

14:54 / 25.08.06

No image in Canada.

now why would their servers be blocking the NA continent? Supa freaky!

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

15:24 / 25.08.06

By the way, I will send whatever anyone wants if you have or can find peach Chupa Chups lollipops. The October Ghost sent me some as part of another Canadian candy package some years ago and I STILL have two of them in the freezer. They are that good.

grant

18:02 / 25.08.06

When I visited Miami, I remember eating chocolates with dulce de leche inside them at an Argentinian ice-cream shop. Can anyone send me such things (if they are vegetarian)?

Vegetarian, but not vegan -- dulce de leche is "sweet of milk," i.e., caramel.

Ticker

18:05 / 25.08.06

peach Chupa Chups

I think they have them here in 'Mouth, will check and report back.

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

18:11 / 25.08.06

Oh my god, that would make me retardedly happy, xk. After those two, they're nowt but a memory.

Olulabelle

19:02 / 25.08.06

That picture is not working here in the UK either now. Which is fairly odd.

Mattshepherd, your parcel is Canada bound and gone diddly gone. Airmail is expensive, you're right but I asked about the other options and that takes 8 weeks. Which is a sodding long time to wait for chocolate.

Who is it needing hungry hippos again? Hungry hippo person, have you seen the chocolate ones? They're like the normal ones but all chocolate and they rock harder than Kiss on PCP.

Ticker

19:09 / 25.08.06

The name, now familiar to almost any candy lover, comes from the Spanish verb “chupar” which translates to suck or lick

Little do people know that the famous floral logo was designed by a famous Spanish artist named Salvador Dali

whoa!

in case I fail...

chupa land

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

19:30 / 25.08.06

I see Peach Yogurt but no plain old Peach. This vexes me.

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