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that
11:11 / 18.04.02
Oh My God. Tooty Frooties!
 
 
Ariadne
11:18 / 18.04.02
Kit-Cat Club - Jelly Tots?
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
11:41 / 18.04.02
Yes yes! Of course... how could I be such a dunce.
 
 
Ariadne
11:51 / 18.04.02
Cherry lips and floral gums, too. My sister nearly killed herself by working out that floral gums were the right shape and size for sticking up her nostrils. They don't come back out as easily.
 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
11:54 / 18.04.02
Midget Gems.

Although they made me ill every time.
 
 
w1rebaby
12:14 / 18.04.02
and what were those round green things... tasted like apples, sort of... what were they called?

oh yeah. Apples.
 
 
that
12:26 / 18.04.02
Those chalky sweets that tasted of Palma violets? Or was that just me?
 
 
Ariadne
12:28 / 18.04.02
I thought they were Parma Violets. But maybe I'm getting my sweets mixed up with my ham.
And do Love Hearts really now say things like 'email me'?
 
 
that
12:31 / 18.04.02
Parma Violets may very well be the actual spelling. My track record is not so great on the sweetie names front... And yes, love hearts really do say things like 'email me', and, in all probability 'txt me'.
 
 
Sax
12:39 / 18.04.02
Parma violets. Yup. Cherry lips... did you ever suck them and rub them on your lips to give you a lipstick effect?

Not that I did. I just heard some of the other boys did.

And... Argentina sweets? In white and blue stripes? Are you mad, woman? Only in Scotland.
 
 
Ariadne
12:40 / 18.04.02
I think it was to do with football? The World Cup in Argentina? I wasn't a very footballish wee girl so I don't know.
 
 
Sax
12:48 / 18.04.02
That's what I meant. Only the Scots would celebrate England's old footballing nemesis with such wickedness as to actually produce Argentina sweets.
 
 
Ariadne
12:52 / 18.04.02
Ah! Never thought of that. Youre probably right!
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
14:03 / 18.04.02
Pacers! And Wham bars! (anyone remember Zegazoids? the same time as Wham bars, they were green and black, and I can't remember what the FUCK they tasted of. And Highland Toffees! whoo!) But Tootie Frooties- they came back a couple of years ago, and they're so not the same thing they usecd to be. They're crap now, when once they were ace.
Oh, and fridgmagnet- thank you for showing me I wasn't just mad and imagining stuff. I was starting to worry.
 
 
Ariadne
14:13 / 18.04.02
I get irritated everytime I go into Borders at the moment (or is it Waterstones? Anyway) because there are big posters saying something about "all sorts of choice" and the picture on the poster is of Dolly Mixtures. These people do not know their sweets.
 
 
Bear
14:17 / 18.04.02
Remeber those necklace sweets, with the little candy circles and the elastic through them. They were great, you could bite off half off them and then ping the other half for miles (well not quite) with your mouth.....

Jumpers for goalposts and all that....
 
 
Sax
14:20 / 18.04.02
Uncle Joe's Mintballs/Keep you all aglow/Coughs, sneezes, sniffles/watch the buggers go/Give 'em to your granny/keep a few in hand/Suck 'em and see/You'll agree/They're the best in all the land

Made in Wigan, you know.
 
 
Saveloy
14:24 / 18.04.02
Nick:

"Midget Gems"

Are they the tiny biscuits with a dollop of hard icing on them? I was going to mention them, but had the name down in my memory as "Imperial Creams", probably cos the shape of the icing is redolent of Russian onion domes. Is there such a thing as an Imperial Cream? There should be.
 
 
that
14:32 / 18.04.02
Sax:
Cherry lips

We all used to do the lipstick thing with Smarties... it works very well, I assure you.
 
 
Sax
14:36 / 18.04.02
Saveloy - Nah, Midget Gems are small, chewy fruit-flavoured sweets, semi-hard gum-type affairs. Those things are called... Shit, I knew that when I read your post and now I've completely forgotten! Iced something or others, isn't it?

Maybe we should market our own Barbesweet.

"Grandpa, what's that you're sucking?"

"Come and sit on my knee, young chap. This is a Barbelith. When I was a young cool stoner motherfucker dude, not much older than yourself, I used to suck them all the time. They're revolutionary and relevant, with just the right touch of fluffiness inside. Uncommonly good."

"Can I suck on a Barbelith, Grandpa?"

"Sorry, youngster. No new members at the moment."
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
14:41 / 18.04.02
Iced gems, innit?
 
 
that
14:47 / 18.04.02
A Barbelith would look a bit like an aniseed ball, no?
 
 
Sax
14:51 / 18.04.02
An aniseed ball, yes. Red in colour, with a darker red centre.

And KCC - Iced Gems! Yes!
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
14:51 / 18.04.02
Sax; UNCLE JOES'S FUCKIN' MINTBALLS! How could I have forgotten those bastards? I lived in Wigan as a small child, and my mum still swears by 'em. I found a place in Islington that sells them, and sent her a tin. Boy, was she chuffed!
Uncle Joe's Mint Balls. JESUS! I also think there's a case to be made for Uncle Joe being a UK equivalent of JR (Bob) Dobbs. Only without the pipe. And with a hat.
 
 
Saveloy
15:17 / 18.04.02
True fact: Uncle Joe is the brother of the bloke on the Daddies sauce bottles.

KCC and Sax> Argh, yes! So where did I get Imperial Creams from? (And a hearty heh heh heh for the Barbelith sweet thing, Sax)

General: Tunnocks Tea Cakes. Still make you feel like it's the 1950s, don't they?

Tunnocks Variety Ration Box
Tunnocks West End Ladies
Tunnocks Chocolate Covered Privet
Tunnocks Bobby-Quiffs
Tunnocks Munge-Cup [that's enough! - ed]
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
15:32 / 18.04.02
Barbelith is a Jaffa. Crunchy on the outside, goopy on the inside. And good. And able to be used as ammunition. What else do you want?

Goddamn your UK import negligence!
 
 
Baz Auckland
22:14 / 18.04.02
I have to ask: How do you use a Jaffa cake as ammunition?
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
22:59 / 18.04.02
Nononono.

Not poxy Jaffa cakes.

Jaffas. These things:


They're like shot. Only chocolate and crunchy orange. And bigger. The shrapnel that's fun to eat!
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
23:16 / 18.04.02
I resist your sweetie blandishments! Although Spearmint Pacers were pretty yummy... But no! I will continue on my Grail Quest-it's all about the Mint Liquorice Allsorts. Exelcior!

(For the knowlessmen in our midst: mint allsorts are like ordinary allsorts, except that instead of chocolate or orange bits they have layers of pure white minty pleasure. I trust this clears things up. The last time I had some was about 10 years ago; I got them off a market stall in Conwy, N. Wales. The English don't seem to have caught on yet. *Sigh*)
 
 
lolita nation
23:43 / 18.04.02
This is beginning to sound like "The Disgusting English Candy Drill" in Gravity's Rainbow.
 
 
Margin Walker
05:43 / 19.04.02
Nick wrote:
Did you know that, at least until a couple of years ago (when I lost contact with the industry) it was the received wisdom that you could not sell powdered sherbert in the southern United Kingdom during the winter. Apparently, the hardy northerners eat it all year round, but no one buys it in the south unless the Sun's shining.

Powdered... Whatthe... Powdered sherbert?!? Christ, that sounds awful!

The one candy I can't find anywhere (even in the specialty shops) is Toffiffay. In fact, nobody here's even heard of it--they all look at me like I'm on crack. But it's really, really fuckin' good. It's chocolate & caramel with a filbert in the middle. And it really exists! See?:



It's not like I'm telling them I see gremlins or anything. I wished the bastards would believe me for once.
 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
08:04 / 19.04.02
They sell those in mainland Europe.
 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
08:10 / 19.04.02
I am your fairy godmother. Love me.

Toffifay - one of many, to be honest.

In the meantime, all of you, see where your warped obssessions can lead: the madness that is collecting chocolate bar packaging.
 
 
Baz Auckland
17:03 / 19.04.02
Toffifay is widely loved and available in Canada... pester someone to send you out a box or eight. Mmmm..toffifay.
 
 
that
17:08 / 19.04.02
We can get 'em in England, too. If you like 'em and miss 'em, Barry, try Woolworths. I think they're called Toffifee or something here though...
 
  

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