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Mint liquorice Allsorts

  
  

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grant
17:46 / 19.04.02
OK, I loved these things - grains of licorice, mint infused, not sweet at all, came in a cleverly-designed metal tin: two discs, spin in opposite directions, holes in the sides line up and you can shake some of the stuff out. I cannot emphasize enough how not-sweet these things were. And potent. Powerful. Italian I think.
Can't recall the name for the life of me....
 
 
grant
17:48 / 19.04.02
Margin Walker: powdered sherbet is something different. I think it's got baking soda in it. it's not like astronaut freeze-dried ice cream.

if that, in fact, was what you were thinking of.
 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
17:48 / 19.04.02
Tiny, tiny grains? Kinda genetically engineered Fisherman's Friend with a thin coating? Great - but strong. Possibly uniquely Italian.
 
 
Not Here Still
17:56 / 19.04.02
I'll be in Conwy next week, MC: I'll have a look if you want. I'm sure they'll still be there now (ahem). Having said that, I still haven't found out about this buffalo curd I promised someone either, so it may take a while.

Sweet memories:

Can you still get Swizzle Sticks? I'm aware that the Pink mallow shrimp, while lesser spotted, still survives, and I think I've seen the Dip-Dab. But I haven't seen a swizzle stick for years...
 
 
grant
18:26 / 19.04.02
Nick: Tiny, tiny grains? Kinda genetically engineered Fisherman's Friend with a thin coating? Great - but strong. Possibly uniquely Italian.

Yep. There were ones with a thin white sugar coating, and ones that were just the grains without the sugar.
I had a friend who would send them to me from New York, but have never found them around me.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
18:40 / 21.04.02
I can't even find them here. I'm beginning to think that the whole Conwy thing was a psychotic episode. Which would explain a lot.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
19:25 / 21.04.02
I was so not gonna post this, but I set myself a limit- if this thread went on long enough, I'd admit my secret shame.
So here goes.
(ahem)
Did anyone else, when they were about twelve or so, think it was dead hard and cool to snort Refreshers?
(ahem)
Or was that just, like, some people I heard about once (goes away hurriedly).
 
 
Ariadne
19:32 / 21.04.02
Well, my friend's son (he's nine) managed to upset his Mum last time I saw him, by crushing up sugar cubes in the restaurant where we were eating and then snorting it through a straw. So you're not the only one.
I thought it was hysterical but my friend was freaked.
(It just makes your nose hurt, he reported, looking disappointed)
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
19:39 / 21.04.02
No, Ariadne, it's not me that's "not the only one", it's some people I heard about once. I swear. (They were probably the people dumb enough to drink aftershave once when they ran out of booze, and I tell you, APPARENTLY it's impossible to get rid of the taste for three. whole. days.)
So yes. It'd be them. I'm sure they'd be reassured to find other children had done it too, though.
Whoever they may be.
(ahem)
 
 
w1rebaby
19:47 / 21.04.02
I snorted crushed Extra Strong Mints in an English lesson, not on my own I might add. There wasn't really much effect, didn't even clear my sinuses. But it was pretty funny at the time.
 
 
w1rebaby
19:47 / 21.04.02
and I don't care who knows it
 
 
fishbiscuits
21:07 / 21.04.02
I think the mint liquorice allsorts might be called black and white mints
they have them here
http://www.sugarboy.co.uk/categories.asp?cat=M
and here
http://www.barleysugar.com/The%20shop/system/index.html
(dresser 3)
Or are these not what you mean???
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
21:12 / 21.04.02
YEEERRRSSS! fishbiscuits, you rule.

(fridgemagnet: Funny, but it would have been funnier with Space Dust.)
 
 
fishbiscuits
21:16 / 21.04.02
ah, I'm not clever enough to do those link type thingys, I'm afraid
 
 
w1rebaby
21:30 / 21.04.02
space dust? yo, that shit can fuck you up, man, I've got my limits

Did I tell everyone about eating a special-edition Crunchie with popping candy, out of my tree on stress and anti-depressants, not realising it had popping candy in it, getting it caught in my teeth and having the popping echoing round my skull for half an hour? You don't want to do that. I imagine it was quite funny to watch though.
 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
22:22 / 21.04.02
Those things were a menace. The popping stuff got stuck in your teeth the way regular Crunchie honeycomb does, and it NEVER EVER STOPPED.

It was like having a military academy graduating in your mouth.

And believe me, I know.
 
 
Fra Dolcino
09:01 / 22.04.02
Wot no Toffos?

Toffee and fruit flavours. The banana Toffo was manna from heaven.


What were those flying saucer things filled with sherbert that cost 2p. It was always a toss up whether to sacrifice a pink mushroom and a cola bottle for one.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
09:02 / 22.04.02
Toffos! "A man's gotta chew what a man's gotta chew!"
Still on a cowboy tip, Toffos weren't half as sticky and messy as Texan bars, though.
 
 
Fra Dolcino
09:03 / 22.04.02
Good for getting those wobbly teeth out, nonetheless!
 
 
that
09:24 / 22.04.02
Ouch!
 
 
Saveloy
09:41 / 22.04.02
Grant:

Those powerful liquorice thingies, were they shaped in a non-pyramid triangular style - think 4 triangles joined together without a base (take a triangle, pointing upwards, join a downward-pointing triangle to each side, join those two with another upwards-pointing triangle). About the size of the average lump of ear-wax you'd expect to dig out on the end of a cotton bud after a month lying fallow? If so, they were probably Imps.
 
 
grant
12:46 / 22.04.02
Nope. Just remembered....

They were called "Tabu". Very hard to describe what they look like. Sort of like those candy sprinkles you put on cupcakes or sugar cookies. (Uhhh... biscuits.)
 
 
grant
13:22 / 22.04.02
Oh, and Mordant - these are to mint-liquorice allsorts what the extra-strong breath mint is to a bulls-eye mint (the swirly kind you get in restaurants).
 
  

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