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Mint liquorice Allsorts

  
  

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Less searchable M0rd4nt
00:17 / 18.04.02
I like mint liquorice allsorts. Mint liquorice allsorts not only rock sweetiedom, but they rule, as well.

I live in London, so I am used to having all my needs and desires met in complex and unforgiveable ways; I can get cheap booze, smuggled tobacco, and overpriced absinthe; yet I cannot obtain mint liquorice allsorts.

Please explain.
 
 
the Fool
01:59 / 18.04.02
Anything you REALLY want is always in short supply...
 
 
Saint Keggers
03:31 / 18.04.02
I've never heard of them...should I go looking for them or just kill myself on the offchance that they dont have them in Canada?

I was like that with Fizz candies..
 
 
Bear
07:21 / 18.04.02
Are these the ones with the little bobble bits on them? They're the only ones I like....
 
 
Shortfatdyke
07:30 / 18.04.02
mc, it's for your own good - liquorice, quite simply, is a construct of the devil. bertie bassett has terrified me in many a nightmare. try pear drops or rhubarb and custards instead.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
09:57 / 18.04.02
And of course there was that Doctor Who with "The Happiness Patrol", in which (as I recall) a thinly-disguised Bertie Bassett drowned his political enemies (possibly including Jason Connery, though I may be mistaken) in big fuck-off tubes of liquid sweets...
 
 
w1rebaby
10:24 / 18.04.02
"And of course there was that Doctor Who with "The Happiness Patrol", in which (as I recall) a thinly-disguised Bertie Bassett drowned his political enemies (possibly including Jason Connery, though I may be mistaken) in big fuck-off tubes of liquid sweets..."

You are surely having me on.

Okay, a thousand points to the first person to find a picture of that.
 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
10:24 / 18.04.02
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.
 
 
w1rebaby
10:27 / 18.04.02


okay, a thousand points to me

I can't believe they got away with that.
 
 
that
10:32 / 18.04.02
I sympathize, MC, I really do. But fuck mint liquorice allsorts. Why did they take away my favourite tastes-really-chemically-but-is-100%-natural fruit drink? And my favourite kalamata/green olives with rosemary and coriander... and that wonderful low-fat mushroom soup in a carton. They're evil, I tells ya, evil...

But strawberry laces are the best sweet anyway - you can tie them into interesting knots, and they taste lovely.
 
 
Bear
10:35 / 18.04.02
I'll think you'll find that Black Jacks were the best sweets ever (or possibly Wham bars)
 
 
Sax
10:37 / 18.04.02
Fruit Salad was the king of the penny tray.
 
 
that
10:37 / 18.04.02
Ugh, no. Fruit Cocktails are way nicer than Black Jacks. And what the hell is a Wham bar? Concentrated essence-of-George-Michael in a chewy sweet?
 
 
that
10:38 / 18.04.02
Bugger. Fruit Salad is what I meant. Sax got there first, and accurately.
 
 
w1rebaby
10:38 / 18.04.02
Wham bars were sort of flat chewy fruit-type things with little spangly bits in them.

Liquorice in general is satan's poo.
 
 
Bear
10:42 / 18.04.02
From the BBC but I'm sure there are better sites out there, Jaw Breakers we were banned from eating them at our school

  
 
Bear
10:43 / 18.04.02
Why do links never work for me !! there's meant to be a link above !!
 
 
Sax
10:45 / 18.04.02
Did anyone read that the Jubbly is set to make a comeback - but there's a big row over the ownership of the name?
 
 
Ariadne
10:45 / 18.04.02
The spangly bits in Wham bars sort of fizz and nip at your tongue. I love liquorice, even the salty stuff. But then I hate chocolate, so you can probably discount my opinions.

So you still get Stripers, those chewy bars that made the world go stripey?
 
 
that
10:46 / 18.04.02
Me and my best friend in primary school used to put the sherbert from 4 or so sherbert dips into a bowl, and eat it with spoons. Liquorice is disgusting (I sort of like the allsorts that look like the evil Bertie Basset's head though), but fruit-flavoured alternatives to liquorice are lovely - hence strawberry laces. And hurry, hurry, to your local health food shop, where if you are lucky you will find delicious 'Panda' raspberry or strawberry flavoured bars, right next to their icky liquorice.
 
 
Ariadne
10:46 / 18.04.02
And what are those space ship things, made out of polystyrene and sherbet?
 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
10:46 / 18.04.02
Bear: It's a conspiracy. Tom and I go through your posts and mess with the html. Cal built a special 'bear-button' for it so no one can see the posts have been changed.

All moderators can do this to you, but most don't. All the other posters get a button which they can press to highlight all your posts in cerise or chartreuse, depending on mood.
 
 
that
10:48 / 18.04.02
Made the world go stripey? Surely that is not legal...

What about those mint flavoured chewy sweets? V. nice...
 
 
Sax
10:49 / 18.04.02
Ariadne - flying saucers. Nice. Tongue-tingly.

When I was growing up we had something we used to call "germoline bubblies", although I'm sure that wasn't the real name. They were little rectangles of chewing gum. That tasted of disinfectant. No shit.
 
 
that
10:49 / 18.04.02
Flying Saucers. Nice, but I am never sure if the pink is crushed beetle pink or not...so I avoid them these days...
 
 
Sax
10:50 / 18.04.02
This thread's growing faster than three Hubba-Bubbas chewed by a kid from Newcastle and blown into a massive bubble while being filmed on Record Breakers, while Norris McWhirter measures it with a pair of cardboard pincers...
 
 
that
10:50 / 18.04.02
Chrissakes. Sax is pipping me at the post every time... well, at least I got the name right this time, that's got to count for something. (stomps off in a huff)
 
 
w1rebaby
10:50 / 18.04.02
apparently the official name for flying saucers was "satellite wafers"

not really so catchy
 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
10:53 / 18.04.02
Does anyone else fondly remember 'Texan' bars - faux nougat with milk chocolate?

Because I want them back! I want them NOW!
 
 
w1rebaby
10:55 / 18.04.02
it's the old 80s-kid-retro-sweet thing, it's addictive

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Pacers yet.

I was in a shop a while back when I suddenly shouted "CARAMAC!" I'd spotted a Caramac on the shelf. My friend shouted "WHERE???" and then we just pissed ourselves for about ten minutes. Now kids these days just wouldn't find that funny.
 
 
Sax
10:55 / 18.04.02
Fuck me, Nick! For no reason at all, I was having fond remembrances of Texan bars yesterday. I read a piece on Renee Zellweger, and she's always branded "Texan-born beauty" in newspaper features. Got me to thinking about Texan bars, and that cartoon cowboy who was quite sinister, with his hat pulled over his eyes.

All together now:

"A man's gotta chew, what a man's gotta chew!"
 
 
that
10:57 / 18.04.02
I think Pacers may be the mint chewy sweets I was referring to... only they weren't called Pacers by the time I got to them... ??
 
 
Ariadne
10:59 / 18.04.02
Does anyone else remember Argentina Chews, blue and white striped things? Only my sister and i ever remember them.
 
 
Bear
11:00 / 18.04.02
My invisible link had stuff about Texan bars, I don't remember them though.

I remembering the disinfectant ones though Sax, what the hell was that all about?

Fireballs
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
11:08 / 18.04.02
I still have a shameful thing for Tooty Frooties... and the jelly equivalent, temporary brain failure means I cannot remember them. But does anyone else remember 'Secret' bars? They were made of weird chocolate strands and in the middle was this sort of sub-Milky Way chocolate goo...
 
  

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