Your favourite sweets

[Mrs Miggins]

Man that shit was GOOD

I've said it before....if I had to choose, I could live without chocolate but not without sweets.

 

[Spymaster]

Toffos
Yorkies
Anything with fudge in it.

 

[spellbinder]

Chocolate limes and butter mints.

 

[Sweet FA]

All the sweets. Tangfastics and dolly mixtures and liquorice allsorts first. Then fruit pastilles and opal fruits and jelly babies. And wine gums and sweet teeth and refreshers and drumsticks. Go on then I'll have some lovehearts and cola bottles and maoams and starmix and those shrimps. And a fuckton of after eights while you're about it.

 

[ringo]

Aniseed balls, American hard gums and disco biscuits.

 

[spellbinder]

I forgot coconut mushrooms not had them for yonks

 

[discobastard]

You’d love these then:

My Mum’s best friend was the Gibb company owner’s daughter.

We visited the factory once and got givens huge bags of all the broken ones. Not had em for years.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Aniseed balls

A friend who owned a corner shop once gave me a 7lb bag of aniseed balls. Took me quite a while to get through them.

Dogs love them too - and it's amusing to watch their confusion when they try to chew them. See also, toffee.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

What are those sweets that are fruity and square shaped with a shiny, crisp outside and soft and chewy inside? Red, orange, yellow, green and purple?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

What are those sweets that are fruity and square shaped with a shiny, crisp outside and soft and chewy inside? Red, orange, yellow, green and purple?

Tuti-fruti?

eta - no I don't think its them.

Tooty-frooties

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Tell you what I don't like: smarties.
Smarties can fuck off.
Not keen on mini eggs either. I don't like the sugary coating around chocolate. Nasty chocolate as well in the case of smarties.

 

[Badgers]

What are those sweets that are fruity and square shaped with a shiny, crisp outside and soft and chewy inside? Red, orange, yellow, green and purple?

Mento's type thing?

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Tuti-fruti?

eta - no I don't think its them.

Yes it is!!

 

[Badgers]

Are they still available?

 

[Badgers]

Tooty Frooties

Rowntrees Tooty Frooties Sharing Bag, 150 g, Pack of 12 https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0747XJC4P/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_SkY5Bb8CFE7MT

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Are they still available?

I reckon. Dunno though. Haven't looked lately.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Tooty Frooties

Rowntrees Tooty Frooties Sharing Bag, 150 g, Pack of 12 https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0747XJC4P/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_SkY5Bb8CFE7MT

Do people really share them? I used to eat the pack in one go.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Do people really share them? I used to eat the pack in one go.

I wouldn't share either

 

[LeytonCatLady]

1) Turkish Delight (Cadbury Dairy Milk). Now sadly discontinued, unless you order from Ireland.
2) Cadbury Snack
3) ASDA Rainbow White Choc. (Reminiscent of the white Smarties bar which was discontinued in 2005. I was over the moon to see its brother on the Asda shelf!)
4) White Nestle Crunch.

 

[Baronage-Phase]

Emeralds....they are lovely
A toffee with coconut in it that's coated in chocolate.

My absolute favourite.

 

[planetgeli]

Are they still available?

Certainly in Pick and Mix. GF buys them, I get the Tooty Frooties.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

So fruit pastilles and fruit gums have changed...?

 

[planetgeli]

So fruit pastilles and fruit gums have changed...?

Nothing's been the same since Thatcher.

(Though Snickers were originally called...Snickers... I was disappointed to find out recently).

 

[Saul Goodman]

But yeah....any fruity sweets. I can eat tons of them. The sharper and more citrus the better and I love anything sour. I have to be really careful not to buy sweets as I will smash them all in one sitting.

I found some really sour jellies in Aldi a few weeks ago. Proper ones that turn your cheeks inside out. Unfortunately they were a special and are no longer on sale.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

(Though Snickers were originally called...Snickers... I was disappointed to find out recently).

I didn't know that. It's a bloody stupid name at any rate.

 

[Badgers]

Alphabet Letters

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Alphabet Letters

They were a bit chalky and shit though.

 

[Badgers]

They were a bit chalky and shit though.

No

 

[farmerbarleymow]

No

Yes.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Doggy chocolates are quite nice as it happens, along with dog biscuits.

I remember getting doggy chocolates from the pet shop - scooping them from large containers, and nicking some of them before the dogs set their greedy eyes on them.