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Sweets We Used To Have

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Maria Magenta said:
Coffee creme is my favourite centre in any box!
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As a child we used to get bags of Cadbury waste. There were quite a lot of coffee creams in them. As none of our family liked coffee creams I ended up with most of them. So it’s stuck with me really. Happy days.
 
My father used to have a connection who got those wonderful orange creams. They still are the first choice in any chocolate box. ;)
 
alan i had 2 big tubs of roses choccies this year...opened both at the same time to nab the orange and strawberry creams....:D

lyn
 
GoLightly (if you're still about),

was your post #122 referring to Milky Lunch - I used to love those.

Maurice
 
Anyone remember something called Coffee Crisp? I googled it, and apparently it's made in Canada, and not available here. Is it the same thing? I'm not sure. It seems to be a wafery type of thing.

Also there was Bliss, which was nuts in a kind of marshmallow covered in chocolate, and Nux, which was a nutty thing in chocolate. This would have been in the early 1960s, I think.
 
I think you might mean Toffee Crisp Maria ,it was a soft caramel centre with ricicals on the outside and covered in chocolate. Came in an orange and yellow coloured wrapper, loved them.
Does anybody remember Amazin Bars. I think they had a soft nougat filling with razins on top covered in chocolate.
1970s advert on TV with catch line Its amazin what razins can do.
 
Maria Magenta said:
Anyone remember something called Coffee Crisp? I googled it, and apparently it's made in Canada, and not available here. Is it the same thing? I'm not sure. It seems to be a wafery type of thing.
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Living in Canada, I'm very familiar with Coffee Crisp, however, I always believed that is was just another Rowntree's product from the UK that was also made in Canada. Regardless...delicious!
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adap2it said:
Living in Canada, I'm very familiar with Coffee Crisp, however, I always believed that is was just another Rowntree's product from the UK that was also made in Canada. Regardless...delicious!
Dave A
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I can't remember exactly what they were like, but I did like them!
 
Saw some Toffee Crisp in Sainsburys today. I am pretty sure that originally they were a product of Mackintosh's in Norwich (as was Quality Street and Caramac). Rowntrees took them over, and were themselves later taken over by Nestle.
 
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I can sort of remember these as being quite nice.

Today I saw licquorice root in Holland and Barrett, several sticks in a bag for 99p. (Didn't buy any).
 
I think I remember those liquorice sticks Maria. They were like chewing on a liquorice flavoured wood stick. Horrible things.
I think you were wise not to buy them
 
I don't like the taste of licorice anyway. But the TV series "Back in time for Tea", which is discussed on another thread, people said that in the rationing period they nicked licorice roots form farms as they were sweet and sweets were scarce
 
Elmdon Boy said:
I think I remember those liquorice sticks Maria. They were like chewing on a liquorice flavoured wood stick. Horrible things.
I think you were wise not to buy them
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hi elmdon boy....we used to make them last us all day:D

lyn
 
At Christmas we always had lots of sweets and chocolate around. Mums customers would often give her gifts such as Chocolate Brazil's, Newberry Fruits, slabbed toffee or marzipan fruits. But these would usually get left over well into the new year, instead we'd first tuck into the Roses, Quality Street or Dairy Box. Quality Street was a favourite as I loved the Georgian scenes on the tins.

I developed a real dislike for anything containing nuts, so the Chocolate Brazil's and the toffee containing nuts didn't interest me. I could take or leave the Newberry Fruits, but I eventually developed a real taste for the marzipan fruits. Do people still buy these ? Were they originally meant as an after dinner sweet ? I once bought some in Spain, and they were sooooo good. Speaking of after dinner, what about After Eights ? Gawd they were/are very, very sugary sweet.

Viv.
 
Can anybody remember the 1d toffee strips made by Sharps. The logo was a boy in stripped trousers , top hat and a monocle.
It used to come in various flavours. Mint, treacle, banana, plain. Can you still get Sharps toffee?
That slabbed toffee was nice Viv, I remember it being in Banana split flavour, with a yellow strip in the centre.
Those liquorish sticks Lyn, WHAT, you made them last all day!, I wouldn't want to eat them for one minute, horrible things.
 
I've seen marzipan fruits in Waitrose, Viv. I hated Buttered Brazils myself.
Banana split toffees were great, Elmdon Boy. There were also plain ones that had a white whirl...I don't know what they were called.
 
Sharps were taken over and eventually owned by Cadbury Schweppes. I think the brand was still being produced when I retired, but don't know what happened after the Americans took over
 
Elmdon Boy said:
Can anybody remember the 1d toffee strips made by Sharps. The logo was a boy in stripped trousers , top hat and a monocle.
It used to come in various flavours. Mint, treacle, banana, plain. Can you still get Sharps toffee?
That slabbed toffee was nice Viv, I remember it being in Banana split flavour, with a yellow strip in the centre.
Those liquorish sticks Lyn, WHAT, you made them last all day!, I wouldn't want to eat them for one minute, horrible things.
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oh yes eric they lasted us all day....we would chew and chew on them for hours on end until they resembled something like a well used mop head:D:D

lyn
 
Astoness said:
oh yes eric they lasted us all day....we would chew and chew on them for hours on end until they resembled something like a well used mop head:D:D

lyn
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did we not used to buy them at the chemists? I think the Radio Doctor - Dr Charles Hill had a hand in pushing them - there was nothing like getting that soggy well chewed bit of root, covered in pocket fluff and dust to finish off as you came home from school and yes if you were clever you could make them last all day. How about liquorice bootlaces?
Bob
 
Had plenty of bootlaces. Loved liquorice - still do (liquorice root excepted !). It was a joy to get a liquorice selection box at Christmas. I notice they were on sale this year, so liquorice hasn't gone out of fashion. My Yorkshire mom loved Pontefract cakes. Never liked the hard liquorice though, had to be the soft stuff. Don't know what those hard liquorice sticks with the flattened end were called, but couldn't abide those. And as for Liquorice Allsorts, liked all of them except for the round bobbly ones - and was less drawn to the coconut ones, although would eat these if everything else had gone.

My mum said liquorice was a good laxative - although not too sure it actually is given all the sugar added to sweets. Viv.
 
I think the amount of liquorice in most commercial sweets is very low and the majority component is sugar
 
I suppose the roots were what William and his gang used to make licquorice water.
I also like the soft kind, Viv. Tincture of licquorice is said to be good if you have low blood pressure, according to herbalists.
 
Maria Magenta said:
I suppose the roots were what William and his gang used to make licquorice water.
I also like the soft kind, Viv. Tincture of licquorice is said to be good if you have low blood pressure, according to herbalists.
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If you crush liquorice root in water, you do get flavoured water
Bob
 
I've had second thoughts on those 1d toffee strips which I thought were Sharps, weren't the called Arrow bars?
What about Gob stoppers, you could keep sucking them, and every so often you would take them out of your mouth to see what colour they had changed too, usually your tongue was the same colour.
Aniseed balls, didn't like them.
 
Had forgotten about aniseed balls. Wasn't a fan of those either. Don't think I particularly liked anything with an intense flavour as a child. Didn't tend to buy boiled sweets (and especially not pear drops - again too intense a flavour). But my #1 favourites were milk bottles and shrimps. Absolutely loved those. And still do. Shrimps reminded me of earlobes. Viv.
 
hi bob i think you are right about chemists selling the liquorice sticks but so did sweet shops....we always got ours from the "shop with 2 steps"in villa st.......well remember the colour changing "gobbies" and i also liked aniseed balls as well....happy days:) does anyone remember the packets of sweet tobacco....??

lyn
 
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