Lol...I've got some of those mint creams in the draw

Drawer!

They're missing a nice chocolate coating...

OOoooooh yes please!!!

I bet you'd be lethal on that Renton

I'd be in hospital within the day!!!

 

Aaah the glory days when i could balance

That your car Sainty 

 

Someone has probably posted this, but as a kid, this was one of my regular treats.

 

 

Shut it Moonie . . . .and you Buz

You know we lubs you really Renton

Oooo I loved sherbet fountains EC They still do them , but they don't put liquorice in them any more , and they're just not the same at all ! I also used to enjoy lemon ( or rainbow) crystal, with a hard ( bat shaped ) liquorice

 

 

Yummy Syd ... I liked those ... Especially the lime and the pineapple sections

Mmmmmmmmmmmm ...............................I only have to look at that and my tastebuds tingle.

 

I liked Sherbert Dabs too with the little lollipop.

 

And aniseed balls. 

 

Anyone remember Acid Drops? I'm not quite sure if I liked them or not TBH - 

I liked them Soozy . Mind you they did make your eyes water , and gave me a sore tongue if I ate too many

I liked the sour bright yellow sugary sherbet sold by the ounce.....makes my cheeks curl just thinking about it 

That's the one I was talking about Syd

We used to call that Lemonade powder - Mr Woo (a yorkie) calls it K Line.

Anyone remember the chocolate caramels called Merry Maids - they were a bit pricey sometimes a eon a Sunday if my Great Grandad (Grandfather with the whiskers) gave us a threepenny Joey (threepenny bit).

We're Merry Maids those toffees covered in a white sugary coating Soozy ?

What were those fruit jelly sweets (sugar coated) that had a liquid centre?

We always had them at Christmas........

Newberry Fruits

No they were Bon Bons Baz....Love them 

That's them....can you still buy them?

Yes, you can Syd , but they don't have the liquid centre any more

No ......chocolate covered caramels in a silver foil wrapper with a young girl in a blue dress on it.

 

As Baz said - you're thinking Bon Bons.

 

I lived next door to one nan but my other nan used to come to dinner every other Sunday - she used to bring these blackcurrant cakes with a sort of icing topping - they were a real treat for after tea on a Sunday - and Corona Cream Soda that my Dad bought back from the pub on a Sunday lunchtime.

One can still buy most of the above at sweetie shops on the NE coast. Certainly in Redcar, Whitby, and RHB.

The Corona man used to come around our way in a van

Not the same then ....they are just fruit jellies 

We always had orange and lemon slices, dates and a small tin of Quality Street for our Christmas treats. They sat under the tree and under no circumstances were they opened until Christmas day.

 

God only knows what we'd have made of the humungous tins of sweets that are around these days - my lot get through tins of them. That small tin used to last us ages ............it was a moment of anticipation when it was opened and handed round - you desperately hoped that your favourite was still there and if it wasn't it was fingers crossed that you'd made a good choice 

And wasn't left with the toffee penny ....we always had the orange and lemon slices too  

We had orange and lemon slices , dates and figs

Oh and sugar mice I used to love those .

The old lady round the corner who was my nans friend used to come round after Christmas with the toffee pennies and toffee fingers - I think her and her husbands teeth couldn't cope with them.

 

Funnily enough neither me or my sister wanted them from the tin but a few weeks after Christmas when all the goodies were gone - we'd fight for them 

And my Dad always brought a full hand of bananas (Don't ask me why .) 

Yeah..

Fruit is the one thing we always had plenty of ...............my dad was a green grocer in the market. We were the envy of a lot of kids - we always had the usual apples, oranges, pears and bananas but also pineapple, grapes, peaches - lots of fruit.

 

A lot of kids nowadays shudder at fruit - it's like asking them to eat sprouts or something. I love fruit.

I think they have so much choice nowadays, fruit is not the 'Treat' (unless it came out of a tin) that it was for us....(Well not you Soozy .)

Loose dates are also quite available at the moment!