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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Sept 20, 2021 18:33:16 GMT
Nobody eats sweeties as an adult really. Do they? We eat a fair amount of chocolate, but other confectionery? You give it all up as soon as you drink your first beer. When I was a kid these things RULED along with school exchanges to Germany, these Italian delicacies were definitely one of the things that put the 'Europe is cool' idea in my head, set the ball rolling for a life partly spent across the Channel. I mean, the English equivalent? - like little bricks. Barely palatable. I loved these things too, the green ones especially 'cos they were a bit more acidic and these were kind of a 'Saturday standard' again, for me somehow the green ones were the best. But you really did get a strong fruit flavour from them. Is this Googa enough for you? Anyway - Rowntrees fruit GUMS weren't as good, but it was great the way the boxes gave you slighter bigger versions that were in the shape of actual fruits!!and no, they were not like wine gums. These were a far superior sweet. Hard candy/boiled sweets were at the lower end of the scale, wouldn't you agree? Travel sweets that uncles would have in a tin, in the car. Or fruit Polos, which were just wrong. I don't know anything about Milk Duds, never cared much for Black Jacks and Fruit Salads, and I always thought bubble gum was weird. But the Bazooka Joe packaging was cool. What was your candy of choice as a nipper?
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Post by bungo the mungo on Sept 20, 2021 18:53:41 GMT
i enjoy sucking on boiled sweets when i’m driving or travelling by plane, coach or train. cavendish and harvey sour cherry or sour lemon are my favourites. you can’t get them here so I have to make do with chupa chups..
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Post by Sneelock on Sept 20, 2021 19:44:19 GMT
I can't believe the crap I used to eat. I actually pulled the caps off my teeth eating one of these!..more than once!
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Post by sloopjohnc on Sept 20, 2021 19:55:13 GMT
I keep a bag of little paydays in a kitchen cupboard.
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Post by sloopjohnc on Sept 20, 2021 19:56:01 GMT
I can't believe the crap I used to eat. I actually pulled the caps off my teeth eating one of these!..more than once! Last year, I was eating some Halloween candy and I pulled a crown off. Starburst or Now and Later if I remember right.
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Post by souphound on Sept 20, 2021 20:17:25 GMT
Man, when I was a kid, my grandma would slip me a dollar whenever she visited which was pretty much every Saturday. I would take that dollar and got to Chez Rose, a neighborhood candy store. I would buy like 50 cents' worth and walk out with a considerable amount of tooth TNT. Every time. All mixed up. I wasn't crazy about the mojos though, go figure.
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Post by Sneelock on Sept 20, 2021 20:22:10 GMT
one of my Halloween favorites was the Jumbo Sweet Tarts. they were like a hockey puck of sour, colored sugar. we would be sugar-buzzed for hours!
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Post by souphound on Sept 20, 2021 20:25:51 GMT
one of my Halloween favorites was the Jumbo Sweet Tarts. they were like a hockey puck of sour, colored sugar. we would be sugar-buzzed for hours! Loved those. The vitamin C chewables I take now are fairly similar actually. The dosage is only 1-4 per day though
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Sept 20, 2021 20:48:27 GMT
I loved this shit: I thought the "lik-a-stix" were the best part of it, though, and preferred them on their own, so I'd eat the candy powder with my finger and then chomp the sticks afterward. The missus recently bought some sugar-free cherry candies that kinda look like Life Savers but without the hole in the middle, and they taste almost exactly the same as those lik-a-stix. I think I have a new addiction.
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Post by sloopjohnc on Sept 20, 2021 20:57:12 GMT
Man, when I was a kid, my grandma would slip me a dollar whenever she visited which was pretty much every Saturday. I would take that dollar and got to Chez Rose, a neighborhood candy store. I would buy like 50 cents' worth and walk out with a considerable amount of tooth TNT. Every time. All mixed up. I wasn't crazy about the mojos though, go figure. I did that too. The supermarket had comic books, the liquor store, baseball cards, and the pharmacy had the best selection of candy. My brother worked at the pharmacy and one of my oldest friends married the owner's daughter. I use to get Pixie Stix, a Jolly Rancher apple or watermelon stick and Abba Zabba - peanut butter covered by taffy. That last one would take my teeth out today.
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Post by rayge on Sept 20, 2021 22:54:28 GMT
My aunty Ciss had a sweetshop just round the corner from our house. During school holidays, when mum was working, I used to go round there for the day. Candy shrimps, candy bananas - especially ones dipped in chocolate, Fruit Salad, Trebor (local firm, factory at the top of Wood Green, intense sugar smells on the wind) Palm toffee (especially banana - you see a theme emerging), Banana Split chews and sweet cigarettes, Fying Saucers, sherbert lemons, Refreshers, liquorice All-Sorts - lots of liquorice, peanut brittle, Spangles, wine gums, chocolate limes, the pineappe rock handmade at the shop just down the road from the Corner Cinema in South Tottenham (which later became the Club Noriek which was the inspiration for the Leyton Buzzards' spiffing platter, Saturday Night Beneath the Plastic Palm Trees) and plenty more where that shpongle came from.
Good call on fruitellas (especialy strawberry), pastilles and fruit gums.
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Post by toomanyhatz on Sept 20, 2021 22:59:58 GMT
I still eat this crap occasionally, though I know nutritionally you might as well drink bleach. I don't know why, but sour candies are actually a bit of an addiction for me. Kids can eat stuff like this and bounce back from it pretty quickly, but I kind of resent how it's always been marketed to them. I'm not sure I've ever recovered completely from it. I mean, it was honestly a staple of my diet as a pre-teen/teenager. Of course it's flavored vape pens now, so maybe I should be counting my blessings. Don't know if you had these, but they were probably almost as prevalent as the sodas they're allegedly based on in the 70s:
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Post by sloopjohnc on Sept 20, 2021 23:49:04 GMT
I still eat this crap occasionally, though I know nutritionally you might as well drink bleach. I don't know why, but sour candies are actually a bit of an addiction for me. Kids can eat stuff like this and bounce back from it pretty quickly, but I kind of resent how it's always been marketed to them. I'm not sure I've ever recovered completely from it. I mean, it was honestly a staple of my diet as a pre-teen/teenager. Of course it's flavored vape pens now, so maybe I should be counting my blessings. Don't know if you had these, but they were probably almost as prevalent as the sodas they're allegedly based on in the 70s: The king of candy. I bought a whole box of these a few years ago.
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Post by fonz on Sept 22, 2021 12:11:25 GMT
When did Werthers’ Originals appear?
Texan bars Nutty
My boy likes sour sweets such as Toxic Waste. I don’t know if sours are extra bad for teeth. I would have thought so.
My brother in law eats big bags of Haribo. Tonnes of the stuff.
I’m glad I’ve got a savoury tooth. Writing about this stuff is making me wince.
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Post by ~ / % ? * on Sept 22, 2021 13:23:20 GMT
I prefer chocolate as the corn syrup formulation of most candies makes them pretty generic.
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