Rip Off Confectionary!

[Michael Sith]

Come on ...a hard liquorice stick ...Spanish :!:

Just to clarify, up north we call this Spanish :roll:

http://www.loveofliquorice.co.uk/hard-liquorice/Bassetts-flat-end-stamped-liquorice

 

[Richard_H]

I'm further North and never heard of it :lol:

 

[Michael Sith]

Lancashire lad eeh by gum al go t't foot of ahr stairs
If tha knows what a mean

But they are known as Spanish around here, what do you call them?

 

[Richard_H]

Liquorice

:lol:

Cannot stand the stuff though. In the same category as coffee.

 

[Stormtrooper37]

Come on ...a hard liquorice stick ...Spanish :!:

Just to clarify, up north we call this Spanish :roll:

http://www.loveofliquorice.co.uk/hard-liquorice/Bassetts-flat-end-stamped-liquorice

They are nice, my favourite type of liquorice, one for pulling the fillings out though and it gave me jaw ache after about 5 sticks in a row.

Hard Spanish never heard it called that

 

[Michael Sith]

One of those things you take for granted in local language and never question so I've done a bit of googling and.......

I believe this was because the liquorice root usually sold in small bunches of pieces each about four inches long, which we enjoyed chewing, came from Spain.

One piece would last quite a long time whilst still giving that special liquorice taste.

Hey presto....Spanish

Bastard on the teeth though as you say :x

 

[Stormtrooper37]

I remember Pacers - a taste of the eighties :lol:


Strawberry Aero - yes there was one once

Really??

I want one :lol: :lol:

Yep here's a pic along with Plain Aero (rum flavoured)

 

[Richard_H]

The Rowntree factory was just North of Newcastle. A lot of people were upset when Nestlé took over.

 

[Michael Sith]

Yeah but then there is Milky Bar

Can't eat enough of that

Still think the Uk choc is better than most, read an article once where it said that the % of cocoa in the chocolate in uk is a lot higher tha USA for example that's why Cadbury tastes more chocolaty than the Hershey stuff

Like everything else, spend more on advertising, and packaging than the bar itself, the product gets smaller and less value for money, with companies hiding behind EU guidelines, to make products easier to export...I say sod that and keep it real :evil:

Love to open an old fashioned sweetshop, with old scales measuring out quarters in white paper bags....wouldn't make you rich though :roll:

Open all hours :lol: :lol:

 

[x-pack]

Every chocolate bar i've ever had from any other country has been disgusting. The worst by far were in India 20 years ago. They have those **** versions of stuff we have over in the UK, but like, really really bad :x Something to do with preservatives. But then one day sitting in a bar i noticed Bounties in the fridge for a quid each! ...had three

Hersheys is **** compared to Cadburys or Nestle. I'm not even a massive fan of Nestle but you can't beat a raisin and biscuit Yorkie or the good old Mars bar

When were those Aero bars out? Don't remember them at all :?

 

[Michael Sith]

Try the smaller sweet wrapped Bounty and Marathon TOGETHER trust me
If you like the bars individually, your in for a treat

It's a marriage made in heaven 8)

 

[.Q.]

Great thread, some real classics in here. I'm also lamenting the loss of coffee and bournville in Roses. Quality Street the choice these days.

Used to go into Woolworths and do 'the squash test' on sweets to find which ones had soft centres, then bury the flattened sticky mess in the botttom of the tray. Cheap thrills!

Loving the Rolo bars at the moment, bloody lovely.

 

[Stormtrooper37]

Great thread, some real classics in here. I'm also lamenting the loss of coffee and bournville in Roses. Quality Street the choice these days.

Used to go into Woolworths and do 'the squash test' on sweets to find which ones had soft centres, then bury the flattened sticky mess in the botttom of the tray. Cheap thrills!

Loving the Rolo bars at the moment, bloody lovely.

Roses has gone downhill for several years. I used to love the little Dairy Milk and Bournville miniatures, mainly sickly caramels now.

I remember ages ago my Nan got told off when trying to pay the cashier in Woolies for her bag of Pick n mix. My Nan had picked all the purple Quality Street sweets in the pick n mix - she caused a right scene at the check-out and the manager had to be called. She got her way though :wink:

I was mega embarassed

 

[Richard_H]

:lol:

I love Palma violets but struggle to find them. I get really pissed up you buy a multipack of swizzles and they're not in there! And that happens quite a lot.
I know Asda sell the giant ones but they're not the same.

 

[Michael Sith]

P violets, like eating perfumed sweets yuck...not for me,

More of a love hearts and refresher man :wink:

Love pick n mix...but it's bloody extortionate

Magic wands ( steady :!: ) they are awesome, marshmallows, remember the jelly snakes and white mice ( the white mice you get now taste like chalk)

Now I'm going to be contentious :? I make my own fudge ( again put the comment down and step away :!: ). Using 3 different types of sugar, plus syrup, touch of black treacle and the all important tin of condensed carnation milk, with some double cream for good measure, you can add a touch of rum and throw in a few raisins, or put cherries in....trust me awesome 8)

 

[Richard_H]

Think I'd rather trust you.

I remember finishing swimming lessons and getting loads of 1/2 penny chews from the tuck shop. They were different colours. Mojos or something like that. Loved them.

I wonder if it's possible to like Palma Violets and refreshers as I much prefer the first but not fussed at all on the second.

 

[Michael Sith]

Mojos mmmmmmmmmm

Black Jacks

Milk chews

And all the way around....the highland toffee bar

 

[Frunkstar]

God I spend to much time considering tastes of the pat long lost when it comes to chocolates, so just the thread for me.

I used to love lots of chocolate bars I would never consider eating now & that purely down to the fact that nestles has totally ruined the great chocolates once produced by Rowntrees Mackentosh, these I can think of straight off the top of my head -

Lion Bar
Aero
Kit Kat
Rollo's

Used to love all of the above, bloody hate nestles chocolate though & they now all taste like **** IMHO, dam shame.

I have to say I share your thoughts about the selections as well with Roses & Quality Street having nose dived like a herd of lemming aimlessly propelling themselves in to the void :| I remember when Quality Streets were all the same shape with different coloured wrappers with a Victorians lady's head on the wrapper with a bonnet on - anyone else?, I also used to do the squeeze test on sweets in the shops to avoid all those unpleasant hard centers.

God showing my age now but I remember being able to buy 2 mojo's for 1/2p on my way home from school & Bazooka Joe bubblegum with a comic strip in.

Star bars disapeared for an age & then reappeared in a new style wrapper, but not without an interlude of the Peanut Boost bar which was IMO just a Star bar under the skin :? , remember that faze when you could get like 4 or 5 varieties of Boost bars?.

So many I miss but at the very very top of the list for me was the Cabana bar made by Rowntrees back in the early 80's, a very finely chopped coconut bar with syrup or something, there was also a cherry verity at first, boy I would give a few stormtroopers for one of them right now - yum!

I remember the Trio adverts very well, how could one forget :lol: - NOW!!!

I used to go up North to visit my nan when I was a nipper & always remember asking for a Coffee Aero when we went to the beach, not seen one of those in a millennium, some real classics have been lost but with some revivals like the Old Jamaica bars.

Anyway enough prattle, get a load of these - 8) 8) 8) 8)

 

[Michael Sith]

Ice breaker :shock:

I ate loads of them little fellas....and bazooka joes
Frunkstar is the king of the chocoholics for sure 8)

I remember goin to the sweetshop with a tanner :!: ( not to be confused with a tenner :!: ). And coming back with loads of tooth rotters

All the " penny" sweets in a wooden tray on the counter Anglo bubblies

Frys Turkish delight, mint cracknell, toffos assorted

Right just get the Zimmer out :roll:

 

[BlueDog]

Most of the chocolate we have heer is Cadbury's and Nestle, back in the 90's we saw a huge influx of American "candy" bars and chocolate and it was considered trendy. I've tried a few US chocolate bars a Hershy's plain chocolate, peanut butter cup and a butter finger and both had nothing on Cadbury. The butter finger was ****ing disgusting as was the Peanut butter cup and the plain Hesheys was not much better, the choc left an almost oily feel once you where done.

Nothing beats Cadbury as far as a mass produced chocolate brand goes, then you get into belgium and swiss choc which is on another level entirely. then there's The Wagon wheel which when you had one as a kid was huge, now they look like a slightly largish biscuit.

Here's a few favourites from my youth:

Kit Kat
White Knight
Mars Bar
Wagon Wheel
Cherry Ripe
Crunch
Flake
Choo Choo bar
Mates
Wizz Fizz
Life Savers
Hubba Bubba Bubble Gum
Aero Bar ( Mint )
Picnic
Chokito
Polly Waffle
Violet Crumble
Jaffas
Mint Patty
Freddo Frog
Caramello Koala
Smarties

and the politically incorrect
Fags ( LOL not what you think, they where confectionary smokes in a little cigarette pack )
Big Boss Cigars