Shameless Nostalgia

[pacharan]

Sweeties from yesteryear.

I'm sure this has been done before and we've all waxed lyrical about Spangles and Pacers etc but how about some of the more obscure ones?

As it happens, I just had an aniseed ball off a bloke in the office. Didn't know you could get them any more - it even had that little seed in the middle! Delicious.

Here's an obscure one that is firmly imprinted on my mind - Amazin Raisin Bars. Anyone remember that?

Or how about Spanish Gold? Edible tobacco made from coconut. Even the packet it came in looked like a tobacco pouch.

[Halo Jones]

Or how about Spanish Gold? Edible tobacco made from coconut. Even the packet it came in looked like a tobacco pouch.

Also called Spanish tobacco, made from coconut & still available

[gingerjedi]

Dip Dab

Sod the lolly I went straight in for the hard stuff.

[Dallas]

Coltsfoot Rock

http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/coltsfoot-rock-p-271.html

[Scoobos]

wow, yeah all three OP sweets are fond memories.

I love aniseed balls with the seeds, 5 at a time was for hard men.

Another fond memory for me were FIREBALLs, big nasty burning gobstoppers - you can get imitations now, but they are toned down, probably for health and safety (I genuinely knew a lad who sucked that many in an hour that he got blisters on his tounge)

[Sysman]

Coltsfoot Rock

COLTSFOOT ROCK: Retro Sweets At The UKs No 1 Internet Sweetshop

I definitely remember Acid Drops, Foxes Glacier Fruits, Barley Sugar, Bullseyes etc.

[EternalOptimist]

sticky lice
from the end of the war. bark from the liquorice tree or something similar. woody sticks that tasted stronly of aniseed

[d000hg]

sticky lice
from the end of the war. bark from the liquorice tree or something similar. woody sticks that tasted stronly of aniseed

Or for the poor, a bunch of sticks kept in a bag with an aniseed ball for a week?

[EternalOptimist]

Or for the poor, a bunch of sticks kept in a bag with an aniseed ball for a week?

Not sure where it came from, it was either bark, or a woody root
we called it sticky lice

[nomadd]

Sweeties from yesteryear.

What sweets were there in Victorian times?


Answer:

There were quite a few different sweets in Victorian times from "fruit pips" to "rhubarb and custards", some sweets were actually deadly.


Things were tough when I were a lad...