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Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 8:48 pm
by autogen
Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 10:21 pm
by rozling
lol @ the fact that there's a thread on here about this
Not sure about the UK but for a while there was a bit of a trend in chip shops here for battered confectionery - battered Mars bars etc... there was a (now sadly defunct) chipper called the Seashell that did the most amazing battered Curly Wurlys... *sigh* (the same establishment tempted me back to carnivorism)
Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 10:34 pm
by NorthernMonkey
Official top 10:
1. Retro Sweets Hamper
2. Fizz Wiz Space Dust
3. Giant Sweet Shop Jar of Retro Sweets
4. Dip Dabs
5. WHAM Bars
6. Deluxe Retro Sweets Hamper
7. PEZ Candy Refills
8. Empty Sweet Jars
9. Sherbet Fountains
10. Refresher Chews
http://www.retrosweetshampers.co.uk/
Empty Sweet Jars - recreate your very own 1970s corner sweet shop
And where's the Liquorice Torpedoes?!? Wham Bars should obviously be number 1. Rave - I think your right, when I have time tomorrow.
Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 7:39 am
by nuperspective
NorthernMonkey wrote:Official top 10:
1. Retro Sweets Hamper
2. Fizz Wiz Space Dust
3. Giant Sweet Shop Jar of Retro Sweets
4. Dip Dabs
5. WHAM Bars
6. Deluxe Retro Sweets Hamper
7. PEZ Candy Refills
8. Empty Sweet Jars
9. Sherbet Fountains
10. Refresher Chews
http://www.retrosweetshampers.co.uk/
Empty Sweet Jars - recreate your very own 1970s corner sweet shop
And where's the Liquorice Torpedoes?!? Wham Bars should obviously be number 1. Rave - I think your right, when I have time tomorrow.
hang on there fella.
LIQUORICE!!!!!
its the fuckin devils work. its not a sweet. it tastes like its been run through crease of a dead donkeys arse.
no way.
refresher chews - 2p them woz the days.
Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 7:45 am
by Mr Man
cola cubes are still about but dont taste like they use to
Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 7:52 am
by nuperspective
and
frys chocolate cream.
posh choc. buying one of those made you middle class in england. fact.
Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 8:58 am
by nathannn
every time i have had chocolate from england i have spit it back out..
its horrible.. same with swedish candy... total crap!
Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 9:21 am
by UKRuss
Those filthy swedes!
Actually its mainly because in the UK it should be renamed vegolate, due to the distinct lack of cocoa in the products. S'all vegetable fats nowadays and milk.
ha'penny aniseed balls FTW!
Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 9:36 am
by nathannn
UKRuss wrote:Those filthy swedes!
Actually its mainly because in the UK it should be renamed vegolate, due to the distinct lack of cocoa in the products. S'all vegetable fats nowadays and milk.
ha'penny aniseed balls FTW!
i was going to say that it all lacks cocoa, U.S chocolate has a more robust taste to me, hershey is they best over here..
btw the only thing made by cadburry (if thats how you spell it) over here is the nasty cadburry creme eggs. blaghh!!! you can really taste that watered down chocolate in it.
its sorta like plastic.
Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 10:39 am
by UKRuss
Creme eggs!
When I was a kid I used to think they were massive then wondered why they'd got smaller...
then i realised...I've got bigger. LOL
Took me a while to figure that out.
All that fondant icing inside...makes my teeth hurt just thinking about it.
Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 11:05 am
by shervington
NorthernMonkey wrote:Official top 10:
1. Retro Sweets Hamper
2. Fizz Wiz Space Dust
3. Giant Sweet Shop Jar of Retro Sweets
4. Dip Dabs
5. WHAM Bars
6. Deluxe Retro Sweets Hamper
7. PEZ Candy Refills
8. Empty Sweet Jars
9. Sherbet Fountains
10. Refresher Chews
http://www.retrosweetshampers.co.uk/
Empty Sweet Jars - recreate your very own 1970s corner sweet shop
And where's the Liquorice Torpedoes?!? Wham Bars should obviously be number 1. Rave - I think your right, when I have time tomorrow.
you forgot the most important and groundbreaking of all confectionaries
THE FUSE BAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 11:18 am
by slatepipe
i'll say it again - twix's are great, especially chilled. i remember when i was travelling round the states and they had peanut butter flavour twix. genius.
creme eggs - i once ate seven in one lunchtime from the tuck shop at school
Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 11:38 am
by shervington
A TWIX!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOUR HAVIN A LARF. THERE ABOUT AS GOOD AS A PICNIC. AND YOU HAVE TO BE OVER 40, ABLE TO DO CRYPTIC CROSSWORDS AND HAVE BEEN LISTENING TO THE ARCHERS FOR AT LEAST 10 YEARS TO ENJOY ONE OF THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FUSE!
Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 12:24 pm
by NorthernMonkey
UKRuss wrote:ha'penny aniseed balls FTW!
Agreed. If memory serves, I used to buy a sack of them for about 3p.
Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 12:27 pm
by NorthernMonkey
nuperspective wrote:hang on there fella.
LIQUORICE!!!!!
its the fuckin devils work. its not a sweet. it tastes like its been run through crease of a dead donkeys arse.
no way.
I take it you didn't chew on liquorice roots either?