Soor plooms (Scottish for 'sour plums') were grim, as were coconut mushrooms, Imps and Spanish root.
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Soor plooms (Scottish for 'sour plums') were grim, as were coconut mushrooms, Imps and Spanish root.
Coconut mushrooms. I remember them. Whoever had that idea was completely stoned, Why not coconut flavoured Coconuts?Quote:
Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie
Cardboard Shrimp
Black Magic chocolates.
I was on lunch break last week and decided to go to this British shop I haven't been to in years. I bought a Crunchie, a Terry's Chocolate Orange, a massive bar of Cadbury's, Cramel Wafers and various other treats. It's almost all gone! I'm enjoying the last of the Cadbury's with a glass of milk right now. Simple pleasures.
Never heard of them, I’m willing to give most foodstuffs a try, but I’d pass on one of those.Quote:
Originally Posted by PhyllisStant
Surprised at the number in the thread who don’t like Caramac, I used to eat it quite regularly as a kid, but are they still around these days? I’ve not tasted one for over fifty years I’d guess and the thought of one turns me off now because any sort of sweet is a very occasional treat these days and, a bit like white chocolate, I’d class Caramac as being too bad for my ancient body - if someone suddenly proved sweets are good for your health, I think id still be eating Caramac and white chocolate - maybe not at the same time mind.
Shirley it should be a glass and a half :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by NYCBlue
They sell Caramac magnums in M&S, nice !Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
Milky Bar(s are on me!), sickly white chocolate disaster for babies.
Those yellow cardboard tubes of sherbert with a thick liquorice stick in it. Used to throw the liquorice stick away, suck up the sherbert straight into the lungs and, as an 8 year old, cough like a 70 year old miner with emphysema.
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Originally Posted by fingers
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Absolutely vile!Quote:
Originally Posted by North Cardiff Blue
I had forgotten them. Disgusting. Nothing worse. Dreamt up in the seventh circle of hell. The winner!Quote:
Originally Posted by PhyllisStant
Raspberry ruffles, shocking.
its just over priced chocolate, grow a pair.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rjk
Turkish delight should be banned
Aniseed balls & Tiger nuts were probably the worst ones growing up as a kid.
The best was a Penny Arrow which was a strip of thin toffee in a wrapper of different flavours.
Dolly Mixtures. Pick the jelly ones out and watch the rest become some kind of bad batch of heroin for sugar addicts!
Wham Bars.They'd take your teeth out better than any Dentist.
I used to think Caramac was only for rich people lol
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Originally Posted by Rock_Flock_of_Five
Whenever I was given one as a kid I always ended up cutting my tongue in one of the fissures that opened during sucking
Lion Bars
Like eating gravel with chocolate mixed in
Drumsticks
Teeth breakers
lol,,,no idea what it is ...its not chocolateQuote:
Originally Posted by light up the darkness
Yeah, you're right. It was a double-whammy... 'orrible taste and lacerations to your tongue!Quote:
Originally Posted by light up the darkness
fym grow a pair?Quote:
Originally Posted by ToTaL ITK
Blimey guvner. Some right old Cadbury's Flakes in this thread.
Fisherman's Friends. Put hairs on your chest. Wash 'em down with a pint of Bovril at a non-league game. Man up.
If those things were the friend of a fisherman then i'd hate to see his enemies.Quote:
Originally Posted by Citizen's Nephew
Fixed it!Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuerto
Another vote for licorice.Quote:
Originally Posted by Citizen's Nephew
Especially those ones with the beads/seed stuff around them.
It’s a shame because the coconut ones and the sandwich type (dolly mixture material either side) are nice, but you have to take the licorice off
So basically you'd like an Allsort without Liquorice? I call that high maintenance! :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by superfeathers
Edit: You and Maria Carey would get on really well! :hehe:
There were some others. Victory Vs I think they were? I'd drop the V and insert a WTF to modernise those bad boys.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuerto
One of my guilty pleasures used to be sucking a travel sweet.....
.....at home.
Love it.Quote:
Originally Posted by ToTaL ITK
Full of Eastern promise
And another for licorice..Quote:
Originally Posted by superfeathers
Skinny one with a flat bit at the top about 2 inches long 😋
Brilliant 👏Quote:
Originally Posted by Citizen's Nephew
I used to love Turkish Delight
A few years ago I was walking through central London when I spied two gorgeous women dressed in flimsy clothes. They were standing outside a shop and holding trays of little coloured cubes that looked like they were dusted in sugar.
Great! Free sweets I thought.
I picked a pink one, popped it in my mouth, a quick chew and swallowed it.
I started feeling sick and had a horrible taste in my mouth then I realised that the women were standing outside a beauty shop and what I thought was Turkish Delight were small samples of perfumed soap.
I had to spend quite some time in a nearby pub to get reid of the taste.
As Captain Mainwaring would say, "You stupid boy !"Quote:
Originally Posted by celever
Sherbet Dips
Bons Bons…. although now I’ve just typed that they don’t look real. Have I made them up?
You’re onto something here. I reckon they would be big sellersQuote:
Originally Posted by Citizen's Nephew