As a kid I loved to eat something called Spanish Gold. I believe it was strands of roasted coconut coated in sugar and packed as tobacco. I really miss that and wonder if anyone can recall it or even know if it's still being made.

Similarly as a kid I recall some large biscuits called Rondello's - what happened to them, why did they disappear from the shelves never to be seen again or were they renamed and I've been missing out all this time?

love

bounties
dairy milk with caramel centre
MINI EGGS
creme eggs

hates

dark choclate
70% cocoa chocolate

I used to buy American Cream Soda (like a fine sugar powdery stuff) from my old local sweetshop. I also used to buy some stuff called choc dip - which was like really well crushed up smarties, and something else called toffee crumble.

The shop (Crappers) used to sell the stuff by weight and you didn't have to buy by the quarter, so you could pop in on the way to school and get a 10p bag of the stuff.

Fantastic. Wonder if they still do it?

Originally posted by tiffy
As a kid I loved to eat something called Spanish Gold. I believe it was strands of roasted coconut coated in sugar and packed as tobacco. I really miss that and wonder if anyone can recall it or even know if it's still being made.

Similarly as a kid I recall some large biscuits called Rondello's - what happened to them, why did they disappear from the shelves never to be seen again or were they renamed and I've been missing out all this time?

yes, i remember spanish gold, used to eat it all the time as a kid, and also that orrible chewing wood which tasted of....... not quite sure what it tasted of. can't remember Rondellos though. what about rainbow sherbet and Jubblys? loved those.

Originally posted by tiffy
As a kid I loved to eat something called Spanish Gold.

There is quite a demand for these 'nostalgia sweets'. You could try these sites...

http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/acatalog/Sweet_Tobacco.html

http://www.britishcandy.com/uk_sweet_shop2366.htm#3337

http://www.sugarboy.co.uk/sweets.asp?sweet=10011

Anybody remember Fry's Five Boys?

of course. ate loads of bars of five boys in my time. must be really old as I remember all these old sweets.

My favourites were XL Crisps with the little blue bag and Wagon Wheels, before they shrunk to what they are today.

oh yes five boys one of my favourites.Do you remember the penny tray at amy mortons on Forster rd (HEELEY)?Also barley sugar sticks,and choco sticks 3pence?anglo bubblies fruit squares,lyons swiss rolls minis.theres no wonder I have so many fillings in my teeth!

I dont actually remember Fry's Five Boys, being only 22.
It's just a subject of much hilarity for me!
The title 'Five Boys' just makes me laugh. And the concept behind it! I seem to believe the Fry's One Boy got happier towards the end of the bar in five stages of happyness. So funny.

I do see humour in stupid things however. I had a little laugh at gillian posting just after Killian. :)

I do remember wagon wheels being a reasonable size though. They should now be re-named Hamster Wheels.

Apparently Wagon Wheels haven't shrunk as much as you may think....

Wagon wheel shrinkage (http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/biscuits/views.php3?values=0&size=1&item=336)

Originally posted by Killian
yes, i remember spanish gold, used to eat it all the time as a kid, and also that orrible chewing wood which tasted of....... not quite sure what it tasted of. can't remember Rondellos though. what about rainbow sherbet and Jubblys? loved those.

Ah, I remember Spanish Gold well. It was fabulous stuff. The chewing wood is natural liqourice root, I've chewed through a few of those sticks in my time. I remember Jubbly's or were they called Jubilee's - like frozen orange juice in funny triangular-shaped waxed-cardboard packets.

Rainbow crystals, weren't they, not sherbet?

I don't rememer Rondellos at all.

Can anyone remember Bazooka bubblygum with the Bazooka Joe comic-strip inside the packet and Beech Nut chewing gum?

can you remember lucky bags?swizzels,black jacks,fruit salads,palma violets(THEY WERE AWFUL),palma violets I mean.Cherry lips,and razzle dazzle choc buttons with hundreds and thousands on top.?Taggys ice cream was the best.We use to go to the van on Sunday afternoons with a pyrex bowl to have it filled with the icecream.Sheffield fishcakes are the best!,and Hendersons relish.

Originally posted by kath
palma violets(THEY WERE AWFUL)

I dont know what the idea was behind Palma Violets.
Who decided a sweet should taste like strongly-perfumed soap?

Now you mention Sheffield fishcakes!! Cant beat'em. One thing you cant get in worcestershire is Sheffield fishcakes. Do you know a few years ago our local chippy changed hands and it turned out it was a couple who used to run the chippy on John st, (by SUFC for you none blades fans). So I begged them to make proper fishcakes..do you think they would? No they said it would take too long and they wouldn't sell. And by the way just because I live in worcestershire now doesnt mean I use Worcester sauce. I still have a bottle of Hendersons relish in my cupboard and I never ever ever have fishcakes from the chippy unless I visit my brother in Handsworth.

Talking about Beechnut ! can anyone remember the machines that were one penny for a packet of beechnut but if the arrow on the handle pointed towards you,yuo got two packets? We used to sit outside sweet shops waiting for people to use the machine until we got two. Usually we had got our money by taking a tizer,or jusoda bottle back or running errands .I often wondered who got the full biscuits when I only got broken ones! Did anybody else have sugar sanwiches Bread and butter sprinkled with sugar or if we were lucky treacle sarnies I would die if I had to eat one now!

Bread and butter sprinkled with sugar..mmmmmmmm. Yes, used to love that one, probably still would but watching the figure now! Also butter smeared on a wopping big bump on yerhead when you'd just fallen over

Rhubarb dipped in sugar and dripping (lots of jelly) on toast, food for the gods

Originally posted by coddy
Now you mention Sheffield fishcakes!! Cant beat'em.

Don't make me jealous. Used to love a fish n' a cake. Why bother with the chips! Can you still get a proper fish cake? I've been away from Sheff for 20 years now. Could just eat one right this minute. The mushy peas were good too. Can't get them where I live now (Scotland), I have to make do with the tinned stuff.

Originally posted by superCol
Can you still get a proper fish cake? I've been away from Sheff for 20 years now.

Most, good Sheffield chippies still sell proper fishcakes however there availability elsewhere is virtually non-existant. They used to sell them on the East Coast but I haven't been able to find one for years now.

BTW, cake butty - now that is food for the gods.

I remember if we were on holiday and went to the chippy that if we asked for fish cakes our parents would tell us that everyone else's version of a fish cake was a rissole.
Tell you one thing though, whenever I'm up near the grounds of the former magnet and the chippy's open, that smell just shouts 'sea-side'. As does the smell of candy floss.

Remember the side-stalls at the fairs and the smell of all those tempting snacks - hot dogs today aren't a patch on what they used to be don't you think?

bread and dripping with salt on,the crustier the better,or pancakes with tomatoe soup on!delicious.stew and dumplin with relish on,still a favourite.anyone else like these?

Spanish Gold - red waxed packet, gold galleon - yep remember it well.
Can anyone remember Mint Cracknel, Hobos, Spangles (everyone wanted the pale brown caramel), Bazooka Joes (never did save enough wrappers for the X-ray specs), Pacers, Aztec bars, cabanas, Lord Toffingham Ice cream lollies, bar six, Beechnut.
Why don't sweets taste as good today!

Does anybody remember 'Little Imps'?

Whatever happened to them?

Can anyone remember "The Joystick" a frozen triagular lolly in a waxed paper tube..they used to be sold in Concord Park, and other parks..from the kiosks in the summer months...also things I remember like a Pink wax type bubble gum that didn't make bubbles..Spanish Root..Lutus pods..Liquourice Root, Aniseed balls,
Cinnamon sticks (Some lads used to smoke these) and sometimes we'd go to the Co-op and buy an ounce of Barm and eat that..and what about condensed milk sarn'ies?.

How about Mint Cracknel? No-one seems to remember that one. Came in a green packet with dark brown cardboard inside and you got two bars like a bounty. It was kinda light brown crunchy mint flavoured stuff in the middle covered in chocolate.

I also loved Galaxy counters which were the Galaxy equivalent of buttons. They came in a white packet with a girraffe on it and the counters looked like stepping stones.

And before I go .............. just *what* flavour were the green and blue spangles in the mixed packets? They tasted awfull and I don't know anyone who ate them!!!

I loved palma violets but hated those rock hard cherry lips now they did taste like perume!!!!

Hayl xx

I used to be quite partial to a Ruffle bar......sort of like a bounty but with dark chocolate and pink coconut inside.


Flying saucers filled with sherbet were also very nice. A mate of mine always went for those little pink sea creatures.....they were horrible!

I remember sweet tobacco although I couldn't remember it's name. It did taste brilliant. It's not a PC product now as it could encourage kids to try something harder! Hence candy sticks rather than sweet cigarettes..they've even stopped putting a red tip on them in case they look too realistic!
Black Jacks, Fruit Salad, Swizzles can still be bought if you look around for them.
Always thought that Lucky Bags were a blatant rip-off though. Lucky for the manufacturer who got so much money for so little content!

YES Mmmmmmm!

God old fashioned 'unhealthy' grub.

And hardly a fat kid in sight!!

Wonder why, mmmmmmm?:shocked:

Back in the 50's I remember 'Old Wadgy' the headmaster of the Central Technical School standing before the morning assembly and denouncing the eating of "Sweetmeats" on the school premises.

Happy Days!!

Have to eat bread and dripping in secret these days, I even wear a disguise - under threats of violence from spouse- banned food-cholesterol and all that crap. Oh what a delicacy.

Mrs Taylor one our neighbours baked large oven bottom cakes to feed her lads.

Those lads never had so many pals as soon as the cakes were stood edgeways up to cool on the window cill.

All the kids knew she would test them out by cutting one up into strips and handing everybody a piece.

Sometimes it would be 'Marge and homemade jam but the best is when she coated the piecs with a generous coating of pork dripping.

The fresh cakes were always warm and the dripping melted into the holes in the cakes.

If God made anything better then he kept it for himself.

Happy Days!!

For all you chocolate lovers

http://www.cadburylearningzone.co.uk/history/

Originally posted by Timbuck
Can anyone remember "The Joystick" a frozen triagular lolly in a waxed paper tube....

Weren't they also called Jubblies?

Nothing to do with Del Boy and his Lubbly Jubbly, but orange juice in a triangular-shaped carton.

The sweet shops would freeze them and they lasted for hours as we sucked them through one corner of the triangle

Originally posted by Nimrod
Have to eat bread and dripping in secret these days, I even wear a disguise - under threats of violence from spouse- banned food-cholesterol and all that crap. Oh what a delicacy.

I know exactly what you mean. I still crave a slice of bread & dripping sometimes. But my wife won't even save the dripping when we have a sunday roast.

It's straight in the bin before you can say "heart attack" and then I get a lecture about heathly eating.

were these later on re names as sun lollies or something like this in a yellow triangle cardbord thing with an orange smiley face on it???????????

No Jubblies were different...... These looked like a Tobrerone shape in a cardboard waxed tube, open both ends, and they had a dotted line across the middle so they could be cut in half & and you could buy half a lolly for a penny. I remember Concord Park littered with pieces of these cardboad tubes after the grass cutter had minced them. ( it was over 50 years ago mind you)

Which company made jubblies?

I remember them but didn't have too many cos you really had to be thirsty to get through them I thought. Gob-stopper of the ices or what?

Does anyone remember those bubblies called either Gold Dust or Golden Nuggets? (can't remember exact name) They came in a small cloth drawstring bag and were little bits of bright yellow bubbly. The bag may have had a cowboy or prospector or something similar on it in brown I think.

Me and my brothers loved them and used the little bags for keeping alsorts of stuff in afterwards!

Originally posted by Fantomas
Apparently Wagon Wheels haven't shrunk as much as you may think....

Wagon wheel shrinkage (http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/biscuits/views.php3?values=0&size=1&item=336)

people's just grew

yep
spanish gold worth chewin on.
as a yung un i remember jubilees, in the channel islands they sold milk like that. Do you remember the little strong tics & walnut whips.
janet

penny arrow bar.
cocoa and sugar, does anyone remember the beatles packs with
a bubbly, a card and a badge with their names on.

Don't remember much about childhood sweets, except for the boiled sweets in the shape of a fish my Dad got in the market and some really big humbugs, ...one of those would keep any kid quiet for at least ten minutes. But sweets were strictly rationed then and a home-made cocoa/sugar dip was a rare treat.

Bread and dripping with marmite was a favourite and home-made rice pudding with currants and raisins or sultanas in it.

Does anyone remember Sasparella (sp?). MY Grandad used to take me into the herbalist shop near the Abbedale cinema and buy me a half-pint of draught Sasparella or hot blackcurrant and a stick of proper root liquorice.

I remember we used to buy a breadcake, make a hole in the side, scoop out the bread, then stuff it with Walkers crisps !

At last! somebody else who remembers Mint Cracknel.. it was like shards of green glass in dark chocolate.. class.

And Spanish Gold too!!! We used to think we were men for buying sweet chewing tobbacco LOL
AND what about sweet cigarettes! They wouldn't have those now would they?

Also used to like (don't know if they've been mentioned)...
Texan Bars (that used to remove teeth with one tug)

Aztec Bars

Amazin Raizin Bar

Nutty Bars (hours of fun when thrown into the Sheaf Valley baths during school swimming lessons - "everybody out!" while they remove the floater LOL)

Cinder Toffee (like a huge deformed Crunchie)

Anyone remember Jungle Juice pop?

Does the Alpine lorry still do the rounds with the luminous, E-number riddled bottles of pop? American Soda and Dandelion & Burdock and Root Beer.

germoline bubblies:confused: don't know for sure what they were called, but they had this strange 'medically' taste about them

During the 50s we moved to Lowedges and in the school holidays used to walk down the main road towards Dronfield. I remember the swings behind the Nags Head pub(now the Bowshaw)and just beyond there at the junction near I think it's the Coach and Horses is a railway bridge where we used to watch the Flying Scotsman go past. Across the road was a sweet shop (It could have been a pre-fabricated building).where we used to buy black jacks, fruit salads,Mcgowans highland toffee bars with a picture of a cow on the wrapper,and penny arrow bars( I hated the banana flavour)...happy days!

I remember the herbalist near the Abbeydale cinema ,after the pictures we used to go in there for a pint of sasparella which we thought was like having a pint of beer,then we'd walk towards London rd where there was a chippy that sold little oval meat pies caked in relish with mushy peas.

[ I also used to buy some stuff called choc dip - which was like really well crushed up smarties, and something else called toffee crumble.

The shop (Crappers) used to sell the stuff by weight and you didn't have to buy by the quarter, so you could pop in on the way to school and get a 10p bag of the stuff.

Fantastic. Wonder if they still do it? [/B][/QUOTE]

You can still get it, we used to sell it in our shop in Grimsby, the toffee crumble wasn't quite so popular. It used to make a helluva mess weighing it out though.

I remember the herbalist near the Abbeydale cinema ,after the pictures we used to go in there for a pint of sasparella


There was a herbalist on Langsett Road called Jack's that sold draught sasparella and something called "Red Eye" whatever that was. Thought we we're really grown up going in there after a session in the Pheonix picture house down the road.

Does anyone remember getting in the pictures for free on a Saturday morning if you took a typhoo tea packet with you? I think it was called the Star Club-Laurel and Hardy, Flash Gordon, Little Rascals, Zorro etc........happy days!

Talking about drink shops there was one on Heeley Green it use to smell like pure heaven,something like orange cordial.Does anyone remember the orange you got from the clinic for babies,it was lovely,I dont suppose it would be good for the new teeth,anyway I never shared it!

Hi Kath,

I remember that orange juice, it used to come in what looked like a medicine bottle. Also remember the Cod Liver Oil and Malt that came in a jar and tasted a bit like toffee.

And Castor Oil for constipation....yeuk !!

When I stayed at my Gran's she used to dose me with Andrews Liver Salts whether I needed them or not, but I got to like those as a fizzy drink and I could burp for ages afterwards without being scolded :D

Originally posted by RoyalRegular
Does anyone remember getting in the pictures for free on a Saturday morning if you took a typhoo tea packet with you? I think it was called the Star Club-Laurel and Hardy, Flash Gordon, Little Rascals, Zorro etc........happy days!


Some kids used to get in the Coliseum on Heeley Bottom for free. One of a group would pay for a ticket, then when the lights went down he'd open the fire exit doors and the rest of the gang would rush in and sit down as quick as they could. The poor usherette would be frantically checking tickets with the kids moving around to avoid her.

Anyone caught without a ticket was dragged out by the ear .:o

I'd really like to see the Little Rascals again

We used to do something similar at the Park Cinema on Middlewood Road, but it involved a window in the gents toilet!

My favourite sweets are chocolate limes, but if they start making marsh mallows without the gelatine then I'm sure they would take over!
Favourite biscuits are ginger nuts... but jaffa cakes are a close second now that they are suitable for vegetarians!

What is it with women and SWEETS ?

I'd love to know if anybody does old fashioned dolly mixtures any more. I try to find them in every sweet shop I come across but I get directed to the Bassetts jar and they're just not the same! :(

try stockleys sweets at oswaldtwistle mills in Lancashire,you might get dolly mixtures from there ,they make most of the traditional varieties.I will keep an eye out for them now as you have set me off wanting some!They play hell with the teeth though!

Kath, thanks for the tip but they haven't got their online shop set up yet. However, because I launched another search I found this site - www.brackenbankstores.co.uk - you can buy Uncle Joes Mint Balls in a 2.7kg bag!!!! There are a few more very interesting sweeties that I haven't tried yet but I'm sorely tempted.

If I find the Dolly Mixtures I'll let you know.:thumbsup:

thanks fiona thats a good site!Hope you find the dolly mixtures.I will keep looking.

Originally posted by Fiona
I'd love to know if anybody does old fashioned dolly mixtures any more. I try to find them in every sweet shop I come across but I get directed to the Bassetts jar and they're just not the same! :(

Hiya Fiona,
You can get the old fashioned Dolly mixtures from Granelli's , they are at the bottom of South Street Sheffield , just off the Park Suare roundabout. I have sen them in the window today (thursday 15th)

hope you enjoy them
Deecee

Whoa!!!!

Thanks DeeCee. I'll be up there at the weekend!

God, help my teeth but I must have them...<drool>:love: :love: :love:

hi there i rember the spannish gold i loved it never seen it 4 a long time its the same as jap deserts they r no longer made

Not read all posts but what about Arrow Bars, they cost 2p in my day, Im 38.
Never heard of Spanish Gold (sounds like an Aphrodisiac) (or is that Spanish Fly not that I,m experienced with Aphrodisiacs).
Loved Dib Dabs & aniseed balls & how can anyone say Parma Violets were horrible.
When I get my 7 year old daughter a mix up they're always included because I know she doesn't like them & I can have them.

I loved Mint Cracknel and cant believe they dont still make it. I remember eating Tiffin bars with my mum as a kid and miss them, also the bars of pink toffee stuff with fizzy sherbert in the middle, and the twisty sticks with chocolate in the middle ( a bit like barley sugar sticks but beige ) sweets were so much nicer years ago....

I loved frys five centres, does anyone remember dairy milk chocolate bars that were individual chocolates set into a bar?, country style chocolate on the gingham wrapper?, galaxy counters with pics of zoo animals on the bag .I loved spanish gold and gold nuggets bubbly, used to fill the bags with slop dosh........ mojo sweets 2 for a penny, how many could you get in your mouth before u choked or slavered to death...

I used to love cod liver oil and malt. I also remember Aztec bars (they were brought out for the 1968 Olympic games in Mexico) they were yummy!

These posts bring back some good memories..i loved mint cracknell, my sisters boyfriend used to bring us one back so we would leave him and my sister alone. I also liked Frys "Five Boys" was that the one with the different centre in each piece? I don't know why they don't sell them now cos they sell mint and orange ones. I also liked Arrow bars and Bluebird lollies. Do you remember bluebird lollies? They were lovely especially the toffee and banana and the liquorice ones. Other things were sherbert pips, Kop Kops and potato puffs.

Heres a question - which part of the walnut whip do you go for first? The walnut on top or the thick chocolate on the side.

Aniseed balls. Panda licorice bars.

Fererro Rochers - know they are so twee but they taste so nice.

what about spangles or even five fruit polo's you dont see them anymore there is one thing you do see but with its name changed and thats marathon what is now snickers. what about the hazelnut bar what you could buy. my favourite grub is pigs trotters and black pudding also bread and dripping covered in salt, when I was a kid I use to love fussels milk spread on thick bread or even the small hovis loafs what you could buy as a kid. can you still get beechnut chewing gum or as that now gone, I use to get bags and bags of rainbow crystals and always buy them big sherbert lollies to dip it into the bag. I also use to eat a few of the fry's chocolate cream bars and the texan bars as well its know wonder I had problems with my teeth the last time I went to the dentist he said to me your teeth is alright your gums have got to come out lol.

I also use to eat a few of the fry's chocolate cream bars and the texan bars as well its know wonder I had problems with my teeth the last time I went to the dentist he said to me your teeth is alright your gums have got to come out lol.
Woolworths have started doing blasts from the past sweets and they had some texan bars in the last time i went in.

Does anyone remember those bubblies called either Gold Dust or Golden Nuggets? (can't remember exact name) They came in a small cloth drawstring bag and were little bits of bright yellow bubbly. The bag may have had a cowboy or prospector or something similar on it in brown I think.

Me and my brothers loved them and used the little bags for keeping alsorts of stuff in afterwards!
O-Pee chee bubble gum Lonon Ontario, made Gold rush under licence of Topps of New York.some of the machines I repaired for 17 yrs,this place now closed and gone

Not to keen on anything sweet,but I did love that raw Tripe a little salt, pepper and vin' YumYum,any trip& cow heel shops still open in Sheffield.

Talking of old favorites, whats happened to wagon wheels, they used to be huge, and they've shrunk :suspect: ... or could it be me thats grown?:loopy:
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Not to keen on anything sweet,but I did love that raw Tripe a little salt, pepper and vin' YumYum,any trip& cow heel shops still open in Sheffield.
Hiya
tried "chiklin n bag"
salt n vig ....lubbly

Hiya
tried "chiklin n bag"
salt n vig ....lubbly
It used to be Lion Sports Mixture and Midget Gems. Unfortunately they have been taken over by Bassets and have completely ruined the mix by substituting the liquorice flavoured ones for blackcurrant. I dont buy them anymore :(

Talking about drink shops there was one on Heeley Green it use to smell like pure heaven,something like orange cordial.Does anyone remember the orange you got from the clinic for babies,it was lovely,I dont suppose it would be good for the new teeth,anyway I never shared it!

Hiya Kath
Is that you from SA
Tis me janet I lost you for a while
nice to meet up again

It used to be Lion Sports Mixture and Midget Gems. Unfortunately they have been taken over by Bassets and have completely ruined the mix by substituting the liquorice flavoured ones for blackcurrant. I dont buy them anymore :(

Hiya
NAAA its an offal like tripe
Its the sort of stuff you aquire a taste for

Now you mention Sheffield fishcakes!! Cant beat'em. One thing you cant get in worcestershire is Sheffield fishcakes. Do you know a few years ago our local chippy changed hands and it turned out it was a couple who used to run the chippy on John st, (by SUFC for you none blades fans). So I begged them to make proper fishcakes..do you think they would? No they said it would take too long and they wouldn't sell. And by the way just because I live in worcestershire now doesnt mean I use Worcester sauce. I still have a bottle of Hendersons relish in my cupboard and I never ever ever have fishcakes from the chippy unless I visit my brother in Handsworth.


Hiya
warabat "roe n chips"
janet

Talking of old favorites, whats happened to wagon wheels, they used to be huge, and they've shrunk :suspect: ... or could it be me thats grown?:loopy:
No, I think wagon wheels really have shrunk, we used to buy them going to saturday morning pictures at the Pavilionl, on your birthday you were called up onto the stage and got a free one and a lucky bag. Also on Attercliffe there was a Tripe and Pie shop which also sold Cow Heel and Pigs Trotters. Close by was an excellent sarspirrila shop.

Hiya
NAAA its an offal like tripe
Its the sort of stuff you aquire a taste for
Very funny :hihi:

Now you mention Sheffield fishcakes!! Cant beat'em. One thing you cant get in worcestershire is Sheffield fishcakes. Do you know a few years ago our local chippy changed hands and it turned out it was a couple who used to run the chippy on John st, (by SUFC for you none blades fans). So I begged them to make proper fishcakes..do you think they would? No they said it would take too long and they wouldn't sell. And by the way just because I live in worcestershire now doesnt mean I use Worcester sauce. I still have a bottle of Hendersons relish in my cupboard and I never ever ever have fishcakes from the chippy unless I visit my brother in Handsworth.
Yep, its incredible isnt it how the rest of the world considers those disgusting things fishcakes compared to the gourmet feast that was a Sheffield fishcake. I also always try and keep a bottle of hendersons out here in spain. I'm between bottles at the moment because I forgot to bring a bottle back from my last visit. Worcester sauce is no comparision.

I dont know what the idea was behind Palma Violets.
Who decided a sweet should taste like strongly-perfumed soap?
Floral gums were also scented I seem to remember.

You can still get Liquorice root, but now you get it from health food shops like Holland and Barret. I cant seem to get hold of the really hard juice liquorice, not the Bassets stuff, the hard core stuff. You can still get original Imps, the pharmacy on School Road at Crookes sells them but most chemist sell a slightly different product from the same company called Nigroids.

yes, i remember spanish gold, used to eat it all the time as a kid, and also that orrible chewing wood which tasted of....... not quite sure what it tasted of. can't remember Rondellos though. what about rainbow sherbet and Jubblys? loved those. Llicorice! the kids here inFrance still buy it .Arthur.

Llicorice! the kids here inFrance still buy it .Arthur.
So do I :)

Can anybody remember "Secrets" it was in a little cardboard tray in a gold wrapper it was like a truffle middle coated in a nest of chocolate??

Old English Liquorice Bonbons. 1/8d a quarter. They'd bring me fillings out now though.

Pinklady,wagon wheels have shrunk in Australia too.Cost more as well.

janet,do I know you?you mention sa wheres that?pm box if you want to converse,Kayh

can you remember lucky bags?swizzels,black jacks,fruit salads,palma violets(THEY WERE AWFUL),palma violets I mean.Cherry lips,and razzle dazzle choc buttons with hundreds and thousands on top.?Taggys ice cream was the best.We use to go to the van on Sunday afternoons with a pyrex bowl to have it filled with the icecream.Sheffield fishcakes are the best!,and Hendersons relish.


ah yes happy memories - and sheffield fish cakes are def the best - specially the manor top fish bar - aka beckets

'Sheffield' fishcakes are known in West Yorkshire as Yorkshire Fishcakes and I enjoyed one last week (my local chippy is 100 yds away and they sell them). The food I miss from the Chip 'ole is Roe and chips. Not a slice of tinned roe but the real thing, dipped in batter and deep fried in dripping. I can small them now and boy were they good.

Bob

yes, i remember spanish gold, used to eat it all the time as a kid, and also that orrible chewing wood which tasted of....... not quite sure what it tasted of. can't remember Rondellos though. what about rainbow sherbet and Jubblys? loved those.
i LOVED LICORICE ROOT

ah yes happy memories - and sheffield fish cakes are def the best - specially the manor top fish bar - aka beckets
Aaaah Beckets :D used to go there every dinner time wi mi mates from school