What Was Your Favourite Spice As A Kid

[docmel 10]

No contest

 

Kop Kops - my mum used to take me to Chesterfield on the No 12 bus every other Saturday to go and visit her Mum.

 

We used to call in a sweet shop that was in Fitzalan Sq (I think - talking 50 odd years ago now) and she bought a bag of Mishapes for my Gran and a bag of Kop Kops for us to share on the bus.

 

They can still be bought at some of those shops that sell 'old fashioned' sweets and if I do get some I only have to suck one fro a few minutes and tarnsported back to that bus chugging up Chesterfield Rd to Woodseats, Norton, Dronfield and beyond

 

Close second were the jelly snakes

[Treatment 10]

Black Jacks 4 for a penny!!

 

I had some last night, 30pence for a pcket of about twelve.

[Tofty 10]

Acid Drop Spangles and I think they were called Cherry Lips.

[harleyman170 10]

My favourite was a big bag of "Uncle Joes Mint balls" ......... Happy days

[JOHN HABS 10]

All sweets were my favourite's - wonder I didn't get rotten teeth !

Use to like and Buy:

Fruit Salad + Black Jacks

Arrow bars + Barley sugar sticks.

Gob stoppers + sherbet dips.

Flying Sauces

Mixed Sherbet crystals.

Midget Jems.

 

The sweets then were cheap......black Jacks 4 for 1d

Barly sugar stick ( 12 inches long ) for 3d........those were the days !

[harleyman170 10]

who remembers "Hell of a lot drops" You could get a half pound bag of them for a tanner .......... Happy days.

[cleanup 10]

Sugar coated fishies and those packets of cigarette sweets, imagine selling those cigarette sweets now

 

my mother still gets my two sets of twins cigarette sweet. my local sweet shop used to put a bag of broken up chocolate in the freezer for me which i would buy with a pint of milk. wasn't all sweets every morning on the way to school used to stop at gardeners top of gerard rd bag of carrots

[jud1255 10]

who remembers "Hell of a lot drops" You could get a half pound bag of them for a tanner .......... Happy days.

 

i think thats them ive been trying to remember all week.

Were they multi coloured little round things about 1/8th inch diameter a best way 4 me to describe them a bit like polystyrene ? but nicer lol if ya know what i mean.

[chrishall 10]

i think thats them ive been trying to remember all week.

Were they multi coloured little round things about 1/8th inch diameter a best way 4 me to describe them a bit like polystyrene ? but nicer lol if ya know what i mean.

 

Yes I remember those, the colours were a bit lurid as I recall, turquoise and orange are two that come to mind.

[pbobrp 10]

Liqorice grand ma worked at bassett,s used to get piles of it

 

Any one rember sweet tobbaco sweet cigarettes flying saucers .............

[pbobrp 10]

small coloured things 100s n 1000s

 

and lucky bags

[dunsel 10]

Jeese, Lucky Bags, flying saucers, happy days.