"Kali"

Did it used to come in a big jar in sort of crystal form? Were there layers of different colours?

What else was there?

Kop kops
Pear drops
those little round toffee balls coated in chocolate

I ought to be able to think of loads but it's all missing.

 

Sign of old age and insanity

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RE: Sign of old age and insanity

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Can't anybody else think of any?

 

Rainbow Kali with a liquorice spoon

It came in a jar - strawberry kali or rainbow kali. If you walked past Casa Disco, turn left at Corner Pin there's a classic sweet shop up there on your left. Used to have whole rows of jars - kali, yorkshire mixtures, rhubarb and custards, black jacks, fruit salads (avec pomegranete), white mice (treat after visiting Mr Nutbrown the dentist on racecommon rd- wtf?), kola kubes .... I haven't been for 30+ years mind things could have changed.

Kali, surely it's banned now?

 

Yay! That's the kind of thing.

The sweet shop's gone now.

There was a gap of about 7&quot; (nearly a kilometre in metric) between that buliding and the next. Hardly anyone noticed it but if you peered down there there was often a cat nursing kittens. They give birth, nursed and raise them in that 7&quot; gap under the noses of all the shoppers.

 

RE: Sign of old age and insanity

I've always had a "thing" for winter candy , but I've rarely seen any for some years now .

 

Kop Kops rock

Can still buy them from Watsons on Shambles Street..

But the most distressing news i have heard is that Lion have been bought out by Maynards- which could mean the end of proper midget gems.

 

Gobstoppers...........ave some..............................PLEASE AVE SOME !

 

Classic hard midget gems

already gone mate. Black one now purple and balckcurrant flavour

Rediscovered hard spanish on swet stall on market other day tho

 

american cream soda.bit like kali.floral gums and the best were..'' cherry lips ''...ohhh

 

I bet you don't know many people with a hard spanish/chess scar do you?

Miners'?

 

I see that texan bars have made a comeback

Although I did not think that they taste the same- or last as long.

 

the sweet i remember most as a kid were butter dainties.. they were a bit like choclate eclairs. they were lovely..can anyone remember them ???

 

Were they the McCowans toffee ones in the green wrapper?

 

Okay here goes..........

Cough Candy
Sherbert Lemons (the only sweets to rip out the roof of your mouth when you bit them)
Pnieapple Chunks
Flying Saucers
Refreshers
Penny Bubblies
Chewing Nuts
Space Candy (used to go fizz on your tongue)
Aniseed Root (like twig with taste)
PK Chewing Gum
Sherbert Dib Dabs

and.........does anyone remember......... IMPS?

They were those little black pellets of dynamite.

 

RE: I bet you don't know many people with a hard spanish/chess scar do you?

Last week of penny saving. Egypt Sundi

 

You need these folk, mate.

http://www.justjars.co.uk/html/sweets.html

 

Alright spadge.

Have a good time and take care of me mate.

 

Chewing nuts!

That's what they called those little round toffees.

Yay!

 

Bonza!

I wonder if Poor Bens still have that unfortunate looking negro on the tin.