Top Ten Sweets

With hundreds of these retro sweet stores online and yours truly in need of writing something that can't possibly offend anyone on dooyoo I have decided to list my A-Z of sweets for Halloween. With the increasing Americanization of this pagan holiday over here where you send your kids out to 'trick or treat', here are the sweets I would give them and some I would keep for myself. They can have the white wine gum, the Turkish Delight and the Cracknel from the Roses tin though without argument. A is for Acid Drops When you went around your nans on Sunday you would hear the rustle of sweets and out plonked these and the Pear Drops, the depressing ...  Read the complete review

By sweets I am assuming they mean actual sweeties and not chocolate bars..... Most sweet shop sweeties remind me of being little, in school or at the shop buying a 10p mixture! So, all of these sweets have some kind of memory or sentimentality attached. They're great ways to remember your childhood! In no particular order... ~~~Parma Violets~~~ That violet perfumey taste is just brilliant. These sweets take me right back to being 7 years old and eating a tiny wee packet of them in the back garden. They also remind me of my dad because he loves them too! ~~~Rhubarb and Custards~~~ These are fantastic! So sweet and ...  Read the complete review

Being a sweet toothed sweet loving sort of guy narrowing a list down to just 10 types of sweets is something im going to cheat on a little. I think theres a lot of sweets that are pretty much the same as something else and these will only count as one in my list just so I dont need to pick between them. These are what I would have in my own personalised sweet shop. Scotts Super Sweet Shop Stock 10 Flying Saucers The sherbet filled fizzy Saucers that appeal the young much more than the old will have a timeless appeal with myself. Simple and just the right size for a small ones mouth...unless you want to see how many aliens you can eat at ...  Read the complete review

Here is my list of top 10 sweets they aren't in order as it changes with how I feel at the time - I do eat my sweets in a peculiar way?! Strawberry laces: My dad and I use to race to eat a packet of these when I was younger we use to tie a knot in the middle and race to get to it a lot of fun as a kid. Even now when I eat these I have to play with them and make knots or tie loads together and eat them really stupidly! You can buy a pack from most supermarkets for about 40p - but you will probably eat the whole pack! The circular ones out of liquorice allsorts and are also inside the liquorice Catherine wheels: These are liquorice ...  Read the complete review

As a rule I don't eat so many sweets, well I didn't. But after living in a house with a 5 year old for going on a year and tasting all of his delicious treats I've rediscovered my sweet tooth! From jellys and boiled sweets to the new inventions and the old favourites there is a bit of everything on my top ten. In no particular order; 1.Liquorice Catherine Wheels For anyone who doesn't know, these are a strip of black liquorice that is wound around a jelly button to form the shape of a wheel. I always eat these by unwinding the liquorice strip and scoffing that first before eating the jelly button last. They are delicious and a real old-favourite that has ...  Read the complete review