Gimme some of that sweet, sweet lovin' (Top Ten Sweets)

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Product:	Top Ten Sweets
Date:	24/07/06 (312 review reads)
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Advantages: Delicious and soothing to the troubled soul

Disadvantages: ...while also fattening the body and rotting the teeth

Sweets for me are both a source of pleasure and pain together. As someone who is forever trying to lose weight, I can't help but view the sweet aisle as a lair of darkness - and yet the taste of certain sweets is too wonderful for words. I'm primarily a choccie fan, but the sweet tooth manifests itself in many ways... So now I think I'll torture myself and list my top 10 - these are definitely ones I have to steer myself away from.


1. Jelly Tots

I'm not a fan of anything rubbery, and these are about as far away from rubbery as you get. I love the way the sugar on the outside is slightly crunchy and the middle is always sticky. I've also noticed that the yellows and greens are always really soft, the reds and blacks are kind of middling, and the oranges are really hard - how's that for a bit of variety in a bag? Talking of bags, they used to come in a yellow bag and personally I preferred that to the current orange one...but I'll take 'em whatever they come in.


2. Floral Gums

Now these are definitely a love-them-or-hate-them thing. Basically, they're very small sweets, each one sort of gummy but rock-hard, and the overwhelming taste is kind of fruity/soapy. Yuck, I hear you say. And to be honest, the whole concept of Floral Gums is a bit yuck, but for some reason I'm hooked on them!


3. Black Jacks and Fruit Salad

You can't separate the two. The best way to enjoy these is to get a good mix of the two from the pick'n'mix and eat them one after the other - aniseed plus fruit salad is certainly an interesting combination.


4. Millions

"The Tiny Tasty Chewy Sweet". These are great, a fairly big packet full of tiny chewy sweets. They come in strawberry, blackcurrant, raspberry, bubblegum and cola (strawberry are the best) and because you get so many in a packet, you can eat individual sweets and then chew a huge handful of them until they all go into one enormous sweet. The only downside to Millions is that if you eat enough of them, your tongue goes furry and numb for quite some time. Ah well, a small price to pay for such enjoyment!


5. Liquorice Comfits/Torpedoes

I think it's the combination of the crunchy sugar shell and the soft liquorice inside that makes these so delicious. The best liquorice comfits come from jars behind the counter of a sweet shop, and I prefer them when they're slightly stale, so the shell is extra crunchy and the liquorice inside is a bit tougher than normal. Maybe I'm just weird...


6. American Hard Gums

Perfect when they're really hard. You used to be able to buy them in rolls of 10, but I haven’t been able to find them anywhere. The green flavour is the best, by the way – I think it’s apple but it tastes vaguely medicinal and yummy.


7. Lions Midget Gems

The ultimate Midget Gems; they come in a huge bag and invariably there are some melted ones which have stuck together at the bottom. The black ones used to be liquorice, which was utterly delicious, but unfortunately not everyone seems to share my liquorice passion and so the black ones have recently become blackcurrant flavour! Very bad, but luckily they're still good enough to feature on my top 10.


8. Cola Cubes

Sometimes aka "Kola Kubes". Delicious reddish-orange cubes which taste a bit like cola... like Liquorice Comfits, best bought from jars in the sweet shop and then crunched to reveal the chewy centre.


9. Chewits

You have two options for eating Chewits - you can either chew them straight away, or you can suck them for a little while and let the centre of them melt. Either way, they're delicious. I used to love the ice cream ones, but I think they stopped making those a long time ago! Now it's got to be fruit salad or strawberry flavour.


10. 'Jelly Belly' Jelly Beans

These take the pick'n'mix experience to a whole new level (while at the same time taking the amount in your purse to a whole new and much lower level). They're very small compared to normal jelly beans, but also very expensive - about £1.50 per 100g (Eek.) Needless to say, these are reserved only for very special occasions, but when I do indulge, there's nothing quite like dipping the scoop into varied flavours such as "Strawberry Jam", "Caramel Apple" and "Plum". I always eat them one by one, to make them last longer as well as to savour them!

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So those are my top 10 - just so I don't run to the newsagents right now and stock up, I'll leave you with the single most awful sweets in the world:

Haribo (all kinds)

Urgh. You know I mentioned hating rubbery sweets? Well, these are so rubbery they may as well be lumps cut out of car tyres - you could run these over with a steamroller and they'd still spring back. They're all shaped hideously, they all taste truly vile, and a lot of them are dipped in what appears to be tasteless foam rubber. Blergh.

Summary: Mmm...sweets...