Bring out the kid in you (Top Ten Sweets)

Member Name: adam171275

Product:	Top Ten Sweets
Date:	07/03/09 (138 review reads)
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Advantages: bad for you

Disadvantages: one

We all know that in general sweets really aren't that good for you; they have no nutritional value and are bad for our teeth. Having two young children I do have to try and limit their intake but I always believe that most things are ok in moderation, we tend to have the weekend as sweetie day (hooray). I must admit I do love the odd bag of sweets especially pic n mix this way you can pick all the ones you love, this is my top ten favorites.


1) Liquorice allsorts, these are a mixture of liquorice, sugar, coconut, aniseed jelly fruit flavors and gelatin. Of course if you don't like liquorice these are not one for you, I like the square ones with the 4 layers ( do you know which ones I mean ) I love the sweetness of them and the fact that you can eat each layer individually, yummy!



2) Fizzy cola bottles, these are shaped jellies of a cola bottle (hence the name) they are cola flavor with a fizzy coating. I do prefer these to the normal cola bottles I love the kick you get when you bite into them! But at the same time I can't eat too many as you get all fizzed out!


3) Cola cubes, these again are cola flavor, and they are in the shape of a cube and are a hard sweet. I love the coat of sugar around the sweet and the fact that they last ages you can suck and suck. When I was younger these were a favorite as they did last for a long time! I personally like the ones with the chewy bit inside but I think you can get the ones that are hard all the way through.


4) Parma violets, these are small tablet like sweets in violet color, you get them in a small tube like wrapper with about 20 in. They are delicately perfumed in, flavor to me quite an acquired taste, you will love them or hate them. I remember when I was younger I always used to pretend they were tablets why do we do things like this?


5) Foam mushrooms, I used to love these but very rarely see them any more where have all the good sweets gone? These are foam like jelly sweets in the shape of mushrooms whish are strawberry flavor. To me what's not to like the flavors great and the consistency is great they are not too chewy, some jelly sweets you can chew for ages! These are just right.



6) Sweet bananas, theses are soft chews in a banana flavor. These are an all time favorite they are a bigger sweet which take a good couple of bites to eat not like normal sweets where you can eat them in one go! The banana flavor is mild tasting and not to overpowering which to me is the icing on the cake perfect!


7) foiled ice cups, I had to look this one up as I had no idea what they were called, and I expect not many people will remember these. They are in a colored foil small cup; the cups are filled with a chocolate type fondant. I haven't had one of these since I was about 7 but just remember them as being melted in your mouth heaven.


8) Bonbons I like the white version of these but you can get strawberry and lemon flavors too. These are hard toffee with a coating of dusted icing sugar, I love to suck the icing sugar off then chew the toffee inside. The toffee is quite hard and can take a while to chew them so be caution is advised when eating them.



9) Wham bars, I expect a lot of people remember these they are a chewy bar with small fizzy bits in. Again these are quite chewy to eat and can be hard going on the old teeth! I remember eating these at school; we used to have wham bar parties! Did anyone else have these? All we did was spend all our dinner money on wham bars (they used to be 10) and spend the whole lunch time eating as many as we could!

10) Flying saucers, these are flying saucer shaped sweets they are colorful wafer shells with sherbet inside. If you like sherbet you will love these! The kick you get from the sherbet really hits you; I used to love to suck the outer layer to reveal all the sherbet inside yummy. I don't think you eat too many of these and I dread to think how many E numbers they have in them. Well these are my top ten some you will love some you wont but its great to bring out the kid in you once in a while!

Summary: sweets are great in moderation