Memories (Top Ten Sweets)

Member Name: StampedingTurtes

Product:	Top Ten Sweets
Date:	19/08/09 (65 review reads)
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Advantages: Sweet and full of memories

Disadvantages: Bad for teeth and hips

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 brightly coloured. I actually love the texture of these, they're kind of unusual. I worked in a playscheme this summer and we bought these for the tuck shop... the kids just didn't seem to get it!

~~~Flying Saucers~~~
I LOVE these. I don't know anyone who doesn't like them. That amazing thin wafer with the sweet tangy sherbet. I used to try to split them open and eat the sherbet first, then pretend the wafer bits were Communion. This is how we practiced for making our First Communion LOL! My dad still calls the hosts Flying Saucers hehehe.

~~~Whoppers~~~
Does anyone remember whoppers? They're kind of a little grainy, fudge consistency bar about 4mm thick and 4 inches long. They're like a very thick cocoa and icing sugar paste that has been left to dry in a sheet and cut into little bars. They were truly brilliant. I loved them, they used to do them in a shop near me and we'd go on our bikes and buy some of these and some water bombs.

~~~Chocolate cups~~~
Ooo so sweet and cheap chocolate tasting! These were great. Little colour foil cups with chocolate which has been poured in and allowed to set. They always seemed to feel colder than they should be in your mouth. These remind me of a big birthday party my mum and dad had for me, I think I was 8 or 9. The table was COVERED with different bowls of sweeties and food. These were a favourite.

~~~Fizzy cola bottles/cherries/bears~~~
These just can't be missed out, they're classics. I've put them together because technically, they fall into the same category. I love fizzy cola bottles and when I was wee I used to always eat the "glass" bit first, then the coke bit. Weirdo child.

~~~Sherbet Dib-Dab~~~
Those orange and pink packets with the cartoon boy and girl on the front eating their very own Sherbet Dib-Dabs! I hated the swizzle lolly thing you got with it, but it was a necessary evil if you wanted to get the sherbet out. I used to mix the orange into the pink and it ended up tasting kind of...marzipan-ish? I can't describe it, but I loved these. Reminds me of sitting on the couch up at my uncle Eddie's.

~~~Foam Magic Mushrooms~~~
I recently rediscovered these in passing the aforementioned whopper and water bomb shop. They're kind of raspberry flavour, soft and a little chewy. I'll always remember going in for my little friend up at my Gran's house. She wasn't in, but her Gran worked in a shop and she gave me a big huuuge bag of these in a white paper poke (that's a paper bag for anyone who doesn't know). When I got back to my Gran's house she was mad that I had accepted them - she was quite old fashioned about these things. I got to keep them for after my tea though.

~~~Dyna Stix~~~
Ah these are great. I'm not sure if this is what they are called or just what we called them. They are red liquorice tubes filled with white sugary soft stuff running through the middle. They are about 20cm long and 0.5cm diameter. If anyone knows the proper name please let me know! We used to get these from the ice cream van outside our school.

~~~Werther's Original~~~
Another recent rediscovery. They're so sweet and buttery and if I have one, I have to have another and another. They're great for a sugar kick at any moment and one sweetie takes about 9 minutes to finish! Brilliant!


Sweets that I love which didn't make the list include...

Summer Fruits, Popping Candy, Candy Pans, Puff Candy, Millions, candy sticks, sugar paper, fudge, coconut ice, tablet, macaroon bars.

Summary: Sweeties seem to evoke lots of memories for me, I hope they do for you too.