Bassett's Sherbert Fountain

Sherbet fountains are a retro sweet made by Bassetts. Its a cardboard tube thats red and yellow. Inside you will find it filled with white sherbet. Sticking out the top is a stick of liquorice stick. The aim is to keep dabbing the liquorice into the sherbet. yummy! Sherbet fountains remind me of when I was a child. I always remember eating the liquorice stick first and then have to dab my finger in the tube causing all my hands to be sticky. I recently saw these again in Asda. At the time they were only about 30p and I was really shocked to actually see them again. I had to buy one and see if they were like I remembered. I felt like a ...  Read the complete review

Following the fantastic sweetie package I received for my birthday I visited www.happysweetshop.co.uk and found some fantastic sweetie treasures, sweets from years gone by, that I order immediately to remind me of being a kid once again. In this package I ordered 5 packs of Bassett's Sherbet Fountains - a brilliant blast from the past! I hadn't had one of these in years and I am not ashamed to admit I was excited about this arriving. It cost me £1.94 from Happysweetshop, which works out at about 38p each - Bargain! The design of the wrapper had not changed at all, yellow / orange and red with the name Sherbet Fountain and a picture's of what can ...  Read the complete review

These Sherbet dips are a funny little contraption. They combine a white, sour sherbet with a long, circular stick of liquorice and put them in a round, paper tube. They cost around 20p and are available at most supermarkets in multi-packs or you can get one individually from local shops like Spar. The packaging is a dull yellow and the top looks as if it's been wrapped by amateur; the crumpled paper surrounding the dark, tar-like stick of liquorice that comes loose with out any muscle power. It will have smudges of white powder here and there which I find comes off easier if you lick it away. I hate the way that the liquorice sticks out of the top of the ...  Read the complete review

For around 20p you can pick up this cardboard cylinder (looks a bit like a shrunken toilet roll tube) that is packed full of compacted sherbet. In the middle, rising out of it like some dark snake, is a tube of licorice, that runs the whole depth of the tube. HOW TO EAT: The idea is that you pull out the licorice stick and suck the end to wet it. You then plunge it into the sherbet, which sticks to it, and suck it again, getting a mixture of sherbet and licorice with each suck. THE SHERBET: Of all sherbet products, I find this to be one of the worst. That is because it never fails to be compacted together into a hard block inside the ...  Read the complete review

Following on from my SHerbet Dip Dab review, I am now going to review the Sherbet Fountain, a sweet treat which I had yesterday eveningm having not eaten one for several years. The sherbet fountain has been around for a great many years, I remember eating them as a child and my parents used to eat them when they were younger too. It is a simple confectionary item, comprising of a cardboard tube containing a quantity of sherbet and a stick of liquorice. All this is wrapped up in an outer wrapper which is coloured yellow and red, very much in keeping with Barrats other sebet based confectionary, the Dip Dab. Opening the Fountain is a ...  Read the complete review