Bassett's Sherbert Fountain

If you've read my top 10 sweets review then you will know that I love liquorice and also love Sherbet Fountain's. They're one of my favourite sweets and I have been eating them since I was a little kid. I remember when trying to chose what to do with my pocket money these were always high on the list. There are two main types of sherbet sweets where you have something to dip into it. These are: Bassett's Sherbet Fountain and Bassett's Dib Dabs, both made by an excellent sweet company. There is however a difference between the two which is the reason why I prefer the Sherbet Fountains. The Dib Dabs have a pink sweet lolly where as the Fountains come with a ...

Sherbet fountains.....now we all remember these don't we? I got quite excited when I saw them in my local newsagents the other day, I haven't eaten one for years so of course I just had to buy one and sit in the garden to enjoy it and of course take a trip down memory lane. A yellow cardboard tube filled with fluffy white sherbet and a hollow stick of liquorish about sums up this delicacy, but there really is an art to eating it. Untwist the paper around the top of the tube but not too much because you will spill some of the sherbet and that really wouldn't do, then take a small bite out of the top of the liquorish and suck up the sherbet ...