Humbug humbug, Bonds Humbug. (Bonds Mint Humbug)

Member Name: mumsymary

Product:	Bonds Mint Humbug
Date:	13/03/08 (442 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Good minty sweet last a long time.

Disadvantages: A bit hard for those with false teeth

I went into my local newsagents yesterday and saw the row of bonds sweets it reminded me I was going to write a review of Bonds humbugs. I bought some at Christmas for presents and some to cook with,

Bonds make a selection of sweets that are presented in shops in plastic copies of traditional Victorian glass sweet jars. The sweets are sold loose. Bonds sweets are also the manufacturer of haribo sweets too.

Any way At Christmas time I purchased some humbugs I can not remember the price and I not well enough to drag myself to the corner shop to look. A good thing about these jars of sweets is you can buy as many or as few as you like.
I know they did not seem too expensive. On line I just looked and a 3kg jar cost £21.50 a small jar costs £ 14.19 from
http://www.islandtreats.co.uk/shop.php? 765b7ca57bd9a28b82d38f00d30d02e3&page=8&fi lter= or You can buy them at
http://www.sweetmemorylane.co.uk/shop/boiled-swee ts for88p a quarter 113g


So what is a humbug? A humbug is a minty hard boiled sweet. Bonds humbugs are a stripy sweet two colours of brown. The sweet is cylindrical and wrapped individually in twisted piece of cellophane. I think it looks like the humbug mix was piped through a nozzle and then cut into small cylinders by a machine.

Humbugs taste yes you guessed minty it's a warming flavour not a hot mint flavour and not a cooling one but gently warming this must be why they are a sweet you are more likely to buy in the winter. These sweets are a very pleasant flavour.

You will have to suck your mint humbug to eat it you could bite it but I will not recommend this as you might break a tooth. A humbug does take a long time to eat if you suck it slowly excellent for warming you on that long winters walk

There are several manufacturers of humbug sweets all very similar.

As I said I bought my sweets to try out a sweet recipe as a gift I melted some chocolate and put it in an ice cube tray placed a humbug in the middle then left it to set then gave them away as Christmas gifts. I also [put a few loose humbugs in the adults Christmas stockings.

So far I have not said Bah humbug in this review we often hear those words at Christmas time. The words Bah humbug are ones which are said by Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas carol a play by Charles Dickens written in 1843.

"A merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!" cried a cheerful voice. It was the voice of Scrooge's nephew, who came upon him so quickly that this was the first intimation he had of his approach.
"Bah!" said Scrooge, "Humbug!"


1842 /43 Dickens wrote Martin Chuzzlewit and again we see the word humbug in chapter 28
"Produce Pip!"--"What's the row, my lord?"--"Shakespeare's an infernal humbug,"

Obviously Humbug was a word which was used in slang in those days then. The word as well as being a mint boiled sweet means nonsense, a hoax, gibberish a fraud or impostor.

You may have heard the word Bah humbug more recently in Blackadder's Christmas Carol. Ebenezer Blackadder saying Humbug, humbug in the street Baldrick hears this and thinks Blackadder in a bad mood. Blackadder then comes into the shop and offers a bag of sweets saying "Humbug, Mr. Baldrick?".

Thanks for reading I hope you do not think my review a lot of old humbug.

Summary: A hard boiled mint sweet