A sweet for your travels (Smith and Kendon Travel Sweets)

Member Name: mumsymary

Product:	Smith and Kendon Travel Sweets
Date:	19/06/07 (208 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: take a long time to suck

Disadvantages: bit sharp

I have a golden tin on the mantle piece it used to contain Smith Kendons mixed fruit travel sweets. I have eaten a few of these tins over my lifetime. My dad used to buy them and occasionally we buy them too. Smith Kendon has been making sweets since 1780.

Smith Kendon sweets started in America .I believe they sold out at some stage to Kraft and more recently in 2005 I believe Kraft sold them to Wriggleys
Not only do Smith Kendon make mixed fruit travel sweets they also make acid Lemon, blackcurrant, and mocha coffee travel sweets.
These sweets come in a 200g tin they are very attractive and the tin possibly a collector's item.

Now to get on to the sweets. I have seen these sweets available in some newsagents /general stores. At some supermarkets and at fuel station shops and motorway services.
The price is about £1.30-£150p

Lets go travelling, open a tin and taste one. This tin is easy to open inside are hard boiled sweets covered in sugar powder. These could be described as traditional English hard boiled sweets.

I take one out of the tin it is a dark redish colour put it in my mouth. It has a sweet taste a strawberry/ raspberry flavour,.5 minutes later suck, suck it still in my mouth a little smaller. I look at the others there are a mixture of flavoured hard travel sweets in the tin If this tin gets warm so do the sweets and they get sticky and stuck together. mmmm another 5 minutes has gone past sweet still in mouthy but smaller . The sweet tastes really quite fruity. 5 minutes later this sweet is much smaller now I sucked this sweet so its quite smooth , if you bite it, chew it it gets a few sharp edges oh my sweets all gone its about 18 minutes after I started slowly sucking this sweet..

These sweets are good for journeys as they last such a long time, hubby likes something to suck when driving it helps keep him awake. They are ideal to keep the children quiet in the back of the car.
So if you are going on a long journey and want to take some sweets then I would recommend these.
I can find no nutritional info on these sweets but I am sure they have a lot of calories per 100g but it would take a long, long time to consume them .

Summary: A sweet in a tin handy for traveling . take a long time to suck .