Yer Favourite Sweetie?.....

Post by **Ina** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 11:46 pm

Frances, If you knew my mother you would have been honest too

Ina
Current AG Chair

Tusker · Post by **Tusker** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 12:31 am

Ina wrote:Frances, If you knew my mother you would have been honest too

Ina
Current AG Chair

C'mon, Ina.....Are you going to tell us that not ONCE did you manage to snaffle jist a wee dod o' ice cream on the way back?....You'll be joining me and David downstairs if you fib, y'know....

Jamboesque · Post by **Jamboesque** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 12:44 am

I have a wee question.

Does your sense of taste degrade as you get older or are sweeties not as flavoursome as they used to be?

I remember having 6d burning a hole in me pocket and not being able to make my mind up or the sweet selection front and instead of getting a quarter having 2 2oz bags instead.

Usually soor plooms or acid drops or cola cubes or pineapple cubes or .....

Now a days you can still buy most of them but they seem to lack a certain cheek sucking-in quality

My dad had a grocers shop in Broxburn and selling biscuits by weight from boxes. You could buy a bag of broken biscuits at a good discount, can't remember how much though.

nancy · Post by **nancy** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 1:17 am

Hi all.My favourites were highland toffee,choc toffee,cherry lips,midget gems,liquorice,sherbet dab,sherbet lemons,and soor plooms.The soorer the things the better

Then there was the wee sweeties that were letters of the alphabet.I called them ABCs.I remember my mum getting them with the sweetie coupons

I remember laying the sweets out to make my name.when you got fed up making words with them,it was time to eat them!
I also loved double bubble bubble gum,black jacks and penny dainties.And guess what i bought the other day?Sugary pastille type DUMMIES!LOVELY

Well i did leave some for the grandkids

Guess where i bought them?Our local butcher was selling them along with tablet and toffee

I heard there's a shop in Renfrew started selling all the old fashoned sweets on line.
I'll have to go sample some and see if they still taste the same.

Cheers Nancy

Tusker · Post by **Tusker** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 5:19 am

Jamboesque wrote: My dad had a grocers shop in Broxburn and selling biscuits by weight from boxes. You could buy a bag of broken biscuits at a good discount, can't remember how much though.

Jamboesque -- I can remember coming out of the freezing cauld Swimming Baths in Kay St, Springburn, and heading for the Cochrane's(?) grocery store on the corner of Kay St and Springburn Rd. You could get a fair-sized bag of broken biscuits for thruppence. The weight varied depending upon the clerk serving you and whether they were in a good mood or not. We tried not to get served by any of the young male clerks, as the young girls were known to be more generous to a shivering wee lad w' a handful o' ha'pennies and pennies.

There was also a wee chippie on Kay St., on the left as you walked out of the baths. Thruppence worth of chips and a penny onion. Or a couple of fritters. Oh ! The pain of making that decision. And it didn't matter what you got -- you realised you'd made a mistake when you saw what your pal got!

momat · Post by **momat** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 8:27 am

What about the heart shaped sweeties with a message on them and Dolly Mixtures .
Bassets Licorice Allsorts and Spangles .
Always liked the Lozenges that you bought for a sore throat as they had an Aniseed taste.
Tunnochs Teacakes and Snowballs. Yummy.
You can buy the last two here in N Z but they cost an arm and a leg.

Cheers.

rdem · Post by **rdem** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 8:36 am

What a flood of memories. My favourites (but didn't turn anything else down) was the black and white toffee. The same size as McCowan's toffee but black on side but white on the reverse. The other I remember having as a kid but don't remember if I liked but ate them anyway was Flying Saucers.
They sell here as well and for the love of me, I don't know why, they're awful.
They look like a flying saucer made of cardboard tasteless wafer containing some very sour type sherbert.

Ah Tusker, now you are really taking me back , the Kay Street baths . My two older brothers and I took the bus there with trunks rolled up in a towel and jumped on top deck of a Lawson's bus (Kirkintilloch based) and were off the baths.
After the baths, the big decision came, do we spend the bus fare on sweeties and walk home or take the bus. The sweeties usually won, especially since I was the youngest and I had to tag along with them. Even at that age the sweeties soon lost their flavour when climbing Balgray hill to walk all the way home to Auchinairn.

Post by **joette** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 8:42 am

Momat said"What about the heart shaped sweetie" I think you mean Love hearts.Refreshers which my Mother ate by the packet when she was expecting me-helped with the nausea & heartburn.
Not forgetting that wonderful treat-pickled onion crisps!After school at "Jenny's" on Duntocher Road opposite Dalmuir Sec.It was so exciting to have flavoured crisps.
My lunchtime"replacement meal" Cydrax ice-lolly& a mint choc bar or if feeling peckish 2ozs Spam on a roll & a yoghurt from the Coop around from Shelley Drive(school dinners were horrible).If skint the dinner money made a nice supplement to your income.Only problem was that by hometime you could eat a scabby horse between two bread vans you were so hungry.
Fruit Gums (our neighbour swore it was me hanging out the window shouting"Don't forget the Fruit Gums Mum")&Newberry Fruits which were a treat for the ladies at Christmas-a winsome smile usually allowed an odd one or two to come your way.

nancy · Post by **nancy** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 11:16 am

Hi Rdem, What a coincidence.I just read your post about black and white toffee,which was also a favourite of mine,and lo and behold,hubby came back from butchers with a bar of liquorice toffee

Thank goodness lent starts tomorrow.I'll have to TRY and give up all these goodies

Cheers Nancy

nelmit · Post by **nelmit** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 11:23 am

Tusker wrote:
There was also a wee chippie on Kay St., on the left as you walked out of the baths. Thruppence worth of chips and a penny onion. Or a couple of fritters. Oh ! The pain of making that decision. And it didn't matter what you got -- you realised you'd made a mistake when you saw what your pal got!

I was going to say 'why was that'- but on the rare occasions I visit 'the chippie' now I still find it hard to choose for that very reason.

joette wrote:My lunchtime"replacement meal" Cydrax ice-lolly& a mint choc bar or if feeling peckish 2ozs Spam on a roll & a yoghurt from the Coop around from Shelley Drive(school dinners were horrible).

My Friday lunch was a Cyder ice-lolly (or pear if I could get it) and a coconut bun!

Annette M