CHILDHOOD SWEETS

[It's a small world]

Hi

Im after some ideas please. Making a sweet hamper for ds's (5 and 9) for Xmas but trying to do sweets from my childhood and novelty sweets but getting stuck on retro sweets that have the wow factor.

So far I have:
Wonka bars (inc golden ticket)
Wonka -Everlasting gobstoppers - one packet is chewy for younger child
Beer bottle sweets - I used to love these but think they had an acquired taste
Golden Nuggets -bubble gum (for the oldest- big treat , come in little nugget bags)
Fish and chips - white choc
Paint lollies - several colours each one turns your tongue the colour of the lolly
Flying saucers
Jellie beans
Popping candy


Please note that my children d not normally have sweets so these will last several months - Do you think this is enough or can you think of others? Oh and they are only small quantities for each so will not be bouncing around the room and they will be limited to how much they have each night/week - Don't want you to think I feed my children rubbish this is a purely a special treat .xx

[justgoodfriends]

sherbert fountains
cola cubes
pear drops
sherbet lemons
rhubarb & custard chews
black jacks
curly wurly

There are loads of online retro sweet companies - you may get some ideas from their hampers?
Retro Sweet Hampers: Wouldn't You Just Love To Receive One Of These? (http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/retro_sweet_hampers.php)


Hi

Im after some ideas please. Making a sweet hamper for ds's (5 and 9) for Xmas but trying to do sweets from my childhood and novelty sweets but getting stuck on retro sweets that have the wow factor.

So far I have:
Wonka bars (inc golden ticket)
Wonka -Everlasting gobstoppers - one packet is chewy for younger child
Beer bottle sweets - I used to love these but think they had an acquired taste
Golden Nuggets -bubble gum (for the oldest- big treat , come in little nugget bags)
Fish and chips - white choc
Paint lollies - several colours each one turns your tongue the colour of the lolly
Flying saucers
Jellie beans
Popping candy


Please note that my children d not normally have sweets so these will last several months - Do you think this is enough or can you think of others? Oh and they are only small quantities for each so will not be bouncing around the room and they will be limited to how much they have each night/week - Don't want you to think I feed my children rubbish this is a purely a special treat .xx

[sarah707]

We have this shop in town - Knutsford Cheshire | Virtual Knutsford for all you need to know about Knutsford (http://www.virtual-knutsford.co.uk/frameset.php?main=/business_categories/services_CAT_confectionery.htm)

Do you have one close to you?

I love cola bottles and pear drops :D

[It's a small world]

We have this shop in town - Knutsford Cheshire | Virtual Knutsford for all you need to know about Knutsford (http://www.virtual-knutsford.co.uk/frameset.php?main=/business_categories/services_CAT_confectionery.htm)

Do you have one close to you?

I love cola bottles and pear drops :D

Not that I know of , but I don't know the area that well. Will search on line- that shop looks fab though x

[Toothfairy]

Black Jacks
Cough Candy
Curly wurly
Wagon wheel
A finger of fudge
Flying saucers
Pear drops
Aniseed balls
Rhubarb and custard

[QualityCare]

Don't know where you are based but there is a Hardy's original sweet shop near me have just been on their web site and they have several shops.

[blue bear]

My favourite sweet as a child was sasparella tablets, we could only get them where granny lived so only once a year or so.

[justgoodfriends]

Tesco now sell Pear Drops / Sherbet Lemon / Fruit Salad flavour yogurts - obviously capitalising on the nations love of retro sweets!

[hectors house]

We used to take Parma violet sweets to local swimming pool - rules were slack back in the dark ages, we would take them into the pool, let them float and swim along and swallow them with a mouthful of chlorine - parma violets taste terrible anyway so the chlorine didn't spoil the taste!

Don't know why we didn't use love hearts or refreshers - they would have floated too!

[winstonian]

Wham bars. My dh still loves these :)

[zillervalley]

Hi

Merry maids

aztec

:)

[k1rstie]

forget the kids! just make the hamper for yourself!!!!:jump for joy:

[silvermist]

What about sugar mice and popping candy? x

[Dragonfly]

Spangles, liquorce wheels,coconut mushrooms.milk bottles.

[sarah707]

I am surprised any of us have any teeth left! :laughing::laughing:

[Daisy1956]

I had to laugh reading this, my wonderful sister bought me a hamper for my birthday last year full of all the sweets we had as children. it was wonderful a lovely present brought back wonderful memories of going to the little local shop with our sixpence given by Granny. The hamper lasted me for months. Absolute indulgence.

[PixiePetal]

sherbet pips, sherbet dip dabs, pineapple chunks, traffic light lollies, sweet tobacco - think it's still about but called something else! likewise sweet cigarettes - now candy sticks but without the red end :laughing: shrimps and those banana things made of similar sweet stuff :) strawberry laces...............ooh I could go on and on! :blush:

[little chickee]

Spangles, liquorce wheels,coconut mushrooms.milk bottles.

Can you still get Spangles - used to love those!