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CLKD

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Re: old fashioned sweets
« Reply #30 on: March 05, 2015, 07:45:28 PM »
I will be looking in our village shop [where we are well known] for old fashioned sweeties this weekend  ;)
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Re: old fashioned sweets
« Reply #31 on: March 05, 2015, 08:14:18 PM »
When I was growing up there was an old fashioned sweet shop called Charleys in the next village. In those days it was the ONLY place open on a Sunday afternoon and we would plead with my Dad to drive us there, it was a real treat. There is an old fashioned sweet shop in Whitstable, where I have a seaside house, and my nieces and nephews absolutely love going there when they visit me. They have all the old favourites.

When I was little I used to like Glees - can anyone remember them? Also bags of iced gems - can you still get them?
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Re: old fashioned sweets
« Reply #32 on: March 05, 2015, 08:24:39 PM »
Yes Judith,  iced gems are still sold, my grandchildren love them!
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Re: old fashioned sweets
« Reply #33 on: March 05, 2015, 08:44:38 PM »
oooohhhhhh ………

sponge fingers anyone ?
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kerrieann

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Re: old fashioned sweets
« Reply #34 on: March 05, 2015, 08:49:43 PM »
what in a trifle ?
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CLKD

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Re: old fashioned sweets
« Reply #35 on: March 05, 2015, 08:53:34 PM »
HATE trifle ……..
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Dorothy

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Re: old fashioned sweets
« Reply #36 on: March 05, 2015, 09:47:11 PM »
Ooh, I forgot iced gems.  I used to have them for my birthday when I was little.  And animal biscuits (animal shaped biscuits covered in chocolate on one side).  And tiny, thin chocolate bars with three different animals on each one - I used to take off the paper wrapper and then rub the silver foil over the chocolate to find out which animals I had. Giraffe, elephant, gorilla...
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Re: old fashioned sweets
« Reply #37 on: March 06, 2015, 05:06:40 AM »
My favourite were toffee treats, they were toffee balls about the size of poppets and covered in the candy shell the same as minstrels, they came in a large blue bag.......delicious!  I also liked chewy chocolate flavoured sticks......yum!  Our sweet shop was called 'Walters' and what I loved about these old fashion type shops was the shop fitting, solid mahogany wooden shelves, built to last. I hate all this cheap chip board rubbish everything seems to be made out of these days.
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CLKD

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Re: old fashioned sweets
« Reply #38 on: March 06, 2015, 05:05:21 PM »
Clio - when did you last eat chipboard  ;D and was it fried or boiled  ;)
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Dorothy

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Re: old fashioned sweets
« Reply #39 on: March 06, 2015, 06:03:57 PM »
Parma violets - are they still around?
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kerrieann

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Re: old fashioned sweets
« Reply #40 on: March 06, 2015, 06:15:49 PM »
yes i have seen them in tiny packs
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CLKD

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Re: old fashioned sweets
« Reply #41 on: March 06, 2015, 09:00:06 PM »
Too many of those taste soapy!
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kerrieann

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Re: old fashioned sweets
« Reply #42 on: March 06, 2015, 09:06:11 PM »
just shared a small pack of asda cherries, sweeties and they tasted lovely  :)
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clio

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Re: old fashioned sweets
« Reply #43 on: March 11, 2015, 12:07:45 PM »
Clkd....... ;D

I don't actually eat the fittings just love solid wood furniture.....might be tasty!

Clio
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Re: old fashioned sweets
« Reply #44 on: March 11, 2015, 03:15:29 PM »
Were you a wood worm in your last Life  ;D

Forgot to visit our local shop  :-\ but am out and about with Mother Fri/Sat. so may need a sugar boost or a thick sweetie to shut Gob Tight Shut  :-X  :o
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