Sweets of our time (or, why my teeth rotted)

[bobo the clown]

Following the Angry thread going somewhat off track ....



transerred to it's own thread. Kali (pron. kay-lie as LL said)

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[Lofthouse Lower]

Love a nice bit of Coltsfoot Rock......though my teeth don't these days.

[Gooner Girl]

Love a nice bit of Coltsfoot Rock......though my teeth don't these days.

looks like rhubarb to me!

[a1]

its hard as owt , has a victory v's look about it , to me.

bet you dont even know what victory v's are.

:/

[bobo the clown]

I bloody love(d) these !

[Gooner Girl]

I bloody love(d) these !

strawberry ones are nicer!

[Gooner Girl]

its hard as owt , has a victory v's look about it , to me.

bet you dont even know what victory v's are.

:/

Nope! No idea! Care to enlighten me?

[thebish]

its hard as owt , has a victory v's look about it , to me.

bet you dont even know what victory v's are.

:/

Nope! No idea! Care to enlighten me?

this is as good a description as any...

in 1864, a confectioner named Thomas Fryer created his palliative for the common cold by combining pulverised sugar, linseed, liquorice, chlorodyne (a soothing mix of cannabis and chloroform) and pure acacia gum. It met with acclaim.

In 1880 the Victory Works were opened and by the 1920s the Victory V had gone global. Yet today you'd be hard-pressed to find one. Maybe it's because they've dropped the dope. For the record, they are nowadays made by Ernest Jackson & Co Ltd of Devon and cost about 75p a pack.

they tasted utterly foul - but eating them was a sign of being well 'ard... it was like sucking a small hard brick of asbestos soaked in pungent cat wee....

[officer_dibble]

[Gooner Girl]

its hard as owt , has a victory v's look about it , to me.

bet you dont even know what victory v's are.

:/

Nope! No idea! Care to enlighten me?

this is as good a description as any...

in 1864, a confectioner named Thomas Fryer created his palliative for the common cold by combining pulverised sugar, linseed, liquorice, chlorodyne (a soothing mix of cannabis and chloroform) and pure acacia gum. It met with acclaim.

In 1880 the Victory Works were opened and by the 1920s the Victory V had gone global. Yet today you'd be hard-pressed to find one. Maybe it's because they've dropped the dope. For the record, they are nowadays made by Ernest Jackson & Co Ltd of Devon and cost about 75p a pack.

they tasted utterly foul - but eating them was a sign of being well 'ard... it was like sucking a small hard brick of asbestos soaked in pungent cat wee....

Sounds disgusting! You northeners are weird! Are you well 'ard then Bish?! Should i be afraid?

[thebish]

it wasn't a "northern" sweet - just one that predates the teletubbie generation...

[TANGODANCER]

Your actual Victory Vees. Big brother of Fishermans' Friend.

[a1]

"used to taste" ?

i bought some from asda t'other day.

[Harry Genshaw]

Didn't taste particularly great but they fizzed and popped on your tongue. A kid on a school trip made the mistake of sleeping on the bus with his mouth open and got about 3 packets worth poured in!!

[TANGODANCER]

This was the well-ard drink of choice for fouteen-year olds back in the day. Johnny Shefield's Temperance Bar on the corner of Waterloo Street. Bolton version of "Happy Days".

[LiOC]

This was the well-ard drink of choice for fouteen-year olds back in the day. Johnny Shefield's Temperance Bar on the corner of Waterloo Street. Bolton version of "Happy Days".

I remember drinking the cordial version at my grandparents as a kid and I'm only in my 20s! Don't seem to sell that anymore.

[TANGODANCER]

No a big sweet eater these days but surpringly, many of the ones I had as a kid are still around: chocolate limes, pear drops, liquorice allsorts etc. Not seen liquorice torpedos in many a moon though.

[Gooner Girl]

it wasn't a "northern" sweet - just one that predates the teletubbie generation...

I'm not the tellytubby generation! That'll be your kids! I'm of the 80s kids telly generation. Superted, dangermouse, etc etc. Oooh, that could be a good idea for a thread

[clapton is god]

This was the well-ard drink of choice for fouteen-year olds back in the day. Johnny Shefield's Temperance Bar on the corner of Waterloo Street. Bolton version of "Happy Days".

Went in there many a Saturday morning after near drowning at nearby Moss Street baths. Have a distinct memory of playing Hermans Hermits Silhouettes on the Shade in there so that must date it in 1965 when I was 12.

[a1]

root beer isnt a million miles away.

the old fashioned bottletops even had a revival when those bros. knobheads where the in thing.

you could rename this thread "available from your local tescos in 2011- if you look proper"

:/

oh and PACERS which everyone remembers but everyone forgets the name of usually gets mentioned in threads like this.