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

[thebish]

root beer isnt a million miles away.

McDonalds used to do root beer when they first started up over here...

[a1]

didnt know that.

can remember the CFC-filled foam boxes they used to put the food in.

and old blue peter "half of england under water in 2010" scaremongering prediction maps related to that.

[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".

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.

Gee, Moss Street and that penny Brylcream machine. Had so much chlorine in the water you came out looking like a wash leather. Joe's Cafe? on the corner.
Just think, we had three swimming baths in town then, Moss Street, High Street and Bridgeman Street. Now we have none.

[P.O.S.]

I only managed to get enough pocket money to afford a Pyramint a couple of times before they were cruelly removed from production

[Bruce Rioja]

[TANGODANCER]

Do they still do Mint Imperials? Every time we got sent to the shop it was always them.

[thebish]

do they still sell walnut whips? time was I thought they were the sheer height of luxurious living!

[LiOC]

do they still sell walnut whips? time was I thought they were the sheer height of luxurious living!

Yes, they do.

[TANGODANCER]

do they still sell walnut whips? time was I thought they were the sheer height of luxurious living!

Think they do. Along with Toblerone my two least favourite sweets. Oh, and Sugared Almonds. Fxcking awful.

[thebish]

do they still sell walnut whips? time was I thought they were the sheer height of luxurious living!

Think they do. Along with Toblerone my two least favourite sweets. Fxcking awful.

toblerones are horrid - those claggy chewy bits that get stuck in your teeth...

[Il Pirate]

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....

I remember well my first taste of Victory V's. I was 7ish, so around 1967/68. Playing football for the cubs on a freezing foggy day, at Pot Hall in Heywood. Ball, heavy and laced. Ground solid. Iced fog so thick you could only see the tops of your socks. Feet hidden. And it was colddddd! Half time whistle and we were getting beat around 8 or 9 nil. Me and my mate David Porter went over toward his grandad who was watching, an old boy called George Porter. He first gave us a rollocking that A Wenger could never come up with; then poured us a hot drink from a flask. It was tea, but it didn't taste right. Then he gave us Victory Vees to chew on. I thought they were great. Warmed us up no end. Second half under way, and Dave and me couldn't run; couldn't pass; couldn't see straight. We were both sick. Both left the field to pathetic applause, to be informed by his granded that ' I may have put too much rum in this flask lads'.

[CrazyHorse]

Those tiny rock hard pieces of liquorice that came in a little red tin, Imps.
God awful things, really strong flavour. iirc they were made in Bolton.

[thebish]

Those tiny rock hard pieces of liquorice that came in a little red tin, Imps.
God awful things, really strong flavour. iirc they were made in Bolton.

i once swallowed one of those - and it stuck in my gullet and smouldered away all day....

[TANGODANCER]

Those tiny rock hard pieces of liquorice that came in a little red tin, Imps.
God awful things, really strong flavour. iirc they were made in Bolton.

A a kid I lived about 200 yds away from Roocrofts Toffee Factory and it may have been them. They did Tic Tacs too. They made all sorts of stuff and the smells used to drive us mad.

[Bruce Rioja]

There used to be a liquorice factory down The Mop. Maxillin or somesuch. No idea if it's still there though.

[TANGODANCER]

This might jog a few memories:

http://www.oldestsweetshop.co.uk/sweets ... &swtid=147" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[bobo the clown]

Apparently, in February 2011, Santus (Wigan, I know, but nenetheless) produced the 2 billionth of these little buggers.

I must have eaten 1 million of them ...

[thebish]

can't get 'em now - bloody political correctness gone mad!!!

[thebish]

This might jog a few memories:

http://www.oldestsweetshop.co.uk/sweets ... &swtid=147" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

that site lists these:



I remember them well - but don't remember them being called "shotgun sweets" or "marry me quick"

[P.O.S.]

Apparently, in February 2011, Santus (Wigan, I know, but nenetheless) produced the 2 billionth of these little buggers.

I must have eaten 1 million of them ...

Who else likes putting one or two of these in a cup of hot tea now and again? Anyone else? No? Just me then!