Tasting the BEST Classic Sweets from Britain!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ส.ค. 2022
- I taste tested some of the most popular traditional British boiled sweets!
As a Canadian living in the UK, I don't have much experience with these types of treats, but it was so much fun trying them out!
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Hey! I'm Alanna - a twenty-something documenting my life as a Canadian living in England.
I share the ups and downs of an expat living abroad and what it's really like living in the UK. It's not always easy, but there's been so many wonderful experiences, too. I post a TH-cam video every Tuesday & Friday plus an additional video every Saturday on my Patreon account. I also livestream every Wednesday and Sunday at 5:30pm GMT/BST on Twitch.
Alanna x
Gotta finish your lemon sherbet, it's about getting to the middle, love blackcurrant liquorices and chocolate limes ❤️❤️❤️
Oh yeah, chocolate limes, now we're talking 😊👍
Yes, I love chocolate limes, I was intending to put these in, but Dobsons dont do them for whatever reason.
Good lord yes blackcurrant and liquorice.
Yup, not really experiencing the sweets if not finishing them.
@@shaunw9270 for me they're the goat of boiled sweets lol
That "pear drop" looked suspiciously like a "strawberry and cream" to me. Pear drops are normally red/green and look pear shaped.
Agreed - although I just googled it and Joseph Dobson pear drops are indeed red and white, but their pear drop lollies are red and yellow (maybe slightly greenish yellow but definitely yellow). You're right about the 'normal' shape/colour of pear drops.
Yeah apparently JD does pear drops that colour! So good, ate the rest of them lol
I thought so too
I totally thought it was a strawberries and cream. Though with the mixture bag; the disk-like stripey one.
@@mistycrom Yorkshire mixtures are brilliant you have to take the rough with the smooth it's a taste sensation.
Watching this reminds me going to my old local sweetshop every week. The owner was a lovely old-school lady who poured sweets from huge glass jars into victorian era weighing scales. Shed always serve in ounces and pounds. It somehow defied time and was reassuring old fashioned. She passed away in her nineties about 10 years ago. She'd inherited the shop from her parents so was in business for at least a 100 years. The property is now an architects and it makes me so sad it's gone. RIP Stella.
Rhubarb & Custards!!! I was shouting this one 😂 personal favourite, how can you say no lol... I'll also take a cola cube. Bin all the liquorice!
I was humming the theme tune!! 😃
Amen to bin all the liquorice!!
@@AdventuresAndNaps have you tried Scandinavian liquorice - they cover it in a horrible iodine flavoured salt.
I said Rhubarb so many times people would think I was auditioning for the plank film.
Rhubarb and Custard is the best! 😋
Fry's chocolate cream is the worlds oldest chocolate bar. It was first produced in 1866.
Growing up in Yorkshire, my grandma also had a bowl filled with sweets (or 'spice' as she'd call them) for every Sunday when the horde of grandkids would descend on her house to visit or to have a Sunday lunch (her Yorkshire puddings could be measured in feet and inches). It was pot luck as to whether that bowl would be filled with aniseed drops 🤮 or some kind of mint humbug 🤤. To make matters worse you generally couldn't tell one from the other until you were eating it so there was always tension in the air whenever she told us we could have a 'spice'.
On the sherbet lemons, you need to crack those babies open before you hit the sherbetty goodness inside 😄
The scoring system you use is an absolute artform! It's something to behold.
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I think o suggest its a system is stretching a point, but yes great.
Thought the dame. Will give it 3¾ out of π
We live in an increasingly disturbed world, and I love the fact you're always so happy. Your videos are very therapeutic. The UK benefits from your presence here in the UK. Thank you Alana 👍
Thank you so much!! I really appreciate that ☺️
I've never seen mint cake in cubes. Kendal mint cake is normally sold in bars in white sugar, brown sugar and chocolate covered varieties. You will often find it in climbing and mountaineering equipment shops, as it is a high energy ration/emergency ration. I always carry one in my hiking backpack.
It was notably used on Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antartic Expedition (1914-1917) and Sir Edmund Hillary's first successful ascent of Mount Everest (1953).
I never knew that "Ay up" with a Canadian accent was something that I needed in my life! 😂
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Trying to taste all these probably has her taste buds so screwed up it’s hard to tell what anything tastes like at this point. God love her for the dedication
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Traditionally a lot of these style of sweets would be sold in a chemist. Because they were made as a health products.
@@neilgayleard3842 No! you would only find cough sweets and throat lozenges at the Chemists.
@@jonathanmaybury5698 my mum's shop sold them Winter Mixture, Old-Fasioneds. Honey and Menthol Tunes, Fisherman's Friends.
😂 Voice sweets from the 1800s! Lol, Mark😅.
NOTE TO PATREONS: Please send Alanna some " Fishermen's Friends"😉👍
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Or Victory V s
@@janiceturton7756 oh yes lol
Omg I’m reliving my childhood. Cola cubes and Pear drops were my jam back in the day, it’s probably been 30 years 👴 Thanks for this fantastic taste test, Alanna!
Ahh thank you so much! Cola Cubes and Pear Drops were some of the best, so you've got good taste!
This is my childhood, buying loose boiled sweets, weighed out in 8 ounces or a quarter pound at a time. The sweet shop owner or cashier would fetch down the giant glass bottle with the rubber seal lid, and carefully pour sweets out into a scale on the counter, then decant the exact weight into a little paper bag. My favourites were pear drops, pineapple cubes, aniseed twists and army-and-navy drops, which are aniseed and licorice flavour. Aniseed is the best flavour in creation and that's all there is to it. Walking the two miles down the hill to the bus stop to and from school, stopping in at the sweet shop on the way that had the best range.
I always associate Mint Cake, or Kendal Mint Cake, with scouts and hiking, and you can still get Kendal Mint cake in camping and Scout shops, as a big bar in a wrapper or box that you break pieces off. It is basically just castor sugar and mint essence, melted and set hard.
The big glass containers bring back childhood memories of visits to what used to be an old fashioned greengrocer shop in Helmsdale, way, way North...
@@golach420 Everything seems bigger from childhood. I suppose rationally the sweets bottles were only about 3 litre capacity.
Mint Cake - is kendal Mint cake, very traditional in the lake district for walkers. A lot of sure for an energy kick.
My mother used to make bonfire toffee in a tin tray before November 5th. That's how we learnt what a toffee hammer was for -it needed a really sharp whack to get a piece small enough to fit in your mouth, whereafter it glued your teeth together for the next twenty minutes.
My favorite boiled sweet is Barley Sugar. They are very hard to get in Canada. 😞
The mere smell of cola cubes takes me back to my 80's schooldays! 😊
They're so good!
I was waiting for a Barley Sugar, those were always my favourites together with Lemon Bonbons.
Ahh, next time!
For some reason my mum gave me barley sugar when we were on a long car trip, something to do with car sickness.
I always have a bag of Yorkshire mixture in the car, it's a habit passed down to me by my grandad.
My grandmother kept the black and white mints in her bag all the time and as a result I don't like mints.
I took packets of traditional British sweets to my family in Canada along with the requested Cadbury chocolate. I laughed when my cousins sons tried lemon drops as they were talking and both of them had their breath taken away by the sourness and started choking.
Wow, great video! So many cool old-school candies!
If I've learned anything from this channel, it's that telling Brits that red liquorice is better than black liquorice is an easy way to get canceled 😂
Red is better than black - and I say that as a lifelong UK person. Although red should't be called liquorice because it isn't.
I used to love black liquorice as a young kid but seriously disliked it by my teens.
But it is! Maybe it’s because I’m a Southerner though!
I hate black liquorice
Black liquorice is black because extract from the liquorice plant is black. Red liquorice isn't black because it contains no actual liquorice. Black liquorice is vile, red liquorice is merely bland and pointless.
Black licorice is death, and red licorice is more tolerable death :P
Anybody as a kid in the 80s 90s in school remembers the small white paperbag of a penny mix of your choice. Choco lick, migit gems, mint imperials, cola cubes, bonbons and others...
A mate would say psst "giz one" 🤣 happy days.
Alanna: Have you been able to guess what they are based on the colour and the shape?
Me: How would a Foo Fighters album help me with this?
Your diplomacy regarding Sherbet Lemons and Rhubarb & Custard is welcomed here 👍
The joy with which you shout "IT IS A MINT!!" after popping the mint imperial in your mouth 😀 Now for part 2 - crush them and dissolve them in vodka to create any kind of flavoured vodka you want! (This is THE best thing you can do with boiled sweets 100%)
Good idea!!
Sick filth.
The Black & White striped mints are called Everton Mints and is why the Everton FC is nicknamed The Toffies.
Good ol Friday entertainment, was that. Thanks Alanna. Enjoy your weekend!! 👍👌🍻
Cheers! Another tasting video.
Fun Friday video Alanna, this reminds me of being a kid standing in the sweet shop, staring up at all the jars of sweets on the shelf and trying to decide what to have followed by watching a 1/4 pound of my select sweet being weighed out on the scales and then poured into a paper bag before paying for them with some of that weeks pocket money. My go to favourites were sherbet lemons. aniseed twists or lemon bonbons. Happy days and happy memories. 😊
12:20 "plunch" I think this should be a new word 🤣
That was fun, your taste test videos are always entertaining Alanna, some of your facial expressions were priceless!😂
Glad you like them!
Whew!! I am so pleased you're trying out modern varieties of older sweets. When I looked at your headline, I was concerned how well you'd feel after eating some of my great-grandfather's hidden store of jujubes which you had somehow discovered at his old home in Shaunessy in Vancouver!1🙄🇨🇦🤭
love your taste test and the mixed sweets one looked lovely to try...banana etc...makes us want to try some new things too..
Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.
Home of the Naniamo Bar!!
Brilliant. Brings back sweetie memories. Cola cubes, pear drops and pineapple cubes always used to cut the roof of my mouth but I didn't care.
Treacle toffee was just the best.
My favourite was peanut brittle.
Loved barley sugar too
Thanks Alanna. .Another great taste test .
My pleasure!!
Ey up Alanna, I'm with you 100‰ on liquorice - I've *never* got on with it. Another great taste test, I love the reactions & facial expressions!
There's a shop in my home town (Skipton) which sells only the traditional sweets, no mass-produced things such as Kit-Kats etc. They do a good trade in this as we're a tourist town & our visitors seem to search these products out.
Have a great weekend., Ah'l si'thee!
I dont really like sweets like that lol, but they were things my grandparents would give me! Thanks for your funny videos and always having positive vibes in your videos! your videos have been great recently! Hope you and your channel continue to do well!
Thanks so much pal!
Yorkshire and proud. My favourite hard boiled Yorkshire sweet is " Yorkshire mixtures", although I do love Sherbet Lemons, Cough Candies , Voice Tablets, anything Aniseed / liquorice (Aniseed Fireballs), blackcurrant liquorice, bonfire toffee ,Pear Drops e.t.c.
Now I know you said you don't like liquorice, but please hear me out here, i think you should try the sherbet powder in a sherbet fountain at least, just don't eat the liquorice if you don't like it. If you decide to try a sherbet fountain then remove the liquorice stick , tip your head back and tip up the sherbet fountain to get a great taste of the sherbet powder. Please be careful though and don't do too much at once or you might end up choking and i dont want to see you choke on anything lol.
Personally i don't know how you can not like (black) licorice though and working in a sweet and biscuit factory and working with Liquorice i never knew this, but if you are having problems going to the toilet and have no laxatives then, just eat black liquorice as supposedly that can help make you 💩 a lot.
I don't have a particular favourite sweet, but i can't stand turkish delight. There is nothing delightful about that. Not that i have ever eaten perfume ,but i makes me think of what perfume would taste like if i was to try eating it 🤮.
1850...the same year that Queen Victoria opened the nearby Welwyn-Digswell railway viaduct.
You can only be forgiven for your diss of Rhubarb and Custards by watching Bob Godrey's 70s classic Roobarb!
Alanna that was brilliant. I grew up eating mint humbugs, pear drops, rhubarb and custart, treacle toffee and sherbert lemons in the 60s in my home town of Langholm. We had a slightly softer equivalent to mint imperials called Pan Drops which I havent come accross in years. also love chocolate limes. Brought back
So many childhood favourites there. I personally loved aniseed twists, kopp kopps, licorice satins, saspirella tablets and pear drops. Yum. Enjoyed hearing your thoughts
Hi Alanna ! Thanks for the video ! Love the 'traumatic experience' from the Voice sweet ! Ha !😃
Glad you enjoyed it!
That thumbnail is epic 😃 sweets omg this is going to be amazing sweets are life 😋 just got in gotta grab some sweets and watch now 😃
Thanks so much!!
A up I'm from Yorkshire I have never heard dobsons, I happen to love licorice, especially red, green & soft black, you can also get very hard sweet licorice, also salted licorice, I like pontefract cakes soft sweet licorice, licorice is nice with sherbet.effectively red licorice isn't made from licorice, red licorice is strawberry flavour, green licorice is apple flavour. To much black licorice makes you have soft stools & lowers your blood pressure.
Many of the old traditional boiled sweets in the UK are spicy and very sweet. Think it has to do with the influx of spices UK got from the east and the weird and wonderful flavours they gave
Interesting!
Do you remember those "Army & Navy" sweets? Last time I bought them the shop keeper weighed out 1/4oz into a paper bag 😊
@Steve Page Blimey yeah of course 1/4lb ! 🤦😅
I think voice tablets usually taste of cloves. I'm from Yorkshire btw, and yes we do say "Eh up!" (many different versions of how you spell that)
My favourites, when walking to school in the Winter was Winter mixture, they were various flavours, mint, humbugs, cough candy, and others I cannot describe. Really warming and good if you had a cold, cleared the tubes.
Just remembered, one was clove flavour. I also loved pontefract cakes and chalk lollies.
I also liked Imps, which were really tiny, but very strong liquorice flavour and quite an achievement to finish one. Victory V’s were another favourite. I never liked fruit flavours at all. Another strong flavour were the paregoric sweets.
I like most of those you tried, but my favourites are army and navy sweets, rhubarb and custard sweets, gobstoppers and cola cubes. I like proper pear drops as well.
I bought a selection of traditional penny sweets from Amazon last month which I love and am slowly eating them.
Hey'up Alanna,
Sorry as a yorkshire man I couldn't resist! Those sweets bring back memories from my childhood. Many were sold in my local newsagents individually and I'd use a portion of my pocket money to walk out with a mixed bag of sweets in a paper bag!
Many have great centres but you need to suck hard and long to get there! (Sorry no that sounds dodgy!!).
Some interesting faces there Alanna, & you nailed that Yoirkshirre accent!
Like others, reminds me of the old shops with sweets in jars, so many flavours! 🙏
I love a Clove Rock, also bit of a tip, suck on a boiled sweet during your flights back and forth to Canada, it helps prevent your ears from popping or just relieving the pressure in your inner ear. I'm sure some would call it silly, but it does work.
Have a lovely weekend
When it comes to Kola Cubes and Mint Imperials, I love the sort that are either chewy or crumbly in the middle instead of fully solid all the way through. I also like Blackcurrent and Liquorice and Sherbert Lemons but you need to wait for the middle bits for full effect.
Brilliant video Alanna. I always love it when you do your Yorkshire accent - that sounds nothing like a Yorkshire accent. Makes me laugh!😂
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As a Yorkie, I'd say it's not half bad. Vocabulary is a little limited though "Yorkshu"
Thanks for the video Alanna we used to get sasparilla as a drink ! Treacle toffee delicious.
Ahh thanks so much for watching!
so in the middle of lemon sherbets there is white sherbet powder which has a sweet and sour fizziness to it when it hits the moisture on your tongue, you are supposed to suck on them until the case gets thin, and then you chew down on it to crack open that packet of sherbety goodness!
Hi When I was younger you could go in to your local newsagent and along the wall behind the counter there would be large jars on shelfs with these type of sweets. You would ask the shop keeper for the ones you wanted and they would be weight out ( usually 4 ounces ) and put in to a small paper bag. My favourite were Barley sugars.
Rhubarb & custard, pear drops and I'm partial to some liquorice. I occasionally will polish off an entire bag of liquorice Allsorts.
My go to sweet is a Geordie staple Jesmona Old Fashioned Black Bullets. They also do licorice and Black current and a mint Humbugs. The best sweets you can get imo. You may have to travel to the North East to get them (Listers of Hexham) or probably on line. Really enjoying your vids 👍
I come from Yorkshire and the sweets called sasperilla I know as cough candy and absolutely love them, I was sad you didn't like the rhubarb & custard another favourite
Some hard boiled classics that we didn't see that you should maybe try, Chocolate Limes, Aniseed Twists, Orange Slices, Lemon Slices, Pineapple Cubes and Strawberries & Cream. The Pear Drops are my favorites also.
Absolutely love the content of your videos in general. But i do like the taste test ones, today's was brilliant, personally I'm not a fan of boiled sweets even I could be persuaded to try them .
American hardgums marvellous sherbert dabs cracking, there are a couple of shops selling these sweets still and from jars takes me back 50 yrs
When I was young, every newsagent (and there were a lot more newsagents) and most local grocery shops, had shelves full with row upon row of varios sweets in large glass jars. You'd pick your favourite and ask for 'a quarter' (of a pound weight). They had all of thes and many more, including REAL pear drops! ;) i liked most of the boiled sweets but tended to prefer the softer chewier ones. My favourite boiled sweets were aniseed balls (which you may actually like, despite being averse to aniseed) mint imperials and rhubarb and custard. I also loved 'gobstoppers', which I think are baned now but which were very popular back then. They were HUGE boiled sweets, with different layers of flavour. They were spherical, about the size of a ping-pong ball andvery hard. They would genuinely last for hours and caused many a broken tooth, by kids trying to bite into them. They were a major choking hazard too so it's not surprising that they're banned now. Other favourites were bon bons, in toffee, lemon and strawberry varieties,'toasted teacakes' and these things shaped like mushrooms which had a coconut flake base.
Other popular sweets included 'sherbet dabs, which were lollipops with a bag of sherbet, that you dipped the lollipop into. The was a liqourice variety, which was a hollow straw of sweet black liqourice, poking out of the end of a yellow cardboard tube, that was filled with sherbet. Walnut whips were very popular. These were short, thick chocolate cones, filled with a creamy, foamy filling, with a walnut on top. Probably the most popular sweets for kids, because they were so cheap, were small wrapped chews. There were 2 main varieties, blackjacks and fruit salads and you could get 4 for a penny! I doubt blackjacks exist anymore, considering the wrapper. I won't go into detail, for obvious reasons. I also loved fudge, chocolate or vanilla. It's quite hard to get real fudge nowadays. It all seems to be like soft toffee. Real turkish delight was wonderful too, rose or lemon and I don't mean that thing in the purple wrapper. There were also these lollipops that seemed to be made of some kind of compressed powder. Similar to lovehearts, or those sweet necklace and bracelet things, but in lollipop form. I loved those! :)
On the savoury side, it was all about crisps but there were only really 3 flavours back then, salted, salt and vinegar and cheese and onion! There were things like 'hula hoops' and 2 or 3 other corn based snacks. There was also a fad for a few years for 'salt and shake' crisps. It harked back to the original crisps which were plain but with a small sachet of salt that you could add to the bag of crisps and shake...
They still make walnut whips but without the walnut as many people didn't like the walnut. What kind of asshole is going to buy a walnut whip and complain it contains walnut? The walnut is the whole point of a walnut whip. Would never have happened in Rowntree's day. Its because they were taken over by that hapless johnny-foreigner firm of Nestle
The most famous mint cake is called Kendal mint cake. They used to be made for a staple hiking staple in your ruck sack for the journey. Kendal is a village up north.
Sweets are one of the things that unite a nation by shared experience. It’s really interesting watching you try them and just not know that black and white stripes can only be a Humbug and pink and yellow is rhubarb and custard; and don’t even get my started on cola cubes. Did you get to the sherbet centre of the lemon ones, because that is the best part. I love liquorice and aniseed but as an adult my go to is mints. I have never seen pear drops with red, they are usually a cream colour - and they are yuk to me, but lots of people like them. Great video 😘
Most of these sweets I think of as Victorian era sweets. You can sometimes still find old fashioned sweet shops that have walls filled with jars of different varieties. At the Beamish open air museum, they have a sweet shop where you can see them being made.
I'm sure you'd love Beamish, the living museum of the North (near Newcastle) and the Black country living museum (near Dudley). You've probably been to Chatham Historic Dockyard, as it is on your doorstep, but if not, that's worth a visit too.
Mint imperials are often given out at Chinese or Indian restaurants. After you pay the bill. Not seen the mint cubes/cake before.
Excellent video Alanna love the sweet’s my favourite are cola cubes and the humbugs and sherbet lemon’s 🍋
Thanks so much!
I give this 9 out of 10.4 perfectly watchable TH-cam videos.
In my childhood sweet shop ,Anise twists and humbugs were the most popular.
Nice video as always Alanna. 🙂
Thank you! 😃
Hi Alanna. Those lemon sweets look like Sherbet Lemons, delicious
You're missing out on so many good things we have up in Yorkshire, when living down in Kent Alanna. If you like Werthers, and the treacle sweets, I'd suggest you sample some Doncaster Butterscotch.
Can't beat my all time favourite boiled sweet and they'rrrrrre.............PEAR DROPS!!!!
Hi Alanna,
Thanks for another fun video. I think I would probably like any of the mint flavored candies, but I agree with you that black licorice is gross. I had no idea what trickle was until I asked my Alexa and she said it’s like a slightly bitter version of molasses, and I would try it, but I probably wouldn’t like it because I’m not a fan of bitter flavored candy. Pear flavored candy isn’t to uncommon here in the US, Juicy Pear flavored jelly beans from Jelly Belly are my sister’s favorite snack. I personally love any snack flavored with peanut butter.
Cola cubes take me back to High School years. There was a local shop, which had rows of sweets in plastic tubs and they were measured out on a set of scales, by the 1/4 of a pound.
Mint imperials are probably the most famous since they were sometimes given out after restaurant meals with the bill basically as a thank you for coming. As far as I know they picked up from the Boadicea tribe thousands of years ago there so traditional.
When it comes to boiled sweets my favourite is lemon drops (the ones that have a sherbet centre). But my no1 go to sweets are fizzers. They are a fizzy powdered candy.
There were a few there that change in the middle, mint imperials are crumbly, cola cubes are chewy and sherbet lemons are fizzy. Bonfire toffee is perfect on bonfire night and is my personal favourite, closely followed by rhubarb and custards, pear drops, and mint imperials. Having a sweet tooth, even in my 40s I still occasionally cause myself a boiled sweet related injury.
This video made me crave boiled sweets so bad I just went and ordered a load of them. Pear drops and mint humbugs are definitely my top ones!
Hope you enjoy!!
I can remember sour apples, which are still around now. Also a boiled sweet called cherry bitters, but I just googled this and now that name only seems to be a fruit drink used to flavour cocktails.
They are so pretty! I would have a hard time deciding which ones to buy.
Others will doubtless have said that the Sherbet lemon is all about having your face blown off when you get to the middle :-) Great vid Alanna - really cool to see that traditional sweet makers are still alive and doing well too. Still not worked out why folks from North America despise liquorice, it's wonderful, you should try some of the continental varieties that are salted - yummy. xx
Ey oop! Alanna, us up in Yorkshire traditionally call sweets "spice". Humbugs are always recognisable being black & white stripes. We used to make a tray of bonfire toffee for Nov. 5th. "Mint cake" is their version of a Kendal mint cake from Kendal in the Lake district. Talking about pear flavours & you liking cider, have you tried drinking perry?
Alanna, Bonfire Toffee is traditionally eaten on Guy Fawkes' Night/Bonfire Night, either whilst standing around a public bonfire event or before/after attending one. Have you ever been to one of these events? If not, maybe try attending one this November?
cough candy! aniseed twist! yummy! (and no-one else seems to like them, so there's always more for me!)
Next time you have a pudding with a pub lunch go for rhubarb crumble and custard. You'll love it!
Just for a second I thought you'd gone all Ashens on us and were going to taste test actually 170-year old sweets!
Thanks for the vid Alanna, I would have watched earlier but I've been having internet problems and only just got my normal service back.
Ahh nothing worse than internet problems 😩 glad it's fixed!
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The black and white striped ones are sometimes called Everton mints. The football team have the same strip
Mint imperials were always my favourite, my family went camping every year when I was younger and we would always have a bag of mint imperials in the car for the journey and throughout the week, I'm not really a fan of most hard boiled sweets though (especially liqourice 🤢)
Now I need to order some as the memories are all coming back. I definitely need cola cubes and rhubard and custard.😀
You should!! All my cola cubes are gone lol
Missed your YT - been away working. You and Space videos. Thanks
Welcome back!
Ay up ar kid 😉 Liquorice, Mmmm, Pontefract in West Yorkshire was once a centre of liquorice cultivation, Liquorice and Rhubarb triangles of Yorkshire. Treacle ( molasses) from the treacle mines of Knotty Ash (Lancs). As a kid used to chew on Liquorice root, loved it. Kept a load of sweets in a tray, Gandson grabed a hand full and stuffed them in his mouth., but not for long, not his favourite sweet 😉
I live in the rhubarb triangle in Yorkshire (something for you to Google), I know all these sweets and have eaten them all lol
Ahh that's awesome!
Pineapple cubes and Rosy apples are my favourites!