Yer Favourite Sweetie?.....

[nelmit]

Cinnamon balls were the best. Those and the triangular shaped brown ones whose name I can't remember.

Anne

P.S Does anyone remember Rosebuds. They had a rather sicky taste if I remember correctly and were believed to be the favourite sweetie of Princess Margaret, when she was a child. I would not venture to comment on her favourite sweeties when older.

Even though they were triangular I called them toffee balls.

Were rosebuds pink with a dusty coating and tasted of perfume?

Annette M

[ASGROOMBRIDGE]

ROSEBUDS,
Oh yes, I had forgotten about them, they were lovely and what about the lilac sweets oh my did they not taste of violets.

I remember once going to school with a gob stopper, we used to put it in a piece of paper and back in our mouths at playtime, very healthy yuk. Used to last a couple of days if you did'nt crunch it.

Audrey

[Tusker]

Ah Tusker <snipped for brevity>Even at that age the sweeties soon lost their flavour when climbing Balgray hill to walk all the way home to Auchinairn.

You want to try FLYING down Balgrayhill on a friend's bike you've just discovered has very defective brakes -- to the point of being non-existent. As the bottom of the hill ran straight out onto the very busy Springburn Rd, with # 37 and # 45 Corporation Buses, and big lorries thundering past, it was certainly a moment that had a definite capacity to -- prompt an involuntary bowel movement, shall we say?

At the bottom of Balgaryhill, on the right hand side (Springburn Rd) as you looked up the hill, there was a wee cafe which was very popular with the teenage set. To this day, I'll never forget the sign: "Coffe, with milk : 1/-. Coffee (black) 1/3d" Honest! I guess the owner twigged to the fact that the teenagers wanted to emulate their heroes in American movies, who always drank their coffee black....The odd thing was that some teens actually PAID it! Such was the cost of "being hep" (not "hip").

[jintyb]

Tusker
BROWN PAPER BAGS?Never see them now.Everything is in cellophane now supposedly to keep flavour in or to stop flavour getting in.
N.E.L. my hubby was an apprentice there,as well.He left in 1970 and went to Rolls Royce and is still there.
Best wishes
Janet

[nancy]

Ah yes Audrey,were the pink and yellow sweets not called oddfellows I remember my gran used to have them as well!
And Lesley,i bought a small plastic tube of imps at the chemist last week,but the grandkids didn't take to them at all.Now i know what to buy if i don't want to share
Cheers Nancy.

[joette]

How could I have forgotten Callard & Boswers Butterscotch.They had a dent in the middle & if you sooked for long enough they melted apart- a sweet that changed with the times & ended up minging!!!
Parma Violets are what you are thinking of & you can still buy them today.

[ASGROOMBRIDGE]

Thank You Nancy, yes it was oddfellows, its driven me mad this afternoon trying to remember the name, strange I can taste them even now!!!!!!!!!!

Yes Joette, they were Parma Violets, I have not seen those wee rolls of sweets for years.

The other sweetie we had every now and then was Moffat Toffee, now that still tastes the same, I cant stand the stuff but my English husband loves it, mind in his favour he is also very fond of Red Kola, cant buy that down south.

Audrey

[rdem]

Crisps with the blue twisted paper of salt! The bags seemed huge when I was small.

[Tusker]

Crisps with the blue twisted paper of salt! The bags seemed huge when I was small.

....And fumbling through the bag in the dark, in the pictures, you could never find the wee bag of salt. And you couldn't search the bag too hard because the rustling would disturb everybody and invite annoyed glares.

If course you always DID find the wee blue twisted paper containing the salt -- while in the middle of chewing a mouthful of crisps -- which only came in ONE flavour. PLAIN! None of yer "Morelle mushrooms coated in clotted cream' flavours of today......

[Jamboesque]

If I remember correctly the wee blue bag was usualy damp and you ended up with a lump of salt, as opposed to the designed powder.

They, Walkers that is, still make Salt & Shake crisps, and if you don't use the salt, now in handy damp proof sachets, the crisps will be a lot healthier than without.

Or so my medical people keep telling me.