1/4's of sweeties - What's your favourite?

It's no wonder my teeth are a mess now, really.

They don't make Cola Cubes the same anymore, they taste sh*t and aren't as chewy when you crunch 'em...
I shall refrain from posting my faves as my dad was/is a confectioer and therefore I have an enclyclopedic knolwedge of sweeties! (That and I'm a greedy pig)

Our village shop used to sell rainbow sherbet by the quarter. For some inexplicable reason I used to mix this with water - it turned it into a foul-tasting fluorescent orange drink, which I used to call "Jungle Juice". I cringe at the thought now.

The University Café on Byres Rd still sells sweeties by the quarter. ace.

www.aquarterof.co.uk

I used to love Silver Bullets - cola flavoured bubble gum in the shape of missiles, smothered in an alarmingly chrome sugar colouring.

And hard licquorice discs - I used to (and let's face it, still do) buy a load of licquorice and leave it to dry out for at least a year. The drier, the better - real sailor-friendly tough chewin' licquorice. Yarr.

Thumbs up also for Soor Plooms, Jujubes and Berwick Cockles. And yes, I realise this makes me sound like Granpaw Broon.

Tablet is just a big sugary mess and is one of the best things ever - but I have to make my own because I can't find it in England.

On home-made sweets, does anyone else remember the macaroon that used to get made for jumble sales and sales of work that was made from mashed potato with sugar in it? Or was that just a Fife thing (see also red or white pudding suppers and chippy sauce)

This is a tablet masterclass: How to consume your own bodyweight in sugar the Scottish way

Home made tablet roxors

I like pear drops, rhubarb & custard, pineapple cubes, army & navy, koff kandy. Anything with a sting. I got a mixed bag of r&c, kola kubes, pineapple cubes and pear drops at the airport before we went to New York (Barretts I think). It lasted me all week and the holes in my tongue are still mending.

I also have a thing for dodgy cheap chocolate - I used to get those penny-sized ones with hundreds and thousands on and chewnuts from Woking market.

I tried making tablet at Christmas but didn't whip it enough and it went runny but that was OK because I had it on toast for breakfast instead.

http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/acatalog/Herbal_Candy.html#aherb0002

Please destroy the chocolate lime, thank you.

my girlfriend's mum sends me tablets of tablet every now and again. TOO nice...

Darn, Stevie beat me to my link - I was reading about that site in Marie Claire at lunchtime.

I ordered from them a couple of times last year... A bit pricey, but the sweets are good. Was soured, though, when they changed suppliers for sherbert pips (the only machine in the UK that made them broke) and the replacement pips had NONE of the zing of the old skool ones.

http://www3.sympatico.ca/scruss/tablet.html

It sounds lush! I might make some at the weekend, so bang goes the diet again.

I bought chelsea whoppers from Glickmans up near the Barras, they also have old fashioned Sports Mixture, sugar mice (I love those meeces to peeces) and GIANT white chocolate discs with hundreds and thousands... mmmm

And Lucky Tatties which are tiny compared to what they were in my mums day.

I could talk about sweeties all day...

I work worryingly near Glickmanns, and have developed a teethrotting obsession with ginger creams as a result.

I had aquarterof send my Grandad half a pound of soor plooms and half a pound of sherbert lemons for his 93rd birthday last November. He was delighted! Imagine going 93 years and never tasting a soor ploom though.

No love for kali?

Jelly Babies - not the branded ones, which seem too fat and weirdly proportioned to my eye and just don't taste right, but the ones that come from the big jars that they used to keep high up at the back of the shop...

And always bite the head off first.

old fashioned Sports Mixture

No such a thing any more, as Lions were bought out by Maynards. Now the black ones taste like blackcurrant. Otherwise, the same though.