remember these sweets when you were a kid?
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- Full Time Gobber
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Parma Violets?! I love them! Actually... I've got a confession to make about Parma Violets... I bought a big bag of mixed sweets for the 'Sweetie Tin' in my classroom, (the children get a lucky dip as a very special reward - got to watch those teeth!) and I ... err ... took out all the Parma violets and have eaten them myself!!!
Does anyone remember 'Teacakes'? Not the 'Toasted Teacakes' made all circular out of cocnut, but the harder variety? I love them, but I've always been alone in this!!!
Does anyone remember 'Teacakes'? Not the 'Toasted Teacakes' made all circular out of cocnut, but the harder variety? I love them, but I've always been alone in this!!!
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- Full Time Gobber
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I had a friend that ate the heads first so that she couldn't hear them scream ... what lovely fiends I used to have! (I love this little screaming face - he's sooo sweet!!)
Does ANYONE remember Teacakes of the untoasted variety??? I'm too young to be remembering them incorrectly! We used to visit Whitby alot when I was younger, and the sweet shop there used to sell them by the quarter and until three years ago they definately still sold them in the sweet shop in Lincoln too - it's just I only know me wot's eaten 'em!
Does ANYONE remember Teacakes of the untoasted variety??? I'm too young to be remembering them incorrectly! We used to visit Whitby alot when I was younger, and the sweet shop there used to sell them by the quarter and until three years ago they definately still sold them in the sweet shop in Lincoln too - it's just I only know me wot's eaten 'em!
Hey I posted earlier this month don't you know!!!
I have a very hazy recollection of kipper flavour crisps ... or could be imagining it, I'm like that with food i'm afraid!
Got a bag of teackes on Saturday from a really sweet weet shop in Masham ... ooh the flavour ... it's been a long time since my last teacake!!!
I have a very hazy recollection of kipper flavour crisps ... or could be imagining it, I'm like that with food i'm afraid!
Got a bag of teackes on Saturday from a really sweet weet shop in Masham ... ooh the flavour ... it's been a long time since my last teacake!!!
Flavoured crisps are supposed to have been invented by James William Hoggett of Whickham. The Ravensworth Cinema in Gateshead was the first to sell crisps (by arrangement with Hoggett).
Jelly babies (a weird sort of sweet when you think about it) were invented by an itinerant Austrian sweet-maker working in Lancashire in 1864. They were known as 'unclaimed babies' at first, then 'bright babies' . They were a northern taste originally and only really took off nationally after WWII after they were plugged on the BBC Radio comedy show ITMA.
Bassett's baby, with the authentic belly-button, has a name - Reg, after Registered Design 885406.
My sister says she bites their heads off 'to put them out of their misery'. The heads must be universally attractive because Roy Fuller.professor of poetry at Oxford wrote:
Some eat the jelly baby whole but most
Dismember it at leisure
For headless, there's no doubt it gives
A reasonable measure
Of unexampled pleasure
Jerry
Jelly babies (a weird sort of sweet when you think about it) were invented by an itinerant Austrian sweet-maker working in Lancashire in 1864. They were known as 'unclaimed babies' at first, then 'bright babies' . They were a northern taste originally and only really took off nationally after WWII after they were plugged on the BBC Radio comedy show ITMA.
Bassett's baby, with the authentic belly-button, has a name - Reg, after Registered Design 885406.
My sister says she bites their heads off 'to put them out of their misery'. The heads must be universally attractive because Roy Fuller.professor of poetry at Oxford wrote:
Some eat the jelly baby whole but most
Dismember it at leisure
For headless, there's no doubt it gives
A reasonable measure
Of unexampled pleasure
Jerry