remember these sweets when you were a kid?
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eye poppers
any one remember eye poppers they were a gobstopper with a sour middle. i think that they also had ones with a hot centre
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Thats it ! Hunter's terrace. In '55 I was ten and went to Westoe school. Lived in Laygate Lane and was given a penny for the bus fare. Most days I walked and spent the penny on a toffee cake. Another good find for me back then was a little kind of shop across the bombed building site ( flats there now ) Anyway , they sold broken up sugar cones. A whole bunch wrapped in newspaper for a penny! Between those and the toffee cakes I didn't ride the bus too much. Don't want to think what the health inspectors of today would make of such a place as that ' kind of ' shop
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The Health Inspectors would probably close them down. In the fifties and early sixties it seemed like there were corner shops on ..well every corner. They were run usually by old ladies and there was usually a cat asleep on the dusty window display. However we all bought our sweeties and toffee cakes there and never came to any harm.
I used to go to St Marys school at Tyne Dock and there was a shop outside the school gates where you could buy sticks of spanish ( a hard liquorice) Tiger nuts, liquorice root and Horlicks tablets. All were considered great delicacies by the local kids and more importantly were very cheap. Still got all my own teeth so they couldn't have been that harmful.
I used to go to St Marys school at Tyne Dock and there was a shop outside the school gates where you could buy sticks of spanish ( a hard liquorice) Tiger nuts, liquorice root and Horlicks tablets. All were considered great delicacies by the local kids and more importantly were very cheap. Still got all my own teeth so they couldn't have been that harmful.
Horlicks tablets !!! God they were good !!!! I was a chubby child , wonder why what about victory v tablets? I remember being taken with the other older kids at the school to some orchestra performance at the Regent cinema . NO SWEETS ALLOWED! so didn't I take victory v's ? Stupid or what ? The head mistress (Misss Knox) sniffed her way along the row of us like a blood hound ! There was no hiding who had victory v's!!!!
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I remember a tube-shaped thing, lightly dusted on the outside with a sweetish white powder. Inside it was mid-brown and rubbery, also sweet, and in the centre a nut running through like the eggs in veal and ham pie. I think it was on a cord. You cut it into segments to eat it. Does anyone know what it was called?
James Kirkup writes of sweets in Shields in the '20s:
Barley Sugar Fish; Berwick Cockles; Acid Drops; Lemon and Orange Slices; Jap Dessert; Pontefract Cakes; Jelly Babies; Raspberry Dewdrops; Genuine Silver Dragees; Nutty Nougat; Bubble Gum; Devil's Dumbells; Sherbet Dabs; Black Jack Toffee; Wigga-Wagga Slabs; Cut Cavendish Plug; Cinder Toffee and Barley Sugar Sticks.
Liquorice Braid; Liquorice Bootlaces; Liquorice Plug Tobacco; Liquorice Pipes; Liquorice Red Hot Pokers and Liquorice Root. There were small, hard, blood-red, translucent crescent-shaped cachous we called Angels' Toenails, and semi-medicinal Eucalyptus Fudge; Horehound candy; Coltsfoot Cubes, Chlorodyne Gums and Curiously Strong Peppermints. There were also little bird-cages made of lacy pink and white sugar, and watches made of coloured candy, whose hands always stood at ten past two .
Kirkup also mentions sticks of rock with HAPPY SOUTH SHIELDS right through - and locust beans, which, as they resembled 'caca', he didn't touch.
Jerry
James Kirkup writes of sweets in Shields in the '20s:
Barley Sugar Fish; Berwick Cockles; Acid Drops; Lemon and Orange Slices; Jap Dessert; Pontefract Cakes; Jelly Babies; Raspberry Dewdrops; Genuine Silver Dragees; Nutty Nougat; Bubble Gum; Devil's Dumbells; Sherbet Dabs; Black Jack Toffee; Wigga-Wagga Slabs; Cut Cavendish Plug; Cinder Toffee and Barley Sugar Sticks.
Liquorice Braid; Liquorice Bootlaces; Liquorice Plug Tobacco; Liquorice Pipes; Liquorice Red Hot Pokers and Liquorice Root. There were small, hard, blood-red, translucent crescent-shaped cachous we called Angels' Toenails, and semi-medicinal Eucalyptus Fudge; Horehound candy; Coltsfoot Cubes, Chlorodyne Gums and Curiously Strong Peppermints. There were also little bird-cages made of lacy pink and white sugar, and watches made of coloured candy, whose hands always stood at ten past two .
Kirkup also mentions sticks of rock with HAPPY SOUTH SHIELDS right through - and locust beans, which, as they resembled 'caca', he didn't touch.
Jerry
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Liquorice root I love it.U can still by it at most chemists.u can also still buy imps.average len wrote:Mercy, Memor, mercy!
By the way, does anyone remember liquorice root? (Not really a sweet as such, but I thought I'd ask.)
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I love liquorice too can you remember OROZO sticks of it (like a paddle shape) Boots have started selling liquorice under the PANDA brand from Finland and it is the nearest tasting stuff the what we used to get as kids, it's bleedin' lovelysilver fox wrote:Liquorice root I love it.U can still by it at most chemists.u can also still buy imps.average len wrote:Mercy, Memor, mercy!
By the way, does anyone remember liquorice root? (Not really a sweet as such, but I thought I'd ask.)