What is your favourite retro sweet?

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What is your favourite retro sweet?

• I don't like retro sweets / I don't have a favourite - 45 votes
• 25%
• Other (please tell us!) - 35 votes
• 20%
• Blackjacks - 17 votes
• 10%
• Flying saucers - 14 votes
• 8%
• Fruit salad - 13 votes
• 7%
• Pink shrimp - 13 votes
• 7%
• Rhubarb and custard - 11 votes
• 6%
• Cola bottles - 10 votes
• 6%
• Pineapple cubes - 6 votes
• 3%
• Jazzies / white or brown gems - 5 votes
• 3%
• Sherbert pips - 5 votes
• 3%
• Milk teeth - 5 votes
• 3%

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[ynnafymmi]

Oh,and another one would be the original Sports Mixture.I bought a bag recently and yeughh,like eating plastic.Tasteless rubbish compared to what they used to taste like.Especially the yellow ones.

[gulliver1]

21.11 Thought you lot only ate Fried mars bars.

[Sam1960]

Aniseed Balls, and Kings Oddfellows

[Jackdaw33]

My mother had a strange word for all these types of sweet, obviously NE dialect. The word was 'ket'.
"Don't go eating ket or you won't eat your dinner".

[Cloverjo]

I’ve only ever heard people from Birmingham say ‘Kayl-eye’ (sorry, I don’t know it is spelt) for sherbet.

[tonyav]

CloverjoI’ve only ever heard people from Birmingham say ‘Kayl-eye’

And the Black Country, jo. Not sherbert but coloured sour sugar crystals.

[THECORBYLOON]

JD

"Ket: Rubbish, offal or waste, see also Ket(s) below. From a Viking word for waste meat.
Ket(s): Kids’ sweets especially in Durham probably derived from the above because they were considered bad for you."

[tonyav]

Sherbert in my neck of the woods is like a very fine White powder.

[Cloverjo]

Thanks, tonyav. I kind of knew what they meant by kay-lie, but I still don’t know how how it’s spelt. How is it spelt?

[tonyav]

I think it is spelt Kaylie, jo.

[Jackdaw33]

In the NE you may occasionally hear, 'Let's go for a few sherbets', meaning a few beers.

[tonyav]

Looks like it's spelt 'Kali', jo.
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[roadman]

I like drumstick the lolly and i also like dib dab or sometimes its called double dib

[roadman]

ooo and fizz wiz lol the popping candy its a classic

[ummmm]

Parma Violets.

[eleanor2]

Mint cracknel!

[barry1010]

ynna, the sports gums I used to buy were sold loose, four for a penny. I loved them and the lady made a cone from a square of greaseproof paper and twisted the top. I agree that today's version is nothing like them.

Does anyone remember the huge chocolate biscuit that was sold unwrapped? I think they were called Dundee and had a sprinkle of sugar over the chocolate. They were displayed with the sweets.

[eleanor2]

On I do remember, so sweet & yummy barry!

[barry1010]

Yay! So glad you remember them, eleanor, I thought I had made them up.