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“You can’t beat a quarter of Sherbet Lemons. Classic, sucky sweets with a fizzy kick.”
“Sumptuous milk chocolate and melt in your mouth mint bubbles. Simply exquisite.”
“Whilst everyone got chocolate at Easter, I used to get these. There’s also enough sugar inside to stop an elephants heart.”
“The supermarkets have had a go at replicating Maynards and haven’t got anywhere close to the real deal.”
“Lions are the crown prince of chewy gums; fruit flavours plus a renegade liquorice option.”
Convincingly shaped to appear almost healthy! Reassuringly sweet and chewy.
“I don’t have a sweet tooth, but I imagine Willy Wonka’s ‘Sunday Lunch Sweet’ would be spot on.”
“They remind me of an encounter I had with Shaun Ryder back when I lived in Manchester.”
“It’s marvellous pink jelly confectionery.”
“Both sweet & sour, the perfect combo for me.”
“I once ate so many after school that I was sick, but I still love them. Try filling your face with as many as you can and letting them just melt….FAB.”
“In the days before ‘Sours’ you had to content yourself with a sour lemony outside and a sour shertberty inside.”
I love the way the host is melting on your tongue to reveal the sour sugar inside. This always makes me doing strange faces.
“The bobbly ones taste like ouzo, which reminds me of dodgy cheap Greek holidays.”
“These badboys have an amazing tang. There’s nothing quite like it. I once bought 1,000 for a tenner.”
“One whiff of these and I’m taken back 30 years. Who needs plastic surgery when you’ve got pear drops.”
“Deliciously smooth and buttery with a mild mint flavour. Simple, uncomplicated joy.”
“A lovely sweet outer, with a hidden nutty centre.”
“In one!”
“The perfect combination or sweet and sour.”
“Easy. Fizzy Cola Bottles for me, they taste even better when caramelising them with a lighter.”
“They’re just so fruity!”
“Memories of a bagful of sweets, some stickers, a Jubbly Orange frozen drink and a Beano Comic all for 50p… those were the days!”
“A mouth full of amalgam doesn’t lie.”
“The only place I eat these now is in the cinema. Usually before the adverts even begin.”
“Salty liquorice is an acquired taste and people not familiar with ammonium chloride might find the taste physically overwhelming and unlikeable.” (Wikipedia)
“A Portuguese classic. Sugar and caffeine, perfect to keep you going!”
“I like the exterior sugar-encrusted texture.”
“The really useful ‘Did you know’ message on the inside of the wrapper makes every sweet unique and even more enjoyable to open.”
“Tangf**kinfastic.”
“There is something inexplicably wonderful about salt and liquorice coming together. It’s more than just ‘confectionary’; it’s the sign of a truly refined palate.”
“I’ve invested too much in PEZ to stop loving them now. I’m currently the proud/ashamed owner of over 300 dispensers.”
“Because they remind me of happy days playing with suppositories as a child.”
“Brings back my childhood, used to go on my BMX rides with my mates and always ended up buying Refreshers. Chewy goodness, that probably gave me a few fillings…”
“It’s light and fluffy.”
“My passion for jewellery developed at a young age, so these sweeties were the best! A double whammy of sweetness and sparkle all in one!”
“From Calabria – probably the oldest sweet in the world. No sugar, no preservatives, no colorants, just pure liquorice since 1731.”
“I could eat the whole family. And their cousins.”
“Gummy sharks not only sound less dangerous than real sharks, they genuinely are.”
“I’m all refreshed just by looking at them.”
“I used to love buying these, I even skipped lunch at school once so I had money to buy some on the way home.”
“I wasn’t allowed actual ‘kola’ as a kid, so this was the closest I got. Similarly, we didn’t have the Internet, but we did have the Next Directory underwear section.”
“I like to keep my options open.”
“A natural progression from a childhood spent frequently stuffing 10p bags of cola bottles in my gob.”
“I love chewing the toffee as slow as I can and then getting the yummy chocolate centre!”
“A New Zealand Classic and a taste of home for me.”
“Good straight from the bag… but even better after 24 hours in a freezer.”
“Half way between a jelly and a foam, the best of both worlds … What can I say, I have a sweet tooth.”
“I love the way something that begins so sour can end up so sweet.”
“I love Black Jacks, mainly because no one else likes them. And they make your tongue black. Obviously.”
“Mouth explosion, followed by chewy, cola yummyness. What more could you ask for in a sweet?”
“Like a crunchie but better. It’s the way it shatters, that matters!”
“There’s an art to enjoying a Dip Dab. You can’t have lolly left over without sherbet and vice versa.”
“The amount of minty tastiness you get could be counted in milliseconds but the ones I used to get from our shop tasted of tobacco too as the owner smoked like a bastard.”
“Sometimes things just work great together. Like the way peanuts and chocolate do.”
“Can’t be beat, sweetness, sharpness and that great cola taste. Plus eating cube shaped things is cool and annoys nature.”
“Probably six cups of coffee in one mini sweet. You’ll be practically bouncing off the walls after one.”
“With a Pic n’ Mix you can have a bit of everything. Each sweet pulled out of the bag is a nice surprise.”
“Part of my wobbly tooth test as a child, plus they’re part of your 5 a day right?”
“The best of both worlds mixing it up sweet and sour. Keeps me quiet for hours.”
“I’ve not got much of a sweet tooth, crisps are more my bag…a tube of Pringles gone in 60 seconds.”
“They’re simply the best candies. Ever.”
“Simply cram as many of them as you can into your gob and chew until vomitisation ensues.”
“After a few minutes of chewing these you will hit the core – a secret chasm of powdered yellow fizz that bursts in your mouth and is actually “refreshing” in a sugary sense.”
“Only occasionally are you lucky enough to find a box sitting by the till in a corner shop. Their rarity makes them all the more special!”
“The scientific marvel of the confectionary world – infusing cutting edge technology which still baffles me.”
“Tamarind pulp covered in salt and chili takes confectionary to another level.”
“They remind me of many happy summer holidays. They are the perfect sweet as you get yummy chocolate, a surprise and something you can play with, it’s a total bargain.”
“For me, it’s the fizzy bubblegum bottles – ridiculously sickening, but I can’t get enough. I find it impossible to sit in a cinema without them!”
