Had one the other day....disaster.

Complaints:
1. The tube is now plastic and not paper .
2. It has a twist off lid.
3. The liquorice is loose fitting and smaller.
4. There is no soggy bits to chew on (wrapper).
5. You have to bang the tube to free last bit of sherbet.
6. It's just not the same !

Shocking !

Thats rubbish however I have never eaten one since I was about 9 as one nearly killed me.
I was on holiday in Yarmouth with the family and Mam bought me a sherbet fountain. Now kids being kids I tried to eat it to quickly and tried to get as much in my mouth a possible and tipped up the carton into my mouth. Now being a child I didnt realise that it would all dislodge and come rushing down my throat blocking all my mouth and lungs. Thats when the panic set in as I couldnt breath with foamy sherbet coming out of my nose mouth etc.

Every time I look at one it scares me.

And Curly Wurlys have shrunk by about 50%. Also, Wagon Wheels should be renamed pushchair wheels they are a foot smaller in diameter.

I'll put three of them in the collection to send to you.

Anybody else wanna add to that...

are you sure thats not because you hand is getting bigger, same goes for other things.

i bought one of them sherrrrrbert things he's on about from the co-op on elwick road the other week

Sherrrrrbert was all rock hard n it was just no good, it's not a dip if you can't bloody dip!

No! because that shatter a myth and we're not about shattering myth's on here, we help develop them.

So are you a fan of the dip-dabs then, you used to get them every week in the Beano

Toffee Logs. Can you still get them?

Black jacks,fruit salads,Dainty toffee, flying saucers...without trying to sound like Julie bloody Andrews...these are a few of my favourite things.....!

Dip-Dab still has "cult status" !
Candy cigarettes, Spanish rolled tobacco, lucky bags and star bars.....!

What about them ones with the yellow stick and the two different sherbets (purple and orange). Them were good although not as good as dib dabs imho.

Bubble gum/football cards....like most little boys I had loads which were taken to school in a bulging pocket. Recall you had to rub a coin over the back of some cards to reveal a fact about the player.

The company which makes mars and snickers have admitted that in gram form there bars have gotten smaller yet the price has went up, summit to do with smaller portions to help with peoples diets or summit, bollox!!!

They just trim a tiny amount every year and think we don't notice.

And yes compo them dip daps were lush!

http://cards.littleoak.com.au/index_abc.html LOOK WHAT I'VE FOUND !!!

Top link, that.

I do notice a worrying likeness on the Boro page between Fatty Foggon and our own Mr Boyd.
He's not gonna fookin turn out like THAT is he?

Anyone remember postman pat sweets, like fruit salads, apple / black jacks but strawberry flavour they were lush! Been trying for years to find them on retro sweet sites but no luck

i used to love postman pat sweets, so much so that one birthday a girlfriend i had knew i loved em that much she bought my like £10 worth, they we're amazing!

what ever happened to mojo's as well all them type of sweet have been replaced with them crap maoam things from haribo

For those of you with a sweet tooth...

A Quarter Of - The Online Sweet Shop

here you go KosherOY rant your fustrations:

http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/save_the_fountain.php

The other day I spotted Monster Munch in the same bag as they used to be like 15 years ago and to boot, they were the same size as they used to be too! Roast Beef-lush. A welcome return instead of the shitty little things they had turned into.

I also had ice cream flavour chewits which iv never seen for ages and they were rather nice too.

I like what they have done putting new then scribbling it out and putting old:

Liked the sherbet link Compo

There are two "old sweet shops" that I know of , one in York and another in Leicester and both sell sweets out of JARS . Black bullets, cherry lips, army/navy tablets and the like. If you ask nicely the lady in Leicester will climb up a ladder to reach a top jar while you pinch the Jamaican rum choc bars !

Going to have two sherbets to mark a good night at the Ricoh...sod it I'll have three !!!

THE PLACE


http://www.oldfashioned-sweets.co.uk/

TEN OUT OF TEN Anthrax lad.....want some Old Jamaican chocolate now to spice up the taste of Carling cup victory !!!!

Marathon bar and the famous cardboard tray in Fry's chocolate !

It's a long time since I've seen a Walnut Whip.

Star bar's, you don't see Star bar's these day's !

yes you do I had one yesterday

You can get them in tesco (might only be down south like), they are my choclate bar of choice along with boosts

Sort of give you a comforting feeling knowing Star bar's are still around....now I'm thinking about them , I want one !!!

Star bars are pretty 'new' arent they? I dont think ive ever had one. Are they like double deckers?

Ahhh, right.

They have been around for at least 21 years I remember having them when I was a nipper about 6

Shiit, I must have had a very deprived childhood

It always used to be wispa's for me.

While on the subject of confectionary, has anyone tried these yet?




They taste very much like ....



(the only problem is that you cant save all the chocolate to the end )

I have had them before from the the girlfriends parents from Japan, being an asian she gets loads of mad sweets etc

i seen this plastic sherbert thing in the shop yesterday, not a fan of it.

Prefer the old skool type, nothing better than chewing on some sherbert cardboard.

I've just had a star bar fact fans!!!

just thunked I'd share

See Yubec, now you know why I protested strongly upon this thread. Sherbet and cardboard are made for eachother !

Where they sherbert flying saucers "outside bits" made from cardboard as I used to love them

I had a friend who was "a bit odd" and he used to play at mass using flying saucers....Father Daz I think he is now !!

That just makes me think of Japanese secretaries photocopying their knickers.

In a Harold Steptoe accent.......'You dirty old man'.

(They don't do they)