|
Post by Mr Stabby on Sept 28, 2018 19:32:44 GMT
Remember Imps, which were hot (in a tin too) and Victory V's. Seen Fisherman's Friends but not Victory V's. I prefer chocolate of any description. Rog Don't mind good quality chocolate very occasionally. Won't eat anything Cadbury's since they took the milk out and replaced it with stern gland grease. Used to like Old Jamaica but they don't make that any more.
|
|
|
Post by thebfg on Sept 28, 2018 19:37:58 GMT
wherever your driving tomorrow don't head for hampshire. there is a 60 mile detour for the m27 as it's closed at the m3 junction.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2018 19:39:09 GMT
Apparently Victory V's are still available from Wilko.
Imps aren't made anymore, but something called Nippits are the same under a different name.
You've set Jane off now, reliving her past by viewing Treasure Island Sweets online.
I used to love Old Jamaica.
Rog
|
|
|
Post by Mr Stabby on Sept 28, 2018 19:41:22 GMT
wherever your driving tomorrow don't head for hampshire. there is a 60 mile detour for the m27 as it's closed at the m3 junction. Two days off now so the furthest I'll be driving is Mr Patel's Special Brew emporium at Binley.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2018 19:57:42 GMT
Yes, I went to Pontefract today so I wasn't caught up in it, apart from being delayed slightly on the M6 between junctions 2 and 3 on the way back by traffic using the M1 and M6 to avoid the M40. Did you come home with plenty of rhubarb?
|
|
|
Post by Mr Stabby on Sept 28, 2018 20:04:47 GMT
Yes, I went to Pontefract today so I wasn't caught up in it, apart from being delayed slightly on the M6 between junctions 2 and 3 on the way back by traffic using the M1 and M6 to avoid the M40. Did you come home with plenty of rhubarb? No. Rhubarb is disgusting. If I'd had the room I would have partaken in a portion of chips because they do know how to cook chips properly in Yorkshire using rendered dead animals and none of this sunflower bollocks.
|
|
|
Post by ianali on Sept 28, 2018 21:23:48 GMT
Liquorice and red wine is a favourite combination of mine.
|
|
|
Post by Trina on Sept 28, 2018 21:52:42 GMT
Grey's Herbals...πTeddy Grey from Dudley made bostin sweets.He died not long ago but his sweets are still produced.What is good is that the Grey's sweet shop in Dudley is exactly the same as when I first went there in 1976.It had been going for years even then !
|
|
|
Post by mouse on Sept 28, 2018 21:55:10 GMT
Fishermanβs Friend! I would be very wary of one of those.
|
|
|
Post by naughtyfox on Sept 29, 2018 6:12:42 GMT
|
|
|
Post by Jim on Sept 29, 2018 6:17:24 GMT
Love Liquorice of all sorts, including the root. At primary school we used to get hard liquorice, about 3" long and 1/4" round and make Spo. Break up liquorice, put it in a small medicine bottle with corporation pop, leave in a dark cupboard. The method of imbibing was to shake the bottle till it frothed then suck the froth off. As for rhubarb, it's delicious, have 2 varieties growing in garden. Can't see what's not to like, but then I'm not a mardy arsed southerner. Which reminds me, met two girls coming over summit in a NB who had to spend a night in Newton Heath, rebar round the prop. They were a bit mithered by local scrotes but not so bad as some claim!
|
|
|
Post by naughtyfox on Sept 29, 2018 6:25:22 GMT
I've made a note to bring over some Finnish chocolate for dogbreath and Finnish liqourice for Jimbo. Bringing a rucksack this time, so we can bring our laundry home from the boat, plenty of room in it for the outbound flight Saturday after next. But how to get it to them... at Man Piccadilly 1050-1105, quite close to Jim. And then to Stafford & Penkridge.
|
|
|
Post by patty on Sept 29, 2018 6:25:42 GMT
There used to be tiny Liquorice parallelogram-shaped sweets called "Imps" which were sold in a small cardboard box, a bit like a matchbox, when I was younger. Haven't seen them for ages. Or Victory Vs. There are a few 'old fashioned' sweetshops cropping up selling our past memories at inflated prices...I wandered into one and out again... dunno if VV's are there I thought I'd seen Imps..but apparently not as they are not made anymore... I must have seen those alternatives.. I don't like Pontefract cakes they r slimy. Merry Maid toffees I tried to track down as my gran used to cut one in 4 to 'share' ..our Sunday treat, a quarter of a merry Maid toffee..I wanted to show my grand daughter my sweet allowance..
|
|
|
Post by JohnV on Sept 29, 2018 7:44:39 GMT
There used to be tiny Liquorice parallelogram-shaped sweets called "Imps" which were sold in a small cardboard box, a bit like a matchbox, when I was younger. Haven't seen them for ages. Or Victory Vs. Merry Maid toffees I tried to track down as my gran used to cut one in 4 to 'share' ..our Sunday treat, a quarter of a merry Maid toffee..I wanted to show my grand daughter my sweet allowance.. Ha !!! I'm old enough to remember the dreadful threat used to keep me under control ........ "If you don't stop that, you won't get your sweetie ration" and the terrible sight of when you didn't stop "that", of seeing the coupons torn out of the ration book !!!
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2018 18:02:08 GMT
I've made a note to bring over some Finnish chocolate for dogbreath and Finnish liqourice for Jimbo. Bringing a rucksack this time, so we can bring our laundry home from the boat, plenty of room in it for the outbound flight Saturday after next. But how to get it to them... at Man Piccadilly 1050-1105, quite close to Jim. And then to Stafford & Penkridge. Am I the 'dogbreath' to whom you refer? Rog
|
|