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16 Dec 14 - 06:39 PM (#3686383) Subject: Folklore: Children's sweets From: Paul Reade In these days of universal mass marketing it's nice to see everyday products which are still known by a variety of local names. Someone recently mentioned "sherbet" powder - you dipped a liquorice stick in it and then sucked it. When I was a kid in Oldham we always called it "kali" (pronounced "kale-eye"), and liquorice was also called "Spanish". Any other local variations? |
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16 Dec 14 - 10:43 PM (#3686412) Subject: RE: Folklore: Children's sweets From: LadyJean I never encountered anything like that. But I know that what, everywhere else in the world is called a Creme Horn, is called a ladylock here in Pittsburgh. |
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17 Dec 14 - 02:20 AM (#3686425) Subject: RE: Folklore: Children's sweets From: Manitas_at_home Sherbet dabs in London (UK). I seem to remember the liquorice being a tube through which you sucked the powder until it got too damp. For us Spanish was liquorice shaped and coloured like tobacco to go with your chocolate pipes and sweet chalk cigarettes. |
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17 Dec 14 - 05:53 AM (#3686453) Subject: RE: Folklore: Children's sweets From: GUEST,Ian Gill Sweets are still called 'cook - ooks' or 'cookers' in many parts of the Black Country. Sherbet powder is still called 'Kale -eye' - we are a fairly primitive people! |
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18 Dec 14 - 05:04 AM (#3686713) Subject: RE: Folklore: Children's sweets From: Mr Red Ah! Troach. A black-country delicay. A boiled sweet with a dark brown colour, originally made by Teddy Grays (Dudley) and Sela (West Brom). I am told Teddy Grays still manufacture. Sela sold out to Paynes in Newport S. Wales and that passed to Brays also of "Nuput". Most people cite aniseed as the flavour but it is a modified flavour thereof. Originally, before EC elf and siftie got on the case, the flavour was Paregoric though that had aniseed to hide the essential ingredient. Tincture of opium would be close though paregoric is about 1/20th the strength. "Army & Navy" had the same flavouring though much stronger - possibly less aniseed. Victory V lozenges had the same ingredient and any aniseed was barely discernible. Kaolin & Morphine medicine, unsurprisingly had the same kind of taste as Victory V. I still buy Troach whenever I can find it, the big advantage is that girlfriends don't particularly like them. All the more for me! |
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18 Dec 14 - 05:11 AM (#3686715) Subject: RE: Folklore: Children's sweets From: Mr Red bain't neva heard uv cook-ooks owr kid. But Kay-lie and Sherbert Dabs wus interchangeable werds. Wear wus yo frum? Can't uv bin the ded centa uv civilisation, Wedgebury. The very ded centa, ay it? |
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18 Dec 14 - 10:54 AM (#3686819) Subject: RE: Folklore: Children's sweets From: Penny S. We had sherbert fountains - with a cylindrical yellow pack with the licorice tube stuck in through a twisted top. Sweet tobacco in similar greeny/blue tubes - shredded coconut with cocoa colouring. Sherbert dabs were little toffees on lollipop rolled paper sticks with the sherbert in a little bag - can't remember clearly because I didn't buy them. Like Swizzels' chews on sticks they took too long to eat and didn't store well once started. Penny |
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18 Dec 14 - 11:17 AM (#3686827) Subject: RE: Folklore: Children's sweets From: GUEST,Sapper on TIC2, now at Forest Gate Jn T'other half, who works at Crich Tramway Museum, has lost count of the customers who come into the sweet shop, which specialises in vintage varieties of sweet, and proclaim, "Oohh! I remember them from when I was little. You can't get them anymore!!" whilst pointing at a full jar of their favourites recently delivered from the sweet wholesaler! |
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18 Dec 14 - 01:48 PM (#3686878) Subject: RE: Folklore: Children's sweets From: Peter the Squeezer I have fond memories of walking to school on cold winter mornings sucking Victory V lozenges. Much nicer taste that Fishermans Friends, but they didn't sing shantys. |
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18 Dec 14 - 02:36 PM (#3686891) Subject: RE: Folklore: Children's sweets From: Jack Campin Somebody ate those voluntarily? They're flavoured with diethyl ether. Having been anaesthetized with that stuff many times as a kid, they still make me want to puke 50 years later. |
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18 Dec 14 - 07:46 PM (#3686948) Subject: RE: Folklore: Children's sweets From: Bert Thet were sherbert dabs to us. Who remembers Spaceships? Flying saucer shaped wafers filled with sherbert. Do they still have sugar mice in the UK? I tell people about them here in Colorado, and they don't believe me. |
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19 Dec 14 - 07:48 AM (#3687072) Subject: RE: Folklore: Children's sweets From: GUEST, topsie I saw sugar mice in a 'party' shop in Guildford a few years ago, but when I went back the shop was gone. You CAN buy sugar mice on line though. |
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19 Dec 14 - 03:53 PM (#3687207) Subject: RE: Folklore: Children's sweets From: Michael Where I were brought up in North East Derbyshire, sweets were 'Spice'. In Hull they are 'goodies'. |
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23 Dec 14 - 01:54 PM (#3688133) Subject: RE: Folklore: Children's sweets From: Mr Red Parma Violets. They have been resurrected more recently. To many and it had deleterious effects on the atmosphere. Apparently they have sorted that problem. Gob Stoppers. |
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23 Dec 14 - 04:02 PM (#3688165) Subject: RE: Folklore: Children's sweets From: GUEST,Blandiver (Astray) Flying Saucers are alive and well. Buy 'em by the bucketful on ebay: 300 Flying Saucers UFO's Sherbet Filled Wholesale Retro Sweets New * On Tyneside sweets were always KET. |
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23 Dec 14 - 05:04 PM (#3688189) Subject: RE: Folklore: Children's sweets From: GUEST, topsie I used to like sherbet lemons - sucking the sweet until there was a small hole, and sucking the sherbet out through the hole. My other favourite was crunchy bars. Now I hardly ever eat sweets apart from dark chocolate (and proper Turkish delight when I can find it - not that chewy stuff made with gelatine). |