So this weeks Listography is nice and simple. Top 5 favourite sweets from your childhood. Here's mine:
1. Fizzle Sticks.
These were little pastel coloured sticks that looked and tasted a bit like chalk. As far as I know they have now gone out of production. Funny that. They cost about 3p and I would often spend all of my pocket money on them. There doesn't seem to be any pictures of them around but you can join a Facebook page called 'Whatever-happened-to-Fizzle-Sticks'?
2. Bon-Bons.
A quarter of. White or yellow - but never the pink strawberry ones. They're a classic, just not sure my teeth would hold up to them now. In primary school our head mistress used to let us put our bony fingers into one of those huge tubs as a prize for being good. We could eat as many as we could manage to pick up with one hand. It was always five.
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3. Regal Crown
These were packets of boiled sweets that came in different flavours. My favourite were the sour cherry ones that you sucked like an old lady until they cut the roof of your mouth.
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4. Satin Cushions
I used to get these every Saturday morning from the shop down the road. In fact most of these sweets came from that shop. Unfortunately it was located right opposite our dentist, who used to tell my mother how many times I'd been in that week. I would destroy my remaining teeth with them lying on the sitting room floor in front of Tiz Woz (I'm showing my age here aren't I?).
5. Fish and Chips
These were white chocolate sweets that you could buy individually for a few pence. As a teenager I used to pop home from school for lunch and return laden down with these on order from most of the class.
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| Courtesy of thesweetshop.ie |
There are so many more that nearly made the list - but I'll leave them to you to rediscover.
All you need to do now is write your own list on your own blog and then come back and leave your details in the linky below.
Happy reminiscing!
