Confectionery Of Years Gone By

[TheDonbytheDee]

1 hour ago, CurlsLikeTattie said:

Hmmmm, I believe I only ever knew them as red. Now I have serious, delayed 80s fomo!

I was thinking Reekie maybe meant Cola Bottles v Cola Cubes, as I can only remember red ones too, but I could well be wrong. 

I do remember Pineapple chunks, which were basically a Cola Cube, but yellow. 

 

Edited 17 hours ago by TheDonbytheDee

[Elgindon]

53 minutes ago, CurlsLikeTattie said:

Hmmmm, I believe I only ever knew them as red. Now I have serious, delayed 80s fomo!

I always found them a bit awkward size wise,...and you didnt want to accidentally swallow one whole..

[RicoS321]

1 minute ago, Elgindon said:

I always found them a bit awkward size wise,...and you didnt want to accidentally swallow one whole..

The biggest killer in the 70s and 80s I believe. Dangerous things.

[TheDonbytheDee]

My teeth have just fell out by just looking at that site, from the above link. 

Some affa fine things available, a hell of a price though. A pity we can't get them at 1970/80s prices.

I've had a hankering for a Golden Cup this week. Someone mentioned them at work a couple of days ago.  

50 minutes ago, BigAl said:

If you want to be like a kid in a sweet shop then get yourself onto this site 

https://www.thesweetiejar.co.uk/collections/retro-sweets/

 

[CurlsLikeTattie]

5 minutes ago, TheDonbytheDee said:

I do remember Pineapple chunks, which were basically a Cola Cube, but yellow. 

 

The only potential hazard being confusing them with urinal blocks 

[TheDonbytheDee]

6 minutes ago, Elgindon said:

I always found them a bit awkward size wise,...and you didnt want to accidentally swallow one whole..

I nearly died when I was six, after choking on a hard sweet. My Brother somehow managed to dislodge it from my throat, but I was lucky.

Didn't stop me eating them, which might actually have been a good thing. 

I was up at Ballater last year and was in the Dee Valley shop. Bought a bag of Soor Plooms, and although they were fine, I only ate the one and gave the rest to my loon. 

[RicoS321]

1 hour ago, TheDonbytheDee said:

I nearly died when I was six, after choking on a hard sweet. My Brother somehow managed to dislodge it from my throat, but I was lucky.

Didn't stop me eating them, which might actually have been a good thing. 

I was up at Ballater last year and was in the Dee Valley shop. Bought a bag of Soor Plooms, and although they were fine, I only ate the one and gave the rest to my loon. 

Have you considered that maybe you did die, and everything since has been just the construct of your soul making its way to heaven?

[CurlsLikeTattie]

37 minutes ago, RicoS321 said:

Have you considered that maybe you did die, and everything since has been just the construct of your soul making its way to heaven?

Who would have thought an innocent thread on sweeties could throw up such existential conundrums

[swaddon]

This place is definitely more intellectual than AbMad.

[Elgindon]

3 hours ago, RicoS321 said:

The biggest killer in the 70s and 80s I believe. Dangerous things.

Thoughts are with those still traumatised by being grabbed by the ankles and shoogled upside down to dislodge various sweeties...

[RicoS321]

2 hours ago, Elgindon said:

Thoughts are with those still traumatised by being grabbed by the ankles and shoogled upside down to dislodge various sweeties...

Shouldn't have put them up there in the first place 

[BigAl]

2 hours ago, Elgindon said:

Thoughts are with those still traumatised by being grabbed by the ankles and shoogled upside down to dislodge various sweeties...

At my school, those grabbed by the ankles and shoogled upside down only suffered only one fate and that was getting their head stuck doon the pan 

[Reekie_Red]

17 hours ago, BigAl said:

If you want to be like a kid in a sweet shop then get yourself onto this site 

https://www.thesweetiejar.co.uk/collections/retro-sweets/

What a site! Some honourable mentions id forgotten:

- Chewitts (or John Hewitts as i thought that were called)

- chocolate limes 

- double dip 

- fireball gobstoppers

- Lemon bonbons (these were the shiiiiizz)

- white mice ... around Halloween time, the stonehaven newsagents stocked White Mice with blood 

[TheDonbytheDee]

14 hours ago, swaddon said:

This place is definitely more intellectual than AbMad.

Aye, fae Dogs to Dogma, in a matter on minutes.

I'm beginning to think the Dons in Donstalk, has nothing to do with AFC at all, and more to do with the intellectual capabilities of contributors, ex AbMadders excluded of course.