Childhood Treats

[Daisy]

At Christmas I bought some packs of Iced Gems. I hadn't seem them for years, but remember them as a top treat when I was a child. I don't like sweets at all, so Iced Gems were always my first choice. So I wondered if the grandchildren had ever seen them. Both GDs were delighted!

I've just made a coffee and noticed a couple of packets still in the cupboard. They clearly need eating up, but I had low expectations - they couldn't be as good as they were when I was little surely! They were! I licked the icing off most of them - yummy!

There's one packet left for another day, another delight.

[Oma]

We love iced gems and so did the GC , the coloured ones or the chocolate ones ,
still buy them now although the price is creeping up ,

I have always since being a child loved Rainbow drops and Sherbert flying saucers ,
Rainbow drops are my secret indulgence 😁

[Daisy]

Oma and Nanto, I'd forgotten about rainbow drops. I like them, too!

[Nanto2girls]

We buy iced gems. Both the coloured and chocolate ones.
I think we like the coloured ones best.
Also had a packet of rainbow drops a couple of weeks ago.

[Lizzie48]

When we were in the uk for a holiday my father always made sure that the boys got their rainbow drops!

[Gemini]

Iced gems are still fab, but be careful of the fillings on that hard icing

I loved barley sugar sticks as a child. A lovely amber colour with a swirly shape.

[Mimi]

When I was a child mum used to buy me a packet of iced gems as a treat .
I used to sit on the back doorstep, bite the iced gem hit off the top and give the biscuit base to our dog as I didn't like that part.
I feel guilty about it now, my poor mum was giving me a whole bag to myself and I fed half of it to the dog

I loved Rowntrees fruit gums .... I still remember the advert.... Don't forget the fruit gums mum !

[Gemini]

The dog would be pleased though Mimi

I loved Spangles, especially the Old English variety and Caramac bars, which I think you can still get.

[Oma]

Love Caramac but it stings your throat for some reason

[Daisy]

I remember all those sweets very well - we sold them in my parent's shop - but I always felt like an alien child because I didn't like any of them!

[Gemini]

Were there any sweets you did like Daisy?

You probably didn't like them because they were there. For me they were a very rare treat.

[Daisy]

Gem, I was 6 when we moved to the shop, and I didn't like them before then. I would eat a barley sugar if we were going in the car because it was supposed to be good for travel sickness, but I didn't enjoy it, and it didn't work either! I liked Smarties though and most chocolate although I would always choose dark chocolate. Everyone thought I could go and help myself from the shop, but it wouldn't have been allowed, even if I wanted to.

I remember finding a 6d (2 1/2p in decimal) outside school one day and went into the sweet shop next door and bought sherbert dips and gave them to my friends.

[Oma]

Daisy
I never really liked boiled sweets , I remember going to school and we had to pass a row of shops , a sweet shop and a grocers ,
My friends would go and line up in the sweet shop and I would go next door for a 1/4lb of grapes or a tangerine or whatever was in season at the time ,
My friends could never understand me either
I’m still a big lover of fruit , B loves his boiled sweets always has a big bowl on the worktop I never pick one .

I would occasionally have a sarsaparilla tablet 😁

[Plantaholic]

My childhood memories of eating sweets was very different as it was war time. We could buy sherbet dabs and loose sherbet which we dipped our fingers in. I think liquorice was available.. I can still remember buying Aero bars when things got back to normal.

[Daisy]

Plant, I remember sweets being on ration. In fact I earned my pocket money by sorting and counting the coupons to do the returns to the Ministry of Food for my Dad. I can remember liquorice "laces" in small cardboard boxes, packed with leaves.

Oma, I'm glad I wasn't the only one!