Think of your top 5 favorite childhood sweets.
That thought just makes me want to be Charlie and find a golden ticket. Oh my how I loved sweets, and here, thanks to Kate Takes 5 we have another great Listography.
My top five are going to be from around the age I was actually 5. My Mom and I lived in a street that had the most wonderful corner shop. The owner was a lovely old Gentleman who had the best selection of sweets, and I’d go down with my 20p and he’d even help me count my sweets. Because I wasn’t too good with numbers and adding at 5, ya’know.
Who would do that these days I wonder? Send their 5 year old girl to the corner shop on her own with a pocket full of change with an old sweet seller for company. It is sad how times have changed, but anyway. Here we go!
1. The ultimate, the one and only, champion of the candy world! TWIN CHERRIES
These have to be the epitome of the best sweets in the world. Forget Desert Island Disks – it’d be Desert Island Sweets and these boys would be coming with me.
2. Parma Violets. Strange, perfumy, remind me of Granny’s, but still yum.
Enough said really. In all honesty, I think they are a bit ‘wrong’, but oh-so-right.
3. Rhubarb and Custards – no, not the cartoon. These lovely boiled things.
Mmmmm, mmmmmm, mmmmmmmmm, mmmmm, MMMMM!
4. Beer Sweets – if that is what they are called?
I used to feel a bit naughty buying these ones and would try to gobble them all up before I got home and my Mom saw. I probably thought they’d get me drunk. Oh the innocent mind of a little girl.
5. Last but not least – Fizzy Cola Bottles!
Dearest Willy Wonka – you can shove the pathetic excuse for Fizzy Cola Bottles you make these days. I long for the old ones that made your eyes water, your nose stream and your tongue bleed.
My sincerest thanks to Kate, by the way, for making us think of sweets during Lent! Meany.
Oh, and also, thank you for giving me the wonderful idea to discuss having a sweetie/candy bar at our Wedding!
Who wants an invite? If just for for the sweet/candy bar?
Image above courtesy of Slater Sparke
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Wonderful list and such a beautifful blog. I think the idea of a sweetie table is completely inspired. Oh and I definitely want an invite
You’ll be more than welcome my ‘sweet’! ;o) xx
Parma Violets are lovely, another one that I think are an acquired taste! I stuck floral gums on my list. I love the idea of the sweet bar at your wedding, I would be stuck by it:) At our wedding for favours I bought mini packets of Love Hearts and used them as favours, and some other friends had big jars of sweets in the middle of each table, I think we had cola bottles and jelly beans on ours. It was a great ice breaker as people were digging in, and then swapping with other tables.
Ooooh, Love Hearts for favors is such a great idea. Definitely more tempting than sugared almonds. I must say, you might be alone on those Floral Gums.
Twin cherries definately gets the thumbs up with me. I don’t suppose you came across a Wham bar today? Thank you for popping by my blog so that I could visit your very lovely blog
I did, I did! Although they wanted 25p for the thing! I grabbed my Milk, and left sharpish (with a sneaky Giant Cola Bottle sweet in my mitts).
Didn’t like Parma violets or beer bottles, but cola bottles oh yes! My favourite. Also love the twin cherries too
Oooh, some lovely choices there! And you are so right about the fizzy cola bottles too! Todays just don’t compare
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