There used to be a great little sweet shop in the village when I was small.
Sat in the heart of the village, and across from the village green, was situated the local grocery shop that had an old fashioned till, a long counter and shelves upon shelves behind it filled with heavy jars with screw top lids.
Filled to the brim with proper, old fashioned sweets that the shopkeeper used to dive into, weigh out onto his scales and tip into your paper bag before totting up the price on his piece of paper he kept next to the till. (None of your fancy till doing the work for you back then.)
To small children, the sweets were a great sight, and especially the penny sweets. You could fill your bag for 10p back when penny sweets were just that – a penny.
Now you’d be lucky to get one sweet for 10p, never mind ten.
These were the firm favourites:
Cola cubes
One of these would last for ages. Mmmm
Sherbert lemons
One of my all time favourites. Suck it until you get to the middle and all the fizz explodes on your tongue…..
The best time of the week was when we could go and choose what sweet to have out of the many jars.
Or, if you wanted to help yourself to the pick and mix bit opposite the counter, these were always the best to go for:
Fried egg sweets
Squidgy yumminess.
Popping candy
Recently introduced to my two on holiday, and they found it hilarious when it all started exploding in their mouth. Should have had a camera handy for the expressions…. I had to have some myself of course, for nostalgia’s sake…. đ
Chewy bananas
Squashy little mallow type bananas. I used to love these things.
It’s a wonder all my teeth haven’t fallen out over the years, really…..
What were your favourite sweets? Do you have any sweet memories?! To see what others chomped away on, visit http://saveeverystep.wordpress.com/2012/07/17/penny-chews-lifes-a-journey-link-up-week-27/
I have just bought a birthday pressie from A Quarter Of
http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/
You would probs like it over there. So many retro sweets.
Louise
@LJB41
Oooh, I’ve visited that website before and it looks FANTASTIC! Not bought anything from it yet, but I definitely should! đ
Awesome Wendy! I loved a cola cube, and pineapple chunks!!! Thanks so much for taking part in the Linky this week!!!
Mmmm, pineapple chunks – how could I forget about those?!
I remember when you used to get TWO sweets for a penny sometimes. I used to like candy skulls, white chocolate with strawberry centres! And red laces, we used to torture the tuck shop girls by asking for 50!
We have an old fashioned sweet shop in our town. It’s doing very well, although I do have to ration myself – to just a couple of gobstoppers at a time x.
Love all of them! Anyone remember Pacers? Like opal fruits or whatever they’re called now! But minty?
I’ve heard of the name Pacers, but I don’t remember them being in the shops when I was small (my childhood being in the mid 80’s.)
I definitely remember Opal fruits though! Or Starburst, as they’re called nowadays. Pah, who are they trying to kid?! They’ll always be Opal Fruits to me! đ