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Mint liquorice Allsorts

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Mordant Carnival

03:17 / 18.04.02

I like mint liquorice allsorts. Mint liquorice allsorts not only rock sweetiedom, but they rule, as well.

I live in London, so I am used to having all my needs and desires met in complex and unforgiveable ways; I can get cheap booze, smuggled tobacco, and overpriced absinthe; yet I cannot obtain mint liquorice allsorts.

Please explain.

the Fool

04:59 / 18.04.02

Anything you REALLY want is always in short supply...

Keggers From The Crypt

06:31 / 18.04.02

I've never heard of them...should I go looking for them or just kill myself on the offchance that they dont have them in Canada?

I was like that with Fizz candies..

Bear

10:21 / 18.04.02

Are these the ones with the little bobble bits on them? They're the only ones I like....

Shortfatdyke

10:30 / 18.04.02

mc, it's for your own good - liquorice, quite simply, is a construct of the devil. bertie bassett has terrified me in many a nightmare. try pear drops or rhubarb and custards instead.

Stoat-ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAH

12:57 / 18.04.02

And of course there was that Doctor Who with "The Happiness Patrol", in which (as I recall) a thinly-disguised Bertie Bassett drowned his political enemies (possibly including Jason Connery, though I may be mistaken) in big fuck-off tubes of liquid sweets...

fridgemagnet

13:24 / 18.04.02

"And of course there was that Doctor Who with "The Happiness Patrol", in which (as I recall) a thinly-disguised Bertie Bassett drowned his political enemies (possibly including Jason Connery, though I may be mistaken) in big fuck-off tubes of liquid sweets..."

You are surely having me on.

Okay, a thousand points to the first person to find a picture of that.

Nick's Experimental Wrongness

13:24 / 18.04.02

Did you know that, at least until a couple of years ago (when I lost contact with the industry) it was the received wisdom that you could not sell powdered sherbert in the southern United Kingdom during the winter. Apparently, the hardy northerners eat it all year round, but no one buys it in the south unless the Sun's shining.

fridgemagnet

13:27 / 18.04.02

okay, a thousand points to me

I can't believe they got away with that.

pinstripe fictionsuit

13:32 / 18.04.02

I sympathize, MC, I really do. But fuck mint liquorice allsorts. Why did they take away my favourite tastes-really-chemically-but-is-100%-natural fruit drink? And my favourite kalamata/green olives with rosemary and coriander... and that wonderful low-fat mushroom soup in a carton. They're evil, I tells ya, evil...

But strawberry laces are the best sweet anyway - you can tie them into interesting knots, and they taste lovely.

Bear

13:35 / 18.04.02

I'll think you'll find that Black Jacks were the best sweets ever (or possibly Wham bars)

Sax

13:37 / 18.04.02

Fruit Salad was the king of the penny tray.

pinstripe fictionsuit

13:37 / 18.04.02

Ugh, no. Fruit Cocktails are way nicer than Black Jacks. And what the hell is a Wham bar? Concentrated essence-of-George-Michael in a chewy sweet?

pinstripe fictionsuit

13:38 / 18.04.02

Bugger. Fruit Salad is what I meant. Sax got there first, and accurately.

fridgemagnet

13:38 / 18.04.02

Wham bars were sort of flat chewy fruit-type things with little spangly bits in them.

Liquorice in general is satan's poo.

Bear

13:42 / 18.04.02

From the BBC but I'm sure there are better sites out there, Jaw Breakers

we were banned from eating them at our school

Bear

13:43 / 18.04.02

Why do links never work for me !! there's meant to be a link above !!

Sax

13:45 / 18.04.02

Did anyone read that the Jubbly is set to make a comeback - but there's a big row over the ownership of the name?

Ariadne

13:45 / 18.04.02

The spangly bits in Wham bars sort of fizz and nip at your tongue. I love liquorice, even the salty stuff. But then I hate chocolate, so you can probably discount my opinions.

So you still get Stripers, those chewy bars that made the world go stripey?

pinstripe fictionsuit

13:46 / 18.04.02

Me and my best friend in primary school used to put the sherbert from 4 or so sherbert dips into a bowl, and eat it with spoons. Liquorice is disgusting (I sort of like the allsorts that look like the evil Bertie Basset's head though), but fruit-flavoured alternatives to liquorice are lovely - hence strawberry laces. And hurry, hurry, to your local health food shop, where if you are lucky you will find delicious 'Panda' raspberry or strawberry flavoured bars, right next to their icky liquorice.

Ariadne

13:46 / 18.04.02

And what are those space ship things, made out of polystyrene and sherbet?

Nick's Experimental Wrongness

13:46 / 18.04.02

Bear: It's a conspiracy. Tom and I go through your posts and mess with the html. Cal built a special 'bear-button' for it so no one can see the posts have been changed.

All moderators can do this to you, but most don't. All the other posters get a button which they can press to highlight all your posts in cerise or chartreuse, depending on mood.

pinstripe fictionsuit

13:48 / 18.04.02

Made the world go stripey? Surely that is not legal...

What about those mint flavoured chewy sweets? V. nice...

Sax

13:49 / 18.04.02

Ariadne - flying saucers. Nice. Tongue-tingly.

When I was growing up we had something we used to call "germoline bubblies", although I'm sure that wasn't the real name. They were little rectangles of chewing gum. That tasted of disinfectant. No shit.

pinstripe fictionsuit

13:49 / 18.04.02

Flying Saucers. Nice, but I am never sure if the pink is crushed beetle pink or not...so I avoid them these days...

Sax

13:50 / 18.04.02

This thread's growing faster than three Hubba-Bubbas chewed by a kid from Newcastle and blown into a massive bubble while being filmed on Record Breakers, while Norris McWhirter measures it with a pair of cardboard pincers...

pinstripe fictionsuit

13:50 / 18.04.02

Chrissakes. Sax is pipping me at the post every time... well, at least I got the name right this time, that's got to count for something. (stomps off in a huff)

fridgemagnet

13:50 / 18.04.02

apparently the official name for flying saucers was "satellite wafers"

not really so catchy

Nick's Experimental Wrongness

13:53 / 18.04.02

Does anyone else fondly remember 'Texan' bars - faux nougat with milk chocolate?

Because I want them back! I want them NOW!

fridgemagnet

13:55 / 18.04.02

it's the old 80s-kid-retro-sweet thing, it's addictive

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Pacers yet.

I was in a shop a while back when I suddenly shouted "CARAMAC!" I'd spotted a Caramac on the shelf. My friend shouted "WHERE???" and then we just pissed ourselves for about ten minutes. Now kids these days just wouldn't find that funny.

Sax

13:55 / 18.04.02

Fuck me, Nick! For no reason at all, I was having fond remembrances of Texan bars yesterday. I read a piece on Renee Zellweger, and she's always branded "Texan-born beauty" in newspaper features. Got me to thinking about Texan bars, and that cartoon cowboy who was quite sinister, with his hat pulled over his eyes.

All together now:

"A man's gotta chew, what a man's gotta chew!"

pinstripe fictionsuit

13:57 / 18.04.02

I think Pacers may be the mint chewy sweets I was referring to... only they weren't called Pacers by the time I got to them... ??

Ariadne

13:59 / 18.04.02

Does anyone else remember Argentina Chews, blue and white striped things? Only my sister and i ever remember them.

Bear

14:00 / 18.04.02

My invisible link had stuff about Texan bars, I don't remember them though.

I remembering the disinfectant ones though Sax, what the hell was that all about?

Fireballs

Kit-Cat Club

14:08 / 18.04.02

I still have a shameful thing for Tooty Frooties... and the jelly equivalent, temporary brain failure means I cannot remember them. But does anyone else remember 'Secret' bars? They were made of weird chocolate strands and in the middle was this sort of sub-Milky Way chocolate goo...

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