Which sweets(candy) remind you of childhood?

[Pappy]

A couple more:

 

[RadishRose]

Oh right, thanks Radish.So, this begs the question, who was this Mary Jane, and why are two items named after her?

I'm on the case, Oakapple. You have me curious now.

 

[Capt Lightning]

A sweet that has made a comeback in Scotland is Coulter's (Cooter's) Candy. This was an aniseed flavoured sweet made by Robert Coultard (1832-1880) in his kitchen and sold round the markets in the Borders towns.
An advertising 'jingle' was written and remains a popular Scottish folk song.

Ally bally, ally bally bee,
Sittin' on yer mammy's knee,
Greetin' for a wee bawbee,
Tae buy some Coulter's candy.

Poor wee Jeanie's gettin' awfy thin,
A rickle o' banes covered ower wi' skin,
Noo she's gettin' a wee double chin,
Wi' sookin' Coulter's Candy.

Mammy gie's ma thrifty doon,
Here's auld Coulter comin' roon',
Wi' a basket on his croon,
Selling Coulter's Candy.

Coulter he's a affa funny man,
He mak's his candy in a pan,
Awa an greet to yer ma,
Tae buy some Coulters candy.

Recently I found a 'Retro sweet' shop that sells Coultard's candy. Very nice.
I also miss 'Spangles' especially 'Olde English' flavour.

 

[Catraoine]

Sherbert Dips, and there were some others that were shaped like little flying saucers with sherbet in them. I can't remember the name though.

 

[ndynt]

For mid-morning snack, in elementary school, you could buy a Luncheon Bar. Never found them anyplace else. Every Saturday night my grandfather would bring me two Italian chocolates, dark chocolate, filled with a piece of fruit and liqueur. And something I have been searching many years for. Chinese restaurants, at the end of meal, gave you a piece of candy and a fortune cookie. The candy was a soft jelly, coated with toasted sesame seeds. My father would always buy me a small box of them...to take home. I would ration them. Can taste them still.

 

[Falcon]

I always liked to chaw on those chunks of solid licorice that was shaped like a plug of tobacco.

 

[Kadee]

Jaffa's , We would roll,them down the wooden floors in the picture theatres

 

[ndynt]

Looking at all the candy chosen here, I remember the little corner store. Rushing there, when given change, to buy some candy. Looking at the big selection, then choosing a large dill pickle...from the wooden pickle barrel. Was I the only child that preferred a pickle, instead of candy?

 

[Ameriscot]

I was one of the few that liked black licorice. Everybody else seemed to prefer red.

 

[Foxie]

I loved malted milk candy.

 

[chic]

I loved malted milk candy.

Foxie, do you mean those little chocolate covered malted milk balls? I used to love those too. I also loved Zero bars and would buy some at the drugstore every Saturday afternoon to bring to the movies with me.

 

[Shalimar]

Humbugs, black liquorice strings which we braided, and flavoured jello powder right out of the box. I tried the powder the other day, just for fun, fairly disgusting, but the purple lips and tongue were memorable. Lol.:love_heart:

 

[Rob]

For Christmas I always had one of these in my Christmas stocking ...



Some of these for Easter, they're still around now ...



And this on bonfire night ...



I've not seen it around for a long time but there was something called Kali (pron. kaylie) which was like sherbet but coarser and more crystalline and came in many different flavours, you would eat it with a dampened finger which always turned the same colour and took ages to wash out.



I had a hell of a job finding a picture as Google kept coming up with some nasty looking Hindu deity

 

[oakapple]

Well done Rob for finding these pics!I used to have those sweets too, just seeing the rainbow Kali made the sides of my mouth water, as it was both sweet and sour at the same time, and you had the coloured fingers for days!The sugar mouse was yummy too.