Sweet Memories

[ecm]

[Sandra]

[Gemini]

Lucky Tatties, Sherbet Dabs, Soor Plooms, Jubilees.

[Dadaist]

Hey Gemini I knew you guys were poor but Lucky Tatties? What's lucky about a spud? Did they at least dip them in sugar?

[Gemini]

Yeah! you were lucky if you got one after comin up frm long shift int mines lad!

Seriously - they were brill, they were pancake shaped - (great shape for a tattie!) - sort of cinnamon flavoured white toffee - covered in a sugary cinnamon flavoured powder - inside of the toffee was a wee plastic effort - a wee soldier or something - however there were rumours that in some of them there was a thruppence or a tanner - capatalist marketing even then haha.

Mini Lucky Tatties are sold in Asda .

Anyone else remember Lucky Tatties ?

[Dadaist]

Are you sure you didn't make them up? I'm going on to Google right now.

[Guest]

Yeah, I vaguely remember them. I had a thing about Curly Wurlys and I suddenly feel the need to tell you about this. I ate one every day of my school life for many years. One time, they had a competition and you had to collect the wrappers. I collected my wrappers for years, forgot about the competition but figured if they ever had another one I would have a head start. And they still make them except they're much smaller nowadays of course.

No wonder people of our generation have so many fillings!

[Dadaist]

Everyone. Stop what you are doing and go here :

http://www.mrsomalleys.co.uk/osc/eshop/

I defy anyone to not have ordered something. I am going for the cough drops. Oh my - this is some site.

Sweets. Mmm.

PS Gemini I am still researching the Tatties but early indications are that I apologise in a grovelling kind of way.....

[Gemini]

[Dadaist]

[Gemini]

[Dadaist]

I found some lucky tatties at last.

[Jamesie]

When I was at Porty High I had a tattie from Kitcheners every day. Not sure if it was ever a lucky one, but it was nice all the same.

The pain au chocolate are dangerous too - I put on a stone.

[Guest]

I'd say they were suckers for it!

[Dadaist]

[ecm]

[Beach Babe]

[Porty]

[Gemini]

[Sandra]

[Sandra]

[cornerboy]

[Guest]

And here's the link to their .

Note that the hidden plastic toy/coin is no longer available, no doubt for health and safety reasons.

[bellybabe]

I've not come across that site before but a kind friend once sent me the link to www.aquarterof.co.uk - same sort of thing, I assume.

I'm trying not to buy anything. I stepped on the scales whilst up north and have decided that scales in Inverness are LIARS. I hope. Or something to do with mass and weight and gravity changes because it's so much nearer to the north pole... Ahem.

But I love Hamilton's. And father-in-law, who we happen to be staying with, owns a sweet shop. Thank goodness we leave this den of temptation today. And start dieting tomorrow.

Sandra, we bought (no, actually, we stole it from grandad's shop) popping candy for the kids yesterday. I still love it. Space dust, we called it when I was a kid. And my favourite things from Hamilton's are sherbert lemons and lemon bonbons.

BB

[bellybabe]

Oh, and A quarter of has a page where they tell you what happened to the sweets that disppeared, like Spangles, Texan bars, Aztec bars...

[Dadaist]

I guess this is the best time and place to share this - I have a lifelong taste and preference for cough sweets. Ever since I was a kid my clear favourite sweets have been Tunes, Lockets (could seldom afford 'em though) and fishermans friends.

The disadvantage is price - Tunes have always been a bit dear but normally lumped in with the rest of the sweeties - but fishermans friends are priced a bit differently.

The advantage is nobody ever wanted one even when offered. I also liked Imps (tiny black liquorice pellets in a small plastic box) and the black extra-stong Mentholyptus.

C's own make - Edinburgh's finest (and only?) homemade sweetie shop sell a cherry menthol of their own making which I only buy occasionally as I'm pretty much guaranteed mouth ulcers after sucking a bag of them !!

I can honestly say that I prefer cough sweets to suck over anything. Mrs Dadaist thinks that, along with my fascination for strong coffee and curry, that I have fewer taste buds or something.

[Porty]

[Sandra]

[Epykat]

[ecm]

[ecm]

[Jay]