Favourite and least favourite sweets

[Nosher]

Inspired by eating in the 50's thread...

What was your favourite sweet from childhood?
Salt and Shake Crisps
Black Jacks and Fruit Salad
Milk Teeth

What was the sweet that made you vom
Cola Cubes
Sugared almonds
Cough Candy

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

+
Curley whirley
Rolos
Texan bars

-
Sugared almonds
Anything with desiccated coconut (ack-phooey to quote Peanuts)
Smokey bacon crisps/frazzled, I can sate them for weeks afterwards!

[Hertsblue]

Favourites:

Fisherman's Friends
Pineapple Chunks
Aniseed Balls
Palm toffee
Winter Mixture

Hates:

Nothing much. If it was sweet I'd eat it.

[Ferb]

Liked:
Acid drops
Sherbet crystals & Sherbet Lemons (basically anything with sherbet in it)
Blackjacks & Fruit salad chews
Butterscotch
Aniseed balls
Liquorice, especially the tubes filled with sherbet (yes I have tons of fillings )
I could go on....

Hated:
Caramac - too sickly
Sweet cigarettes and sweet tobacco - tasted awful (try selling those to kids now-a-days!)
Pink Shrimps - like eating papier mache
Parma Violets - yuech

[Techno]

Fruit salads....
Sherbert dips,
Acid drops (man)
Butterscotch.
Cadbury's Choccy bars...1d, 2d and 3d.

HATED anything with liquoriche (how do you spell that ?).....
Aniseed balls ......BAAAAARF !!!
Peanuts.

Cheers - Phil

[Fenton]

Dont like Lichoriche (not sure I can spell it either) at all

I always threw that bit away from Sherbet dips

I always through the walnut away from Walnut whips as well

[Techno]

I used to give the likkerish stick from a sherbert fountain away.....and just tip the sherbert in the tube into my gob.
Cheers - Phil

[Maenoferren]

Liked
Black bullets
Topic and Marathon
Space dust
Sherbert dib dabs

Disliked
Mint pacers... a sicly sweet minty sweet. I used to get fed them when I got car sick..... still can't face anything similar without feeling sick.
Butterscotch...bleurgh

[Fenton]

I used to give the likkerish stick from a sherbert fountain away.....and just tip the sherbert in the tube into my gob.
Cheers - Phil

Lickerswitch is just nasty

[Fenton]

I dont like Werthers originals either

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

I dont like Werthers originals either

Fenton they aint 50's


Liked most stuff except coconut.

IanS

[Techno]

Thanks for reminding me Ian......Can't stand coconut either.....YIK !!
Cheers - Phil.

[Fenton]

Fenton they aint 50's


Liked most stuff except coconut.

IanS

But this thread isnt about the 50's!

[petercooman]

I liked liquorice! Still do, i ate some a few hours ago 

Also love hartmints!



But absolutely detested the candy paper stuff 

[Orcs]

Liked

Texan Bars - They came back a few years ago for a short while
Black Jacks (8 for an old  penny)
Curley Wurley
Yorkie
Milk bottles
Princess mixure - was marzipan I think
Fruitella especially the banana flavoured ones

Disliked

Easter Eggs - When I was young eggs (normal ones) made me sick so I would not eat easter eggs even when told they were choclate
Sherbert pips- too fiddley
Any strawberry flavoured sweet