In honour of Lent and in remembrance of all those times as a child that she gave up sweets for the 40 days, KateTakes5 has bestowed upon the Listography this week the theme of Retro Sweets.
I didn't eat that many sweets as a primary school child, mainly because my mum wouldn't buy them and I wasn't allowed to walk down to the town (I had no road sense until about 13) therefore sneakily buying some. It wasn't until I was in secondary school in Cardiff that I used to partake of this childhood ritual. My friend and I would disembark the bus, walk over to the newsagents who would patiently count out our 13p's worth of sweets (or whatever was left over from out lunch money).
I still adore penny sweets but hardly have them anymore; I like jelly and foam sweets, hubby likes fizzy ones which for me are a 'no-no'. Therefore I am casting my mind back in fondness to the following favourites:
- Milk bottles
- Cola bottles (The chewy ones not the hard ones, and definitely not the fizzy beasts)
- Foam bananas
- Chewy strawberries
- Fried eggs
Oh penny sweets! Remembered with fondness but I never really enjoyed them. I am a chocolate girl through and through. Tell me, what is Listography? x
I loved cola bottles – but the big flat ones they had years ago – the little ones just aren't the same 🙁
I love love love fizzy ones! Cola bottles, shoe laces, midget gems, cherry lips.. Two ounce of anything from those big tubs, and sherbet dip! Mmmmmm!
Ooooh I love all of those x
Mmmm I love all of those, although the banana ones would be my least favourite! All these lists of sweets really makes me want some…….NOW!
Fried eggs and cola bottles! yum! Although I love the "fizzy beasts"
what is a foam banana, is I may ask?! So the colonists didn't just get gipped on health care, eh?
A foam banana is a sweet. It's probably like a harder marshmallow in texture, best way I can think of describing it. And yes, you Americans are clearly deprived! 😉
Oooh I loved foam bananas. There is nothing quite like that synthetic banana smell 🙂