A trip down memory lane

[Zincubus]

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We used to go looking for hairy marys .....Oh stop it!!

Won't find many nowadays


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[tex]

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won't find many nowadays


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[Donald the Great]

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We used to go looking for hairy marys .....Oh stop it!!

Ok what are they. Or shouldnt I ask.

[tex]

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Ok what are they. Or shouldnt I ask.

Ignore Zincubus they are merely catterpillars

[Zincubus]

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Ignore Zincubus they are merely catterpillars

Well that's disappointing then


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[Donald the Great]

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Ok DYRers what was your fav confectionery growing up. You may or may not have read this account of my school days. But we were forbade lollies or chocolates by our draconian masters. My older brother was a a prefect in senior school so on Picture Nites he would arrange to have a huge bag of lollies transported to me surrepticiously. God help anyone who did not do as he said as he would put them on detention. Many boys, not including me as I was a chicken, would go awol down to the lollie shop in a nearby village. They risked severe detention if found out.

Sorry to digress. in those days we ate mostly boiled lollies but when I left school my horizons broadened considerably. I made up for my days of sweet tooth deprivation with all types of goodies. Did you have these in the UK?

[Donald the Great]

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Allens was Australia's favorite sweet manufacturer.

[Zincubus]

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Ok DYRers what was your fav confectionery growing up. You may or may not have read this account of my school days. But we were forbade lollies or chocolates by our draconian masters. My older brother was a a prefect in senior school so on Picture Nites he would arrange to have a huge bag of lollies transported to me surrepticiously. God help anyone who did not do as he said as he would put them on detention. Many boys, not including me as I was a chicken, would go awol down to the lollie shop in a nearby village. They risked severe detention if found out.

Sorry to digress. in those days we ate mostly boiled lollies but when I left school my horizons broadened considerably. I made up for my days of sweet tooth deprivation with all types of goodies. Did you have these in the UK?

We certainly did

The messages were very 'tame' though 50 + years ago of course

https://www.google.com/amp/s/metro.c...d-4962985/amp/


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[tex]

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More into chocolate than sweets, cinder toffee, poppets, fruit n nut but my fave sweets were and are chocolate limes

[Zincubus]

A trip down memory lane

More into chocolate than sweets, cinder toffee, poppets, fruit n nut but my fave sweets were and are chocolate limes

Cinder toffee is nice ... there's a mill near us sells all mane of things and there's an old fashioned toffee / sweet where they make their own old time toffees like Cinder toffee etc ... you can watch them making it as one wall is all glass !
There are tubs of free samples on the side all damaged/ imperfect.

I love Crunchie bars

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[Donald the Great]

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We certainly did

The messages were very 'tame' though 50 + years ago of course

https://www.google.com/amp/s/metro.c...d-4962985/amp/


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Well what about that eh. Still making them. Betting the idea tho came from the States. Sounds very Americana to me.

[Donald the Great]

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More into chocolate than sweets, cinder toffee, poppets, fruit n nut but my fave sweets were and are chocolate limes

tex do you get Darrell Lea confectionery in UK? They make the best choc bullets on the planet and their soft eating licorice is to die for.
http://www.dlea.com.au/

[Zincubus]

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tex do you get Darrell Lea confectionery in UK? They make the best choc bullets on the planet and their soft eating licorice is to die for.
http://www.dlea.com.au/

Nothing comes close to these Chocolate Balls !!


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[staffslad]

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I wasn't that fussy about sweets and chocolate when growing up, but chocolate was my confectionary of choice. I don't think I had a favourite, though those of a certain age may recall Aztec bars. I remember liking them a lot, but can now remember little about what they were like.

[tex]

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i wasn't that fussy about sweets and chocolate when growing up, but chocolate was my confectionary of choice. I don't think i had a favourite, though those of a certain age may recall aztec bars. I remember liking them a lot, but can now remember little about what they were like.

nougat,raisins i think.