More lost sweets

[pyewacket]

And while I am on the subject...Apple Tarts! little round boiled sweets, they were red, yellow and green and were SO sour, if you were really unlucky, on top of making your eyes water, they would cut your tongue!! I also remember little bags of sour sugar with a lollipop to dip inside it, it was called...Goodness knows how to spell this...Kaylie. I'm certain somebody out there will be able to enlighten me and will remember these lovely things

[zgma]

Oh, I LOVED the little packets of sour sugar with the sweet stick to dip in... called FunDip in the US, and I think they still sell it, but I don't love it anymore. I used to just pour the sour sugar in my mouth, and not bother with the yucky sugar stick.

[pyewacket]

Thanks for your reply, I too didn't bother with the lollypop, it was just boring after the kick from the sour stuff. It's possible to buy Rainbow crystals here in UK which is more or less the same thing but nothing ever tastes as good as it used to when we were kids does it?

[zgma]

No, and besides, who wants to pour a mouthful of sugar in your mouth - yick. As a kid you don't notice the sick feeling after you do something like that.

[nicola_red]

Y'know there are loads of online shops selling these sort of retro sweets. Try www.aquarterof.co.uk or www.barleysugar.com.

[DrWu]

We Scots tend to call sherbet Kellie (or Kaylie as you mention). Ours came in a yellow tube with a piece of licorice sticking up through it. Even when I was a kid I realised I might be eating neat sugar mixed with chemicals...uurrgghhh!

[keirah]

yeah apple souez i used to get them when i was a kid in the sweet shop 4 10 or 20p f*****g burnt me tongue off

[pyewacket]

thanx Guys for your replies. The thing that I find a little scary is that I still love that sour sugar thing, chemicals and all! maybe I never really grew up !

[Xena1973]

The sherbet with the lolly was called Dip Dab and the other with the stick of liquorice used to be called Sherbet Fountains.