Scummy food that hits the spot

[Rudy]

12 minutes ago, Whitestar said:

Working down south with a lad one time, he says I'm off to a sweet shop (he meant toffee shop) do you want anything? I said naah, aye go on, get us a spanish!.  

Nope, Clueless as to what i wanted.🤦🤷

Oooh yeah love a Spanish. My mate frequently used to rob the off cuts from swan lane mill and sell them at school 

[Youri McAnespie]

Spanish was rock hard, those yellow/red paper tubes of kaylie (Trebor?) had a stick of Spanish in the middle of the tube, poking out the top.

It was a more grown-up alternative to Dib-Dabs, which were a raspberry and orange two packs in one fizzy sherbet, with a third compartment with a yellow candy Stick for dipping.

Liquorice like Bertie Bassett or the twirls in Licquorice Allsorts is NOT Spanish.

Spanish also had a very dark brown interior even if the exterior was a high sheen black.

If you nearly pulled teeth out trying to break some off a stick - that's Spanish.

Edited September 22, 2021 by Youri McAnespie

[Rudy]

Spanish is the chewy liquorice with caylie in the middle isn’t it?

[MickyD]

28 minutes ago, Youri McAnespie said:

Spanish was rock hard, those yellow/red paper tubes of kaylie (Trebor?) had a stick of Spanish in the middle of the tube, poking out the top.

Hollow tube of spanish which encourages a child (me at the time) to use it like a drinking straw and choke half to death for trying it.

[Youri McAnespie]

4 minutes ago, MickyD said:

Hollow tube of spanish which encourages a child (me at the time) to use it like a drinking straw and choke half to death for trying it.

You must have bought the hollow one seperately.

It was a shiny rock hard solid piece iirc.

You sure you didn't bite the top off a Rainbow Crystals Flyer, tip the crystals into your gob then bite the bottom off to make your tube?

[Youri McAnespie]

27 minutes ago, Rudy said:

Spanish is the chewy liquorice with caylie in the middle isn’t it?

They're called Flyers, it is Spanish but in sheet/tube form it's not as tough as solid Spanish.

[MickyD]

Not sure how old you are but my childhood 100% had Sherbet Fountains with hollow liquorice. (I was born in 62 so I’m thinking around 67-69

[Youri McAnespie]

Younger than you...

Perhaps after a few kids suffocated they changed it.

But in my 'sweets' era, 80s, it was definitely rock hard and usually wazzed after dipping all the sherbet up, after nearly breaking teeth trying to bite some off...

[MickyD]

Just had a quick look on Google
 

https://www.thebritishsweetshop.com/the-life-of-a-sherbet-fountain/

Throughout apart of almost 100 years the Sherbet Fountain has been a favourite for us all so we thought we would put together a little history check for you to have a read of, maybe a few things you might not have known about your old school fav

In 1925 the first Sherbet Fountain went on sale, it was originally a concept of Henry Edward Brunt, It was sold and repackaged to Barratts who is a subsidiary of Tangerine Company.

The original Sherbet Fountain was packed in a paper roll filled with sweet tangy sherbet that was accompanied with a hollow stick of liquorice, the idea was you would bite the top off the stick of liquorice and suck through the sherbet, using the liquorice as a straw

it wasn’t till 2009 that they decided to convert to plastic and cover the famous stick of liquorice with a plastic cap and replace the hollow stick of liquorice with a solid stick so it turned into more of a sherbet dip.

It was quite a controversial move by Barratts as a lot of people remember growing up a licking the stuck sherbet of the side of the paper tube and the famous liquorice stick poking out the top, fast forward to the present day and we still have people disappointed that they have converted to plastic all being said this still doesn’t stop us buying a loving sherbet fountains as they are still as popular as ever and a sweet that’s getting passed down through generations and will forever have spot on our shelves

[bolton_blondie]

1 hour ago, Rudy said:

Spanish is the chewy liquorice with caylie in the middle isn’t it?

Flyers those. Get them In home bargains. Don't eat all of them in 1 go unless you want to shit your kecks 

[Tonge moor green jacket]

Liquorice is a bit crap unless wrapped in a blackcurrant flavoured crispy shell.

[Rudy]

1 hour ago, bolton_blondie said:

Flyers those. Get them In home bargains. Don't eat all of them in 1 go unless you want to shit your kecks 

Just been and got some

52 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Liquorice is a bit crap unless wrapped in a blackcurrant flavoured crispy shell.

Fuck that ends up with you feeling like you’re sucking on glass

[Tonge moor green jacket]

8 minutes ago, Rudy said:

Just been and got some

Fuck that ends up with you feeling like you’re sucking on glass

Haha, have you ever cut your tongue on one? I have.

Tend to chew the buggers now, but love em. Have a packet in the van.

[Rudy]

1 minute ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Haha, have you ever cut your tongue on one? I have.

Tend to chew the buggers now, but love em. Have a packet in the van.

Yeah I did so I bit it, but nearly broke a tooth then nearly ripped a tooth out 

 

[Tonge moor green jacket]

20 minutes ago, Rudy said:

Yeah I did so I bit it, but nearly broke a tooth then nearly ripped a tooth out 

 

That's cause you eat too maybe sweets!

 

[e2e4]

i remember the spanish stick in a sherbet being brown coloured on the inside. 

kinda soft too. like a pontefract cake

to me , i think the plain black chunk in bassets allsorts were more spanish tasting. must depend on when youre from. 

poison tasting toffees are a good laugh. better than actual lead based ones, anyway. 

 

[Whitestar]

I remember a Spanish being approx 7-8" long and approx 8mm diameter but the end couple of inches were flat and iirc had a bit of raised lettering on the flat bit ( might have imagined that) and they were indeed very hard and you rarely if ever ate a whole one.

You would normally buy a bag of kaylie to accumpampany the Spanish, rainbow was the preferred option but plain yellow or pink American cream soda were also available, again rarely finished as yer teeth had gone by this stage.

[Escobarp]

https://www.aquarterof.co.uk/bassetti
 

these are the fellas. I get them from the local old fashioned sweet shop. 

[Youri McAnespie]

3 hours ago, MickyD said:

Just had a quick look on Google
 

https://www.thebritishsweetshop.com/the-life-of-a-sherbet-fountain/

Throughout apart of almost 100 years the Sherbet Fountain has been a favourite for us all so we thought we would put together a little history check for you to have a read of, maybe a few things you might not have known about your old school fav

In 1925 the first Sherbet Fountain went on sale, it was originally a concept of Henry Edward Brunt, It was sold and repackaged to Barratts who is a subsidiary of Tangerine Company.

The original Sherbet Fountain was packed in a paper roll filled with sweet tangy sherbet that was accompanied with a hollow stick of liquorice, the idea was you would bite the top off the stick of liquorice and suck through the sherbet, using the liquorice as a straw

it wasn’t till 2009 that they decided to convert to plastic and cover the famous stick of liquorice with a plastic cap and replace the hollow stick of liquorice with a solid stick so it turned into more of a sherbet dip.

It was quite a controversial move by Barratts as a lot of people remember growing up a licking the stuck sherbet of the side of the paper tube and the famous liquorice stick poking out the top, fast forward to the present day and we still have people disappointed that they have converted to plastic all being said this still doesn’t stop us buying a loving sherbet fountains as they are still as popular as ever and a sweet that’s getting passed down through generations and will forever have spot on our shelves

 

11 minutes ago, Escobarp said:

https://www.aquarterof.co.uk/bassetti
 

these are the fellas. I get them from the local old fashioned sweet shop. 

They might have gone plastic in 2009 but the stick was solid, similar to Escobarp's ones in his link in the 1980's - neither use nor ornament after dabbing all the sherbet.

I remember ruefully chucking many a stick of it...

I went to Dib-Dabs, at least you could eat the yellow candy stick.

[Whitestar]

32 minutes ago, Escobarp said:

https://www.aquarterof.co.uk/bassetti
 

these are the fellas. I get them from the local old fashioned sweet shop. 

BOOM!!!!!!

Thats the exact one i was trying to describe.

Now that is a Spanish.

[Ghana White]

Has anyone mentioned parmo? Anyway I'm saying parmo, class dirty food

[bolton_blondie]

Just now, Ghana White said:

Has anyone mentioned parmo? Anyway I'm saying parmo, class dirty food

Isn't is a North East thing or am I getting confused with something else? 

[Ghana White]

Yep Teesside, hard to get a decent one outside the area

[tshape]

On 21/09/2021 at 13:27, Rudy said:

Has anyone ever had a frey bentos or a goblin pudding?

Or even worse burgers in a tin,

or full English in a tin?

Had a few fray bentos, thought I was mint cooking my first one as a kid. Used to have goblin pudding, proper chips and peas regularly for tea. Never touched a tinned burger but used to take tinned full Englishs to festivals when I could be arsed taking food. I'm still alive. Overweight but still alive

[MancWanderer]

1 hour ago, bolton_blondie said:

Isn't is a North East thing or am I getting confused with something else? 

Parmo is a compulsory prematch accompaniment to ale at Boro. Book yourself a cardiology appointment after though