I used to open them all differently so they lasted longer 😂 I’d have one whole, then bite one in half, then take one side off and lick the sugar and then eat it bit by bit. 😂
Steve cautiously taking a little nibble of a flying saucer while UK viewers of his channel are screaming, en masse, you're supposed to stick the whole saucer in your mouth and enjoy the sensation of the outer coating dissolving and releasing the sherbet contents in your mouth 🤣
@@JimmiBiscuit Lol... The "coating" as you call it, is ricepaper...and my daughter and I used to buy sheets of ricepaper to eat on their own. I do love sherbet though!!
With the sherbert lemons, how many of you can remember cutting the roof of your mouth when the candy shell shattered into hundreds of shards when you are sucking all the sherbert out of the hole at the ends.
@@pixiedust1068 ha ha, you shouldn't do the two fruits together, next time eat the mint humbugs between to keep from scaring or any other physical harm or tongue scarring , I thought everyone knew that lol.
My mum would always buy chocolate limes for the drive down to Somerset for our holiday and never wondered why we were so sick i hate the damn things with a passion
I really miss SPANGLES, there were many flavours even a mint one with a hole, I loved the barleysugar one and the liquorice one which looked a dark green colour.
It's interesting that we look back on Spangles with such nostalgia, but when they were reintroduced in the mid 90s, they never really took off and were soon discontinued. I wonder if it was because you could only really find them in Woolworths at that time. Maybe they would have done better if they'd been more widely available. I mean, whoever just nipped into Woolies to get a packet of sweets (I'm not including the Pick 'n' Mix counter in this, of course!), we went to the corner shop for that! 🤔
I nearly choked on a spangle it was quite slippery and I swallowed it whole but it got stuck in my throat . I was walking behind my mum and a lady said I think your child is choking !
As children we loved the way Black Jacks turned our tongues black. I'm old enough to remember being given a "farthing" (a small coin worth a quarter of an old penny) to buy just one in the local sweet shop. You normally bought four for a penny, but I was a very young pre-schooler and I suspect this was the first time I bought anything for myself and the first time I held real money. It's also one of my earliest memories. Farthings went out of circulation soon after that - long before decimilisation - to become collectors items. Black jacks, of course, are still around, but I've no idea what they cost now.
Those packets Steve and Lindsey have are roughly £1.25 for a multi pack of 5, and have around 10 sweets per pack. I've also bought them by the bag for about the same price.
Parma violets smell and taste like potpourri. Fizzers on the other hand are yummy. I'd always swap my parma's with my brother and end up with all the fizzers 😀
"This is taking too long, I just want to pour the powder into my mouth" - congratulations, you've just had my entire childhood sweets experience in one go :)
I'd forgotten about spangled. Suck them until the dip in the middle turned into a hole. Used to get barley sugar as well but that ripped the insides of your cheeks to shreds if you weren't careful. Steve and Lindsey you need to know that as a child in the 1960s it wasn't that long since sugar rationing had ended (1953),so all the old favourites and many new ones were available. Those didn't look like "good" jelly babies and once again if they were hard on the outside they had been left too long. A decent jellybaby is a wonderful thing but it's years since I had a really good one
Oh Lindsay!!!!!😂😂😂😂 what do you normally eat. Comparing some of the sweets to chewing your grandma's clothes and eating laundry powder. You are SO funny!!! Love it when u both get the giggles! Is Sofia enjoying school? Nana Karen UK
Hi Karen! Glad we could entertain 😂 Sophia is adjusting to school slowly but she'll get there. There's parts she really enjoys and other parts that are taking more time to get used to. Thanks for asking ❤️
I can go back even further. We had Spangles, sweet cigarettes (white soft candy), sweet tobacco ( long strands of coconut dyed brown). Everlasting chewy strip, to name a few🤣.
For over 50 years I lived in a place called New Mills at the foot of the Peak District , it is the home of Swizzle Mattlow the maker of Parma Violets, Love Hearts and a whole host of childhood memories. With the wind in the right direction the scent of confectionery could carry a mile !
the only things missing was ... Cola Cubes, Pear Drops, Liquorish Allsorts, Wine Gums Gob Stoppers, Sherbet Fountain and Opal Fruits (which rebranded to Starburst in 98). but you can only try what you have been sent. which was all sweets that I use to have as a child in the 70's. the powder coating on the Jelly Baby's is Corn Flower, it is put in the molds to stop the jelly sticking.
@@PLuMUK54 I always classed the Gob Stoppers and Aniseed Balls as the same thing. I never bothered with Acid Drops as you would need to chuck a handful in your mouth at a time, as they was so small.
From the shit show that's happening in the UK at the moment - I love watching this content. It helps me forget about where my Country is going. Much love to you & Lindsay. Xxx
Black Jack is a type of "aniseed flavour chew" according to its packaging. It is a chewy confectionery manufactured under Valeo Confectionery's Barratt brand in UK and Spain. Introduced in the 1920s by Trebor, the wrapper originally showed gollywogs on it
@@nicholascarrington4202 Yeah, they (and I think Fruit Salads) were the iconic penny sweets when I was growing up because of that, unfortunately inflation took that away from us too. :(
I'm so glad you enjoyed my childhood sweets , Rhubarb and custards ❤ you must try making a Rhubarb crumble served hot with hot custard some time ,I find it interesting how textures can make or break a sweet for some people
We don’t have artificial colourings or flavours in our sweets. Blackcurrant flavour is very popular here. 90% of blackcurrants grown here go to make Ribera ( fruit drink that is to be diluted with water)
I've noticed in the US, 'sweets' refers to sugary sweets, chocolate etc as a whole. Growing up in the UK, I've only ever known 'sweets' to refer to the jelly/boiled etc sweets and never to chocolate. Going into supermarkets I see the aisle labelled as 'Chocolate & Sweets'. I think we'd group it all as 'confectionary' instead of just 'sweets'.
there are two things from my childhood which was the 70's, which is taboo now, the first was cany tobbaco in a little back, like they had on the western films of the day, where they hand rolled there cigarette, what was good about was the draw string bag, as marbles was a craze then, and the bag was great for marbles to take to school second was the candy cigarettes, white candy sticks, with red tip, in a box of 10, to look like 10 cigarettes of the day
@@Elaineshaw-d6m yes, they sound right now you have said it, i would suggest what sounds right to me, but im not 100% was gold rush, that would also play into the cartoons of the day
We grow tons of blackcurrants in the UK. Most of the crop goes to produce the Ribena soft drink. We also use it in pies, ice cream and deserts. You have very little of it in the States because it can carry a disease that can attack certain forests so you banned the import of blackcurrants.
The reason Americans don't have much experience with blackcurrent is because they banned the growing of them in the US because it spread an invasive species of fungus to your pine trees. Blackcurrent is very popular in Europe and Asia though.
@@simonorourke4465 love the mint poppet s, you can still get them, they did caramel candy sticks which wer nice and yes coconut mushrooms, still available,
Thorntons Treacle Toffee is sublime, hope you get to try that some time I had all of these things when I was a kid too. I don't know what happened with the Sherbet Lemons that had you thinking they'd be creamy in the middle? The powder you mentioned in the middle is the "Sherbet" part of the title. And yes, it is mighty sour lol! The York Fruits are more sweets you'd always find when you went to see your Nana/Gran etc Was surprised you both liked some of these as I know you're not huge sugar people. Also, if my wee Mum was to hear you badmouthing jelly babies like that she'd set about you 😛 The way Steve's face lit up when he tried that Fruitella was really something lol he looked like a little boy getting sweets after school lol was hilarious! The sugar crash is going to be epic from this!
Most of the Blackcurrants farmed in the uk, goes into the drink called’ Ribena’. You can get it in small or large cartons ready to drink, or in a bottle which you pour a small amount into a glass, and dilute it with water.
I think Steve would like Sweet Peanuts as he likes peanut butter and chocolate with peanuts in. They're a hard sweet/candy in the shape of peanuts in their shell. I'm sure as a kid they had chopped peanuts in the middle but now doubting myself.
@@vinnyganzano1930 Thanks Vinny. I was sure they did so thanks for confirming. A nice mix of sweet and salty. So many great sweets in the UK, especially the hard boiled ones. I love blackcurrant and liquorice too but not chocolate limes.
Steve, the BBC were just here interviewing my Son and we were watching you eating that Flying Saucer. I wouldn’t be surprised if you end up on the news tonight instead of my Son 😂
Fruitella are the older brand made since 1932. Starburst used to be called opal fruits and have been in the uk made by Mars Wrigleys since 1959. America has had them since 1967.
I am 50, and parma-violets were a very old-fashioned sweet when I was a kid associated with your grandma (but still available in shops, so I guess like me some kids still had them)
Yes, Smarties are made by Nestle so it’s chocolate inna thin candy shell. They’ve been around since 1937 when they were made by Rowntree’s in UK and soon after, in Australia.
Lindsay, please keep the Flying Saucers as airtight as possible because the wafer absorbs moisture from the air, and they’re much nicer to eat while still light and crispy. By the time you read this, it may be too late! 😊
Your black jacks really melted in transit! They are a sister product to the Fruit Salad and both are supposed to be very slightly harder and more chewy than Starburst/Fruitella. Its basically a liquorice flavour caramel/Taffy. Jelly Babies are variable, they are meant to be dry on the outside and soft on the inside but when manufacturers coat them with icing sugar (to stop them sticking together when fresh) it also has the side effect of drying them out over time. I prefer non-coated jelly babies.
If you work in a supermarket you will understand the feeling of picking up a box of flying saucers while not paying attention and nearly throwing it over your head. 😁
Fruit salads and Blackjacks were 'rewards' from the barber shop when I was little for sitting there quietly and not moving when you had a haircut.... how times (in 50 years) have changed
Never mind eating them as a kid I'm in my 60's and I still pig out on a Saturday night on most of those sweets. Flying saucers go in whole Steve. You and Lyndsay were just like two big kids eating these classics and I love your analysis of everything. You and Lyndsay always give me a good laugh. Cheers from Cheshire xx
I feel old but when i was younger we had "penny sweets" it basically was a little off licence owned by a independent shop owner, you would pick and mix your sweets until your bag was full, Now they are not really around since we sold most of our off-licences off to overseas companies, Alot of these new corner shops tried bringing it back, but the sweets are not as good and tend to be chewy rubbery with only a few "classics" if any classics at all
You know you can just tear the double dip packet further down to make it shallower 😂 and lemon sherbets has got sherbet in the middle the clue is in the name.
Sherbet is also cockney rhyming slang for an alcoholic drink, taken from sherbet dip - a sip. Going to the pub for a sherbet does not involve eating sweets.
Hi Guys , I remember when I was young popping to my local shop getting penny sweets two pence sweets pick 'n ' mix . Flying saucers cola bottles were my favourite.
I grow blackcurrants. Rarely get to eat them, because my pet rabbits and the wild birds get to them fast, but they are delicious, straight off the bush.
The black jellybabies (and most dark purple sweets in the UK) are blackcurrant, not grape. Blackcurrants used to be banned in the US so when they made sweets in the States, they had to make the black flavour grape instead of blackcurrants
@@bionicgeekgrrl Actually no, it was because blackcurrant trees were a disease carrier for a fungus which killed pine trees, so they banned them to protect the pine forests.
Im in my 60s when we went to a sweet shop and i did work in one for a while as a student. We would have jars of sweets we would measure in quarter or half pond paper bags. Choco;ate limes, Lemon sherbets, aniseed balls, acid drops, jelly beans, buttered chocolates, chocolate eclairs, cough drops, bon bons oh i could go on and on and on
Wow...all my childhood favorites. The Parma violets were presented as breath fresheners...when I go home for a visit I always come back to Canada with a backpack full of this stuff...and chocolate of course. You guys were hilarious today trying to share some of that stuff🥰🇨🇦
The fruit salad and black jacks used to be 1penny (old money)for 4 , a farthing for 1.. They were individually wrapped little squares, not in a packet… I am going back to the 60’s
During the 60s when we were at school every kid went to the sweet shop and bought black jacks and fruit salads which were sold separately. Your black jacks had melted. The powder in the sweets is called sherbet we bought that too in a bag with a hard liquorice stick. I think black jacks must be closed to a hundred years old.
I got them every Friday afternoon with my pocket money back in the late 70's in Scotland and ate them multiple different ways. But I get there's a nostalgia to how you ate certain sweets or even biscuits.
Refreshers are a small hard round sherbet sweet different flavours and colours. They used to be made by Trebor (Robert) spelt backwards. But one of our many well known sweet manufacturers lost to Kraft they own loads of our famous sweet names unfortunately.
Trebor before Kraft purchased the company had been making Trebor Refreshers in the UK since 1935, that's the only one I know never heard of the chewy bars.
The texture of a jelly baby is a result of the manufacturing process. The white powder is starch which is used help release them from the mould but the starch interacts with the jelly creating the different outside texture.
The starch is cornflour, it reacts to make a soft, thin, icing-like coating. It's used for the soft, pliable icing when icing a cake, to get a smooth finish. We have all the best ideas in the UK 😉
There are different types of Jelly Babies, the good ones aren't that hard and aren't covered in sugar like that. The softer ones like refresher, you're meant to suck them not chew them - stops them getting stuck in your teeth too. The drumstick you are *definately* supposed to suck, like a lolypop it's on a stick for a reason! No wonder you didn't like how hard and chewie it was, you're not supposed to do that. 😅
The only time I have ever been “drunk” was at university. Someone got me a McFlurry because they couldn’t believe I’d never had one. I had grown up without huge amounts of sugar so after that McFlurry I was signing out of the car window all the way back to our digs😂.
I am not ashamed to say that I have dyed my hair the colour of Fruit Salad sweets during college 😅 it was interesting during concerts 🤣 parma violets are my favourites
Its funny how you guys say the "taffy" style sweets are always very soft when here in england they are usually very hard until yourr halfway through eating them. Thats the weather difference i suppose 1/2 of the year its as cold as your fridge outside and a 1/4 of the year its as cold as your freezer 😂
I really enjoyed watching this vlog. There are so many more sweets to try. I would love to see a compilation video of things that you loved, and things that you hated, editing would be a lot so maybe in the future.
Black Jacks aren't liquorice, they are aniseed flavoured and are supposed to be sucked to soften then chewed. Hence many a child with black teeth, mouths and lips by the time they had eaten them! I used to love cherry lips, floral gums, strawberry sherbets, Spangles, banana or shrimp foams. My Aunt had a little corner shop which sold sweets from the jar and she would scoop them from the jar into little cone paper bags which she made herself. Glad you enjoyed your 'retro' sweet taste test and a trip down Memory Lane for us.
I can confidently say, that nobody on the history of this wonderful island, has EVER eaten a flying saucer the way Steve just did 😂
I used to nibble the edge off them then sit it on my tongue and press my tongue up to the roof of my mouth and burst them😁
I used to open them all differently so they lasted longer 😂
I’d have one whole, then bite one in half, then take one side off and lick the sugar and then eat it bit by bit. 😂
😂😂
Steve does do these things differently sometimes...bless him🤣🎩
Lol your swizzle stick got broke in 2 in transit 🎩🤣
🖐️ Hands up who remembers getting a 10p mix bag on the way to school?
10/10 to Lindsay for her first attempt at eating a UFO. Perfect technique 👍
🤚 yep.
✋being my age it was 6d!
🙌🏼 😊
@@CarolWoosey-ck2rg I'm not far off. When I was born money was barely decimal..
I used to get a bag of 20 ha'penny sweets
I worked in a corner shop for many years, and used to make up the 10p mixes! 😀
Steve cautiously taking a little nibble of a flying saucer while UK viewers of his channel are screaming, en masse, you're supposed to stick the whole saucer in your mouth and enjoy the sensation of the outer coating dissolving and releasing the sherbet contents in your mouth 🤣
I was one of the few happy with his actions as I always hated the coating of the saucers but would still buy them to rip open for the sherbet 😂
Yeah, you put them on your tongue and let them melt.
@@JimmiBiscuit
Lol... The "coating" as you call it, is ricepaper...and my daughter and I used to buy sheets of ricepaper to eat on their own. I do love sherbet though!!
tbh, as a kid everyone had their own way of eating these lol
I'm with Steve on this I never ate the container... But then it was never a chosen preference...
With the sherbert lemons, how many of you can remember cutting the roof of your mouth when the candy shell shattered into hundreds of shards when you are sucking all the sherbert out of the hole at the ends.
Still my travel sweet of choice. End up with a sliced tongue at the end of every long car journey
Still have the scar on my tongue since I was 11 thanks to a sherbert lemon after eating load of pear drops
Unsticking the last few from the paper bad was a pain.
@@85parrot lol Sherbet Lemon syndrome.
@@pixiedust1068 ha ha, you shouldn't do the two fruits together, next time eat the mint humbugs between to keep from scaring or any other physical harm or tongue scarring
, I thought everyone knew that lol.
Steve says the sherbet lemons have some sort of powder in the middle, the clue is in the name Steve.
😂😂true
I’m not sure sherbet is really a think in the US
😂state the obvious Steve
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Sherbet in the US is sorbet to us. So, no, they don't know what it means on the packet when it says Sherbet.
also, white mice, cigarette candy, cola cubes, pear drops, space dust, everton mints, uncle joes mint balls, fishermens friends, sherbet fountain, starburst, tictacs, chocolate limes, aniseed balls
I love cola cubes and chocolate limes, what about strawberry bon bons?
Used to get "tobacco" as well. Shreds of coconut
My mum would always buy chocolate limes for the drive down to Somerset for our holiday and never wondered why we were so sick i hate the damn things with a passion
All of the above and then some!
I honestly never liked white mice
Black Jacks and Fruit Salads used to be individually wrapped, and sold in school 'tuck shops' at 4 for a penny (old penny, pre-decimalisation).
I really miss SPANGLES, there were many flavours even a mint one with a hole, I loved the barleysugar one and the liquorice one which looked a dark green colour.
Spangles Olde English flavours, I adored them.
It's interesting that we look back on Spangles with such nostalgia, but when they were reintroduced in the mid 90s, they never really took off and were soon discontinued. I wonder if it was because you could only really find them in Woolworths at that time. Maybe they would have done better if they'd been more widely available. I mean, whoever just nipped into Woolies to get a packet of sweets (I'm not including the Pick 'n' Mix counter in this, of course!), we went to the corner shop for that! 🤔
I nearly choked on a spangle it was quite slippery and I swallowed it whole but it got stuck in my throat . I was walking behind my mum and a lady said I think your child is choking !
The Old English were the best- love aniseed and liquorice 😁
Flying saucers you just let melt in your mouth 😊
Yes indeed.
As children we loved the way Black Jacks turned our tongues black. I'm old enough to remember being given a "farthing" (a small coin worth a quarter of an old penny) to buy just one in the local sweet shop. You normally bought four for a penny, but I was a very young pre-schooler and I suspect this was the first time I bought anything for myself and the first time I held real money. It's also one of my earliest memories. Farthings went out of circulation soon after that - long before decimilisation - to become collectors items. Black jacks, of course, are still around, but I've no idea what they cost now.
Those packets Steve and Lindsey have are roughly £1.25 for a multi pack of 5, and have around 10 sweets per pack.
I've also bought them by the bag for about the same price.
Parma violets are the 'marmite' of the sweety world. Personally I love them but a lot of people don't.
I love them too
I can’t say I’ve ever been partial to them but meh, each to their own
I love Parma Violets also violet creams always get them for my birthday!
They are kind of gross, but I like them
Parma violets smell and taste like potpourri. Fizzers on the other hand are yummy. I'd always swap my parma's with my brother and end up with all the fizzers 😀
Parma Violets - you either love them or hate them - I love them!
I hate them!
So true . Me too !
Black currant and liquorice sweets are fabulous
Nearly everyone in Britain must have eaten every sweet ever invented during childhood.
I know I did ❤🍭
Well naturally! :)
remember rhubarb and custard ???
Hell yeah, you had to try them all when you were a kid.
Black jacks are not supposed to be like that those ones are completely melted! They also aren’t liquorice they’re aniseed and I love them 😊
Aniseed balls as well.
On the packet, it says licorice, not liquorice so people usually get confused and think it's liquorice
Black currents are very popular in the Uk . A super food too , rich in vitamin C and antioxidants. I eat lots with Greek Yougurt… so good
Blacurarant in the US is banned as it's classed as a invasive species your fun fact of the day.
"Parma Violets are like eating my grandma's clothes" 😅😂best description ever!! 👌😆
🤣🤣🤣
Its definitely a Marmite sweet, very few people like them while most consider their taste vile.
@@watcherzero5256
I love Parma Violets.
I like them but they do taste of grandmas drawers
😂
Watching Americans try blackcurrent for the first time is always so delightful! 😊❤
You got all the childhood sweets right, with the exception of York fruits, which is something your granny would have lol
Only granny could afford them 🤭 and they were usually brought out at Christmas
@@susansmiles2242 I was thinking they had a liquid centre....what were those called? They were also a Christmas thing.
@@julianbarber4708Meltis Fruits?
@@jennymckinnon9528 Could be! I wonder if they're still going?
My Gran loved Newberry Fruits.
Watching Steve on a sugar high is the funniest thing, love you both. Sherbet Lemons were Dumbledore favorite 'muggle' sweets.
Do any of my fellow Brits remember Wham! bars, neon pink, chewy and sprinkled with popping candy? Loved those as a kid.😉
Used to love those! Was sad when my local shops stopped selling them - I wasn't ready, lol! :)
That's one thing i never tried as a kid, i missed out there i think 👍
Definitely remember the Wham! Bars And iron bru bars.
@@rubilister9780I used to make them.My favourite McCowans sweetie was the fizzy Lizzy.
They still exist
"This is taking too long, I just want to pour the powder into my mouth" - congratulations, you've just had my entire childhood sweets experience in one go :)
hahah! Representing. :)
I adored black jacks as a kid and spangles. Special toffee used to come in a block with a small metal hammer so you could break it up.
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Spangles!
I'd forgotten about spangled. Suck them until the dip in the middle turned into a hole.
Used to get barley sugar as well but that ripped the insides of your cheeks to shreds if you weren't careful.
Steve and Lindsey you need to know that as a child in the 1960s it wasn't that long since sugar rationing had ended (1953),so all the old favourites and many new ones were available.
Those didn't look like "good" jelly babies and once again if they were hard on the outside they had been left too long.
A decent jellybaby is a wonderful thing but it's years since I had a really good one
Blue Bird toffee in a slab with a hammer.
@@sallyannwheeler6327 My dad was football coupon man and always brought me a pack of spangles when he came back from his round on a Friday night
Black Jacks are Aniseed, not Liquorice !
Some liquorice candy is flavoured with anise oil instead of or in combination with liquorice root extract, because anise has a very similar flavour.
Liquorice usually has aniseed added to give it flavour so easy mistake
I hate licorice but love aniseed
Yes I remember aniseed balls 😅@@lesleyfarrington4809
@@lesleyfarrington4809same 👍🏻
Oh Lindsay!!!!!😂😂😂😂 what do you normally eat. Comparing some of the sweets to chewing your grandma's clothes and eating laundry powder. You are SO funny!!! Love it when u both get the giggles! Is Sofia enjoying school? Nana Karen UK
Hi Karen! Glad we could entertain 😂 Sophia is adjusting to school slowly but she'll get there. There's parts she really enjoys and other parts that are taking more time to get used to. Thanks for asking ❤️
My mouth was watering at the rhubarb and custard, the sherbet lemons had me drooling lol. Loving your reactions x
I prefer sherbet strawberry sweets but not very often i can find them
I can go back even further. We had Spangles, sweet cigarettes (white soft candy), sweet tobacco ( long strands of coconut dyed brown). Everlasting chewy strip, to name a few🤣.
Don’t forget shrimps as well 😂
I had forgotten the everlasting strips!
Sweet tobacco is still around check mr simms sweet shops they sell it there.
Candy sticks were a favourite of mine as a little kid.
Gobstoppers, Lucky Bags, XL & Beech nut chewing gum from machines for a penny.
So many brilliant sweets now gone.
The way they squirm at the thought of sharing a lollipop is hilarious. They created a child together but saliva bugs them 😂
I'm with them on that- no way I'd share a lolly!
For over 50 years I lived in a place called New Mills at the foot of the Peak District , it is the home of Swizzle Mattlow the maker of Parma Violets, Love Hearts and a whole host of childhood memories. With the wind in the right direction the scent of confectionery could carry a mile !
I don’t live many miles from New Mills and always loved Swizzles sweets 🍭
@@susansmiles2242 yes all the local shops had them , if you had a few pennies they were usually spent on the sugary delights from the factory.
Once did a boat trip on the canal there and you could smell the factory long before you reached it ❤
Same! The smell when you go past is soooooo nice
the only things missing was ... Cola Cubes, Pear Drops, Liquorish Allsorts, Wine Gums Gob Stoppers, Sherbet Fountain and Opal Fruits (which rebranded to Starburst in 98). but you can only try what you have been sent. which was all sweets that I use to have as a child in the 70's.
the powder coating on the Jelly Baby's is Corn Flower, it is put in the molds to stop the jelly sticking.
Don't forget Acid Drops and Aniseed Balls.
@@PLuMUK54 I always classed the Gob Stoppers and Aniseed Balls as the same thing. I never bothered with Acid Drops as you would need to chuck a handful in your mouth at a time, as they was so small.
And Pineapple cubes . Bought in quarters .
@@lesleyriseam1282 or sometimes they was in the 1P or 2P jar, mixed in with Mojo chews, Blackjacks and the round pink Bubble Gum.
You used to be able to get sweet cigarettes and red packets of sweet tobacco too. Were delicious. Imagine the uproar if they were made now😂😂
From the shit show that's happening in the UK at the moment - I love watching this content. It helps me forget about where my Country is going. Much love to you & Lindsay. Xxx
Black jacks are not licorice, they are aniseed flavour.
Very similar flavour to be fair
Love black jacks and fruit salad💚💚💚☘️☘️☘️
@@oufc90 Not really, they are worlds apart.
Love black jacks and fruit salads💚💚💚☘️☘️☘️
@oufc90
Very different, I really like aniseed but hate liquorice.
I've had a really hard day but everything just vanishes when I watch you too. Thank you guys!! As always.
Black Jack is a type of "aniseed flavour chew" according to its packaging. It is a chewy confectionery manufactured under Valeo Confectionery's Barratt brand in UK and Spain. Introduced in the 1920s by Trebor, the wrapper originally showed gollywogs on it
Ah, I remember getting 4 for 1d, so for a £1, you could get 960! Of course, no one ever did!
@@nicholascarrington4202 Yeah, they (and I think Fruit Salads) were the iconic penny sweets when I was growing up because of that, unfortunately inflation took that away from us too. :(
The powder is called sherbet
I'm so glad you enjoyed my childhood sweets , Rhubarb and custards ❤ you must try making a Rhubarb crumble served hot with hot custard some time ,I find it interesting how textures can make or break a sweet for some people
We don’t have artificial colourings or flavours in our sweets. Blackcurrant flavour is very popular here. 90% of blackcurrants grown here go to make Ribera ( fruit drink that is to be diluted with water)
Ribena. lol.
And you have to try blackcurrant and liquorice sweets
I've noticed in the US, 'sweets' refers to sugary sweets, chocolate etc as a whole. Growing up in the UK, I've only ever known 'sweets' to refer to the jelly/boiled etc sweets and never to chocolate. Going into supermarkets I see the aisle labelled as 'Chocolate & Sweets'. I think we'd group it all as 'confectionary' instead of just 'sweets'.
Anyone else screaming "rip the packert down" when eating the double dip lll.
😂
I used to work at swizzels, that smell used to waft all over the town and beyond.
I hate licquorice, couldn't go to Pontefract in the summer, made me gip.
Haha like walking around Bourneville! The smell of chocolate in the air there is insane! 🤣
From memory black jacks used to be hard not soft..
Those ones have melted
there are two things from my childhood which was the 70's, which is taboo now, the first was cany tobbaco in a little back, like they had on the western films of the day, where they hand rolled there cigarette, what was good about was the draw string bag, as marbles was a craze then, and the bag was great for marbles to take to school
second was the candy cigarettes, white candy sticks, with red tip, in a box of 10, to look like 10 cigarettes of the day
Yes! The tobacco was the best!😁
@@sallyannwheeler6327 not to many remember it, it was one of my go to plus the bags lol
The one in bags was Gold Rush maybe?
There was also some called Pirates Gold.
@@Elaineshaw-d6m yes, they sound right now you have said it, i would suggest what sounds right to me, but im not 100% was gold rush, that would also play into the cartoons of the day
As kids in the 70s the newsagent/corner shop used to split those packs down and make up mixed little 10p (paper) bags which were always exciting
The good old days 👍👍👍 I miss the 10p paper sweetie bags .. I had as a child
Didn't they just use to have big glass jars of them all lined up on shelves behind the counter? Mine did!
@@HelenH-fk2jh Yeah they had that, but some I went to had 1 penny pick and mix. I would take 20p and just pick 20 of my favourites.
We grow tons of blackcurrants in the UK. Most of the crop goes to produce the Ribena soft drink. We also use it in pies, ice cream and deserts. You have very little of it in the States because it can carry a disease that can attack certain forests so you banned the import of blackcurrants.
The reason Americans don't have much experience with blackcurrent is because they banned the growing of them in the US because it spread an invasive species of fungus to your pine trees.
Blackcurrent is very popular in Europe and Asia though.
Yes!
The uptake of grape is I believe related to the abolition period as a way to use grapes legally.
Also there were Chewits, Spangles, toffo, pacers, sweet peanuts,
Loved toffos.
Ohh chewits! I'd forgotten all about them, they were delicious
Poppets, candy sticks and coconut mushrooms were favourites of mine.
@@simonorourke4465 love the mint poppet s, you can still get them, they did caramel candy sticks which wer nice and yes coconut mushrooms, still available,
The Black Jacks and Fruits Salads definitely need to go in the fridge for a bit.
They are very sweet because they are sweets.
That solves it! lol
"I dont really like the overly sweet stuff" as he is sitting in front of lots of sugar 🤣🤣
Thorntons Treacle Toffee is sublime, hope you get to try that some time
I had all of these things when I was a kid too. I don't know what happened with the Sherbet Lemons that had you thinking they'd be creamy in the middle? The powder you mentioned in the middle is the "Sherbet" part of the title. And yes, it is mighty sour lol! The York Fruits are more sweets you'd always find when you went to see your Nana/Gran etc
Was surprised you both liked some of these as I know you're not huge sugar people. Also, if my wee Mum was to hear you badmouthing jelly babies like that she'd set about you 😛
The way Steve's face lit up when he tried that Fruitella was really something lol he looked like a little boy getting sweets after school lol was hilarious! The sugar crash is going to be epic from this!
Most of the Blackcurrants farmed in the uk, goes into the drink called’ Ribena’. You can get it in small or large cartons ready to drink, or in a bottle which you pour a small amount into a glass, and dilute it with water.
I used to live near New Mills where the swizzles factory is and it smells so nice around there.
We moored up behind it in our narrowboat one night. The smell was amazing
I think Steve would like Sweet Peanuts as he likes peanut butter and chocolate with peanuts in. They're a hard sweet/candy in the shape of peanuts in their shell. I'm sure as a kid they had chopped peanuts in the middle but now doubting myself.
They did have chopped peanuts inside. I'm quite lucky there are still a few traditional shops in Glasgow selling those kinds of sweets.
@@vinnyganzano1930 Thanks Vinny. I was sure they did so thanks for confirming. A nice mix of sweet and salty. So many great sweets in the UK, especially the hard boiled ones. I love blackcurrant and liquorice too but not chocolate limes.
Steve, the BBC were just here interviewing my Son and we were watching you eating that Flying Saucer. I wouldn’t be surprised if you end up on the news tonight instead of my Son 😂
😂😂😂
hahaha! Oh man. 😅 I'll never be able to show my face in the UK if so. LOL
Fruitella are the older brand made since 1932. Starburst used to be called opal fruits and have been in the uk made by Mars Wrigleys since 1959. America has had them since 1967.
Don't know why they changed the name. Opal fruits were a favourite when I was a kid.
@@benwest6633 Same!
Imagine the joy in our house when we were chosen to tase test Spangles!
"Opal.fruits. Made to make your ....."
@@satsumamoon mouth water 😂
Drumstick lollies are the GOAT!!
Flying saucers are sherbet in rice paper.
I wish you had a sherbet fountain, I'd love to see what kind of mess you pair would make with it 😂
I am 50, and parma-violets were a very old-fashioned sweet when I was a kid associated with your grandma (but still available in shops, so I guess like me some kids still had them)
Having grown up in Yorkshire Bertie Bassett sweets are a local treasure ❤
My fave from that area is pontefract cakes
Yes, Smarties are made by Nestle so it’s chocolate inna thin candy shell. They’ve been around since 1937 when they were made by Rowntree’s in UK and soon after, in Australia.
Black jacks and fruit salads go together I remember as a child .
Lindsay, please keep the Flying Saucers as airtight as possible because the wafer absorbs moisture from the air, and they’re much nicer to eat while still light and crispy. By the time you read this, it may be too late! 😊
UK children drink a lot of blackcurrant juice
Your black jacks really melted in transit! They are a sister product to the Fruit Salad and both are supposed to be very slightly harder and more chewy than Starburst/Fruitella. Its basically a liquorice flavour caramel/Taffy. Jelly Babies are variable, they are meant to be dry on the outside and soft on the inside but when manufacturers coat them with icing sugar (to stop them sticking together when fresh) it also has the side effect of drying them out over time. I prefer non-coated jelly babies.
I don’t like jelly babies either but I love Black Jacks. We used to have a factory in our town and you could smell them in the air. 😋
If you work in a supermarket you will understand the feeling of picking up a box of flying saucers while not paying attention and nearly throwing it over your head. 😁
haha! Yeah, they weight basically nothing so I could see it 😂
Fruit salads and Blackjacks were 'rewards' from the barber shop when I was little for sitting there quietly and not moving when you had a haircut.... how times (in 50 years) have changed
they used to be 4 for an old penny.
York fruits ❤ Jelly sweets for grown ups ❤
They are absolutely delicious.
They've been one of my faves since I was kid and I still love them now at 49.
Which were the ones that were liquid in the centre?
@@gillfox9899newberry fruits.
Never mind eating them as a kid I'm in my 60's and I still pig out on a Saturday night on most of those sweets. Flying saucers go in whole Steve. You and Lyndsay were just like two big kids eating these classics and I love your analysis of everything. You and Lyndsay always give me a good laugh. Cheers from Cheshire xx
I feel old but when i was younger we had "penny sweets" it basically was a little off licence owned by a independent shop owner, you would pick and mix your sweets until your bag was full, Now they are not really around since we sold most of our off-licences off to overseas companies, Alot of these new corner shops tried bringing it back, but the sweets are not as good and tend to be chewy rubbery with only a few "classics" if any classics at all
You know you can just tear the double dip packet further down to make it shallower 😂 and lemon sherbets has got sherbet in the middle the clue is in the name.
Well that would have just been too easy! 😅
When I was young we had Spangles , Polo mints and gob stoppers. For the first 7 years of my life there was rationing.
Sherbet is also cockney rhyming slang for an alcoholic drink, taken from sherbet dip - a sip.
Going to the pub for a sherbet does not involve eating sweets.
You guys crack me up, you're so funny in a good way, loved this video. 👍🏻
Thanks for hanging out with us! :)
Hi Guys , I remember when I was young popping to my local shop getting penny sweets two pence sweets pick 'n ' mix . Flying saucers cola bottles were my favourite.
ha'penny sweets for me :-)
I grow blackcurrants. Rarely get to eat them, because my pet rabbits and the wild birds get to them fast, but they are delicious, straight off the bush.
The blackbird in my garden also like them straight off the bush . Now you see them now you dont . 😂
Never understood the fuss people make about them.
My dog used to strip the plant as soon as it was ripe. He liked them better than strawberries
They have to be ripe
Got a blackcurrant bush growing - no berries yet
The black jellybabies (and most dark purple sweets in the UK) are blackcurrant, not grape. Blackcurrants used to be banned in the US so when they made sweets in the States, they had to make the black flavour grape instead of blackcurrants
@@jkayrichardson3366 Dr. Pepper is bringing out a blackcurrant version.
It relates to the abolition period in the US I believe.
Blackcurrants were banned in the US because they carried a fungus that killed native pine trees.
That fake grape flavoured is so disgusting IMHO 😂
@@bionicgeekgrrl Actually no, it was because blackcurrant trees were a disease carrier for a fungus which killed pine trees, so they banned them to protect the pine forests.
Im in my 60s when we went to a sweet shop and i did work in one for a while as a student. We would have jars of sweets we would measure in quarter or half pond paper bags. Choco;ate limes, Lemon sherbets, aniseed balls, acid drops, jelly beans, buttered chocolates, chocolate eclairs, cough drops, bon bons oh i could go on and on and on
Top Tip: put the Frutella, Black Jacks and Refreshers in the fridge for a while to get them solid again.
I love jelly babies. The violet sweets is made from the flower violets thats why they taste like perfume. 😂. Xx
Wow...all my childhood favorites. The Parma violets were presented as breath fresheners...when I go home for a visit I always come back to Canada with a backpack full of this stuff...and chocolate of course. You guys were hilarious today trying to share some of that stuff🥰🇨🇦
The fruit salad and black jacks used to be 1penny (old money)for 4 , a farthing for 1.. They were individually wrapped little squares, not in a packet… I am going back to the 60’s
During the 60s when we were at school every kid went to the sweet shop and bought black jacks and fruit salads which were sold separately. Your black jacks had melted. The powder in the sweets is called sherbet we bought that too in a bag with a hard liquorice stick. I think black jacks must be closed to a hundred years old.
I have two blackcurrant trees/bushes in my garden. Makes a wonderful pie.
The UK summer climate is colder than the US, most of these would be a fair bit firmer in the UK
The parma violets are not meant to be sour, they're meant to be perfumed as they are a breath freshener.
Biting a flying saucer? Oh, those crazy Americans!
I got them every Friday afternoon with my pocket money back in the late 70's in Scotland and ate them multiple different ways. But I get there's a nostalgia to how you ate certain sweets or even biscuits.
I’ve never seen refreshers like those ones before. Refreshers are usually chewy bars or round and hard sweets that are chewy in the middle.
Yea they released the individual sweets in a stick about a decade ago
Refreshers are a small hard round sherbet sweet different flavours and colours. They used to be made by Trebor (Robert) spelt backwards. But one of our many well known sweet manufacturers lost to Kraft they own loads of our famous sweet names unfortunately.
@regd.2263 those are the candy type.
I personally prefer the refreshers chewy bars and lollies but both are good
Trebor before Kraft purchased the company had been making Trebor Refreshers in the UK since 1935, that's the only one I know never heard of the chewy bars.
@@regd.2263 that's fair enough 👍 I'm in the UK too and love all of the refreshers sweets be they chews or the lil round fizzy ones
The texture of a jelly baby is a result of the manufacturing process.
The white powder is starch which is used help release them from the mould but the starch interacts with the jelly creating the different outside texture.
The starch is cornflour, it reacts to make a soft, thin, icing-like coating.
It's used for the soft, pliable icing when icing a cake, to get a smooth finish.
We have all the best ideas in the UK 😉
@@Elaineshaw-d6m
We have a lot of great ideas but we discovered them accidentally or due to a lack of resources.
You should see if you have any blackberries growing wild & make a apple and BlackBerry crumble with custard
I agree the combination of apple and most of these dark berries works wonderfully well, especially in ciders🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺👍👍👍🤤
I live in the UK and I have made 15 jars of BlackBerry jam
Still do! Is delicious. Literally just made a rhubarb and apple one. Having some more later with custard.
@@heathermurray9939Ooo! Delicious!
Black jacks will dye your tongue black and the outside if flying saucer is rice paper so you just have to put it into your mouth and it will melt
There are different types of Jelly Babies, the good ones aren't that hard and aren't covered in sugar like that.
The softer ones like refresher, you're meant to suck them not chew them - stops them getting stuck in your teeth too.
The drumstick you are *definately* supposed to suck, like a lolypop it's on a stick for a reason! No wonder you didn't like how hard and chewie it was, you're not supposed to do that. 😅
The only time I have ever been “drunk” was at university. Someone got me a McFlurry because they couldn’t believe I’d never had one. I had grown up without huge amounts of sugar so after that McFlurry I was signing out of the car window all the way back to our digs😂.
I am not ashamed to say that I have dyed my hair the colour of Fruit Salad sweets during college 😅 it was interesting during concerts 🤣 parma violets are my favourites
Its funny how you guys say the "taffy" style sweets are always very soft when here in england they are usually very hard until yourr halfway through eating them. Thats the weather difference i suppose 1/2 of the year its as cold as your fridge outside and a 1/4 of the year its as cold as your freezer 😂
I really enjoyed watching this vlog. There are so many more sweets to try. I would love to see a compilation video of things that you loved, and things that you hated, editing would be a lot so maybe in the future.
Jelly babies are often recommended to diabetics incase they have a hypo as they are 75% sugar.
Black Jacks aren't liquorice, they are aniseed flavoured and are supposed to be sucked to soften then chewed. Hence many a child with black teeth, mouths and lips by the time they had eaten them! I used to love cherry lips, floral gums, strawberry sherbets, Spangles, banana or shrimp foams. My Aunt had a little corner shop which sold sweets from the jar and she would scoop them from the jar into little cone paper bags which she made herself. Glad you enjoyed your 'retro' sweet taste test and a trip down Memory Lane for us.
I can remember in the 1960s going to a local cafe to buy a quarter of cherry lips and floral gums. Also liked rhubarb rock and gumballs.