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06-17-2010, 10:40 PM
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Cherry Lips.
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06-17-2010, 10:46 PM
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wood eye! wood eye!
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I miss having a sweet tooth. When I would divvy up any money I had into how many sweets it would buy instead of how much alcohol. The behaviour was similar though - we were only allowed sweets on Sundays after Mass. In the summer holidays I would sneak down to the shops, buy sweets and sit in the park to scoff them as I shared a bedroom with my saintly sister. When I was drinking heavily I'd do the same thing (the same shop!), except sneak the cans upstairs as I only share the room with Diz now. I used to pretend I'd put money into the charity tin to explain why I had none - or more recently that I'd paid a bill. Sigh. Anyway, back from self-flagellation. I do miss old fashioned sweet shops. There was one in Leicester. They have all the sweets in jars behind the counter and they are sold by weight. The penny sweets are beneath a glass counter top - you select them individually. And the smell! It's like mainlining childhood. Bought in quarters were Kola Kubes, Sherbet Lemons, BonBons (but I spat out the toffee in the middle) Pear Drops, Cola Balls (but I spat out the aniseed pip) Choc Limes, Rhubarb and Custard, Cola Pips. Penny sweet favourites - candy cigars and cigarettes, beer bottles, milk teeth (not the foam ones - I hated foam sweets - the dusty ones) cola laces, white mice. You can still buy most of these - as I say my sense of nostalgia comes from the fact that they no longer appeal to me. |
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06-18-2010, 07:55 AM
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We have to go back, Kate!
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Oh! I forgot: Tootsie rolls
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06-18-2010, 08:57 AM
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06-18-2010, 01:09 PM
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Good that it was made of actual rocks, otherwise her neck would get pretty sticky, especially in the summer.
My friend's kids love those candy necklaces on the stretchy cord ... they wear them and chew the candy beads off them at the same time. I was too fastidious of a kid to do that.
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06-18-2010, 01:16 PM
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I have one of those necklaces in my fridge at home...thanks for reminding me! I'll have it for dinner.
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06-18-2010, 03:43 PM
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Grape Licorice Laces.
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06-18-2010, 04:15 PM
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I didn't care so much about the powdered candy, I just thought the sticks tasted really good, vanilla-y, I think.
It looks like a pregnancy test in this picture but I assure you it's a Lik-m-stix. Now they call them Fun Dip. Fun Dip, is that supposed to sound better than Lik-m-stix? 
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06-18-2010, 09:16 PM
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06-18-2010, 09:59 PM
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I always liked red hot dollars, which were red chewy candy discs that taste like cherry vanilla. Now they make them with cinnamin. Ugh. Also used to like edible lipstick. It was chalky cherry flavoed pure sugar, and it tasted wonderful. Had to eat it in private tho, and weash it off after, because eating it made it look like you had lipstick on. Good way to get your ass kicked. OK, I'm done.
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 My older brother stops at the dollar store almost every sunday for little toys or things to give our nieces, and he usually remembers sis, too.
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06-19-2010, 11:17 AM
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We have to go back, Kate!
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We used to get those as kids. I think they were called DibDabs here?
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