Traditional British sweets

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Going down a wiki wormhole led me to this list of sweet treats. Which is the one most worth sacrificing your teeth to?

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Wine gums	4
Fudge	4
Pear drops	4
Honeycomb toffee	3
Fisherman's Friend	2
Flying saucer	1
Humbugs	1
Liquorice allsorts	1
Midget Gems	1
Sherbet powder	1
Soor ploom	1
Tablet	1
Aniseed ball	1
Dolly mixture	1
Bonfire toffee	1
Edinburgh rock	0
Barley sugar	0
Army & Navy	0
Star rock	0
Apple drops	0
Aniseed twist	0
Victory V	0
Pontefract cake	0
Berwick cockles	0
Pan drops	0
Blackpool rock	0
Lucky tatties	0
Liquorice	0
Jethart Snails	0
Butterscotch	0
Coltsfoot rock	0
Yellowman	0

― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 23 May 2017 20:59 (eight years ago)

No jazzies?

― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 23 May 2017 21:00 (eight years ago)

soor ploom, but can only eat a couple otherwise they cut my mouth up something rotten

― -_- (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 21:05 (eight years ago)

^^^^

― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 21:05 (eight years ago)

What no chocolate limes?

― del esdichado (NickB), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 21:06 (eight years ago)

Aniseed twist = cough candy amirite?

― del esdichado (NickB), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 21:07 (eight years ago)

I always hated flying saucers as a kid, even then I wondered why they had to encase sherbet in dissolving cardboard. A lot of these I think are a bit before my time, but I'm tempted to vote for soor ploom for the name alone

― ultros ultros-ghali, Tuesday, 23 May 2017 21:11 (eight years ago)

No rhubarb and custard?
No sherbert lemons? I ate one today and it destroyed my tongue.

― kinder, Tuesday, 23 May 2017 21:14 (eight years ago)

aniseed ball from this list

― spud called maris (darraghmac), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 21:15 (eight years ago)

you disgust me

― kinder, Tuesday, 23 May 2017 21:18 (eight years ago)

dont make me revisit our tussle from last month

― spud called maris (darraghmac), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 21:24 (eight years ago)

really though everton mints are the shit

― spud called maris (darraghmac), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 21:27 (eight years ago)

I have been straight craving these old school sherbet in Disney paper envelops. (not the orange flavor though. don't cut my shit, Disney)

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anyway.....sherbet powder ftw

― It's always (sunny successor), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 21:38 (eight years ago)

Fisherman's Friends because you can use them to make FISU, the greatest drink known to mankind.

― emil.y, Tuesday, 23 May 2017 21:39 (eight years ago)

Midget Gems are the best sweet ever.

― everything, Tuesday, 23 May 2017 21:51 (eight years ago)

lol fishermans friend? do people actually eat those like candy?

― i n f i n i t y (∞), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 22:16 (eight years ago)

damn i guess they do (just read about it)

― i n f i n i t y (∞), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 22:17 (eight years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Sunday, 4 June 2017 00:01 (eight years ago)

No Everton Mints? Or Buttermints? The marks an Spencer's mint assortment bag is severely underrepresented.

― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 4 June 2017 00:03 (eight years ago)

where's kola kubes

― Unchanging Window (Ross), Sunday, 4 June 2017 00:09 (eight years ago)

Been nice to have buy by weight sweets from jars shops reappear. I like to buy 3x 50g of different things normally a fruit sherbert, a different flavour bon bon and a 3rd flavour mixed in a bag to take to the cinema.
Can't overindulge too frequently though.
Slowly working my way through varieties.

― Stevolende, Sunday, 4 June 2017 00:58 (eight years ago)

there is not a single one here I dislike and reading the list is actually making me actively salivate

― boxedjoy, Sunday, 4 June 2017 09:36 (eight years ago)

Fisherman's Friends because you can use them to make FISU, the greatest drink known to mankind.

― emil.y, Tuesday, May 23, 2017 9:39 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Otm x 1000.

― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 4 June 2017 10:08 (eight years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Monday, 5 June 2017 00:01 (eight years ago)

what's FISU?

― Unchanging Window (Ross), Monday, 5 June 2017 00:12 (eight years ago)

Get some catharsis going by whacking the shit out of some Fisherman's Friends (I use either a hammer or rolling pin, whatever implement of destruction you choose is fine), mix them into vodka, let the concoction settle a little, then take a bath in God's piss. Glory be to Fisu, glory be to Finland.

― emil.y, Monday, 5 June 2017 00:46 (eight years ago)

:D <3

― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 5 June 2017 01:04 (eight years ago)

seven months pass...

just fucking discovered coltsfoot rock

my friends,

― #TeamHailing (imago), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 18:47 (seven years ago)

diabetes approacheth.

― #TeamHailing (imago), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 18:54 (seven years ago)

genuinely horrified by the sound of that fisherman’s friend concoction of emil.ys, I think I would probably cry if someone gave me that to drink

― faust apes (NickB), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 19:14 (seven years ago)

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