What has a more old peopley image-fudge, caramel, or toffee?

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Why are Werthers Originals strictly for false-teeth rocking grandpappys? They're great!

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)

cos if you actually still have teeth you might want to keep them!

― minna (minna), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 13:54 (twenty-two years ago)

No, no, they're for elderly perverts to lure children into their clutches with. Don't let the intarsia cardigans and carpet slippers fool you.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 13:56 (twenty-two years ago)

When were Werther's Originals actually launched? I'd never heard of them till that famous ad appeared about 10 years ago. Did they exist abroad before that?

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

ACtually, when I think old people candy I think about a bunch of hard butterscotch and cinnamon mints that have all melded together over time in a big glass candy dish.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 13:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Can you still get old-fashioned slabs of rock hard toffee that you had to break up with a toffee hammer? It was more like building material than confectionary.

― robster (robster), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Fudge, clearly.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 14:03 (twenty-two years ago)

PEANUT BRITTLE!

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 14:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I blame cornwall. Even Cadbury's fudge? It needs a makeover doesn't it? But it's nice and cheap.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think we have that in the UK, Chris. What is it?

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

old people rock u r all lightweights

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 14:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah, curiously Spanish OLD PEOPLE.

My granny's best receipt is for 'Polish Cake' (racialism quite possibly intended, it's what commoners call 'tiffin'), in which the words "put the biscuits in a teatowel and get at them with a rolling pin" are featured.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 14:13 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.thenutfactory.com/snack/halfsize/brittle-peanut.jpg

Its peanuts in some sort of rock hard toffee thing. Looks like puke. Tastes good.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

My gran always seems to have a few nasty old sugared almonds lying around...

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

We do have peanut brittle but it's not very popular. Mr Tom's is the main brand I think.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 14:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I do not believe this story. It smells fishy.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Aber die Geschichte ist echt wahr, Nick! Really!

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 15:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Sarah is OTM. Ribbon candy!!! How can candy taste like total gack?? I'm still not sure.

― Aaron W, Wednesday, 18 December 2002 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Also Mr. Tom is a poor substitute for actually good peanut brittle.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 15:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Sassafrass

― Genevieve, Wednesday, 18 December 2002 15:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Imagine a scuplture of Tom Ewing made of peanut brittle.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I suppose fudge has the most "old peopley" image from the three choices given, but I always associate those nasty sugar-coated jelly fruits with old people - especially the "orange and lemon slices", also Turkish Delight, liqueur chocolates, and the soft-centred ones (i.e. coffee, strawberry or orange fondant) from a box of Black Magic/Milk Tray/Dairy Box.

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 17:30 (twenty-two years ago)

NOUGAT!

― Graham (graham), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 17:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I say toffee.

I like fudge, especially country town fudge, with a postcard of a country cottage stuck on the box. But, fudge in any other flavour other than fudge is a big old dud.

Toffee gets stuck to my teeth and takes my fillings out (I'm British, I have bad teeth).

Caramel? No one eats that do they?

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 18:16 (twenty-two years ago)

TOFIFAY, IT'S TOO GOOD FOR KIDS!

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 18:40 (twenty-two years ago)

http://store4.yimg.com/I/candywarehouse_1715_126000126

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 18:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Sarah hit the nail on the head with that one.

― Simona (Simona), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 18:52 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.candydirect.com/images/web/244182-AA_prod.jpg

― Simona (Simona), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 18:53 (twenty-two years ago)

MURRY MINTS!

― DavidM (DavidM), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 20:45 (twenty-two years ago)

You Can't Hurry A Murray!

Fox's Glacier Mints! (Do they still make those?)

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 20:50 (twenty-two years ago)

haha I like nearly all the stuff here, especially the stuff CJ mentioned above. I confidently expect to get some orange and lemon slices and turkish delight as Christmas presents (that's generally about it from my mother). And I ate almost all the strawberry and orange creams in the big tin of chocolates one of the managers brought in this week.

= you're all right, obviously, as the board's pet senior citizen.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 21:02 (twenty-two years ago)

hard-boiled chocolate limes!

http://www.oldsweetshop.com/trolleyed/images/products/whchoclimes.jpg

― dwh (dwh), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 21:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Strawberry and Orange Creams are the only nice chocolates in those bastard tins of Roses and Quality Street anyway, EVER WONDER WHY EVERYONE ALWAYS TAKES THE DAIRY MILK ONES FIRST EH CADBURYS? EH?

Celebrations and to a lesser extent miniature heros have made the above dinosaurs extinct like dinosaurs.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 21:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, it was Roses. I quite like the fudge and caramel as well, being old.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 21:50 (twenty-two years ago)

martin is just showing off: all he actually ever eats = salad

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 22:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Old foax -> Scotch mints

― Poppy (poppy), Thursday, 19 December 2002 02:33 (twenty-two years ago)

One grandad is a big fan of stem ginger (jars of) and the other was a chocolate brazils man. One Nanna used to buy me barley sugars to suck on planes but has now gone over to Werthers, which she calls Wertners. I can't stand them. The other Nanna doesn't have much of a sweet tooth.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 19 December 2002 09:47 (twenty-two years ago)

It makes me sad when old people insist on idiosyncratic pronunciations.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 19 December 2002 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Also why do normal maltesers have to be less nice than celebrations maltesers? (this is my stand up comedian routine) What's that all about eh? Thanks you've been great.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 19 December 2002 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

barley sugars, of course! also, eucalyptus diamonds

― minna (minna), Thursday, 19 December 2002 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

five months pass...

I could really do with some fudge right now.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 22 May 2003 22:25 (twenty-two years ago)

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