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Sweets that just weren't nice.

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  • #52
    tk123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,050 ✭✭✭✭tk123


    Black Jacks - yuk.


  • #53
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 51,827 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Don't let the stuff that passes as turkish delight over here put you off the real deal. Got a box of turkish delight from turkey with pistachio nut pieces in it. Absolutely divine and nothing like the turkish delight in the chocolate bars (which I like anyway).
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  • #54
    looksee
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    Turkish Delight and Parma Violets - yuck. Love liquorice tho, used to be something called Spanish that was very strong liquorice, also Imps, tiny little cushions of the same stuff. Don't like anything with rum or banana flavour - toffee with either of these flavours, though I like both rum and bananas. Also like aniseed but don't like those flat round sweets in liquorice all-sorts, the ones with tiny blue bobbles on them. And those hard pineapple chunks covered in sugar that would take the skin off your mouth.


  • #55
    dSTAR
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    looksee wrote:
    ...And those hard pineapple chunks covered in sugar that would take the skin off your mouth.
    Oh God yeah - I used to have mouth ulcers for a week whenever I ate those!


  • #56
    Capt'n Midnight
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    the pineapple ones were nice

    but the apple drops that tasted like chemicals

    http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/ethylacetate/smells.htm

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  • #57
    Nevyn
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    Pink panther bars, it was like eating pink wax.

    McCafferty's time bars had a bight yellow wrapper with bacl print on it with a clock face in the middle.
    I used to put them in the fridge and then brea it into peices before slowly eating it.


  • #58
    Blackjack
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    tk123 wrote:
    Black Jacks - yuk.
    Booo!!:p


  • #59
    babaduck
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    I really hated...

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  • #60
    dSTAR
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    Thaedydal wrote:
    Pink panther bars, it was like eating pink wax...
    Oh wow!

    I am glad someone remembers these. Funnily enough I used to love the smell and taste of 'em. They may also explain my fetish for wax!


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  • #61
    Schlemm
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    I hate Opal Fruits and sweets that resemble opal fruits (like Fruitella, etc)...bleh!
    Just chewy cubes of plastic and rottenness!

    Pick n Mix is also rotten! I OD'd on the pick n mix chocolate mice a while ago and I was so ill after! I swore off the filthy things on my sick bed in a fit of rage.

    One of the Quality Street chocolates has a fondant that resembles Calpol 6+ in colour, taste and texture. Terrifying.

    When I was younger I loathed Black Magic! We'd always have a box of em at the Panto every year and they'd be passed around in the dark after the show had started and you'd think it was something nice so you'd stuff about 50 chocolates in your gob....much spitting and whingeing would ensue! (But these days I love dark chocolate; wonder if BM are any nicer!)

    I must say that there are some 'disgusting' sweets which I absolutely love:

    Turkish Delight! (The cadbury one, the Fry's one, the genuine turkish delight with its layer of sugary dust....yummy!)

    Liquorice! (plain or in liquorice allsorts!)

    And finally, I absolutely loved.....
    THE COFFEE FONDANT ONE THAT USED TO BE IN ROSES!
    I wish they'd bring it back......:(


  • #62
    Pepe LeFrits
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    This thread seems to be an excuse to list off all the sweets that didn't taste completely generic. Sure, a lot of the stuff here wouldn't be to everyone's tastes, but if there wasn't stuff like this out there, sweets wouldn't be worth going near at all. It'd be all Dairy Milk, Polo Mints and Fruit Pastilles. Boring.


  • #63
    JimmNeutron
    Closed Accounts Posts: 171 ✭✭JimmNeutron


    Pepe LeFrits wrote:
    It'd be all Dairy Milk, Polo Mints and Fruit Pastilles. Boring.
    :eek: How dare you. Cadburys dairy milk is probably one of THE best bars around. Nothing beats it for quality, well, except for the more expensive bars like lindt and milka or the likes.


  • #64
    daiixi
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    Tar.Aldarion wrote:
    They are lovely, so are turkish delights.
    you realise that they are made out of real Turkish babies don't you? EW!

    I hate boiled sweets.. what a waste of sugar and colours.


  • #65
    Schlemm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 799 ✭✭✭Schlemm


    Pepe LeFrits wrote:
    This thread seems to be an excuse to list off all the sweets that didn't taste completely generic. Sure, a lot of the stuff here wouldn't be to everyone's tastes, but if there wasn't stuff like this out there, sweets wouldn't be worth going near at all. It'd be all Dairy Milk, Polo Mints and Fruit Pastilles. Boring.

    This is true, but originality doesn't have to be unpalatable!

    I love going abroad to places like Italy where a lot of sweets and desserts are based on almonds, honey, fruit, nuts, etc. Also Indian restaraunts often do lovely desserts using these types of things. They're also healthy! Some Scandinavain recipies for sweets and desserts often include things like ginger, nutmeg and cinnamon.

    It has to be said that Cadbury's Roses have become too generic and boring. They used to be nicer and now they're all just paste and milk chocolate. :(


  • #66
    Firetrap
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    Silvermints were never nice either. Neither were Toffos, Wagon Wheels, those fruit gums that take your fillings out, the horrible coffee flavoured Roses mentioned higher up the page, cola bottles not made by Haribo and those icky spongy sweets you can buy in pound shops.


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  • #67
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,454 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    What used to be nice was Rowntree Mackintosh chocolate, the smells from the factory in Kilmainham

    Kit Kat, Smarties, Aero, Fruit Pastilles, Rolo, Munchies, Quality Street, Polo

    They were taken over by Nestle back in the 80's, who took time out from selling powered milk to babies in the third world, to "introduce" a different chocolate formula and the result just wasn't as nice.



    It's a bit like coke really, I still reckon the taste changed when they took it off the market for a while, and I prefer the older version to such an extent that coke to me is now just another cola


  • #68
    Blackjack
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    allie_e17 wrote:
    Silvermints were never nice either. Neither were Toffos, Wagon Wheels, those fruit gums that take your fillings out, the horrible coffee flavoured Roses mentioned higher up the page, cola bottles not made by Haribo and those icky spongy sweets you can buy in pound shops.
    Sorry, but for me Toffo's were yummy. Mind you, it's been a long long time since I had Toffos.





















    mmmmm.........Toffos. :)


  • #69
    greine
    Registered Users Posts: 137 ✭✭greine


    Macaroon bars did it for me! When I wanted to look cool I'd have a Time bar or fruit salads, oooh yea baby!:D


  • #70
    johnnyrotten
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    c - 13 wrote:
    Chocolate ciggerates - Not only looked like sh!t, they tasted like it too..

    Golfballs chewing gum - Horrible, tasted like mint flavoured wallpaper.

    .

    I myself have never tasted wallpaper or sh!t , so I cannot comment ;)


  • #71
    sudzs
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    I liked the chalk latters!!!


    Anyone remember Patsy Pops (in the 70's!)
    They were bright orange icepops, fulla chemicals and very cheap! Once ate 6 of them all at once and spent the night throwing up luminous vomit. :(

    And Hunka-Chew bars?? They were 2 tone/flavour chew bars, only a few pence and had a shark on the wrapper.... there was a banana/chocolate one...mmmmmmmm!


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