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Favourite sweeties?

  • 27-02-2015 12:33AM
    #1
    fussyonion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,827 ✭✭✭


    What's your favourite type of sweet?

    I don't mean chocolate now ya hear; I'm talking sweeties...be it LoveHearts or jellybeans, flying saucers or Skittles.
    I have a soft spot for Haribo StarMix, any cola bottles and Starburst.
    What 'bout you?


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Comments

  • #2
    CJ Haughey
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 449 ✭✭CJ Haughey


    I stopped eating sweets when i was 9, sweets are very bad for you.


  • #3
    JupiterKid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,955 ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Lemon flavoured Refreshers with the sherbet inside. Divine!:pac:


  • #4
    DrGreenthumb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 720 ✭✭✭DrGreenthumb


    I'd murder your first born for a bag of postman pat sweets, without remorse too


  • #5
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,746 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    Sean Connery, Billy Connolly and Gordon Strachan.


  • #6
    Arsemageddon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭Arsemageddon


    Liquorice allsorts, liquorice pipes, liquorice toffee, etc.

    I love liquorice


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  • #7
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    I have one sugar free mint per day.


  • #8
    Satriale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,998 ✭✭✭Satriale


    Toffifees. mmmmmm


  • #9
    Filmer Paradise
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,345 ✭✭✭Filmer Paradise


    CJ Haughey wrote: »
    I stopped eating sweets when i was 9, sweets are very bad for you.

    Ah, CJ. Weren't you not Terry Keane's very own 'Sweetie'?


  • #10
    PandaPoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,978 ✭✭✭PandaPoo


    I must be the only person on the planet, but I love parma violets. Everyone tells me they taste like perfume. If it was a perfume, id drink it.

    I also love those sugary bananas and jelly burgers you used to get on holidays. They have them in lidl now :)


  • #11
    siblers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,240 ✭✭✭✭siblers


    WWF chewing gum that came with a sticker wrapped around the gum. The flavour lasted for about 5 seconds..but it was a glorious 5 seconds..


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  • #12
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Those purple things.

    We had a family occasion in my mothers house recently and had a few bowls of sweets out for the kids. I, a 26 year old man child took all the purple things out of the bowls and hid them for myself and I'm not one bit ashamed :cool:


  • #13
    Miall108
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 433 ✭✭Miall108


    Theres a man that drives a distinctive white van who goes around giving out free sweets on the condition you get in the van. Worth it though


  • #14
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Miall108 wrote: »
    Theres a man that drives a distinctive white van who goes around giving out free sweets on the condition you get in the van. Worth it though

    Not in this day and age.


  • #15
    Mr. Remote Control
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 57 ✭✭Mr. Remote Control


    Sweetie pies.


  • #16
    fussyonion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,827 ✭✭✭fussyonion


    Mr. Remote Control wrote: »
    Sweetie pies.

    Cream pies? :rolleyes:


  • #17
    Copa Mundial
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 225 ✭✭Copa Mundial


    Skittles. Always Skittles. Sometimes Starbust. But always Skittles.


  • #18
    Mr. Remote Control
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 57 ✭✭Mr. Remote Control


    fussyonion wrote: »
    Cream pies? :rolleyes:

    Onion pies! Rollie eyes.


  • #19
    jamesbere
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,022 ✭✭✭jamesbere


    Cola bottles, love them.


  • #20
    Pretzill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,843 ✭✭✭Pretzill


    Midget Gems. Hard to get these days but have chewiness, fruitiness with a tangy flavour too.

    Jelly tots come a sugary second!


  • #21
    hfallada
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,179 ✭✭✭hfallada


    Piggies from M&S are amazing. Although super expensive these days. I also love Lemon Sherbets and Bon Bons.

    I dont know why dont really have much sweets here compared to the US and Germany. If you walk into a German version of Boots. There will like 50 versions of Haribos and dozens of other sweets. All we get is a not so nice version of Caburys


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  • #22
    madmaggie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,830 ✭✭✭madmaggie


    Fruit pastilles. I can't eat one or two, must eat the whole pack. I allow myself this indulgence a few times a year. :)


  • #23
    Filmer Paradise
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,345 ✭✭✭Filmer Paradise


    madmaggie wrote: »
    Fruit pastilles. I can't eat one or two, must eat the whole pack. I allow myself this indulgence a few times a year. :)

    Old fave of mine.

    These days my kids buy them & there's now a version called 'half & half'.

    Mom Mom!


  • #24
    Filmer Paradise
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,345 ✭✭✭Filmer Paradise


    Arsemageddon wrote: »
    Liquorice allsorts, liquorice pipes, liquorice toffee, etc.

    I love liquorice

    I love it too, but it can give you the Squits!


  • #25
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Penny sweets that you can still find on the counter in some rural newsagents. Cola bottles, jellybeans and the like.


  • #26
    idunno78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 856 ✭✭✭idunno78


    Pigs heads, milk teeth, sour dummy's/cola bottles.


  • #27
    PandaPoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,978 ✭✭✭PandaPoo


    Did anyone like white/pink mice? I wasn't a fan, would eat the white ones the odd time.

    Haven't seen them in years.


  • #28
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    Apple drops, yum.


  • #29
    dee_mc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,246 ✭✭✭dee_mc


    Black jelly beans are the business, green ones come a close second.
    Not a big fan of the 'gourmet' jelly beans but I found a little sweet shop near Carnegie Hall a few years ago, run by this little old Eastern European lady, and they had the most amazing margarita jelly beans, and coffee flavoured ones, unreal!


  • #30
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,321 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    What do you mean no chocolate, I could eat a whole bunch of Catch bars just now. :D:D:D

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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  • #31
    ProudDUB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,569 ✭✭✭✭ProudDUB


    Regal Crown's sour cherry sweets. They did a whole range...apple, lemon, orange etc etc but the sour cherry one was the bombdiggidy. Never see 'em in the shops anymore. Did Regal Crown go out of business, anyone know?


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