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Heard on the radio this morning... And though I sorta agree with number 1 (Parma Violets) I can't condone any "top 5 worst sweets" list that has toasted coconut teacakes in it... Anyway, personally I think these foul monstrosities are far worse...in no particular order.. 1) Fruit Gums. Yellow packet with foil inside, and completely indigestible lumps of multicoloured goo that would stick to your teeth for hours. Always asked my Gran for Fruit Pastilles (which are nice!) but got these instead. Blecchhh!! 2) Pomfret Cakes. Round sheep-dropping shaped lumps of liquorice. I usually like liquorice but these are vile. 3) Not sure what they're called but they look like mini amphetamine tablets. Sugar casing on the outside, liquorice in the middle. I think they're called Dragees or something and they're bloody nasty. 4) Banjo bars. I don't think you can get them any more but they were sort of like a Time Out with reconstituted peanut shit in the middle. Utterly yackworthy 5) The bubble gum from any trading cards. Razor sharp, tasteless, guaranteed to lacerate your cheeks to bits. Peej |
Top 5 worst sweets ever...
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pjmaybe 70,666 posts
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Parma Violets are evil. Closely behind them must be Midget Gems. They fool you by looking like mini wine gums but then unleash the full horror of their "my god these taste like bloody perfume" flavour on you only when you have a mouthful of them. Down with this sort of thing. -
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Registered 20 years agoBill Door wrote:
The new smaller redesigned mars bar. Its for girls. apparently radio 2 mounted a campaign to get the mars bar shrunk as none of its listeners could manage a whole one in one go. cunts.
/eats double decker instead
Is that right? I thought it was an evil marketing campaign to sell those "King sized" ones. Mind you, I feel really sick after eating either a king sized mars or snickers. Now, king sized Twix, that's a different story.
Thought of another one...
The coffee flavoured Revels. Actually ALL Revels except the button ones
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lost_soul 9,372 posts
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Registered 19 years agoWeren't midget gems the little bits of biscuit with a dollop of dried icing on top? -
pjmaybe 70,666 posts
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Registered 20 years agoNo they're called Iced Gems. Midget Gems are tiny bits of "fruit flavoured" pork gelatin evilly dressed up as sweeties to entice young kids into a lifetime of scoffing reconstituted liquified pork bone...!
But the things you mention Lostie, they are also evil. The icing bit is OK but the biscuit bit is like eating half-baked toilet roll tubes, flavour wise.
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Registered 17 years agoFozzie_bear wrote:
Parma Violets are evil. Closely behind them must be Midget Gems. They fool you by looking like mini wine gums but then unleash the full horror of their "my god these taste like bloody perfume" flavour on you only when you have a mouthful of them. Down with this sort of thing.
Now, I'm with you on the Parma Violets thing, being as they are little purple pieces of Beelzebub's rectal outpournings, but Lion's Midget Gems (and the associated Sports Mixture) are the dog's danglies. -
Dr.Haggard 4,641 posts
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Registered 18 years agoThose little white 'chocolate' mice evil newsagents used to sneak into my 10p mix. I can't stand fake chocolate it makes me feel sick.
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Dougs 100,414 posts
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Registered 18 years agoI have to say, Parma Violets get my vote too. Although anything vaguely chocolate-orange/strawberry comes a very close second. -
boo 13,901 posts
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Registered 18 years agoChocolate limes...
Confectionery of Satan. -
RubyRed 4,303 posts
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Registered 18 years agoSweet peanuts. -
boo wrote:
Chocolate limes...
Confectionery of Satan.
Wow! I had completely forgotten about them! My Nan used to get a stash of these in for whenever I visited, and she had lime marmalade too... -
pjmaybe 70,666 posts
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Sweet peanuts.
Are those the things you see dodgy street sellers selling? It looks like they're mixing up a huge steel bowl of peanuts covered in Orang-utan faeces...?
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Larkhill-Jo 32 posts
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Registered 17 years ago3) Not sure what they're called but they look like mini amphetamine tablets. Sugar casing on the outside, liquorice in the middle. I think they're called Dragees or something and they're bloody nasty.
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boo 13,901 posts
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Registered 18 years agopjmaybe wrote:
...covered in Orang-utan faeces...?
Peej
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pjmaybe 70,666 posts
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Registered 20 years agoLarkhill Jo wrote:
3) Not sure what they're called but they look like mini amphetamine tablets. Sugar casing on the outside, liquorice in the middle. I think they're called Dragees or something and they're bloody nasty.
torpedoes ???
Is that what they're called?
My sister used to love 'em - but possibly only because the red ones could be licked and used as cheap lipstick substitute because the nasty chemical-laden colours would come off if wet.
Thought of another one. Dolly Mixtures. I mean why not just eat an entire bag of slightly damp icing sugar ffs!
Oh and well with Doc Haggard on the fake chocolate thing. Used to HATE getting fake choccy easter eggs in mugs as a kid. Blech!!!
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RubyRed 4,303 posts
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Registered 18 years agopjmaybe wrote:
Nah, Sweet Peanuts are the ones you get from the sweet shop and look like plastic monkey nuts. They've got nut inside, but I think they're yuck and they make your burps smell.
RubyRed wrote:
Sweet peanuts.
Are those the things you see dodgy street sellers selling? It looks like they're mixing up a huge steel bowl of peanuts covered in Orang-utan faeces...?
Peej
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pjmaybe 70,666 posts
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Registered 20 years agoOh god, those things...
Like eating peanut-flavoured bits of broken glass!
Yep I usually like peanuts but those things are vile...
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Larkhill-Jo 32 posts
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Registered 17 years agoFrom the orginal list I like the first 3.
The only sweet I really hate (if it is a sweet??) is Marzipan -
boo 13,901 posts
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Registered 18 years agoNow you've mentioned the 'use as cheap lipstick' thing, I remember them. They were known as licquorice comfits round our way.
On a related note, can you still get Pez, and Pez dispensers? They were all the rage when I was at school.
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Angel_Treats 11,070 posts
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Registered 18 years agoYou can indeed still get Pez. They're lovely.
I like Parma Violets - can't understand how anyone doesn't.
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Registered 19 years agoAny boiled sweet that develops sharp edges as it erodes. A lacerated mouth is not fun. -
DiscoMike 570 posts
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Registered 17 years agoThem toffee pennies that seem to multiply themselves in quality street boxes are pure evil. -
Sitheclaret 23 posts
Registered 17 years agoI reckon those fake chocs are dog choc in disguised. I reckon the worst sweet are definetely choc limes. they look like sherbet lemons but unleash their evil in quick time before u realise. damn them -
Angel_Treats 11,070 posts
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Registered 18 years agoDiscoMike wrote:
If you send them all to me, I will dispose of them for you
Them toffee pennies that seem to multiply themselves in quality street boxes are pure evil..gif)
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StarchildHypocrethes 33,974 posts
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Registered 17 years agoDon't know what they were called, but they came in Liquorice Allsorts. They seemed to be a small lump of gristle soaked in meths that was covered in loads of small pinks balls. Absolutely disgusting and nothing to do with liquorice. -
RubyRed 4,303 posts
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Registered 18 years agoEverton Mints and Humbugs. They're the type of sweets old women keep in their handbags and would be all stuck together in a ball. Then they'd sit there and slurp on them, so you can hear the sweet clicking against their false teeth. -
pjmaybe 70,666 posts
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Registered 20 years agoboo wrote:
Now you've mentioned the 'use as cheap lipstick' thing, I remember them. They were known as licquorice comfits round our way.
On a related note, can you still get Pez, and Pez dispensers? They were all the rage when I was at school.
Edited by boo at 10:11:33 01-03-2005
AHHH cheers Boo, that's what I knew 'em as. Bloody foul little things.
I too would have to say that Marzipan Fruits should be on there. The sort of thing that little old ladies make for village fetes that are largely composed of Marzipan, food colouring, angelica (vile vile vile stuff) and the sweat from the old lady's hands...
Gugh!
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Sitheclaret 23 posts
Registered 17 years agoRubyRed wrote:
Everton Mints and Humbugs. They're the type of sweets old women keep in their handbags and would be all stuck together in a ball. Then they'd sit there and slurp on them, so you can hear the sweet clicking against their false teeth.
Just like those werthers original! Toffee but not toffee......
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Registered 18 years agoSweet Peanuts are fantastic as are chocolate limes. Sweet Peanuts have went downhill recently though, the toffee crap on the ourside is getting to taste like the scrapings of satan, butter toffee, i think that's what its called, you used to be able to get it in little gold paper wrappings, my dad liked it, nuff said really.
Worst sweets ever, Mints, anything mint(except spear), if i want to taste toothpaste i'll fucking eat toothpaste. Ban all mint sweets, its a contradiction in terms. -
Bring back Galaxy Counters.
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