Angel_Treats wrote:I like 'em too A_T... And Peej; do you mean Pontefract Cakes? Taste *exactly* like liquorice don't they? Worst sweet ever? What about those stupid rice paper and sherbet UFOs? |
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oneiros 1,877 posts
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pjmaybe 70,666 posts
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Registered 20 years agooneiros wrote:
And Peej; do you mean Pontefract Cakes? Taste *exactly* like liquorice don't they?
Worst sweet ever? What about those stupid rice paper and sherbet UFOs?
Well they are liquorice so I guess they would taste like them. But it's really dark molasses-raddled stuff. Not proper synthetic "turns your gob a strange bluey black colour" liquorice.
Agreed on the sherbert UFOs, I once watched Fat Herbert's ex eat an entire tub of them....fucking disgusting things.
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Dougs 100,414 posts
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Registered 18 years agoWhile we're on the subject of bringing back sweets, Pacers were brill. Never understood why they were scrapped, I loved them!
Spanky need not reply, as we've established he doesn't like mints! -
boo 13,901 posts
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Registered 18 years agoBring back Pacers! Like Opal fruits, only minty, with green and white stripes.
And while you're at it, bring back Texan bars too.
Edit - spooky - hadn't seen Dougs post...
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Tiger_Walts 16,674 posts
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Registered 19 years agoI could do with a Gold Bar right now. -
Dougs 100,414 posts
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pjmaybe 70,666 posts
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Registered 20 years agoPacers...?
UGH! Completely evil. Started off being either green or white, then ended up striped. Purely evil little mint-flavoured sweets like opal fruits but not fruity...
Only possible use - eating a whole roll of 'em before going home to disguise the stench of fag smoke.
I think I've discovered something even more vile though, and that's those new "Non liquourice" Bassets Liquorice allsort things.
They just taste like licking chemical snatch!
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silver-jon 1,518 posts
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Registered 17 years agoAmerican Hard Gums (pretty much like the fruit gum but bigger. And the white ones tasted Godawful).
Followed by a bar of Hershey's. Something about American chocolate that's just . . . wrong.
PS: LOl at peej's first nomination. It was exactly what I had in mind when I saw the thread title. -
Dougs 100,414 posts
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Registered 18 years agoSpot on about Hershey's. Tastes like vomit. -
RubyRed 4,303 posts
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Registered 18 years agoTiger_Walts wrote:
Boke! They were disgusting. Still ate them though.
I could do with a Gold Bar right now. -
Tiger_Walts 16,674 posts
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Registered 19 years agoYou still ate them anyway... you have a chocolate addiction, regardless of colour or constitution. -
Erg, those little spaceships that taste like soggy paper, eurgh.
I love those little mice the corner-shops used to dump in the bag.gif)
I've never been a big fan of liquorice, so 'Bertie' Basset's bag of fun was never for me! -
RubyRed 4,303 posts
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Registered 18 years agoTiger_Walts wrote:
Chocolate, biscuit, cake, food addiction. If it's in the cupboard I'll eat it.
You still ate them anyway... you have a chocolate addiction, regardless of colour or constitution.
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jaxon58 2,555 posts
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Registered 18 years agoWorst for me is those cheap easter eggs you get (usually with a mug for some reason). The chocolate they're made with must be 50% bad chocolate and 50% cardboard.
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pjmaybe 70,666 posts
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Registered 20 years agosilver jon wrote:
PS: LOl at peej's first nomination. It was exactly what I had in mind when I saw the thread title.
Those things, I don't think they make them any more. Probably just as well as the buggers'd probably pull all my fillings out.
They did a masochistic "travel" version of 'em too, actually shaped like the fruits they were supposed to be.
Oh yes, remembered a couple more while we're at it..
Meltis Newberry Fruits - Sort of sugar coated frog-jelly fruit shaped things with a little sac of pus in the middle in a hard sugar shell. Grim!
Oh and Liqueur chocolates of ANY description. Specially Cherry Brandy ones.
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rickalish 1,839 posts
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Registered 17 years agoLiquorice torpeedos are crap.
Fruit Gums- hilarious when you give them to a dog.
They chew them for hours. Piss funny!
Smarties are shite- they taste of paint and there's barely any chocolate in them.
The pink and blue nobbley gelatine filled sweets out of liquorice allsorts. Vile.
Fire Jaw Breakers- they taste of pepper.
Toblerone-In the words of Billy Connolly- "its a sweetie that hurts you".
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RubyRed 4,303 posts
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Registered 18 years agoTurkish Delight. Dunno whether I hate the Fry's stuff or the powdered stuff in the tin more. Fuckin' 'orrible either way. -
_Shadow_ 504 posts
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Registered 17 years agoStarchildHypocrethes wrote:
Don'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.
These are called 'Spogs' and, in my opinion are the only good reason for Liquorice Allsorts to exist!!
Worst sweet ever for me has to be those little pink shrimp things you used to get in your 10p mix.... closely followed by chocolate mice.... awful things!!! -
pjmaybe 70,666 posts
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Registered 20 years agoKudos for mentioning those shrimp things. Add those banana shaped "foam" things in too.
Glad to see a few of youse had 10p and 20p "mixed bags" at your local newsagents too. Ours were mostly good but the odd "filler" items like those fucking rancid Mojo chews (the milk flavoured ones tasted like the breast dribblings of a 90 year old turkey farmer's wife) and virtually impenetrable Aniseed Balls.
Oddest item - these little sweets that looked like steel ball bearings but were actually gobstoppers. Probably highly toxic covering on 'em.
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Dougs 100,414 posts
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Registered 18 years agoI liked all those foamy type shrimps, bananas etc. And didn't mind those paper flying saucers either!
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_Shadow_ 504 posts
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Registered 17 years agoDougs wrote:
I liked all those foamy type shrimps, bananas etc. And didn't mind those paper flying saucers either!
/Suspects he may have been brought up on pikey sweets....!
Paper flying saucers were OK, but the best value for money (from a kids point of view anyway) had to be sugar paper... we used to get 10 sheets for a penny!!! OK, so it didn't taste of anything and it made you feel sick, but you got 10 sheets for a penny!!! lol -
Angel_Treats 11,070 posts
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Registered 18 years agoWhat Dougs said - I *heart* all that stuff. Most of the penny or 2p sweeties you used to get - they're all lovely! Although I remember seeing some of those foam bananas once, except a much bigger version, half covered in fake chocolate stuff. They were evil. I bought one for 20p to try it and threw most of it away. -
The-Button 799 posts
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Registered 19 years agoMy vote would have to go to Orange Revels. Totally mank. Caramel Revels are great, however, so it's probably worth the pain. -
espadachin 2,214 posts
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Registered 17 years agofor me, top of the list has to be 'wagon wheels' sweet-fucking-jesus i hated those things, when i went on school camp my mum used to hide them in my luggage as a 'treat'
yeah, thanks mum!
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bivith 2,469 posts
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Registered 17 years agopjmaybe wrote:
Oh god, those things...
Like eating peanut-flavoured bits of broken glass!
Yep I usually like peanuts but those things are vile...
Peej
oh come on! I loved those! -
pjmaybe 70,666 posts
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Registered 20 years agoAnother one came to mind, mostly because I swear the bloody things used to make my mouth bleed...
I think they were called "dib dabs" or something - Basically a flat packet with two flavours of sherbert in them (cherry and tangerine) and this weird sweet thing that looked like either a speculum or a sweet lollystick. You lick the stick, stick it in the sherbert and then lick the sherbert off...
Only being a greedy little bast it always ended up the same way...
1) Eat stick (which bizarrely tasted like those glucose Lucozade tablets)
2) Eat tangerine section of packet (mouth starts to bleed)
3) Eat cherry section of packet to take vile taste of tangerine away (mouth bleeds even more)
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sharpkiddie 474 posts
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Registered 19 years agoI hate all fondant-filled varieties of Quality Street, especially coffee flavoured. In fact I'd say I hate all coffee sweets despite being a big fan of real coffee (the hot, liquid-suspension type). I like some coffee cakes, but would rather have nice cake and a cup of coffee.
Parma violets are pukerific TO THE MAX.
Are midget gems and floral gums the same?
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rickalish 1,839 posts
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Registered 17 years agopjmaybe wrote:
Another one came to mind, mostly because I swear the bloody things used to make my mouth bleed...
I think they were called "dib dabs" or something -
Peej
I'm pretty sure you're referring to Double Dips.
I really liked those.
Popping candy was some weird shit.
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pjmaybe 70,666 posts
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Registered 20 years agoThat's the stuff Rickalish, cheers..
Bloody vomitous, almost as bad as that "lemonade powder" shit which turned water into...well slightly weak lemony flavoured water.
"Popping Candy" was known as either Pop Rocks or Space Dust (Bonbons) here. Great stuff to feed to pets...!
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Sherbert Dabs...
Yellow tube with red writing, half a tube full of sherbert and a stick of liquorice.
You always finished the liquorice stick long before the sherbert, and most of the time, just scoffed the sherbert.
One quiet night shift, a few years back, I'd just finished the liquorice and the conversation turned to 'What if, instead of eating the sherbert, you snorted it?'
That sort of question cannot go unanswered...
I swear, the only way to describe it is: 'Brain fizz'.
Your eyes water and it clears out your sinus's a treat.
Wouldn't do it too often though
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Edited by boo at 16:51:20 01-03-2005
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