What have you recently rediscovered?

[HeyWayne]

On a recent trip to a local "shopping village" LadyWayne and I stumbled across a small shop that sold old style sweets - all in jars along the shelves at the back.

We stopped and bought some sweets - I bought some cough candies (which are an old favourite), but noticed some others alongside them which I'd plumb forgotten about. Clove sweets!

Needless to say, I bought some (in gms rather than ald style lbs/ozs). Just one left now.

What have you recently rediscovered quite by chance?

[Flummery]

Like you, last week we were in a nearby market town and found an old fashioned sweet shop. We bought some of the round sweets - called there Aniseed Jellies - that they used to have in liquorice allsort packs - you know, the ones in pink or blue with the little blobs all over. We used to call them Horse Tablets! Talk about a taste of the past - they were gorgeous!

[zazen999]

Freaky post this HW.

A couple of weeks ago, in a great GC near Harrow, which I stopped at on the way back from a new client visit; I found Giant Parma Voilets. When I found that my OH had eaten a hole pack of them one day when he had my car [I had them hidden away nicely], I went back last week and bought the last remaining 4 packs.

[Headfry]

I love parma violets.

Tunocks tea cakes...... oh it's been ages, I just had to buy then once more!

[bluemoon]

My favourite olde tyme sweets were sherbet lemons, - I could eat those until my mouth felt as if it were covered in paper-cuts - closely followed by winter candy. The thing I discovered recently by chance though was real bread (actually it was about six years ago) I was bought a bread machine and obviously had a quick go, thinking that it would end up in the cupboard having only ever having been used the once. Instead the smell and taste of the bread reminded me of all the other things I had as a kid, all the other real, old fashioned foods. So I started making them, but there was something missing...... flavour mainly, so of course I had to start growing all the veg. Then I had to get an allotment as the garden wasn't big enough, then I had to get real eggs and real sausages and real......... Well, you get the idea. That bread machine really did completely change our lives.

[lainey lou]

Does anyone know if you can still get fruit clubs?

[Two_Sheds]

Does anyone know if you can still get fruit clubs?

didn't know what you meant .. .then it came to me ! Jacobs fruit Club biscuit 6pk

here's the TV ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZEIdsB5kqE

[piskieinboots]

gob stoppers, does anyone know if they are still available - it's not me asking you understand - it's SD

[Two_Sheds]

gob stoppers, does anyone know if they are still available

£1.39 on the interwebby Gob stoppers, Traditional, old fashioned sweets-the online uk sweetshop

[zazen999]

Of course, the first time I went back to the States [was born in Canada and spent first 6 years there] it was Root Beer and cinnamon chewing gum; I spend a bomb when I go back stocking up on the gum, and drink Root Beer wherever I go when I'm out there.

AAH; root beer....

[Jameslovell]

I discovered a shop just like this called Treasure Island Sweets in Bristol. Sell online too. Really lovely sweet and loads of 90's classics too.

[Hilary B]

Not edibles, old favourites in reading. The Green Knowe books, and "The Little White Horse" by Elizabeth Goudge. I am still hoping to find a copy of "City of Bells".
Oh, and "the Middle Watch", still has me laughing so hard I cry! e-bay has brought me a lot of pleasure in the last few years (music too, a lot of that 'old favourites' as well).......

[sez]

Of course, the first time I went back to the States [was born in Canada and spent first 6 years there] it was Root Beer and cinnamon chewing gum; I spend a bomb when I go back stocking up on the gum, and drink Root Beer wherever I go when I'm out there.

AAH; root beer....

My OH is Canadian and a root beer fan too We get the proper A+W root beer from our local chinese supermarket, or Asda sells its own version (in 6 can packs, blue packet - doesnt taste quite the same though). That and drinks like mountain dew are popular in Japan, Singapore etc so it might be worth hunting round some asian food shops

[sez]

Not edibles, old favourites in reading. The Green Knowe books, and "The Little White Horse" by Elizabeth Goudge. I am still hoping to find a copy of "City of Bells".
Oh, and "the Middle Watch", still has me laughing so hard I cry! e-bay has brought me a lot of pleasure in the last few years (music too, a lot of that 'old favourites' as well).......

I just gleefully rediscovered the 'Redwall' books from my childhood!
My OH looked at me like I was bonkers when he asked what I was reading 'a book about warrior mice'

[sharonr]

My favorite sweets were Bassetts blackberries and raspberries(the hard ones). Not many places sell them now, but I found a sweet shop in Ripley in Derbyshire. They sell sweets in jars and they had hundreds of jars. (I must get my sister to get me some when she goes back there.)