Penny Tray

[Bigmallly]

Have just sat down with a cuppa and a Battenburg cake (sp) - Fruit Salad flavour.
Ahhh, the memories came flooding back, fruit salads 4 for a penny, black jacks, white mice, flying saucers, liquorice boot laces..........what did you have on your penny trays.

[VirginVegGrower]

Fizz bombs, gobstopper, 1p bubbly (pink bubble gum), mojos, penny chews, swizzler lolly...Fruit salads and black jacks were two for a penny when I was a kid

[Creemteez]

They weren't a penny, but I loved Sherbet Fountains. For reasons best known to myself I'd dip the licorice stick in the sherbet until I'd eaten about half of it, then put the rest of the sherbet in a glass, add water and use the remaining licorice stick as a straw. Foul!

[veggiechicken]

Cigarettes, the sweet ones, of course, with a yellowy tip. We used to think we looked so grown up, "smoking" them. Used to like sherbert too, yellow or the rainbow one.
Think you may be giving your age away a bit though, talking about "pennies". Penny ice lollies...

[Bigmallly]

Liquorice sticks that looked like twigs, and tasted like them.......

[veggiechicken]

Liquorice sticks that looked like twigs, and tasted like them.......

They were disgusting. Aren't they the actual root of a liquorice plant?

[ladylottie]

Cherry lips and Parma Violets. The sherbert that VC mentions we called "kay lye" (don't know how it was spelled). We had little triangular bags of it and dipped our fingers or tongue into the bag - it was almost like pure citric acid and I loved it!
I liked the flying saucers as well because they tasted sharp. Nowadays they seem sweeter somehow.

[OverWyreGrower]

Cola bottles, flying saucers, sour cherries, fruit salads

We used to have a shop when I was younger (village store and post office) and had 'penny sweets' as well the jars where you could get a 1/4 of something (none of this ridiculous grams nonsense!)

[veggiechicken]

Don't think we used that name, LL, but it takes me back to the Half Shop (because the other half of it sold fresh fish!). On the way home from school we'd call in. "Please Mr, can I have a 1d bag of sherbert?". He'd dole it out into one of those triangular bags and we'd walk home dipping our fingers in and out until our hands were yellow and all round our mouths too. We'd share the bag with our friends because we couldn't afford to buy a bag each.
If we had come into money, you could buy a 2d Lucky bag - the same triangular bag but it woould have a few odds and ends in it. If you were really lucky, there would be a chocolate, going a bit white around the edges, but it was Chocolate!

[VirginVegGrower]

They weren't a penny, but I loved Sherbet Fountains. For reasons best known to myself I'd dip the licorice stick in the sherbet until I'd eaten about half of it, then put the rest of the sherbet in a glass, add water and use the remaining licorice stick as a straw. Foul!

Used to do the same. It was a popular kids trick! The containers are made of plastic now and the Licquorice is shorter than it used to be. Also comes halal approved which I don't get?! Rainbow drops were another favourite - cost 2p back when, now 25p OUCH

[VirginVegGrower]

Cola bottles, flying saucers, sour cherries, fruit salads

We used to have a shop when I was younger (village store and post office) and had 'penny sweets' as well the jars where you could get a 1/4 of something (none of this ridiculous grams nonsense!)

We still have a sweet shop in the village and it sells by the quarter...don't tell

[di]

We sell penny sweeties at the school disco. A friend and I get to do the Cash and Carry shop beforehand so make sure and buy a tub or two of what we like. I like the rhubarb and custard tube things (not the sucky ones you buy by the 1/4). Cola bottles are still a favourite, though I've never liked them. Flying saucers used to be one of my favourites but they have to sell for 3p now so to keep things simple for us we don't get them.
Shoelaces seem to have developed into whips...much thicker.
Mmm...and milk bottles, still taste just the same.

My all time favourite used to be ice cups..you can still get them but again they're an awkward price so we don't...although I think I may have to sneak a tub onto the trolley next shop.

[di]

We still have a sweet shop in the village and it sells by the quarter...don't tell

Ssssshhh...so do we!

[Currysniffa]

Liquorice sticks that looked like twigs, and tasted like them.......

Believe it or not I had a liquorice twig this afternoon, we were talking about them this morning and the wife pick me some up half penny mojos, fruit salad and black jacks is what I spent my penny's on

If I'd been really good (it didn't happen often mind) Mum would get me liquorice imps from the chemist.

[veggiechicken]

How much is a twig these days? It could be a new measure of inflation.