Lollies from your childhood???

jules47 · The Happy Helper

Lollies from your childhood???

barina · Guru

Hi all

What lollies do you remember from your childhood....I remember, Big buddies, Fags, Choo Choo bars, Fizzers, Sherbert Bombs, Red Skins, Licorice Squares...

Loffty · Senior Member

Just like these. Yummy, hey.

Dougwe · Chief one feather

Yum, Choo Choo bars. Wiz Fiz, White Nights and Gob Stoppers.

Licorice Squares "Blocks" were my favourites 4 a penny.

We used to have competitions as to who got the most each day. They used to be sold out of a box of big squares, I would guess probably 12 across and 12 up, some boys would come away from the tuck shop with 3 or 4 big squares at a time. You mouth would be black for the rest of the day. Yum.

Has anyone noticed how the flavour of Licorice has changed these days???

Dougwe · Chief one feather

Ahhhh, the memories. Bring back the good old days.

Loffty · Senior Member

"Licorice Squares "Blocks" were my favourites 4 a penny."

MMMMM Inch squares.

Gotta agree there. Used to get them buy the sheet..

Happywanderer · The Master

Pineapple Lumps, chocolate fish, fags, milk bottles, buzz bars.

Loffty · Senior Member

Mates & aniseed balls as well....

Dougwe · Chief one feather

Oh PLEASE,

STOP.

I feel a sugar fix coming on and know I shouldn't.

I found a shop in Mildura when there a couple of weeks ago and they sold all of the above. I hate to admit it, but I did come out with a couple of Choo Choo bars and I must say they were both very nice indeed.

The shop was in Eighth Street if you are in the area and get that urge for a lolly.

Happywanderer · The Master

There is a place called Lollyworld just north of Brisbane City somewhere. Can't wait to get down there and go have a look. I think the place is called Lawnton or something similiar. I know I have it on my facebook.

rockylizard · Guru

Gday..

I LOVED Licorice All Sorts ..... used to pull them apart, lick and suck the coloured high sugar bits ... then put the licorice squares in my mouth and suck them till they were gone.

YUMMMMMM biggrin aww

Cheers - John

Happywanderer · The Master

I still do that John.

barina · Guru

HA HA HA.............. Love your picks,

Mates I forgot that's what they were called not buddies, I to sucked the licorice all sorts and still do sometimes, and I buy a bag of small soft choo choo bars and forget they make yr mouth black when I chomp on them at work....

BohemianGypsy · Guru

Oh man lollies from my childhood. . . .here goes lol

Cobbers, freckles, musksticks, licorice strips (about 12" long), rosy apples, red and green blocks, clinkers, milkbottles, green leaves (peppermint), milkshakes from Allens, coconut quivers from Allens were my absolute favourite and they came in a box.

Still love licorice allsorts!!

Michelle

grill n chill · Senior Member

Chocolate bullets were 8 a penny. A square pastel coloured penny block was good but i miss most the potato!

Rip and Rosie · Guru

I hated musk sticks and bananas, sherbert cones and boiled lollies. Hated them - would rather starve!

Give me a bag of freckles, bullets, cobbers, liquorice blocks and those red umbrellas, with a choochoo bar chaser....yum...... and those gobstoppers.

Mum used to like those sugar coated peanuts with thick red sugarry coating, and sometimes (well always) she shared them.

-- Edited by Rip and Rosie on Tuesday 24th of July 2012 08:55:11 AM

bronnie · Senior Member

Oh yummy, I loved rosy apples and still buy them when I see them, musksticks, traffic lights, sherbert cones, red frogs, red umbrellas, they were hard red toffee shaped like an umbrella on a stick, choo choo bars, cobbers, licorice blocks....oh please take me to an old fashioned lollie shop...help....... smile biggrin smile

johnq · Guru

Vanilla slice? Yes, I'd go one of those too. Must be the pastry. But where have all of the pastry cooks gone? Replaced by assembly lines every one.

Modern sausage rolls are refined flour, glue and godness knows what oil.

-- Edited by johnq on Tuesday 24th of July 2012 03:11:09 PM

Beth54 · Guru

I discovered the best pie I've had for a long time. Greenbank Bakery, Qld.

Michelle, wasn't so fussed on scorched peanut bars.

Coconut rough. Summer log. Chokito!

On bakery items, cream buns! Still love cream buns! Unfortunitely I can't have cream these days, but a good mock cream suits me fine.

-- Edited by Beth54 on Tuesday 24th of July 2012 03:57:22 PM

sandsmere · Guru

Fan tails , columbines , and PROPER Cadburys chocolate ( 1950 / 60s edition ) . Not the carp thats been on the market the last 40 or so years .

Beth54 · Guru

I've heard of that one Marj, but never been there.

I am a lolly-aholic, I have to admit, seems to run in our family, but these days I try to control myself.

Cobbers were a favourite, 3 for a penny, white knights, choo choo bars, peppermint leaves, rasberries, chicos, milk bottles, sherbert cones...sherbert ain't what it used to be...columbines, fantales, those green & red balls on a stick? Can't remember what they were called. Bananas, fags, redskins.

I remember a boy in class chewing a black cat behind his book. He blew a huge bubble, teacher came along and pulled the book away and it had popped all over his face.

Rosie, I used to make sugar coated peanuts for the school fetes when my kids were little. I loved them, but can't eat peanuts anymore. cry

johnq · Guru

Anyone could have had all of my sweets for a sausage roll, salted peanuts or the like. I hated those birthday parties where the mum was a sugarholic and the boys' preference for savouries was neglected.

Soft, gelatine based jubes or limited licorice maybe.

BohemianGypsy · Guru

Beth54 wrote:
I've heard of that one Marj, but never been there.
I am a lolly-aholic, I have to admit, seems to run in our family, but these days I try to control myself.
Cobbers were a favourite, 3 for a penny, white knights, choo choo bars, peppermint leaves, rasberries, chicos, milk bottles, sherbert cones...sherbert ain't what it used to be...columbines, fantales, those green & red balls on a stick? Can't remember what they were called. Bananas, fags, redskins.
I remember a boy in class chewing a black cat behind his book. He blew a huge bubble, teacher came along and pulled the book away and it had popped all over his face.
Rosie, I used to make sugar coated peanuts for the school fetes when my kids were little. I loved them, but can't eat peanuts anymore.

Beth those green and red balls on a stick were Rosy apples. Loved them lol.

White Knights I forgot about those yummo!!! What about Scorched Peanut Bars?? Loved them as well lol.

Michelle

rockylizard · Guru

johnq wrote:
Anyone could have had all of my sweets for a sausage roll, salted peanuts or the like. I hated those birthday parties where the mum was a sugarholic and the boys' preference for savouries was neglected.

Soft, gelatine based jubes or limited licorice maybe.

Gday...

Now ya talkin' ..... still my favourite savoury treat ... SAUSAGE ROLL ... fresh from a proper bakery, not the ones in cellophane or mass-produced and delivered to the shop.

Having now thought about a proper bakery .... all time favourite of ALL food was the vanilla slice.

Cheers - John

Rip and Rosie · Guru

no................trade it all in for tuppence worth of hot chips with vinegar, wrapped in newspaper on a colder winter evening, catching the bus home.

hmmmmm

Travel Bug · Guru

Lollies: My favourites were cobbers, fantales, marella Jubes, jaffas, bullets...and Smith's chips. smile

Favourite bakery items were: (and still are) vanilla slice, apple slice, sausage roll, pie and peas. Fernvale Bakery is great. Fortunately...or maybe unfortunately wink smile it is only about 10 minutes drive from me.

Rip and Rosie: Totally agree with you about the hot chips in newspaper. Yummm!! biggrin

Hylda&Jon · Guru

Rip and Rosie wrote:
I hated musk sticks and bananas, sherbert cones and boiled lollies. Hated them - would rather starve!

-- Edited by Rip and Rosie on Tuesday 24th of July 2012 08:55:11 AM

3 of my favorites from my youth but the boiled lollies were a taste I grew into with age.

Dougwe · Chief one feather

Black Hum Bugs, now they were nice too. Good old FRESH Cream Bun with real cream. But they have to be very fresh and eaten on the same day.

Happywanderer · The Master

Vanilla Slice equals Custard Square, always loved them.
Also fairy mushrooms, bananas, jaffas.

rockylizard · Guru

johnq wrote:
Vanilla slice? Yes, I'd go one of those too. Must be the pastry. But where have all of the pastry cooks gone? Replaced by assembly lines every one.

Modern sausage rolls are refined flour, glue and godness knows what oil.

Gday...

I would imagine Marj (Happy Wanderer) would agree that the BEST pies and sausage rolls are at the bakery in Biggenden. Absolutely mouth-wateringly yummmmy. biggrin

Cheers - John