Every Christmas everybody would get my father a box of chocolate covered cherries. He might get eight or ten boxes of those things. He would eat a few and the family would eat the rest. I never knew why we did that, but nobody ever got anything else for his Christmas gift.
A Barratt's Sherbett Dib Dab. It's the one that really stood out from the rest. I remember standing in the newsagents, my whatever-it-was pence piece at the ready, infront of the glass-fronted cabinet that had all the penny, ha'penny and two pence sweets - Flying Saucers, Fruit Salads, Black Jacks and Wine Gums - knowing that they could wait until next Saturday and it had to be the Dib Dab. It was a packet of sherbert which came with a small red lolly. You dibbed it in the sherbert and ate it like that, but you were always left with more sherbert than lolly. That's when you just tipped it in your little mouth and so down the front of your dress too. I think they're still made. I have to find some now.
This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at February 21, 2017 5:26 AM MST
Technically not candy, but I loved 'em...for 5¢ you could get a box of Smith Brothers Cough Drops at the Red & White Store not too far from the Sylvandale School...and that entailed going along the railroad tracks until you found an empty pop bottle (3¢) plus 2 beer bottles (1¢ each).
This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at February 21, 2017 9:34 AM MST
Beans/SilentGeneration 