smpar Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 There's an old sweet shop in Dunfermline, famous for selling fags to anyone over the age of 9. No idea if it's still going, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bold Rover Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 Passing through Crieff we stopped and bought some supplies from such a confectioner. Clove rock - highly addictive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 There are a few places in Glasgow that I've noticed make a point of selling old-fashioned sweets. I always think "that's nice", but don't go in because unfortunately I don't actually like sweets anymore. But if I was a kid I'd love them. e.g.: or: The last time I was in the direction of Glickman's, which was... four years ago, it looked shut. Which is a shame, because it's the first thing I thought of when I saw this thread, while wanting a big bag of sherbet lemons in front of me. Or aniseed balls. There used to be a shop in the St. Enoch Centre with loads of jars and stuff but I think it shut earlier this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akredz Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 Sweet peanuts for me, or Red Kola cubes, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 Casey's- a right old fashioned sweet shop in St Mary's Street run by an old dear towards the end. It closed when she retired about 10 years ago. Lovely chocolates made on the premises. There was also a branch near Easter Road. Alex Ferguson (not that one) used to make Edinburgh rock and had a factory in East Crosscauseway. I can remember passing as a young lad in the 1980s and they had the delivery door open and the smell of boiling sugar wafted out- ooooh heavenly. Across from there was Jeannie Veitch's sweet shop, the cause of my many fillings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redhead81 Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 Rhubarb and custard was my favourite as a kid - not had them for years tho! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wishyman Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 Aniseed twists are a treat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd_is_God Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 Like our bag of sugar dropping friend above, I also live almost opposite a sweet shop. Be intersesting how much it would be nowadays for a quarter of soor plooms Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the snudge Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 Tom swans legendary sweets in Renton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mohanaman Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 I remember there was a little sweet shop in denny in the mid eighties just round from the main street. A rosy cheeked man had it. Anyone else remember anything about it? Yep remember it very well, Maggie McFalls and the wee guy was Mr Long . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highlandmagyar Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 Used to be a shop in Elgin where I could get MB Bard and Chelsea Whoppers. The dogs bollocks they were. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pars fan Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 There she's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dee Man Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 Earlier this year my mate posted a "remember these" picture of the yellow bubblegum Golden Nuggets that they used to sell in little cloth sacks. The very next day I noticed them in the sweet shop at the top of the Hulltoon and, being the nice c**t that I am, bought him a couple of sacks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dosser-fae-the-shire Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 Kings sweetie shop in Wishaw was amazing. The factory was only 2 minutes away and the smell from it was top notch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wishyman Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 Kings sweetie shop in Wishaw was amazing. The factory was only 2 minutes away and the smell from it was top notch. f**k, I forgot about oddfellows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudolph Hucker Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 Kings sweetie shop in Wishaw was amazing. The factory was only 2 minutes away and the smell from it was top notch. f**k, I forgot about oddfellows. aye, King's Oddfellows were great. Especially the orange-coloured ones, seemed a bit softer than the rest for some reason and you could work a groove into them with your teeth and enjoy the resulting powder. The sweetie shop in Crieff that somebody mentioned is still there, and it's a good 'un. There's another excellent one in North Berwick, and used to be one in Peebles too, tho it's a few years since I was there so it may be gone. I was in Moffat a few months back and found a deli that did a lot of unusual sweets. I bought a couple of cinnamon sticks and also a sarsaparilla stick, cos I'd never tasted one. The cinnamon sticks were as tasty and indigestible as ever, just like they should be, but the sarsaparilla stick was bowfin'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hursty Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 Used to get a quarter of soor plooms and a quarter of kola kubes from the wee shop across from Somerset before games when I was wee. Wasn't a traditional sweetie shop but still came out the big jars. Think the shop sells wedding dresses now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudolph Hucker Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 Used to get a quarter of soor plooms and a quarter of kola kubes from the wee shop across from Somerset before games when I was wee. Wasn't a traditional sweetie shop but still came out the big jars. Think the shop sells wedding dresses now! What, white trackies?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross. Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 There's an old-style sweetie FACTORY in our town, led by the old-style sweetie maker who owns our old-style fitba' club and their old-style ground. Oh, and cinnamon balls. Perhaps explains the time warp effect that a trip to Greenock brings on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudolph Hucker Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 Perhaps explains the time warp effect that a trip to Greenock brings on. I see you're in Switzerland. Hate to say this, but you're in for a helluva shock when you next come back to Clydebank....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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