Trying classic British sweets | Foreigner living in the UK

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

What's your favourite classic sweet??

[@johnturner4400]

The old style Rolos when the toffee was harder. These days it’s caramel.

[@bgill7475]

Sugar. Just sugar.

[@paulrowe3250]

Sherbert lemons

[@michaelgilks2065]

Rhubarb and custards

[@arthurgatward7369]

Not had a chance to watch the vid yet but i hope you try Army & Navy.

[@davidpowell8249]

The correct way to eat a Sherbet Fountain is to: *Step 1.* Open it up and immediately throw away the licorice (or give it to the weird kid that likes it). *Step 2.* Slowly tip the sherbet into your mouth, when no sherbet comes out, tip tube up further and give it a good tap. *Step 3.* When the avalanche of sherbet hits the back of your throat, uncontrollably cough, covering all the surrounding area in a dusting of white powder. For bonus points, close your mouth when you cough, sending some of the sherbet up your nose, causing your nose to sting for several minutes.

[@lupooflunarorigin120]

Get out of my head!

[@Forest_Fifer]

Were you watching my childhood?

[@johnturner4400]

What the heck was that plastic thing? It used to be card and paper. Sometimes mistaken for a firework.........don’t ask.......

[@davidpowell8249]

@@johnturner4400 it was far easier to break up the solidified sherbet when they were made from card. Never once thought of using the plastic top to hold the licorice stick, because I'm not dainty like Alanna 😂

[@stanettiels7367]

David Powell Exactly.

[@James-xo8dl]

"I don't eat a lot of sweets" Have you seen your channel?

[@EASYTIGER10]

I'd hardly call you a "foreigner" Alanna. You are a much treasured Canado-Brit who we welcome as our own!👍

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

You're very sweet!

[@msf-.-]

Yes! You say sweets instead of candy, deffo british now

[@mikecook7530]

Alanna, what's this "cooch" you keep things under eh? :)

[@mrmessy7334]

Hmm, I'm not sure she's fully integrated yet. She said sprinkles, not hundreds and thousands. We must cure her of these foreign ways.

[@chrishayne4515]

@@AdventuresAndNaps Do you date Allanna?

[@derekcolman]

I love black liquorice. My favourite is Pomfret Cakes, originally made in Pontefract, Yorkshire, small cakes of black liquorice about 2cm in diameter. Yes I am old.

[@cueballzero]

Freak 😂

[@JohnRS100]

An old friend has returned. Welcome back garbage truck. We’ve missed you. Where have you been?

[@rosacanisalba]

It's a bin lorry! 😊

[@johnturner4400]

Where’s yer bin?

[@Jamie_Smith.]

It’s “BIN” busy!

[@darrena5384]

What a rubbish joke

[@mammothmotouk]

Had the biggest smile on my face for ages now. You are brilliant! Funny… very funny lady…

[@nickbrough8335]

Alot of these I've never come across and some of the better know sweets (eg Smarties) aren't included. One treat I really used to like was Flying Saucers (sherbet filled rice paper packets).

[@simongriffiths9717]

Great video. Love the looks you give to camera as you try different sweets. Also love the random score choices.

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Thank you!!

[@garypltn69]

Black Jack's and fruit salads love those sweets.

[@Saintintensity]

Fruit salads YES Blackjacks a firm NO but both were some of the cheapest sweets you could get in my youth :)

[@georgeridewood9503]

Robert Price Yep, one farthing each.

[@Saintintensity]

@@georgeridewood9503 got change for a groat?

[@-NemoMeImpuneLacessit]

5 penneth worth when they were a 1/4 of a penny each

[@ShainThomas]

I love Black Jacks!

[@kevanparker908]

Its not a refuse lorry its a bin lorry, hence the Derbyshire saying. "Has bin man bin mam? reply, Dust mean dustman me duck?"

[@Rogue66669]

Its not a bin lorry its a dustcart 😁

[@andybaker2456]

@@Rogue66669 Yep, dustmen "on the dust" drive dustcarts!

[@michaelrawson6261]

Old sweets of this country! Now there's a subject that could last a while! Cap'n fizzy, Texan bars, Ipso, Superbazooka, Orkney Fudge, Hellas bars, Cabana bars, Cadbury's Milk Tray Bars, Spangles. Just off the top of my head quickly, and that's without old crisps, drinks or sweet freezer treats! My folks had sweet shops when I was a kid, it was bloody great! Lovely video Alanna, lots of fun as ever and a couple of hilarious reactions to what you were trying out! 😊

[@vickybrombley7476]

You're reaction to anything licorice is priceless !"Oooh no thankyou" luv it ♡

[@BooBaddyBig]

You're ideally supposed to use the licorice stick in the sherbet fountain as a straw, it's hollow and if you powder the sherbet you can suck up the sherbet through it; this sweetens the licorice and rounds out the flavor. But the licorice stick often gets blocked.

[@johnd6487]

I couldn’t agree more BooBaddyBig, but sadly that’s a modern plastic wrapped version where the liquorice is solid.. they just ruin everything nowadays :-(

[@Jamie_Smith.]

New series idea 💡 I Can’t Film This: Foreigner Tries Filming On British Bin Day!

[@biggusunitus]

*puts recycling box out on on non recycling pick up day* DIES OF SHAME.

[@ptb2008]

Dip dab has been in UK for decades.

[@nicholastemple-smith2635]

As a Canadian, you're not a foreigner in Britain, you're family!

[@luvmusicutb]

How have I only ever heard of the Curly wurly, but the jazzes look like sweets I used to get in a pick n mix as a kid and I loved them as well as the white chocolatier ones 😋

[@lloroshastar6347]

lol I've seen god knows how many sponsors on KZbin over the years that I have promptly ignored and this is probably the first time a sponsor has peaked my interest.

[@mazdaman1286]

Original Curlywhirlies were brilliant they had real toffee in them. Soft in the summer brittle in the winter, then they were improved....

[@krazytroutcatcher]

There’s an outdoor museum on the way to Newcastle, called Beamish. They sell a lot of really old school type of sweets, plus in the back of the shop, they demonstrate how boiled sweets are made. The last time I went, they did rhubarb and custard, and the samples are freeeeeee.......

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Wow! There were a few rhubarb and custard hard sweets in the box - wonder if those are basically the same as old-school shops?

[@krazytroutcatcher]

Adventures and Naps The museum is based around Britain from the 1900’s to around the 1940’s. It’s a sort of living museum, spread out like a small town. The sweet shop tries to be as authentic as possible. It was featured in an old Catherine Cookson TV series many years ago.

[@MsRiverdee]

@@krazytroutcatcher Beamish is brilliant, got me some Pontefract Cakes in the sweetie shop :)

[@krazytroutcatcher]

MsRiverdee I used to get Pontefract cakes for free. My relatives both worked at Wilkinsons and Dunhills in Pontefract. I still love 💕 them.

[@lloroshastar6347]

I'm sure someone has mentioned this already but the sherbert thing you mentioned sounds like sherbert dib-dab which we have in the UK and is obviously 100x nicer than dipping liqourice in sherbert.

[@mrmessy7334]

I'm not sure it is you know. The Dip Dab has a lolly, but there's another thing you can get which has a hard chalky candy stick and 2 or 3 different flavour pouches. Can't remember what it's called though.

[@lloroshastar6347]

@@mrmessy7334 I remember that too!

[@saccyboi]

double dip is what you are referring to

[@shaunw9270]

Blackjacks (with Golliwog logo) were a favourite of mine ! So much of these sweets were changed over the years ,even the ones that are still made are different now. Funny ,a variation on the Sherbert Dab , was a liquorice pipe , yes you filled the bowl with Sherbert ! Does anyone else remember a long multi coloured chew called "Splicer" ,mid to late 70's? It did exist , although most others I asked around my age (50) ,don't seem to remember it at all.

[@SteveParkes-Sparko]

Alanna - as you were trying the Rainbow Drops, I was remembering how I used to LOVE them many, many years ago, and I was saying "YES, Girl - you'll love those!" How disappointed was I when you didn't like them? I can only say it must've been because they'd gone stale under your couch (sweets don't keep, you know! - especially if they're made from maize and rice!). Do me a favour - go out and buy some fresh ones! I'm sure you can still get them! They are "baby" sweeties and you should just love them! Nostalgia Heaven for me!

[@marshmellowsquash]

love a good sherbet dip! When I was little my grandma used to let me get one at the shop so she had an excuse to get one for herself too. I should have one for nostalgia's sake.

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Ahh that's so sweet!!

[@brianwilliams8436]

1. They're called "Bin Men" 2. Sherbet fountain - take out the liquorice and throw it at a mate, then pour the sherbet in your gob. Now run round like a demon!! 3. Alana, you're thinning on top - Haha, made you look!! Excellent as usual, and a sponsor - yay for you, well deserved..

[@mrmessy7334]

2... Then get a Sherbet Dip Dab instead.

[@Rogue66669]

Dustmen, and its a dustcart

[@RalphBellairs]

I remember walking up to the corner shop near my grandma's house to buy Rainbow Drops, more years ago than I care to remember (over 60)! They used to sell them loose, measured into a small wax paper cup. The past is a foreign country...

[@galaxywhispers1787]

Nice video Alanna. Your ranking system is the best! 🙂

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Thank you!!

[@lorddarlo6194]

You get that Sherbert Version with a Lollipop you get in a tub called sweet shop classics that features Drumsticks and Refreshers

[@MrAshtute]

To some of us these aren't yet old enough to be called retro or vintage they are still quite new. Now that's when you know your old 🧓

[@andybaker2456]

Don't think I've ever heard of that "Hannah's" brand before (and I'm old enough to like blackcurrant licorice sweets!), but looking at their website, it seems they make the kind of sweets that never came in packets, just on the pick 'n' mix counter, so we never knew who actually made them!

[@leebrook_]

Can we all now agree that Sherbet is officially to be renamed Fizzy Business. Thanks.

[@Nevada_Dan]

Rainbow Drops: "Oh, honey, no. It tastes funny and it's not that nice." See, it's these little verbal gems which spill over your gums from time to time that keeps me coming back for more. You're a KZbin treasure, Alanna, a genuine KZbin treasure.

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

You're too kind!

[@Georgestella100]

Why is it that so many people dislike Black Liquorice? As an older Brit that was all you could get when I was young other than 'Shoelaces' which were Red Liquorice. Years ago the liquorice in the Sherbet Fountain was hollow. You bit the end off and sucked the Sherbet through the liquorice! Unfortunately if you sucked to hard you choked! The liquorice got blocked fairly quickly so we would eat the liquorice then tip the Sherbet straight into our mouths and eat it, cue much, much more choking!!! Happy days! Black Jacks, awesome. Oh, and Haribo is a German sweet company. They tried to get here in 1940, but had to wait a few more years before they succeeded! lol Now in my sixties I've never heard of half of those 'retro' sweets!

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

I think black liquorice is nostalgic for a lot of people since it was "all you could get when I was young" But if you didn't grow up with it, it's gross!

[@alanoh3069]

Hay, if you ever get the chance, may I suggest that you take a trip to the Black Country museum. They have a old sweet shop there and they sells all the old British sweets from the Victorian times, it's a really old school shop where all the sweets are in big jars all around the walls.

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

That sounds really cool, thanks so much for sharing!

[@alanoh3069]

@@AdventuresAndNaps it's unlike ant other museum, it's basically a small village where everyone is dressed in Victorian clothes, doing all the things people did back in the Victorian days, it's will most definitely be a memorable day out 😉

[@deadshot4155]

You can get old british sweets anywhere you dont have to travel there lol

[@dragonmac1234]

I'm fairly old (55) and apart from the Blackjack, Curly Wurly and Sherbet Fountain I don't remember most of those sweets. Where are the Flying Saucer Sweets filled with sherbet, the Cola Cubes, Lemon Sherbets, Walnut Whips and Pineapple Cubes. I had to laugh when Alanna got distracted by the sweets at the start of the video and forgot to do the intro :-)

[@WolfGratz]

As it happens my Nan used to have a sweet shop just opposite St Dunstuns College in sunny south London where she used to sell even older versions of those things. I believe there's a hotel there now - it looks really naff. So it goes.

[@michaelbowling1362]

You're not a foreigner - you're one of us now 😜

[@downsman1]

I've been telling her that for ages!

[@CAsCurryKitchen]

Those Anglo Bubblys were 1/2 pence each when I was a kid. I got 50p pocket money, bought a 100 and, yes, got all 100 in my mouth (for a short time)! And Black Jacks are the best.

[@MustangErin]

The dip thing from Canada is called Fun Dip. It was one of my favorite candies when I was growing up. Still will buy one every so often. I am heading to London in March so I am going to stock up on my sweet stash.

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

FUN DIP thank you! It was driving me nuts, couldn't think of the name.

[@judybage4083]

The liquorice in the sherbet fountain was like a straw when I was a kid. You’d suck the sherbet up through the ‘straw’, cough and splutter and get sherbet up the nose. Hilarious when you’re 7. Can’t think why they made it a solid stick. 😩😋😝🤓

[@lorddarlo6194]

favourite sweets Fruit Salad, Sherbet but with the lolly think Dip Dap, refreshers, Drumsticks, I love the Jazzles and others. The Jazzles have an ice lolly the same with I think bubblegum underneath can't think of the name but they come in a Pink Box

[@davidcov90]

Great video, loved some of these sweets as a child.

[@Robutube1]

A fun video, especially seeing you taste the licorice based products - thanks! However, the company that produced that box of so-called (see where this is going?) 'retro' sweets need to be taken to the product description police! There was VERY little in that box that was genuinely retro British candy/sweets. And yeah, we had Hubba-Bubba.

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Apparently most of the stuff I tried is somewhat new stuff, but there's older stuff in the box that I didn't try - they just didn't look that appetising!

[@dad6167]

I love these videos this is fun, thanks Alana

[@susie2251]

I remember a whistle candy from my childhood in the US but it didn’t have any plastic in it. It was just formed out of hard candy (the whistle, I mean) and you could pretend to blow on it as you essentially ate a lollipop.

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

That's interesting! I don't remember anything like that in Canada when I was a kid.

[@stephenparker6362]

Hi, Alanna, great video, it wouldn't be the same without the dustcart and the sun, you make them so entertaining. Your face is brilliantly expressive when you try new things. I've never heard of most of the sweets you tried, but I must admit I did used to like liquorice and blackcurrant, oh dear. I used to like the little chocolate drops with sprinkles as well although I didn't recognise their name. Another really fun video, I would encourage everyone to sponsor Alanna on Patreon she produces some great stuff on there as well. Looking forward to your next video soon.

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Thanks so much Stephen, that's really kind of you!!

[@SH-zb6zw]

These aren't that retro as I don't recognise many of them and this video has made me feel old! Where are bonbons, iced caramels, Spanish Gold, shrimps, fruit salads, pear drops? Alanna, I feel as if I need to go to the shops and buy you a proper selection :) My friend's mum had a post office and sweet shop, the kind where you weighed everything out from the jars and when I visited, she'd give me a bag and say 'fill it up' :)

[@Comic3247]

Alanna, queen of the Canadians

[@Hi-kq1vi]

Trish Stratus music hits.

[@grahamlavers8128]

Great video again,Alanna,today while in the supermarket (Asda) I found some Tangy wine gums,have a bit of a fizz to them.Looking forward to the next video and the continuation on Patreon.

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Thanks so much Graham!

[@emm_arr]

Sherbet fountains? When I was little I had two in one day. Bouncing off the walls all day turned into an spending half the evening on the toilet. Magical times. More parents should fill up their kids with sugar.

[@blower1]

'Bin Men' is what we call em.....not to say you can't have a 'Bin Woman', although i have never seen one.

[@cockleshellzero3893]

Yeah, funny how equality works, isn't it. ;)

[@EASYTIGER10]

and they drive a "Dust Cart"

[@archstanton1628]

Bucket men or scaffies, that's what we call them up here.

[@ajadrew]

There's one in Braintree Essex...

[@EASYTIGER10]

@@ajadrew One Bin man? For all of Braintree? He must be busy😳

[@HappyAitch]

I can't ever remember white mice being a bar, they where mice, you could get pink ones too.

[@speleokeir]

Pink sugar mice with a string tail. And little white chocolate mice, two for a penny.

[@personalcheeses8073]

HappyAitch No they were not a thing back in the day only the little ones were

[@JG-fv9bv]

Flying Saucers , Cola Cubes , Refreshers , Milk Bottles , Blackjacks were my favourites when I was young ......now I'm old its Ibrufen , Senatogen, Vitamin D and alcohol 😂

[@satanswombat]

Laughed so hard at the "bubbly" section I think I've hurt my side. You should try to find a selection of the old fashioned hard candies. Cola cubes, pineapple cubes and mint humbugs were my faves back in the plastocene era.

[@lupooflunarorigin120]

The liquorice is for your dad. Everybody just eats the sherbet from the tube

[@3lmodfz]

Send me all unwanted black liquorice....I can't sit by and watch it go to waste. It's literally the best thing.

[@Tom_YouTube_stole_my_handle]

Yes, that’s what we did. Mainline the sherbet then eat the liquorice ice after.

[@Tom_YouTube_stole_my_handle]

iPhone added ‘ice’ there.

[@kamelionify]

Or get a 5p lolly and substitute it for the liquorice

[@fz1wheelie]

No no no. Throw away the sherbet and just rejoice in the liquorice.

[@chockmcq6434]

Hi Alana gr8 vids, you should do a vid on old sweet shop retro sweets I mean the sweets you buy a quarter of in an old sweet shop like butternuts, chewing nuts, lemon Bon Bons, old humbugs and chocolate limes etc

[@TheArtofLife8]

Really enjoyed this one Allana and I was half expecting you to pull out the old 'Victory V' lozenges which I would have enjoyed your reaction to, but sadly they weren't there :-( You should try and find some for a future vid, along with some Horlicks pastels if they can still be found. We have an old fashioned style sweet shop in Leicester (which I can't remember the name of!) which still have all the sweets in big jars like the shops did when I was a kid. I bet they could put together a fantastic selection for you. Let me know if you want me to find out more details about the shop for you and I will get their details when I'm next in town. Anyway, enough waffling - great vid, keep smiling :-)

[@scollyb]

The most involved scoring system. Grandmother's glass bowl. Love it

[@grahvis]

I suppose there is no point in suggesting you try liquorice root. Literally dried lengths of root from the liquorice plant that were chewed to release the sweet flavour.

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

I think I'd rathe die

[@grahvis]

@@AdventuresAndNaps . I've always been very fond of liquorice in all its forms. Perhaps it's like Marmite, a love/hate thing. I did however, have some liquorice based sweets from Germany and I found some of them disgusting.

[@Andy_U]

Hiya. My grandparents passed too soon for me to remember them but, God!, I remember those sweet filled glass bowls on ALL my aunts' front room coffee tables! And, yes, you had to prise them apart or open with a crow bar. Lol. All the best to you.

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

I'm glad I wasn't the only one prying sweets apart!

[@matc6221]

Mine too eww sweaty sweets. I also just remembered my nan gave me chocolates that had white patches over them, that's how old they were lol. My mum was not impressed.

[@FrancescaG]

Hey! I’m hoping to move to Canada soon, debating between Toronto area or Montreal, do you know any good real estate websites I can search for rentals or buying a property? I always find the American/ Canadian websites so confusing, because I’m so used to British ones like Zoopla and OnTheMarket etc...

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

I'm not sure, actually! I haven't rented in Toronto or Montreal before - although if you Google rental properties in those areas, you should get decent results!

[@ericbatemanrodgers]

Great video Alanna took me back to my childhood 60years ago

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Thanks so much for watching!

[@4svennie]

The white chocolate mice used to be mouse shaped and there were two kinds, one was just white chocolate, the other was white chocolate with a strawberry jam/syrup inside. With the Sherbet I always threw the liquorice out and just used my finger or I'd roll the Sherbet in between my fingers to loosen up the sugar, then tip a little into my mouth.

[@deadshot4155]

Id say retro british sweets are the sort you get from a shop in a paper bag, more boiled sweets. they are in a tub and you pick what you want and what weight

[@PsychHacks]

I wonder if you'd love to go on the Cadbury factory tour in Bournville, Birmingham. The store there has every chocolate they sell in the country, many of which aren't sold in Kent.

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

I keep meaning to go! Hopefully eventually.

[@buzzardbrother1911]

Thanks for the vlog, as entertaining as ever. If you want to have an adventure and fancy trying some traditional rather than retro British sweets then maybe you could visit The Oldest Sweetshop in England, it's up in the wilds of Yorkshire in a tiny village called Pateley Bridge, or if you fancy some traditional soda maybe the last Temperance Bar Mr Fitzpatricks in Rawtenstall. My favourite traditional sweets are Herbal Cough Candy and Sherbert Lemons.

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

That sounds like a great idea, thanks so much!

[@awreetmeowd]

Wine gums versus flavoured rubber, there's no contest, as you said, "God tier"

[@mickb2009]

Black Jacks are awesome and unlike many of the things you tried truly are retro Haribos for example were unheard of until fairly recently

[@TheNevermind007]

Note to self, don't drink tea while watching her! "Am I pretty now?" nearly killed me.

[@gustavmeyrink_2.0]

A few things things about Haribo: 1. They are as German as you can get (to whit: Haribo = HAns RIegel BOnn); 2. There are no better gummi sweets; 3. No artificial colours or flavourings. Not sure what they are doing in that box because when I came to the UK I had to wait 10 years before Haribos arrived. Also if it ain't black it ain't liquorice.

[@SpikeBlighty]

I'm getting flashbacks to my school days, Where I was fueled by sweets like sherbert fountains and lemon drops. Luckily I still have all my own teeth after such punishment. I don't think I could handle the sugar rush nowadays. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Thanks for watching!!

[@Biddyjohno]

Ok im old. I love blackcurrant liquorice and black jacks, not keen on just black liquorice at all. But Its so good of you to eat those sweets for your public as you dont normally eat many sweets (hahaha I have seen one or two of your other videos where you might have sampled a "few"). Great video again, keep them coming

[@markmcfc1062]

I love how you say “byeee” 😂 Random,I know 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@Pradeepsolus]

I agree... it's great

[@stewartw.9151]

As a kid at school I used to get what was called "Spanish" licorice from a grotty little sweet-shop on the way to the bus station where I would catch the bus home each day. It was not sweet or soft and came in little thin sticks, black and hard. They were about the size of a pencil but thinner. The taste was bitter so I think there was no sugar at all in these. I have not seen those in decades though, not that I have been looking for them!

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Oh nooooo! No thank you!

[@mr8ball1st]

You should try one of the old fashioned sweetshops they have aound, where they have lots of old sweets in huge jars.

[@leebennett4117]

I don't know about everyone else that Tash is really Doing for me

[@neniaemm6127]

We also have the Sherbert dip dab in the UK, it's much better than the one you tried if you hate liquorice. I have no idea what the obsession with black liquorice is either and I am from the UK.

[@kingduckman61]

Dib dabs are what we call the sugar stick that you dip into sugar pouches. I love the faces you pull when you do taste this videos

[@MrTumshie]

We would call that noisy vehicle a bin-lorry in my part of Scotland. Or a scaffy-wagon when I was wee. (Scaffies being the binmen and also street sweepers.) Also, the correct way to eat a sherbet fountain is to throw the disgusting bit away and just pour the sweet goodness into your mouth. Not too much at a time though or your head might explode. You don't come to enjoy black liquorice with age- I'm ancient and can't abide the muck.

[@jayscollops]

Rainbow Drops are great in a bowl with milk. how i use to have them when i was a kid back in the late 70's

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

They are sort of like cereal!

[@cueballzero]

Amazing that cola cubes, pear drops, cough sweets etc weren’t in this lot.. never heard of jazzles either.. oh and opel fruits...

[@cueballzero]

Oh and I’m with you on liquorice... it’s like licking a battery 🤮

[@vincentwright9275]

Great vid you brought a smile to my face....retro sweets but I've not heard of some of them...well it's so cold here when you milk the cows you get ice cream...only one thing left to say...DIB DAB....sweet stick in sherbet in packet....great vid cant wait for the next one.

[@cdeford]

Jazzies (jazzles are just jazzies which you can get anywhere - we called them hundreds and thousands), mint cracknel, toffos, peanut brittle, flying saucers, rhubarb & custard, bon-bons, sherbet lemons, chewits, treets, fruit pastilles, bar six, opal fruits, spangles - somehow I still have most of my own teeth! I would vote for toffos as my favourite - the mint one.

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

There were some rhubarb & custard hard sweets in the box - definitely never seen that taste-combination in Canada before!

[@stephenphillip5656]

Hi Alanna, I'd been having a bad day but got home to find your latest "Eat This" video which has blown away all the negativity. Thank you!! I'm with you on black liquorice- I've never liked it as a child. Love hearts? Yeah, I remember them. As for CurlyWurly... Great timing by your local refuse disposal operatives! Love the videos Alanna- a ray of sunshine on a dank winter day....

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Thank you so much for the support, it really means a lot!!

[@lupooflunarorigin120]

You said cheers not thank you. One of us! One of us! One of us!

[@lwaves]

If you had some Turkish Delight under the settee you could call the area Narnia. You've gotta love retro sweets for the most part, there's always something great that's missing these days. Pity they usually overcharge for them. We used to get Hubba Bubba over here, don't know if we still do but I'm allergic to bubble/chewing gum. It causes my throat to go incredibly sore, dry and then it starts blee....yeah, that's enough of that. You get the picture.

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

I'd rather eat black liquorice than Turkish Delight, no thank you! Sucks you can't have gum, although I guess there's worse things to be allergic to!

[@Hi-kq1vi]

@@AdventuresAndNaps Used to hate Turkish Delight as a kid, but liked it as I got older. Once you get past the initial perfume hit it is great.

[@richardpalmer7640]

That was absolutely hilarious Alanna about people who like black jack chews 🤣 they need help thank you so much for make me laugh excellent video.😘😘

[@MousePotato]

I remember 10p mix ups from the local shop in the 70s. You would get a lot for that much. I used to buy Hubba Bubba here in the UK. Don't they do it here anymore?

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Haven't seen it here! But haven't really been looking that much.

[@thylacinenv]

"Toxic Waste" sweets recommended for the sensitive pallet! Entertaining as always.

[@heatherkim6533]

But which colour bin day is it? (the struggle is real!!!) 🤔

[@RedSkysAreOnFire]

have you tried cadburys creme eggs, they're are only available between January and Easter, then they disappear till the next year unless you stock pile them.

[@chris-hz2wd]

This is the first KZbin video with a so sponsor that actually made me sit up and think “why the Fuck have I never heard of that before?” And immediately downloaded pouch so thanks for that Alanna!

[@peterr.905]

Wow! I remember Bubbly bubble gum; the British version and predecessor of Hubba Bubba. Hubba Bubba came to British stores much later.

[@nickel7002]

garbage trucks are called 'bin lorries' where I'm from.

[@leonbell5141]

I like the fact you call them sweets not candy 👏🏽

[@awordabout...3061]

I don't think anyone ever used the liquorice stick - chuck that in the bin and just chug the sherbert powder!

[@baylessnow]

You alway got a few white mice in your 10 pence mix at the local shop. Actual little white chocolate mice rather than a bar. If you wanted a white chocolate bar you bought a Milky Bar made by Nestle'. I think you can get white mice in Tesco at their pic'n'mix sweets section.

[@frogletx]

'Jazzles' or similar were very common back in the day. My favourites, as a kid, were wine gums, white chocolate anything, smarties & chocolate covered honeycomb (which is a bit like a Crunchie bar but better). I, too, could never stand blackjacks ... or most liqourice, but oddly I liked liquorice allsorts - which makes no sense really. Y'know when you have a longish drive to do, I still buy wine gums for that.

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Ugh, wine gums for life

[@ianlenaghan9534]

12.41 "Am I pretty now?" Priceless, it's only lipstick pet, not a magic set ;-)

[@markgladstone6588]

Hi Alanna love the vid - Garbage truck in UK is either a Bin Wagon or a Bin Lorry

[@PaulFellows3430]

No it isn't; it's called a Dustcart!