American Reacts to What is the BEST British Sweet?

[@alanpeacock5451]

The important point about "Lovehearts" is that they had a message stamped on each one. There would be a mixture of messages in each tube such as "be mine", "always", "cuddle me" and "kiss me" etc.

[@marchionessamoretto7326]

I love lovehearts

[@TheOriginalNeomix]

'Bassettes Jelly Babies' should have also been on the list!

[@corringhamdepot4434]

We used to buy a mix of Fruit Salads and Black Jacks at 4 for a penny. With Half Penny Chews and Penny Chews. The newsagents used to have a display of penny candies spread out in trays on a shelf under glass. So we would spend hours picking out what we would buy with our sixpence pocket money. While the shopkeeper stood behind the counter with a white paper bag in one hand. patiently waiting for us to make up our minds.

[@andybaker2456]

Exactly. How patient shopkeepers were back then, especially when we were too young to properly add up how much we'd spent! I remember stopping at a sweetshop on the way home from school one day to get myself a treat. I had 2p in my pocket, and I saw that a finger of Fudge was 1½p, so thought I had enough money to buy two! I was only 5, and knew enough to understand that 1 + 1 = 2, but I had no understanding of fractions, so the shopkeeper patiently tried to explain that I needed 3p to buy two. I didn't understand him, but left with one Fudge anyway, which was better than none at all! 😊

[@corringhamdepot4434]

I learnt to budget with "half a crown" a day. Sixpence pocket money, 2 x sixpence bus fares each way and one shilling dinner money. When I used to walk a mile to school to save the bus fare, and buy cheaper "Free Dinner" tickets from the other kids. 🙂 @@andybaker2456

[@WreckItRolfe]

They always remind me of the Essex Show (of a similar country event), as I remember having a paper bag full of them there.

[@Lily_The_Pink972]

Rhubarb and custard sweets are red and yellow boiled sweets coated in sugar and with quite a tart flavour. Stewed rhubarb and hot custard is a popular dessert in Britain, and these sweets are named after it.

[@Rhianalanthula]

Don't forget the sugar when stewing the rhubarb. You can also used the stewed rhubarb in pies and crumbles. And don't forget the cartoon!

[@stuartfaulds1580]

@@Rhianalanthula The cartoon was amusing even if a bit confusing.

[@AnneDowson-vp8lg]

Tunnocks Teacakes do not have pastry in them. I'm English, and we used to call them Marshmallow. They are a shortcake base, with a sort of soft meringue on top, then covered with chocolate. I wouldn't call them a sweet, they're a cake. Most of the sweets I like have some chocolate in them, Smarties, Maltesers, but then there are various toffees, and my childhood favourites, Dolly mixture.

[@Lily_The_Pink972]

@@AnneDowson-vp8lg Yes, they're like the chocolate tea cakes M&S sell. A sweet treat but not a sweet! I suppose our terms for similar things are confusing to outsiders! Personally I'm a big fan of Tunnock's Caramel Log.

[@karencauser120]

Oh no, I shouldn't have watched this before having my dinner. I'm now dreaming of kola cubes, sweet peanuts, rainbow drops, popping candy, jelly tots and coconut mushrooms!

[@gazinessex2]

+1 for coconut mushrooms,

[@scragar]

Cola is not any fizzy soft drink, it's cola specific since it's using the kola but that gives coca-cola it's distinctive flavour. In the UK we'd never refer to mountain dew or similar as cola, they're pops or soft drinks.

[@scottneil1187]

There's no actual cola in Coca-Cola, it's Pepsi that actually uses the cola nut.

[@catzkeet4860]

​@@scottneil1187there was originally

[@scottneil1187]

Just checked and nobody uses it anymore, not even Pepsi.

[@billyhills9933]

Along similar lines but individually wrapped, I like chocolate limes. They can really do a number on the top of your mouth if you eat too many.

[@speleokeir]

If we're going old school then for me: 1) Sherbert lemons. I love the taste of lemon and then you get to the sherbert in the middle which fizzes and bubbles on your tongue. 2) Pear drops. 3) Rhubarb & custards. An honurable mention to lemon bonbons. N.B. Rhubarb is a plant that you'll find in many British gardens. The leaves are poisonous to eat, but the stalks are edible when stewed. It's naturally quite sharp so sugar is added. Great in crumbles and with custard. Mixes well with both apples and blackberries. Stewed rhubarb & custard is a classic British desert and a staple of school dinners,. In Yorkshire there's an area called the Rhubarb triangle, so called because of the mysterious rhubarb related activity that occurs there😮. Or maybe just because it's the centre of commerically grown rhubarb.😀

[@Ollybus]

@spele… The rhubarb area is around Wakefield. They grow it in big sheds will only candle light to illuminate the space. It ‘forces’ the stems and makes them taste sweeter than when grown in the open.

[@productjoe4069]

I am a Parma violet fan. Have a pack on my desk right now in fact. Also, rhubarb and custards are amazing, and pear drops, and blackjacks. Hm. I seem to have a thing for the floral/herby sweets. A lot of these sweets evolved (flavour-wise at least) from the traditional candied flowers (highly scented edible flowers preserved by coating in sugar or caramel, which were ostentatious decorative pieces at medieval feasts used to show off wealth as much as to be delicious).

[@jamesgornall5731]

Parmalat violets are hanging mate

[@robertespley248]

Absolutely no disrespect to you and I know it's all down to personal taste but Parma Violets were the most horrible sweet I've ever had as a kid. The fact they looked like refreshers (same size, same style) did not hide the fact that it was like having a mouthfull of "old ladies perfume" 😂

[@jeansteele6586]

LOL !

[@productjoe4069]

@@robertespley248 I am deeply offended and shall cover your house with violets in protest ;p Nah, I get it. It’s nice that we have a good range of flavours here instead of a choice between ‘sweet’, ‘oversweet’, and ‘vomit milk’. ;)

[@alishapannell5414]

Massive parma violet fan here lol

[@sarah6557]

As a 💯brit I loved cola cubes as a kid in 80s but they are very different now not chewy in middle also pineapple cubes 😅

[@billyhills9933]

I used to love cola spangles but they came in a packet. Long gone now.

[@neilmcdonald9164]

​@@billyhills9933I remember Spangles,but not the Cola ones🎩

[@neilmcdonald9164]

We also say Candy in Candyfloss [Cotton Candy]🎩

[@neilmcdonald9164]

Never heard of Yorkshire mix,but then I'm a London chap.A lot of these non-choc ones were more widely available when shops with huge jars of various sweets meant the local sweetshop,not various chains that pedal nostalgia in the form of mock ups of such shops (Ye Olde Sweet shop,etc).loose sweets are largely a thing of the past in uk🎩

[@billyhills9933]

@@neilmcdonald9164 I imagine Yorkshire mix as being a combination of small stones and bits of coal. You could suck on it for hours.

[@Valant-t9p]

You need to to get a PO box so we can send you British sweets to try.

[@jonathanemptage1593]

yeah 100%

[@0utcastAussie]

Yeah I'd love to see him doing the "American Thing" of trying a spoonful of Marmite thinking it's Nutella !!

[@adamarcher3089]

@@0utcastAussie you have an evil mind. however which of the Marmite products do you think is better, personally i think the original is best but for the american market probably the Marmite penut butter.

[@Michelle-bo4hj]

Oh my we really are going retro ,The hard boiled sweets were usually weighed out in how much pocket money you had to spend . Gob stoppers , sherbet dibs/dips , flying saucers , black jacks , love hearts or a red jubbly in the summer, does any one remember the chalky sweets on a neckless. You got your moneys worth with a gob stopper it lasted hours wow takes me back . I remember getting tuppence for pocket money , we then went decimal hmmm . This was a nice trip down memory lane .

[@stumblepuppy606]

Kola cubes are flavoured with the Kola nut, the ingredient that gives the Cola sodas such as Coca~Cola its name.

[@nigelbarber3300]

Here are a couple that you may not even have heard of heard of. Candy floss. And a hard boiled sweet that ceased production many years ago but was extremely popular called spangles. I suggest that you look them up.

[@DruncanUK]

One of my old favourites, but not seen so often these days, was Sugared Almonds. Not something you could eat quickly though, take your time and savour the flavour.

[@andybaker2456]

My mum always used to get a box of those to put out at Christmas. Loved them!

[@Shoomer88]

Down with this sort of thing.

[@jmillar71110]

I remember when every wedding favour used to be wee organza bags of sugared almonds 😂x

[@annpartoon5300]

same in Greece@@jmillar71110

[@kathryndunn9142]

​@@jmillar71110 ooh yes I had to make up bags made of the bride veil with a dove ring and sugar almonds in it I had to make 450 of them

[@nickyverra2175]

It’s funny that for rhubarb and custard you googled rhubarb the vegetable! Rhubarb and custard is a hard boiled sweet (a glass like texture that either dissolves when you keep sucking it or can be crunched to shatter it and goes chewy in the mouth), it is called Rhubarb and Custard because half of the individual sweet is a yellow colour and half a rhubarb reddish purple colour.

[@geekexmachina]

So something a little confusing to some is the word “sweet “ has a couple of different meanings. One is what you are looking at here and another definition in some parts of the UK is to mean Desserts ( IE cakes etc that you have after a main meal, in other places this is referred to as pudding or Afters and are sometimes interchangeable )

[@andybaker2456]

Yep, pudding, dessert, afters, and sweet are all interchangeable where I'm from. It may also explain why someone suggested Bakewell Tart as their favourite sweet, thinking they were asking about their favourite dessert!

[@JTScottOfficial]

@andybaker2456 You can have it separate as a sweet treat. Pudding, or desert as I tend to refer to it, is either something like a crumble and custard or rice pudding.

[@danielq250]

Tyler you should give us a PO BOX or US equivalent, so that we can send you sweets/ chocs / food for you to try and react to !

[@abigailjohnson4270]

What you call ‘smarties’ we call ‘Refreshers’ Our smarties are small, lush, hard cased chocs

[@Joshua-fi4ji]

They're very much like the chocolate M&Ms for any Americans wondering.

[@faithpearlgenied-a5517]

I think their smarties are mire like our love hearts.

[@rikmoran3963]

These all brought back memories! I can't believe nobody mentioned Aniseed Twists! They were very popular back in the day. I think the one we ate the most as kids were the Bonbons, toffee coated in a white, yellow (lemon) or pink (strawberry) sugar dusting. I remember one pulling out a filling! You also had the penny sweets, like the foam bananas and shrimps.

[@andybaker2456]

Morrisons do packets of foam shrimps and bananas that are exactly as I remember them as a kid!

[@jeansteele6586]

I did that too ! 🦷 on a “picnic bar” at a Christmas Circus

[@AnneDowson-vp8lg]

I also remember aniseed balls. Didn't like anything with liquorice.

[@corringhamdepot4434]

Haribo is a German company, that didn't arrive in the UK until the early 1990s. So I am from the pre-Haribo generation, and never really liked their gummies. I did love milk bottles, barley sugars and humbugs. Bought in "2 ounces" lots weighed out from a knee high glass bottle, in a white paper bag.

[@jeansteele6586]

This brought back a whole pile of childhood memories of walking home from school, now in my 70’s , what a tease, but I didn’t find anyone share Aniseed Twist, and check out Rhubarb and Custard English candy/sweet , that name rolled off my tongue first 🇨🇦

[@christineharding4190]

I loved Aniseed Twists.

[@annpartoon5300]

we used to have anisead balls@@christineharding4190

[@valvesofvalvino]

Not for everyone but my favourite are liquorice allsorts. Also Tunnocks Teacakes are amazing!

[@0utcastAussie]

I love *Liquorice Toffees. They used to be available at our local Morrisons but they've stopped stocking them along with my fave Ale (Tanglefoot in bottles) *NOT Liquorice & Blackcurrant hard boiled sweets.

[@sandrabeaumont9161]

Black Jacks and Fruit Salads were known as penny candies back in the day. You could get 4 for an old Penny. Pre decimilisation.

[@williamharding4260]

Everton Mints, Licorice and Blackcurrant sweets, Chocolate coated caramel chewy toffees. So many. By the way back when I was a youngster the fruit salads and Blackjacks were 4 for a Penny (farthings were still just in use).

[@scottiebainbridge7871]

Cough Candy Twist, were a fav of mine

[@may_68]

There are many local words for sweets in the UK. We moved to Derbyshire in my early teens where the word for sweets is 'spice'

[@williambailey344]

It's the same I'm Yorkshire too they say spice 😊

[@Ollybus]

@@williambailey344 Yes I’m from Yorkshire and we say spice for sweets.

[@Jacob-nk1of]

is it a generational thing? im mid 20s from Derbyshire and ive never heard anyone call sweets "spice"

[@may_68]

@@Jacob-nk1of possibly. Which part of Derbyshire are you from. This was Chesterfield.

[@Jacob-nk1of]

@may_68 I'm very close to Chesterfield. Like 15 mins ish

[@culthosmythos]

Also recommend looking up Catherine Wheels, Sherbert Fountains, Liquorice Allsorts and Wine Gums.

[@stephenlee5929]

Just googled Catherine Wheels, a liquorice lace wrapped round a 'spog' (soft liquorice covered in small hard beads), I never knew that's what they were called, (I used to work in an English sweet shop, we also sold fireworks).

[@debbielough7754]

I'm really 6 inside, so I've always been fond of fried eggs, and shrimps, and dolly mix. Though Curly Wurly and Black Bullets also good. During the pandemic, the Tunnocks factory closed, because the factory was too small for staff to distance. It was distressing. On the bakewell tart (which you can buy), it's running into the issue that some people in Britain call a dessert a sweet.

[@angeladormer6659]

You are a girl after my own heart 😂 I'm in my 70s and still remember old fashioned sweets and wish I could taste them now. Love a Curly Wurly, but they are not as big now.

[@stephenlee5929]

@@angeladormer6659 And Wagon Wheels, they are also not as big now.

[@angeladormer6659]

@stephenlee5929 I thought that too. Also the taste is nowhere near as good either or is it just me?

[@ilovefacebookandebay]

Small pieces of white chocolate, shaped like mice. Hence they are called chocolate mice !! When I was a kid each one cost one pence. I was given a pound by my mum one day and I went to my local sweet shop ( it was a thing,) and bought 100 white mice with my pound. I can still recall the poor man having to count out one hundred of the things. Made myself a bit sick with them all, and it put me off the taste of white chocolate for ages !

[@JTScottOfficial]

Those things are vile, literally taste nothing like white chocolate

[@wightwitch]

Now for some reason this has me thinking of jazzies

[@kathryndunn9142]

Yes I remember them mice was made from condensed milk 😋

[@kathryndunn9142]

Do you remember the gummy bears the tiny ones you could get 6 for a penny

[@JTScottOfficial]

@wightwitch Ohhh Jazzies, white or milk chocolate ones?

[@samueljordan3177]

Can't go too wrong with Fudge. Just find a flavour you like and it's your go to for life.

[@MrGBH]

To truly understand British sweets, you need to come to England and visit a Confectioners. Then you can buy a mix and try them out

[@abigailjohnson4270]

I’ve never been much for sweets, I prefer chocolate. They used to make cola pips which I’d pick at. I liked sherbet - flying saucers, sherbet dipdab (but I never eat the licorice as I can’t stand it!). We have proper old school sweet shop sweets - lots of boiled sweets. A sherbet lemon is nice. My son loves marshmallows, Haribo & maoam chewy stix.. (only as a treat tho!). I don’t consider a tea cake a sweet tho it has Italian marshmallow on it…

[@neilmcdonald9164]

Er,chocolate is a form of sweet...but I know what you mean🎩👍

[@davidjackson2580]

Oh yes! Flying saucers were always a favourite.

[@daveborder7751]

Yorkshire Mixtures are Winter Mixtures-my favourite back in the 1980's, other than maybe Salad Gums.

[@SNMG7664]

my guy. with love and respect - cola is a tree/nut. The drink is flavoured with the nut, it's not a soda flavoured candy lmao. It never before occurred to me that people might only know cola from coca cola lmao.

[@elemar5]

And then he says Mountain Dew is cola!

[@peterpereira3653]

Aniseed twists probably my favourite hard boiled sweet. Also we were lucky to have local shops, that carried all types of traditional types of sweets. Best value sure was the fruit salad and/or black jack, at just half pence for 4 back in the mid 1970s. You could get a full bag with your pocket money.

[@jenniferfox301]

Candy comes from the cooking term "candied" which means dried fruit/s preserved in sugar syrup which when dried goes hard - like sweets/candy. Love ❤ from UK 🇬🇧

[@Lookatmeshine]

For me the best sweet is double dips or a dipdab. 😋 For chocolate it's got to be a Cadbury s wispa

[@frankhooper7871]

If it makes you feel better, I had to Google "Yorkshire mixture" and I've lived in the UK for 50+ years. For me, favourites would be aniseed twists and clove bullseyes. One thing that leads to confusion is that "sweets" can mean both candy and desserts. LOL - I had a general store/sweet shop in the mid '70s and fruit salads and blackjacks were ½p each.

[@lukespooky]

15:06 i knew you'd say it like that

[@Lily-Bravo]

Sherbet fountains were my favourite. Not now I am grown up. However, I am a liquorice fan, and love Flyers, which are liquorice tubes filled with fruit flavoured sugar crystals.

[@sarabazlinton9820]

Liquorice flyers are my absolute favourite too 😊

[@sjbict]

loved these but also my Grans winter mixture sweets (herby, menthol , spicy minty hard boiled sweets various shapes etc) that she bought from local rock shop along with humbugs and seaside rock.

[@mjchristie100]

Fry's Turkish delight, mmm! Not the same as traditional Turkish delight, but definitely British.

[@ponygirl]

Oh no he didnt mention Liquorice Allsorts or Bertie Bassett 😂

[@brandunited5744]

Loved sherbert pips as a kid. Also Everton Mints or Mint Humbugs

[@dynamitekaitorn7175]

For me, I HAVE to go for werther's original. I love Butterscotch.

[@Dreyno]

Wouldn’t actually be a British sweet though. Weather’s is a German brand. Named after a town called Werther in Westphalia where August Storck (the company who makes them) was established at the turn of the last century.

[@bugleboy4527]

Tyler We hardly ever use the word candy, love Pear Drops, Cola Cubes, Army & Navy, Aniseed Twists my personal fav are sherbet lemons

[@stephenlee5929]

Hi Tyler, You should have looked up 'Rhubarb and Custard candy' its a single type not 2 separate items. Re the Fruit salad/Black jacks, I used to sell these (my school job) , they cost 1 penny (1d) for 8 (you were allowed to mix them) at the change in currency they went up to 8 for 1/2p. How I hated the price increases due to decimalisation.

[@nataliedunn5239]

My local amateur drama group did a play set during the black death and I had to play a character right at the start who was suffering from it. At the start of each performance I ate a black jack to make my tongue black as a black tongue was mentioned in the script! lol. Refreshers! I love Refreshers and I am convinced it's because my mum ate so many of them when she was pregnant with me. She worked at the local Trebour factory and got a lot for free, and she found they were the only thing that relieved her heartburn while carrying me, so she ate so many of them that she has forever made herself sick of them, but I absolutely live them!

[@EmilyCheetham]

Rhubarb may be a vegetable (but used like a fruit) it’s like tomatoe is a fruit (but used like a vegetable). Rhubarb is usually bitter & acidic. Most people eat it in a crumble or a pie/tart. It is usually chopped up and cooked with planty of sugar. Rhubarb & custard is a boiled sweet that tastes as the name says rhubarb & custard. It is a sharp/bitter sweet but quite tasty.

[@meezursrule]

As well as candy canes, you could have candied fruits ie fruit covered with sugar. Hard to choose a favourite boiled sweet, but I think mint humbugs might be close to the top of the list. As a kid I loved mojos (liquorice chews) or fruit salad dhews......and loved crunching aniseed balls! If you have a PO Box, maybe some Brits could send you sweets to review? Would love to see your reaction!

[@bethanylewis5618]

Scrolling to find anyone mentioning aniseed balls! Got a tub full on the kitchen side, only sweet I like that doesn't get stolen by the kids 😅 Bless your strong ass teeth crunching through them though!

[@tanyacampbell29]

The only way Candy is used in the U.K. is for Candy Floss (Cotton Candy) other than that everything else is just sweets or chocolate. Even the ones for sore throats are called cough/throat sweets, in my 41 years in the U.K. I’ve never heard a Brit call sweets Candy except for Candy floss but who knows. Sweets are anything from Gummy bears to hard boiled sweets or chewy bars of sweetness and lollipops but a sweet is a something you have after main course the same as pudding/desert it’s the same thing a sweet treat for after dinner. Haribo is German not American 🤣.

[@redfog42]

Dark chocolate coated crystallised ginger is the best! Milk chocolate raisins are hard to beat, too. 😋

[@lesleyhawes6895]

Everybody has different sweet favourites at different ages. Generally chocolate is listed separately from sweets, but sweets could be everything from boiled sweets, to toffee, to gums, (not chewing gum, that, like chocolate, is considered separately.) At the moment my favourite sweet is Haribo (brand name) Tangfastic, but I also like Butterscotch, and Barley Sugar, but they are becoming hard to find these days.

[@denisebell8422]

I'm from Manchester UK We call them toffees 🇬🇧

[@jamesdignanmusic2765]

Chocolate raisins are a classic cinema (= movie theater) snack. And yes, you can buy packets of Bakewell tarts - but as you said, they're not really sweets.

[@ralphhathaway-coley5460]

I love the traditional cough and cold remedy type boiled sweets with their less sweet and interesting tastes e.g. winter warmers; blackcurrant and liquorice; Halls mentho-lyptus (the big extra strong ones not those weak little square ones); army and navy sweets and Uncle Joe's Mint Balls; their throat and chest sweets.

[@mellie5858]

Do you remember Kopp kops? Same as winter warmers.. lush❤

[@siloPIRATE]

15:47 Those blue box ones are the Smarties we have. We don't have the ones in that clear wrapping. They look like Love Hearts

[@iapetusmccool]

Rhubarb is a vegetable that is used as a fruit (like how tomatoes are fruits that are used as vegetables). The stalks are cooked (with a lot of sugar, as its naturaly very sour) to make things like truit pies, crumbles, jam, etc. (Dont eat the leaves - they're poisonous). Its often eaten with custard, hence the rhubarb-and-custard flavoured candies.

[@martynnotman3467]

I adore cherry lips, floral gums, cola cubes, black and rasps, and dewdrops. Its really hard to find them now

[@jemmajames6719]

Loved floral gums but like the tiny fruit gems stuck in your teeth.

[@cheman579]

Did you know Kitkats were invented in York, England. Another reason I'm a proud Yorkshireman!

[@MrPaulMorris]

When I was a boy, fruit salads and blackjacks were 4 for a penny. That's an 'old' penny (or 'real' penny for those of us of a certain vintage) back when there were 12 pence made a shilling and 20 shillings made a pound--so you could (if you were rich enough) get 480 fruit salads or blackjacks for a pound! Favourites in my area were chewits and penny arrow bars (can you guess how much the latter cost?) which were produced in the Holland Toffee factory in my home town of Southport. As a seaside resort town, virtually everybody knew someone who worked there at least 'out of season' so there was always a plentiful supply to be had of rejects and misshapes that had by means legal or otherwise made there way out of the factory. Both my father and grandmother worked there from time to time and, about 50 years ago, I had an unsuccessful interview as a food technician.

[@The.Android]

Tunnocks Teacakes are the greatest. And anyone who disagrees is clearly mad.

[@sarabazlinton9820]

I’m a bit of a creature of habit where my favourite sweets are concerned, they’ve not really changed since I was a child and I’m now 58. I love anything liquorice or aniseed…liquorice allsorts, liquorice flyers when I can find them, cough candy and a real old fashioned one, army and navy boiled sweets but it’s hard to find those too. I also love refreshers and love hearts, Parma violets, rowntrees fruit gums and butter mints. I’m not a fan of milk chocolate but I do love dark chocolate, my favourite brand being Green and Blacks, particularly if it’s mint flavour. I try not to eat any of them too often 😂

[@karlg9354]

I like chocolate nibbles, and Choco licko, choco licko used to go mad for that after primary school to call at my local newsagents. Beautiful.

[@EmilyCheetham]

I remember eating chocolate covered raisins as a kid/teen. Whenever we used to go to the indoor shopping center we used to buy a bag and share it.

[@04nimmot]

Fact, Rhubarb and Custards are the best. Whoever said that teacakes are a sweet needs deporting.

[@jeffreyprice773]

Candy floss we use in uk, as a fluffy sugary coloured ball on a stick, found at fair grounds etc. Sherbut lemons are good, suck it until you get to the centre, boom. Everton mints.

[@michaelmardling3152]

weird calling it Candy Floss considering you can't actually Floss with it.

[@stewedfishproductions7959]

American's call 'Candy Floss'... 'Cotton Candy'!

[@michaelmardling3152]

WOW, Americans huh, Us Canadians also call it that.@@stewedfishproductions7959

[@elemar5]

Weird calling it cotton candy as you can't make clothing with it.@@michaelmardling3152

[@lindajw100]

And we have candy floss..which is spun sugar (usually pink) on a stick..You call it cotton candy!

[@GethStar]

Dunnock's tea cakes are delicious as the chocolate cracks upon biting, then you get the softness of the meringue which is similar to a marshmallow then you get the firm crunch of the buiscuit at the bottom.

[@jonathanemptage1593]

We love our sweets one not mentioned were Fizzers Sherbet fountain Sherbet Dip Dab fruit pastilles and fruit gums are some of my favroutes you seemed to get a little confused with the Refreshers the Refreshers chews and bars are completely separate from Refreshersthe tav late style sweet a refreshers chew is lemon flavour with a sherbet filling and are incredibly good that's the original but they also come in Strawberry and sour apple flavour we had loads of great chew bars in England but once Mc Cows was sold to candy land they changed the formula to make them much softer and they just aren't the same anymore. That’s why i love the refreshers chews they haven’t changed. also Sherbet lemons are the best a lemon flavour boiled sweet with sherbet in the centre whats not to like.

[@zoomspike8675]

Rhubarb for Re-Bar is the funniest Americanism I have heard for a long time. Just brilliant Tyler, just brilliant. 😅😂🤣 (Oh, just referring to a previous video about crisps. Tyrells is pronounced Tirells with the Ty said as Ti like in Tip.)

[@may_68]

Cola/Pineapple cubes are great and was one of my favourites as a kid but the combination of cube corners and hard sugar coating ripped the roof of your mouth to shreds.

[@Unchained_Alice]

im British and i'm embarrassed to say i'd never heard of pineapple cubes. Cola cubes are awesome though

[@may_68]

@@Unchained_Alice I always preferred pineapple cubes myself.

[@beccaboo3040]

I love pineapple cube's i can still remember the first time i tried them and yes they ripped the top of my mouth also maybe because i ate to many. I also prefer the pineapple cube's they taste more natural to me not really a fan of cola/kola flavour sweet's. Also i love strawberry bonbon's and cherry drop's.

[@beccaboo3040]

​@@Unchained_Aliceyou need to try them you won't be disappointed if you do.

[@circus1701]

What about Polos or Mint Imperials?😄 - I practically live on Mint Imperials😍

[@linnettsamuel5026]

I liked them so much as a kid that my nickname was Minty😂

[@SJP_Finnegan]

Tyler - these sweets were around the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s before all the new Chocolate types came. We've always had KitKat, Marathan (Now Snickers) Smarties etc. You could go to Woolworths store and choose from a pick-and-mix selection. Selecting whichever sweets/candy you liked and you paid by the weight of the sweets. Hope this helps as you are a young lad. I was born in the 70s and so I remember half-pence Mojo sweets. This was my first favourite sweet before I liked Fry's Turkish Delight. Keep up the great content from your average British citizen lol

[@promiscuous675]

Thank you. I would like to put forward the Sugar Mouse (Mice).

[@duntalkin]

With string tails 😂

[@azza4044]

Rhubard custards are amazing. Also the British version of your 'smarties' was on the same screen you had up for the ParmaViolets.

[@EmilyCheetham]

Tunnocks is just the brand but other companies make tea cakes too. It’s shortbread biscuit base then marshmallow covers in chocolate.

[@deec1601]

Tyler, some folk in the UK call dessert (at a restaurant) sweet or pudding. Parma Violets are an acquired taste, I love the smell though, I have a Parma Violet air freshener in my car. Fruit Salads and Black Jacks are lovely. Love Hearts are fizzy tasting! My favourite is definitely Freddo Frogs (chocolate shaped frogs)

[@tinabento-filipe191]

I have a few favourites, Fruit Salads are my number 1 they are pineapple and raspberry flavoured. I also like Pear Drops, Kola Cubes and Sherbert Lemons. We also have a lot of mint flavoured boiled sweets like Polos, Everton Mints or Mint Humbugs which I love. Polos also do a fruit flavoured variety. There are others thst are more of a chewy sweet like Liquorice Allsorts, Jelly Babies or Maynards Wine Gums. I would Google british sweets a to get a clear view of the massive variety of sweets the UK produces and not a chocolate bar in sight. We do not put chocolate bars in the same category as sweets.

[@Obi-J]

Blackjacks and Fruit Salads are like a US saltwater taffy type of thing in terms of the chewy texture.

[@Lily-Bravo]

When I was little we used to spend our pocket money on a selection of sweets that were sold 2 or 4 a penny. Black Jacks and Fruit Salad chews were favourites. I liked Floral Gums, Parma Violets, Lovehearts, Refreshers. Shrimps. Sweet Cigarettes and Sweet Tobacco.

[@colingregory7464]

Cola cubes and Pear Drops or similar are loosely Boiled Sweets as a general classification and many of these are things our parents had when there was a limited choice back in the mists of time

[@Oddballkane]

In the uk, we have smarties, but they are small, covered in a hard shell and fruit flavours. I think the ones America has look like our refreshers

[@EmilyCheetham]

Sherbet lemon is a hard boiled lemon sweet (a bit like lemon drops) but it has a sherbet centre. Sherbet is a sweet powder.

[@christineharper1637]

I am 70 years old. All these sweets were what all the kids had when I was a child.The chocolate sweets of today were what adults had. I can remember buying fruit salad sweets….16 for a penny. As inflation hit the number for a penny went down. Nowadays you would have to go to an old fashion sweet shop to buy a lot of these sweets, where they are sold loose. Sweet shops when I was a kid had very large jars of sweets lining the shelves. These were weighed on a scale… you could have 2 ounces of any sweet. Nobody mentioned the gob sucker. This was a large round sweet that you would suck for hours.

[@stevebeardsmore3303]

We have something called an American Hard Gum which is my favourite and I guess unknown in the US., We also have something called Coconut Mushrooms, which are made from coconut shaped like a mushroom. Mr Kipling make Bakewell Tarts. I did not known we still made Parma violets. Cannot believe that Jelly Babies and Liquorice all sorts are not on the list.

[@beccaboo3040]

I love traditional sweet's especially strawberry bonbon's, cherry drop's, aniseed ball's, barley sugar's, chocolate lime's, blackcurrant liquorice, pear drop's, rhubarb & custard's, mint humbug's and many many more. I have a sweet tooth i love sugar 😋 ❤

[@debbielough7754]

Oh, and overheard in a town near me one Halloween - kid one: 'I just hope it's not more Haribo' - kid two: 'well what do you expect, we do live in Haribotown'. (The factory is in the town, and there's a factory shop where you can buy in bulk.

[@ltrtg13]

So far. You've done half of one shelf in the sweets isle. It would have been nice if you'd Googled rhubarb and custard sweet. They are different to the rhubarb fruit.

[@dee4634]

For me as a kid ( 50 plus years ago) my favourite sweets were butterscotch, very hard to get nowadays.

[@dianeknight4839]

Tyler, Rhubarb is a fruit. I like Pontefract Teacakes, coconut mushrooms and invalid toffee. You cannot beat a good snowball or a sherbet fountain. To answer your question, yes chocolate covered raisins are popular, I particularly like the rum flavoured ones you get at Christmas. To get the best of out of them you have to get them from the UK, sorry but US chocolate is pants.

[@Zanockthael]

Regarding the people talking about cola cubes making your mouth hurt. Those sorts of hard candys are coated in sugar granules. It's pretty rough and acts like sandpaper as you eat them. It rubs the inside of your mouth pretty raw if you eat a whole bunch of them. But you do anyways, because they're great.

[@adamarcher3089]

when i was training in first aid the way we were told to identify some one with low blood sugar was to smell if their breath smelled of pear drops. This is still a good indicator now. my personal favorite old English sweet is blackcurrant liquorice. however items to note sherbert lemons was dumbledors password for his office in the harry potter series of books. also other nice sweets are: kendle mint cake sherbert fountain dibdabs drumbsticks most of the soft liquorice products.

[@beaudavies1737]

I love cola bottles, especially the fizzy ones, I used to like them candy mice as well

[@neuralwarp]

My understanding of candy is a soft powdery bite size chunk, usually white or soft pink.

[@dd-bb]

As many have said, the toast needs butter! Marmite is almost like a flavouring for butter, you can spread it on top of the butter, or mix it in (small amount) with the butter on the side of your plate before spreading the mix onto your toast! The latter is my favourite

[@knightwish1623]

My favorite as a kid was Victory V's 😄

[@ShizuruNakatsu]

It's the same here in Ireland. Hard candies are considered "old people sweets", you'd expect your grandmother to have a jar of them when you visit. I love them though.

[@JimmyAndersonBowlingGenius]

Shout out to all who bought Cola Cubes in the local corner shop by weight, had them in paper bags and took them with you on school trips! Would have these with a bag of Fruit Salad and the Blackberries and Raspberries mix... yum!!