Category Archives: Choose By Maker
Barratts Shrimps
Barratts Shrimps – raspberry flavour soft, chewy crustaceans. No other shrimp comes close to a Barratts shrimp… and believe me, we`ve tasted a few. These are definitely one of the definitive nostalgic, childhood sweets… one of the ones that almost everyone includes when they take a mental trip back to their childhood sweetshop and list
Lions Midget Gems
Lions Midget Gems – Aaaaaah, Lions Midget Gems…. Deliciously juicy little fruity gums. Don`t they just take you back? Many of you regularly ask: “Is the black one liquorice?”, and the answer is a resounding YES! We can guarantee it – because if it wasn`t, it just wouldn`t be right, would it? – Qty In
Bassetts Liquorice Allsorts (2 Bags)
Bassetts Liquorice Allsorts – wonderfully chewy, sometimes slightly coconutty… always liquoricy (except those pink and blue ones which don`t have any liquorice in! These are the proper Bassetts ones – we think they are just the best! – Qty In Order: 2 x 165g bags (that`s just over 11 ounces of the delicious little blighters!)
Floral Gums
Floral Gums – they taste of flowers! Floral Gums are a real old favourite from the past – we received lots of requests to hunt them down – so we did! If you haven`t tried them before – they are little, hard, gummy, gently scented and flavoured gum sweets. – Qty In Order: 250g (8.8oz)
Candy / Love Hearts Lipsticks
Candy Lipsticks – Fruit flavour compressed-candy sweets in a lipstick case – made by our pals at Swizzels, and one of our most nostalgic sweets from the 70s. Stop Press – Swizzels have changed these to `Love Hearts Lipsticks` – just the same as before but with a fancier wrapper. Ooooh, get you! – Qty
Fruit Salad
Fruit Salad – Aaaah, that unmistakable raspberry and pineapple flavour – so many memories enveloped in that yellow and pink wrapper (even though the design we all remember was recently changed – why oh why do they keep meddling with the sweets of our childhoods?) Think of Choppers, Space Hoppas, the Wombles, long sunny English
Cherry Lips
Cherry Lips – A classic retro sweet from the 70s and 80s, slightly reminiscent of Floral Gums, but with a distinctive cherry flavour. They`re small, like little mini lips, and fairly hard, with a slightly perfumey flavour. You either love them, or hate them – we`re totally divided over this here at A Quarter Of!
Dip Dabs
Dip Dabs – An absolute classic if you grew up in Blighty in the 70s and 80s! A sachet full of fluffy white zingy sherbet with that unmistakable red juicy lolly stuck in the middle. I don`t know about you, but I could never resist bypassing the lolly and pouring a load of the fizzy
Catherine Wheels
Catherine Wheels – We love Catherine Wheels here! They`re long laces of delicious Bassetts liquorice coiled around a Spog (pink, blue, orange or yellow). Great! But where do they come from?… we hear you ask! Well, they`re based on the historic Catherine Wheel – everyone knows them as a traditional firework, but the origins are
Liquorice Wands
Liquorice Wands – Bassetts have stopped making liquorice pipes and replaced them with liquorice wands – Don`t ask us why! Wands are twisted liquorice with sweet bits on the end (just like pipes really!) that make them look all magical! So, if you`re a Harry Potter fan, you can take one of these and pretend
Lions Poor Bens
Lions Poor Bens – Do you spend forever digging out the black ones in the Lions Sports Mixture? Do you lament the replacement of Liquorice gums with Blackcurrant (booo!)? Well if you do, save yourself a load of stress, and get a quarter of Lions Poor Bens – delicious traditional hard aniseed and liquorice gums
Lions Liquorice Gums
Liquorice Gums – We hear from so many of you who are seriously addicted to the liquorice gums that Lions make… so here`s your chance to load up on them! They`re so traditional…. such a classic British sweet, and may they always be around (or we`ll get into trouble!) – Qty In Order: 250g (8.8oz)
Curly Wurly
Curly Wurly – The best ever retro chocolate and toffee bar, with the best name (by far)!!! And on top of that, it`s the bendiest, stretchiest chocolate bar in the World – Cadburys milk chocolate with a chewy caramel centre. A bite of this, and you`ll be transported back in time to the days when
Bassetts Jelly Babies (2 Bags)
Bassetts – the definitive Jelly Babies – An absolute classic – dusted and with a soft, juicy centre.Incidentally, did you realise they are all different shapes? Well, they are – some are smiling, some are laughing, some are crying – hours of fun! (or are we the only saddos around here?) – Qty In Order:
Milk Gums
Milk Gums – delicious traditional favourites – milk chews in the shape of little milk bottles – made by Barratts – Qty In Order: 250g (8.8oz)
Haribo Yellow Bellies
Yellow Bellies – great big horrible jelly and foam snakes, made by our pals at Haribo. Disgusting to look at. Nice to eat! – Qty In Order: 250g (8.8oz)
Haribo Tasty Turtles
Tasty Turtles – You could open a jelly zoo with the amount of animals we`ve got! Mice, pigs, fish, bears, rats, snakes, crocodiles, frogs – . and now turtles! Well, you can`t in a month of sundays accuse us of being boring! But best of all is that they are all totally delicious and very
Haribo Fruity Frogs
Fruity Frogs – Get your nashers around these little juicy fruity frogs! We initially found them to put into our very popular Bush Tucker Trial Jars – aren`t they totally fab? They`re made by our pals at Haribo, and we think they are totally frogtastic! (lame, we know). Oh, and they contain no artificial colours,
Assorted Gourmet Jelly Beans Bucket
Assorted Gourmet Jelly Beans `Bucket` – a huge great big tub of delicious fruit flavour juicy jelly beans from The Jelly Bean Factory. The variety of flavours includes several that we don`t sell individually yet – like Peachy Pie, Caribbean Coconut and Vanilla Ice Cream. Not only do they taste fabulous but they are Gelatine
Black Jacks
Black Jacks – One of the best classic British sweets EVER – we love them! They`re aniseed-flavour chewy black rectangles with a delicious and unique taste, and they make your tongue go black – so not to be munched just before you go out on that hot date! I wonder where the name comes from?
