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Car Sweets

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by GroveRanger, Mar 8, 2019.

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Car Sweets

Poll closed Dec 2, 2021.
  1. Wine gums

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  2. Fruit pastilles

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  3. Midget gems

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  4. Dolly mixture

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  5. Haribo

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  6. Randoms

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  7. Pick & mix

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  8. Other

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  9. F*ck off Gas

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  1. GroveRanger

    GroveRanger Well-Known Member

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    What do you have at the ready on long car journeys? This isn't necessarily a thread about what your favourite sweets are but rather the sort of bagged sweet that is easy to dip into and doesn't involve any fiddly unwrapping or the kind that melts into a messy blob on a hot day.

    I'm talking about your fruit pastilles, wine gums, midget gems and the like.

    There is usually something minty in my car, tic-tacs or mint imperials, which are handy for disguising the smell of spunk after a night out dogging, at least that's what I've heard :bandit: Although the kids who get into the car expecting the promised sweeties are often a tad disappointed if Murray Mints are all they are going to get.

    Anyone have those tins of travel sweets? Barley sugar mostly iirc.
     
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  2. Toley Fart

    Toley Fart not606's best fighter

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    Kill yourself ASAP please
     
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  3. GroveRanger

    GroveRanger Well-Known Member

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    At least you ask nicely. What sweets would be in my hearse?

    Probably not Black Jacks HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    racist
     
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  4. Toley Fart

    Toley Fart not606's best fighter

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    :emoticon-0140-rofl::afro:<cheers>
     
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  5. DevAdvocate

    DevAdvocate Gigging bassist

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    Licorice Allsorts
     
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  6. stopmeandslapme

    stopmeandslapme Well-Known Member

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    Those sucky sweets that come in a little tin and are separated by a fine powder are a popular choice. What is the powder?
     
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  7. bayernkenny

    bayernkenny Well-Known Member

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    Murray Mints or blackcurrant Spangles.
     
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  8. Toley Fart

    Toley Fart not606's best fighter

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    Icing sugar?
     
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  9. stopmeandslapme

    stopmeandslapme Well-Known Member

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    Probably. I don't understand how sugar powder stops sugary sweets from sticking together. We need someone like Brian Cox or Dev to explain.
     
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  10. rogueleader

    rogueleader suave gringo

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    I like to keep a tin of proper powdery Turkish Delight in the car in case I ever get stopped at a jihadi roadblock.
     
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  11. Archers Road

    Archers Road Urban Spaceman

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    Can you still get Spangles!
     
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  12. bayernkenny

    bayernkenny Well-Known Member

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    Don't think so. I sometimes visit a retro sweetie shop close to the 'fit o' the Walk' and treat myself to 200g. each of Pineapple Chunks and Kola Kubes. My old gnashers are in a terrible state!
     
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  13. Archers Road

    Archers Road Urban Spaceman

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    Yeah, my railings are completely ****ed, shouldn’t even contemplate sweets tbh.

    Do they do Sherbert Lemons, with actual sherbet in the middle?
     
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  14. bayernkenny

    bayernkenny Well-Known Member

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    I would presume so as the wee shop has plenty of the big jars of sweeties. I have no doubt they would be proper Sherbert Lemons as the PC's (hard centre) and KK's (soft centre) are just as I remember from fifty plus years ago!
     
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  15. DevAdvocate

    DevAdvocate Gigging bassist

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    I had some of both of those a few weeks ago, nowhere near as good as they used to be, the taste has changed as it seems they use a new recipe which removes most of the sugar. Sweet peanuts had the same issue.
     
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  16. EDGE.

    EDGE. Official POTY 2011, 2014, 2015, 2018 & 2023

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    I never eat when driving.

    I drove a few times to Bristol last year and didn't stop once, not even for a piss.

    UTLR
     
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  17. stopmeandslapme

    stopmeandslapme Well-Known Member

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    I've done Hitchin to Nairn without stopping, 515 miles, 10 hours.
     
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  18. andytoprankin

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    Easy. Catheter attached to windscreen washer nozzles.
     
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    A.L.D.O 4.1 1 of the top defendants in Europe

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    I did Le Mans in just one day.
     
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  20. Toley Fart

    Toley Fart not606's best fighter

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    How many miles did you manage?
     
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