Going Back To Childhood Sweets

Remember those sweets and candies we used to have as kids. The delight of sneaking a sweet in the middle of the day or  especially when you were not allowed any is altogether different. Those memories of waiting and waiting for a sweet, to be on  good behaviour for that sweet, sticky treat, to wait for that favorite relative who would spoil you silly with a packet of  sweets at every visit. Fond memories that now will no longer take place again.

Especially as candy now is very different from  the times we used to have. Now the candy looks very tiny and not as large sized as in our time. Also with the amount of junk  food infiltrating our lives, sweets seem to be disappearing. Not all though, there are a few shops that have retained making  sweets. The trend is novelty and many of the sweet shops are going back to stocking on the old sweets that we would have in  our childhood.

One of the first things to clear up though are the terms. In America confectionary is called candy and in the united kingdom  sweets. They both are the same just called different names. Although there are different types of confectionary which have  different names. The shops that are specializing in sweets and candies also have websites and one can go through the webpage  and categories to select and order online which makes it even more convenient due to the hustle bustle of daily life.

These  shops have different categories of sweets like American sweets that we would have as kids like laffy taffy, baby ruth bar,  butterfingers, hershey’s kisses, fluff - marshmallow paste, airheads etcetera. They have old fashioned sweets known as retro  sweets; like crunchy candy, dip dap, fish n chips, flying saucers, jazzles milk chocolate, jazzles white, jelly sprogs, juocy  fruit chewing gum, large pear drops among others.

Another speciality of the U.K. are the boiled sweets also known as hard  sweets like lollipops, jawbreakers, gobstoppers, lemon drops, peppermint drops, candy canes, disks, rock candy, having  flavours like kopiko. Other sweets like fudge, taffy, caramel, liquorice, jelly candies. All the retro sweets are packed just  like in the old times. They are displayed in the old screw on fat glass jars filled to the brim with our favorite candy. One  can buy them loose and get the sweets packed up in wrapping and brown paper bags just like in the old days.