Do you miss the good old days where you could buy a bagful of candy just with a few Rands?
While times are changing and so is the economy, you can still enjoy the sweet things in life.
In part I of the #TBT: popular treats from your childhood, we looked at five popping treats to make you nostalgic.
This included Push-pops, Ring-pops, Drink-o-pops, popping candy and candied popcorn.
This week we took a look at five other candies and snacks that were part of many childhood memories.
1. Cigarette candy
While there was no intention to promote smoking when this candy was manufactured, it was pretty cool. Besides, it tasted awesome!
2. Apricot flavoured candy
Getting children to love fruit since…well, when it was invented. On first taste, it has a smooth texture and gently turns into a sweet apricot flavour.
It then basically implodes in your mouth, dissolving in on itself. Thereafter prepare for a ton of the “foam” flavour, which is super (too) sweet. The foam is a gritty sugary taste which results in a sugar overload.
3. Marshmallow fish
Marshmallow fish have a conventional fish-shape and a length of five to eight centimetres. They are made of pink or white marshmallows but also available in different colours. Well, there’s nothing special about it, but it was extremely tasty.
4. Liquorice laces
Who remembers eating these before they could even spell the word? *Hands up*
These squiggly treats were fun to play with and to eat, also they tasted great and left you with a coloured smile.
5. Humbugs
Humbugs are a traditional hard boiled sweet. They are usually flavoured with peppermint and striped in two different colours. Humbugs are typically cylinders with rounded ends wrapped in a twist of cellophane, or pinched cylinders with a ninety degree turn between one end and the other shaped like a pyramid. Records of humbugs exist from as early as the 1820s.
