Some months ago I came across the A quarter of website, they sell sweets that you thought had disappeared; Black Jacks, Refreshers, Sugar Peanuts, Lemon Sherbets and about 700 more! The days of four Black Jacks for a penny are long gone but still a great site if you want a little treat!
I had a hankering for some liquorice and included in my tenners worth some Bassetti, now maybe it was stale, a bad batch or maybe my jaws are getting weak, but I can’t recall ever having liquorice sticks that damned hard before! Anyone else out there tried this stuff?
I gave up on buying Bassetts’ Liquorice Allsorts some time ago when I bought a bag one Christmas from Sainburys, again maybe it was a duff batch but I was extremely dissapointed at the small amount of actual liquorice in the bag, just tons of sugary stuff, very little plain liquorice and little if any of those bobbly aniseed jelly ones!
Have they economised on the ingredients over the years or was I just unlucky? The picture on the American Candy Blog seems to show a far different mix than I had. Do they have different mixes for different countries I wonder?
26 October, 2008 at 8:05 pm |
[...] and other thingamajigs Back in August (”A Quarter of Nostalgia“) I wrote about the “bobbly aniseed jelly ones” in Bassetts’ Liquorice [...]