A Quarter of Nostalgia…

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?

McCarthyism to McCainism – Communists takeover America?!

Funny old week it’s been, US politician John McCain claimed that “We are all Georgians” and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice jumped on a plane to assure the Georgians that America was solidly behind them.  

Just what would Joe McCarthy have made of all this adoration of Stalin’s birthpace?

The Good Ol’ Days 2 – or 1968 and all that

President Bush says he is sending Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to express “America’s unwavering support” for the Georgia government.

Condoleezza Rice said Russia cannot act like its Soviet forebears – “This is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia, where Russia can threaten its neighbors, occupy a capital and get away with it”

Aah “The Good Ol’ Days of ‘68″ when the US was so tolerant it let the Russians get away with it…

Coincidently there was an Olympics on that year too – 1968 Olympics Black Power salute – how times have changed for Black Americans.

Whatever happened to the good ol’ days?

George warns Russia that their behaviour is not acceptable in the 21st century. Trying to overthrow another government that’s been democratically elected is just not on old comrades. If only you’d picked on a nasty dictatorship, a bunch of communists, Arabs or Oriental types things would have been fine.

Whatever happened to the good ol’ days when you could have National Pride in dropping a couple of A bombs on some slitty-eyed Civilian Targets or get audiences whooping in their seats when the US Cavalry came charging over the hill to wipe out a few hundred Indian savages?