1960's! The "60's" had more selection, more flavour, more variety and wonderful new sweeties invented after the austerity of two World Wars with severe rationing, especially sugar.
Australia had an excellent 'lolly' producing industry which has been decimated and obliterated due to the cheap, nasty, rubbish imports from Brazil, Chile, SthAfrica, so much from China, and everywhere else.
Australia can't even make lollies anymore! That's the state of our country now and it's a tremendous pity.
I do not like Gummy anythings. Gummy is not a decent Lolly, and Gummies have limited flavour - they give no satisfaction at all. Bet you cannot imagine up the actual flavour of anything Gummy!
I remember Liptees (hard sugary white outside & menthol pale green inside), boxes of red SOS, and sugar-coated Black Crows!
Dragging the soft outside off Choo-Choo bars with yr teeth, Aniseed Licorice Squares you had to bend & bend to separate, and the pain in yr jaws from chewing chocolate covered White Knights, and the Pink White Knights, too.
Our lollies had fabulous FLAVOURS, wonderful textures, and were soooo satisfying. MacRobertsons Chocolate Nougat Bars with peanuts inside, there was a delicious NUTTY BAR, and honey-sticky TOSCA bar (where's George?). The proper sugar-dusty JellyBabies, red or green Umbrellas on sticks, Musk Sticks to suck into sharp pencil shape, Mr Big aniseed flavoured 'Cigars' with gold paper ring, the packs of lolly 'Fags', chocolate covered 'Turtles' were blobs of chewy Toffee and Peanuts covered in Chocolate, ahhh yumm! Real Peanut Brittle squares! Oh, how I miss them all!
The Honey Bears, proper Fizzoes that did Fizz, POLLY-WAFFLES, Peppermint Crisps - the real, proper ones, not the boring fake thin type of now with minimal flavour. What about WILLOW MINTS? They were wonderful!! Rich toffee with a square of white mint toffee in the middle, wrapped in Willow Patterned waxy twist-wrappers. You could get Butterscotch with int flavour, too. Mmmm, Toffee infused with Mint.
Who remembers the Donald Duck X29's the orang icy-poles, or the Spearmint ice-cream on stick - always 1/2" thick abt 4" tall.
When Cornetto's came out they had no NUTS, then Drumsticks which HAD NUTS on top. Now they are both smaller with less ice-cream and both have blasted nuts on them! Ah! the Cream-Betweens, Eskimo-Pies, and Triples - with 3 flavours of marshmallow inside the vanilla ice-cream allth covered with chocolate.
Hey, what about the great LifeSavers? Grandma kept FLORAL Lifesavers in her bag to church, I liked the clear fruity 'normal' ones with five+ flavours in one roll, and the delicious Butterscotch Lifesavers, too. Sherbies - sometimes hard, sometimes soft but always super fizzy in the middle. The sticks of Redskins, the Banana Sticks half toffee & half banana, and the white Eucalyptus sticks for 1 cents each!
Peanuts were used much more in our lollies then because hardly anyone was allergic to our own home grown Kingaroy Peanuts.
ONLY since we began importing Nuts have I developed a really bad nut allergy!
Aussie nuts were wonderful, tasty, more-ish & caused me No Trouble!!
Whatever is sprayed on imported nuts to stop weevils & other spidery-bugs growing on the long journey in ship's cargo-holds is what I am allergic to.
Someone really does need to suss out what is used and stop it.
Why don't we grow and eat our own Peanuts, Cashews etc anymore?
WHY DON'T WE .....????? Aussies were good at nuts.
by fluffynut (score: 2|908) 2018 days ago
