Sweets - Liquorice
Army and Navy - £2.27
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Army and Navy - another favourite from years gone by. Lozenges with a distinctive liquorice taste - unusually soothing. We only stock the "proper" Army and Navys. . . made by Paynes - none of the others taste quite the same.
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Army and Navy - another favourite from years gone by. Lozenges with a distinctive liquorice taste - unusually soothing. We only stock the "proper" Army and Navys. . . made by Paynes - none of the others taste quite the same.
Bassetti - £1.87
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Bassetti - A real British classic - a firm favourite with those hardcore liquorice-loving fiends out there. Lovely shiny hard sticks of rich black liquorice, and one of our best-selling sweets.Now (getting the anorak out now), did you know that liquorice started being grown seriously in the UK back in the 1500s and was originally grown only in Pontefract, Yorkshire (yes, hence Pontefract Cakes!), due to its rich loamy soil.They take their liquorice so seriously in the town of Pontefract that they have a Liquorice Festival there every year - how cool is that?
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Bassetti - A real British classic - a firm favourite with those hardcore liquorice-loving fiends out there. Lovely shiny hard sticks of rich black liquorice, and one of our best-selling sweets.Now (getting the anorak out now), did you know that liquorice started being grown seriously in the UK back in the 1500s and was originally grown only in Pontefract, Yorkshire (yes, hence Pontefract Cakes!), due to its rich loamy soil.They take their liquorice so seriously in the town of Pontefract that they have a Liquorice Festival there every year - how cool is that?
Bassetts Liquorice Allsorts - £2.27
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Bassetts Liquorice Allsorts - wonderfully chewy, sometimes slightly coconutty. . . always liquoricy (except those pink and blue ones which don't have any liquorice in! These are the proper Bassetts ones - we think they are just the best!
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Bassetts Liquorice Allsorts - wonderfully chewy, sometimes slightly coconutty. . . always liquoricy (except those pink and blue ones which don't have any liquorice in! These are the proper Bassetts ones - we think they are just the best!
Black and White Mints - £2.17
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Black and White Mints - the unique combination of liquorice and mint.
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Black and White Mints - the unique combination of liquorice and mint.
Black Jacks - £1.87
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Black Jacks - One of the best classic British sweets EVER - we love them! They're aniseed-flavour chewy black rectangles with a delicious and unique taste, and they make your tongue go black - so not to be munched just before you go out on that hot date!I wonder where the name comes from? Well the answer comes from superstar customer Mike. Are you sitting comfortably? Then we'll begin....Black Jacks were called Black Jacks because the original 1920s labels pictured a grinning gollywog - unbelievably, back then images of black people were used to advertise Liquorice. However, by the late 1980s manufacturers Trebor quite rightly scrapped the Black Jacks golly logo as it was racially offensive, replaced the logo with an image of a pirate with a black beard and eye patch and re branded the sweets as Black Jack. And by the early 1990s Trebor disbanded the pirate logo altogether in favour of the current black and white swirl design.Mystery solved... hooray! Thanks Mike.
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Black Jacks - One of the best classic British sweets EVER - we love them! They're aniseed-flavour chewy black rectangles with a delicious and unique taste, and they make your tongue go black - so not to be munched just before you go out on that hot date!I wonder where the name comes from? Well the answer comes from superstar customer Mike. Are you sitting comfortably? Then we'll begin....Black Jacks were called Black Jacks because the original 1920s labels pictured a grinning gollywog - unbelievably, back then images of black people were used to advertise Liquorice. However, by the late 1980s manufacturers Trebor quite rightly scrapped the Black Jacks golly logo as it was racially offensive, replaced the logo with an image of a pirate with a black beard and eye patch and re branded the sweets as Black Jack. And by the early 1990s Trebor disbanded the pirate logo altogether in favour of the current black and white swirl design.Mystery solved... hooray! Thanks Mike.
Blackcurrant Giant Flyers - £1.87
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Blackcurrant Giant Flyers - like the traditional Giant Flyers but with blackcurrant crystals in the middle - producing that traditional blackcurrant and liquorice taste combination.
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Blackcurrant Giant Flyers - like the traditional Giant Flyers but with blackcurrant crystals in the middle - producing that traditional blackcurrant and liquorice taste combination.
Catherine Wheels - £1.87
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Catherine Wheels - We love Catherine Wheels here! They\'re long laces of delicious Bassetts liquorice coiled around a Spog (pink, blue, orange or yellow). Great!But where do they come from? ... we hear you ask! Well, they\'re based on the historic Catherine Wheel - everyone knows them as a traditional firework, but the origins are much more gruesome than that.... Are you sitting comfortably? The original Catherine Wheel was the torture instrument on which St Catherine was martyred in the middle ages. Who would have thought that eating sweets could be so educational?!
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Catherine Wheels - We love Catherine Wheels here! They\'re long laces of delicious Bassetts liquorice coiled around a Spog (pink, blue, orange or yellow). Great!But where do they come from? ... we hear you ask! Well, they\'re based on the historic Catherine Wheel - everyone knows them as a traditional firework, but the origins are much more gruesome than that.... Are you sitting comfortably? The original Catherine Wheel was the torture instrument on which St Catherine was martyred in the middle ages. Who would have thought that eating sweets could be so educational?!
Coal Dust - £1.97
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Coal Dust - It looks like real coal dust, but it isn't!!! It's actually a sherbetty fountain tasting of liquorice. Not so appealing to look at, but very very tasty (and great for playing jokes on people!)
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Coal Dust - It looks like real coal dust, but it isn't!!! It's actually a sherbetty fountain tasting of liquorice. Not so appealing to look at, but very very tasty (and great for playing jokes on people!)
Coconut Rolls - £1.87
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Coconut Rolls - delicious coconut and liquorice sweets out of liquorice allsorts. No need to avoid those aniseedy ones in a bag of allsorts - now you can buy just the coconutty ones!
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Coconut Rolls - delicious coconut and liquorice sweets out of liquorice allsorts. No need to avoid those aniseedy ones in a bag of allsorts - now you can buy just the coconutty ones!
Cola Whips - £1.87
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Cola Whips - 3 feet long thick liquorice whips (or should that be 90cm approx these days?).
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Cola Whips - 3 feet long thick liquorice whips (or should that be 90cm approx these days?).
Cream Soda Sherbet (aka American Cream Soda) - £1.97
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Cream Soda Sherbet (aka American Cream Soda) - sweet powder just made for dipping - either a lolly or a Bassetti liquorice stick is perfect for this..
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Cream Soda Sherbet (aka American Cream Soda) - sweet powder just made for dipping - either a lolly or a Bassetti liquorice stick is perfect for this..
Fruity Whirls - £1.87
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Fruity Whirls - These are lovely... a similar concept to Liquorice Whirls, only fruity... hooray!You get green ones, red, orange and yellow - great to eat whole, or unravel and slurp like spaghetti!
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Fruity Whirls - These are lovely... a similar concept to Liquorice Whirls, only fruity... hooray!You get green ones, red, orange and yellow - great to eat whole, or unravel and slurp like spaghetti!
Giant Flyers - £1.87
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Giant Flyers - A classic! Lovely rich liquorice sticks with sherbety, crystal centres that create a tingle on the tongue - a fab combination of flavours and textures!But why are they called Flyers? Mmmm - one of the mysteries of the sweetie world - but despair not, the anoraks at A Quarter Of are twitching at the thought of some Giant Flyer investigation!
Price on 04-Jun-08 from A Quarter Of....
Giant Flyers - A classic! Lovely rich liquorice sticks with sherbety, crystal centres that create a tingle on the tongue - a fab combination of flavours and textures!But why are they called Flyers? Mmmm - one of the mysteries of the sweetie world - but despair not, the anoraks at A Quarter Of are twitching at the thought of some Giant Flyer investigation!
Kop Kopps - £2.27
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Kop Kopps - traditional, sweet liquorice in the form of round hard sweets. Almost like a boiled version of Black Jacks. Great name too!
Price on 04-Jun-08 from A Quarter Of....
Kop Kopps - traditional, sweet liquorice in the form of round hard sweets. Almost like a boiled version of Black Jacks. Great name too!