The Penny Sweet

Penny sweets? What are they?
In the 60s , 70s and 80s it was common for sweets to be sold individually in shops, each sweet costing a penny or two, and that's how they got the name penny sweets.
Some shops had a tray on the counter with all the different of sweets - maybe up to 20 different kinds of sweets on view.

Most every British citizen has spent some of his or her pocket money on a careful selection of penny sweets. This was tedious for the shopkeeper as sometimes it took quite a long time to pick out just what you want.
Examples of penny sweets
Black Jacks – aniseed flavoured chews which would stain your tongue inky black
Love Hearts – a packet of fruit flavoured sweets each with a romantic message written on it such as ‘Kiss me’, ‘Hug me’, ‘Forever yours’
Flumps – vanilla flavoured marshmallow strips
Flying Saucers – shaped like a flying saucer and filled with fizzy sherbet
Traffic Light Lolly – a round candy on a stick that would change colour from red to yellow to green as you licked it.
Sherbet Fountain – a cylinder filled with sherbet with a stick of liquorice. To eat the sherbet you would need to lick the liquorice stick, dip it into the sherbet, then lick it again.
Fruit Salad – sticky pineapple and raspberry flavoured chews.

My personal favourite was the Sherbet Fountain, What's yours?

If you have never tried them I suggest you do the next time you go to England ;0)