Like all kids I loved sweets. Alas, I still do! One of my favourites in the Sixties were Gold Nuggets [pictured]. They were a pile of little golden bits of chewing gum [or spuggy/chuddy as we called it], which filled a small cotton bug with a neat pull-string top.
The character on the bag was a sort of prospector [no, not a moon one], a Klondyke Pete type. They were everywhere back then. For some reason the Gold Rush, like pirates and cowboys and indians, spies and astronauts, was part of our juvenile world-view. There were Golden Nuggets cereals and I remember clearly a gold mine ride on Blackpool Pleasure Beach that I went on; a crazed runaway train of a thing that zoomed through creaking joists and crooked tunnels. It may have even popped outside in the open air now and then too! Ah, what joy!
So, my 'spice' was found in a small cotton bag. What was or is your favourite sweety/ choccy/ candy?
8 comments:
I loved Golden Nuggets too! But my favourite was the little chocolate-coated toffee blobs, don't know if they had a 'proper' name!
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Sherbert flying saucers!
Mav, they were called Chocolate Chewing Nuts! Deelicious! But total filling pullers! ha ha
and Yorkie, yes! what was that pastry? It always reminded me of holy communion bread! Don't know how to describe the flying saucer. It is pastry? wafer?
Anyone remember sweet tobacco?
Oh yes, I remember that. Was it called Spanish Main or something and had pirates on the grease proof wrapper - had a coconut taste... or am I way off beam : D
This article was very interesting to me for 2 reasons.First, the gum is something that I enjoyed here in the U.S.Camping at a lake in Port Republic,New Jersey,I found this gum at the General store.It was called Gold Rush here.This happened in the early 70's.Next,there's mention of a Golden Nugget ride.We had one also in Wildwood New Jersey,which I'm told is similar to Blackpool.Our Nugget was shaped like a mountain and was half Roller Coaster,half Ghost Train with hills,drops,turns,and skeletons in cowboy hats galore!Sadly after 50 years,The Nugget was torn down.I attended a special event prior to it's demolition that allowed guests to see the inner workings of the ride and we were given"wooden nickels"(the original admission token)as souvenirs.There's a website called Enter The Funchase that has more info & pictures if you're curious.Thanks for the spuggy/chuddy reference,I'm always looking to expand my vocabulary!
Glad you liked it Brian. Fun Fairs are the stuff of childhood and some of the early rides at Blackpool, constructed from wood, are now national treasures! Piers at Seaside resorts are similar havens of fun. Almost other-worldly. It's always fascinated me that film makers choose abandoned fun fairs as settings. Think of Tom Hanks in BIG, the Joker's lair on the Animated Batman and the very creepy Carnival of Souls. Dou you know I've heard of Wildwood. I was in Woodbridge NJ 7 years ago and got to hear of it then. I suppose the world-renowned fun fair is Coney island. Wonder if its still going? A coney is a rabbit in England! Presumabley it was a warren of bunnies before the rides came?
Yes ,Coney Island has gone through many changes,but there is still amusements there.New York city is about a 3 hour drive from my home.The aforementioned Wildwood is about 50 minutes away.A real jem of a summer resort is only 10 minutes from my front door.Ocean City has Beautiful beaches and a 2and a half mile boardwalk/promenade full of all kinds of amusments.But, after all this I have forgotten the subject of the post;candy.My faves were Zero bar,a caramel,almond and white chocolate bar,and also Charms,a roll of sqare colorful fruit flavored candies.
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