I'm a sucker for sweets and every day is a sweet day. My gappy smile tells all alas.
One of my favourites are sports mix, a delicious gum medley of tennis rackets, cricket bats and so on. Its a sporty mouthful.
Up until recently I had been scoffing Maynards Sports Mix by the truckload. These are soft and chewy gums.
But last week my Missus got me a bag of Lion Football Gums. On the bag it said original hard gums. I tucked in and boy oh, boy, I remembered the true taste of a proper sports mix - fruity but hard hard hard!
Wow! I had forgotten how good hard gums were. True dental ambrosia! I shall now be on the lookout for Lion brand Football Gums for Christmas, as well as Lion Fruit Gums and Lion Midget Gems, which I hope actually do exist.
Do you like a soft gum or a hard one readers? Have you a fave brand of gums where you are?
American Hard Gums are the best, Lion Sports Mixtures and Midget Gems used to be the best, but for some reason, the swapped out the black liquorice flavour sweets for yukky blackcurrant. Classic Wine Gums are lovely too, but again, so soft that two bites and theyre gone. American Hard Gums do put up a bit more of a fight, but are covered in sugar. Rowntrees Fruit Gums on the other hand are utterly inedible and like coloured sanitary sealant, wayyy to hard!
ReplyDeleteNot sure what sanitary sealant is Wote but I don't like the sound of it! The bag of Lion Gums pictures says it has liquorice gums in it! Go get 'em! Home Bargains.
DeleteI'm a self confessed slave to the wine gum , always have been. Taverner's (from Blackpool I think) are particularly good but the best I ever had were while on holiday in Seattle (Brachs Jube Gels) I was getting through a bag a day and cleared the drugstore shelf of them to fill my luggage ! Sadly they stopped making them several years ago (I'm still in mourning !)
ReplyDeleteWhere did your wife find the Lion gums Woodsy ?
Fenton
A slave to the gum! ha ha. Love it Fenton, a fellow gum zombie! Brachs Jube Gels, boy is that hard to say! What are they? My Missus reckons she got the Lions at Home Bargains. Do you have those shops where you are? Just seen you can get every Lion size imaginable on Amazon too! Yes, Lion, The king of the bundle!
DeleteAmerican Hard Gums are the best, Lion Sports Mixtures and Midget Gems used to be the best, but for some reason, the swapped out the black liquorice flavour sweets for yukky blackcurrant. Classic Wine Gums are lovely too, but again, so soft that two bites and theyre gone. American Hard Gums do put up a bit more of a fight, but are covered in sugar. Rowntrees Fruit Gums on the other hand are utterly inedible and like coloured sanitary sealant, wayyy to hard!
ReplyDeleteWe saw this exactly 7 minutes ago Wote. You on a loop?
DeleteLimited number of brands here, I mainly buy Pascall's. Soft fruit jubes covered in sugar; wine gums; and jet planes, which are the same stuff as wine gums, but in the vague shape of a delta-winged jet. I do not eat as many lollies as I used to, but there are always chocolate biscuits.
ReplyDeleteJust what is a jube Paul?
DeleteRowntrees fruit gums were amongst the xmas sweeties I had as a child. Not one of my favorites, you had to stick half a pack in your gob at a time to get any flavour and they were hard as nails. Later on wine gums appeared in the xmas goody bag. Much nicer. I,ve tried all sorts of gums and prefer Maynards wine gums. Thay are harder than other wine gums I have tried but not as hard as the american hard gums. I do like jelly tots too, but not sure if thay qualify as a gum!
ReplyDeleteI loved stuffing fruit gums in my gob. Fruit pastilles too Iimmy! Ah yes, American hard gums, they are fab, as are Jelly Tots, which I would say is deffo a gum, just a soft one. I'm scoffin' Dominion Allsports at the mo, an Aldi spesh!
DeleteLimmy? Timmy! Doh!
DeleteIn the 1950's there was a Maynards Sweet Shop on Baker Street in London. Everything was sold from large glass jars, scooped out with a metal scoop, weighed on a scale then poured into a paper bag. The Wine Gums were hard and fresh, straight from the factory.
ReplyDeleteNothing in the store was prepackaged except the chocolate bars. The wine gums were different colours and flavours and HARD.
These days Maynards are owned by Bassetts of Liquorice Allsort fame and prepackaged.
Never heard of Lion Brand sweets before? I like the package design. Are they a northern brand?
You could be right Terran, maybe a Northern brand, swallowed up in a vast conglomerate these days https://tangerineuk.net/our-brands/lion/
DeleteThat Maynards shop sounds perfect!
It was a perfect sweet shop. It was demolished in the 60's and the site became Midland Bank (HSBC) offices. The opposite corner became the Beatles' Apple Boutique, the roof of which was the venue for their famous rooftop concert.
DeleteWhat a spot Terran!
DeleteYour question stunned me, I have been eating jubes my entire life, so it comes as a shock that others do not know the word. It is a dense, jelly-like substance, usually covered in sugar. Moulded into various shapes, such as fruits. Orange and lemon slices were a popular type, shaped like a fruit slice. I just looked up the word, and it seems to be the NZ/Aust term for a jujube lozenge, which I have never heard of. I do not have a bag to hand, but will send you a photo when I get a chance. Now I have a question, what on Earth is a jujube lozenge, and are they all lozenge shaped ?
ReplyDeleteJubes? Jujubes? Jujujubes? I need a bag of Midget Gems, my head hurts!
ReplyDeleteI’ve not found lion gums quite the same … no blackcurrant similarities but is it just me cos in my youth (a long time ago) lol the liquorice ones which I just bought online aren’t as liquorice as I remember them to be.
ReplyDeletePerhaps it’s just a case of the summers were hotter and the grass was greener
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