I ate a flying saucer today.
My first in decades, probably the Seventies!
The school librarian gave it me.
What a blast from the past. A wafer coat with a sour centre. Blimey. That tangy papery taste memory came flooding back!
They were never my fave sweet as a kid. I couldn't eat a whole bag full but as an occasional saucer they were fine in between sweet tobacco and chocolate chewing nuts.
Do and did you like flying saucers from the sweet shop readers?
Flying Saucers from the Sweet Shop in the 50's were about an inch and a half in diameter, the outer shell felt like plastic but was edible and the content was white sherbet powder, which was not particularly sour. Personally I am happy not to have eaten one for over 60 years!
ReplyDeleteI was offered another one straight after Terran but I declined. They're not the best sweet are they ha ha!
DeleteI am not sure if Flying Saucers were available in New Zealand, but I do recall Frying Saucers - probably because of the name. I can not recall if we were had them, perhaps just to try ?
ReplyDeleteNope. Don't know Frying Saucers. Thanks for the info Paul.
DeleteMy wife recently rediscovered a taste for Sherbet Flying Saucers! As with Paul A, they are hard to come by in the southern hemisphere... They are available only in speciality sweet shops at speciality prices!
ReplyDeleteShe bought a conical polythene bag of them this very week and they were made in the Netherlands!
How long will a bag last Looey?
DeleteShe has to exercise restraint, Woodsie! Given she is normally non-addictive, I think she has discovered her drug of choice!
ReplyDeleteThe conical bag got shared around a family get together and between her and her nice, this Invasion is over!