Wow thanks ever so much guys, so sorry I've only just seen the notification on the video. Really glad your enjoying the different flavours and fact that there's no artificial flavours or colourings. As you guys know I'm a small business ( just me ) trying to bring the taste of the UK to the USA. I'm seriously grateful for the taste test as it's hard going at the moment and your vid put a lump in my throat. I love all the brilliant comments from your amazing viewers and the charity link i'll jump in as well, thanks everyone 😍😍😍Congratulations on the 10k keep the vids rollin. Thanks again for the support folks xxx I'll send just a box of the Blackcurrant and Liquorice next time lol.
As a 63 year old Englishman I grew up with all these sweets (as we call them, rather than candy) and blackcurrant and liquorice sweets were my absolute favourite - I was addicted to them (not literally). I was given a shilling a week pocket money and I used to buy exactly these sort of sweets with it. You’ve taken me back to my childhood memories and that’s rather charming. Bless you both.
Good on you both. I’m from the Uk and I doubt anyone would think you’re ‘taking’ from us. You’re showing interest and respect. We, like anyone sane, welcome interest in our culture. To me this is adding to us/the UK and our global image. You’re enhancing, not taking from the UK in my view. Credit for the idea to donate. Few would be so generous. I wish you ongoing and continued success in everything you both pursuit.
Bon Bons, Cola Cubes, Sour Plooms, Cherry Lips, Chewing Nuts, Chocolate Limes, Cola Pips etc, we have so much more. I could imagine there faces with Aniseed Balls 😂 Congrats on 10k! 👍
Congratulations on 10K subs! Liquorice is a very popular flavour in the UK because we've been growing it here since the middle ages. It was imported from Spain and grown in the North of England in Yorkshire. We always used to call liquorice "Spanish" when we were kids and we could buy the roots in in grocery stores and sweet shops. If you soak the roots in water for a few days the resulting liquid is called "Pop-a-lol" , rarely heard of these days! Hey! So I'm a grumpy old Yorkshire git, so sue me! 🤣🤣🤣
There's more to Britain than just food, but you probably know that already. You are not just an American. America is a continent comprising of lots of countries. You are a United States citizen. Keep your channel going, you humble us. Thanks.
That is very generous of you to donate a percentage of your income. With a select few, you included, I watch adverts all the way through. Does that help?
congrats on 10k subscribers loving your videos and wow you 2 are so kind to start to donate to charities here in the uk and thinking of the homeless first thank you
Thank you! We fell in love with the uk and we are thankful for all your support on our channel, so we thought it would be a good way to show our appreciation. ❤️
@@Trippingthroughadventures aye. We call sweets kets in Newcastle, I'm gannin Doon the shop I'll get the bairn some kets , I'm going down the shop I'll get the kid some candy
The UA-cam Algorithm has just introduced me to you, but it's lovely that you're choosing to give some of your revenue to British charities - I'm sure they'll appreciate anything you can donate. Also, don't be afraid to have a good grumble now-and-then - positivity and openness to new things is much appreciated, but giving us your raw and honest opinions is also very important; and very much inline with British attitudes as well!!
Definitely, blackcurrant and liquorish are my favourite, it's that burst of liquid liquorish that makes them. Pontefract cakes are a really traditional liquorish sweet here in the UK which originated from a twon called Pontefract in Yorkshire and said to be Britain's oldest sweet, dating back hundreds of years (about 1760). Mind you, If you think we like liquorish, you should see what the Swedish and Norwegian's like. They love salt liquorish, very intense. If you liked the Lemon sherbet sweets, you should try the sour apple sweets...lush!
These are all the same type of "old school" boiled sweets. Made by boiling sugar and adding colours, flavours and occasionally other things like cream. Up until the '70s these would have been the predominant kind of candy people would buy. Stores would have shelves with dozens of jars of different candies. Customers typically bought them in quarter pounds, the shopkeeper would use a scoop to put them into a short paper bag on a scale. There is a strawberry sherbet the same as the lemon. There are also a number of other British candies that use a lot of sherbet. Dip dabs, fountains, flying saucers etc.
@CarolWoosey-ck2rg available yes but not the predominant sweats. The idea that we just had old fashioned shops with jars of sweats is ridiculous, we had supermarkets. Woolworth first pick n mix opened in Liverpool in 1909
We had a corner shop in the 80's that sold sweets in 2oz increments, put in a bag. It's not really that old. One of my favourites was butter balls. They always ensured you had to eat part of the bag because some stuck to it.
@@old.not.too.grumpy. pick and mix did not really include much in the way of traditional boiled sweets. Supermarkets really weren't much of a thing before the early seventies
@@Trippingthroughadventures The noise is unavoidable 😂 it wasn't that bad, glad you couldn't stop eating the Blackcurrant and Liquorice lol you need to man up 😂
I really enjoy your channel and I hope it carries on growing, you both deserve it. I find you both very funny and you seem to be great parents as well. Congratulations on reaching 10000 subscribers.
I used to eat black liquorice a bag at a time for years. Five years ago I was eating liquorice allsorts and got a bad pain in my chest, I couldn't draw a breath it was so bad. My wife called an ambulance and the next day I was diagnosed with heart disease. Apparently there is an enzyme in liquorice that can be fatal if you have heart disease. So I was actually saved by Bassetts Liquorice Allsorts.
The rhubarb and custards andthe peat drops are not individually wrapped because they don't stick to each other being covered in a dusty sugar, where the more sticky sweets are. 😊
That's a really nice gesture for you to do 🙏 thanks a lot ❤. Its starting to get cold here in the UK and I'm sure that will make a difference to someone who really needs help. All the best to you going forward. I look forward to more stuff from you 🇬🇧
God love the pair of you. Giving some of the little money you earn from UA-cam to a charity over here really touched me. I follow alot of American reactors, and you two lovely people are tied in my top two. Thank you both so much for the love and respect you show our country. If you ever get to visit Norfolk I'd happily buy all your family a proper Sunday roast 👍
Congratulations, guys. 10.000 is a huge milestone. I’m around the same, but I haven’t got a beautiful and talented wife driving the channel. Keep up the good work and keep em coming for our enjoyment. 😊👍
Lot's of people unwittingly do eat bugs in the UK. The red Cochineal beetle is crushed up and used as a natural dye called Carmine. Americans also eat this without realising it. Carmine is present in everything from m and m's, ketchup, soft drinks, ice-cream, processed meats,, etc. Pretty much anything dyed red, classed as "natural" dye, is likely to be this little red bug. It is also known as E120
Humbugs are usually peppermint. You can get aniseed flavour too though. They vary a lot between brands, some are sweeter than others. Theres a similar sweet called Everton mints, but their centre is chewy.
Great reaction guys and congrats on 10,000 subscribers. These are for sure old fashioned British sweets and very good of their time. But, I would not compare them to the modern British sweets and the classic sweets us Brits enjoy today. 🍬
Thank you for all your support we appreciate everyone of you and couldn’t be doing any of this without you! We love the uk and want to give back in any way we can!
I may be odd, I don't like blackcurrant but I do like liquorice - black liquorice, liquorice allsorts, blackjacks (liquorice flavoured chews like a starburst) but I'm not keen on aniseed (which some people think similar to liquorice). Of what you tried I'd say Rhubarb&Custards, then Mint Humbugs
Agree. I've got a bag of lemon sherbets in the drawer in the kitchen. I think I'll have one today. I love boiled sweets. I love liquorice and it makes me smile when I see Americans trying it.
Congratulations on reaching 10,000 subscribers. No talking please while you two lovely people are testing boiled sweets. I know, I know you're grownups, but I was worried for you both. Take care of yourselves. Love from the UK
Back in the 70s my parents had a sweet shop , it had about 150 glass jars of sweets and we also had hand made chocolate and marzipan sweets , it was only a small shop it was about 12ft wide and about 20ft long . We sold cigarettes, cigars ice cream and daily papers and a few other products It was in the Cotswolds so we had lots of visitors , I was only about 15 and this Sunday afternoon an American couple came in , the guy did a 360 in the shop , went wow iv never seen anything like this . Then said , can I have a sweety out of each jar please mister I said no sorry we only sell them by the quarter ( they where all different prices ) , he said ok and then pointed to various bottles that he wanted , it was the biggest sale I ever made 😉😉😉😉
im sure you like British etiquette especially when a lady is involved, we love to hold open doors for one another, make tea for each other, breakfast in bed for her, and im a firm believer that women can sit down while you make the Sunday roast dinner or any dinner ,, also, its nice if yr opening a package for you both to share,, instead of, take one and pass along,, we open it and offer to the other person first before having ours ❤🎉it also gives us more chance to vocalise even more ,, would you like one of these? yes please/ no thanks 😊 please may i have one of these ,, sure! help yourself 🎉😏 x
Liquorish Toffees are amazing. (NO Blackcurrant). I used to buy them from a UK supermarket called Morrisons. Problem is you can't just have one. You eat the entire bag !
im not sure, entirely how good my memory is from the early or mid seventies ,, but I'll try to say what i can remember about certain shops🎉🍬🍬🍭🍫 firstly, you have to realise during And after ww2, the uk had rationing,, on all food produce and in particularly if you were a child,, on sugar 😢my mum told us that during the 50s, you had two ounces of sweets if you were very lucky and four ounces or a quarter pound (lb) in imperial weight was to go round a family of four 😮😮😮 not only that, but sweets were still rationed into the 1960s !! you can imagine how beloved the corner sweetshop was once rationing on sweets was lifted and you no longer had a rations book 🎉😂😅 in the 1970s we knew no different and sweets were so abundant that not only did you have weighed sweets, like these ,, from a jar into a paper bag or paper twist but you could also get 4 chews for a penny ! As for shops , i remember there was a tobacconist,, they also sold sweets, usually liquorice type stuff like winter mixture and Bassett's all sorts, to hide the stench of pipe tobacco ( i think you generally only went in these shops w an adult if at all) then there was newsagent's,, they were the cornershop royalty, opening very early, often shut by 2pm often only shop open on a Sunday but only until noon,, not only were they allowed to sell newspapers but they could also sell like the other two sweets and cigarettes too ,, as well as much more besides🎉 but truly unique, and hardly seen any more 😢 was the olde sweet shop 😊😊😊 selling only sweets, the jars lined the walls, the enormous shiny scales for weighing yr choices, the polite owners in their white coats with clean hands, the packaged or wrapped sweets and chocolate bars along with the lollipops and bubble gum on the counters, the boxes of grown ups chocolates underneath seen through the glass displays and at Easter piled upto the ceiling rafters, boxes and boxes of Easter eggs filled with yr favourite sweets or luxury chocolates usually reserved for special occasions 😅😅😅 you would leave the trilling door with its self ringing bell, skipping down the road filled with fond farewells,, until, next week!! ❤😊😅🍭🍬🍬😏🎉
,, not everyone had it so good 😢 if you were a latch key kid, or had to resort to climbing thru yr window, you probably walked home from school, had already had a school lunch and there might be nowt later for yr tea,, a stolen treat might be a sugar sandwich 🎉 literally sprinkled on bread and rolled up 🟩 or cubes of raw jello, the green ones had previously been intended but forgotten as the grass round somebody's birthday jelly rabbit 🐇 that's if you were lucky (sic) you could also take litre pop bottles back to the shop 🎉 maybe get 3p on each,, some kids leapt the wall round back and nicked em back again to return to another shop😮😮😮 my sister, when she was about 8, pulled her lil red wooden cart door-to-door asking each neighbour if they had any unwanted newspapers,, just as a way to pass the time, you understand,, i mean she didn't have to or anything!! the idea was, she'd been told if you collected enough and took them to the chipshop,, they would trade you and give you a bag of scraps for them !! scraps were the lil pieces of batter that fell off fish being fried, and folk loved em 🎉 they were also free in most chippys 😅😂 i highly recommend you watch the great film based on a book by Barry Hines,, Kes (1969)🍬😏🎉
You need to watch , The 2 Ronnie's, sweet shop sketch . Give you an idea how much sweets like this have always been part of our DNA. Plus, it's absolutely hilarious !!
Damn it's been many years since I had any old fashioned boiled sweets, I'll have to get some for old times sake, I love Liquorice but not all liquorice sweets are the same as a lot have aniseed added to them too, careful with the ones with sugar on the outside like Pear drops as they can make the roof of your mouth really sore if you eat too many and suck on them!
Just a heads up, you watched a clip of Bradford upon Avon in your last video. Shame but it like many towns in the uk are under water after floods. Just so you know ahead of your next trip over
I wonder why Americans came to use the Arabic descended “Candy” instead of the old English derived Sweets. Ps,”bugs” are available in the UK if you want.
These sweets are great for when you're driving. Something to do on a longer journey. Don't know if you have them? In UK we have tinned sweets too. in my mind they are to put in the glove box for whenever you need. And now I'm realising I sound like my grandma. Wow I'm getting old
If you go into a proper sweet shop, you can buy that sherbet powder in lots of different flavours. Sherbet Lemons are Dumbledore's favourite sweet 🍬🧙♂️
We would get a mixture of boiled sweets before school in our local shop it was like on Willie Wonka`s rows of colourful jars filled names you could not make up like my favourite cough candy twists, Acid drops, Teacakes, Boiled barleys, Brandy balls, Chocolate limes and that is just a few. The saying A kid in a sweet shop is based off British sweet shops you would be just looking at row after row of crazy looking sweets in jars drooling lost for words thinking how many you could get for your money as they weighed them out in front of you on scales.
These are quintessential old fashioned British sweets, the sort youd see in old timey sweet shops in big jars thatd youd buy in whatever weight you want, normally in 100g increments. Theres many other varieties of these boiled sweets too such as cola cubes, chocolate limes, mint imperials, sarsaparilla drops, rosey apples and many others. They are the sorta thing ideal for long car rides or using in the cinema as they last a while
As a child popping into the local newsagent/sweetshop (5 within 1 mile, in my village) and seeing a selection of 50 jars of candy, not counting the chocolate bars.
humbug, a boiled sweet, especially one flavoured with peppermint. Bonds rhubarb and custard sweets are as British as they come 😂 pear drops and chocolate limes are my fave!!! love the vid guys, congrats on 10K 💙 we have a homeless charity called SHELTER, which is great. check them out
Aww thank you so much! We just felt like it was the right thing to do to try to give back to a county we fell in love with and we couldn’t do it without all your support! ❤️
There was a time in merry old England when Humbugs roamed freely, then we were invaded by the Normans and they were almost hunted out of existence, luckily there is a Humbug protection society now and they are making a comeback🤔
These hard sweets are supposed to be slowly sucked on until they disintegrate completely. I am 65 yrs old and grew up eatin liquorice flavoured sweets and love liquorice to this day.
Congratulations... A tremendous achievement... Wow!! By the way... You're not trying "British 'candies' !!" You're trying British _sweets_ as we don't call them 'candies' (except ,maybe for candied peel - used in cakes, and of course, candy canes at Christmas time!! Have you seen or tried sugar mice? (though, they might not be available except in 'posh' shops?!!)
Thank you so much for your support! Someone else mentioned they are called “boiled sweets”. We pretty much call most things like that hard candy’s. We haven’t tried sugar mice, we will look into trying to find some.
@Trippingthroughadventures We used to be able to buy pink sugar mice and white sugar mice, they have dark eyes and noses made with dots of dark food colouring drops or ditto pens, but their tails are usually just made from string (so if you pick them up by their tails, it doesn't hurt them!! They're usually about a couple of inches long, or perhaps the length of a thumb?!) Good Luck - I hope you do manage to find some, they can look pretty on a Christmas tree branch as long as nobody knocks them off of course! Thank-you for trying British boiled sweets on camera...and as you said, they can be awkward for young children, getting stuck in their throats so I'm glad you noticed that as it happened to my son when he was a child which was quite scary...it took a hard thump on his back to free it from his throat but apart from a sore back and a sore throat for a short while, at least he could breathe again. Take care. 🤞🌝🏴💕🇬🇧😏🖖
You didn't give the last one a chance. You decided you hated it when you saw the name. Our licorice is nothing like yours. I feel these sweets are wasted on people who confuse blackcurrant with cherry.
We wanted to like it but licorice just isn’t a flavor, keep in mind black current has been banned in America for a long time we really didn’t know what it was until our trip to the uk. Most Americans have never tried a blackcurrent
Wow thanks ever so much guys, so sorry I've only just seen the notification on the video. Really glad your enjoying the different flavours and fact that there's no artificial flavours or colourings. As you guys know I'm a small business ( just me ) trying to bring the taste of the UK to the USA. I'm seriously grateful for the taste test as it's hard going at the moment and your vid put a lump in my throat. I love all the brilliant comments from your amazing viewers and the charity link i'll jump in as well, thanks everyone 😍😍😍Congratulations on the 10k keep the vids rollin. Thanks again for the support folks xxx I'll send just a box of the Blackcurrant and Liquorice next time lol.
As a 63 year old Englishman I grew up with all these sweets (as we call them, rather than candy) and blackcurrant and liquorice sweets were my absolute favourite - I was addicted to them (not literally). I was given a shilling a week pocket money and I used to buy exactly these sort of sweets with it. You’ve taken me back to my childhood memories and that’s rather charming. Bless you both.
@albertsmyth9616 The blackcurrant and liquorice are my favourite's, I have to admit to eating a few bags rather than sending them to the US ha ha.
Good on you both.
I’m from the Uk and I doubt anyone would think you’re ‘taking’ from us.
You’re showing interest and respect.
We, like anyone sane, welcome interest in our culture.
To me this is adding to us/the UK and our global image. You’re enhancing, not taking from the UK in my view.
Credit for the idea to donate. Few would be so generous. I wish you ongoing and continued success in everything you both pursuit.
@samc8183 Well said, it's not about taking they are giving more than enough.
Bon Bons, Cola Cubes, Sour Plooms, Cherry Lips, Chewing Nuts, Chocolate Limes, Cola Pips etc, we have so much more. I could imagine there faces with Aniseed Balls 😂 Congrats on 10k! 👍
@KH0RIUM Hopefully if I can make this work i'll be offering different flavours like the ones you mention, cheers.
Congratulations on 10K subs! Liquorice is a very popular flavour in the UK because we've been growing it here since the middle ages. It was imported from Spain and grown in the North of England in Yorkshire. We always used to call liquorice "Spanish" when we were kids and we could buy the roots in in grocery stores and sweet shops. If you soak the roots in water for a few days the resulting liquid is called "Pop-a-lol" , rarely heard of these days! Hey! So I'm a grumpy old Yorkshire git, so sue me! 🤣🤣🤣
@JohnCraig-y6f Thanks for sharing I didn't know that ya grumpy old Yorkshire git 😂😂😂
@@JohnCraig-y6f I didn’t know we grew it here. No wonder my grandmother loved it.
There's more to Britain than just food, but you probably know that already.
You are not just an American. America is a continent comprising of lots of countries. You are a United States citizen.
Keep your channel going, you humble us. Thanks.
That is very generous of you to donate a percentage of your income. With a select few, you included, I watch adverts all the way through. Does that help?
Yes it does it helps out a lot thank you 😊
@RonSeymour1 They are very generous and genuine people.
congrats on 10k subscribers loving your videos and wow you 2 are so kind to start to donate to charities here in the uk and thinking of the homeless first thank you
Thank you! We fell in love with the uk and we are thankful for all your support on our channel, so we thought it would be a good way to show our appreciation. ❤️
@@Trippingthroughadventures your welcome
@@Trippingthroughadventures aye. We call sweets kets in Newcastle,
I'm gannin Doon the shop I'll get the bairn some kets ,
I'm going down the shop I'll get the kid some candy
The UA-cam Algorithm has just introduced me to you, but it's lovely that you're choosing to give some of your revenue to British charities - I'm sure they'll appreciate anything you can donate.
Also, don't be afraid to have a good grumble now-and-then - positivity and openness to new things is much appreciated, but giving us your raw and honest opinions is also very important; and very much inline with British attitudes as well!!
Watch our videos we don’t love everything but we like a lot more than what we dislike lol
Definitely, blackcurrant and liquorish are my favourite, it's that burst of liquid liquorish that makes them. Pontefract cakes are a really traditional liquorish sweet here in the UK which originated from a twon called Pontefract in Yorkshire and said to be Britain's oldest sweet, dating back hundreds of years (about 1760). Mind you, If you think we like liquorish, you should see what the Swedish and Norwegian's like. They love salt liquorish, very intense.
If you liked the Lemon sherbet sweets, you should try the sour apple sweets...lush!
These are all the same type of "old school" boiled sweets. Made by boiling sugar and adding colours, flavours and occasionally other things like cream. Up until the '70s these would have been the predominant kind of candy people would buy. Stores would have shelves with dozens of jars of different candies. Customers typically bought them in quarter pounds, the shopkeeper would use a scoop to put them into a short paper bag on a scale.
There is a strawberry sherbet the same as the lemon. There are also a number of other British candies that use a lot of sherbet. Dip dabs, fountains, flying saucers etc.
You clearly weren't around in the 1960 or 1970s think your confusing it with the 1920s😂
Exactly as it was when I was little in the 60s- remember the small pointed bags
@CarolWoosey-ck2rg available yes but not the predominant sweats. The idea that we just had old fashioned shops with jars of sweats is ridiculous, we had supermarkets. Woolworth first pick n mix opened in Liverpool in 1909
We had a corner shop in the 80's that sold sweets in 2oz increments, put in a bag. It's not really that old.
One of my favourites was butter balls. They always ensured you had to eat part of the bag because some stuck to it.
@@old.not.too.grumpy. pick and mix did not really include much in the way of traditional boiled sweets. Supermarkets really weren't much of a thing before the early seventies
😂😂😂 As soon as Rich bit into the lemon sherbet he turned into little Nicky 😂😂😂😂 brilliant
We English are not perfect, but we are the best.
😂🤣😂
@@BunyipToldMe we English not british?
@@user-ei3dq2dw6i NO! We came during the chaos of Rome leaving Brittania in AD 410. The British are indigenous and thus not English.
Congratulations on 10000 subs. May you get many more. That was brave, sucking boiled sweets on camera. I am pleased that you enjoyed them, mostly.
Thank you so much! Yes it was lol we didn’t think about it till we started the video… all the mouth noises are so loud 😂
@@Trippingthroughadventures The noise is unavoidable 😂 it wasn't that bad, glad you couldn't stop eating the Blackcurrant and Liquorice lol you need to man up 😂
I really enjoy your channel and I hope it carries on growing, you both deserve it. I find you both very funny and you seem to be great parents as well. Congratulations on reaching 10000 subscribers.
Thank you so much!
@andrewg6035 they really are a great couple.
I used to eat black liquorice a bag at a time for years. Five years ago I was eating liquorice allsorts and got a bad pain in my chest, I couldn't draw a breath it was so bad. My wife called an ambulance and the next day I was diagnosed with heart disease. Apparently there is an enzyme in liquorice that can be fatal if you have heart disease. So I was actually saved by Bassetts Liquorice Allsorts.
Wow!! I had no idea! I’m so sorry to hear that but thank you for sharing.. we have family with heart disease.
God bless you and your family!What an amazing thing to do!❤
Thank you! We couldn’t do anything without all of your support! ❤️
The rhubarb and custards andthe peat drops are not individually wrapped because they don't stick to each other being covered in a dusty sugar, where the more sticky sweets are. 😊
That makes a lot of sense lol 😂
Your mad blackcurrant liquorice is amazing dunno why most Americans aren't fond of it 😂
😂 my dad and grandmother used to love it but I never did like it lol
That's a really nice gesture for you to do 🙏 thanks a lot ❤. Its starting to get cold here in the UK and I'm sure that will make a difference to someone who really needs help. All the best to you going forward. I look forward to more stuff from you 🇬🇧
Thank you so much for your support! We couldn’t do it without all of you! ❤️
God love the pair of you. Giving some of the little money you earn from UA-cam to a charity over here really touched me. I follow alot of American reactors, and you two lovely people are tied in my top two. Thank you both so much for the love and respect you show our country. If you ever get to visit Norfolk I'd happily buy all your family a proper Sunday roast 👍
Wow, thank you very much that means a lot to us
What a kushti thing to do, i'm touched by your kind gesture, God bless you both
Congratulations, guys. 10.000 is a huge milestone. I’m around the same, but I haven’t got a beautiful and talented wife driving the channel.
Keep up the good work and keep em coming for our enjoyment. 😊👍
@primalengland Well done on the 10k that's a great achievement, i'll check your channel.
@ Thanks. We’re just an old hippy and his dog channel. Nothing exciting, but good to go to sleep to. 😊
@@primalengland Ill have a look now I just about to crash out ha ha .
Lot's of people unwittingly do eat bugs in the UK. The red Cochineal beetle is crushed up and used as a natural dye called Carmine. Americans also eat this without realising it. Carmine is present in everything from m and m's, ketchup, soft drinks, ice-cream, processed meats,, etc. Pretty much anything dyed red, classed as "natural" dye, is likely to be this little red bug. It is also known as E120
Wow I had no clue! 😷 that’s amazing to me lol thank you for letting me know
Good job I like licorice, I ate half a pound of it over the weekend 😊
Thank you and congratulations.
Thank you too! Thank you so much for the the support
Humbugs are usually peppermint. You can get aniseed flavour too though. They vary a lot between brands, some are sweeter than others. Theres a similar sweet called Everton mints, but their centre is chewy.
Great reaction guys and congrats on 10,000 subscribers. These are for sure old fashioned British sweets and very good of their time. But, I would not compare them to the modern British sweets and the classic sweets us Brits enjoy today. 🍬
Thank you so much! They did seem like something our grandparents would have had up in the cabinet. Lol they were good though 😋
I doff my hat to you both. Your surprise announcement was totally unexpected. On your next visit to the UK I'll buy you both a pint if I bump into you
Thank you so much! We couldn’t do it with out all of you! That sounds great! 😊
Congratulations :) From somebody who lives in Manchester, lovely touch, especially at this time of the year
Thank you so much! We couldn’t do it without all of your support! We love the uk and want to help as much as we can!
Hey , great news on the 10k, it couldnt happen to a nicer couple , you keep generating the content and more will come for sure 😊
Wait where's the Cola cubes ? Thankyou for donating the cold is closing in fast and the streets is no place to be so thanks every penny helps. 👍
Thank you for all your support we appreciate everyone of you and couldn’t be doing any of this without you! We love the uk and want to give back in any way we can!
I may be odd, I don't like blackcurrant but I do like liquorice - black liquorice, liquorice allsorts, blackjacks (liquorice flavoured chews like a starburst) but I'm not keen on aniseed (which some people think similar to liquorice).
Of what you tried I'd say Rhubarb&Custards, then Mint Humbugs
What you have just done is so nice ❤
These are the boiled sweets from my childhood in the 60's and 70's, you should try Buttermints, lovely couple, keep up the good work.
Thank you! Will do!
Agree. I've got a bag of lemon sherbets in the drawer in the kitchen. I think I'll have one today.
I love boiled sweets. I love liquorice and it makes me smile when I see Americans trying it.
America and uk are family so its so nice of you
Thank you 😊
Congratulations on reaching 10,000 subscribers. No talking please while you two lovely people are testing boiled sweets. I know, I know you're grownups, but I was worried for you both. Take care of yourselves. Love from the UK
Back in the 70s my parents had a sweet shop , it had about 150 glass jars of sweets and we also had hand made chocolate and marzipan sweets , it was only a small shop it was about 12ft wide and about 20ft long . We sold cigarettes, cigars ice cream and daily papers and a few other products
It was in the Cotswolds so we had lots of visitors , I was only about 15 and this Sunday afternoon an American couple came in , the guy did a 360 in the shop , went wow iv never seen anything like this . Then said , can I have a sweety out of each jar please mister
I said no sorry we only sell them by the quarter ( they where all different prices ) , he said ok and then pointed to various bottles that he wanted , it was the biggest sale I ever made 😉😉😉😉
@davidfuters7152 I need him to visit my Amazon shop 🤣🤣🤣
Bless you both ❤❤ Love you two.
“Bah Humbug!” Congrats on 10 thou!
Thank you so much!
im sure you like British etiquette especially when a lady is involved, we love to hold open doors for one another, make tea for each other, breakfast in bed for her, and im a firm believer that women can sit down while you make the Sunday roast dinner or any dinner
,, also, its nice if yr opening a package for you both to share,, instead of, take one and pass along,, we open it and offer to the other person first before having ours ❤🎉it also gives us more chance to vocalise even more ,, would you like one of these? yes please/ no thanks 😊 please may i have one of these ,, sure! help yourself 🎉😏 x
thats some vintage candy right there lol
these are the sweets i always got from my grandparents
I bet my grandparents would have loved them as well lol
@@Trippingthroughadventures its no wonder they all had denture`s lol
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Thank you!!
I don't like liquorice but I would never refuse one of those B&L's. It's a nice balance of the two flavours.
The black current part was good but for us not the licorice 😷lol
@@Trippingthroughadventures The trick is to chew them, not suck.
Aww you made me cry 😢 you are beautiful humans ❤️ 🫂
Aww thank you! We couldn’t be doing any of this without your support! We love the uk and want to show our appreciation.
@1justme I had a lump in my throat, and it wasn't a pear drop honest 😂
Liquorish Toffees are amazing. (NO Blackcurrant).
I used to buy them from a UK supermarket called Morrisons.
Problem is you can't just have one. You eat the entire bag !
im not sure, entirely how good my memory is from the early or mid seventies ,, but I'll try to say what i can remember about certain shops🎉🍬🍬🍭🍫
firstly, you have to realise during And after ww2, the uk had rationing,, on all food produce and in particularly if you were a child,, on sugar 😢my mum told us that during the 50s, you had two ounces of sweets if you were very lucky and four ounces or a quarter pound (lb) in imperial weight was to go round a family of four 😮😮😮
not only that, but sweets were still rationed into the 1960s !!
you can imagine how beloved the corner sweetshop was once rationing on sweets was lifted and you no longer had a rations book 🎉😂😅
in the 1970s we knew no different and sweets were so abundant that not only did you have weighed sweets, like these ,, from a jar into a paper bag or paper twist but you could also get 4 chews for a penny !
As for shops ,
i remember there was a tobacconist,, they also sold sweets, usually liquorice type stuff like winter mixture and Bassett's all sorts, to hide the stench of pipe tobacco ( i think you generally only went in these shops w an adult if at all)
then there was newsagent's,, they were the cornershop royalty, opening very early, often shut by 2pm often only shop open on a Sunday but only until noon,, not only were they allowed to sell newspapers but they could also sell like the other two sweets and cigarettes too ,, as well as much more besides🎉
but truly unique, and hardly seen any more 😢 was the olde sweet shop 😊😊😊
selling only sweets, the jars lined the walls, the enormous shiny scales for weighing yr choices, the polite owners in their white coats with clean hands, the packaged or wrapped sweets and chocolate bars along with the lollipops and bubble gum on the counters, the boxes of grown ups chocolates underneath seen through the glass displays and at Easter piled upto the ceiling rafters, boxes and boxes of Easter eggs filled with yr favourite sweets or luxury chocolates usually reserved for special occasions 😅😅😅
you would leave the trilling door with its self ringing bell, skipping down the road filled with fond farewells,, until, next week!! ❤😊😅🍭🍬🍬😏🎉
,, not everyone had it so good 😢
if you were a latch key kid, or had to resort to climbing thru yr window, you probably walked home from school, had already had a school lunch and there might be nowt later for yr tea,, a stolen treat might be a sugar sandwich 🎉 literally sprinkled on bread and rolled up 🟩 or cubes of raw jello, the green ones had previously been intended but forgotten as the grass round somebody's birthday jelly rabbit 🐇 that's if you were lucky (sic)
you could also take litre pop bottles back to the shop 🎉 maybe get 3p on each,, some kids leapt the wall round back and nicked em back again to return to another shop😮😮😮
my sister, when she was about 8, pulled her lil red wooden cart door-to-door asking each neighbour if they had any unwanted newspapers,, just as a way to pass the time, you understand,, i mean she didn't have to or anything!!
the idea was, she'd been told if you collected enough and took them to the chipshop,, they would trade you and give you a bag of scraps for them !! scraps were the lil pieces of batter that fell off fish being fried, and folk loved em 🎉 they were also free in most chippys 😅😂
i highly recommend you watch the great film based on a book by Barry Hines,,
Kes (1969)🍬😏🎉
You need to try strawberry & lemon bon bons, chocolate limes, & butter mintoes
That sounds delicious 🤤
@@Trippingthroughadventures Bonds do them all
@pjtufty66 ill look into those for the next collection .
I love lemon sherbet and buy a packet at least once a month.
Please can you check out some more stuff from Wales please. You guys are so respectful. Absolutely amazing video. Diolch yn fawr iawn
We most definitely will
You need to watch , The 2 Ronnie's, sweet shop sketch . Give you an idea how much sweets like this have always been part of our DNA. Plus, it's absolutely hilarious !!
Damn it's been many years since I had any old fashioned boiled sweets, I'll have to get some for old times sake, I love Liquorice but not all liquorice sweets are the same as a lot have aniseed added to them too, careful with the ones with sugar on the outside like Pear drops as they can make the roof of your mouth really sore if you eat too many and suck on them!
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Thank you 🙏 😊
Sherbert lemon was the pass word to Professor Dumbledore's office in the Harry Potter books/films.
You need to get a P.O box so I can send you more goodies. Blackcurrant Liquorice is my favourite.
We do have one it’s listed at the bottom of the description 😃
ooooold skool sweets! the kinda things your nan would have on tap when you was a kid
Oh yes my grandma also had these little hard candies called cremesavors they was so good 😋
Its cArAmel with two A
ITS CARAMEL WITH 2 A NOT CARMEL WITH 1 A FFS
Just a heads up, you watched a clip of Bradford upon Avon in your last video. Shame but it like many towns in the uk are under water after floods.
Just so you know ahead of your next trip over
I wonder why Americans came to use the Arabic descended “Candy” instead of the old English derived Sweets. Ps,”bugs” are available in the UK if you want.
I remember these type of sweets when I was younger... and a couple of fillings thrown in 😂
These sweets are great for when you're driving. Something to do on a longer journey. Don't know if you have them? In UK we have tinned sweets too. in my mind they are to put in the glove box for whenever you need. And now I'm realising I sound like my grandma. Wow I'm getting old
lol we do call candy like this “ grandma “ candy but I guess we don’t have the same culture around it. lol
@@Trippingthroughadventuresit's because all our grandparents had these in their cars growing up. And I found myself doing it the last few years
Pear Drops and my favourite. I am one of those who likes blackcurrant and liquorice.
The pear ones was very nice. We gave the whole bag of black current licorice ones to our uncle lol he liked them 😂
@Trippingthroughadventures 😂😂. The taste the pear drops have for me is similar to the smell of acetone/nail varnish remover.
If you go into a proper sweet shop, you can buy that sherbet powder in lots of different flavours. Sherbet Lemons are Dumbledore's favourite sweet 🍬🧙♂️
i love pear drops
Those ones were so good 😋
Congratulations 🎉
Thank you so much! 😊
We would get a mixture of boiled sweets before school in our local shop it was like on Willie Wonka`s rows of colourful jars filled names you could not make up like my favourite cough candy twists, Acid drops, Teacakes, Boiled barleys, Brandy balls, Chocolate limes and that is just a few.
The saying A kid in a sweet shop is based off British sweet shops you would be just looking at row after row of crazy looking sweets in jars drooling lost for words thinking how many you could get for your money as they weighed them out in front of you on scales.
I love all of them
My favourite sweets were bullseyes and army and navy tablets- also aniseed twist
"If this was a bit more sour it'd be my favourite candy."
Every Brit watching: "5... 4... 3... "
These are quintessential old fashioned British sweets, the sort youd see in old timey sweet shops in big jars thatd youd buy in whatever weight you want, normally in 100g increments. Theres many other varieties of these boiled sweets too such as cola cubes, chocolate limes, mint imperials, sarsaparilla drops, rosey apples and many others.
They are the sorta thing ideal for long car rides or using in the cinema as they last a while
@LilMonkeyFella87 Your right these old fashioned sweets come in many flavours and are perfect for car rides and movie nights.
The way he says the size is a little large I bet he says that to all the girls🤣🤣
I don’t lie like that, I say the same thing dr say when you get a a shot “ okay your about to feel a little ….😂🤣😂
The best Sherbet Lemons are the Maynards Bassetts ones...
As a child popping into the local newsagent/sweetshop (5 within 1 mile, in my village) and seeing a selection of 50 jars of candy, not counting the chocolate bars.
Try Blackpool rock or Everton mints.
Everton toffee is good as well
All them are brill you will like them
You've heard of the expression "Blowing your own trumpet", well after all those boiled sweets that's certainly what you both will be doing.
Vid on CHESTER CITY..... NORTH WEST ENGLAND.
I live 15 miles from Chester.
Sherbet lemon: you've just opened Dumbledore's office! Blackcurrent/liquorice is actually my favourite.
humbug, a boiled sweet, especially one flavoured with peppermint. Bonds rhubarb and custard sweets are as British as they come 😂 pear drops and chocolate limes are my fave!!! love the vid guys, congrats on 10K 💙 we have a homeless charity called SHELTER, which is great. check them out
Thank you I’ll make a note of that what town are they located in?
@@Trippingthroughadventures ummmmmm im not sure bro. think you can get them all over the uk
@@louiedevere9011 the charity I’m referring to
OMG you are gods angles on earth love you guys
Aww thank you so much! We just felt like it was the right thing to do to try to give back to a county we fell in love with and we couldn’t do it without all your support! ❤️
@@Trippingthroughadventures please dome to Devon ill meet you for a coffee and show you around my town
I really like blackcurrant and I don't mind licorice - but together? Yuck. Like Rich said, very 1880!
You really can’t put black licorice with anything it’s just to strong of a taste lol a taste of The past and lack of options 😂🤣
Never heard of the brand, looked up Bonds of London
Registered address in Leicestershire 🤣
No "Black Jacks" your missing out 😁
We will have to try that one
There was a time in merry old England when Humbugs roamed freely, then we were invaded by the Normans and they were almost hunted out of existence, luckily there is a Humbug protection society now and they are making a comeback🤔
Try sasparella drops.
Humbug flavour is mint
These hard sweets are supposed to be slowly sucked on until they disintegrate completely. I am 65 yrs old and grew up eatin liquorice flavoured sweets and love liquorice to this day.
Some parts are plagued with Humbugs and wild Haggis.
Same issue with wild snipes over here, peoples afraid to leave homes at night.
Congratulations... A tremendous achievement... Wow!!
By the way... You're not trying "British 'candies' !!" You're trying British _sweets_ as we don't call them 'candies'
(except ,maybe for candied peel - used in cakes, and of course, candy canes at Christmas time!!
Have you seen or tried sugar mice? (though, they might not be available except in 'posh' shops?!!)
Thank you so much for your support! Someone else mentioned they are called “boiled sweets”. We pretty much call most things like that hard candy’s. We haven’t tried sugar mice, we will look into trying to find some.
@Trippingthroughadventures
We used to be able to buy pink sugar mice and white sugar mice, they have dark eyes and noses made with dots of dark food colouring drops or ditto pens, but their tails are usually just made from string (so if you pick them up by their tails, it doesn't hurt them!! They're usually about a couple of inches long, or perhaps the length of a thumb?!) Good Luck - I hope you do manage to find some, they can look pretty on a Christmas tree branch as long as nobody knocks them off of course!
Thank-you for trying British boiled sweets on camera...and as you said, they can be awkward for young children, getting stuck in their throats so I'm glad you noticed that as it happened to my son when he was a child which was quite scary...it took a hard thump on his back to free it from his throat but apart from a sore back and a sore throat for a short while, at least he could breathe again. Take care. 🤞🌝🏴💕🇬🇧😏🖖
Im from the UK, and my favourite is the peardrop, but the liquorice nope, no way always hated it
Theses were all in big glass jars in the sweet shops not in bag like these when i was a kid
Bonds are Class Sweets
You need to try anything by Cadburys ,
Caramello is my favorite 🤩
Humbugs are mint flavoured. No artificial flavours are used. Not everything sweet is caramel.
we don't call them "candy", in the UK they are called "boiled sweets"
I didn’t know that. Is that just for that type?
@@Trippingthroughadventuresany "hard candy" tends to be called a boiled sweet
I'd have left the Mint Humbug till last the other sweets will be over powered.
'Red Liquorice' contains no liquorice
These are adult sweets and should always be sucked not crunched ,these all Britains favourite boilers sweets .
You didn't give the last one a chance. You decided you hated it when you saw the name. Our licorice is nothing like yours. I feel these sweets are wasted on people who confuse blackcurrant with cherry.
We wanted to like it but licorice just isn’t a flavor, keep in mind black current has been banned in America for a long time we really didn’t know what it was until our trip to the uk. Most Americans have never tried a blackcurrent