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A Random Topics Thread Where I Can Post Whatever I like Whenever I Gain Opportunity Or I Reeeally Feel Like Sharing It Upon The Internet

Disambiguating Cynosure

...This Thread "does what it says on the Tin", there. To be honest, I was just fed up of there being no 'Random Topics' Threads anymore, and I also miss the "Did anything Good Happen Today?" Threads, totally. 

So this is my own Thread... And I myself, as a Winged Were-Cat forced to live in a Human body (!), am starting this Thread... into which I shall put absolute Miscellany... So There, Nerrr.

Beware the Chaos. And Science. And lack of End Dates. Yet, As Always - Good Fortune to all who may read (When I can spare the Energy!)...

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  • Is is anyone else here old enough to remember the random goodies we got in Jamboree bags? I remner some very hard 'chalky' sweets, I think the bags contained mottoes too...

  • in reply to Sunflower

    Me again, finally...

    ...Upon the subject of "Sweets"... May I take opportunity to ask anyone where one can still buy Sweets in the form of proper "CANDY"?
    Candy was a "Sweet", but it was chalky, usually white, and the main ingredient was Glucose -- not the fat-increasing Sugars (Levulose, Sucrose, Syrups, Etc.) that are in almost all sweet-things nowadays, including drinks. Nowadays, what is offered is (Levulose-based) Fruit Sugars, such as Boiled Sweets and Lollies/Chews/Pastilles... they are clear, tough, and last for many years.
    "Candy" may also be in Rock Candy, but this is only available 'by the seaside', not in London (where I currently am). "Sweet Cigarettes" were the main source, but are now out of favour, since this glamourises "smoking"... go figure...

  • in reply to Disambiguating Cynosure

    You could also buy tobacco which was in thick wax paper, open the end up and it had stringy lengths of sugary candy,,the colour was right, brown and coated in sugar. The packs were red, I also remember sweet cigarettes and chocolate ones with edible paper,,,,the shaped chocolate omg yes, pipes etc, liquorice was my favourite, even in the shape of a pipe with the top of the bowl covered in hundreds and thousands, good old Bertie bassets,,,liquorice shoelaces and red ones, milk chocolate mice being white, tutti fruiti and black jack sweets a penny sweet.

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  • in reply to Disambiguating Cynosure

    You could also buy tobacco which was in thick wax paper, open the end up and it had stringy lengths of sugary candy,,the colour was right, brown and coated in sugar. The packs were red, I also remember sweet cigarettes and chocolate ones with edible paper,,,,the shaped chocolate omg yes, pipes etc, liquorice was my favourite, even in the shape of a pipe with the top of the bowl covered in hundreds and thousands, good old Bertie bassets,,,liquorice shoelaces and red ones, milk chocolate mice being white, tutti fruiti and black jack sweets a penny sweet.

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