Hi tom.
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wel describing them similar to lolly pops or jaw breakers makes a bit more
sense to me, sinse we do have those, though a couple of others things you
mention like life savers we don't.
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the "soft candy" as you mentioned gummies etc are generally called jellies
over here, particularly in the form of jelly babies that are shaped like
sort of people and come in fruite flavours relative to their colour.
The 4th doctor actually used to carry around jelly babies in his pocket, and
scenes of him walking up to threatening aliens and saying in the unique tone
that only tom baker could "would you like a jelly baby!" was hilarious!
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I also remember a wonderfull occasion in colidge when I was trying to write
an essay on carl marks in just one night, frantically trying to find a copy
of capital on the internet in English, and because colidge in their infinite
wisdom had stopped serving food and because I didn't have time for the half
hour walk down into town, that meant all I could get to sustain myself was
what I could find at the vending machine, ---- this being a very large bag
of jelly babies and a bottle of red bull!
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weerdly enough the essay did rather well! :D.
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there are also lots of other things, jelly snakes, jelly worms, jelly coler
bottles, rings, fried eggs etc, though confusingly enough jelly beans
doesn't quite refer to the same stuff sinse jelly beans also have a hard
coating and tend to come in different flavours, indeed when berty bots'
every flavour beans were markited they were basically jelly beans in
different types.
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There are also some sweets that are made of soft, chewy more pure sugar that
is not jelly, and usually come in quite bright colours, and one very popular
sweet for young children is dolly mixtures, which tend to be a mix of these
brightly coloured sugar sweets in different sorts and the more chewable
jellies.
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there is then of course if we're talking about chewy sweets, lickerish,
particularly lickerish alsorts which are a collection of different chewable
sweets often with the solid sugar stuff I mentioned but involving lickerish,
which has a rather unique flavour that some people like and others don't.
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I've myself always been more of a fan of biscuites, toffee, or chocolate
(and with as muchcoco as possible), as opposed to the more pure sugar type
of sweets, though my brother is a fan of jellies particularly harribo, and
there was an old man who was a friend of my parents (sort of a surrogate
granddad), who used to always buy my brother and I lickerish alsorts
especially at christmas, so once in a while I get some to remind me of him
specifically.
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Generally though for me chocolate, biscuits and caramel take pride of place,
indeed I have to go shopping later today and I just might treat myself to
some stem ginger biscuits, the sort that have actual chunks of fairly chewy
ginger route in them.
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Beware the Grue!
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Dark.
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