What are your favourite sweets?

Another vote for sherbet lemons-much loved by my insulin dependent neighbour !
She always had a quarter of them even though they were forbidden. As a child she'd give me one of her precious sherbets .
Just thinking of them makes my mouth water.
Here's something which whetted my appetite for the origin of words -
Sherbet is from Arabic and is found in Turkish and Persian languages .
It means a drink - probably a fruit based one .

I love Kendal mint cake, but at the moment my favourites are the jelly beans sold in garden centres. They have different flavours to the usual sweet shop variety.

I don’t eat a lot of sweets, but I love liquorice allsorts - but they have to be Maynard Bassetts. They are still made here in Sheffield, so there’s a connection, but I had some recently from M&S and they were truly awful - a travesty.

I’ve got M&S mint assortment in the car. They aren’t my favourites, it’s because I know I’ll only eat one per journey. My favourite is jelly beans, I buy the Lidl ones because they are proper jelly belly, unlike the other supermarket ones. One pack lasts me about a month, they are just there when I get the urge.

Recently I got a craving for Jellybabies!

Licorice Allsorts or revels.

Marg75

We don't just sit in the car and eat them continuously, just we may have one or two on a journey, one on the way home from shopping, a packet lasts a long time!

Same here, either Werthers or boiled sweets such as fruit flavour, humbug type ones sometimes.😋

Actual boiled sweets of my childhood would be sherbet lemons, in fact I remember them in other flavours too. Ruinous for the teeth of course, I haven't had a boiled sweet for years unless throat sweets count. I also loved wafer type circular things, again with sherbet in the middle known as flying saucers, they're still around. My treat now would be chocolate, I try to make that occasional though.

Only eat sweets Christmas and Easter and that tends to be chocolates that I have been given. I am actually not very fond of chocolate.

Having said all that, my favourite sweets are Liquorice Allsorts and if I am very lucky Santa Claus sometimes puts some in my stocking.

We don't just sit in the car and eat them continuously, just we may have one or two on a journey, one on the way home from shopping, a packet lasts a long time!

I'm diabetic so rarely eat sweets now, just the occasional square of chocolate. My favourite sweets were chocolate limes. Loved them

Sherbet lemons, rarely buy sweets though prefer a chocolate bar

I only eat sweets if they are chocolate.
Absolutely love chocolate, not keen on sweets... except occasionally chocolate limes.

I never have sweets if any sort in the car. As a child I nearly choked on a bitter lemon sweet when my dad drove over a bump in the road. I was only saved by mum screaming at my him to stop the car then dragging me out and performing the Heimlich manoeuvre. Luckily she’d recently attended a St John’s Ambulance first aid course so knew what to do. I have had some issues with swallowing ever since (mainly psychological I think) and when I’m stressed I just can’t eat in case I choke. It was far and away the most terrifying experience of my life!