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SOS Save our Sweets

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Hull750Rider
In: Hull
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Maynards have bought out Lions, now this may be small potatoes to most, but and here is the rub. Lions made Midget Gems and Sports mixture (the black ones are made from liquorice) their proposal is to change all that and used black currant to replace them. There is a petition to try stop this yet annother loss of a "Great British Instatution" fading away without a fight. If you care and would like to help stop this travasty please follow the link to the petition. http://www.thepinksugarmouse.com/cgi-bin/showpage.fcgi scroll down to the bottom half the page and click the link to the submission page. Cheers Andy

Hull750Rider @ 11/07/2009 10:50

TeeCee
In: Blair Atholl
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That is outrageous, HR!!!!! SIGNED!!!!! (but boy did I get hungry looking for the link for the petition.. )

TeeCee @ 11/07/2009 10:59

Deleted User
In: NA
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You got my vote on this one Hull Propper wine gums & midget gems are hard (break your teeth) & taste of propper fruit & yes Hull I agree ... black ones are liquorice

Deleted User @ 11/07/2009 11:10

excalibur
In: york
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Signed sealed and delivered Hull , very fond of liquirice assorted . It's not a PC decision is it??

excalibur @ 11/07/2009 11:27

Deleted User
In: NA
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No Ex .. I think its just Maynards have a *thing* about changing what has been & not for the better

Deleted User @ 11/07/2009 11:38

Hull750Rider
In: Hull
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Cheers all. Yep TC very tempting those images lol. Ordered some Spanish tobacco and a couple of others :o) inc Midget Gems (they sell the original recipie ones off the site!)

Hull750Rider @ 11/07/2009 12:30

micksaway
In: Weymouth
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Im not very fond of liquorice and much prefare black currant. So Im all for it. Sorry Hull Always used to throw the black ones away when I was a kid.

micksaway @ 11/07/2009 12:31

excalibur
In: york
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The black ones have an ingredient in that can lift your spirits MA , you mus'nt write them off because of the taste lol

excalibur @ 11/07/2009 12:38

Sandi
In: Hudds, W Yorks
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Having I B S I can't really condone licorice with it's laxative effects , I don't like the flavour either. I wouldn't mind some of that Spanish gold tho, I used to love that when I was a kid.

Sandi @ 11/07/2009 18:20

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In: NA
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no no no...my fave sweets are lions liquorice tablets, i buy them in 7lb boxes and nail them in 2 days, omg i hope they dont stop making them, i would be mortified

Deleted Member @ 11/07/2009 18:22

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In: NA
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I bet they do Ian .. of if they dont you will find they are soggy soft limp excuses for something thats called liquorice tablets ***Mr_P .. I feel a trip to costco is needed ***

Deleted User @ 11/07/2009 18:28

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awwwww........no, will have to get some quick, i will get my soap box out good and proper if they stop doing them

Deleted Member @ 11/07/2009 18:38

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Well I have had a pack of the maynards ones ... they soft & gooey , do not have the fruity taste that lions ones did ... & certainly wont crack a tooth if you bite into it

Deleted User @ 11/07/2009 18:43

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LIQUORICE..........got to go to 'ye old sweet shop'..in leicester city centre on manday now, it has every old sweet you can remember ....they stock my sweets

Deleted Member @ 11/07/2009 18:47

julie j
In: Harrogate
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good god what ever next, is nothing in this world sacred anymore, if bassetts dare even consider fidllin with my jelly babies there will be hell to pay! It`s the thin end of the wedge i tell ya!

julie j @ 11/07/2009 20:46

RustyKnight
In: Newton Aycliffe
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Hull,

This post has just taken me down memory lane. When i was 5 (a couple of years back) I got a quid for my birthday and at the time you got 3 sports mixtures for a ha'penny so I bought a quids worth, (yes 600!) and took them home and filled a fruit bowl. Did I get my arse kicked when my Dad got home from work!

I've just signed the petition mate

RustyKnight @ 11/07/2009 21:52

Hull750Rider
In: Hull
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Cheers RK Ian you been to sign up too? What about you Julie?

Hull750Rider @ 12/07/2009 01:08

Roachy
In: West Yorks
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I like the hardness of sports mixture but I'm not keen on liquorice so personally wouldn't mind a change to blackcurrant. Don't like any of the midget gems though so they can so what they want with those for me. Why do they change things though, surely they are selling well enough as it is. Edit: I'm not sure which type I've tried, Lions or Maynards but they were harder than wine gums.

Roachy @ 12/07/2009 15:12

Hull750Rider
In: Hull
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It's not the content of the sweets though it's the constant errosion of all things British lol.

Hull750Rider @ 12/07/2009 20:13

Hull750Rider
In: Hull
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Bump

Hull750Rider @ 14/07/2009 11:10

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