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Oddfellows - traditional Scottish sweets 250g

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Ruby, who made Oddfellows for nearly two years, said the best part of the job was munching on the job. These sweets are approx 2.2 cm long by 2.2cm wide by 0.6cm deep and weigh approx 5g - 7g per sweet with an average of 6g giving you approx 28-34 sweets per 200g weigh out bag. - sizes/weights may vary per batch and per sweets, (approx size/weight guide only). I was introduced to them in 1972 at a house where my Granny was the home help. On summer holidays at Granny’s I would tag along and the old lady who lived in the house would give me a sweetie, always an Oddfellow. I was hooked for life. Soor plooms, cola cubes, lemon sherbets, penny toffees... probably the most important choice a 6 or 7 year old would have to make that week. Scottish sweets don't come much more iconic than the Highland Toffee bar. More Scottish than haggis and tartan, the sweet toffee bars were soft and chewy unlike regular toffee, and the sheer joy on someone's face as the clenched their teeth and pulled trying to take a bite always resulted in hilarity.

Resulting from this conflict, the town’s coat of arms and motto portray the importance of this event. The coat of arms shows two foxes reaching to eat plums from a tree and the town motto is ‘Sour Plums’ [4]. Alternatively from our newest collection, grab yourself a traditional Victorian style clear plastic jar either in small which is 380ml or large which is 500ml in size.happy memories returned eating these of holidays long ago, i still love them thank you so much they still taste just the same In 1949, jam production ceased with the concentration moved solely onto sweet production and thrived before going into receivership in the late 1980s. The Candy Man Song Sweet History? Hard-boiled sweets were one of the first kind of sweets to be made commercially. In 1860, the firm had premises in King Street and by 1883 had two shops, one in Main Street and one on Stewarton Street. After more than a 100 years in business, in 1990 King’s Sweets’ sorting machines stopped whirring, their wrapping paper ceased to flow and their vans stopped delivering.

And no one remembers the buzz of the factory and the smell of the sugar boiling as well as Wishaw’s original oddfellows Ann Eley and Ruby McGuinness – who worked for King’s at the height of their success. She said: “We had to wear blue overalls from head to toe. We had big blue turbans on and blue overalls that wrapped around lots of times. They had to be kept clean because you’d come home and they were always stinking from the aromatics.”

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Hell yes they were, now made to the original recipe by equally old company Ross’s of Edinburgh, and bought from the retro sweetie shop across the street. I walked inside and by the time I’d taken two steps I was three feet tall again with a fringe and leather brogues. Visits to shops like this should be prescribed on the NHS for morale. It’s been nearly 30 years since the giant sugar pans stopped bubbling at the factory on King Street. Or go BIG with our square 2.5 litre sweet Jar to keep all your favourite sweets at hand for longer! Approaching the shop you were greeted by a proverbial riot of coloured gems, and that was just from the shop window. When you got inside the jars spread out before you like a crazed alchemist's dream. Every Scottish child's favourite person. The owner of the local sweet shop and purveyor of many a delicious treat. Picture: TSPL It was a real shame when it closed down. It was always busy and we always had a lot of fun working in the factory.

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