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Mick Mac

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100 grams of brandy truffles is ?4. You get 8 chocolates.


They have Hester Blooinmarvelous visit their shop and I'm sure its a great attraction for ED.


More importantly - they have changed their midget gem supplier and now have soft ones and not the original hard ones. This dismays me greatly.


I shall withhold my custom until this matter is rectified.


Perhaps James Barber can help on this one - midget gems are a surefire vote winner.

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Really Mic Mac..



I mean where else sells "not fags" eh ...?


See... and that joke snap chewing gum that I let my eldest experience 1st hand when he was 5 years old


( I swear the girls were on the verge of calling social services )


Honest he's never forgotten/ forgiven that one


Anyway it's nostalgia you're paying for


And that don't come cheap...



"ding-a-ling"


*shop door closes*




W**F


( oh & in my dream/nightmare/seri-state/ I go to get served & as the girl smiles, her black teeth fall out into a little plastic basket...)

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Course I didn't think it was really YOU Mick Mac. But do let us know if you go it alone and set up a rival one.


Like I said before, if they haven't changed the top secret formula for flying saucers or sherbet lemons...I will *likely* manage to sleep tonight.


(Oh, is that the time??) ;-)

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Hove actually...



Hove actually has a legendary chocolate shop called "Audreys"


( poop to you H&G, this makes your contrived weirdness seem, well "pedestrian" )


Back in the day you'd walk in there ( door dead centre of the shopfront that pinged as you opened it, plain full length "voile" curtains over the windows & a dead straight counter dead ahead of you. The place was like a set from a Coen Brothers movie, all painted in creamy buttermilk colour ) off the side street with little or no other shops near by.


I never, ever, saw anyone else in there


Anyway "ping" would go the door......


And you'd wait....for a while......& then a little longer....oh, but the smell just caught you


A slightly built woman in a fitted white almost nursie workcoat would appear, wearing whiteish cream gloves, neat dark tied back hair. Unsmiling but with a slightly inquisitive face " Can I help you" as if you were lost.


There started a wonderful ritual of discovery at Audreys. My dad used to buy his mother chocolates from there when he was a child back in the 50's



It's a bit special, make a trip next time you're down there


5 year old marrachelo cherries in liqueur encased in dark chocholate


( shoot me now, it can't get any better )



Trust me




W**F

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Ladymuck Wrote:

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> Their liquorice toffees are orgasmalicious...and,

> at ?1.25 a bag, worth every penny.


You can get the same liquorice toffees at Sainsbos for less dosh. Think the bag is bigger too. I find them very addictive.

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You're welcome. I am on a constant quest for good liquorice toffees. H&G used to run out alot and sometimes had naff ones in. I also like the aniseed balls. There is a good sweet shop in Columbia Road Market if anyone is going over there. Can't remember the name. And have you seen the website aquarterof?
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cate Wrote:

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I am on a constant quest for good

> liquorice toffees.


Ha ha...me too! Thorntons' are excellent...but be a bit careful if you have crowns (which if, like me, you enjoy your sweets - you probably will do).

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