Mr Simms Olde Sweet Shoppe.... arriving soon on Lordship Lane...

[ED Light]

Pear drops?

[Dara @mrsimms]

Loads of different flavours...

[evilmanic]

Please help me, I've been trying to locate sweets from the 80s/90s - used to buy them by the 1/4lb. I'm positive they were called Mini Fruits, but Google can't find anything like it.

The looked a lot like: https://www.hancocks.co.uk/millions-sweet but weren't chewy, but they were that size and were multi-coloured.

[Laroon]

Evilmaniac do you mean Tom Thumb Drops??

[Habitualbridesmaid]

Can u help get rid of the Haribo sweet wrapper plight that defines many of our streets....?

I do hope so!

[evilmanic]

Sadly not :(

These sweets were smaller, spherical, maybe 1.5mm in diameter.

Laroon Wrote:

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> Evilmaniac do you mean Tom Thumb Drops??

[se22cat]

It'll be nice to see this place open, I remember the wonderful smell you'd get when entering the sweet shop that I think was where the St Christopher's charity shop now is and the sound of sweets hitting the weighing machine was oddly pleasing too, had me salivating like one of Pavlov's dogs!

[Dara @mrsimms]

Funny you mention that .... the smell of the Olde Sweet shop & sweets hitting the weighing scales....helped me decide on opening my own franchise..... (lots of research) ...

Hope the local community are as excited as me xx...

[Mscrawthew]

Sherbert pips?

[Sue]

Those tiny things like mini wine gums but round and not wine flavoured.

Something gems??

[Dara @mrsimms]

Those would be Midget Gems xx definitely on my list ...

[Ontherun]

`best of luck with your new venture Dara.

There was a sweet shop on North Cross Road that used to sell ration books which my kids loved getting as presents or in their stockings. They were always so excited to take their ration books to the shop, choose their sweets and have their tokens stamped. They would then count up how much was left for the next visit!

Will you be doing anything similar?

[KidKruger]

Sue could they be Floral Gums which were a lot smaller than Midget Gems ?

[Sue]

KidKruger Wrote:

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> Sue could they be Floral Gums which were a lot

> smaller than Midget Gems ?

Both those names ring a bell! Yummy!

[Sue]

Ontherun Wrote:

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> `best of luck with your new venture Dara.

>

> There was a sweet shop on North Cross Road that

> used to sell ration books which my kids loved

> getting as presents or in their stockings. They

> were always so excited to take their ration books

> to the shop, choose their sweets and have their

> tokens stamped. They would then count up how much

> was left for the next visit!

>

> Will you be doing anything similar?

That was the late lamented Hope and Greenwood, wasn't it? I still miss their salted caramel ice cream, much nicer than other local options (in my opinion).

[Dara @mrsimms]

Morning all .... please continue with your requests....

[Dara @mrsimms]

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[sanity girl]

Tom Thumb drops

Rhubarb & Custard

Pear drops

[Birdynamnam]

Original toffee crumble.

[Dara @mrsimms]

All requests, providing not discontinued, I will endeavour to meet them all ...

[Dara @mrsimms]

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[Sue]

Volunteers???

[alice]

Some of these people got so excited over sweets perhaps you could charge say ?20 for a 4 hour Sweetshop Experience.

There?s potential here.

[se22cat]

Hmm, asking for *free* labour to help you make money from your business?

Forget the bon-bons and white mice, I'm readying a bowl of popcorn and some root beer to see how this thread turns out :)

[Jacqui5254]

Wow.

After 100 posts, 5400+ views, all keeping your yet-to-be launched business at the top of the East Dulwich Forum.