Don't recall any songs about Twirls or Amazin' Raisin bars though

En-route to Glasgow from Newcastle for more Wilco related adventures, called at a service station and bought sherbet lemons only to find them a vastly inferior type to the ones that cut your tongue and shrivelled your taste buds.

Dumbledore is spinning in his grave!

I can't find Maynard's Wine Gums here in Dubai. The only wine gum, IMO. I foolishly accepted an inferior substitute and am still scraping the substandard sugary gloop from my gums.

turn out to be some kind of weird licorice and not the fruit based freshness you were expecting..

I'm intrigued as to how you could have made such an elementary error and the only conclusion I can draw is that your Mum usually buys your sweets for you. Tell me I'm right!

A friend and I fought a rearguard guerrilla action against the renaming of the mighty Marathon as a "Snickers" bar by going into sweet shops, asking for a Marathon and, on being offered a Snickers, declining to complete the purchase.

Whilst confined to home during the swine flu thingy, I asked my wife, who was taking my 8 year old daughter to Whipsnade Zoo, to bring me back a penguin, the well known chocolate confectionary. Imagine my surprise therefore, when she came back, some hours later, clutching a kit kat. Luckily, we both saw the funny side.

...comes in two distinct varieties. I always thought of it as the twirly red stuff (which I've still never tried) so when I bought some a few years ago in Newcastle and got a bag of sugary brown aniseedy shards, I was a bit surprised.

Didn't half clear my cough though.

There once was that incident with the Fisherman's Friend........

A colleague brought some chocs in to the office today. Picked up one absent-mindedly and bit into it. Urgh! A bleedin' orange cream! I hate bleedin' orange creams!

and in a moment of cross product confusion made a complete mess of clearing up some spilt orange juice.

...that if you're stuck for stuff to talk about that a combination of nuts, caramel, chewy nougat and chocolate would make a suitable topic?

In the US these are pancakes, in the UK they are oaty slices that look healthy but aren't.

My girlfriend bought me a Snickers bar the other day, despite my nut allergy. After three years, she is either very forgetful, or there's something more sinister afoot...

Wow! that sherbet used to burn and fizz and the 'saucer' was just like an 'host' the unleven bread thingey we got at the chapel of a Sunday.

not anymore, just wet sogginess :(