Review of: Bassett's Sherbet Fountains

5/5 (minimum 1)

by mgaved on 03 Oct 2007

Classic sherbet and liquorice sweet. This is proper old skool, I was wondering past a shop the other day and thought I'd have one. If they worked for me in 1971, they'd work now. Seem to be about the same as they were. Cardboard tube containing the crack cocaine of children's sweets (sherbet - which for those who don't know is basically soft powedery white sugar as far as I can work out). Black stick of liquorice pking out the tube. The idea is that you're supposed to bite the top of the stick - taste test - yes - still the same, proper sweet liquorice, chewy, the real thing - and then suck up the sherbert through the hollow tube. It used to be that you'd suck really hard and none would come and then suddenly a whole puff would hit the back of your throat and leave you both gasping for air as it hit your lungs and also buzzing from the sugar high as the rest swirled round your mouth. Truly the Class A illegal drug of choice for the discerning kiddywink, we used to get high as kites on this stuff. Problem was that after a few sucks no more sherbet would come up the tube, either the top end had got all sticky or the bottom end had got blocked with sherbet. So you'd have to rip open the cardboard and hoover down the rest of the sherbet neat. We must have been out of control after that sugar high, our poor mums.

Things have, if anything, got worse on the liquorice tube front - even less sherbet came up (maybe I was slightly self conscious trying this out walking up Wolverton High Street past some particular hip looking teenagers). But all the flavours are still there. I say - a proper classic, all the flavour is still there. Recommended for that pure unadulerated 70s sugar hit. Get em before they are made illegal.

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Bassett's Sherbet Fountains

Tags: 70s liquorice oldskool sherbet should-be-class-a-drugs sweeties
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