To remember childhood sweets and what you associate with them

[SammyScrounge]

Reading the thread about childhood sweets triggered memories
Friday nights my Dad and my Uncle went to the pub for a couple of hours and my Mum and Aunt watched the Avengers. John Steed with his umbrella and Emma Peel in black with wild hair..When the men came home they brought us Mintola and Turkish delight. My Mum and Aunt also got.Advocaat to drink but they never gave me a sip.
What do you associate with favourite or loathed sweets?

My Grandma had three grandchildren. Me, my sibling and our cousin. She would buy one of those boxes with 3 Creme Eggs in, “for the grandchildren” and often, because we weren’t visiting at the same time, would eat my cousin’s egg when she gave me and my sibling our eggs. Should add, this was in the run up to Easter, not the Easter eggs.
Grandma would also buy packs of three Choc Dips and do the same.
I also remember she and Grandad would buy those Cadbury chocolate tree decorations. We found out my Grandad was eating them and then leaving the foil hung up and Grandma blamed us! Grandad had to own up.

Nan would have have those massive (late 70s/early 80s) tins of Quality Street. They seemed to never run out of those. When they had a new tin, they would tip them out and take out all the green triangles and purple ones as they were their favourites. Nan would save me a couple of purple ones. I think of them every Christmas. They also had a pretend silver stand for the box of After Eights, I thought that was so posh!

When I was very small, my uncle used to buy those jelly orange and lemon segments in sugar for me for my birthday. I didn’t like them because of the Oranges and Lemons song with the chopper that would chop of my head!

My French grandfather would also have sugar cubes wrapped in paper with pretty illustrations on, like flowers. He would give them like sweets to us. Hangover from sugar rationing during the war I think, not because he thought we were horses!