To ask what you call the blue dotty ones. . .

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. . . in liquorice allsorts?

Aniseed things. They are the best ones. They are the middle bit of liquorice Catherine wheels as well.

I love them, but I don't like any other Allsorts so I throw away the rest of the bag. Seems a waste really.
Send me all your spogs!

The baufing blue ones (to differentiate them from the baufing pink ones )

Well I can honestly say I didn't think I'd get so many belly laughs from reading your responses so sincere thanks!
I call them blue dotty ones. They're far and away the nicest Allsort. The pink dotty ones are nice but not AS nice as the blue.
The black jelly Bertie Basset figure they included for a while we're on a par with the blue dotties, possibly even nicer. I'm sad they discontinued those :(

Another vote for worm cakes here also from my mum

I seem to remember they were called buttons in the factory. I worked there about thirty years ago...

Spogs.

You can get them under that name on Amazon.

I love a drink of pernod, blackcurrant and lemonade. It tastes just like the sweets. Yum

Bellamy spogs are their full name I think.

Bertie's Hat... surely?

Spogs?! What a peculiar name. Still won't eat one!

That's amazing headofthehive55, did you all snack on allsorts whilst going about your daily business? I'm a bit jealous.

I don't get "worm cakes", why do you all call them worm cakes?

I call them vomit inducers

I think the name is spogs when they are sold on their own.

I don't like blue or pink bobblies but love all the others.

Maybe we should set up a MN Allsort swap shop.

They are hedgehogs in our house.

Yes you were encouraged to eat them so we would pick up on anything that was wrong...

In truth you don't really eat that many as you get sick of them. And you find it makes you need the loo.

We used to mix some of the bags by hand, so I perhaps would be the girl that would drop the button in to the bag I'd perhaps need to put one blue button in with one hand and a pink one in with the other. The dye would stain your hands and I'd go home on the bus with one blue and one very pink hand!

One of my most favourite and happy jobs ever.

I've had a nose, and the 'orrible ones really are available on Amazon.

The worlds gone mad.

Mine.

The fit ones! I love them. Why are there only ever 4 max in a big bag?

The gross ones.

SecretRed, that may be because of reasons outlined by headofhive55.

I know if I'd worked there the proportion of blue spotty ones in each bag sold would have decreased!

I've always called them liquorice horse cakes.
I googled "horse cakes" and discovered that they are indeed called Spogs.

You learn something new every day

Ah the blue and pink bobbly ones are the best :)

Worm cakes.

Haha cait could avon be your mum?!