15 British Sweets Everyone Should Try - Anglophenia Ep 22 

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Obnoxious Fandom Name I like the caramel ones

Obnoxious Fandom Name what about curly whirlys

Freddos are not British they are actually Australian and originally manufactured by MacRobertson's, an Australian confectionery company that was bought by Cadbury's in 1967.

Obnoxious Fandom Name yeah my hubs is an Aussie & he loves Freddo Frogs.

This is the truth.

absolutely

America doesn't have Ribena?? You poor souls

We have Ribena, but no one buys it unless they know what it is. It's sold in more upscale grocery stores, but not difficult to find. Dark Chocolate McVities on the other hand are difficult for me to find. Milk chocolate are easy to find. Depressing.

Wait, you don’t have anything black currant flavoured? How do you survive? It’s probably one of the most popular flavours in Britain! Under orange, of course.

@@pixwoolI saw something on RU-vid about why there isn't blackcurrant flavour in America , hopefully I explain this properly lol. Apparently the blackcurrant Bush carries a type of disease (or mold, can't remember which) that some of native trees and plants don't have any resistance to . So when they brought the blackcurrant bushes over to America they caused a lot of damage to the woodland areas. A lot trees died, which had a massive knock on effect to other wildlife and to any industry that relayed on wood. If you want a better explanation it's probably still on RU-vid somewhere.

@@mehhandle That makes a lot of sense, i guess Britain has stronger trees.

simp

You can get Maltesers in the US.

+CNVideos oh thank goodness, I was starting to worry!!

Whoppers are better!

+Nobu Ichida dont u dare abandoned the UK we need you, I need u

***** milk duds are nothing like maltesers! milk duds are basically poppets.

Are they a sweet?

No, they look like a biscuit but they are really a cake. Layer of hard cake, topped with tangerine jelly, topped with chocolate. About the size of a biscuit (cookie).

Aldi's version are so much better than the orginal

AwesomeOrigamiAndDiy's I love chocolate oranges! I moved to America almost 2 years ago and I miss them a lot!

Double Lollies are best

Double lollies are bae I remember that once I had had so many that when I liked them, my tongue started to bleed a little. but I would keep on licking like there was no tomorrow

SophieBennett123 there not my fav but...GODDANGIT THERE GOOD!

SophieBennett123 and also drumstick lollies

we have something called "whoppers" which I think are similar

Yeah we have whoppers, same idea but they taste horrible. Malteasers are undoubtedly better imo

You can find them in some markets. My local grocery store has a British section on the international isle.

Alex S True. And near my college there's a little market completely dedicated to British foods, and you can get Malteasers and other stuff there (I'm sure there are other small markets like it)

We have them in Canada.

neither do I... I kind of watch these videos and imagine people who do not live with these things...

I just watch them to see if I'm british enough but I always end up not knowing half of the phrases because I'm not a 13 year old london girl who speaks souly in rhyming sland.

I know how you feel

I was gonna say "I know how you feel" again but well, you get the idea

EpicEthan21 me neither just weird

I think you should be a private teacher hired by a woman. Then you could say you were an English English teacher teaching a broad abroad. ... I'm sorry. I'll go put myself in detention now.

Tairneanach Wow this language really sucks sometimes...

Tairneanach Im dying xDD

Tairneanach hey, can you explain what's the pun in "a broad abroad"? :) I just guess it's a pun. Well, it's not what one can find in a dictionary. I guess, it's obvious that I'm not an English native speaker :)

Августа Шнайдер "Broad" is word for a woman in less respectable way.

They aren't really candy. I love Hobnobs but they aren't candy either. Hope she does one on cookies....um, biscuits.

Cakes aren't on this list

And Galaxy

+Notapirate If Jaffa Cakes stopped existing, I would stop existing.

Sarah Thomson Jaffa cakes are bae

I personally hate parma violets but they do remind me of summer holidays for some reason.

TheA_Mboom I can't live without pama violets

No just no like get out

TheA_Mboom THEYRE DISGUSTING

What are Parma Violets lol

And wine gums

Forget wine gums. Jelly babies, FTW! :)

oh no, do Canadians say "mom" also.... the horrorrrr

Just those who have been corrupted by the Americans. ;) It is very rare to find a card at a card shop that says mum. They almost always say "mom".

Canadians are American, because they're in North America. Different provinces say different things, but "mom" is the most common. Although a lot of people pronouncd it as "mum", but it's always spelled "mom".

I hope you're not sophisticated enough to realise that that was potentially a backhand compliment...

It's not meant to be taken as a compliment of any kind. It's only my personal observation.

You are a vile whale spouting ignorance.

tigerwa Saying the candy tastes good and that makes them vile? I'm pretty sure that makes you the vile one

Some countries, like egypt, sweet stuff tastes awful but the savory food is great.

Er Jaffa cake is a cake biscuit not a sweet

how to tell the difference between a cake and a biscuit when they get stale a biscuit goes soft and a cake goes hard, its due to sugar content I believe but you can google it and check if you like. Jaffa cakes are defiantly cakes as proved in a court case over tax payments. go figure

Artist4life ik =(

No definitely always be a biscuit to me what cakes are sold in plastic tubes on top of each other

Henry Hargreaves Jaffa Cakes are. Dur. Jaffa Cakes are cakes, hands down. On their packaging, it even says 12/24/36/48 CAKES. They are officially cakes, even the law says so.

Yeah, Starburst, made to make your mouth water, does not work at all

I'm still annoyed that they changed the Marathon bar's name to Snickers. Bloody stupid name! The long defunct Cabana bar was my favourite though. I wish they'd bring that back.

dalriada842 Personally I enjoy Penguins but they are extremely hard to get here

Skystalker They're popular enough here, that there are plenty of rip-offs sold to undercut them in price. The major supermarkets are the biggest sellers of them. There might be a product where you are that is essentially the same thing with a different name.

British 'Marathon' bars were renamed to mastch the American 'Snickers' name after some yank exec from the parent company came to Britain and discovered the product had a different name here, outraged, a change was ordered despite severe warnings from the marketing people that it would damage sales,. Sales of the bars dropped alarmingly following the change but by then it was too late to do anything about it without making a senior exec look like a total prick.

heavydiesel yes, exactly - and that's why it's called a fountain!

heavydiesel - the hollow licorice never really worked in practice though, most people just tore the top off and poured it in their mouth .. so no real change there. Sherbert came in dozens of colours and flavours bought by weight from a jar in a paper bag in the early 70's, a dipped and eventually coloured stained finger was all that was required to match a coloured tongue, we was pioneers and sweet shop test pilots back then.

Was never a huge sherbet lover, I remember being occasionally given dib dabs as a child and I just traded my sherbert for my brothers lolly; I got two lollies and he got double sherbert, we were both happy!

We have Twirl in the UK too. That's where it comes from.

You have Tim Tams and they are amazing. I bought a lot of them when I was in New Zealand.

Twirl, best choc bar ever and only 50p!

So does Marianne Faithful

Lion bar

***** that's good though, right?

I still miss the original blue Smarties. They'll never be the same since they changed the colour :-(

***** I never minded that the tube smelled of cardboard. I mean, it's made of cardboard, so it's going to smell that way isn't it....

Put Smarties tubes on cats legs and make them walk like a robot

I miss the letter on the inside of the lid

Yep

+Skellibones :3 havent had them in ages do they still exist

+Killerdog2829 yes if course, get my weekly stash of them from iceland 😁

OMG YES THEY ARE BAE

+Paper_Gangsta17 Areo yogurts are magical! Especially mint ones. >////

gold bars are really good! you can usually find them in uk supermarkets, if you know where to look... we wouldn't usually associate that sort of bar as 'candy' though, because they have biscuit in them they're usually in the chocolate biscuit section, with the kit-kats and stuff! :)

Thanks! Now I'll know where to look when I come back to London :)

***** I love gold bars!!!

***** Found your GOLD bar www.mcvities.co.uk/products/bars

Thank you!!

Candy Rock not rock candy as that is a sweet all on it's own

Yeah I don't call it Brighton rock it's stick of rock to me

Edinburgh rock is different it is like a super compressed powder that is in the same shape and crumbles when you bight it!!

Did you watch the video? She says this in the video. She mentions that the different towns have their names inside the candy.

+Baxter You are right, she does, and it's probably me just being pedantic about presentation. But it's more of an afterthought and she doesn't really explain that it's not always named Brighton Rock. If she's introducing a candy to someone who doesn't know what it is, it would probably be wiser to give them the common name of the candy, in this case 'Rock' or 'Rock Candy', rather than the name it's known as in just one town, in order to avoid confusion. But that's really just a bit of criticism I could give, since she is really good at presentation and the video itself is wonderful.

+ednuttah Turkish Delights i get them once or twice from turkey or Cyprus

***** Yes but they are British and were sweets.

+ednuttah nothing special a bout a spangle but why did they change from opal fruits that did do as promised and try be creamier

+ednuttah Also, she mentioned pear drops, but not my favourite, rhubarb & custard. The sugar on pear drops acts like sandpaper and scrapes your tongue!

+Nigel Gentry Marks & Sparks, when it was in Canada, carried 'Pudding Sweets'. Four types of hard candy with filling, such as the rhubarb and custard you mentioned. I STILL miss 'em - they were THAT good!

Those are biscuits.

jammie dodgers exist at all points in time and space.

Wave a packet of Jammie Dodgers around in our house and get tramppled to death by the kids.

Throw them in the air and run for your life.

The are not sweets

Same with malteasers??! Those poor sods

TARDIS Tales We have them in Canada!

TARDIS Tales what about jaffa cakes!

Well, we're STARTING to sell British candies... Mostly Cadbury stuff. It was banned here for a long time because their chocolate is generally better than our own and Hershey/Nestle's afraid of competition.

+TollingBells haha Britain rules

+ian gleed - Yep. Snickers sounds like an STD

In my opinion no I hate smarties, also we have both in the US

US Smarties ≠ UK Smarties. What US calls "Smarties" (and Canada calls "Rockets") are more akin to (Nestle) Wonka SweeTarts or Necco Wafers. What the UK (and basically the rest of the world) call "Smarties" from Nestle are closer to M&M's (milk chocolate buttons covered in a candy shell)

+AEon Tokusatsu Reviews except MUCH nicer. ..american smarties are totally different you are right. and frankly vile..

Be sure to eat the red ones last. If you're from Canada you'll know why.

When I was a kid I used to always use the red ones for lipstick 😅👄

I was reading this comment and then crunchie came up

My English friend got me onto PG Tips. I order it from Amazon. We Americans are clueless about tea and don't even know it

Absolutely! I grew up on "real" tea. lol My Grandma is British and so is my Mom.

Aniseed balls are great.

I LOVE fruit pastilles!!

Robert Newstrand OMG U NEED TO TRY A FLAKE =)

You need to try a flake

AWWWWW BOI YOU ARE MISSING OUT ON THE BEST ONE! GET.YOSELF.A.FLAKE.RIGHT.NOW.

@@Angie-qf3oz we don't have the Cadbury Flake in the US. However, Publix (grocery store) has Maltesers now, jammie dodgers, Aero bars (mint and regular), a scottish wafer bar 4-pack, and wine gums. I had to import Double Decker bars and Jaffa Cakes thanks to Amazon (takes 3-4 weeks to get to Florida).

Wait... the US has Mars bars though... RIGHT!? They're like THE chocolate bar, after a Dairy Milk obviously.

+Jordan Simmonds they give me memories of a corner shop with the caramel freddos

Yeah, but Freddos are probably, like, a hundred quid by now.... 😭

+Alexander Marriott I got into a small argument today with my friend over the price of Freddos 😂

+Jordan Simmonds Yeah Freddo frogs are good but no way I'm I falling for that he got kids & a mortgage to pat off

Omg same 😻😻😻 I looooove the White Bueno 😻

+Aas “PlutoniumBacon” Deconsilder Thought I have to admit that I am insanely jealous of the box of Wine Gums.

+Josh Hilton not really. It just depends if the store has decided to import them. Most of this stuff isn't available in normal stores and if it is, it costs a lot more.

its bc of common wealth xD

+J Hughes Not sure about you, but where I live, even the dollar stores carry maltesers and aero, sometimes wine gums, and the cadbury buttons can often be found in walmart. I wish we had more of the fizzy candies though.

+angedejeudi oh yeah, and crunchie bars, but they're in a different packaging than the one shown.

As are Aero and Flake bars. I see sherbert and liquorice allsorts often as well, including corner shops and all department stores it seems. You can get most of the other treats at common enough places like Bulk Barn. I think BlackJack is the only thing on the list that I haven't seen anywhere except those ridiculously overpriced UK-import shops. Oh, and black currant-flavoured things. Once in a while I'll see a pack of blackcurrant Fruitella at convenience stores but that's it apart from those import shops. Irn Bru you can get all over the place, but the candy? I don't think I even saw it when I lived in the UK, lol. Wham bars yes. Double Deckers are my fav from this list. Or, well, they were until I saw a pack of 8 at Sainsburys for £1... Moderation is the key to not puking up things you love. I would have included Dolly Mix here though. That is my absolute favourite.

Ummm, allsorts are frankly common in Southern Ontario... Costco, Loblaws, Shoppers Drug Mart all carry them. I'm a bit sad for you if they're not available where you live! :-)

surfbbee Noooooo Dolly Mix is absolutely rank D: Oh and allsorts too!

Yes, they showed the wrong Black Jack! In the US Black Jack is chewing gum and in the UK Black Jack is taffy. Both are aniseed flavor so have the same roots.

Matthew Brannigan I noticed that!! It kinda irritated me, but sweets are a weird thing to get irritated about, but I used to love them, the best bit was when you peeled off the paper and a bit of the paper would still be stuck to the sweet and you'd know you were eating paper. Don't know why that's a good thing, but nostalgia!

Matthew Brannigan also was that "root" a pun?

It was, also, in the late '60s and early '70s here in America.

I am in the UK and can buy some American sweets on the UK Amazon. Perhaps you can buy UK sweets on the US Amazon?

You are a genius. Thank you internet gods for the comment above.

Alli Crumley I'd recommend Refreshers too, they're great!

Diverse areas of the US will often have specialty markets that sell imported sweets. We have a few Indian markets in the area that also sell British sweets.

ukgoods.com 😎

Nicola Farnworth Do they?

Agreed. They don't crumble until they're in your mouth.

Floobs yessss!

Floobs Yup, although both are delicious

Floobs Mmm... more practical, I'd say. I prefer the taste of Flake, but it comes at a price. However carefully you eat it (head back, tube in mouth etc) approximately 20% of it still ends up as crumbs on the carpet. Mars had a good idea with their Galaxy Dipped Flake (a forerunner of Twirl) but Galaxy doesn't taste anything like chocolate, so why bother?

+Floobs Ripple trumps them both :D

WHAT A DISGRACE!! GOSH!!

I've always called it Edinburgh rock... I guess it depends where your from

Alexander Marriott it depends wgere you buy it from

+Craig Penfold Ezacrly

+Alexander Marriott Edinburgh rock is different; more soft and powdery as opposed to the hard, minty stuff with words in.

I get my fix from Fresh and Easy - they sell a number of different UK candies and are all over CA,NV & AZ.

They taste like if baking soda and grapes had a baby.

KingSwagonCat GD omg yes. I love parma violets😍

L.O.V.E. them.

KingSwagonCat Gaming I kinda think they taste like perfume And yes they are also my favourite sweet overall

To be honest, I think fizzers are better, but I still love Parma violets

And Treets and Tooty Frooties.

Whoever discontinued Old English should be hunted down like a rabid dog!

I'm not American and I tried and trust me I would eat a whole filled with it!!!!!

It doesn't taste anything like corn! ;)

Candy corn is disgusting and on behalf of my country, I apologize for its existence.

yeah.. same.. yuck.

Candy corn is a honey flavored candy that you usually only find around Halloween. Even though its honey flavored there is a lot of confectioners sugar in them making them Very sweet.

Lion bars aren't exclusively (or notoriously) British like these on the list. They are actually more popular in Italy, France and Germany

menwoolover1 lion bars are soooo good, nesquik bars too

menwoolover1 Lion Bars! My very favorite. Do they still make Turkish Delights? My least favorite, but they had very dramatic commercials back in the 1970s.

So strayan.

Skegness for me, but we always just called it "Rock"

If you are in the South ,Brighton ,in the North Blackpool.

Yeah I'm more of a dutch licorice fan, but maybe that's because I'm dutch myself 🥲 - It has a stronger flavour than the English licorice, which has (in my opinion) soap tasting flavours

@@richardvanderlaak826 I have not seen Dutch licorice here, but I would definitely try it! Occasionally I see Finnish licorice, and Australian is fairly easy to find. The U.S at one time had an excellent domestic licorice, produced by Switzer's Licorice in St. Louis. Unfortunately, like most decent products here, the Switzer's company was bought out by the outfit which produces fake licorice called Twizzler, and Switzer's excellent licorice was discontinued. It's the American way. Therefore I have to seek out international licorice.

They were 5p when I was a kid.....

Fun fact. Salman Rushdie came up with the word "delectabubble" for Aero's ad campaign when he worked in advertising, before the days when he was issued with a fatwa for writing THE SATANIC VERSES in 1989. Not a lot of people know that...

Personally I don't like bounties, because of the coconut ( I don't like the texture of coconut in them, but I'll eat a coconut in chunks), but I remember really like Turkish Delights :)

Flitter Shy Bounties come in all kinds of flavors and sizes there's small,medium and large. There's coco cherry coconut,dark coco with coconut,milk coco with almonds and coconut. The big one's has three bars in it but small and medium have two.