Ginger Ale Bottles - we`ve only just found these sweets but they taste incredibly nostalgic. I`m not sure if they were available in our local sweetshop when I was young, but they bally well should have been!
They are boiled sweets in the shape of, you guessed it, a bottle... quite large (well long actually) - you couldn't eat more than one at a time - but best of all is the taste. They have a wonderfuly spicy ginger flavour, not hot but a definite ginger warmth... a bit like 'proper' ginger beer really (I used to make homemade ginger beer when I was young, it involved creating a `plant` which I had to feed each day with ginger and sugar. It was always incredibly fizzy. I made it until I was banned from doing so... when we came back from holiday one year all of the bottles that I`d stached in my bedroom - old glass bottles - had exploded. Took me weeks to clean the place.)
Long story short... these are really good. And a lot less hassle than making your own!
Sugar, Glucose Syrup, Citric Acid, Bicarbonate of Soda . Colours: E150