Sherbet Fountains

Sherbet Fountains - One of our favourite sweets ever, and such a classic.

What is a sherbet fountain? If you need your memory jogging, they consist of a yellow tube filled with white zingy sherbet. They used to be in a cardboard tube and have the liquorice stick poking out, but now the fizzy sherbet powder (makes a good effervescent drink!) is kept nice and fresh in a bright yellow plastic tube... It keeps your sweet powder dry but I can't help feeling it loses just a smidge of the nostalgia. Fortunately it tastes as good as it ever did... it's one of those sweeets that will bring the memories flooding back!

In my time you were supposed to be able to suck the sherbet through the liquorice stick/straw, but I never managed this as it got all soggy and gooey. I would knock most of the sherbet back neat, and then finish the liquorice off by dipping in the remaining sherbet. It was totally ace!

• Retro sweets