Here’s a funny thing: I’ve no idea whether or not sweet shops (candy stores) such as the one pictured above ever existed in the U.S. or not. This Mr. Simms Olde Sweet Shoppe is in Falmouth, England. The jars of sweets, especially the boiled sweets, reminded me of the thrill of excitement my sisters and I had just buying candy when we were very little. Choosing which sweets to buy from the shelves of jars such as you can see through the window in this photo was a delightful yet tortuous process – for us and, I’m sure, for my parents.
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I have fond memories of a sweet shop near Sutter’s Fort in Sacramento. I remember my little sister and I wandering through the store with our plastic bags digging through the big barrels of candy. Yum!
Yummmm….I love the sweet shoppes in England! Even Cadbury’s chocolate, which we do get in the US, tastes entirely better from a sweet shop in Britain.
I’d take chocolate over boiled sweets but I still wouldn’t turn them down
I do know that they are even more popular in Scotland, where they have a very sweet tooth. They developed it when all the sugar was being brought through the ports like Glasgow from the West Indies. We have a small sweet shop near us in London and we occasionally take the children in for a special treat. My favourite sweet is rhubarb and custard!
Yummm! Those are treats that don’t even fly over Central America:)
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It’s a rule. Must stop at all candy stores.
TOO cute!
It’s a new national chain of sweet shops in the UK and the one you photographed is in Falmouth CORNWALL and not England.
ooh – sweets – i bet they had lemon bon bons
Boiled sweets? What is a boiled sweet?
Growing up, our local “candy store” was a “party store” (or convenience shop) a few blocks away. We’d walk down there for our weekly haul of gum cards and “penny candy” like Mary Janes, Squirrels and Bit o’ Honey. Just walked through the old neighborhood yesterday, and past the party store-still a party store, but has barred windows and looks like its major stock is liquor and ciggies.
Has anyone seen Truly Scumptious in Poole, dorset? Under new ownership now and inproving more and more.
Steve is right. Falmouth is in Cornwall, not England. Cornwall has its own distinctive, Celtic identity; very different from that of Germanic England. Both are in the UK but, are different parts of it.