Forum: Nickleby Sweet Shop

Beside the deli is a small but very well stocked sweet shop (candy store) with plenty of British chocolate and shelves and shelves of traditional British sweets that can be bought by weight and carried away in white paper bags. Here the shopper can watch the staff lift down the jar they want and measure out into the balance-scales their choice of barley sugar twists, pontefract cakes, lemon sherbets, cloves, sours, pear drops, humbugs, fudge and toffee of many varieties, gobstoppers, or any of dozens of other old-fashioned varieties. Sticks of red, white and blue rock can be bought with 'Best of British' written through the middle. There is not a single Hershey bar or candy cone to be found here.