- Um, oh what the--
(screaming)
(wacky noises)
- Lets do it.
(ripping)
- Oh they're so hard.
(laughing)
- Hello my friends.
Today we are trying nostalgic Australian
and English lollies.
- I'm excited for this actually,
sweets were a big part of my childhood.
- I think of, like, small Australian towns.
Like you'd go to like a lolly shop.
- Yes.
- And they would have some like hard-boiled lollies.
- Wall to ceiling, a million jars.
- A lolly is a thing on a stick.
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- No that's a lollipop! - What? Yes.
- That's a lollipop.
- Okay, in it's full form, but you would call that a lolly.
- No you would never--
- I would never go, can I just get a lolly--
- They're an ice lolly. - I'd get a lollipop.
- Lets get some lollies in here.
- Lets do it.
(laughing)
- So that is the Flying Saucer.
- All right.
- This is a lot of fun.
- You could almost put them on your tongue
and they would disintegrate.
They would have like a bit of like sherbet
or something sour inside which was usually the best bit.
- You know what that looks like to me?
I grew up Catholic and I was made to go to church--
- Yes, yes!
- It's like the communion bread.
- It's probably about as exciting
as communion bread at church.
That would jazz church up on a Sunday.
- It would.
- I wonder what color I'm gonna get.
(laughing)
- These are Red Clouds - Okay.
- This is exciting.
- Very nostalgic, sour, similar to this.
And you'd kinda grab 'em from your like pick-n-mix.
- It's a very funny color for a cloud.
Pass the bag over. - Yay!
- So this starts off a little bit like you're eating paper.
- You don't need to bite it they just sort of disintegrate.
- Okay so it's literally like going to church.
- Yeah, it really is.
- And they've got like sherbet in the middle.
- Yeah, it's like cardboard.
- Yeah.
- Starts off a little ...
- It's genuinely communion.
- Yeah, but it will be, there'll be a little surprise.
Keep going.
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- Oh God, the surprise came out.
- Yeah, it's good right?
- It's stuck to the roof of my mouth--
- Yes, I forgot about that, it does stick to your mouth.
- Ugh, God. - Mmm.
- Try and do when you bite the top off
and just drink the sherbet out of it.
(whistling)
(wacky noise)
- The sherbet's really good.
(gurgling noise)
- Ugh, a little hard. - Okay.
- I like that. - Okay, good.
- Yeah it's good.
- You don't have to work for it so much.
- Yeah, it's nice.
- That's really good.
- Yeah, it tastes like finishing tennis training.
(laughing)
- Just pop on over to the canteen, 'cause I found 20 cents.
- These are really nice. - Mmm.
- These are gonna take the win for me.
- This is enjoyable,
but also like triggered Catholic high school upbringing.
So ... split.
- Oh wow!
- These are really old-school, these really do take me back.
- This is the Fruit Salad, this is the Blackjack.
This is instantly fantastic,
this is a bit of a like refined taste.
- A liquorice chewy toffee. - Okay.
- If you merge the two into one, total game changer, like--
- It doesn't sound appealing.
- These are great, these are Red Frogs.
- They're like most iconic Australian lolly, I would say.
And you could literally buy a Red Frog for five cents.
Lets swap.
- Look at that.
- Yeah they're just a bit mushy--
- But, no, how did you even ...
I would just like to point out what has happened to this.
This is when you don't build lollies to last.
- It doesn't matter just put it in your mouth,
you'll love it. (audience laughing)
- Look at that.
- Mmm, mmm.
It's like a lolly fruit, like it's just really like potent.
That's so good.
- I hate it so much. - No you don't--
- I actually do-- - No one hates these.
One thing I will say,
is I think they're built for the English climate.
Because it's cold, they're a bit harder, in England.
Here, they are a little bit mushy,
I think, just because the general--
- That was not--
- You're not having it in it's prime--
- Enjoyable.
- Yeah, yum, those were good.
- That's a bit sturdy, I prefer that.
- Ooh, it's liquorice. - Not quite.
- I mean it's liquorice, but-- - No--
- Awful consistency--
- An amateur would assume it's liquorice,
it's not liquorice.
- It's 100% liquorice flavor,
you would say that is a liquorice flavored lolly.
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- No, you would never, you would say, it's a Blackjack.
And if someone was to ask, what is a Blackjack?
The word lolly would never come up.
- Oh yeah, it is liquorice.
(audience laughing)
- Is my tongue black? - [Audience] Aww!
- Little bit ... these are much more superior.
- I reckon I could smash 20 of these a day
without even thinking about it--
- Easily yeah. - So good!
- So now, put two together.
- All right, let's get this slobber laden one back.
- [Audience] Eww!
- No you need to put it-- (girl mumbling)
Then smash it together.
- It's so bad.
- No it's not, it's so offensive.
These bring back really good memories.
- Would you like this one from my mouth?
- No ... - [Audience] Eww!
- Right, I'm going to have a Red Frog.
Oh, it's actually quite tough.
- I like 'em. - I like these.
- I imagine they'd have been very popular back in England.
That's nice.
- I like it, but I will say one thing,
it doesn't have a huge amount of flavor.
- What wins?
- Fruit Salad, Blackjack combination.
- No, absolutely not-- - Yes, that is so--
- I spat that out.
- I was kind about that, that is so average.
- I think these were the best lollies on the table.
- Boom.
- This is the double dip.
- Oh, we had things like this.
I'm done with you.
This is good, we've had something similar to this--
- Yeah, it's great.
There's two different flavors.
- You use like your saliva as an agent.
- Yeah, I didn't actually realize
it was orange and cherry flavor.
The thing that was awful at school
is when a friend wanted to share one.
- Oh God. - So rank.
- So intimate.
- Yeah, I went to an all-boys school you know.
(laughing)
- So these are Zappos,
and these are basically a fruit chew,
but they're really sour.
- I do like sour things. - Yeah.
If you got a pack of Zappos,
everyone's coming around you and be like,
I want one, can I have one?
- So I need to slobber on it and then dip it in--
- Yeah, yeah.
- Oh my gosh, wow!
- That's a good portion, that's a good portion.
Yes, it's a bit of a zinger, yeah.
- Oh, yeah it's not bad, ooh, oh no, I like the zing,
but I don't like the flavor, oh it's cherry.
- Really, try the orange.
- Okay, oh wow, it's a bit of a sour aftertaste.
- Oh, the orange one's really good.
I though that they would be more sour.
- The orange is better, the cherry I don't so much enjoy.
- Okay.
- But as a kid, I would go wild for this.
- So now you need to do the name, which is Double Dip.
- You need to go but double, extra spit.
There you go, that's brilliant, that's brilliant.
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- Mmm, yeah it's really just like, sour sugar.
- Yeah, yeah.
- So I'm gonna try a Zappo.
Very flavor, a lot of grape. - Mmm hmm.
- It's actually really good. - Yeah.
- Oh yeah, I like that a lot.
- Definitely try this in other flavors as well,
'cause this is a good one.
That was good though.
- Like you do get the sour hit, but it's not like--
- Yeah-- - Overwhelmingly so--
- I like it more sour. - Mmm.
- I'm not a huge fan of grape, as a flavor.
- Okay.
- I feel like, that's something--
- Oh, I can smell it--
- That you guys in America insist on having grape flavor
of things, and we would never choose to have a grape--
- Okay, do you even grow grapes?
Do you have the climate for that?
- Um ... - Maybe that's why.
- Yes, have you never had English wine?
We have fantastic-- - Do you?
- I think like that a bit more if you was younger,
and then if you was a bit older.
- You know what, I will give this the winner of this round.
- Oh, good, good to know.
I was gonna actually vote for this one,
purely for the experience.
- Okay.
- We're gonna respectfully choose each others sweets--
- Each other's stuff, yeah. - Yeah.
- [Producer] That's beautiful.
- Lollies win. - Yeah.
- Yes! - Ahh.
- Hubba Bubba, this is so good.
- Yeah, I know what it is.
It doesn't bring back any nostalgia,
but I do know what, it's bubblegum.
- You'd open it up. - That's a lot of ...
- It's a lot of gum-- - Bubblegum.
- Take a bit off. - Oh!
- And then you'd like, cut it.
- Like Sellotape? - Yeah.
I remember my brothers would take obscene amounts
and they could not chew it,
you know, so they just had all these--
- Jaw ache. - Yeah.
- This would give you jaw ache to be honest.
- It's delicious, but you've gotta put a lot of work in.
- Raspberry and milk flavor, that's rough.
Milk? (laughing)
I never knew that--
- Yeah who goes, I'm gonna go to the store
and get some lollies, I'd like a milk flavored lolly.
- But we're also talking about different budgets here,
'cause I think this was about a 5p to 10p purchase--
- Yeah.
- That's like a one pound fifty.
- This is an investment--
- Whatever. - Pass it over.
- This is very nostalgic right now, even the stickiness,
you made a real mess with these, but it was worth it.
- RIP my teeth right now.
- Imagine if she lost a tooth.
- Oh they're so hard.
(whistling) (laughing)
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- Watch your teeth.
- It's the stick coming off.
- Just put the whole thing in your mouth.
- No, I'm not going to do that.
- You're ruining it.
- I am not (laughs).
- Wow, oh this is really good, yum.
- Yeah, yeah, you can do it.
- [Announcer] Give it all you got.
- There you go, isn't that good?
(laughing) (mumbles)
They've got bigger over time.
- Oh God, so awful.
- Oh, you've ruined it.
- I could not close my lips around that.
- I must say this stick has not done much.
- No, they're not, they're literally useless.
- The milk flavor, I don't mind,
but the experience of trying to eat that is awful.
- Made a complete mess.
- Where's the bin?
Ahh, I didn't even get it in.
- [Producer] Scandalous! - Oh God.
- It's going to be very flavorsome.
- Mmm.
This is good, but it tastes really like ...
it doesn't taste like chewing gum.
Like you keep going, but you're not really getting anywhere.
- Are you enjoying it, you having fun?
- No. - It was just work (sighs)?
- Now chew it, and then you've gotta blow a bubble.
- I don't know how to do that--
- Oh my God!
You've got to put the sheet kind of over your tongue,
and then blow into it.
- I can't do it, this is non-bubble, bubblegum, this is ...
Horrible.
- It's so thick I can't blow. - Can't pop it?
(laughing) Oh!
(cheering) - I literally had one.
- Oh I've got huge saliva in my mouth.
(popping)
- The winner by far, is the broomstick.
- Yeah, I'd have to agree, that one was really, really good.
- I have in my hand a bowl of Dolly Mix.
Pretty certain these used to be like a staple
of like my Grandma and Grandad, when they were young.
- Allen's party mix, they're just like, look,
you've got your milk bottles, you've got your strawberry,
you've got your snake, like you can't go wrong with this--
- Looks good, it's a bit like Haribo.
- Yeah, in a way.
- Little lucky dip, you never know what you're gonna get.
- Swap. - Right.
- The purple jelly looks the best, I'm gonna start there.
- That's always a good color to go with,
in any sort of sweets.
- Yeah, they're great.
That's like what I would think of,
like a classic English jelly--
- Yeah.
- Where it's like fruity, and it's covered in sugar.
- Good, right?
- Yeah, we have something similar to this,
I mean not these God-awful like orange and white bits.
- Those are odd, those would be a lot better
if they had liquorice or something.
- That one's weird.
- These are almost like a less exciting version
of like liquorice all sorts.
- Oh God, they smell!
Get hit with a smell.
- Yeah, it's good, that's a real--
- Plastic.
- That smells like kid's birthday parties to me--
- Yeah.
- That's what I start with, I mean your snakes a bit basic,
that one I always thought was the more like refined palette.
Ugh, God.
- There's not a huge amount of flavor, sorry,
but there's not, I mean they're fine--
- Was there in this? - No, true.
- I'm gonna have a snake. - Oh, classic.
- That's really good.
- It's a bit like a Wine Gum, for all the Brits out there.
- Bananas, peach and cream, milk bottles,
strawberries and cream, Black Cats, Red Frogs,
jelly babies and snakes. - Oh!
- That's a good amount of mix.
- It's a party, man, everyone's there.
- It is, party in a bag.
I'm gonna go with the party mix.
- Yeah same, I think there's more variety there.
- It isn't old-school, but I'm a bit too old.
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- I had a lot of fun trying all the English sweets,
English sweets are really good.
- Definitely made me feel like a kid again.
I felt like I was back in like the corner shop
on pick-n-mix, with like 10p.
- I was surprised by how good the U.K. ones were,
I like that the U.K. ones like had a bit
of adventure to them, you know,
it wasn't just a lolly, it was an experience.
- I think England have taken it out, sadly.
- [Audience] Yeah!
- And still, I mean, the nostalgia of the Aussie stuff,
you just can't go past some Red Frogs--
- We're in disagreement, U.K. all the way.
- It just goes to show that old-school is always the best.
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