Retro Sweets
Retro sweet of the week!
It’s been wedding sweets galore lately in our retro sweet warehouse! The Chewbz team have been especially busy helping lots of lovely couples bring some retro sweetness to their big days.
To celebrate the last few weeks of summer loving, we’ve picked possibly the most wedding-related sweet of all time for this weeks Retro sweet of the week…
Sugared Almonds!
You can’t get more traditional than these sweets. Did you know that Sugared Almonds date back to the 13th Century?
Since then, sweet-toothed couples have been choosing Sugared Almonds as the perfect Wedding Favours. It’s tradition to give 5 to each guest to represent a long life, wealth, health and happiness. Ahh!
Not just for weddings though, a certain member of the Chewbz team (ahem, Dom) enjoys these on an almost daily basis in the Chewbz office!
If you’d ♥ to get your hands on some Sugared Almonds, simply leave a comment on this post. Our favourite comment will win the sweets.
Make sure you leave your comment before 9am next Monday 29th August.
lovely sugared almonds in pink and white and blue.
Silver and gold are perfect if you`re having a wedding do.
Pretty little treats especially nice for the Mother in Law,
Give her these and you`ll get some peace cos one bite on these and she`ll break her jaw ;}
my favourite
Never had sugared Almonds before, would love to try them.
Sugared almonds are so gorgeous.
On my way to the corner shop down by the beach in my town where I usually buy my sweets from (including sugared almonds) a large gust of wind came and blew my skirt up in front of all of the holiday makers! One thing they won’t forget – my Tom and Jerry pants :p
When I was little, Santa left a mini stocking at my Grandparents house for us to “discover” when we visited after Christmas. The stockings really were tiny, no more than 10cm tall but were always filled with lots and every year mine included sugared almonds. Winning some would mean reliving my childhood 🙂
My brother married an italian – it was traditional to have them on the wedding table – I have loved them ever since!
OMG when I think of Sugared Almonds, I think of Christmas – when I was younger we got these in our stocking every single year – loved them too but never had them for years now since leaving home. Many happy Christmas memories!
oh wow retro is the word!!
Being an 80’s child I love retro sweets. Sugared almonds are great
My Favourite I could eat them all in one go 🙂
I always had these at Christmas – happy memories,
yummy!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love these
Yum…I <3 sugared almonds!
great. these are really sweet.
I loved these as a child and still do.
gosh! I have not had these for years, I loved them as a child, I must get some now
Please Dom do me a favour and send some sugared almonds to this sweet nut – share the love 😉
They may have been around a long time but they don’t last long in this house! yum yum
Really love these
mmmmmm, lushness!
As a kid I remember my Mum eating these but she never shared with us – said they were grown up sweets!!
No why have I not eaten some of these for so long? Its been at least 17 minutes….
Oh how I need sweetening up ! Nutty or what ?
wow i thought these were just for wedding favours. mmmmm i’ll be getting these all the time now yummy
WOW! my sweet jar would certainly be brightened and flavoured up with these gorgeous sweets.
these are great
A tour bus driver drives with a bus full of seniors down a motorway, when a little old lady taps him on his shoulder. She offers him a handful of almonds, which he gratefully munches down. After approx. 15 minutes, she taps him on his shoulder again and she hands him another handful of almonds.
She repeats this gesture about eight times. At the ninth time he asks the little old lady why they do not eat the almonds themselves, whereupon she replies that it is not possible because of their old teeth, they are not able to
chew them. “Why do you buy them then?” he asks puzzled. Where upon the old lady answers, “We just love the chocolate around them.”
UM…I THINK I’D BETTER STICK TO SUGARED ALMONDS INSTEAD…JUST IN CASE! 😉
🙂
yum!!
Would love some lovely sugary almonds for my Hubby, as he is mad of these sweets than Me :(…
Sugar almonds or happy almonds as some kids use to say are very nice and delicious. It also reminds one childhood
Sugared almonds are so yummy
sweet literally
i pretend i dont like these but always all of my nans
Almonds!! mmmm!!!
wow love the colours
My Dad Looooves These 🙂
they lovely sooo nice
My chickens think they look like colourful eggs!
You are never too sweet for a sugared almond –
touch of extravagance but soooo worth it
I remember having these sweets when I was young. Would love to win this prize
Sugared Almonds are well tasty and a top treat in our household!
I love love love sugar almonds, they are delicious. And oh so posh.
Yum Yum. Might go buy some now
yum yum for my tum tum
Wealth, health, happiness, fertility; each sugar almond represents something when given out at a wedding.
LOVE THESE MY DAUGHTER HAD THEM FOR HER WEDDING FAVOURS SO THEY ALWAYS BRING BACK GREAT MEMORIES FOR ME
lovely x my hubby`s favourite x
Sugared almonds always remind me of Christmas – Grandma used to give me little packet every year, with the blue ones taken out (she gave my boy cousin my blue ones and I got his pink ones!). He was a ‘cruncher’ and I was a ‘sucker’ so mine lasted longer, and he’d badger me to give him some of mine, but he wasn’t allowed!
Isn’t it strange the way little things trigger memories like that – especialy sweets I think.
my nans favourite at christmas, would love to treat her to some early! no false teeth for her either biting on these!
When we were kids my nana had a pretty bag full of these in a cabinet, nso we ate them. Little did we know that she’d been saving them for over a decade from her wedding 🙁
Sugared almonds – the ultimate break your teeth if you bite too hard treat
These were my late father-in-laws favourite sweets, he would buy a packed for himself every Saturday morning when he went for his paper and some other sweets for the grandchildren!
He would make them last the whole week (such will power!)
The story he told me behind his choice was that he was given some when he was brought ashore in Japan after being bombed out of his ship during WW2, he said he remembered all the ship mates he’d lost whilst he was eating them.
He was such a lovely kind man, the best Father-in-law a girl could ask for. Can you tell I miss him loads!
Yum! These always remind me of a wedding.
Sugared almonds r so yummy,
I’ll eat them till they fill my tummy,
Such beautiful colours, a yummy treat
And when u run out, buy more from Chewbz
Ooo lovely yes please x
o my god, havent had these since a long time, i used to love them when i a child
yummuy reminds me of Xmas
Sugared almonds what a delight
So many colours such a lovely sight
Oh i want these so badly
If i win i’ll be very happy!
we love all of the retro sweets
as we think you are really neat
Let me win some sugared almonds
and I will tell thousands
Wow, sugared almonds!
What a great treat!
Just what you need
When you fancy a sweet 🙂
Love sugared almonds!
Sugared almonds
Oh so sweet.
Pray my daughter
soon will marry
Oh that would be neat.
Give each guest
Five to remember
all that we would wish
For her.
Now that would be sweet.
I would like to win these because I’m not sweet enough
The traditional five sugared almonds that are in wedding favours are, as you pointed out, meant to represent ‘a long life, wealth, health and happiness’. The fifth one reperesents fertility – I think I’d leave that one out myself!!
x
i love sugared almonds havent had them for ages xx
HA! I remember these from Xmas when I was little. They were my grandads favourites, one year my brother and i put them in our mouths to crack the coating, remove it, then put the almond back in the bowl. I remember my Dad coming in from work, grabbing a drink and sitting down and helping himself to a handful of “almonds”!! We didnt dare tell him – no could we explain to my Grandad where the sugared almonds had gone! Funny thing is, I absolutely love them now I have grown up!