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Sherbet Dip Dabs – bags of sugar with a lolly stuck in them – were the boldest, tastiest, most coveted sweets of all. Let us count the ways in which we loved them.
1. Penny sweets were nice, but if you managed to cadge a Dip Dab, you were in business
Dip Dabs were in the realm of penny sweets, but just expensive enough to give you pause. Is it worth spending your 10p on, when you could get several penny sweets for 10p?
2. And were they worth it? Yes, a hundred times yes
Friday 20 December, 2024
Friday 20 December, 2024
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6 reasons why sherbet Dip Dabs were the best childhood treat of all
AS YOU GET OLDER, you happily let go of the childish things of your past. But there’s one thing we never really wanted to say goodbye to: the Dip Dab.
Sherbet Dip Dabs – bags of sugar with a lolly stuck in them – were the boldest, tastiest, most coveted sweets of all. Let us count the ways in which we loved them.
1. Penny sweets were nice, but if you managed to cadge a Dip Dab, you were in business
Dip Dabs were in the realm of penny sweets, but just expensive enough to give you pause. Is it worth spending your 10p on, when you could get several penny sweets for 10p?
2. And were they worth it? Yes, a hundred times yes
Even as your mam wrung her hands and said you’d rot your teeth, you knew you were making the right choice.
3. That’s because it was basically a bag of sugar
4. A bag of fizzy, addictive sugar
‘Classic recipe’. It’s good to see some things never change.
5. The lolly on its own may have been sickly, but with the sherbet it was a taste sensation
6. And the ultimate prize was if your Dip Dab magically had two lollies inside
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Perfection. Because you always had sherbet left over, and no lolly to enjoy it with.
Right, we’re heading down to the corner shop. It’s high time Ireland revisited the Dip Dab.
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