{"id":478,"date":"2011-09-28T20:13:43","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T20:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leilappetit.com\/blog\/?p=478"},"modified":"2011-09-28T20:17:47","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T20:17:47","slug":"gourmet-girl-goes-to-lickety-splits-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leilappetit.com\/?p=478","title":{"rendered":"Gourmet Girl goes to&#8230;Lickety Splits Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leilappetit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/bite4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-473\" title=\"bite\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leilappetit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/bite4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"151\" height=\"66\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u00a0This review appears in the October edition of Bite Magazine , and can be found online <strong><a title=\"Lickety Splits - Gourmet Girl for October's Bite Magazine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bite-magazine.com\/product\/383\/113\/lickety-splits\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"How apt!\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6124\/6192660671_50c70c5bb4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trying to separate memories of childhood from sweeties can be harder than a soor ploom. A day trip to Peebles and liquorice comfits in the car, chocolates at Christmas, toffees from Granny. Learning how to be independent, managing your pocket money, filling up a paper bag with 10p mix.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0The word retro in the context of sweets is a tricky one, as it suggests a different era, depending on when, and of course where, you grew up. Amazingly, Lickety Splits on\u00a0Jeffrey Street\u00a0manages to stock such a variety that they\u2019ve pretty much got all bases covered.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"goodies! \" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6151\/6192637111_00be296535.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"248\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0New owners Katrine and Naomi took over the shop about a month ago, and have already put their mark on the fun space, just a hop from the Royal Mile. From the flamingo wallpaper, toys, handmade cards &amp; gifts for sale, and, of course, jars of bright confectionery, it\u2019s a place where a note-perfect \u2018kid in a candy store\u2019 fantasy can be lived out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0The shop is filled with those evocative sugary smells. Katrine says the best bit is when someone wanders in with an \u2018I\u2019ve been looking everywhere for &#8230;\u2019 and she can promptly turn around to produce that longed-for taste of days gone by. In case you\u2019re wondering, yes they stock the mythical Chelsea Whopper.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0A look at the variety of sweets shows how flavours and trends change over the years. Bonbons,\u00a0\u00a0jubejubes and boiled sweets from an older vintage. Tasty remnants of the 1960s space race with flying saucers, and astro belts. Katrine also offers a taste of her native\u00a0Denmark\u00a0with a selection of liquorice sweets fromScandinavia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Sooooor plooooms!\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6168\/6135753218_fc96a37492.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0The Scottish contingent will be delighted to find tablet, rhubarb rock and various sherbets. They also have Lucky Tatties, a chunk of fondant dusted with cinnamon. Erk. Mum remembers them as Tobermory Tatties with the tiny plastic toy you used to get inside, no doubt phased out these days for \u2018elfin\u2019 safety!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0My early childhood can instantaneously be recalled with a handful of peanut-buttery Reeces Pieces. For other people it\u2019s crunching through a pack of soapy Parma Violets, slowly savouring a bar of Fry\u2019s Chocolate Cream, or sharing a \u2018quarter\u2019 of foam shrimps and cola bottles with a friend. Whatever your particular sweetie of choice, in Lickety Splits, the sweetie shop is back. Just don\u2019t tell your dentist.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Fry's \" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6186\/6135201261_c2e14069a8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"206\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>\u00a0\u00a0This review appears in the October edition of Bite Magazine , and can be found online here.\u00a0 Trying to separate memories of childhood from sweeties <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/leilappetit.com\/?p=478\" title=\"Gourmet Girl goes to&#8230;Lickety Splits Gallery\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leilappetit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leilappetit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leilappetit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leilappetit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leilappetit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/leilappetit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480,"href":"https:\/\/leilappetit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions\/480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leilappetit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leilappetit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leilappetit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}