Request for info: black currant sweets

[redbird]

There's a kind of candy cattitude would like, which we haven't been able to find in a while and are starting to suspect are no longer manufactured. But maybe they're still out there and just lost their US distributor.

The search object: black currant–flavored boiled sweets [1], round, about a centimeter in diameter, and came in little tins. If that sounds familiar, brand names or sources of supply, especially online, would be most welcome. I think they were British, but they might be from somewhere else in Europe. (If you know of something that sounds right but happens to be made in Peru or Tanzania, that's fine too. Maybe I should go look for chicha morada. Maybe I should give up and cook dinner, something light but nourishing, Chinese egg flower soup perhaps.)

[1] Hard candy, if you prefer. You can work centimeters out for yourself.

ETA: A company called La Vie de la Vosgienne makes the right sort of candies, but the only ones I've been able to find lately are raspberry (or, as the package kindly states, framboises).

Comments

[catamorphism.livejournal.com]

You know, I always read about "boiled sweets" in British children's books and imagined that they must be something wonderfully exotic and delicious... and you tell me they're just hard candy? Childhood just ended for me.

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[kightp.livejournal.com]

Heh. I had exactly the same experience when I found out the truth about sugarplums. (http://www.foodreference.com/html/fsugarplums.html) It's a cruel world ...

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[rivka.livejournal.com]

I was just going to post the exact same thing. Honest.