Talk:Liquorice allsorts

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These seem to be similar both in background story and in general appearance to the French Bêtise de Cambrai. Are they the same? --Iustinus 03:51, 14 July 2005 (UTC) |

They do seem remarkably similar, but I have no idea if one or the other inspired the other. What do Bêtises de Cambrai look like? Peregrine981 04:33, July 14, 2005 (UTC)

See the picture on this page. I guess now that I look at them they certanly aren't liquorice allsorts, but the similarity of their appearence is striking, isn't it? --Iustinus 05:46, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

Recent additions

The recent big batch of additions to this article have a number of problems:

• POV statements - "Here's where liquorice gets hardcore" ;"These eight or nine ingredients add up to make the perfect bag of allsorts."
• Out of focus images
• The names of the individual pieces - I'd like to see a verifiable reference. These seem made up to me - especially since this product is made by many different companies.

I'll leave it as it is for now to allow the contributor a chance to tweak. ike9898 19:03, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Left it for a week and no improvements. In my opinion this stuff was mostly made up information and thus unsalvagable, so I've dropped it. ike9898 21:20, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

The reference to "spogs" was 100% verifiable (I even included a link to a manufacturer's page which named them) and the word "spog" meaning this type of sweet is well-known to many Britons. Surely at least this could be retained! Simon Beck

An English sweetshop has the following text on its website:

A traditional mixture of liquorice including spogs, liquorice cuttings, liquorice rolls and of course liquorice cream rock!

https://www.oldestsweets hop.co.uk/liquorice-allsorts Nuttyskin (talk) 00:05, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

Bertie Bassett

How about a picture of Bertie, if anyone has one?--StarChaser Tyger 02:47, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

That, in my opinion, would not come into Fair Use. We don't need one, and as it is copyrighted, we can only get it under Fair Use. If it is unrequired, we can't FU it. microchip08 (talk) 10:55, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

I have the Bertie logo and the masterbrand but for some reason wiki doesen't want ordinary people to add pictures. Here is a link anyway. http://www.casablanca.se/bilder/bertie.jpg —Preceding unsigned comment added by Joffboff (talk • contribs) 10:40, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Bertie Bassett inventor?

This article says that "Bertie was created by John "Jack" McEwan and was finally made known to the public on 1 January 1929 after months of internal discussion.", while the Bertie Bassett article (which I've just merged into this one) claimed "Its origins lie with the advertising copywriters of the 1930s when Frank Regan,a young advertising copywriter,in London, sat down with the product and his pipe-cleaners. He constructed an original version of Bertie from the Liquorice Allsorts and pipe cleaners." - neither is sourced, although the latter was added by someone claiming to be the child of Frank Regan, which is perhaps better than nothing. I've gone with that for now. --McGeddon (talk) 18:05, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

Dr. Who

If you want a more obscure reference, in "The Pirate Planet", The Doctor steals a flying vehicle by luring the pilot away with a trail of candy. He'd been offering people Jelly Babies, but if you look at the trail of candies, they are clearly allsorts. DonPMitchell (talk) 07:09, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

This is just another instance of the Fourth Doctor only appearing to use English incorrectly. As Romana explained to Leela in one of the audios, much of the Doctor's terminology is confusing to humans rather than helpful. For example, if you know the relevant five-dimensional relativity, the term "constellation" is the closest thing to a good word in 20th century English for a galactic supercluster bound to the time vortex, but if you don't, as is the case with all actual speakers of 20th century English, it just sounds like you have no idea what you're talking about. Jelly babies, allsorts, pentaquark hadrons, and sherbet lemon fountains participate in identical reactions with chroniton waves, so Gallifreyan physicists have a single term that refers to all of them, but 20th century English science has no such concept, so the Doctor calls them "jelly babies". --157.131.246.136 (talk) 21:42, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

Names

This may be useful:

Leary, Nigel, 1., Liquorice Roots. Based on the meeting in Pontecfract on 6th July 2002 Pt CILVol.XX . Deals with the history of the sweet product associated with Pontefract, made from Glycyrriza vulgaris (common liquorice). Contributions also from Gill Briscoe, Tom Dixon, Brian Mercer, and including John Betjeman’s The Licorice Fields at Pontefract, photographs and dialect and trade terms relating to the industry. Transactions of the Yorkshire Dialect Society 2002 Pt CII Vol.XX. pp 14-26

All the best: Rich Farmbrough (the apparently calm and reasonable) 14:51, 27 January 2020 (UTC).