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If I knew what Spanish jink was Eric.......

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It cropped up in my memory ... tried to google it; but all I got was that in some areas of England, liquorice was called "spanish." Do you remember those hard sticks of black spanish? If you put some of it in water and shook it ... and shook it .... and shook it ... you got a mess I remember being called "spanish jink" ... it's a vague memory. And I would like to know if anyone else remembers it ... or making it.

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Yes, I remember it well, but it was just called Spanish water.......it could only be made with the ha'penny hard Spanish....not liquorice.
It was what sustained us (along with a penny hovis loaf) for all our day long adventures.

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For some reason "spanish jink" is part of my memory ... we were living on Queen Street ... number 29, I think ... and all the kids called it that. And, of course, I know it was the hard stuff (I'm having a slurp right now;)) ... I'm not daft enough to think it was the other kind ... and who would waste pomfret cakes?:D If memory serves ... and it doesn't always ... were not candies on the sugar coupon.:confused:

Oh, and I'm metaphorically stomping my memory for all this stuff ... there; that keeps us more or less on topic.:D

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I can't recall sweets being on ration when I was little......we still didn't get them though.
There were other things that the money went on(penny hovis and a ha'penny Spanish).
I only remember it being Spanish water.....it was always made up in a glass medicine bottle, with a cork in the top.......and we never ever hit anyone over the head with the bottle(to stay on topic).

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The penny Spanish was soft(I never said you were daft Eric - but there are others who may not be quite the same era, it was a clarification for them)...and much much bigger and sweeter too.
Pomfret cakes were something else.......not within our financial reach.
The deposit on a Cheshire milk bottle was three hapence.....enough for the loaf and Spanish.

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I remember my Dad talking about something he called "Jinkin" - could have been the same stuff. He grew up in Droylsden.

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Maybe it is a corruption of Spanish drink......but I swear I never knew it as that.

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Jinking was summat else Turtle, as far as i'm aware, Me Nan n Mam used to say i'll Jink yeh, waving there fist under me nose, when i was outa order, thats all i ever knew it as.:)

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Not quite made it yet Eric, still need a little work on the modesty aspect;)

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Sugar rationing stopped in about 1953 so I guess sweets also came off ration then. My Aunt queued for over 2hours whilst on holiday in Weston -S -Mare to get me an off ration Candy Floss in 1947.

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Could well be that ... and no swearing; this is a family site.;)

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I would have been six when sugar came off ration, but I honestly cannot recall it.....as I said........Sweets were not part of our daily routine.

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What about liquorice root Margaret? We chewed the living daylights out of those little twigs to get every last bit of taste out of them.
Bought them from the little shop on South Street, Atarah will remember them. :D

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Yes, but you couldn't make Spanish water out of it.
My horrible brothers once gave me an ordinary twig telling me it was liquorice root.....they didn't fool me...it looked nothing like what they were chewing on.