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Christmas Sweet Hampers at the Ready with Bah Humbugs

Based in the quaint town of Masham in North Yorkshire lies a retro sweet shop, Bah Humbugs. The sweet store is a must visit if you are in the North Yorkshire area, however don’t worry if you don’t have a trip planned to Masham as Bah Humbugs also have an online sweet store.

The shop has an extensive range of sweets, stocking anything from liquorice treats to sour surprises and a range of sweet hampers which are ideal for Christmas and birthday gifts.

A firm customer favourite is the retro sweet hamper which has featured in Marie Claire, BBC Good Food, Delicious Magazine, Sunday Express and the Daily Mail, among other well-known publications. The sweet hamper contains over 1kg of retro sweets, to name a few: Parma Violets, White Mice, Black Jacks, Fruit Salads, Cola Bottles and Sherbet Fountains. The hamper includes 80s sweets as well as sweets from the 1970s ensuring that whoever this gift is for, it will bring back childhood memories.

Bah Humbugs also have a wide range of Christmas Sweet Hampers, and with the Christmas season soon approaching it is now the perfect time to start buying presents for your loved ones. Be a little different this year and instead of buying the big bar of dairy milk to put in a stocking, try one of the decade sweet hampers. Starting from the 1950s right through to the 1980s, these sweet buckets are ideal for any age and contain the following:

• 1950s bucket – with over 1.5kg of sweets, this sweet hamper includes Aniseed Balls, Pontefract Cakes, Dolly Mixtures, Liquorice Root and much more!
• 1960s bucket – from the super swinging era, this sweet bucket contains Jelly Babies, Love Hearts, Murray Mints and Lemon Sherbets, among many other favourites from the sixties.
• 1970s bucket – the decade of hippy flares, disco and groovy tunes retro sweets included in this bucket are Finger of Fudge, Foam Shrimps, Popping Candy (Space Dust) and Lion’s Midget Gems.
• 1980s bucket – one of the most popular sweet buckets is the 1980s bucket which includes Sherbet Pips, Bon Bons, Rhubarb and Custards and Pineapple Cubes.

If you are interested in any of the Christmas sweet hampers mentioned, or want to view the full range of retro sweets available at Bah Humbugs, visit www.bahhumbugs.co.uk or visit their friendly store in Masham, North Yorkshire.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Stephanie Hutcheon .