"Sweets for takeoff...landing..."
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"Sweets for takeoff...landing..."
Just channel surfing and caught 5mins of a programme about Britannia with a member of cabin crew offering a tray of sweets to pax prior to takeoff.
When was the last time you were offered a sweet for takeoff or landing? Mine has to be my last flight with SAS in 2003 ...
Why have most airlines stopped this practice? (and which ones still do it?). So many folks, even now, don't know to bring candy or chewing gum or something to assist with the pressure changes that it would, probably, make a wonderfully positive impression these days!
Do you like the "sweet for takeoff...landing"? If not, why not!
PS: Mods, if you want to shift this to Passengers and SLF Forum then feel free to do so!
When was the last time you were offered a sweet for takeoff or landing? Mine has to be my last flight with SAS in 2003 ...
Why have most airlines stopped this practice? (and which ones still do it?). So many folks, even now, don't know to bring candy or chewing gum or something to assist with the pressure changes that it would, probably, make a wonderfully positive impression these days!
Do you like the "sweet for takeoff...landing"? If not, why not!
PS: Mods, if you want to shift this to Passengers and SLF Forum then feel free to do so!
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I had completely forgotten about sweets being offered. I always carry chewing gum for my better half as his ears give him so much pain in the decent. Now that I've been reminded about what I've missed. I will go and buy a box of my favorite sweets for our forthcoming trip across the pond. 
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I certainly can't remember this happeining since I was a kid. I'd entirely forgotten that they used to dish out sweeties. Unlike some people here who seem to be so traumatised by the lack of sweets that they can remember the precise flight details of their last sweet-enhanced flight...
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You used to be able to buy "Travel Sweets" - hard boiled fruit flavoured sweets dusted with icing sugar, in round tins from newsagents/duty free shops at the airports. I don't recall seeing these for some time either.
It is this type of sweet that was welcome to suck and last until you were airbourne.
Unfortunately, before most airlines discontinued them, they had resorted to giving soft chewy things that had gone in less than a minute.
It is this type of sweet that was welcome to suck and last until you were airbourne.
Unfortunately, before most airlines discontinued them, they had resorted to giving soft chewy things that had gone in less than a minute.
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Serves you bloody right for chomping and not sucking!
Boiled sweets are not made to be chewed..a bit like pork scratchings..but even harder!
Savour them and see how long you can make one last.
Boiled sweets are not made to be chewed..a bit like pork scratchings..but even harder!
Savour them and see how long you can make one last.
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Us lovely Britannia folk used to give out boiled sweets. Then someone choked on a sweet, and sued: And won. Several hundred thousand pounds later, we stopped doing sweets. Pity really, it was a fun service to do.
Newspapers were given out, largely due to a beneficial commercial arrangement with the publisher - everybody won! The arrangement stopped, and so did the papers.
Newspapers were given out, largely due to a beneficial commercial arrangement with the publisher - everybody won! The arrangement stopped, and so did the papers.