I have to be honest here, I haven't been into Sugar Candy Mountain, because I haven't been near Milngavie in 40 years.
When I was a kid in Milngavie in the 60's I could walk into local sweet shops and buy traditional favourite sweets, gobstoppers, soor plooms, midget gems, and all the rest, as well as more regional stuff like Lees macaroon bars, creamola foam....
And over the years, big companies like Cadbury;s, Nestle ,,, ate up small companies, closed the local factories, 'rationalised' the product lines, did focus groups on other products which ended up with....
You go into your average local big shop, little shop, convenience store... and you find an actually very limited range of sweets, all made by giant corporations, milking the marketing potential of that very limited range of products... the endless variations on a kit-kat or a mars bar or ..., the 'special editions', the .....
Alternatively, you can go to a specialist sweet shop and find traditional varieties.
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