use to paint the red ones on lips to look like stick as did friends

I'll always associate torpedos with the street-party we had at the end of WW2. Each child was given a triangular poke of sweets. Mine were torpedos, and were associated with your (child's view of) participation in the war. I loved the various colours, and the fact that you'd suck off the sweet exterior, then to find the bonus of liquorice inside. Magic!

I used to buy a quarter of these and eat them on my paper round. I still buy them now whenever I see them

Anne! I used to use the red ones a lipstick too ha ha

used to love these ,where are all the old ?// sweets now ?

I loved these too.Haven't had them in years. Haven't seen them here in Canada.

Yes the red ones were good lipstick......used to suck them til I got to the middle and chewed the rest of it...

another favourite, I guess the red one for the lipstick was pretty common among us girls as kids !

I remember them as 'liquorice comfits.'

Comfits are the smaller ones Barbara, also known as Comforts depending where you buy them from.