Monthly Archives: May 2016

With Father's Day just around the corner next month we thought we'd treat our loyal customers to an extra 15% OFF online orders at Bah Humbugs over £10 when being sent to a UK address.

To get your hands on the discount, you just need to enter offer code BAHHUMBUGS onto the checkout page and the discount will be applied automatically. Valid until the end of May 2016.

Dads are always hard to buy for, but our Sweet Hampers and Sweet Buckets are a great gift for dads - transporting them on a happy, nostalgic trip down memory lane. Take a look at these gifts below and we're certain there will be something to tempt your dad's taste buds!!

We imagine these will be our best sellers for Father's Day this year:-

Lion's Sweet Hamper - complete with the full current selection of Lion's Sweets... Midget Gems (proper ones!), Sports Mixtures, Fruit Salads, Fruit Pastilles, Poor Bens, Liquorice Gums & Wine Gums. It weighs a whopping 1.6kg and is totally scrumptious!

1950s Fabulous Fifties Decade Sweet Hamper - 1.5kg of sweets from the 1950s including Pontefract Cakes, Dolly Mixture, Barley Sugars, Liquorice Root & Loads more!

Liquorice Sweet Hamper - super selection of our best selling liquorices, including Ponteract Cakes, Liquorice Cream Rock, Catherine Wheels, Liquorice Sticks, Liquorice Toffees, Liqourice All Sorts, Blackcurrant & Liquorices & more!

1960s Swinging Sixties Decade Sweet Hamper - 1.5kg selection of all the sweets that were popular in the 1960s, Torepdoes, Coconut Mushrooms, Rhubarb & Custards, Mintoes & lots of Retro Delights like Parma Violets, Fizzers, Drumsticks etc!

The Bah Humbugs Decade Sweet Hampers

Hello from the Team at Bah Humbugs!

If you're local then it's a great time to be in and around Masham, especially if you're looking for a little shopping discount with a bonus!  If you're not local and planning on visiting us for a holiday, or you're just passing through you can still join our Make the Most of Masham loyalty card scheme and benefit from the discounts and offers available.

What you get...

For £5 you get a beautiful cotton bag with with an illustration by local artist Rob Blades, and a membership card for the Make the Most of Masham Scheme which entitles you to various discounts, benefits and offers at many local businesses.  You can buy your bag and membership card here at Bah Humbugs, @bahhumbugs, and every time you spend £10 or more you will get a 10% discount so, if you're looking to stock up on your sweets, buy a gift from our great range of Decade Buckets, Retro Hampers, Sweet Buckets, or many others options then this gives you a fabulous discount. Bags are also available at Masham Community Office, @VisitMasham, and a few other participating shops. Why not pop in to get yours? For more info go to the Visit Masham website

Bag Illustration by Rob Blades

Support for Masham

We are also very excited about the support we are getting from Stray FM at the moment! @StrayFM are getting ready to launch a three month 'flag-waving' campaign to promote our town, so tune in and make sure you keep up to date with what's going on.

We look forward to you popping in and grabbing your bag!

IN the near future we'll no longer be able to get two classic sweets which have been around for decades. And they're both very popular in Bah Humbugs Sweet Shop. Why oh why do the manufacturers have to meddle with things that work?

Earlier on this year we reported that Tangerine Confectionery were stopping the manufacture of Lion's Sports Mixtures (we still have a few left!), well now they're stopping Lion's Fruit Pastilles! These fabulously hard, chewy fruit flavoured gums, deliciously covered in sprinklings of sugar. We're yet to hear exactly why they aren't going to make them any more, but suffice it to say we're fed up about it.

We've stocked up on as many as possible but i'm afraid we're keeping all of them for our Lion's Sweet Hampers as these are one of our most popular gift lines. So if you want a last nibble on these, you'll have to buy one of our fantabulous Lion's Sweet Hamper.

Lion's Sweet Hamper

And the second sweet that we've heard is no longer going to be made is Murray Mints... you can't hurry a Murray Mint. Take a look at this great montage of the Murray Mint adverts from the 1950s.

We don't have many of these iconic British sweets left in stock at the moment, but we will of course snap any up when we visit the various wholesalers around the country. But if you're a fan of these buttery mints and can no longer find them, that's the reason why.  And we have been told that Tangerine Confectionery will be replacing Murray Mints with Taveners Butter Mints.... not sure they'll be the same though.

What do you think? Such a shame isn't it!