You can always tell who had a Black Jack. They are the one grinning with a black tongue and pretending they did not.
The Barratt Black Jack Stick Pack is the chew from the corner shop counter, the one you bought with whatever coins were rattling in your pocket after school. A row of them in a handy stick, ready for the pocket again.
They stick to your teeth. They turn your mouth a colour your mum did not approve of. Nobody has ever cared.
One stick, and you are ten again, standing outside the newsagent deciding whether to share.
Frequently asked questions about Barratt Black Jack Stick Pack
Q: Are these the proper British Black Jacks?
A: Yes, these are the UK Barratt ones, and we ship them from within Canada. Same stick, same black tongue.
Q: How big is the stick pack?
A: It is 36g, a pocket-sized stick of chews. Small enough to carry, small enough that you will want another.
Q: Do they make a good little gift?
A: For anyone who grew up in Britain, absolutely. Tuck one in a card or a parcel and watch them go quiet for a second.
Q: What else from Barratt do you carry?
A: Fruit Salad is the obvious partner, and plenty of people buy the two together. Have a look through our sweets for whatever else is in.
More about Barratt Black Jack Stick Pack
Black Jacks belong to the penny sweet aisle of British childhood, right alongside the jars on the high shelf and the paper bag you filled yourself. They are a chew everybody knows, whether they loved them or swapped them away.
Out here, people search for them because nothing else brings back the walk to the shop quite like a black tongue. Somebody mentions them at a barbecue, half the garden goes quiet, and then the stories start.
This stick pack is a small 36g format that sits in a coat pocket, a glovebox or a lunchbox without any fuss. Keep it in the cupboard somewhere cool and dry, and it will wait patiently until somebody finds it. They usually do.
Black Jacks come from Barratt, the same name behind Fruit Salad chews, so the two usually travel together. Plenty of people pick up a few sticks at once and add other British sweets for a proper pick and mix of their own at home.
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You know exactly where you were the last time you had one of these. Probably outside a corner shop, a paper bag of mixed sweets in one hand, picking out the Black Jacks first because you were not sharing those. Somebody always claimed they did not like them. Somebody was lying. Barratt's Black Jack first turned up in 1920, and it still turns grown adults back into ten-year-olds rummaging for the last one.
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One sugar boiler in Hoxton
It started small. In 1848 George Osborne Barratt, aged 21, set up with a single sugar boiler at 32 Shepherdess Walk, Hoxton, in London. Several of his siblings and children joined in, which is one way to keep the family busy, and it worked. By 1906 Barratt had become the largest confectionery manufacturer in the world. Not the largest in Hoxton. The world. It became a limited company in 1909. Sir Albert Barratt, George's son, died in 1941 and is buried in the family grave at Highgate Cemetery.
Lost, found and back again
Then came the shuffling. Bassett's bought Barratt & Co. Ltd. in 1966, and Cadbury Schweppes took over Bassett's in 1989. The old Barratt factory at Wood Green closed in 1980 after a long decline, and the site is now a complex called The Chocolate Factory, which is a fairly gracious way to remember a sweet works. Since 2008 Barratt has sat with Tangerine Confectionery, now Valeo Confectionery, and in 2018 the name came back into active use. Black Jack is made under that brand in the UK and Spain.
The rest of the gang
Black Jack keeps good company. The revived Barratt range includes DipDab, Refreshers, Nougat, Sherbet Fountain, Fruit Salad and Wham, which reads less like a product list and more like the top shelf of every sweet shop you were ever sent to with change in your pocket. Read the names out in any room of grown Brits and watch the opinions start. Black Jack usually starts them.
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