Teddy Gray’s

I don’t know what they put in these «Herbal Tablets», or even whether it’s legal, but they’re addictive as hell!

You can’t not love Teddy Gray’s. As a Dudley manufacturer they are so local it would be rude not to support them and if you really have the need for large quantities of custom rock then get in touch and they can make it for you.
I love visiting Teddy Gray’s, especially when I know I’m going to get served by proper Black Country lasses who still understand you asking for quarters of sweets rather than kilograms.
It makes me sad when I can’t buy proper sweets from a sweetie jar in my local shop so i tend to go a bit mad and buy too many quarters of all sorts of things from rhubarb and custard, alphabet letters, cola cubes and cinder toffee. Yummy, now I’m feeling the need to sugary badness.

Teddy Gray’s is my favourite sweet shop in the entire world — and I’ve been to a lot of sweet shops. Ye olde worlde sweet shops are ten-​a-​penny at the moment. Teddy Grays have been doing the whole «retro sweets in jars» thing since before the sweets were even considered retro.
This stall on Cradley Heath Market is wonderful. They sell sugar mice, cola cubes, humbugs, sherbet pips…
…you name the sweet treat and they’ll have it. My favourites are the chunks of pineapple rock and the famous Teddy Gray’s herbal tablets. The sweets are reasonably priced and there’s none of that annoying «good old days» pretension that you find in some pseudo-​traditional sweet shops.
The ladies behind the counter are classic Black Country and perhaps a little bit scary. The good thing is that they know what you mean when you ask for a quarter of jelly teddies. In your face metric system!