Cybercandy

I love Cyber Candy!
As someone who is obsessed with anything cinnamon flavoured, I go here to stock up on packets of Big Red (cinnamon chewing gum that hasn’t been sold in the UK for years) and other tasty treats.
They stock a huge amount of sweets/​candy from the U.S. That just can’t be found on our little island, so it’s really nice to be able to go there and buy some goodies to try!
It is on the pricier side of things but then again they are importing sweets from the states so that can be forgiven!

I love this sweet shop! It sells all my favourite American sweets all under one roof! The shop can get pretty busy and you may look at the prices thinking chocolate is cheaper to buy in the corner shops or supermarket, but you got to remember most of these sweets are not available in these shops and are imported from USA. My only downfall was they didn’t sell Salt Water Taffy but thumbs ups on fluff and Reece chocolate, big red and life savers!

Having spent a year in America I discovered that American chocolate is, generally, nowhere near as good as Cadbury’s or Galaxy. However, with a sweet tooth like mine I had to find alternatives. Occasionally I still get cravings for some of the American replacements I found and I am happy that there is somewhere nearby that I can get my Milk Duds or Pretzel Flips.
It’s not cheap, so it is not somewhere I can go very often. However, if I do get that craving I can justify it as a treat.
There are sweets from all over the world in there, but at the prices they charge it is more a place to go to find things you have already tried abroad, rather than to experiment.

Cybercandy is obviously a great place to get interesting sweets from around the world — it’s fascinating to see foreign countries’ takes on familiar brands (vegetable kitkat anyone?), or to pick up extreme novelty items, like chocolate covered insects and so forth. One of my favourite things that Cybercandy does however, is stock Cadbury products that we don’t get here in the UK, such as tubes of Cadbury peppermint creams. They’ve got four different types of Freddo, for christ’s sake! It’s the perfect balance of the strange and the familiar, although I do find it slightly galling that although Cadbury is (was!) a British company, not all of their range is usually available to us. I aslo find Cybercandy interesting from a design point of view; shelves stacked with sweet packets, some of which have very retro looks to them. If I was doing a design A-​level I reckon I’d do a project on Cybercandy’s stock.

Candy to go where no candy has gone before, and produced far and wide around the globe. As Willy Wonka well knows, the invention of such a simple thing as candy can range from the spectacular to the seriously ridiculous very easily. They have the widest selection of absurd candy here, as well as the most far fetched flavours and fizzes that you can pop in your mouth without your teeth falling out. Ignore the dentist, sugar is one fo the best natural highs and sure to keep you moving through the bustle of the North Laines with a whiz and pop in your step.

Most sweet shops sell goods from a choice selection of multinational conglomerates, Cybercandy is equally multinational, but only because they source the best in imported and rare sweets from across the globe.
Be it Swedish popping candy, or limited edition chocolate bars, Cybercandy has it all. Because the weird and wonderful selection of sweets on offer, Cybercandy is popular among all age groups.
While here I managed to find a banana Kit Kat and the long since forgotten cereal; Lucky Charms.
Be careful when you go here; I accidently spent about £30 because of the sheer scope of amazing things to be found. This is a childhood fantasy come true, any dentists appoint is well worth it.

Oh my goodness gracious! Any store that sells Pop Rocks, Pez, Pocky, Jolly Rancher and Twinkies is wonderful in my book. While I was perusing their selection, I remembered the times when I was a child, when my teeth were decaying and my father got mad when I didn’t brush my teeth. I really had big, yellow buck teeth back then, but boy oh boy did I love my candy.
The selection is amazing, and the only thing I regret is that I didn’t buy everything I would have liked (the Dragon Ball Z Super Saiyan Energy Drink, for example). But I walked away with Twizzler’s, Pez, Pop Rocks and a box of Twinkies. Those items, combined with a cup of coffee, will be my supper for the next couple of days. Delicious!

Cactus Candy
Reese’s Pieces
Jolly Rancher apple stix
Mike & Ike cotton candy
Salt water taffy
Cinnamon tic tacs
Cookie dough bites
Hot tamales spray candy
Welch’s grape jelly
Lucky Charm & Fruit Loops
A&W cream soda
& Barqs root beer
If you have a sweet tooth and a soft spot for American treats, you want to get your ass over to Cyber Candy and stock up on their imported goodies. Not only do they have a great selection of chocolate, cereals, candy and sodas, they also sell gumball machines, Pez dispensers and regional gift boxes. I know the window displays make it look like a bad sci-​fi store but trust me, the stock is worth checking out!

I don’t like sweets much I’ve just never really had a sweet tooth but this shop makes me feel just a little bit excited for some reason… I think it’s a mixture of all the insanely brightly coloured packaging and the fact that there are so many sweets in here I’ve never heard of I can’t even begin to imagine what they all taste like.
The delights on offer range from the sweets we enjoyed as kids in the 90s like Push Pops and popping candy to things I’ve never heard of in my life, imported from America, Australia and Japan. Although I probably wouldn’t buy anything in here, it’s always fun to look around at the more unusual bits like Lollipops with ACTUAL INSECTS inside them (yuck) and the caffeinated energy drinks that they refuse to sell to anyone under the age of 16.
I guess this is more of a sweet shop for adults than kids, as most kids just wouldn’t appreciate the novelty of what Cybercandy offer. A great idea and clearly loved by many people, I’m glad this place exists… it just isn’t really for me.

It’s as if someone has distilled half of my childhood memories into a shop! That makes it sound as if I spent my entire childhood sucking a gobstopper (which was not the case). I spent a lot of time in the States growing up and literally the most exciting part of it was the sweets… rolls of bubble game tape, opal fruits (starburst) and skittles in five different flavours, three Musketeer bars and Reese’s Pieces all contributed to my mini-​self imagining a warped American fantasy land of fun and exciting confectionery. It’s funny because now I so much prefer the understated traditional sweets that England has to offer… cola cubes, rhubarb and custards and good old Cadbury’s Dairy Milk.
However, if you’re a lover of all sweets American, this is the place for you! And, although my tastes have changed, you will still find me popping in from time to time for a trip down memory lane and a tasty Reese’s treat. They also stock Mountain Dew, which I’m very grateful for, even if I do have to pretend not to hear the price as I hand over far too much money.
Cybercandy truly is an experience– its visually appealing with all its bright colours and glitzy displays, and once you get inside you’re bound to want to try something. Be careful if you have kids in tow, it might be hard to tear them away from the what they will inevtiably feel is sweetie heaven…

Basically, this is a treasure trove of sweety goodness, full to the brim of exotic, hard to find treats from around the world. Like a particular American candy? It’s here. Like some wonderful Japanese sweet? It’s here. The prices of some of the items leave a little to be desired, but perhaps that’s to be expected considering the great lengths this company clearly goes to in order to import such a large, and all-​encompassing range of products.

I’m really confused about my feelings for the owners of this place — one minute I want to give them a big wet kiss on the lips for opening it in the first place, another I just want to slap them for making me spend so much money I can’t afford in there.
Ahem.well, if you’re any kind of chocolate/​sweetie addict, you’ll be like a kid in aum. candy shop in here. If you’ve ever craved that chocolate bar you picked up in Oz once, or fancy a Twinkie, you’ll find it here. There’s sodas (Mountain Dew!) and breakfast cereals (Lucky Charms!) and even candy flavoured lip balms too. Quite simply, it’s like being in Willy Wonka’s factory, but in a little corner of Brighton. I miss it loads.