My ex Father-in-Law ‘travelled in Ladies Underwear’. Truly, I kid you not! At least, this was the way his chosen career was explained to me by my then future husband before I met his Dad. And one day, when I was staying at the future parents-in-law’s house, we found, in his store cupboard, several pairs of Liquorice Knickers in varying flavours.

Now my ex was never really the adventurous type and I have to admit that I was also a little naïve in certain areas at the time, (cut me some elastic here, I was only 20!). But for sure this was completely edible underwear with no elastic to stick in your teeth. Sorry is that TMI? (Too Much Information).

The reason I’m telling you this is because today as I walked through a back street in the West End of London, I saw a little shop selling a selection of tasty underwear – and I do mean tasty as in ‘they will taste nice’. So, purely for nostalgic reasons you understand, I simply had to pop in to see what they had on offer and thought I would share with you the ‘menu’ of delights:

Butterscotch Bras: The nipple area contains a shell of sweet butterscotch with a soft chewy inside.

Sweet Suspenders: – ‘Easy Bite’ – made of jelly in flavours like ‘Sweet Surrender’, (which is actually strawberry) and ‘Crème de la Crème’. (which is, in truth, coffee)

And, of course,….

Liquorice Knickers: (Hurray! – and I’m delighted to report, still a best seller) in ‘Cherry’ (obviously) and Rum and Raisin flavours.

There was a good selection of other bits and pieces, which, frankly, are too ‘X-Rated’ to even talk about in a semi-decent blog.

So my ex-Father-in-Law ‘travelled in’ the sweet version of ‘La Senza’ well before his time. Or at least before mine.

I remember thinking that my lovely ‘mother-in-law’ just didn’t strike me as the type to indulge in this kind of thing. Firstly she was a very overweight lady and this type of underwear doesn’t come in small, medium or large and secondly she was always very hot and spent most of her life in a bathing suit, so lickable lingerie doesn’t really bear thinking about.

But I have to admit, I could not resist purchasing the Liquorice Knickers in Rum and Raisin (by far my most favourite flavour in the world), just for old times sake. Plus they weren’t really knickers, more like a thong (well they would be wouldn’t they).

So I bought them and they weren’t cheap. £12.50 for something I could probably have strung together from a couple of Sherbet Dibdabs. Though I think you may have to be quite careful with Sherbet.

And I may as well tell you the end of the sorry tale.

I was thinking of saving them for a ‘special occasion’ but I couldn’t resist trying them on.

I’m glad I did really. Because this could have been embarrassing in different situation.

As I was wriggling, (really gently), into them, I caught my toe and, I can hardly bear to tell you…

they snapped!

£12.50’s worth of Rum and Raisin undies on the floor and no way of soldering them back together.

So I ate them.

Lots of Love

Francine