Soor Plooms

Soor Plooms

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200 g bag of Gibbs Soor Plooms. Delicious sweets, a childhood favourite, Real sharp tasting fruit blasts from the past!

sharp-flavoured, round, green boiled sweet originally associated with Galashiels. 

They are said to have been first made in 1337 in commemoration of a skirmish near Galashiels. A raiding party from  England were overwhelmed and killed by local men when discovered eating unripe plums.[

They have been featured in Oor Wullie and The Broons cartoons.