Editing Victory V

{{Short description|British brand of liquorice-flavoured lozenges}}
{{distinguish|V sign}}
{{Infobox food|name=Victory V|image=Victory V.jpg|caption=A packet and a roll of lozenges|type=[[Throat lozenge|Lozenge]]|year=1864|creator=Thomas Fryer & Edward Smith|country=[[United Kingdom]]|region=[[Nelson, Lancashire]]|no_recipes=true}}
[[File:V for Victory sweet.jpg|thumb|A Victory V sweet, "Forged For Strength"]]
'''Victory V''' is a British brand of [[liquorice]]-flavoured [[cough medicine|lozenges]].<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/minor-british-institutions-victory-v-lozenges-1642783.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220817/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/minor-british-institutions-victory-v-lozenges-1642783.html |archive-date=2022-08-17 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Minor British Institutions: Victory V lozenges|author=Sean O'Grady|date=14 March 2009|publisher=The Independent, London}}</ref>  Originally manufactured in [[Nelson, Lancashire|Nelson]], [[Lancashire]], they were devised by Thomas Fryer and Edward Smith MD in 1864<ref name=":0" /> and were initially made by hand to ensure that each sweet contained the correct amount of therapeutic ingredients: [[diethyl ether|ether]], [[liquorice]] and [[chloroform]].

In 1959, a film was produced by Red Rose Films called ''The Story of Victory-V'', documenting the production of Victory V lozenges and other products of the Nelson Victory V factory.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nwfa.mmu.ac.uk:591/samhanna/FMPro?-db=samhanna%20web.fp3&-format=record_detail.htm&-lay=websafe&-sortfield=accession%20number&gallery=working%20life&-max=10&-recid=38&-find=|title=North West Film Archive|author=Manchester Metropolitan University|date=2010|publisher=Manchester Metropolitan University|access-date=August 31, 2012}}{{Dead link|date=November 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

In the 1960s they acquired the [[Alverthorpe]] firm of A.Talbot and Son. Victory V lozenges are available in specialist shops and online, but no longer contain [[chloroform]] or ether. However, their scent and flavour is still vividly reminiscent of diethyl ether - recreated via artificial means to preserve the original flavour.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ernest Jackson brands: Victory V |url=https://www.ejackson.co.uk/our-brands/victory-v |access-date=2023-02-22 |website=www.ejackson.co.uk |archive-date=2022-07-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220703135947/https://www.ejackson.co.uk/our-brands/victory-v |url-status=dead }}</ref> Today they are manufactured by Ernest Jackson & Co. Ltd. in [[Crediton|Crediton, Devon]].

==See also==
*[[Fisherman's Friend]]
*[[Vigroids]]
*[[Apteekin Salmiakki]]

==References==
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{{Traditional British sweets}}

[[Category:Brand name confectionery]]
[[Category:Throat lozenges]]
[[Category:British confectionery]]
[[Category:Liquorice (confectionery)]]