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24th April 2009, 11:21 AM
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Childhood memories
I was doing some weeding in the garden this morning and had entered that state of mind when ones thoughts drift aimlessly and at random when I remembered a childhood treat called a "Frozen Jubbly". An orange drink, sold in a pyramid shaped carton and which some enterprising sweetshop owner had popped in the ice cream freezer and which became a huge ice lolly. As I recall it cost 4d. Being a sad old so and so I then started trying to recall other childhood treats which have now disappeared. Things like:
Spangles - square shaped fruit flavoured boiled sweets
Potato Puffs - Somewhat like crisps (my favourite being Tomato Ketchup flavour!)
"Proper" crisps with the salt in a twist of blue waxed paper
Frys Five Boys chocolate
Gobstoppers that seemed to be as big as a ping pong ball (but were probably much smaller)
6d Boxes of Minstrels sold in vending machines on tube stations
Lemonade Powder (2d a quarter pound IIRC) eaten using a licked finger
Any other old timers remember anything else?
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