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| | | Subject: Milk bottles, Jamboree Bags, Swizzels lollies, Everlasting Strips
Posted Jun 15, 2001 by  No, four Goshos. Goshos for forks
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 | | Milk bottles. What on earth were they made from and flavoured with? They were kind of a gum I guess, white, opaque, in the shape of half a milk bottle split lengthways, with a taste.... vanilla maybe? I dunno. I loved 'em though, and at 10d a quarter I could buy 2oz quite easily (anything a shilling a quarter and over was out of my range). There were lots of good sweets in jars - Kola Kubes, pips (orange, lemon, spearmint), pear drops, acid drops, raspberries and blackberries.
My cousins in Lancashire called them Lucky Bags, but in London they were Jamboree Bags. A small paper bag which cost 4d, and contained a handful of small sweets, like swizzels but harder, a lollipop, two caramels, and a small toy.
I believe you can still get Swizzels lollies - a hard (as concrete) two-coloured lollipop made of sugar paste, slightly bigger than a gobstopper which lasted forever because you couldn't bite into them without the risk of severe dental damage. You just had to suck and suck and suck....
And speaking of lasting forever, Everlasting Strips were a long (about 9" I guess) piece of very weird tasting and dark coloured toffee which didn't last anywhere near as long as a Swizzels lolly and cost 1d more.
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| | | Subject: Milk bottles, Jamboree Bags, Swizzels lollies, Everlasting Strips
Posted Jun 18, 2001 by No, four Goshos. Goshos for forks
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 | | Did I say Hershey's? I meant Reese's Peanut Butter Cup. A shallow chocolate cup, about 1 1/2" in diameter, filled with smooth peanut butter, and sealed with more chocolate. I'm sure there's a British sweet that looks like a RPBC, but I can't bring it to mind right now. However, there is a place on the web you can see a picture of one if you go to Google (Legal note - there are other search engines) and do a search on Reese's Peanut Butter Cup.
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| | | Subject: Milk bottles, Jamboree Bags, Swizzels lollies, Everlasting Strips
Posted Jun 19, 2001 by Veers Revett, Imperial Assassin & Palbert, the once-fat cat. (Happy to see someone VERY special has joined h2g2)
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| | I can vouch for that love of Sherbet Fountains, and yes the way she eats Bon Bons is NOISIER and LICKIER than a very noisy licky thing.
I don't remember the bubble gum (or bubbly as it was known around my way) smelling like hospitals, but then I never chewed it. I do remember the crappy tattoos, though.
I am I the only person whose mother told him that bubble gum would wrap round your guts and strangle your insides?! I still can't touch the stuff, just in case.
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| | | Subject: Milk bottles, Jamboree Bags, Swizzels lollies, Everlasting Strips
Posted Jun 20, 2001 by No, four Goshos. Goshos for forks
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| | Well, of course, everyone knows that if you unscrew your belly button, your bum falls off...... doesn't it?
Goshoogoshoogosh, 45 years old, still believing stuff like that, never swallowing chewing gum or unscrewing *anyone's* belly button 
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