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Sean 
"Necrosphenisciform anthropophagist."
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 Posted - 05/02/2007 : 02:20:45
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Sherbert in NZ was a flavoured sweet powder that sparkled and fizzed on your tongue. You'd dip a stick in the packet and lick the sherbert off.
Another good use for it is to sprinkle it on icecream.  |
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thefoxboy 
"Four your eyes only."
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Posted - 05/02/2007 : 04:33:45
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Originally posted by Tori
You know the sherbert I'm hearing described reminds me of Fun Dip. It's flavored powder with a candy stick. You lick the candy stick and put it in the powder.
Exactly what Sherbert is in Australia and NZ by the sounds of it. |
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BaftaBaby
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 05/02/2007 : 08:23:20
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This is great! 
Just what I hoped might happen ... it's not often we can share these bits of culture ... still alive or gone by the wayside ... with people all over the world.
I wish Ali and Rabid Kazook would post some. It would be great to see a bit more of a culturally heterogenous collection.
Anyway - these are all fab contributions. In a bit I'll try to do a couple of lists showing the evolutions. That's one of the reasons it would be good to have decades and locales.
More please!
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ChocolateLady 
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 05/02/2007 : 09:59:07
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Well, if my kids can be included I could add:
Candy:
Crembo - this is a seasonal candy, and only comes out in the winter (since it would melt in the summer). It is a cookie with a whole lot of marshmallow cream on top, all dipped in chocolate.
Bamba - not really a candy, but certainly a kids treat. These are corn puffs the size of your thumb that are covered in an ever-so-slightly sweetened peanut flavoured coating. They melt in your mouth and it is probably the first snack food kids in Israel ever taste (since you don't need teeth to eat them). I understand that Cheetos in the USA started making a peanut flavoured version, but those are much harder than Bamba.
Games:
Five Stones - similar to the game Jacks in the US, but with using five square metal stones instead of the funny star-shaped Jacks. (This game may have originally used apricot pits.)
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Downtown 
"Welcome back, Billy Buck"
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Posted - 05/02/2007 : 18:27:24
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Rovark
"Luck-pushing, rule-bending, chance-taking reviewer"
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Posted - 05/02/2007 : 19:12:47
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How about candy cigarettes.
You'd buy a box of 8 I think it was, looking like a pack of cigarettes. They were little white cylinders of soft candy with a red tip to look like a real lit cigarette. We'd practice holding and drawing on them like the film and TV stars and gradually nibble them down as though they were being smoked. No idea if they're still available, I would doubt it as many parents would be horrified at encouraging their children to smoke and most kids can probably afford the real thing anyway. |
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thefoxboy
"Four your eyes only."
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Posted - 05/02/2007 : 21:41:39
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Originally posted by Downtown
Did anyone else play 4-Square? I'd be interested in hearing about other Server Rules that we might not have used.
Yes, but that was over 30 years ago, I can't remember any rules. |
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Downtown
"Welcome back, Billy Buck"
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Posted - 05/02/2007 : 22:06:09
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Originally posted by Rovark
How about candy cigarettes.
You'd buy a box of 8 I think it was, looking like a pack of cigarettes. They were little white cylinders of soft candy with a red tip to look like a real lit cigarette. We'd practice holding and drawing on them like the film and TV stars and gradually nibble them down as though they were being smoked. No idea if they're still available, I would doubt it as many parents would be horrified at encouraging their children to smoke and most kids can probably afford the real thing anyway.
We had bubble-gum cigarettes, it was a long cylinder-shaped piece of gum with piece of paper wrapped around it, with powdered sugar inside so you could blow out puffs of "smoke." I believe the company that made them was owned by RJ Reynolds, which pretty much confirms that yes, they were training the next generation of smokers, which is...wrong, to say the least.
HOWEVER...don't be too quick to jump to those conclusions about similar products. You may not know this since you're not an American, but there's a long tradition of baseball players using smokeless tobacco (it's amazing someone could find a way to consume tobacco that's even more filthy and unpleasant than smoking, and this is coming from a smoker). There are many ways to take smokeless tobacco, but often it comes shredded in a pouch. There's a product called Big League Chew, which is shredded bubble gum that comes in pouch. It's obviously supposed to emulate chewing tobacco. I had always assumed that it was another conspiracy from the tobacco industry, trying to convince kids that it's "cool" to use tobacco. But it turns out, the product was "invented" by a minor league ballplayer who hated chewing tobacco and was disgusted by the thought of all those kids getting hooked on it because they were trying to be like their favorite ballplayers. Realizing kids are always going to try and copy their heroes, he decided that a shredded bubble gum could be a healthy alternative. And it worked, many of those kids have since grown up to be professional ballplayers themselves, and many of them are walking onto the field with a giant wad of gum in their mouths instead of a giant wad of chaw, and without all that brown sticky juice dribbling down their chins (yeah...I can see why someone would want to emulate that). |
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thefoxboy
"Four your eyes only."
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Posted - 05/02/2007 : 23:56:31
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Originally posted by Downtown
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Originally posted by Rovark
How about candy cigarettes.
You'd buy a box of 8 I think it was, looking like a pack of cigarettes. They were little white cylinders of soft candy with a red tip to look like a real lit cigarette. We'd practice holding and drawing on them like the film and TV stars and gradually nibble them down as though they were being smoked. No idea if they're still available, I would doubt it as many parents would be horrified at encouraging their children to smoke and most kids can probably afford the real thing anyway.
We had bubble-gum cigarettes, it was a long cylinder-shaped piece of gum with piece of paper wrapped around it, with powdered sugar inside so you could blow out puffs of "smoke." I believe the company that made them was owned by RJ Reynolds, which pretty much confirms that yes, they were training the next generation of smokers, which is...wrong, to say the least.
HOWEVER...don't be too quick to jump to those conclusions about similar products. You may not know this since you're not an American, but there's a long tradition of baseball players using smokeless tobacco (it's amazing someone could find a way to consume tobacco that's even more filthy and unpleasant than smoking, and this is coming from a smoker). There are many ways to take smokeless tobacco, but often it comes shredded in a pouch. There's a product called Big League Chew, which is shredded bubble gum that comes in pouch. It's obviously supposed to emulate chewing tobacco. I had always assumed that it was another conspiracy from the tobacco industry, trying to convince kids that it's "cool" to use tobacco. But it turns out, the product was "invented" by a minor league ballplayer who hated chewing tobacco and was disgusted by the thought of all those kids getting hooked on it because they were trying to be like their favorite ballplayers. Realizing kids are always going to try and copy their heroes, he decided that a shredded bubble gum could be a healthy alternative. And it worked, many of those kids have since grown up to be professional ballplayers themselves, and many of them are walking onto the field with a giant wad of gum in their mouths instead of a giant wad of chaw, and without all that brown sticky juice dribbling down their chins (yeah...I can see why someone would want to emulate that).
I grew up, I'm sure Conan did too, with Fags.
They were red on one end so that it looked likethey were lit.
However, they were renamed to Fads many years ago and the red was taken away. 
We also had Big Boss Cigars, same idea as Fags. They have also been renamed to Big Boss Dynamite...or something like that. So it's better to blow things up rather than smoking. 
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 05/03/2007 : 07:38:06
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Originally posted by Downtown
Did anyone else play 4-Square? I'd be interested in hearing about other Server Rules that we might not have used.
Yes, but that was over 30 years ago, I can't remember any rules.
Ditto, and I was really bad at it.
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Nostalgia or Research?
