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  1. #16
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    Quote Originally Posted by craigb
    What about Choo Choo Bars?

    Don't know if you ever had them in WA.
    Its Wait Awhile not wait forever. Naawww we was into Redskins. Thought I was gunna need a pair o pliers to pull the damm thing off the roof of my gob a couple a times.

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    "It is better to be ignorant and ask a stupid question than to be plain Stupid and not ask at all" {screamed by maths teacher in Year 8}

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    Quote Originally Posted by AlexS
    Remember them well - they were the best thrippence worth in the lolly shop, and guaranteed to pull out any loose teeth.
    And Alex mate, you can't buy then today for love nor money.

    I just wish I knew who used to be the manufacturer so I could ask for the receipe

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    yeah redskins and milko's.... have seen redskins in the shops but not milko's

    cobbers were good too

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    Choo-choo bars! I haven't thought of them since I was in short pants. My cousin and I used to nick softdrink bottles from the show ground and trade the empties in for a choo-choo bar each and a bag of mixed lollies - 3 for 2 cents - then we'd go and sit on a roof somewhere (can't remember that bit, just remember the roof) and eat them all.

    Anyone else noticed that when you do get hold of something like that you remember from when you were a kid, it doesn't taste as good?

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    We had candy sticks like the Choo-Choo bars in S. Africa, didn't have a name and had a liquorice flavour as well. Another was some black Niggerballs ( hope it's politically correct nowadays, anyway it was in the days we're talking about) that lasted forever and also made your toungue black. As kids we couldn't steal them out the pantry because the evidence used to show whenever you spoke for hours after sucking one.


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    I remember the old penny gobstoppers. One penny for a huge (was it an inch diameter) round ball that kept you sucking all day - and I think it ended up with bubble gum in the middle.

    Really miss the Milk Shakes - best gunk in the world for stopping leaks in the petrol tank - chew up a bit of this and stick it over the hole and it would never come off. I think it must react with the petrol.
    Did this once but when I went to remove the patch a month or so later couldn't remove it even with a cold chisel - still there as far as I know.
    Don

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    Remember the days of the drive in, if you had a good sort you bought maltesers, not so good she got a choo choo bar.
    You could pick the blokes with the scrubbers at the interval, they were the ones with the black ring around their mouth
    (Quote from an old Paul Hogan show)
    Stupidity kills. Absolute stupidity kills absolutely.

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