OT: Does anyone really like wax bottles?
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Boo_Radley — 9 years ago(October 16, 2016 09:53 AM)
Yep, I remember those too.
I also remember how they would snag on your lips and cause several little cuts, but we kids back then were tougher and didn't care just as long as we had our daily supply of junk food.
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yakko362002 — 9 years ago(October 16, 2016 01:09 PM)
I never tried Whistle Pops but did try making a rocket that looked like one. I called it the Whistle Pop Rocket. It was supposed to let out a whistle when the engine burned out. It went up okay, but the whistle part didn't work. I never got around to trying to figure out what went wrong.
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yakko362002 — 9 years ago(October 19, 2016 04:50 AM)
I was always doing scientific stuff like that. That was one reason why people always thought I was weird. I don't do much fire-related stuff anymore, mainly because since 9/11, the Oklahoma bombing and all the school attacks, people would freak out even more about stuff like that. I never did anything harmful but with stuff like that happening all over the place, people tend to become more suspicious of anyone messing around with anything they think might be dangerous.
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dolemitesdick — 9 years ago(October 19, 2016 02:48 PM)
I was listening to a doco about this dude yesterday
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Makuka_Nkoloso
From 1960 until sometime after 1969, this program sought to accomplish the launching of a rocket that would send one girl, 17-year-old Matha Mwambwa, and two cats to the moon. There were also plans for a trip to Mars.[1] Nkoloso hoped to beat the United States and Soviet Union's respective space programs at the height of the Space Race
Just think Zambia could of been the first country to the Moon and Mars, well it could still be the first country to Mars.
Apparently due to cash they used to put ppl in barrels and roll them down the hill to simulate high Geforces associated with launches
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Mysteriously_Eerie — 9 years ago(October 13, 2016 08:10 PM)
I never really got the appeal. Too little juice. I haven't had one in 30 years, but I can still remember the sensation of biting into them and how the juice tasted. I guess I now have nostalgia for something I never really liked.
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dolemitesdick — 9 years ago(October 14, 2016 04:16 PM)
cheers for the story, no bottles thrown, but had a few fruits when Ive been busking
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/CSi_EbLxXqc/maxresdefault.jpg
these things
, so its not wax I assume but something edible, well never had the pleasure or likely displeasure
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cryptoflovecraft — 9 years ago(October 14, 2016 06:19 PM)
I completely forgot about those things! I used to love sucking on those wax bottles when I was kid; the juice tasted OK, but there wasn't much of it. After sucking the juice out, I'd chew the wax bottle like a piece of gum until my jaw started to ache and then I'd spit it out. A waste of pocket change? Absolutely. I liked candy cigarettes too because I thought they looked 'cool' but the candy itself was quite bad.
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yakko362002 — 9 years ago(October 14, 2016 07:56 PM)
I never got the point of chewing on wax. It was flavorless and as you said it makes the jaw sore. I think I tried it once when I was very young and that was enough. And there was very little of the juice. Much better juice could be had in another bottle-shaped candy that I think was called Shazam. It was a small clear plastic bottle, shorter and fatter than the wax ones, and unedible, but the juice was very tasty and there was more of it than in the wax ones. I have not seen those in at leased 35 years and am not even certain the name is right. I used to find them in the store checkout lanes and I think the flavors were grape, lime and cherry.
Candy cigarettes had kind of a wintergreen taste if I remember right. I didn't mind the flavor but they weren't a thing I ever went out of my way to get. I think I remember they were finally banned a few years ago because the left wing do-gooders felt they encouraged kids to smoke real cigarettes. -
dolemitesdick — 9 years ago(October 14, 2016 08:32 PM)
dude man, wax is inedible, so I doubt thats what the lolly/sweet was made out of
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dolemitesdick — 9 years ago(October 15, 2016 04:55 AM)
Cheers man, seems a bit weird in the USA to have that, it's the land where people sue for the most mundane reasons, here in the land of the free sure no probs having that crap here but the states,wow that's weird
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yakko362002 — 9 years ago(October 15, 2016 04:59 AM)
They aren't in many stores anymore. I used to see them all over the place but now here only one store has them. They probably have fallen out of favor.
Candy cigars and cigarettes are banned, and I recall a big fuss over Pop Rocks some years back too. And the Nestle WonderBall.
