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JoyLouise

JoyLouise Report 5 Jan 2021 16:03

B & M sell them here, Sharron. I like the mint ones best.

Sharron

Sharron Report 5 Jan 2021 14:52

Oh yes! Poundland sell the toffee ones don't they?

I am not sure it is wholly moral and proper to eat them outside the confines of the flea pit though!

JoyLouise

JoyLouise Report 5 Jan 2021 14:36

I still like Poppets. :-D

Sharron

Sharron Report 5 Jan 2021 14:33

It was your duty to eat Paynes Poppets in the cinema, while you enjoyed you Jubblie.

JoyLouise

JoyLouise Report 5 Jan 2021 14:27

Stop digging Sharron; I hope you have your tin hat on! :-D ;-)

I do recall jubblies (even though I got the name wrong). They came out a little too late for me to really get stuck into enjoying them but I have had perhaps a couple.

My fave was always a choc ice or one of those very small tubs of ice cream.

Sunday afternoon, spiders, choc ices, Richmond Selection, Chocolate Eclairs ...... yuum. :-D

Sharron

Sharron Report 5 Jan 2021 14:19

Sorry. I meant, I didn't think anybody younger than Island would remember them.

I think the reference to ju-jubes I saw was in an eighteenth century book.

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 5 Jan 2021 14:14

When you said 'boo-boos' I thought of bon-bons. :-S

Then I saw 'jujubes', and had to look it up!

"A recipe for "pate de jujubes" was published in 1709.The recipe called for gum arabic, sugar, and the date-like jujube fruit. In 1853, both "ju ju paste" and "ju ju drops" were sold by confectioners. Later, recipes used various flavorings instead of jujube fruits

Island

Island Report 5 Jan 2021 14:06

Joy, the orange drink in odd shaped boxes were Jubblies. I think the name was later nicked though - or was that an iced bun or something? :-S

Island

Island Report 5 Jan 2021 14:02

No. you said 'I didn't think anybody would be old enough to remember them!

:-\

Sharron

Sharron Report 5 Jan 2021 13:55

And it was illegal to have them anywhere but the cinema!

nameslessone

nameslessone Report 5 Jan 2021 13:49

Ooo. You sucked out all the juice and were left with a huge triangle of ice.

JoyLouise

JoyLouise Report 5 Jan 2021 13:33

That's them, LaG. :-D

I did not know you could still get them!

LaGooner

LaGooner Report 5 Jan 2021 13:31

Yep, Del Boy :-D :-D :-D :-D

Sharron

Sharron Report 5 Jan 2021 13:30

Luvverly Jubbly!

LaGooner

LaGooner Report 5 Jan 2021 13:28

Jubblies are the frozen lollies Joy, we still have them if the little ones come in the summer :-)

JoyLouise

JoyLouise Report 5 Jan 2021 13:25

Never liked jujus/jubes - but I can remember them as jujus or joujous.

Surely you jest, Sharron. I think a lot on here will remember them - some of us are ancient! :-D

Does anyone recall jubes as in an orange flavoured weirdly-shaped ice block contained in a wax-like cardboard? My younger siblings loved them.

Sharron

Sharron Report 5 Jan 2021 13:21

No, I didn't. I gave everybody the benefit of the doubt!

Island

Island Report 5 Jan 2021 13:13

Old? :-0 did you say old Sharron?
'ekkin' cheek. :-0

Sharron

Sharron Report 5 Jan 2021 13:13

But I gave everybody the benefit of the doubt!

nameslessone

nameslessone Report 5 Jan 2021 13:09

I am!