End of line for iconic Kiwi lollies

[clmintie]

Just to get back on the opening topic......

Used to work for Griffins when they owned the Jaffas brand.
Had a company golf tournament once a year and they would get the troops to pan up some Jaffas, the size of golf balls, then see how far we could hit them.
They just exploded if you laid into them, but with a 7 iron and some finesse 80 or 90 meters was possible.

Interesting trying to get one in your mouth.
Hilarious trying to say anything if you succeeded.

Ha ha, that explains a lot.............

Maybe we should get together at Clarks for a round.. For old times sake.....

[Coyote]

Seems the sav isn't a goner at all. Just that the wankers at Statistics NZ have dropped it from the list of stuff they measure the CPI on. And they've added soy milk and hummus instead ! Yeah, like that's going to give a genuine indication of the cost of living for real people . Always knew those figures were faked.

Hummus? Isn't that what the Governor of California drives?

[Stirts]

I AM FARKEN FUMING!!! SNIFTERS ARE THE BEST!!! RIGHT UP THERE WITH TANGY FRUITS!!!! SOON THEY WILL BE ABOLISHING PEBBLES.....OH THE MISERY AND HEART ACHE OF IT ALL.....WOE IS ME

Such fond memories of throwing red Tangy Fruits (hated em) at other movie goers in Gizzy *sigh* Putting two green ones and a yellow in my mouth at the same time and having their luscious fruity-ness mix and mingle in my mouth

RIP

What will we have to use as a replacement theatre projectile? Pickled onions simply do not have the same range

Pickled onions?....personally I would choose to use that as an entirely different weapon all together.....phrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt

[martybabe]

What have I been missing, what is a snifter, sounds great, what is a jaffa. I love sweets, sorry lollies and it looks like these two classics will be slipping through my grasp soon.

I lost a lot of childhood friends back in the UK, fruit salads, black jacks, mojos, licorice imps, ooh and the jellies in Imperial mix, sheer sugar sex.

Don't let it happen guys, lollies have rights!

As for saveloys, I hope for Ixion's sake they don't disappear but eewww.

[Motu]

When we were kids,like 8 to 10,we would be given 2 bob each to go to the movies in the city,usually about half a dozen of us,but sometime just me and a mate.We would walk a couple of miles to the bus which was sixpence each way,sixpence for the movie,which left sixpence for a packet of Jaffas.But if we took the train which was opposite the bus stop...it was sixpence return,which meant we could have a packet of Jaffas,and a packet of Snifters.They were good ammo in any movie theater - but from right up the back of the Civic onto the stage was a good throw.....we usually tried to hit a lion from the balcony.

[Swoop]

I lost a lot of childhood friends back in the UK, fruit salads, black jacks, mojos, licorice imps, ooh and the jellies in Imperial mix, sheer sugar sex.

Twirlywirly?
Fizzy sherbert?

[Trudes]

Never really liked sniffters, but jaffas , used to stuff a heap in my mouth and just let them melt...immmmmmm.... and then I discovered Giant Jaffas!!!! ohhhhhhhh. Used to go to the dairy at lunch time from school and buy a bag of about 6 of them and stick one in my mouth during class and just let it melt and melt one after the other all afternoon, certainly made the afternoon of boring bullshit school work go faster.... maybe I should try that now.... must have giant jaffas *off to the dairy*

[gijoe1313]

This thread is becoming world famous in NZ ... shucks I miss those 50cent bag o'lollies which made you sick when you scoffed the lot sitting in a tree.

And then scouting the neighbourhood for those deposit bottles so you could go and get another 50cent bag and do it all over again

Dang, no tangy fruits? What next! Ban the fizzy sherbet bags with the licorice straw? Take away the Spaceman cigarette lollies? In fact they got rid of those spaceman and spaceman ray gun drinks (the one where you could bit the top off and have a water gun!) ... and eskimos ain't the same ... at least raspberry drops are still around and jet planes!

[Pussy]

... at least raspberry drops are still around and jet planes!

Yeah, but next some safety nazi is going to say the jetplane lollies leave too bigger carbon footprint or something...

[lb99]

....scouting the neighbourhood for those deposit bottles

I remember doing those, one summer we got heaps, it was unreal scoring so many bottles, they were all over the place, we were rich, loaded em into the old pram, off to the shop we go.
only to be told that they didn't take em any more

[Drum]

At least leave us the K Bar you anti-sugar nazi's.

And whatever happened to the 4 for 1 cent lolly? For that matter what happened to the 1 cent?

[Salival]

No more tangy fruits??

What the hell are we throw at people at the movies?!

Before they shipped them off they could've at least tried changing the packaging. I don't think they ever changed the tangy fruits bucket in like 20 years

[Ixion]

I bet very few people remember that there used to be *yellow* jaffas.

[Drum]

I bet very few people remember that there used to be *yellow* jaffas.

That's crazy talk old timer.

[yungatart]

I just heard some lady on the radio saying she had bought up all the supplies in Napier...oh woe is me! I had promised a packet or two to young hXc who is in Brussels....can anyone help supply him with jaffas and snifters...