Reply to: Quimbyisms

[Pip in a Poke]

The rifle range at the fun fair.

I'm sure they've adopted an "everyone's a winner" policy. You can't miss.

Same with the one where you hook the plastic duck.

The waltzers, however, are definitely NOT a quimbyism. Glad I had an emty stomach

[Pip in a Poke]

https://youtu.be/1uNDQOCgOT8?t=79

My favourite T&J - probably too violent for the snowflake generation

Is that a Quimby production?

Is Mammy Two-Shoes in it?

[Troll]

https://youtu.be/1uNDQOCgOT8?t=79

My favourite T&J - probably too violent for the snowflake generation

[Pip in a Poke]

You could always go back to the good old days you crave, by taking a pinch of arsenic or powdered lead with each sweet!

There are all sorts of nasty chemicals involved in various forms of food processing.

You should see what they use in the process of coffee bean decaffeination. Ditto white sugar refining. And if you saw how they made spray dried milk powder, you'd never reach for a jar of coffee mate ever again (I actually visited the site of the largest spray drying plant in Europe a few months ago so I know what I'm talking about).

Then there's all the cyandie in apple pips that gets in your cider; no wonder cider drinkers have such bulbous noses.

[OwlHoot]

The inneresting thing in all this, as Nige pointed out, is that no matter what I had chosen, disappointment was bound to follow since it's not just the comparative quantities and dimensions of so called retro confectionery relative to its heyday equivalent that disappoints but also shortcomings in flavour and texture owing to differences in the composition of many of these sweet foodstuffs. ...

You could always go back to the good old days you crave, by taking a pinch of arsenic or powdered lead with each sweet!

[Pip in a Poke]

Confectionery related quimbyisms aplenty this weekend as I popped into Ye Olde Sweete Shoppe in Corfe Castle after an invigorating yomp around the castle's ramparts.

A right cornucopia of ole time favourites were on display and I opted for a quarter of sweet peanuts while my friend Nige played it safe with strawberry bonbons. I already sensed a quimbyism coming on by virtue of the fact that what was actually dispensed was not, in fact, a quarter of a pound but 100 grams. And 100 grams, my friends, ain't quite a quarter.

Already slightly nauseous from the way Nige was throwing the Logan MCV into the windy bends of the Piddle Valley, I popped a sweet into my mouth and sucked. Not quite the flavour I remember from my youth and biting through the hard outer shell the expected an explosion of nuttiness from the peanut brittle within did not materialise. All I experienced was nothing other than a monumental hit of glucose which gave me a fit of the vapours and Nige had to pull over to let me get out and take a restorative breath of fresh air.

The inneresting thing in all this, as Nige pointed out, is that no matter what I had chosen, disappointment was bound to follow since it's not just the comparative quantities and dimensions of so called retro confectionery relative to its heyday equivalent that disappoints but also shortcomings in flavour and texture owing to differences in the composition of many of these sweet foodstuffs. And that's largely down to our friends in the EU because many of the constituents of yesteryear are now banned and, lets face it, it was the nasty chemicals that made these things taste so darn good. Who can ever forget having one's mouth stained bright orange and the roof of your mouth scourged by spending an afternoon dipping a lollipop into a quarter of a pound of caustic lemon crystal sherbet?

I'm sure it's all good for the health of the nation but sweets are definitely not as much fun as they used to be.

[northernladyuk]

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[OwlHoot]

It will only get worse after Brexit.

Tome & Jerry cartoons started getting worse about the time we joined the EU!

[covbob]

What the sockie said.

Tulip! I thought I was posting from my zeitghost account! Rumbled!

[xoggoth]

It will only get worse after Brexit

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[northernladyuk]

Who's aussielong?

A pole choker.

[MrMarkyMark]

Who's aussielong?

Could be a number of posters

[oscarose]

I miss aussielong.

Who's aussielong?

[northernladyuk]

I bet you do

The old man made good cash pole-choking AL.

[MrMarkyMark]

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I bet you do