#retro sweets

[thatpollguy]

Do you like Fish & Chips (the sweet)?

I love them

I like them

They're okay I guess

I dislike them

I hate them

I've never tried them / I'm allergic or intolerant

Voting ended onMar 10

[tempura-mayo]

Ice cream!! The best treat during a break 😋

[vhsdogs]

𝖜𝖔𝖚𝖑𝖉 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖑𝖎𝖐𝖊 𝖙𝖔 𝖑𝖎𝖛𝖊 𝖉𝖊𝖑𝖎𝖈𝖎𝖔𝖚𝖘𝖑𝖞?

delicious stickers here

[tattydevine]

Wham Bar marshmallows? Go on then! 💥💥💥

[oldsoulretro]

The world’s first bubble gum is Dubble Bubble. It was invented in 1928 by Walter E. Diemer—an accountant at Fleer Company.

After his retirement, Diemer admitted that the recipe was discovered by accident. The company founder, Frank Fleer in 1906, attempted to create a chewing gum which he called Blibber Blubber. The resulting product was very sticky and broke easily and was a commercial failure.

Mr. Diemer, an accountant who worked at Fleer liked to experiment in his spare time. In doing so, he stumbled upon a gum recipe that was unique. It proved to be less sticky than the initial versions and was easier to chew. This original gum was pink in color because the factory only had pink food coloring available. This is why most bubble gum is pink today.

The concoction looked promising so they wrapped one hundred pieces and test marketed it in a local candy store, offering the gum for one cent per piece; the gum sold-out on the first day. The company began marketing the gum as "Dubble Bubble" and sales surpassed $1.5 million in the first year.

The original gum featured a color comic strip, known as the Fleer Funnies, that was included with the gum. The featured characters, ‘Dub and Bub’, were introduced in 1930 but were later replaced by the iconic Pud and his pals in 1950.

During World War II, Dubble Bubble was distributed to the military. Sugar and latex became scarce due to the war and bubble gum manufacturing was halted in 1942. In 1951 Fleer resumed manufacturing of Dubble Bubble and the popularity of its gum grew steadily. Over time, Fleer extended its reach by adding new flavors, new formats like ball gum and expanded distribution of its products overseas.

credits: https://www.gumball.com/pages/history-of-dubble-bubble

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[thatpollguy]

Do you like chocolate coated honeycomb?

I love it

I like it

It's okay I guess

I dislike it

I hate it

I've never tried them / I'm allergic or intolerant

Voting ended onMar 7

[thatpollguy]

Do you like dolly mixture?

I love it

I like it

It's okay I guess

I dislike it

I hate it

I've never tried them / I'm allergic or intolerant

Voting ended onMar 4

[thatpollguy]

Do you like foam bananas?

I love them

I like them

They're okay I guess

I dislike them

I hate them

I've never tried them / Can't eat them due to allergies or dietary requirements

Voting ended onFeb 15

I once won a game at my school's summer fete where you had to guess how many foam bananas were in the jar, and I won! I got to have the whole jar, which was like 2kg of foam bananas...best prize ever 🤤