Sherbet flying saucers! Woohoo!
These things were everywhere when I was a kid but now I can't find 'em for love nor money.
They were basically rice paper with a little bit of sherbet inside; the rice paper would stick to the roof of your mouth and the sherbet would choke you.
Bliss.
Klaatu Barada Nikto!
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we still have them here.
Yum!
Australia is truly cool.
We have an english lolly shop over here. So actually the english are pretty cool except for one ex pat that i'm ranting about this week.
Dammit!
All of our childhood goodies have migrated south.
They don't look at all familiar.
Oh, Robyn, poor you!
A childhood not spent choking on sherbet flying saucers is a childhood deprived of one of life's great joys.
Your into the asian culture stuff, theres a question waiting on my blog that needs an answer.
I'll be right over.
I remember those things, but over here, sherbert is a type of ice cream, the ones I have had contained some sort of powered candy stuff... but the melting part was soooo cool.
Dive, do you want a box?
I've found some online here in the uk!!
Can you manage three-hundred !!?!?
Prudence; you're right of course. I was having an email discussion about this very subject earlier.
If I could be bothered I would look it up but I think that sherbet is the ice-water and fruit thing and sherbert is the fizzy icing sugar type stuff in the flying saucers.
Pedants are welcome to clear this one up.
Mikey: I am afraid … Very afraid!
Oh! I know those. They are tasty. I think I could score some for you. Beach towns thrive on nostalgia.
I assume you of all people know where the last line is from, young Sassy?
I remember those, but I thought they were awful!
Meanwhile, there's something you should look at here:
http://karenmcl.blogspot.com/2007/07/you-gotta-admire-japanese.html
Cheers,
Vic
They look like little flying saucers. But, hey...I'll eat anything so I'd give 'em a look-see-taste.
Oh, good god, I've heard it before, but I don't remember where. Sorry. I'm off the coffee and onto beer (meaning that I'm equally useless).
Vic: That's a fun site. I particularly like the bondage Hello Kitty.
Maria: Go for it!
Sassy: I keep forgetting how young you are. It's from "The Day the Earth Stood Still".
The phrase "Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!" was used to stop Gort, the enormous silver robot from the flying saucer destroying the Earth.
And just about every trash-pop culture film and TV show ever since has included it.
oooh for me too please! I adore them. Yes you can still buy them in supermarkets. I know Morrisons have them, for a start, Dive, i've er... sampled a few bags. Also you can always get them in the old fashioned sweetie shops which seem to be springing up everywhere. You're just popping out now, aren't you Dive... !
I'll be swinging by Morrisson's on the way home, Lynn. Thank you for that.
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