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England is going to the dogs.

Category Sherbert Fountain
I leave for a few years and England starts collapsing and I'm not talking about gritters and snow ploughs. Today I stopped off at the English store to get a few supplies for Christmas, and what did I spy but Sherbet Fountains, but wait they're different, someone has changed them! The container is now a sealed plastic tube not cardboard. No longer do you have the experience of eating soggy sherbet soaked cardboard, or the sherbet sticking to the cardboard, so you have to tip the thing upside and smack it on the bottom resulting in a face covered in sherbet. Honestly kids today can't have any fun.

Posted by Carl Tyler On 12/23/2009 | Permalink |

Comments

1 - Even worse 'Cluedo' does not now involve a murder (with the lead piping in the library) but rather some wet plots about minor vandalism.

Splutter.....short sharp shock....bring back the birch....Daily Mail....

Posted by Mike Smith At 03:31:21 AM On 12/24/2009 | - Website - |

2 - A nation weeps. A childhood without soggy sherbert fountain cardboard is no childhood at all. Almost Dickensian!

Carl - what was your technique? Rip the side and scoop out the concrete-esque substance with your little finger?

Posted by Mike At 05:25:36 AM On 12/24/2009 | - Website - |

3 - My technique was to squeeze the tube all the way around many times to loosen the packed contents then tip it up and gradually tap to loose sherbert into the mouth. Occasionally this ended up being a huge block of the white stuff.

Shertbet Dips, Curly Wurlies, Black Jacks, Fruit Salads. Is it any wonder my waist line is somewhat larger than the chest?

Posted by Dragon Cotterill At 06:37:18 AM On 12/24/2009 | - Website - |

4 - @3 Me, I'd smack it on the bottom, never ever considered opening the thing up. So inevitably I would smack it on the bottom and have a face that looked like I had been snorting crack cocaine. "Honest gov, it's just sherbet"

Posted by Carl Tyler At 07:15:49 AM On 12/24/2009 | - Website - |

5 - Hahaha, genius

Not only did I come to see who had posted comments, but the one which totally caught my attention is my mate David ... so funny.

I knew we had something in common but I didn't realise it revolved around squeezing the Sherbet Fountain tube all the way around to loosen it Emoticon

Mark

Posted by Mark Haller At 09:34:04 AM On 12/24/2009 | - Website - |

6 - Guess whio demanded the change to the packaging 'Government Health and Safety' Apparently they were afraid the liquorice stick would get contaminated!! Emoticon