OT: Does anyone really like wax bottles?
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yakko362002 — 9 years ago(October 13, 2016 06:49 PM)
Or any candy made out of wax? I thought of this after the other thread about candy corn and circus peanuts.
I sure don't. But wax bottles kind of make me laugh. When I was in college there was a guy who looked melted and who was mentally ill. His whole right side looked heat damaged, like he was made out of wax and stood too close to a fire. He was the guy that I've mentioned here before because he reminded me of The Incredible Melting Man. I remember people throwing wax bottles at him, presumably because he looked melted and wax melts so easily. I had some thrown at me last summer too. But I've never heard of anyone actually eating them or liking them, and I rarely see them in stores anymore. -
victoryismineblast — 9 years ago(October 13, 2016 06:53 PM)
I loved and used to buy them when I was like 8 years old because I liked the flavour of the juice inside and the fact that you could chew the wax like bubble gum.
Now that I'm [the age that I am now] I'm not really interested anymore.
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yakko362002 — 9 years ago(October 13, 2016 07:30 PM)
Yes they are just containers. I always thought they were stupid because the juice had so little flavor and the wax had none at all. I guess people chewed it like gum but real gum is so much better.
The wax was very pliable like beeswax so I did used to buy them and dump the juice out and use the wax for making molds for bronze casting. -
Boo_Radley — 9 years ago(October 14, 2016 10:45 PM)
There were several designs to choose from, like the big red lips, the goofy clown lips, or the scary monster lips with teeth, etc.
I also remember the orange wax harmonica that would actually play. These were pretty tasty, but you always felt guilty after the first bite and you couldn't play the harmonica anymore.
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Boo_Radley — 9 years ago(October 16, 2016 09:53 AM)
Yep, I remember those too.
I also remember how they would snag on your lips and cause several little cuts, but we kids back then were tougher and didn't care just as long as we had our daily supply of junk food.
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yakko362002 — 9 years ago(October 16, 2016 01:09 PM)
I never tried Whistle Pops but did try making a rocket that looked like one. I called it the Whistle Pop Rocket. It was supposed to let out a whistle when the engine burned out. It went up okay, but the whistle part didn't work. I never got around to trying to figure out what went wrong.
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yakko362002 — 9 years ago(October 19, 2016 04:50 AM)
I was always doing scientific stuff like that. That was one reason why people always thought I was weird. I don't do much fire-related stuff anymore, mainly because since 9/11, the Oklahoma bombing and all the school attacks, people would freak out even more about stuff like that. I never did anything harmful but with stuff like that happening all over the place, people tend to become more suspicious of anyone messing around with anything they think might be dangerous.
Anyway, that particular one didn't work but a lot of others did. -
dolemitesdick — 9 years ago(October 19, 2016 02:48 PM)
I was listening to a doco about this dude yesterday
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Makuka_Nkoloso
From 1960 until sometime after 1969, this program sought to accomplish the launching of a rocket that would send one girl, 17-year-old Matha Mwambwa, and two cats to the moon. There were also plans for a trip to Mars.[1] Nkoloso hoped to beat the United States and Soviet Union's respective space programs at the height of the Space Race
Just think Zambia could of been the first country to the Moon and Mars, well it could still be the first country to Mars.
Apparently due to cash they used to put ppl in barrels and roll them down the hill to simulate high Geforces associated with launches
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Mysteriously_Eerie — 9 years ago(October 13, 2016 08:10 PM)
I never really got the appeal. Too little juice. I haven't had one in 30 years, but I can still remember the sensation of biting into them and how the juice tasted. I guess I now have nostalgia for something I never really liked.