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Re: Two Matters



Ugh?? They were great at the time  - and even better for the dentist's
business!
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Best wishes,

Thomas Berry, Archivist/Web Editor
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ellen Chapman" <ellen@HAWAII.EDU>
To: <ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 5:28 PM
Subject: Re: Two Matters


> We dropped the Fizzies in water, white milk, chocolate milk, orange juice
> - whatever (I'm assuming our tastebuds were "immature" along with our
> brains.)  My siblings and I remember Bosco and Maypo too (and candy
> cigarettes and eating candy canes from our stockings on Christmas morning
> before we even got out of bed).  Ugh.
>
> On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Leslie Field wrote:
>
> > Those fizzy tablets were called, appropriately enough, Fizzies. I
> > remember them as being dropped into water, not milk. I can still
> > remember the ghastly flavour of the lime ones. I was about in Grade 5 at
> > the time (mid-'50's) and we quickly discovered you'd get a heck of a
> > rush if you put the tablet directly into your mouth. It's a wonder I
> > survived to adulthood.
> >
> > And does anyone remember Bosco? Or Maypo?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Leslie
> >
> > Ellen Chapman wrote:
> > >
> > > I can't recall the name or brand, but oh boy do I remember those
straws!
> > > At about the same time there was another product - flavored tablets
(like
> > > large Alka-Seltzer) that you dropped into milk.  They fizzed and were
> > > appropriately ghastly for kids' tastes.  All this from the 1950s.
> > >
> > > |((|  Ellen Chapman
> > > |))|  Archivist, Sen. Spark M. Matsunaga Papers
> > > |((|  University of Hawaii at Manoa Library
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