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Re: Two Matters
Now I'll have the Bosco jingle wandering through my mind all day. :)
Andy
Andris Vinovskis
Information Resolution Assistant II
Serials Recording Unit
Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library
320 Hatcher North
University Of Michigan
avinovsk@umich.edu
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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