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Welcome to the Genes Reunited community boards!

The Genes Reunited community is made up of millions of people with similar interests. Discover your family history and make life long friends along the way.
You will find a close knit but welcoming group of keen genealogists all prepared to offer advice and help to new members.
And it's not all serious business. The boards are often a place to relax and be entertained by all kinds of subjects.
The Genes community will go out of their way to help you, so don’t be shy about asking for help.

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Member Since: March 2011 Posts: 17,432 Send Message	JoyLouise	Report	5 Jan 2021 16:03
	B & M sell them here, Sharron. I like the mint ones best.
Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 16,020 Send Message	Sharron	Report	5 Jan 2021 14:52
	Oh yes! Poundland sell the toffee ones don't they? I am not sure it is wholly moral and proper to eat them outside the confines of the flea pit though!
Member Since: March 2011 Posts: 17,432 Send Message	JoyLouise	Report	5 Jan 2021 14:36
	I still like Poppets. :-D
Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 16,020 Send Message	Sharron	Report	5 Jan 2021 14:33
	It was your duty to eat Paynes Poppets in the cinema, while you enjoyed you Jubblie.
Member Since: March 2011 Posts: 17,432 Send Message	JoyLouise	Report	5 Jan 2021 14:27
	Stop digging Sharron; I hope you have your tin hat on! :-D ;-) I do recall jubblies (even though I got the name wrong). They came out a little too late for me to really get stuck into enjoying them but I have had perhaps a couple. My fave was always a choc ice or one of those very small tubs of ice cream. Sunday afternoon, spiders, choc ices, Richmond Selection, Chocolate Eclairs ...... yuum. :-D
Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 16,020 Send Message	Sharron	Report	5 Jan 2021 14:19
	Sorry. I meant, I didn't think anybody younger than Island would remember them. I think the reference to ju-jubes I saw was in an eighteenth century book.
Member Since: May 2003 Posts: 20,659 Send Message	maggiewinchester	Report	5 Jan 2021 14:14
	When you said 'boo-boos' I thought of bon-bons. :-S Then I saw 'jujubes', and had to look it up! "A recipe for "pate de jujubes" was published in 1709.The recipe called for gum arabic, sugar, and the date-like jujube fruit. In 1853, both "ju ju paste" and "ju ju drops" were sold by confectioners. Later, recipes used various flavorings instead of jujube fruits
	Researching: Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842
Member Since: September 2003 Posts: 16,048 Send Message	Island	Report	5 Jan 2021 14:06
	Joy, the orange drink in odd shaped boxes were Jubblies. I think the name was later nicked though - or was that an iced bun or something? :-S
	Researching: I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday
Member Since: September 2003 Posts: 16,048 Send Message	Island	Report	5 Jan 2021 14:02
	No. you said 'I didn't think anybody would be old enough to remember them! :-\
	Researching: I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday
Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 16,020 Send Message	Sharron	Report	5 Jan 2021 13:55
	And it was illegal to have them anywhere but the cinema!
Member Since: May 2006 Posts: 7,006 Send Message	nameslessone	Report	5 Jan 2021 13:49
Member Since: May 2006 Posts: 7,006 Send Message	Ooo. You sucked out all the juice and were left with a huge triangle of ice.
Member Since: March 2011 Posts: 17,432 Send Message	JoyLouise	Report	5 Jan 2021 13:33
	That's them, LaG. :-D I did not know you could still get them!
Member Since: December 2003 Posts: 40,308 Send Message	LaGooner	Report	5 Jan 2021 13:31
	Yep, Del Boy :-D :-D :-D :-D
Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 16,020 Send Message	Sharron	Report	5 Jan 2021 13:30
	Luvverly Jubbly!
Member Since: December 2003 Posts: 40,308 Send Message	LaGooner	Report	5 Jan 2021 13:28
	Jubblies are the frozen lollies Joy, we still have them if the little ones come in the summer :-)
Member Since: March 2011 Posts: 17,432 Send Message	JoyLouise	Report	5 Jan 2021 13:25
	Never liked jujus/jubes - but I can remember them as jujus or joujous. Surely you jest, Sharron. I think a lot on here will remember them - some of us are ancient! :-D Does anyone recall jubes as in an orange flavoured weirdly-shaped ice block contained in a wax-like cardboard? My younger siblings loved them.
Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 16,020 Send Message	Sharron	Report	5 Jan 2021 13:21
	No, I didn't. I gave everybody the benefit of the doubt!
Member Since: September 2003 Posts: 16,048 Send Message	Island	Report	5 Jan 2021 13:13
	Old? :-0 did you say old Sharron? 'ekkin' cheek. :-0
	Researching: I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday
Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 16,020 Send Message	Sharron	Report	5 Jan 2021 13:13
	But I gave everybody the benefit of the doubt!
Member Since: May 2006 Posts: 7,006 Send Message	nameslessone	Report	5 Jan 2021 13:09
Member Since: May 2006 Posts: 7,006 Send Message	I am!

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