We used to have these if we were good as a treat. They were sherbet powder in a yellow paper cylinder and out of the top would be a piece of liquorice. The liquorice used to have a hole through it and you used to suck up the sherbet through it. Only trouble was it would always go down the wrong way and you used to end up coughing and spluttering with your eyes watering. Great fun!
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Sherbet Fountains
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Do You Remember Sherbet Fountains?
Do You Remember Sherbet Fountains?
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To Caroline The liquorice was indeed hollow, and still is. I remember them very well. We used to have races, put ALL the sherbert in your mouth take a sip of water the last to suvive without spilling or exploding is the winner.
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I remember those, the stuff used to get everywhere, used to be horrible if it got up ur nose!!!
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I am another Ian Seddon - not the one who previously shared a memory of Sherbert Fountains. They used to be made in a factory near Crown Point in Denton, Manchester and I went out with a girl called Brenda who worked there in 1964!
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The head said, make the drink with tapwater. The heart said : just eat the sherbet ! Haven't seen them in Ireland in yonks, are they still on sale in the UK ?
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Sherbert Fountains were great - impossibly sweet sherbert sucked through a sweet liqourice tube or dipped in. Being 45 i need to look after my teeth now so it all remains a fantastic teen memory!!
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i dont think you can suck the sherbert through the liquorice, cause it wasnt hollow. For anybody who's tried them the yellow and red paper that surrounds the tube always got soggy and when you went to empty the rest in to your mouth half the paper got swalloed aswell.
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