• Eagle0600@yiffit.net
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      8 months ago

      Gobstoppers are a real candy that you can buy (they’re alright, but kind of annoying if you want to use your mouth for anything else in the next half-hour), the movie didn’t invent them. What they invented was the “everlasting” gobstopper.

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        8 months ago

        I always knew those candies as jawbreakers (should be self-explanatory based on the above description) so it might be also be a regional/generational thing