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Just returned from Kirkwall on Orkney back home to Inverness, where I met a retired Sheffield couple who moved there over thirty years ago.

Amongst their questions was are the Beach Nut Machines still there, with a free packet on the forth turn. I think I was right to say they ar long gone, but if anyone knows different please let me know

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Just returned from Kirkwall on Orkney back home to Inverness, where I met a retired Sheffield couple who moved there over thirty years ago.

Amongst their questions was are the Beach Nut Machines still there, with a free packet on the forth turn. I think I was right to say they ar long gone, but if anyone knows different please let me know

 

I think they are long gone. Havent even seen the brand " Beech Nut" now.It was always the best chewing gum wasnt it ?

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Yes Beech Nut, as per tree, the alternative was Wrigleys. Long gone because I think you had to insert something like 2 x 1d - the old penny, thus twopence? It was a small greaseproof-like pack and there were about five small oblong/convex pieces of gum covered in 'enamel'. This dates us folks.

Probably a must on dates as well?

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Yes Beech Nut, as per tree, the alternative was Wrigleys. Long gone because I think you had to insert something like 2 x 1d - the old penny, thus twopence? It was a small greaseproof-like pack and there were about five small oblong/convex pieces of gum covered in 'enamel'. This dates us folks.

Probably a must on dates as well?

 

Some of the dates i went on you probably needed two pieces????

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The big three were Beechnut, Wrigleys Spearmint, and PK. And does anyone remember that green stuff someone manufactured,that used to crumble into bits after about five minutes chewing? It was a bit like wax.

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The big three were Beechnut, Wrigleys Spearmint, and PK. And does anyone remember that green stuff someone manufactured,that used to crumble into bits after about five minutes chewing? It was a bit like wax.

 

You can still buy PK but it's in strip form not the little tablets. Same yellow wrapper though.

 

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The big three were Beechnut, Wrigleys Spearmint, and PK. And does anyone remember that green stuff someone manufactured,that used to crumble into bits after about five minutes chewing? It was a bit like wax.

 

Are you thinking of Dentine?

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No, Dentine was good. The green crumbly stuff appeared just after the war when rationing was easing just a little. It too was in strips. Dentine was in small oblong pieces and colored pinkish with a distinct antiseptic flavor.

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What about Stimerol (?). The Black Ice gum being sold now reminds me of it.

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Didn't Beechnut make Juicy Fruit as well as peppermint?

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Didn't Beechnut make Juicy Fruit as well as peppermint?

 

Oh now you have jogged my memory!! Similar shape and size to Beech Nut but in different colours and flavours, I think.

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I once swapped the contents of Beech nut for a strong laxative that looked like Beech nut and passed them around to my entire class. I had about 5 packs in my pocket and the teacher noticed me giving out sweets and ordered me to give him the remainder which he stuffed right into his gob.

 

I was expelled for that little prank, and the class and teacher spent a couple of merry days attempting to pass their appendix through their anuses.

 

 

Happy days..

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