Whatever happened to... Dinosaur eggs?
dinosaur egg
It was like a small gobstopper (wrapped like an egg) prob 1987 ish had a sours taste and changed colour on sucking. Think they then bought out another variety which was yellow (watermelon?) - would have been the same time as the hot jawbreakers..
Posted on June 3, 2005
Discovering this amazing sour gobstopper was the only thing I can remember about visiting the Commonwealth Institute on a school trip in the late 70's! Wow they were good - why did they suddenly stop producing them - they were a hit with every kid I knew - even though they were 10p a kick! (In those days that was a 1/3 of my pocket money...
Posted by: sam gladstone on February 8, 2006
Are they anything like these?
http://store.candywarehouse.com/candywarehouse/dinasoureggs.html
Posted by: Bilbo on March 4, 2006
or this?
http://store.candywarehouse.com/giantsours.html
the reason i ask, is cause i loved dinosaur eggs and im just wondering if anyone has tried the sweets on the links i've posted and if they are the same type of thing or not? they sound similar but would they be as good? hhhmmmmm......
Posted by: Bilbo on March 4, 2006
Dinasour Egg
It was an egg shaped gob stopper sized sweet which changed colour and flavour as you ate it (all sour flavours). In the middle was a sweet powder. Fantastic for school, since you could take it out of your mouth and blow on it for a few seconds and it would dry without being sticky. Therefore, it could be put back into the box/pocket, to be continued when class finished. They came in different colours, but the blue ones were incredibly rare. The cost 10p and were bought in a single box - the foll
Posted on August 23, 2004
Dinosour eggs
These were AMAZING! They were huge gobstoppers that came in a cardboard box and changed colour as you sucked them. They had a million layers, each a different colour, and we used to suck them for a bit & then put them back in their box to save for later. When you got right to the middle they had a really sour refresher-type stuff at the centre. Fantastic! I suspect they were Willy- Wonka creations, but I might have imagined that! We bought them from R S McColls newsagent in the early 80s.
Posted on May 2, 2004
I think these are the same thing I used to buy them from the ice cream man in the late 80's. They were made by willy wonka only the ones I bought came in a plastic wrapper and there were 2 jawbreakers inside. They were the best!
Posted by: Allison on January 31, 2006
Dinosaur eggs
Came in a box and could be sucked for DAYS (literally) - they were so big at first they barely fit in your mouth and got smaller and smaller - so long ago I can't remember what was inside but I remember it being amazing!!!!
S.G.
Posted on January 29, 2004
You can get the smaller version still thru candywarehouse.com. Not nearly as good as the larger egg, but may be good....
Posted by: Dino sucker on February 24, 2006
Dinosaur eggs (very popular in the early 1980s) got banned at my school (Neville's Cross Primary, County Durham). The reason: The kids liked them too much! One boy called Malcolm Whale decided to spend all the pocket money he'd been saving, go 1st thing in the morning to the local post office that sold them, and buy out the entire stock. They cost him 10p each but he was selling them on in a mafia style operation at 50p a shot (and kids were prepared to pay!). The age of Thatcherite private enterprise indeed!!!
They were the greatest 80s sweets *ever*. In second place for me were Watermelons (massive watermelon flavoured gobstopper in a similar sized box and made by the same company I think)
Posted by: Katherine Bone on November 15, 2006
I loved dinosaur eggs. sweet then sour then sweet as the colours changed. I'd love to see these resurrected like the Texan bar. I have just bought a whole box and stashed it in my shed! I would probably have to buy a concrete bunker to store Dinosaur or Dinosour eggs in if they came back. I bought mine from a corner shop in Northfields London W5. Long since gone and become housing, it used to smell of sherbert and had sticky wooden floorboards from all the generations of dropped sweet powder. Heaven.
Posted by: Alex Carraro on November 8, 2005