dinosaur egg

by michaelp

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..

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Alex Carraro November 8, 2005 at 10:26 am

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.

sam gladstone February 8, 2006 at 12:12 pm

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…

Bilbo March 4, 2006 at 10:03 pm

Are they anything like these?
http://store.candywarehouse.com/candywarehouse/dinasoureggs.html

Bilbo March 4, 2006 at 10:10 pm

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……