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If you guys don't have jaffas in your country, what the hell did your parents/grandparents roll down the uncarpeted aisles of the cinemas?

Date: 2003-12-09 05:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] billradish.livejournal.com
um...eiw? XP Floor germs. Usually small children, I think. They roll well. And some even bounce!

Date: 2003-12-09 05:44 am (UTC)
ext_12944: (moly ratty)
From: [identity profile] delirieuse.livejournal.com
You're not supposed to eat them afterwards. Only annoy other patrons.

In my experience, small children roll far worse than you'd think. Dammit.

Date: 2003-12-09 05:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] billradish.livejournal.com
Whereas I practiced long and hard to be able to roll well. XD We had a series of small slopes and lawns where I grew up. My record distance for rolling in a mostly straight line without stops was something like 400 feet. (I am at work, forgive me for not looking up a conversion chart? ;_; I'm lazy and do not have my link...)

Date: 2003-12-09 05:52 am (UTC)
ext_12944: (sorry)
From: [identity profile] delirieuse.livejournal.com
3 feet to the metre.

Yeah, but it's just not the same as jaffas... ;_;

Date: 2003-12-09 06:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] billradish.livejournal.com
130-ish metres then. XD Immaditz?

Date: 2003-12-09 07:51 pm (UTC)
ext_12944: (fisheh!)
From: [identity profile] delirieuse.livejournal.com
Immaditz? If that means what I think it does, naw. You're not. *snugs*

You're a FISHEH!

Date: 2003-12-09 07:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] billradish.livejournal.com
I'm a ditz AND a fisheh! >(*o*)

Date: 2003-12-09 05:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scott-wells.livejournal.com
Maybe JuJu Fruits? They are these theoretically fruit flavored, supposedly jelly-like candies, that are usually so hard that they are totally inedible. *nods*

Date: 2003-12-09 05:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] billradish.livejournal.com
My parents found those extremely useful!

They used them to glue my jaw shut temporarily.

Date: 2003-12-09 05:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] billradish.livejournal.com
I am, unfortunately, not joking. ^^; This was the main reason to buy the small!radish jujubees, actually. And? They bought them and froze them in summer. *snickers* Talk about glued jaw...but they were sweet and fruity and cold... ;_; I could not resist the icy-juju...boo-hoo.

Date: 2003-12-09 05:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] painispretty.livejournal.com
Jaffas as in Jaffa cakes?

Otherwise, probably aniseed balls - they are wonderful cinema food as you can throw them at people and cause serious damage, crunch them and make unbelievable amounts of noise, or you can feed them to small children, who are bewildered by the toughness and ... *Gasp* ... SHUT UP!

Date: 2003-12-09 06:50 am (UTC)
ext_12944: (taunty groin)
From: [identity profile] delirieuse.livejournal.com
Possibly in terms of flavour, but these jaffas are small, round, hard sweets.

Mmm. Aniseed.

Date: 2003-12-09 06:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] melusinehr.livejournal.com
Peanuts. Though I think those were used more for throwing. Hence "peanut gallery". :)

I do know where I can find Tim Tams here in the States, though, so I'm not completely Aussie-cultureless. *g*

Date: 2003-12-09 06:51 am (UTC)
ext_12944: (boomerang fisheh!)
From: [identity profile] delirieuse.livejournal.com
That's more of a theatre than a cinema thing, isn't it? I did know the origin of the phrase, though.

I'm just astounded that no one else has jaffas. Rolling jaffas down the aisles is as familiar here as the concept of the peanut gallery.

Date: 2003-12-09 07:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] melusinehr.livejournal.com
Is true. I think popcorn is de rigeur for throwing in the movie theatre.

I never heard of anything being rolled down the aisles. But I am also trying to think of something appropriately round and hard and am coming up with nothing. Maybe this is why M&M's are flat?

Date: 2003-12-09 07:20 am (UTC)
ext_12944: (curious)
From: [identity profile] delirieuse.livejournal.com
Perhaps this is just an Aussie thing, then...

Date: 2003-12-09 04:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pinque.livejournal.com
nup, kiwi thing as well..

And not just in the insult to Aucklanders;)
J.A.F.A;)

Date: 2003-12-09 07:44 pm (UTC)
ext_12944: (heartspam)
From: [identity profile] delirieuse.livejournal.com
Yeah, I discovered both of those when I googled it. ;D

Date: 2003-12-09 11:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pinque.livejournal.com
snorfle;)

Date: 2003-12-09 08:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottyt2.livejournal.com
Things tend not to roll in uncarpetted cinemas. They might make it an inch or two before you hear a slight sucking noise and they stop. Usually takes a small chisel to move them again.

Date: 2003-12-09 08:35 am (UTC)
ext_12944: (boomerang fisheh!)
From: [identity profile] delirieuse.livejournal.com
See, why I said parents/grandparents. In ye olden days, theatres were not carpetted. Australians of yore rolled jaffas. Now they're (mostly) carpetted, and we cannot.

Date: 2003-12-09 08:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottyt2.livejournal.com
It's more the stickiness factor. The factor that convinces many to have cinema shoes to avoid contaminating the good ones.

Date: 2003-12-09 07:50 pm (UTC)
ext_12944: (richard)
From: [identity profile] delirieuse.livejournal.com
Ours aren't that bad. Really.

Date: 2003-12-09 12:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dark-prophet.livejournal.com
Jaffas as in jaffa cakes? As in round buscuit type thingies filled with yuk?

My parents/grandparents rolled bowling balls down said aisle. And that would be much funnier if it weren't true and I hadn't been there

Date: 2003-12-09 07:49 pm (UTC)
ext_12944: (mexican hitler)
From: [identity profile] delirieuse.livejournal.com
No. Jaffas are marble-sized chocolate balls with an orangey-red shell.

Date: 2003-12-10 03:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dark-prophet.livejournal.com
Nope. don't have them here

Date: 2003-12-10 06:09 am (UTC)
ext_12944: (thoughtful)
From: [identity profile] delirieuse.livejournal.com
I know. They're exclusively an Australian/New Zealander thing.

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