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Jujubes memories...
I remember eating Jujubes in a dark theater on a Saturday afternoon.
My bestest friend Renee and I would pool our money together and buy
one box. During the show, we ate them... one at a time and rolled it
around in our mouths until it was soft. We'd chew a little, taste some
more and then tried to guess the flavor. Of course the only sure way to
tell was to show it to each other to see if the color was right. We
called it Chew and Show!! I still go to the movies with my bestest
friend....and we still buy Jujubes, only now we each buy our
own! ~ Donna from Ohio
In the early
seventies, my father used to take me with him into a news stand and
tobacconist's shop to buy his newspaper. I loved the smell of the
tobacco and always got to choose some candy before we left. My choice
every time was Jujubes. I haven't had them for years, and just seeing
them on your website brings back the memory of that shop's old
familiar old smell. I believe the shop was destroyed in the Loma Prieta earthquake. ~ Allison from Arizona
From the time I can remember going to the show with
my brother most every Saturday in Long Beach, Ca. in the early 1940's
I would buy Jujubes & he would buy Jujyfruits. We would try to make
them last until the movie was over. It never happened even if we put
only 1 or 2 in our mouth at one time.
I think the Jujubes &
Jujyfruits were 5 cents a box so if we had 15 cents after paying 50
cents each to get into the show we bought a third box of Jujubes or
Jujyfruits and shared. Those were truly the good old days. ~ Douglas
from California
I was raised in Hollywood, Calfornia. My mom was a movie reviewer on radio KMPC and
used to take me to movie premiers on the Boulevard 2 or 3 times a week from 1953 until 1959. Although I enjoyed Charms candy drops and the
occasional Big Hunk, 9 times out of 10 I got a box of Jujubes.
Mom liked them because they would keep me occupied for most of the feature (we usually had 2
features, a cartoon and newsreel most of the time) and also it was not messy to eat. The flavors of Jujubes were also very neat. The grape
and the lime were my very favorites because they tasted so rich in flavor.
If I was very good, and took out the trash or something else particularly good, mom would come home
with a box of Jujubes as a treat. I kept them in my "secret cigar box" with my picture postcard collection, cowboy sheriff badge, and toy
cars. ~ Christian from California
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