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Title: Victory V's
Post by: zirk on 07 January 2014, 09:40:57
Just been going through some old Biscuits Tins looking for some needle and thread, long story,  but found 3 packs of unopened Victory V's sweets.

I remember these when I was a kid, needles to say had to try one, bit hard but still pack a punch in the mouth.  :P

What ever happened to them?, not seen any for sale for donkeys years.  :-\
Title: Re: Victory V's
Post by: Big_Al on 07 January 2014, 09:52:25
Just been going through some old Biscuits Tins looking for some needle and thread, long story,  but found 3 packs of unopened Victory V's sweets.

I remember these when I was a kid, needles to say had to try one, bit hard but still pack a punch in the mouth.  :P

What ever happened to them?, not seen any for sale for donkeys years.  :-\

Still available  . . . see 'em in the chemist the other day .   

Probably taken over & made by one of the big companies now though  :-\

nice warming licorice flavour aren't they ?
Title: Re: Victory V's
Post by: cleggy on 07 January 2014, 10:05:28
This gives some info on them, I used to like the slightly numbing effect they had :y

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_V

Title: Re: Victory V's
Post by: zirk on 07 January 2014, 10:15:15
This gives some info on them, I used to like the slightly numbing effect they had :y

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_V
Useful info, says they no longer contain chloroform!, no wonder I was always falling asleep at school.  ::)
Title: Re: Victory V's
Post by: aaronjb on 07 January 2014, 11:29:05
Ether, liquorice and chloroform .. nice mix! Like a gentle gateway to something from Fear & Loathing ..

For anyone who hasn't read the book (or seen the film);
Quote
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug-collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.
Title: Re: Victory V's
Post by: zirk on 07 January 2014, 11:39:49
There a bit more'ish, nearly finished the first packet now, and I cant feel my face any more.  :o
Title: Re: Victory V's
Post by: omega3000 on 07 January 2014, 13:54:03
This gives some info on them, I used to like the slightly numbing effect they had :y

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_V
Useful info, says they no longer contain chloroform!, no wonder I was always falling asleep at school.  ::)

 :o

Use to like them but could never eat a whole packet  :-\
Title: Re: Victory V's
Post by: Varche on 07 January 2014, 14:01:40
Now look what you have done, reminded me about Fishermens Friend

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisherman%27s_Friend
Title: Re: Victory V's
Post by: Bigron on 07 January 2014, 14:02:46
My fuzzy memory seems to recall something to the effect that the wording on the lozenges was accidentally printed back-to-front, and when they tried to correct it, the public complained - they liked the quirkiness (and British eccentricity?) of the erroneous labelling and demanded that it be restored.
Is this just my imagination, or can anyone a little on the old side confirm?

Ron.
Title: Re: Victory V's
Post by: Big_Al on 07 January 2014, 14:18:58
My fuzzy memory seems to recall something to the effect that the wording on the lozenges was accidentally printed back-to-front, and when they tried to correct it, the public complained - they liked the quirkiness (and British eccentricity?) of the erroneous labelling and demanded that it be restored.
Is this just my imagination, or can anyone a little on the old side confirm?

Ron.

My fuzzy memory somewhere recalls they were re - named during or just after WW2 :-\ :-\   to Victory v

 or should it have been V for Victory :-\ :-\ :-\


SWMBO  says  could they have been named after the battle of Trafalgar / Nelson   & HMS Victory  . . .  . but to early (1805) I say

Title: Re: Victory V's
Post by: zirk on 07 January 2014, 14:41:41
My fuzzy memory somewhere recalls they were re - named during or just after WW2 :-\ :-\   to Victory v

 or should it have been V for Victory :-\ :-\ :-\

SWMBO  says  could they have been named after the battle of Trafalgar / Nelson   & HMS Victory  . . .  . but to early (1805) I say
'Originally manufactured in Nelson, Lancashire',

coincidence?  :-\
Title: Re: Victory V's
Post by: cleggy on 07 January 2014, 15:18:27
Further info  :y :y

http://josna.wordpress.com/tag/victory-v-lozenges/.

I've just been out and bought some .... memories.

Never did like Fishermen's Friends tho'
Title: Re: Victory V's
Post by: zirk on 07 January 2014, 15:23:48
Further info  :y :y

http://josna.wordpress.com/tag/victory-v-lozenges/.

I've just been out and bought some .... memories.

Never did like Fishermen's Friends tho'
Dont eat to many my Face is still numb, where did you buy them from?
Title: Re: Victory V's
Post by: zirk on 07 January 2014, 15:36:29
Further info  :y :y

http://josna.wordpress.com/tag/victory-v-lozenges/.

I've just been out and bought some .... memories.

Never did like Fishermen's Friends tho'

So they had Either, Chloroform and a touch of Cannabis in there, what else I wonder, Household Bleach mixed with Antifreeze maybe?, no wonder my bloody face is numb, not too sure how old these ones were I found but think I save the other 2 packets and sell them down the Local Wetherforks Pub.  ;D

'Victory Chlorodyne Lozenges with the original ingredients of pulverised sugar, linseed, liquorice, chlorodyne (a soothing mix of cannabis and chloroform) and pure acacia gum'.