{"id":896,"date":"2011-07-04T08:46:24","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T07:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/?p=896"},"modified":"2011-08-15T15:08:52","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T14:08:52","slug":"whistle-pop-candy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/whistle-pop-candy\/","title":{"rendered":"Whistle pop candy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"e526d1e761560160a119e3b74cb2a974\" data-index=\"4\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- skool-response -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1609637348681190\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3558122710\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"autorelaxed\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Whistle pop candy sweets! These whistles were actually a boiled sweet lolly,\u00a0tasty\u00a0and zingy, with various fruity flavours. Various flavours i can remember \u00a0include lemon, cola and strawberry.\u00a0But the real reason you bought these were for there value for annoying parents. While you can suck, you could also blow your whistle at a high pitch screech, so loud that streams of dogs would arrive outside your house, like the\u00a0Pied Piper of Hamelin in the dog world!<\/p>\n<p>This whistle pop would give you a good 30 minutes of whistling depending on how you drooled. Popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_897\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/whistle-pops.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-897\" class=\"size-full wp-image-897\" title=\"whistle-pops\" src=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/whistle-pops.jpg\" alt=\"Whistle pop candy\" width=\"500\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/whistle-pops.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/whistle-pops-160x127.jpg 160w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/whistle-pops-300x238.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/whistle-pops-377x300.jpg 377w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-897\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Whistle pop candy from the 1980s<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Not to be confused with the hard sherberty and chalky\u00a0<strong>Candy Whistle<\/strong>. \u00a0The Candy Whistle was a similar type of whistle but had a little less clout. The <strong>Whistle Pop<\/strong> though had a great advert with it. \u00a0A large globule of hard candy on the end of the stick, that you had no option but to lick and suck until it became small enough that you could place it between your back teeth and crunch it up.<\/p><div class=\"e526d1e761560160a119e3b74cb2a974\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:5px 0 5px 0; text-align:center;\">\nskool\r\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"autorelaxed\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1609637348681190\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3558122710\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2>The whistle pop advert<\/h2>\n<p><em>&#8220;whistle pops the lolly.the lolly you can blow<\/em><br \/>\n<em>There&#8217;s so much fun in a lolly,in a lolly that blows *sound of whistle*<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Whistle pops the lolly,the lolly you can blow!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Annoying whistles<\/h2>\n<p>A reminder of how annoying the Whistle pop became for parents&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"390\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/j5sYwjGR2dY?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/j5sYwjGR2dY?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/whistle-pop-candy\/\"><img width=\"125\" height=\"99\" src=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/whistle-pops-160x127.jpg\" class=\"alignright tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"Whistle pop candy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/whistle-pops-160x127.jpg 160w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/whistle-pops-300x238.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/whistle-pops-377x300.jpg 377w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/whistle-pops.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" \/><\/a><p>Whistle pop candy sweets! These whistles were actually a boiled sweet lolly,\u00a0tasty\u00a0and zingy, with various fruity flavours. Various flavours i can remember \u00a0include lemon, cola and strawberry.\u00a0But the real reason you bought these were for there value for annoying parents. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/whistle-pop-candy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[53],"class_list":["post-896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lunchbox","tag-53"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Whistle pop candy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Whistle pop candy sweets! 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