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Beloved American candy deemed 'unsafe to eat' in United Kingdom due to hidden chemicals (Jolly Rancher)
Fox News ^ | 6/18/25 | Andrea Margolis

Posted on 06/19/2025 11:38:40 PM PDT by Libloather

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To: piasa
"Mineral oil is also what you use to treat cutting boards, wooden spoons, and butcher blocks."

We have been drinking it safely for a hundred years...


21 posted on 06/20/2025 4:43:48 AM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: stanne
Remember the Jolly Rancher apple...may have been the only flavor, at the time...bars that would turn into the most wicked point and blade as you sucked on them? Those were dangerous.
22 posted on 06/20/2025 4:44:59 AM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: Libloather

Somehow I never would have put “beloved” together with Jolly Rancher.


23 posted on 06/20/2025 4:47:30 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: noiseman

The objection is to their regular ingredients, not contaminating manufacturing.


24 posted on 06/20/2025 4:48:32 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Libloather

My apologies. Just read deeper into the article.

Yuck!


25 posted on 06/20/2025 4:49:51 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Yardstick

“You can buy it over the counter for use as, among other things, a laxative.”

My Mother, me, a tablespoon.


26 posted on 06/20/2025 4:57:24 AM PDT by dljordan (The Rewards of Tolerance are Treachery and Betrayal)
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To: metmom

I’m pretty sure “quintillion” is an exaggeration. We’re only down to “parts per trillion”. I think ... Six more orders of magnitude to go. Unless I’ve missed something.


27 posted on 06/20/2025 5:22:44 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: gundog

“ Remember the Jolly Rancher apple”
During elementary school the jolly rancher bars were an everyday staple. At afternoon recess we hit the candy bar and those were a favorite. If you paid an extra .25 per week for lunch, you got your pick at the candy bar every afternoon.


28 posted on 06/20/2025 5:35:14 AM PDT by 9422WMR
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To: metmom

I liked some of the flavors. Grape, watermelon, lemon. Never liked green apple.


29 posted on 06/20/2025 5:48:21 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: Yardstick

Petroleum jelly has been used as lubricant in food preparation/processing equipment for many decades…..obviously it has killed millions. /s


30 posted on 06/20/2025 6:43:32 AM PDT by Mastador1
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To: GSWarrior
“… who doesn’t like a jolly rancher. …”

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Me. I never cared for the things. Blech.

31 posted on 06/20/2025 6:48:34 AM PDT by GaltAdonis
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To: 9422WMR

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32 posted on 06/20/2025 6:49:43 AM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: Libloather
Thank goodness we have Robert Kennedy Jr. defending the basic right of every American to eat the candy they enjoy.
33 posted on 06/20/2025 8:24:54 AM PDT by zeestephen (Trump Landslide? Kamala lost the election by 230,000 votes, in WI, MI, and PA.)
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To: Libloather

I used to fork at Jolly Rancher back in 1999, Not a bad gig, but horrible scheduling.

I wouldn’t know when I would go back to work until 5PM the day I was AT work.

Don’t think I lasted a month. Quit there to drive a forklift warehousing beer bottles for a contractor for Coors. Hired on at Coors November 2000. This is my 25th year there.


34 posted on 06/20/2025 5:22:53 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Democrats should have been barred from elections since The Battle Of Athens.)
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