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OK, now here's a challenge - finding someone other than me who remembers these.
They were made by Nabisco, and were essentially a dayglo pink version of the ever-popular Snowball. My mum was a Nabisco rep, and she and I spent a summer holiday week in about '75 stacking the shelves in supermarkets around the midlands with is wonderful new confectionary. They were sold in packs of two (and to my teenage brain looked remakably like a pair of inflamed testes), but not for long.....
After a very short time, mum started getting phonecalls, then more, then more. There followed a mad dash back round our stacking route removing the Pinkum Puffs from all the shelves we had so creatively stacked the week before. When Nabisco had tested these luminous horrors, they hadn't though about exposure to fluorescent lighting, as found in ALL shops; the dayglo dye they used to turn the snowballs that shade of pink was reacting to the light and causing the Pinkum Puffs to explode, offering shoppers the treat of eye-hurtingly-pink goo-spattered plastic packs of sugary gunge. It definitely wouldn't be allowed now, health&safety would insist on burial in concrete until depletion, but we took em all down to Coventry dump where they are probably still firmly stuck, glowing quietly to themselves.
Anyone else suffered at the hand of the Pinkum Puff?
They were made by Nabisco, and were essentially a dayglo pink version of the ever-popular Snowball. My mum was a Nabisco rep, and she and I spent a summer holiday week in about '75 stacking the shelves in supermarkets around the midlands with is wonderful new confectionary. They were sold in packs of two (and to my teenage brain looked remakably like a pair of inflamed testes), but not for long.....
After a very short time, mum started getting phonecalls, then more, then more. There followed a mad dash back round our stacking route removing the Pinkum Puffs from all the shelves we had so creatively stacked the week before. When Nabisco had tested these luminous horrors, they hadn't though about exposure to fluorescent lighting, as found in ALL shops; the dayglo dye they used to turn the snowballs that shade of pink was reacting to the light and causing the Pinkum Puffs to explode, offering shoppers the treat of eye-hurtingly-pink goo-spattered plastic packs of sugary gunge. It definitely wouldn't be allowed now, health&safety would insist on burial in concrete until depletion, but we took em all down to Coventry dump where they are probably still firmly stuck, glowing quietly to themselves.
Anyone else suffered at the hand of the Pinkum Puff?
Nabisco rep,eh?,So you will remember the Magic Roundabout biscuits they sold in the mid 70's (I did post a small pic on another thread).I recall them as plain thin dry biscuits in the shape of characters.no filling or topping,but the old memory may be playing up.
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