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  • Mexican jumping beans

    Got some of these recently....fascinating things, little maggots trapped in a bean that jump when they get warm.....i'll get my coat
    Ejector seat?...your jokin!

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    Thanks for mentioning maggots - I was eating my evening meal when I read that!
    I've everything I need to keep me satisfied
    There's nothing you can do to make me change my mind
    I'm having so much fun
    My lucky number's one
    Ah! Oh! Ah! Oh!

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    • #3
      Re: Mexican jumping beans

      Originally posted by George 1978 View Post
      Thanks for mentioning maggots - I was eating my evening meal when I read that!
      Ahhh..,

      Me and my mates found masses of blackberry bushes one day over the lodges .. we ate loads and I took a huge bag of them home for my mum ... she had a look and said ‘ these are no good darlin’ .... they’re full of MAGGOTS !!!


      Aghhhhh!!!


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      • #4
        Re: Mexican jumping beans

        She did have a point.
        I've everything I need to keep me satisfied
        There's nothing you can do to make me change my mind
        I'm having so much fun
        My lucky number's one
        Ah! Oh! Ah! Oh!

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        • #5
          Re: Mexican jumping beans

          Full of nutrition...YUM!
          Ejector seat?...your jokin!

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          • #6
            Re: Mexican jumping beans

            Originally posted by tex View Post
            Full of nutrition...YUM!
            Yep ..... I must have gotten loads of bonus protein with those hidden maggots


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            • #7
              Re: Mexican jumping beans

              Witchity grubs are giant maggots eaten in Australia by aborigines
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              • #8
                Re: Mexican jumping beans

                I didn't know until I looked them up that Mexican Jumping Beans are naturally occurring.
                The Trickster On The Roof

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                • #9
                  Re: Mexican jumping beans

                  I remember there being a craze at Junior School (so 70s) of "Mexican Jumping Beans", which were basically just capsules (like the tablet ones) with a ball bearing inside.

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                  • #10
                    Re: Mexican jumping beans

                    There was supposed to be a mention of them on an edition of QI - unfortunately, they had all died!
                    Time flies like the wind, fruit flies like bananas - go figure!

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                    • #11
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                      Originally posted by Mulletino View Post
                      I remember there being a craze at Junior School (so 70s) of "Mexican Jumping Beans", which were basically just capsules (like the tablet ones) with a ball bearing inside.
                      Supposedly my brother swallowed one when he was young, & my parents were worried the weight inside was made out of lead!

                      The Wiggly Gigglys of the mid 1980s were similarly weighted with a steel ball baring inside, but were too big to swallow, though in time the glue holding mine together wore out.
                      The Trickster On The Roof

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                      • #12
                        Re: Mexican jumping beans

                        Mexican jumping beans are mentioned in the book Boy by Roald Dahl as one of the items that would be stored in a tuck box at his boarding school in Weston-super-Mare.

                        I had to do an internet search to find out exactly what they are.

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                        • #13
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                          I think I remember these, the plastic version with a weight inside. I didn’t know they were also a real thing.
                          1976 Vintage

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                          • #14
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                            Originally posted by Trickyvee View Post
                            I think I remember these, the plastic version with a weight inside. I didn’t know they were also a real thing.
                            Yuck....
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