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a candy engineered to outlast your patience, your jaw, and possibly your relationship.
means a large, hard, round sweet that you suck slowly over a long time, often changing color in layers as it shrinks.
from A plain-spoken British compound from "gob" (slang for the mouth, in use for centuries and possibly of Celtic origin, related to Gaelic and Irish words for beak or mouthful) plus "stopper" — literally something that stops up your gob. The name is gloriously literal: a sweet so big it plugs your mouth shut, which is rather the point.
- name origin
- British slang where gob means mouth
- layered build
- colored shells added one slow spin at a time
- factory time
- some take over two weeks to make
- willy wonka
- his everlasting version was pure fictional fantasy
everton toffees — english football club nickname from everton toffee company sweets, liverpool since 1878
jawbreaker candy — modern hard spherical candy that evolved from gobstopper, sold worldwide as alternative name