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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Gobstoppers are a real candy that you can buy (they're alright, but kind of annoying if you want to use your mouth for anything else in the next half-hour), the movie didn't invent them. What they invented was the "everlasting" gobstopper.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I always knew those candies as jawbreakers (should be self-explanatory based on the above description) so it might be also be a regional/generational thing