Gumdrop Day

A gumdrop is usually brightly coloured, made from gelatin, shaped like a cone and coated in granulated sugar. They can be found on the Gingerbreadman in Shrek or lurking in bags of dolly mixture. Other than this, they are only sold in traditional sweet shops or in America. And this creates problems when trying to find some in Ushaw Moor. Unfortunately, many school children were also celebrating Gumdrop day so the co-op was sold out of Dolly Mixture. This left me no option but to buy the next best thing - jelly tots and fruit pastilles. Apart from the shape (and name), I see no reason why these do no fall into the gum drop category.

Finally.....did you know.....the Apollo 9 Command module was called Gumdrop, on account of the blue cellophane wrapping in which the craft was delivery - fascinating stuff!