Chupa Chups

And there was a Mexican restaurant where it had one of those like quarter like candy machines.

And you could get Chupa Chups, which were like little lollipops that had the Spice Girl sticker inside of it.

You could collect all the stickers.

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size.

To me, the base level of lollipop is a Chupa Chups.

No,

that's nice.

there were bloody ducks everywhere.

And, and a Chupa Chups display as well.

You know, the lollipop, the Chupa Chups, she just loves them.

So yeah, she had dozens of them and you just picked up one as you went around the room.

You know, it was just, it was really cool.

I thought this is where you throw the dum-dum lollipops.

You know, maybe the Chupa Chups, like the Mexican ones that are really good.

There's nothing like chucking a lollipop and maybe knocking someone's eye out with it, you know? The standard procedure is you roll the food, but once in a while you see them like projectiles coming across the street.

Like, okay.

They were so happy to be there.

And what I still remember is, for example, when one of them had a Chupa Chups lolly, you know, like they would all share it.

And if you're coming from a European mindset, that's insane.

You know, you would think almost that's disgusting, you know, like which German or Dutch or Central European person would be sucking on a chip and then give it to the friend.

Half the playground believed it, and the other half laughed until they played it and went quiet.

There was also a Chupa Chups sponsorship.

The Sweet World wore the lollipop branding, uh, though early magazine cover disc builds had unbranded sweets.

Uh, the modern remaster stripped the logos, uh, for legal reasons, and the working title before marketing got hold of it was Poots.

From Poots to a Chupa Chups ninja is quite the glow-up.

Add the Amiga 1200 bundle, and suddenly Zool wasn't just a game, it was the face of the machine.

The write-ups also argued about the, uh, the difficulty.

That, that makes sense.

Um, there was another brand partnership there as well, which was Chupa Chups.

Yeah.

Uh, they had some sort of cabin, but we didn't go in that.

Um, but I don't...

I suppose the kids love it, um, and I'm just too old for it.

But I don't know, when I just see things like Chupa Chups, it, to me Chupa Chups is a very, like, light-hearted, fun brand, and then it's at Fright Nights, it's a bit jarring.

They've tried to integrate it by putting the Chupa Chups, uh, people in, like, um, what, like HAZMAT suits and things like that.

... that you would get in the stick.

Chupa Chups.

[laughs] Is that what they're called, Chupa Chups?

Yeah, yeah.

Um.

It's kind of wrong bits.

And, you know, you could spend a bit more and you could get, like, someone could drop one in in a helicopter and it's got, like, a toilet and, you know, a butler and, you know, a man in the toilet with Chupa Chups.

Like, that kind of thing.

It's like-

You got lots of things right.

Uh, uh, number two, I've stopped the chop- Chupa Chups, right? The lollies have gone.

Yes.

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