On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 06:32:28 -0500, Andy wrote:

> Jill alerted me (us) to the USPS food collection ages ago. The 2nd
> Saturday in May, you put canned food in your mailbox and the
> postman/woman will collect and distribute them to food banks. Doesn't
> get much simpler than that. I donate four wholesale club boxes of
> AstroPops, the round candy lollipops with the bubble gum inside. There
> are needy and homeless kids out there, and I know it's a wonderful treat
> that they can leave with that resembles normalcy out on the street if
> for only an hour or so.

That would be a nice gesture if only it were true. Astro Pops were
discontinued 6 years ago.

"In 1987, Spangler Candy acquired the Astro Pops Brand from the Nellson
Candy Company of Los Angeles California. Astro Pops, rocket-shaped
lollipops, were reputed to be the longest lasting lollipop on earth. In
September of 2004, Spangler discontinued the product line.

http://www.spanglercandy.com/spangle...r/faqs.php#Q7:

They have recently been brought back into circulation by a different
company who bought the rights to them, but that was after the latest USPS
food drive when you claimed to have given them.

And here you are 4 years ago telling us the same story. Again, 2 years
after they were discontinued.

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.f...n&dmode=source

And the previous year you claimed to have given them out for Halloween.

You sure got a lot of mileage out of those AstroPops you bought 22 years
ago and probably ate yourself. We oughta nominate you for a Nobel Peace
Prize in Humanities and Bullshitting.