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Garbage pail kids.

  • 21-10-2007 2:04pm
    #1
    Davedubh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 186 ✭✭


    Anyone remember these and their follow ups the garbage gang?They caused quite a bit of consternation among parents .They were packs of stickers that came with chewing gum and were a sort of bad taste parody of the cabbage patch dolls."Itchy Mitch" was a typical example featuring a boy tearing the skin off his back with a backscratcher.


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  • #2
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Yeah I remember them well. They were quite dark for kids! Topps Chewing Gum produced them. They had a factory in Ballincollig, Cork, close to where I lived (and its telephone number was nearly the same as ours). My friend's mam worked there. She always brought home loads of goodies for her daughter to share with us at school. It was the business! God, when I look back at it - toxic crap!


  • #3
    Firetrap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,442 ✭✭✭Firetrap


    Of course, nowadays they'd have their sorry asses sued by the Cabbage Patch Kids people.


  • #4
    endplate
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 991 ✭✭✭endplate


    They were a bit mad alright. My brother had his bed headboard completly redecorated with the stickers. The ma started to think they were effecting him as he started having nightmares later on. Probably a completly unrelated matter but you know parents


  • #5
    guinnessdrinker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭guinnessdrinker


    Wow, I forgot all about the "Garbage Pail Kids", I do remember them but I dont think I got what it was all about at the time!

    They even made a movie about them at some stage in the 80's!


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