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Chocolate Chumps - Poor Jessie Blake.

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master brummie
Found this in an old book about the history of Sweets. Never heard about it before, thought someone might find it interesting.
 
What I find interesting is it being described as "crap" I thought that was a modern term
 
Interesting article.
Re the origin of Crap - you may find this of interest as it pre-dates Thomas Crapper by many decades or even centuries.
 
Theres no mention of when this happened, so perhaps it wasnt so long ago. Anybody remember Chocolate Chumps ?

Cant find anything about them on this new fangled interweb.
 
crap
"defecate" 1846 (v.), 1898 (n.), from one of a cluster of words generally applied to things cast off or discarded (e.g. "weeds growing among corn" (1425), "residue from renderings" (1490s), 18c. underworld slang for "money," and in Shropshire, "dregs of beer or ale"), all probably from M.E. crappe "grain that was trodden underfoot in a barn, chaff" (c.1440), from M.Fr. crape "siftings," from O.Fr. crappe, from M.L. crappa, crapinum "chaff." Sense of "rubbish, nonsense" also first recorded 1898
 
what an interesting artical, I have never heard of chocolate chumps before, and I thought that type of thing died out in Victorian England, it dos't say what happened to the purvayor, or what happened to the other kids who must have eaten the stuff??.
 
The cases occurred in 1896, and one of the persons prosecuted was Thomas Hackleton Walker whose shop was at at 8 Bristol St. A year later a similar case was pursued in Derby
Mike

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Originally Posted by fatfingers
Cant open the link, but the OP is talikng about Chumps not Clumps.

Should have gone to Specsavers mate !
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