....in thinking things like this should remain in children's imaginations?

[MarkStretch]

Or made from cookbooks by children themselves?

it's the roald dahl range currently being sold in tescos

I think it's a shame.

they arent anything like my childhood imagination.

They won't taste as good as they sound.

Tesco's just can't help themselves - they want a piece of everything!

how can you have fizzy lifting cakes?

i loved the sound of fizzy lifting drink. i always imagined it as a rather sweret lemonade/lime/citrus drink, which didnt have that aftertaste that a lot of fizzy's have.

You see! If I was little I would eat a fizzy lifting cake and be overwhelmingly pissed off and disappointed.

It could ruin your whole life if you were small.

Bloody bastard tescos.

My mother bought me the fizzy lifting cakes for my birthday and I was .......deeply disappointed (even though I'm 23 lol)

It's got that fizz whiz shit in it thats why its "fizzy" lifting.

i'm no fan of tesco but it's dahl's estate who are cashing in on the merchandising here (as well as tesco, of course). it'd be nice to think they'd be above this sort of cheap trick to make a quick buck (which they can't possibly need). nice, but unrealistic.

No, yanbu. Why do they do it? Children need to imagine things for themselves, why do people feel the need to do every little thing for them, including thinking???

That's exactly what I thought.

"fizz whiz shit".

My phrase for the day.

The whole point of wondrous magical cakes is that they are too wondrous and magical to appear in RL.
Let alone a RL on a shelf in Tesco.

I mean, what next, Manna in microwavable sachets??

I don't see the problem.

Have you actually tasted them? They're nice!!!!
Know what you mean though, about kids imaginations. A cookbook of them to make with the kids would be fantastic.

Where's the fucking frobscottle?

PMSL @ Bumdiddley

i want a giant peach to travel the world in.

I tried making George's Marvellous Medicine but nobody would drink it

are you really worried about this? lol

Ooh BFG cakes my mum used to make them well I say make them with me

Buy fairy cakes and put that crackly stuff on the icing LOL.

I was obsessed although I think she only made the cakes about 3 times.

We've got a Roald Dahl cookbook. I've never used it though, or the Shrek one come to think of it.
I really must get round to using them

I'm not worried about it.

It just annoys me.

And so you should with a name like that muggglewump!

You can get frobscottle.

And the other one, can't remember name.

In long life cartons.

SHIT I've just been outed as a shitty terrible mom then.
I made goggleberry (noddy) muffins with my girls (blueberries obviously). I should have left well alone

But it's nice to make them with your mum. Then you get the pleasure of making them and waiting for them to cook and tasting them and it's fun and exciting.

Not buying them off the shelf in fucking tescos and opening a packet.

IT'S WRONG I TELLS YA!