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Anybody out there old enough to remember Eamonn Andrews introducing Crackerjack? If so, what did you get in 'Double or Drop' if you got a question wrong? Wikipedia says a cabbage, but I'm pretty sure it was a cauliflower.

Or is my memory playing tricks?

SeaJayPea Thurs 26/06/08 18:43

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Unsureme
Thurs 26/06/08
18:44

Definitely a Cabbage.

SeaJayPea
Thurs 26/06/08
18:49

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Thanks for that. Elsewhere it says cabbage, but are my eyes deceiving me here? The girl who looks like Valerie Singleton in the second picture down is holding what looks to me very much like a cauliflower. Perhaps they did both over the years?

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http: //www.nostalgiacentral.com/images_tv/kids/crac kerjack_34.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.nostalgiac entral.com/tv/kids/crackerjack.htm&h=379&w=599 &sz=155&hl=en&start=14&tbnid=8G75WFXY66u2RM:&t bnh=85&tbnw=135&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcrackerjack %26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff

Unsureme
Thurs 26/06/08
19:06

I see what you mean but I can only remember a Cabbage.

saxy_jag
Thurs 26/06/08
22:17

I had thought it was caulis, but ...

http://www.ukgameshows.com/page/index.php?titl e=Crackerjack

eyeshade
Fri 27/06/08
08:56

I am sure it was cauliflowers, and in those days the kids knew the difference!!

tonymclark
Fri 27/06/08
09:20

I imagine it may have changed occasionally, probably due to what was available in Shepherds Bush Market.

For the most part though, I think it tended to be cabbage.

Jackanory
Fri 27/06/08
09:30

I only remember cabbages. . .maybe that girl WON a cauliflower!!

SeaJayPea
Fri 27/06/08
13:08

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This gets stranger and stranger. I reckon that in my days of watching, when Eamonn Andrews was presenting in the late 50's and early 60's, it was cauliflowers.

Sometime after that they must have changed it. That's the only thing I can think of.

Thanks all for your interest

Gee Bee
Fri 27/06/08
14:51

Just be thankful it wasn't a tin of peas.....imagine the pain when that dropped on your foot!!!

R1Geezer
Fri 27/06/08
16:04

they where always called a cabbage regardless of what they actually where.

The_Mac_Lad
Fri 27/06/08
20:31

crackerjack!!!!!

hippyhoppy
Fri 27/06/08
20:33

it's Friday - it's five to five - its CRACKERJACK!! I think it was a cabbage.. but then again ...

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