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layering a gob-stopper, so it has all diferent colours through it

. Cumbria's closest
. 3/4 inch...

Black Bullets

...long. Oh, so maybe not, though some are oblate spheroids -ish.

(and you can still buy them - or could last year)

In 1967 Paul McCartney and John Lennon reported that there were four thousand holes in Blackburn Lancashire.

Was this a shot of the factory that was making them?

If so they must be "polo's"

Polo mints are three quarters of an inch long when made but are then tightly wound around the holes being made in this factory to create the ring shape.

All fascinating guesses, but not sweets, sorry.

You (in the UK) are statistically likely to have them in your larder.

In our larder? How quaint.

3/4" long, quintessentially British, food and made in Lancashire?

Suet?

They are making mouse droppings????

They're making 19 millimetres.

Oxo cubes?

RF

Now that's all I can think about, RF!

I'd have said OXO cubes, but surely they're smaller than that...

I have just measured an Oxo cube.

It is 19mm cubed.

RF

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Step away from the internet. Go to a door opening onto the "outside". Walk through it and start searching for a "life".

Don't worry about it RF, a lot of us appreciate the risks you are prepared to take to advance human knowledge

Thank you!

RF

I've seen the door. 'S not worth it, RF. The ones here are bigger, and have shinier knobs on.

He may not have a life, but he has three shiny QI points for correctly identifying that this is indeed an Oxo cube factory .

Operators are producing the crumbly cubes from a mixture of meat extract and hydrolised vegetable protein. As others have said, it's not obvious from this how the stuff is arriving at the machines to be cut into cubes and wrapped, but that's what it is, according to the picture caption I have.

Oxo production started on this site in 1940 and ceased in 1992: the company moved production after having had expansion plans turned down. They are now being produced in Worksop.

Pictures of the factory from the outside...
http://www.great-harwood.org.uk/cotton+mills2.htm

...and from the air:
http://www.multimap.com/s/CFBWYNGB

I'll give points later, so there's a little time to add anything Quite Interesting on the subject.

Icy

But how are stock cubes typically British?

I meant the Oxo brand.