#Jawbreaker

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A pile of colorful Willy Wonka Everlasting Gobstoppers candies
Food 1976–present

Everlasting Gobstoppers

The real-world candy named after Roald Dahl's fictional invention: small multicolored layered jawbreakers that change flavor and hue as they dissolve. Launched in 1976 under the Willy Wonka Candy brand, they became a staple of 1990s lunchboxes and movie-theater concessions.

A bin full of large speckled, marbled giant jawbreaker candies
Trends 1990s

Giant Jawbreaker in a Bag

Baseball-sized or larger multicolor jawbreakers (2–3+ inches across) that were physically impossible to finish, so kids licked them for weeks and carried them in plastic sandwich bags between sessions. Comparing color layers and tracking progress became peak 1990s playground status symbol.