Talk:Victory V

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The "other" lozenge

Victory V, Altoids, and Fisherman's Friend are all 200-year-old British lozenges with a robust flavour. However, Victory V has slipped into near-obscurity, which is a shame, because we need more info here about:

History of the product. It's long.
Why the name Victory-V? Which war was it? It was supplied to troops for a long time.
Varieties: regular, gums (no longer made), medicated (which is the only variety now made, unfortunately, but is no longer marketed as such), etc.
Chloroform. Why and when wsa it removed?
Pictures of the product, including historic containers. These are collectibles, there should be plenty out there.

- ProhibitOnions ^(T) 13:34, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I can tell you it still had chloroform or ether in until just a few years ago. I bought a packet today - for the first time in a while, since they are getting very hard to find - and they no longer have chloroform or ether in. The flavour is now very different because of that. The ether or chloroform used to give it a cool solventy aroma, and now it is the liquirice that is the dominant flavour. I don't think I will be buying them again, as they have now lost that unique property.

This site (http://www.reachpharmacy.com/shop/customer/product.php?productid=24854) lists the following ingredients: Sugar, Gum Acacia, Liquorice Extract, Glucose Syrup, Ether, Colour E150c, Linseed oil, Flavouring.

The ingredients today are: Sugar, Acacia Gum, Liquorice Extract, Glucose Syrup, Flavourings, Colour (Ammonia caramel), Linssed oil, Menthol. Contains sulphites. 82.39.210.203 (talk) 00:22, 24 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Inscription

They wre inscribed:

LINSEED

LIQUORICE &

-V-LOZENGE

"VICTORY"

It had to be read from the bottom up. I never found out why. (From my notes and playground memories, so I don't think it can be used in the article). DavidCh0 (talk) 15:04, 27 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The Independent Reference

I've added a link to an article in The Independent, but their server seems to be unavailable at the moment. It was cached by google only a few days ago, so this is hopefully a temporary situation. The google cache is at: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Qs7jXIk49hoJ:www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/minor-british-institutions-victory-v-lozenges-1642783.html+%22Minor+British+Institutions:+Victory+V+lozenges%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk

The article is also archived at: http://web.archive.org/web/20100807091642/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/minor-british-institutions-victory-v-lozenges-1642783.html

If The Independent's server doesn't come back in the next few days, maybe someone could substitute the archived URl (if I don't do it myself). 86.7.23.104 (talk) 13:37, 31 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The Independent's server did come back, so the reference is OK now. 86.7.23.104 (talk) 13:08, 19 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]