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Originally Posted by Bob Dobson

Although a sweet rather than a medicine, I remember locists. They were something like a small banana with a most unusual taste. Possibly there were a dried fruit. I haven't seen or heard of them since 1952. I suspect they might have been something which was imported at a time when sweets were on ration. Please will somebody tell me about them.I bought them in a shop in Annie Street near the bridge over the railway near to St Joseph's church. I wonder if they still have them in stock?

Them Locusts were actually Locust Beans still in the pod, they were dried.
Look a bit like runner pean pods, but the ones we grow in this country, when the pod dries the pod goes like paper & the beans fall out.
They could be still around, but thad av to search thinternet for um.
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