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Fu Man Chews!! How an Oriental Arch Villain Became a Packet of Sweets!!

Posted: October 8th, 2013 | No Comments »

Another post on Fu Manchu (well, it is the centenary of the Fu Manchu books this year) – I hadn’t realised quite how much confectionery the old Chinese arch-villain had inspired….and video games and a Chinese take-away in Strabane, Northern Ireland!!

 

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Fu-Man Chew Hormone Gum (??) – a happy smiling Fu…..

 

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Some kinda gummy Fu Man Chew – and a strange sort of Monkey from Journey to the West type Fu Manchu image

 

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Not forgetting a rather silly video game

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And Fu-Man Chew’s Chinese in Strabane



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