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  • Roald Dahl fans around the country are breaking out the frobscottle and preparing for a month-long celebration of their favourite author, from an attempt to get every man, woman and child across the Black Country reading his classic novel Matilda to a special opening of his garden and writing hut in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire.

    Roald Dahl Day expands into full month of special treats 2010

  • You are right that frobscottle [a delicious fizzy liquid, whose bubbles travel downwards] and whizzpoppers [extravagant noisy farts brought on by drinking frobscottle] should not be an isolated incident never to be mentioned again.

    Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

  • His imagination fizzed away like a bottle of the Big Friendly Giant's frobscottle, sending whizzpoppers of delight through his young readers.

    The Economist: Correspondent's diary 2010

  • Luckily for Sophie, the BFG is the only giant in all the land who doesn't eat children, instead subsisting on a diet of terrible-tasting snozzcumbers and a delicious, fizzy drink called frobscottle.

    news | WM | http://www.starnewsonline.com 2009

  • Another fun term comes from when the BFG drinks frobscottle, which contains bubbles that go down rather than up, causing him to pass gas, also known as whizzpopping.

    news | WM | http://www.starnewsonline.com 2009

  • Toast a glass of frobscottle and eat some snozzberies ... it's Roald Dahl Day!

    Ypulse 2009

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