gobstoppers

A friend mentions something about marbles and it suddenly made me think of gobstoppers

For the non-British among us the word 'gob' is of Irish origin. In Irish (Gaeilge) gob, meaning beak transferred as slang in English as mouth.

• "shut your gob!" ("shut your mouth!")
• "Oi, you, shut your gob!
• She's got such a gob on her - she′s always gossipping about someone or other.

So therefore a gobstopper is something large to keep your mouth stopped up.

They come in all sizes.....:

This on is the size of a baseball. It takes a guy 24 days to lick his way through it, during the course of which the Gobstopper takes on appearances resembling an array of outer space bodies—the moon, rings of Saturn, the Death Star.



Instructions on How to Eat a Gobstopper

They have even inspired artists like Sarah Mevissen's glass "gobstopper" 

Or you can make an ode to them in quilt

colloquial/slang: cakehole, face, mush, trap

and for any Dutch readers : smoel , muil