Cracker
Just a quick note that Crane Brothers will not be selling Fire Crackers this year.
If we did it though it would probably be the Double Happy or Tom Thumb.
Banned for good reason they were always my favourite and the closest thing many of us got to throwing a live hand grenade as children.

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