Being spotted with these unadulterated sugary delights could provoke finger-pointing, stern looks of disapproval, and sometimes outright verbal condemnation.
Both Labour and the Conservatives oppose academic selection but are unwilling to provoke middle-class ire by rooting out its remnants.
They are emblematic of a broader strategic distrust, which if left to fester, may not provoke full-scale war, but could well lead to localised armed clashes.
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Greek and Turkish war games in the Aegean during the past few weeks have threatened to provoke another flare-up.
And there is a deeper British scepticism about Irish suggestions that just one more concession will provoke the long-awaited breakthrough on decommissioning.
The impression left is of a writer frozen in a precocious teenagery, whose ability to tease and provoke the grown-ups is entertaining but ultimately tiresome.
And David Davis, then shadow home secretary, resigned from the shadow cabinet and as an MP to provoke a by-election as a referendum of 42-day detention legislation.
The prime minister says he is ready to foot that bill and to reach his goals gradually rather than provoke a head-on confrontation with the dogged haredim.
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And as the shortcomings of Mr Estrada's administration have yet to reach the scale of those of the Marcos regime, they seem unlikely to provoke a people-power revolution.
"The accusation that the NBC broadcasts may provoke copycat attacks - the most serious charge against the network - appears to rest on a notion of severe mental illness as contagious, " wrote Bronwen Maddox of the Times.
Were Indiana to win this Eastern Conference final, it would be a significant upset, and perhaps provoke some ratings-hungry TV executives to order a double bourbon, but it would not be shocking, given how the Pacers have matched the Heat throughout the series and refused to yield to the expected story line.
In 1997, his starry-eyed enthusiasm was tempered only by his desire not to provoke the largely anti-European press.
But the other lesson from countries with federal or quasi-federal constitutions like the one Britain is giving itself is that such systems provoke decades of tug-of-war between the centre and the regions.
How Mr Miliband and his front bench team will handle that giant - tame it, provoke it or cosy up to it - remains to be seen.
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What scientists have been looking for are proteins which are found on the tumour cells - but not on every other cell of the body - which provoke some sort of immune response.
It is hard to see why tiny East Timor, with its separate history, should provoke fears of the break-up of Indonesia.
All they did, however, was provoke a backlash against out-of-state meddling.
Together with an unmasked man, both in hi-visibility bibs, they were holding up placards to warn of the presence of a council CCTV spotter car at a place where traffic rules seem notoriously bonkers, and therefore provoke a lot of u-turns.
As the Netanyahu government sought to understand how a routine meeting of the board became an international story, many officials alleged that Kadima had colluded with the Obama administration to exploit the board's decision to provoke a crisis in US-Israel relations.
CD-quality sound on the company's instant-messaging service could provoke even steamier gossip around the coffee pot.
Certainly, in the US, earlier mass shootings - there have been 13 such attacks in 2012, according to the Washington Post - have failed to provoke change.
There is only one sure-fire way to provoke an inflation shock and that is to close the Straits of Hormuz, or otherwise cause Middle Eastern oil to cease, temporarily.
In the very near future, big data will interface with smartphones and agency creative will (again) have to respond in amazing ways to provoke and communicate with targeted opt-in audiences.
And, well, using a TiVo is just fun in a way that no other DVR ever is -- those booping noises still provoke smiles all around.
Of the many military, political and human dramas relating to the Persian Gulf crisis that television has played out in U.S. living rooms over the past few weeks, one should provoke special unease in the American public -- and yet has received scant attention.
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Mr Gore has lately been passing around an article about the Human Genome Project's public-sector origins, hoping to provoke ideas on its consequences for medicine.
That, however, would provoke understandable rage among Britain's private-sector Internet companies.
How big a price rise does it take to provoke anything at all in these supposedly more energy-efficient days?
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