Stop, stop - you're killing me! Oh God, that's exactly the kind of toffee apple I remember drooling over too. The line I gave Doyle about oxtail soup was because I only remember having oxtail soup on Bonfire Night, never at any other time of the year. *g*
And as Izzie pointed out to me, the Bonfire Nights I remember, and that Bodie and Doyle would have had, were much more of a free-for-all, far less officially organised and safety conscious.