Chocolate bars

[Beef Oven!]

Prolly they got small AND you got bigger.

As mentioned earlier, Bar Six only ever seemed to be on sale at Swimming Baths.

Bar Six were available all over London. Maybe different in Hants?

When did Bar Six disappear?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Bar Six were available all over London. Maybe different in Hants?
When did Bar Six disappear?

"Late '80s" according to this blog:

http://www.inthe70s.com/food/bar61.shtml

Bar Six (so called because it had six podgy - as opposed to four slender - fingers and cost 6d when first introduced in the late '60s) was Cadbury's cover version of Rowntree's Kit Kat. It was available in shops in Lancashire (for example, that owned by my brother!) for about ten years, but wasn't very popular - I had plenty of them, the family not so worried about stuffing old stock into my face as they were selling it to the public.

Has this been linked?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg9I0a6f0N4

[Dave2002]

Have they shrunk or is that just that I've got bigger? They were much were dearer than the other biscuits that were available in the Hackney Baths cafeteria after swimming , back in the day, so could only look. But made up for it as an adult! But weren't they bigger in the 1960s?

I had a vague recollection that they were called Weston (not Western) Wagon Wheels - and this would seem to indicate that I was on the right track - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagon_Wheels Probably this similarity of the name conjured up images of the Wild West and wagons - and appealed to the imagination of the purchasers. Maybe the packaging enhanced this thought - I can't remember.

[Nick Armstrong]

As mentioned earlier, Bar Six only ever seemed to be on sale at Swimming Baths.

And as you pointed out in #22, British Rail vending machines...

Even in my childhood I thought the wrapper design dull and hence that the taste must be too, so avoided it.

Give me an Ice Breaker any day!

[EdgeleyRob]

A Lion Bar is where Lions go to unwind.., and a Picnic Bar is where the Lions go for lunch.

Seriously, Lion Bar has to be head and shoulders above Picnic coz a Picnic doesn't have any lion it it.

[EdgeleyRob]

Have they shrunk or is that just that I've got bigger? They were much were dearer than the other biscuits that were available in the Hackney Baths cafeteria after swimming , back in the day, so could only look. But made up for it as an adult! But weren't they bigger in the 1960s?

[EdgeleyRob]

This combo doesn't work IMO

[MrGongGong]

Wasabi Kit Kat?

[Nick Armstrong]

Wasabi Kit Kat?

Haven't tried that one. I've tried the Green Tea Kit Kat. It was ok but....

Here's the complete range: http://kotaku.com/5983276/15-flavors...acktaku-review

Wouldn't mind trying the strawberry cheesecake version..

[Beef Oven!]

Wasabi Kit Kat?

That's worth looking into!

[Nick Armstrong]

I found this an absorbing watch:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05tynw0

.... inside one of the world's largest chocolate factories in York to discover how they produce a staggering seven million bars a day. He'll follow the incredible 24-hour journey - from bean to bar - of one of our bestselling chocolates and meet the team of people who work around the clock to keep up with that demand.

Cherry Healey gets hands on with the hundreds of workers on a production line in Derbyshire where the millions of chocolate boxes they produce every year are still surprisingly handmade.

Historian Ruth Goodman delves through the chocolate archives to find out what it was like working in the factories before the machines took over, and she meets the people who found love on the production line.

Interesting to learn about the importance of the 1930s in creating most of the core brands; and to see in detail the process of making KitKats and Thorntons' chocolate boxes and Easter eggs. The robots filling the boxes were astounding; not to mention the hypnotic hollow egg making machine !!

[Don Petter]

'Not just Free Range - All our eggs are from hens in Hypnotic Hollow!'

[french frank]

'Not just Free Range - All our eggs are from hens in Hypnotic Hollow!'

[Nick Armstrong]

'Not just Free Range - All our eggs are from hens in Hypnotic Hollow!'

Just watch it and drool, Don, just watch it and drool!

[Beef Oven!]