Chocolate bars

[Frances_iom]

Do Nestle actually produce chocolate - I have free access to a jar of their 'chocolate' covered biscuit bars - various names + fillings - all covered in a brown substance that tastes nothing like chocolate - have they found a way of recycling some industrial waste product.

[Serial_Apologist]

Do Nestle actually produce chocolate - I have free access to a jar of their 'chocolate' covered biscuit bars - various names + fillings - all covered in a brown substance that tastes nothing like chocolate - have they found a way of recycling some industrial waste product.

Presumably their milk chocolate must be made with Nestlés's milk.

[vinteuil]

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... nessles or nesslay?


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[Braunschlag]

‘Nessles’ ! That’s how it used to be pronounced in the Milky Bar kid adverts so I’ll stick with it. Was the accent on the final ‘e’ there, say, in the 1970s?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

‘Nessles’ ! That’s how it used to be pronounced in the Milky Bar kid adverts so I’ll stick with it. Was the accent on the final ‘e’ there, say, in the 1970s?

Yup - as can be seen at the end of this advert from the '60s:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM8h7Yc3zfc

... as can the pronunciation "Nesslay" in the song! (A surprise to me - 'twere allus "Nessles" in NE Lancs themabouts, too; and I could have sworn that's how they sang it then, too.)

[vinteuil]

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... nesscaff or nessca-FAY??


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[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

... nesscaff or nessca-FAY??

Definitely the latter for me - because the spoken voiceover on the telly adverts made this clear (I heard the name before I saw it: possibly even before I could read).

[vinteuil]

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... I think I wd say nessLAY for the company, NESSles for the milk, NESScaff for the coffeepowder.

There was a Nestlé factory near where I grew up in Wiltshire : the people who worked there called it NESSles.

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[Bryn]

For Gold Blend and other freeze-dried instant coffees, NESScaffay, though best avoided. For the bog-standard spray-dried coffees, ersatz. For their chocolate products, no thankyou.

[Braunschlag]

Blow me down! Me too - how on earth did we end up teaching music with such faulty listening skills:)

[Braunschlag]

Or even such incompetent IT skills - meant to include Ferneys ref to that vintage Milky Bar advert there....

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

‘Nessles’ ! That’s how it used to be pronounced in the Milky Bar kid adverts so I’ll stick with it. Was the accent on the final ‘e’ there, say, in the 1970s?

That's the way it was pronounced them, though it's clearly wrong.

[Dave2002]

That's the way it was pronounced them, though it's clearly wrong.

I was going to check to see if it's another case of Häagen-Dazs (q.v) - but it isn't. Nestlé really is a Swiss company, dating back to the 1860s, and it seems it's the largest food company in the world, which I didn't know.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestl%C3%A9

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A4agen-Dazs

[gurnemanz]

I was going to check to see if it's another case of Häagen-Dazs (q.v) - but it isn't. Nestlé really is a Swiss company, dating back to the 1860s, and it seems it's the largest food company in the world, which I didn't know.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestl%C3%A9

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A4agen-Dazs

Häagen seems to work as a marketing name but is obviously nonsensical linguistically. As the Wiki ref points out, it's meant to look Danish but there is no umlaut in Danish. Anyway, umlaut means sound change, so it is pretty pointless to use it if they want the vowel still to be pronounced as an "a". An umlauted "a" followed by an un-umlauted one is even more nonsensical. Are they in decline? The only one near us which I can remember was in Bath and it closed a while ago.

PS When I selected Häagen-Dazs to google it, Firefox wanted me to to correct it to "brain-damaged"

PPS Another example of a linguistically pointless umlaut is the name of the band, Motörhead.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Blow me down! Me too - how on earth did we end up teaching music with such faulty listening skills:)

I suspect we ended up as Music teachers precisely because of those faulty listening skills.