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  • Nick Armstrong
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    • Nov 2010
    • 26527
    #16
    Originally posted by Anna View Post
    Their dark choc covered TEA CAKE!!"!
    .... she wrote, from her bed!!
    "...the isle is full of noises,
    Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
    Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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    • Beef Oven
      #17
      Originally posted by Caliban View Post
      A quick google suggests it was only marketed in the US. Do you know better? I've no recollection of it.
      No way - I bought one in Lower Clapton Hackney London E5 in 1969 or 1970. It was advertised on TV - a load of blokes in suits were around a boardroom table and, well I can't remember the rest, except after panning around the Alps, they all shook hands at the end!!!! someone else must've seen this advert?

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      • Nick Armstrong
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        • Nov 2010
        • 26527
        #18
        Originally posted by Beef Oven View Post
        No way - I bought one in Lower Clapton Hackney London E5 in 1969 or 1970. It was advertised on TV - a load of blokes in suits were around a boardroom table and, well I can't remember the rest, except after panning around the Alps, they all shook hands at the end!!!! someone else must've seen this advert?
        Yup see Ferney's #8... Rings no bells but then I was a little young


        "...the isle is full of noises,
        Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
        Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
        Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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        • Beef Oven
          #19
          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
          Yup see Ferney's #8... Rings no bells but then I was a little young


          Yes! I missed ferney's post #8 He saw the same advert - I'm not imagining things!!!

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          • Beef Oven
            #20
            Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
            Oh, yes! Advertised on telly with a group of important-looking men in suits: "This is a Summit eating" came the voice-over as they all tucked in. IIRC (eldest brother owned a sweets & tobbaco shop) it had a marshmallow centre with a blob of jam in - or was that Aztec?

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            • Nick Armstrong
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              • Nov 2010
              • 26527
              #21
              Some nostalgic wrapper designs here - including your 'Fry's 5 Centres' Edge... (I remember those 'Week End' chocolate boxes being very disappointing when the grandparents had them )

              However it has reminded me that Cadbury's ICE BREAKER was a MASSIVE favourite of mine! You could suck away all the chocolate from your mouthful, and be left with a load of crunchy mint shards! YUM!!! Possibly the first time in 30 years that has crossed my mind! (Earlier 'list' post duly amended)
              Last edited by Nick Armstrong; 24-03-13, 01:33.
              "...the isle is full of noises,
              Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
              Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
              Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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              • teamsaint
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 25204
                #22
                lion Bar
                Toffee crisp
                twirl
                Rees's peanut butter cup. (better than Kendal mint cake for those mountain emergencies, surely)
                Double Decker.

                As to Nostalgia bars: Why was Bar Six only available in Swimming Pools and BR vending machines?
                Also liked Mint Bandits, which seemed to have the worlds longest running advertising campaign.

                On the negative side: Caramac. why? some sort of WW2 hangover, or something?

                and also negative : Hershey's? How on earth do Americans cope? Revolting.
                Last edited by teamsaint; 24-03-13, 07:15.
                I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                • Nick Armstrong
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                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26527
                  #23
                  Originally posted by Anna View Post
                  Fry's Chocolate Creme
                  ....unobtainable
                  Not so, Anna: http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/frys-cho...eam-p-265.html
                  "...the isle is full of noises,
                  Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                  Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                  Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                  • Dave2002
                    Full Member
                    • Dec 2010
                    • 18012
                    #24
                    It's good to see the pictures of the bars - e.g. msg 21, but then I'm reminded of the time that there were small packets of chocolate biscuits for sale for a few pence. Cadbury's I think, chocolate fingers and some square ones. Also Rolo sweets, which we used to buy from a minute kiosk on Waterloo station - not the London one.

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                    • Nick Armstrong
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                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26527
                      #25
                      Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                      Why was Bar Six only available in Swimming Pools and BR vending machines?
                      True. Depressing sort of bar.

                      Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                      On the negative side: Caramac. why? some sort of WW2 hangover, or something?
                      Nope: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caramac

                      And still around
                      "...the isle is full of noises,
                      Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                      Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                      Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                      • Nick Armstrong
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                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26527
                        #26
                        Originally posted by Dave2002 View Post
                        Waterloo station - not the London one.


                        The one in Belgium...?
                        Last edited by Nick Armstrong; 24-03-13, 07:24.
                        "...the isle is full of noises,
                        Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                        Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                        Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                        • teamsaint
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 25204
                          #27
                          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                          Not so, Anna: http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/frys-cho...eam-p-265.html
                          a tempting offer for full box of 48 bars !!
                          You get better value on Mahler Box sets, though, IMO !
                          I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                          I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                          • Nick Armstrong
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26527
                            #28
                            Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                            a tempting offer for full box of 48 bars !!
                            You get better value on Mahler Box sets, though, IMO !
                            You won't break the bathroom scales either.... much healthier...
                            "...the isle is full of noises,
                            Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                            Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                            Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                            • kernelbogey
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 5743
                              #29
                              I must have been about seven when on a trip to Italy a relative gave me some Swiss white chocolate: I can't remember the brand. This unheard of delicacy in fifties Britain tasted like Manna. Now when I buy white chocolate it tastes boringly unexceptional. As I write, I recall a hint of that sixty-year old taste - something like vanilla and ...cardamom, maybe?

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                              • JimD
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 267
                                #30
                                Tiffin



                                "Take a Tiffin that's no bigger than a button.
                                Take a raisin that's been lazing in the Sun.
                                Get yourself a mellow chunk of chocolate.
                                Take a Tiffin, get them all in one."

                                Or something like that.

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