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ventaPretty much my favourite chocolate bar is a Double Decker. It's run a close second by a Marathon (which I still resolutely refuse to call a Snickers because, well, it's just silly. And "eating your snickers" sounds like some sort of shoddy euphemism. But I digress.)
So, Double Deckers and Marathons ?
Well, you can now buy a Double Decker with nuts in. Which tastes, not unsurprisingly, like a cross between the two.
<joyful munching noises>
So, Double Deckers and Marathons ?
Well, you can now buy a Double Decker with nuts in. Which tastes, not unsurprisingly, like a cross between the two.
<joyful munching noises>
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Date: 2004-09-21 04:48 am (UTC)Anything with rice krispies, nougat or nuts in it is bad.
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Date: 2004-09-21 04:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-21 05:00 am (UTC)Fry's Chocolate Cream: acceptable, but the mint cream one is waaaay nicer. Had a big 'thing' on those about 3 years ago.
My current big 'thing' is for mint Aeros.
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Date: 2004-09-21 05:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-21 05:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-21 08:53 am (UTC)Double Decker's are great. They're crunchy, in a chewy sort of way -or so the original ads went. You youngsters probably won't remember that! (Don't know how long they ran those for). Boost were essential student fare, although they're a bit too stodgy for me these days.
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Date: 2004-09-21 04:51 am (UTC)But Marathons are manky, peanuts need dry-roasted-flavour chemicals!
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Date: 2004-09-21 05:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-21 05:14 am (UTC)I am slightly disappointed, though, that their nostalgia section doesn't seem to sell the sweets I want... Tutti Fruities! Tutti Minties! Those things that were like creme eggs but full of minty stuff instead of revolting goo!
And they lie! Look:
...we sell our 'weigh out' sweets by 150 grams which is well over 'a quarter of" a bag of sweets! (100 grams is just over 1/4lb)
Surely 1/4lb is about 113g ? Not that it's that important :)
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Date: 2004-09-21 05:24 am (UTC)Here, it seems, our looting arrangement might break down.
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Date: 2004-09-21 06:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-21 08:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-21 05:27 am (UTC)As a classifier type, I also approve of the regathering and rebranding of all Cadbury's bars under the 'Dairy Milk +' scheme. It's an attempt to combat falling sales of individual bars by giving them the boost [sic] of Dairy Milk's reputation, but it's also nice and tidy (-:
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Date: 2004-09-21 09:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-21 05:10 am (UTC)Either of which would be cool.
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Date: 2004-09-21 05:14 am (UTC)Sheesh. I ask you.
Some people just don't know a marketing opportunity when it's glaring them in the face.
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Date: 2004-09-21 05:20 am (UTC)Or perhaps they did a Double Deckathon.
Difficult to say.
Especially six times in a row, quickly.
My favourite joke 15 years ago
Date: 2004-09-21 06:30 am (UTC)An octopus.
What do you call a creature with ten legs?
A decapus.
What do you call a creature with twenty legs?
A double-decapus.
Re: My favourite joke 15 years ago
Date: 2004-09-21 10:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-21 05:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-21 05:51 am (UTC)I don't know about the recipe change. I don't remember it, but then I'm not sure I ever ate enough Marathons to be familiar enough to tell the difference.
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Date: 2004-09-21 06:10 am (UTC)I never really ate a lot of Marathons, it was only after the name change that I started eating them.
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Date: 2004-09-21 06:59 am (UTC)Nope.
Also,
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Date: 2004-09-21 07:08 am (UTC)Y'see, these modern chocolate bars just don't have the punch of the old ones - they're not distinctive enough to be memorable :) I know I've eaten a Fuse in the past, but the best I can manage is that I think it was a bit like a Picnic (so kind of nobbly and nutty and raisiny). But I'm not at all sure.
Of course, if you want to educate me by buying me lots of chocolate, I'll try and cope :)
Out of interest, what used to be advertised as "slightly rippled with a flat underside" ? Was that Boost ?
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Date: 2004-09-21 07:27 am (UTC)Ah, Vic 'n' Bob.
Or rather... ah, Bob. Am I alone in having found Bob a lot funnier than Vic?
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Date: 2004-09-21 07:39 am (UTC)no subject
Great page of ads you link to below, by the way. My favourite is the Clark's Magic Shoes 1988 one, third on the page.
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Date: 2004-09-21 08:30 am (UTC)You're probably right about them being less funny in isolation though.
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Date: 2004-09-21 08:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-21 08:57 am (UTC)But Marathon are made by Mars (or Masterfoods, or whatever they're called these days) not Cadbury, so have superior chocolate on them, obviously.
<ducks>
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Date: 2004-09-21 10:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-22 02:11 am (UTC)No, I brought mine down from the Shepherds Hill garage.
In return to your subject line:
Date: 2004-09-21 11:00 am (UTC)Loads of good (well, sort of good) stuff at, and linked from, http://www.markmcm2002.verysmooth.co.uk/ads_a-f1.html .
Re: In return to your subject line:
Date: 2004-09-21 11:51 am (UTC)So, what's got a hazelnut in every bite?
Date: 2004-09-21 11:26 am (UTC)Bad Liz - no biscuit. Or Snickerdecker or whatever it is. Now I'll have to go out and hunt one of these down to see what they're like. Peanuts, or proper nuts by the way?
Like you, Double Deckers are one of my favourite chocolate bars - there's enough substance to them to make them satisfying to fill a hole (behave at the back) and you can't wolf a whole one really quickly since they take some chewing.
In the event of a chocolate emergency though, there's always the good old fashioned standby of a Mars, especially one from the fridge, that never fails to reach the parts other chocolate doesn't reach.
Marathons are so-so - too much caramel gunk and crappy nuts. I'd eat one if there was little else but otherwise I'll pass. Aside from the traditional Mars bar itself I don't find there's much that Mars puts out that I'm actually that bothered by. Nestle too, for that matter, with the sole exception of Kit-Kats (though I'm less fond of the giant chunky ones - too much biscuit, not enough chocolate). And there's not a great deal that Cadburys do that I'm that bothered by either so there's not a great deal of choice.
Topics, however, at least before they shrank the normal size to a single bite whilst cranking the price right up, used to be a decent enough snack. Not even a snack-lite (TM) these days though.
My biggest irritation though is that there aren't any really decent plain chocolate snacks about - none of this milk chocolate nonsense for me, thanks. About the only thing beyond a chocolate orange that I can recall (outside of a regular bar of the stuff) is a Jameson's Raspberry Ruffle, but you can't seem to find those about these days.
Re: So, what's got a hazelnut in every bite?
Date: 2004-09-22 02:10 am (UTC)Er, I'm not sure actually. Sort of unidentified nuttiness.
If forced to choose, I guess I'd say 'peanuts'.
Re: So, what's got a hazelnut in every bite?
Date: 2004-09-22 02:27 am (UTC)This is true. However, for a long time I found myself wishing that someone, somewhere would produce a snack which was about the size, shape and fillingness of a Mars bar - but savoury.
The obvious answer would be, say, a sausage roll but most non-bakery are repellently dry, and never seem to me to be quite the right thing. I therefor salute Ginsters for the creation of the Buffet Bar (http://www.ginsters.co.uk/products.cfm?productid=30), which does exactly what I want.
Ginsters' Roasters (http://www.ginsters.co.uk/products.cfm?productid=49) are great too - like a sausage roll but with added bacon.
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Date: 2004-09-21 03:32 pm (UTC)