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Stupefying multiplicity of chocs - a tale from history
For reason both too complex and too tedious to explain I have just re-packed a load of childhood marbles long thought to be missing, out of a disintegrating old Terry's Desert Chocolate Assortment box.
I'm not straying in Freecycle territory here, or into crap and predictable marbles jokes, my interest is in the box itself which must be four decades old.
The list of chocolates inside the lid - which would have BEEN chocolate too, rather than chocolate flavoured vegetable fat as most are now - is as follows:
Pineapple
Burnt Almond
Hazelnut Whirl
Walnut
Brazil
Ginger
They omitted three more flavours - "Shut up", "Get On With It" and "Don't You Know There's A War On (oh its over never mind)"
But I am willing to bet they would have tasted great. Except the Ginger one of course, much though gingerist attitudes pain me personally (I tell you mine is AUBURN - god it will actually be a relief to go grey....)
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Terry's Desert Chocolate Assortment..
They don't sound very nice. They'd have all sand in them.
I still hanker after...
...the Cadbury's Milk Tray bar, which had six (I think) box-style choccies joined together in bar form. I think the flavours were caramel, strawberry creme, lime barrel, coconut ice, fudge...can't recall the other one. Anyone else remember?
Here y'go
Although as I recall it didn't make much differnce as the bar usually smashed and became a kind of chocolate tutti-frutti mess.
Thanks for that
Turkish delight, of course. Looks like the 10p version had extra varieties, rather than just doubling up the 4p flavours - I can see an orange segment and a hazelnut whirl there.
I'll scan mine too I think
The pangs of nostalgia...
I think there is actually a museum of consumer product packaging dating back to victorian times. Its just occured to me I REALLY want to see it
This one?
http://www.museumofbrands.com/
I was there at the weekend
My third visit, still enjoyable.
Milk Tray Bar
I'd forgotten that one. The Airfix kit of confectionery.
Blast you
Tea emerging from ears and about to lose both lungs to a coughing fit
they seem to have been in two minds
as to how they might spell coconut..
...and some loose
apostrophising too.
Those Milk Tray bars
Didn't they do a Dairy Box one too. Weren't they too expensive to make, so canned?
And bring back the Five Centres, that's what I say.
How about some of this?
I prefer
the Anthrax Ripple, meself :)
The current Roses selection
all sound like porn films
Brazilian Darkness
Golden Barrel
Caramel Velvet
Hazel Whirl
Hazel in Caramel (the sequel obviously)
Strawberry Dream
Tangy Orange Cream
and finally..............
Country Fudge!
Complete WITHOUT googling
"Creeeeeme tangerine" - .......
Listen while I play
my...?
Here's a useless
but nevertheless mildly entertaining fact. The line up of Celebrations has remained together since formation in 1997, with just two changes in membership - Galaxy Truffle and Topic leaving due to chocolatey differences, to be replaced by the affable all rounder Twix.
On the other hand, the six piece Heroes (formed in 1999) has no fewer than nine former members, including Crunchie, Flake, Fuse and Picnic. There's currently a hot legal dispute between the current line up and a second version which carves out a meagre existence under the name of Time Out's Heroes, featuring Topic.
Celebrations fact
Every single person reading this in an office setting will be within 3 metres of an almost empty plastic 'tin' of Celebrations, left over from Christmas. This tin will contain nothing except no fewer than two, but no more than four, mini Bounty bars.
I prefer their Korean tribute act:
"Cerebrations"
*wipes chocolate stains off coat before fleeing building, and possibly country*