Chocolate Bars.

[Yellow Fang]

From a time I remember, all bars of the time were 6d, except Mars bars which were 7d. A milky Way (which was chewier and thicker then) was 3d and a packet of sweet fags were 2d.

Strange, you can't buy those cigarette sweets any more.

 

[MarkF]

Strange, you can't buy those cigarette sweets any more.

My local newsagents has a good selection, they are now packaged differently, but the kids happily puff away all the same............

 

[Globalti]

Nothing to do with corporate greed then!

Well no actually, not entirely. Manufacturers are terrified of increasing prices and losing market share so they would rather re-size or reformulate a product than increase the retail price. They have legions of marketing people who do nothing other than check competitor shares and prices all day long; how boring is that?

 

[Canrider]

It might be down to failing eyesight due to old age.....

Or the increasing size of the eater...


(I mean as in they've grown up, shame on you)

 

[goo_mason]

Fans of chocolate, sweet & crisp nostalgia should get a hold of 'The Great British Tuckshop' book .I got it for 99p in one of the Kindle special deals last year and read it on my Nexus 7 instead of the Kindle because it's choc-full (sorry!) of fantastic colour pics. A lovely history of all your old favourites!

 

[Fnaar]

Fans of chocolate, sweet & crisp nostalgia should get a hold of 'The Great British Tuckshop' book .

That looks great! Just clicked through some of the 'look inside' pages. That's on my 'to read' list!!

 

[Over The Hill]

These are still the real deal:



Sorry, there's only one left and I'm having it..

I am with you on that. I love them. I did have the Tunnock's boy logo as my avatar for years but quite a few people said I came across as a smug git or something like that. I did look just like that as a boy.
Oddly Tunnocks seem to only make two products Caramel Bars and Tea Cakes.

Many years ago a friend said that his girlfriend had nipples like Tunnocks Tea Cakes so I have not quite been able to look at them in the same way since.
Alex Salmond may have heard the same story.....

 

[coffeejo]

Today I have had a Double Decker and there's a bag of giant chocolate buttons awaiting my attention in the fridge. I blame this thread.

 

[Theseus]

This thread brought to mind the Mars Bar Index

It's about time there was an update.

 

[phil_hg_uk]

Today I have had a Double Decker and there's a bag of giant chocolate buttons awaiting my attention in the fridge. I blame this thread.

I've been abstemious and only had one packet of minstrels.....I blame myself for having no self-control

I have had no chocolate ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
















yet

 

[tadpole]

Don't get me started on the cost of Penny Wafers. (the sweet pink sweet wafer bar, and not the old girl stood on the corner of the street late at night)

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Can't eat any Cadburys product now as most of them, if not all, have been infested with whey. I have an intolerance to whey that triggers an aural migraine so effectively robs me of a whole day. Thanks Cadburys!

regretfully i can't eat any of them at all any more. I'm allergic to all dairy products (anaphylactic shock), but there are still one or two options involving chocolate around but they need £££'s for the ones that are actually edible! recently found a really nice hotel chocolate nut log - tis only the price that sends you into shock, not the contents!

 

[Fnaar]

Many years ago a friend said that his girlfriend had nipples like Tunnocks Tea Cakes so I have not quite been able to look at them in the same way since.

I've heard of 'organ stops' and 'coat pegs' but that's a new one

 

[phil_hg_uk]

Today I have had a Double Decker and there's a bag of giant chocolate buttons awaiting my attention in the fridge. I blame this thread.

I've been abstemious and only had one packet of minstrels.....I blame myself for having no self-control

I have now had a Double Decker

 

[Moda]

KitKats where's the chocolate gone?

Being a COMPLETE chocolate fascist I think you should be calling Aero, Kit Kat etc candy bars rather than chocolate.