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Post by DazaB_WCFC on Aug 29, 2006 15:31:54 GMT
When I was a youngster, I always used to take twenty pence to school, enough to buy two Fredo bars on my way home, ususally one of the Solid ones and a caramel one.
Today, after taking my little brother out for a walk, I thought I'd go and buy one for him. They have no caramel ones - and they cost EIGHTEEN PENCE!!!!
18p for a blob of chocolate!!! Disgrace
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Post by malxscfc on Aug 29, 2006 17:00:10 GMT
When I was a youngster, I always used to take twenty pence to school, enough to buy two Fredo bars on my way home, ususally one of the Solid ones and a caramel one. Today, after taking my little brother out for a walk, I thought I'd go and buy one for him. They have no caramel ones - and they cost EIGHTEEN PENCE!!!! 18p for a blob of chocolate!!! Disgrace Do you mean a "FreDDo"? [Anything with a double-D's okay by me! ] Freddos were a legend in my day too, I'll have you know. So the idea that you'd begrudge a measly 18p for such a fine, honest, decent icon of the confectioners' art makes me wonder about your suitability for life on Planet Earth, sir! You do realise that said chocolate comes from Cocoa Beans personally picked by rare Swiss Leprechauns on the Lower slopes of Mount Cadbury in Kenya - a mountain so steep that they have to breed special, genetically-adapted Leprechauns with one leg shorter than the other, and each piece of chocolate is hand-carved by the Frog Prince himself, (who is 287 years old), with a chisel hewn from oversized nuggets of pure fairy dust. A pish and a tish to any suggestion that a Freddo is not worth at least, say, 20, or 21p!
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Post by frankiegth on Aug 29, 2006 20:20:05 GMT
Get ready to pish and tish 'cos Freddo's are crap and always have been even if they are made wth love and devotion by genetically modified leprechauns. The king of all chocolate bars has to be the Mars bar. The standard size one mind. There is just too much of a good thing in the larger ones and ya have to be a really greedy barsteward to eat them. The "standard" Mars is an absolute icon of the 20th century the style of the writing on the wrapper and the selection of the red,gold and black. absolute perfection in confection, a real mesters choclolate bar. What's more one of the most memorable slogans in history. A Mars a day helps you work,rest and play. Freddo........who are ya, who are ya?
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Post by DazaB_WCFC on Aug 29, 2006 21:19:07 GMT
I partlyagree with Frankie, although I did think they were good value at 10p - but certainly not 18!
The best chocolate of all time is surely the twirl?! Yum Yum
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Post by malxscfc on Aug 29, 2006 21:28:52 GMT
Get ready to pish and tish 'cos Freddo's are crap and always have been even if they are made wth love and devotion by genetically modified leprechauns. The king of all chocolate bars has to be the Mars bar. The standard size one mind. There is just too much of a good thing in the larger ones and ya have to be a really greedy barsteward to eat them. The "standard" Mars is an absolute icon of the 20th century the style of the writing on the wrapper and the selection of the red,gold and black. absolute perfection in confection, a real mesters choclolate bar. What's more one of the most memorable slogans in history. A Mars a day helps you work,rest and play. Freddo........who are ya, who are ya? No. I still maintain what I say, and really, really believe in what I wrote! Moving on, I agree that Mars are okay, but only if you deconstruct them nibblingly, as if each one is the only thing you will eat all month. They're simply built for people who are gorging themselves, OR for people who do a job of work for a living, and who actually need the calories. Although I have a big downer on American chocolate in general, you really ought to try the (so-called) 'proper' Mars Bar from over there, which is similar but with the genius-driven addition of chopped almonds in it. Give me one of those, and I'll show you a happy man! [Brad Pitt when he first hooked up with Jennifer Anniston, perhaps? ]
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Post by ambersalamander on Aug 29, 2006 21:35:21 GMT
Malx is officially lovely ;D I agree about Mars Bars though- they are just too much! You have to eat them slowly or your entire head starts to melt. Funsize ones are good. Sometimes you get those at martello's house, if you behave yourself ;D ;D ;D I always liked Millky Ways when i were a lass.
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Post by medibot on Aug 29, 2006 22:09:24 GMT
Well, they do also say a finger of fudge is just enough to give the kids a treat... Unfortunately my name is not Jonathan King so that won't do. Caramel Dairy milk is great, Mars Duo is good for work, one on my break, one on the train home if i fancy a treat but really... Twirls and Double Deckers are where it's at. The unfancied Cadburys range does it for me
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Post by martello on Aug 29, 2006 22:38:08 GMT
Double Deckers and Boosts rock my 21-year-old world.
That is all.
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Post by ambersalamander on Aug 29, 2006 23:01:44 GMT
OOOOH!!!! DOUBLE DECKERS!!!!!
YES!
HOW COULD I FORGET DOUBLE DECKERS!!!!!!
Please give me one of those.
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Post by malxscfc on Aug 30, 2006 7:55:53 GMT
Amber on Mars Bars: Know what you mean. Same for me with Medibot's 'Fudge', too. Just a tad too much cooked sugar. It reminds me of being licked on the neck by a spaniel as a child....
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Post by bh on Aug 30, 2006 8:15:23 GMT
Thought Ambersal would have liked walnut whips!!
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Post by ojiveojive on Aug 30, 2006 9:29:39 GMT
Come, Come, children: connoisseurs of all things of all things alcoholic, both hoppy and grapey and you all babble on about crappy, fatty english chocolate . I'm amazed, dazed and confused. The only chocolate worthy of the name contains at least 70% of cocoa beans, often more and none of that globby butterfat that they use to bulk up english chocolate. Try Gay-Odin from Naples or even some of the high cocoa percentage available from Waitrose, own label even, fantastic. Real Chocolate shouold be like real ale, crafted with love, filled with joy and like real coffee it should be strong, dark and give you a cocoa buzz not a sugarybutterfatty buzz. Lesson over
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Post by Col ISIHAC. on Aug 30, 2006 11:46:04 GMT
Lindor. Little balls with chocolate paste inside. Lindt Spengli - filled with Kirsch. Swiss choc-rock! Having said that, my current sweetie nibble of choice is Skittles. Not even remotely chocolate adjacent. I have an emergency supply at home for those awkward moments
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Post by malxscfc on Aug 30, 2006 12:03:13 GMT
As an ageing person myself, Ojive, I do tend to agree. Gone is the kiddy delight of the unveiling of the metallic purple wrapper of our favourite domestic brand; the sweet, sickly smell of the chocolate egg as it baked, lazily, on the mantlepiece in late Lent; the bizarre feeling as you unwrapped a present at Christmas to be confronted by the first pyramidal tube you'd ever seen outside a textbook - a.k.a. Toblerone.... I too enjoy continental chocolate with %s in the majority - The Belgians, the Argentinians even, they all taste good when no praline is there to taint the purity. But I still best prefer Fortnums Champagne Truffles...... Oooooooooooooohhhhhhhh.............! My darling, beloved, only sister used to live in the smoke, and would get me a pound each Christmas religiously.... until the *pregnant dog* moved out to the country!!
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Post by frankiegth on Aug 30, 2006 16:01:30 GMT
Straight forward chocolate bars, the best were Terrys plain chocolate. But the've gone t*ts up so alas they are no more.
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