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"There has been no Machiavellian plan, I can assure you."
I believed it until he said that. Only an evil genius would use such language.
Cadbury has agreed to resurrect the Wispa bar it consigned to history in 2003 after a concerted net campaign in which choc fans mobilised on Facebook and YouTube to demand satisfaction: Admittedly, the above's not the most energetic call-to-arms ever to grace cyberspace, but it does form part of a critical activist mass - …
Not only am I a big fan of the Wispa bar, but I also built the prototype of the Process Line Control Panel that operated the whole Wispa bar production line; and went on to build several of the production panels while working for Metal Box Automation & Controls
Due to problems with delivery of the actual casing, the prototype the Cadbury bigwigs viewed was actually cardboard sprayed with metallic silver paint and the vdu and keyboard propped up on some old pinhole simulator boxes.
If they had looked at the back they would have discovered that I had named it the ZX8 1/2 in honour of the then super-high-tech ZX81.
( If you think this is the meanderings of a madman, be careful; some of my kit is fitted to Trafalgar Class Nukes).
Metal Box, a great company run by idiots; now owned by the French (spit).
That is indeed what cadburys claimed at the time.
However, it is a completely diferent shape and the texture of the bubbles is also completely different, the DM version is more dense with thicker walls between bubbles.
all these bars that are the same shape get rather boring, and wispa also has the advantage of looking bigger to children. Take a child and offer them two bars with the same mass, but one looking bigger than the other, which would they choose?
The King Size Snicker they ruined, they released a Snicker Duo bar during the big obeisity upraor when mcdonalds started doing salads and reducing salt.
all the other snickers bars lack the vital caramel to nougat and nuts ratios, the must re-introduce kingsize snickers, nestle get on this now PLEASE.
Uh, while i admire your mastery of internet incoherence and illegibility, and in the vain hope that this was not just a troll, the following should be considered.
Snickers (which is really Marathon, damn you all) is not a Cadbury product. Neither is it a Nestlé product, so "nestle get on this now PLEASE" is probably not going to be useful.
It's a Mars product, made by Masterfoods.
With any luck, Nestlé will never get their hands on Candbury's or Masterfoods. Not merely for the politically correct milk substitute in Africa reasons but because they always bloody ruin everything they take over. Rowntrees are gone, damn them. Probably the first thing they did after sticking their stupid logo on things was to make After Eights cloyingly sweet and inedible.
And everything else is going the same way. Nestlé just make horrible chocolate. I'll continue to support Cadbury's.
(It may not be Cadbury but....)
I refuse to buy Starburst until they rename them as Opal Fruit. I wouldn't eat them for the flavour (which is lovely) but for the nostalgia, of which the name and packaging is an important component.
Please join me in this so as to bring commercial pressure to bear on the manufacturer. Together, we can bring back Opal Fruit (made to make your mouth water, fresh with the tang of citrus, four refreshing fruit flavours, .........[sing along].....)
Checked 16p against the RPI and it should come out as about 39p at todays money (figures include tax). Obviously I didn't factor in any movements in the cocoa bean/milk markets.
I'd like to throw my (not inconsiderable and getting less inconsiderable by the snack) weight behind the Coconut Boost campaign. I'd also like Vic and Bob back to advertise them.
Bring back Spira bars. They are lovely.
And I always wished they would experiment with putting some kind of filling in the holes in a spira bar.
But most importantly of all, McDonald's should bring back pizzas!!
Who else can remember the McDonald's personal pizza (where the z's were written like the number 3, being a sideways McDonald's "M" golden arches logo).
I don't think I've seen them since the early 90's.
No doubt Cadburys are making a nice tidy profit on guillible rose tinted spectacle wearing chocofiends. No way will it be worth 42p, particularly as it will no doubt be smaller than the original.
When it comes to chocolate, value for money does it for me so I'll stick with my 35p Snickers and 52p big block of Aldi chocolate.
Anyone remember the chocolate + marshmallow pizza they brought out when they were promoting the original Turtles films?
There seems to have been a resurgence in nostalgic food recently. I hadn't seen Gold bars for years until recently, and I'm amazed that you can still find Double Dips and Sherbert Fountains in supermarkets. We should get kids eating those instead, and Flying Saucers!
"And everything else is going the same way. Nestlé just make horrible chocolate. I'll continue to support Cadbury's."
I'm speechless. Cadbury don't even make chocolate - their veghelate has been getting our country a bad name for decades. Anyone with even a passing acquaintance with the world of chocolate knows that Cadbury's Dairy Milk is little better than the re-work that goes inside Milky Way Magic Stars.
And don't even get me started on Creme Eggs!
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I've just viewed the YouTube video embedded in the story that was "produced" by the Wispa fan... and man, it is genuinely appalling - it's just this guy spluttering to camera for far too long followed by a completely underwhelming TV advert for Wispa from the early 80's.
I'm amazed that Cadbury might have been so impressed by such rubbish... if the relaunched Wispa's sales are as underwhelming as that video then Wispa will be going back to the chocolate grave.
That said, perhaps there's enough oddballs such as him - those who're prepared to make a tit of themselves by appearing on camera on a rubbish YouTube video extolling some unremarkable confectionery product - who'll all rush out to their nearest corner shop and buy a Wispa, perhaps with a slightly pathetic sense that they too were part of the grassroots net revolutions that brought Wispa back from the dead (and without any sense that they have played right into the hands of Cadbury by helping this big chocolate company make more money).
Go and eat a banana.
'Secret' - I think that is what it was called. Hideously expensive at the time it was released (early nineties) and disappeared within a year.
It was nice though, soft rich chocolatey flavoured foundant filling surrounded by flaky strands of milk chocolate (for those out there who say milk chocolate is not real chocolate, I would ask what the minumum amount of cocoa solids and cocoa butter is for chocolate and ask you if everybody wants 80% bitter chocolate).
I too miss the delectable velvety smoothness of a Wispa Gold.
Coconut Boost? Don't remember that one at all - I think it would have been alright though.
The Dairy Milk varieties are a nonsense, they are not as good as the ones they replaced - and actually Galaxy bars taste much better in my opinion.
While these chocolate companies are bringing back old lines, Nestle should change the recipe on their chocolate bars back to what they were in the 80's. When Roundtrees used to make Yorkies and Kit-Kats they tastes great, not they're just too sweet. Don't get me wrong, I have a really sweet tooth, but it just isn't the same.
Oh, can ITV start putting the Charley Says adverts back on telly please.
Ta very much.
Rob
... I demand the following:
* That Snickers are known as Marathons once again. I don't eat chocolate that sounds as if it's named after a venereal rash.
* That Opal Fruits stop calling themselves Starburst. It's not big and it's not clever.
* The return of paper wrappers for chocolate bars so that I can get into the bloody things. I'm sure a vague comment about the joy of green biodegradable wind-farmed lentils and global warming should do the trick.
Until my demands are met, I'm holding my diet hostage.