Newsagent confectionery?

[Anarcho-Socialist]

Come on, what's your favourite? These bring back memories of childhood for me. This is a very important poll. :)

1. Mars Bar



2. Twix



3. Kit-kat



4. Dairy Milk



5. Snickers



6. Double Decker



7. Crunchie



8. Maltesers



9. Curlywurly

[beam me up scottie]

1. Can I play too ?

[Anarcho-Socialist]

2. Of course

:)

[beam me up scottie]

3. After much contemplation

on such a weighty matter, keeping in mind the tragic consequences my decision may have on our Trans-Atlantic relationship, I cast my vote for the Mars Bar.

Nyah.
So there.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

4. The socio-economic-political implications

of your choice are extremely profound. We shouldn't underestimate the moral impact of such a decision.

[beam me up scottie]

5. Fascist Mars Bar hater!

You've revealed your true motives!
Are you insinuating your Twix is better than Mars ?
:evilgrin:

[Anarcho-Socialist]

6. You Bilderberg Mars Bar reptilian

I actually voted for Snickers. Your insinuation that I voted for Twix is typical of the NWO/Mars Bar/fascist/Stalinist/Oprah Winfrey global mafia. Open your mind and don't believe the msm!!

:P

[beam me up scottie]

8. oh.

Well I still hate you and everything your Snickers stands for !

Beddy bye time for this reptilian, I'll return to virtually assaulting you in the morning, you Snickers-eating, French-loving, fascist-butt kissing, icky eater of English food !

[moggie]

34. Revisionist dupe!

By using the name "Snickers", you prove that you're a pawn of the capitalist multinationals. All sane and honest people know that it's called "Marathon".

[Anarcho-Socialist]

38. dont believe the msm lies!!

[moggie]

39. You need a new helmet

Tinfoil from old Kit-Kat wrappers isn't very effective, you know. I remember buying and eating Marathon bars. The brain-washing techniques designed to make people forget this didn't work on me, because I'm wise to the International Jewish Conspiracy. Or is it the Persians? Someone doesn't want us to think about Marathon, anyway.

Incidentally, the same techniques have been depressingly effective at changing the pronunciation of the Milky Bar company from the healthily Anglo-Saxon "nesslz" to the surrender-monkey "nestlay". When I first heard that in a Milky Bar Kid advert, I was all "whuh?".

[Anarcho-Socialist]

40. Marathons are Mossad lies...

...ever since Israel faked the moon landings, Mossads role has been well known! The supposed landings took place in 1969 and Mossad were around at the same time!! That is strong circumstantial evidence. You can't disapprove it.

Marathons don't exist!

[Taxloss]

10. A British confection ... nt

[western mass]

7. Butterfinger horror

As a recent US transplant, I'm horrified at the absence of that most sublime of bars, Butterfinger.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfinger

Really, what's wrong with you people? :)

[mr blur]

9. Got to be Twix

Used to be Kit-Kat but they screwed it up by putting the stupid new wrapper on it. One of the joys of a Kit-Kat used to be sliding off the coloured sleeve and sliding a finger nail down the foil to separate one finger of biscuit. As for the new gross Chunky version - what's with that? A word to the manufacturer: it's only progress if it improves something.

[east saxon]

20. I miss the old kit kat wrappers too, and the old foil dairy milk ones

I have to admit to being a fan of the Kit Kat Chunky, however. But then again, I liked Tab Clear Coke.

[east saxon]

21. self delete

(posted in wrong place)

[Taxloss]

11. I vote Curlywurly. Curlywurlies are the best thing ever: FACT.

Consider the facts.

1. They contain fudge. Fudge was developed during the Napoleonic Wars as a way of keeping soldiers from complaining about their miserable conditions by gumming up their mouths with deliciousness. HISTORICAL FACT. It is 107% more delicious than any other food. SCIENTIFIC FACT.

2. They have holes in them. Does your confection have holes in it? I thought not. TOPOLOGICAL FACT.

3. They're longer and thinner than all your confections. For many things longer means better - Conservative periods in opposition, bridges, steel rules, articles by me, penises (apparently), battery life in laptops - and thinner means better, with the obvious exception of Callista Flockheart. Someone give hat girl a Curlywurly. DIMENSIONAL AND NUTRITIONAL FACT.

Anyone who disagrees is a fascist apologist.

[Taxloss]

12. On second thoughts, I'm also partial to Caramac,

but it isn't included. :cry:

[mr blur]

14. Yeah, but the tv ads were so awful (nt)

[moggie]

35. Selling holes

You've got to admire whoever it was who figured out that an absence of stuff is a selling point. They ought to bring out a limited edition Curliewurlie with even bigger holes.

[D-Notice]

13. Other

How could you leave out Toblerone? Especially the white-choc version?

Surely everyone knows that Swiss, triangle-shaped chocolate tastes best?

[RogueTrooper]

15. Mint Aero?

yum.

[Taxloss]

16. I have a bit of a soft spot for them.

I once worked in a job that was so relentlessly tedious the most exciting thing to happen in MONTHS was the introduction of Mint Aero into the vending machine.

[RogueTrooper]

17. Goodness me

Sorry for bringing those bad memories back. Here think of...


mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

or ( the greatest chocolate in the world )

although the ones in my day they had more red squishy stuff in the middle.

...or...


...or...


or sweety cigarettes

right on!

ah! growing up in the seventies. no wonder we all grew up an took drugs.
And that is not even mentioning seventies children's tv.

[D-Notice]

26. Parma violets

eww!

What are those skull-shaped things?

[RogueTrooper]

36. they are called skull crushers

and came into circulation in the late seventies. White chocolate with something viscous pink stuff in the middle. They were FAB. :D

[LeftishBrit]

18. Maltesers (mmmmm!!!)

But I also love Mint Aero and Caramac!

[Guy_Montag]

19. Penny, Tupenny & Hapenny sweets

I used to get 25p on Friday for sweets. I spent 15p on penny sweets & the last 10p on something like poppets, super-sour balls, fireballs or a wham bar.

I would always make sure I had a suitable mix of quick sweets (chocolate mice etc), medium sweets (refresher sweets) & long lasting sweets (gobstoppers). Then sit in front of the TV with my sister & spin them out from 3:30 until dinner time, finishing that last one just before dinner.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

24. I liked those too

When I was 8, I used to get £1 worth of penny sweets, 5p sweets and such. Then I'd sit in front of children's television and much through them. :9

[T_i_B]

33. Another penny sweets man here!

Anyone else remember Black Jacks & Fruit Salads?

About 10 miles from where I live there is a really good old-fashioned sweet shop where you get sweets from the jars weighed out for you. Magnificent! They also have a tobacconist counter but I avoid that one for obvious reasons.

[east saxon]

22. Double Deckers

Not the nutty ones, though- they were a misguided attempt to improve on perfection.

Also have a soft spot for Star Bars and Drifters.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

23. A king-size Snickers bar

Yum-yum! :9

[Benbow]

25. Bounty, plain chocolate - and Smarties (boxfuls)

I voted for Other but didn't see any opportunity to "specify".

[EarlG]

27. The Milkybars are on me!

[Anarcho-Socialist]

28. Haha. I forgot about that ad campaign.

:)

[EarlG]

29. Back in school

It used to be hellish for anyone who looked like the Milkybar Kid. I see they've gotten an updated 21st-century version now.

[non sociopath skin]

30. Anybody else old enough to remember Spangles?

Acid Drops were my favourites, although Old English gave you more choice ...

The Skin

[mr blur]

37. yep, Spangles were great

don't know if I'd eat one now, though.

[bennywhale]

31. Topic. NOT a poor mans Snickers but actually

a more sophisticated flavour all round. (it was 5p cheaper however which meant extra fruit salad) The difference being i think a hint of cinnamon.

30p mix up after the baths when a bairn = 10 cola bottles (sugared) 10 fruit salads, 10 blackjacks.

(blackjacks substituted for the occasional wham bar. They are so much smaller now)

Eat as quickly as possible while hair still wet

[achtung_circus]

32. Other, I'm afraid.

although if forced to choose from the available options I choose Kit Kat, Mars Bar, Maltezers and Dairy Milk.

[muriel_volestrangler]

41. Other: Dime bars

Controversial, being a relatively late entry to the confectionery stall, and from the decidedly un-chocolately country of Sweden, but the stuff in the middle (I don't even know what its proper name is) is heavenly. Hard enough to make you think you'll crack your teeth, but melts in the mouth.

There used to be a similar bar called, I think, Sharps Buttersnap, but that disappeared about 30 years ago.

[D-Notice]

42. As the TV ad used to say

"OI loikes armadillos! Crunchy on the outside, soft on the inside"

[demobrit]

43. Kit Kat the best

But loved the Old Cadbury`s Flake ad,
Question, Where have all the sweetie ad`s gone?

[Greeby]

44. Well

I can remember the TV ads when Snickers was called Marathon.
And when Teletext was called Oracle.
And when CITV was called Children's ITV.

Bloody hell, I'm only 22 and I'm starting to feel old :(

[D-Notice]

45. "Starburst" was called "Opal Fruits"

"Cif" was called "Jif"
"New Labour" were called "Socialist"
"Freeview" was called "ONDigital"