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 Post subject: Re: Matchmaker
PostPosted: Mon Jul 25, 2016 6:52 pm 
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The sweet pipe "tobacco" you could get in a cardboard pouch, anyone?
What about the pink "Bazooka Joe" bubblegum with the cartoon inside, I remember putting an old (big) penny in the machine on the newsagents wall and turning the big knob on the side to get those. :roll:

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 Post subject: Re: Matchmaker
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Having worked in the food industry for more years than I care to remember, a lot of which was
chocolate and sweets, there is nothing finer than a Chunky KitKat straight off the line, just as it
comes out of the chiller before it gets wrapped! :P


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 Post subject: Re: Matchmaker
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Craftyjules wrote:
Hope the wedding went well!

As a kid who grew up in a sweet shop in the 70's, I remember all these! I also remember the 7p Milky Way and 1/2p mojo. I always remember a kid came in wanting change for the bus to go from Bramley to Rotherham, he gave me a pound and wanted 1 mojo! The bus fare was only 2p in those days!


The wedding was brilliant thanks. Small ceremony by the sea and the sun came out. Lovely day! No orange matchmakers though.

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:*: Ha!! Well aside from lack of approved chocolate products it was pretty good.

Heart of Oak playing as people came in.

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Ok well I'll let you off then....congratulations to you both

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Never had a bar of that....I want one....now....I don't eat chocolate I guzzle it...shit telly...me and my boys...sofa....don't even get past the the fuckin titles and it's gone... :wink:


I think you should do some rock star strop and someone will bring out a limited edition. If so, I get first dibs. On other thoughts, sorry Myra but I have always found American chocolate a terrible disappointment. Hershey bars, always bought back by workmates after trips to the states, are just wrong. And Mint Cracknell? No, but tell me more... Lastly, I grew up opposite the Toblerone factory and used to get malformed ones for free from the security guard. When one of the triangles hadn't worked, they'd just chuck them away. Two things I learned as a result. Chocolate factories weren't staffed by oompa lumpas, but by my friends' mums on piecework. And eating lots of chocolate makes kids chubby with bad teeth.

And we are on holiday in Cornwall, in the rain, snuggled up in our camper, eating sea salted milk chocolate. Try it, it's great. Xx


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There's a lovely little chocolate shop in St Ives (can't remember what it's called) that I had some salted chocolate from and it was lush. I think they did one with thyme in too. Cornwall in a camper sounds great! Enjoy!

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...on other thoughts, sorry Myra but I have always found American chocolate a terrible disappointment. Hershey bars, always bought back by workmates after trips to the states, are just wrong...


Would just like to say Tom's Yankee bars were fab...where can you find them now?...last scoffed circa 82...off to find out...

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Never had a bar of that....I want one....now....I don't eat chocolate I guzzle it...shit telly...me and my boys...sofa....don't even get past the the fuckin titles and it's gone... :wink:


....... And Mint Cracknell? No, but tell me more....


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Described as ''Chocolate covered shards of mint flavoured car windshield''. Sums it up perfectly. Delicious but lethal.

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Like eating glass, my Nan used to work at Bassetts and I got all the deformed sweets I still love liquorice now but my sisters hate it...

Helen!....Rock star strop?....have you seen my band and crew? I'd get hammered if I asked for a cuppa....I do my own f****n ironing!!!!....and long may it remain so.....not long now till our holidays :Hoorah

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On other thoughts, sorry Myra but I have always found American chocolate a terrible disappointment.

Hahaha you don't have to convince me! Chunky is a childhood nostalgia thing, I can't remember when I had one last. Im pissed as hell I can't get my legit Cadbury fix anymore. There's a few ways to get around the ban but I'd have to rob a bank first. I compromise with artisan chocolate, which isn't a compromise at all because there's actually some really awesome makers out there, and anything with a 1,000,000,000% cacao content.

I'd murder everyone in this room for a Crunchie Bar.

Maybe not everyone.

Mmmmmaybe. :P

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American chocolate is the worst. Hershey bars taste and smell like sick!

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efsb wrote:
American chocolate is the worst. Hershey bars taste and smell like sick!


Hershey and Nestlé are agents of Satan, agreed. Plus there's a lot of moral objections, Nestlé is a horrible company run by horrible people, and there's a lot of attention on child labor and wage slavery in harvesting chocolate right now. I just found a list of companies you wouldn't want to buy chocolate from because of their harvesting practices. I'll have to find that again.

Yeah, it's that thing where you grew up eating whatever it is, thinking it's normal, and then you have the real deal and you're like, what the hell was I missing? It works that way with coffee too. Coffee brewing methods, bean roasting, it all makes a difference. Garbage in, garbage out!

Damn you, Nestlé. Anybody who thinks water isn't a human right and is actually poaching water needs to be in prison. They make my Violet Crumble. It shall never pass these lips again, they're not going to go out of business because of that, but it is a little thing I can easily do, just not buy their stuff. :wink:

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