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Nov 9, 2004 4:24:13 GMT
Post by transbot on Nov 9, 2004 4:24:13 GMT
How class were crisp packets back in the day? None of this foil-sealed bol locks. ...Quarterbacks ('American Cheeseburger flavour'!)... ...Transform-a-snacks... ...Tangy Toms... Legends, one and all.
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Nov 9, 2004 17:06:37 GMT
Post by Sim on Nov 9, 2004 17:06:37 GMT
How about Bits'n'Pieces,a lovely triangular crisp in a pizza flavour.Or tomato Snaps or Salt'n'vinegar Quavers. MMMMMMmmmmmmm.
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Nov 10, 2004 3:11:06 GMT
Post by transbot on Nov 10, 2004 3:11:06 GMT
Yeah, I remember them - they tasted great, but the entertainment value was limited. You could stage galactical wars between the Quarterbacks and the Transform-a-snacks. It could get really quite intense - the alien invaders were often barbaric, but the plucky Quarterbacks almost always won through in the end. The hardest part was writing letters to the bereaved families. They should make a film.
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Nov 10, 2004 16:39:24 GMT
Post by Sim on Nov 10, 2004 16:39:24 GMT
If you wanted value for money,how about Flaming hot Monster munch before they shrunk.Back in the old days they were huge,you could try to fit them on your finger in the same way as a hula hoop.Or try and stuff loads in your mouth at once,they tasted better when they were proper big chunky things.
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Nov 11, 2004 20:32:17 GMT
Post by transbot on Nov 11, 2004 20:32:17 GMT
Good point - am I right in thinking Monster Munch was once made by Smiths, until the evil Walkers Empire consumed every competing company and began immediate production cost-cutting? Bastards. The original, truly legendary Pickled Onion Monster Munch was my favourite by a long way. Everything - the size of the crisps, the taste, the packaging - was perfect. I've been boycotting Walkers products for a while now, although I could be unwittingly eating things by companies they now own. Bastards. Nestlé are pure evil too, and I think they are both connected in some way. Big up to the old Smiths Salt 'n' Shake, with all the little packets of plain salt or different flavours you could get, and mix them all together with the crisps like some mad, crisp packet-shaking Dr. Frankenstein.
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Nov 18, 2004 1:43:36 GMT
Post by pineapplehead4510 on Nov 18, 2004 1:43:36 GMT
Smith is a Australian own compy and has been for many years, i think since 1888 or something but anyway, idont know what they were over there and also Nestle was Aussie owned to intil thoes French people bought it.
Well I think it was bought by the French. It was by some body.
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Nov 19, 2004 18:56:03 GMT
Post by Sim on Nov 19, 2004 18:56:03 GMT
Transbot if you want evil i'll tell you who is evil,Mr.Dyson who decided to axe all his staff and relocate to save money although he's loaded anyway,i hope someone shoots him.
I'm surprised Walkers,Cadbury's and Nestle haven't relocated to India yet. Where they can get away with paying staff a bowl of rice for an 18 hour shift.
And another thing,what's with them pickled onion monster munch that turn your tongue blue? There's something not right there.
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Nov 19, 2004 22:45:24 GMT
Post by pineapplehead4510 on Nov 19, 2004 22:45:24 GMT
I love cabury, thats also a Australian company and what type of the chocs do u get over there.
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Nov 20, 2004 22:15:26 GMT
Post by chaoticjelly on Nov 20, 2004 22:15:26 GMT
Cadbury is British
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Nov 21, 2004 5:46:38 GMT
Post by pineapplehead4510 on Nov 21, 2004 5:46:38 GMT
There is one in Britian, I know that.
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Nov 21, 2004 7:51:50 GMT
Post by Sim on Nov 21, 2004 7:51:50 GMT
So cadbury's,Nestle and Smiths crisps are all Australian? Over here we get chocolate that tastes of chocolate. We have the best tasting chocolate in the world,i've been to south america and basically they've only ever heard of Kit Kat and it tastes horrible.
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Nov 21, 2004 14:49:36 GMT
Post by transbot on Nov 21, 2004 14:49:36 GMT
Cadbury is an English company, but apparently the first overseas Cadbury's chocolate factory was opened in Tasmania during the First World War. Smiths crisps, I'm certain, are British. Nestlé are Swiss. They'll probably all have distinct branches in Australia - Nestlé because it's now a massive trans-global super-corporation, the others 'cause of the obvious links with Britain, especially during the height of the Empire when many of these companies formed. I grew up on English chocolate, but Italian 76% cocoa dark chocolate is just it. It's just right. British Milk Chocolate, like Cadbury's, is some of the best around - but continental dark, bitter chocolate can be mouth-wateringly, tongue-twistingly, mind-blowingly gorgeous. Gives me mouth-gasms. We just don't make the darker stuff like that in Blighty - Bourneville's pretty weak when you've tasted this sh it. Not so much Belgian ('Belgian chocolates' is like the most famous thing, but I don't really like it), but some German and Italian stuff just makes me come. Need some now.
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Nov 21, 2004 17:19:44 GMT
Post by Sim on Nov 21, 2004 17:19:44 GMT
You need a dark and gold mars bar.
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Nov 22, 2004 0:37:33 GMT
Post by JellyCrystals on Nov 22, 2004 0:37:33 GMT
I have never heard of the snacks you Poms are going on about... but I can appreciate the mourning over a dearly departed snack..
I miss "Muncheros" little 1cm wide, 6cm long curls of super flavour coated corn chips!!
I also miss "Nick-Nax" the first snack that plugged "baked not fried" as a slogan for the weight conscious when the total fat was no different. The saltiest salt'n'vinegar flavoured snacks ever...
Alas poor edibles. You are missed...
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Nov 24, 2004 8:02:55 GMT
Post by transbot on Nov 24, 2004 8:02:55 GMT
We get Nick-Nacks here, but spelt properly like that (the Queen's English, I'll have you know), and in all these mad flavours. In Aus, are they like fat, deformed Twiglets, only loaded with brightly coloured, strong flavour? I think they got relaunched recently, with a new advertising campaign based on the dinnertable scene in Alien.
Speaking of Nick-Nicks adverts, anyone remember the one with the two sketchy animated heads abusing each other? That was amazing.
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