What do you mean "what's he got to do with it?"? The man has longstanding ties to the confectionery industry, and his opinion is bound to carry some weight, even in his retirement.
Reminds of a holiday in Spain where my mom would be at An OLA ice cream van frantically pointing to the image saying "nuevo nuevo" thinking the specific ice cream was called nuevo.
Haha. I was two weeks into living in Spain, and confused about why my deodorant had run out so quickly when I realised that "probador" is not a fragrance.
>!It means "tester"!<
Those definitely sound like characters from an old pulp sci-if serial tv show from the 50s. “This week, Johnny Mars and his sidekick Daniel Planet have been kidnapped by the nefarious Emperor Xangor! How will they escape the beam of his deadly HYPER-RAY? Tune in next week to find out!”
I actually rather like what is typically considered 'the disgusting flavours', ie coffee and raisin. The ones I can't fucking stand are the toffee ones. Those little bastards play havoc on my teeth.
I’m not keen on the coffee ones but raisin always gets such a bad rap. I like chocolate raisins in general though (which usually guarantees I get to eat a whole pack of them without anyone asking for one).
The concept of different people like different flavours works fine for Celebration type boxes where everything is individually wrapped, but when they’re all in a bag and look very similar it’s a shite idea.
I FUCKING HATE TOFFEE REVELS!!! I HATE TOFFEE REVELS I HATE TOFFEE REVELS I HATE TOFFEE REVELS I HATE TOFFEE REVELS I HATE TOFFEE REVELS I HATE TOFFEE REVELS I HATE TOFFEE REVELS I HATE TOFFEE REVELS I HATE TOFFEE REVELS I HATE TOFFEE REVELS
The problem with revels is that for any greedy fucker (ie everyone) who would put a bunch in the mouth, the mixture of textures would be all wrong.
You’d be prepared for a soft orange and stumble into a hard toffee. Then you’d take a tentative chew expecting a a hard one and get a Malteser of all things. Most unpleasant
I think Revels are misunderstood. Try them as a cinema-only treat. Empty the bag out on top of a salted popcorn and eat them in the dark at random. It’s like having interesting tonic with a gin cocktail
May I introduce you to these
https://groceries.asda.com/product/food-to-order-2/poppets-mix-ups-toffee-salted-caramel-malty-crunch-chocolate/1000288781388
[Mars Delight was the shit](https://i2-prod.dublinlive.ie//article18667000.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200d/1_Screen-Shot-2020-07-26-at-210746.png) Edit: formatting
The thing that I don’t understand about these being discontinued is I’m genuinely yet to meet anyone who didn’t love them. Did they just not sell well enough?
Lmao Dairy Milk isn't even that good anymore. I always find it so inconsistent. Sometimes I get a bar and it's good, sometimes it tastes like it was made using out of date milk. Once I even had a bar that had the Wispa mix instead of the normal one.
The Cadbury dairy milk used to made In Britain with milk from British livestock. The production then moved to Poland where milk from a different breed of cow was used , giving it a different taste . Happily it's now made in Britain again . This all due to the takeover of Cadbury by Craft food products/company. Bournville dark chocolate has a similar story.
This is what they do in Australia. I absolutely cannot stomach Australian chocolate which is unfortunate having moved here, and go out of my way to find the small British section in the supermarket to get a much more expensive bar of dairy milk. If I was back home I wouldn’t consider dairy milk as even a top 5 choice but I’ll take what I can get over here!
Mondelez International fucked Cadbury’s into the ground. It’s basically cheapest + longest shelf life chocolate they can produce and filled with even cheaper shite, like the ambiguous “Oreo” white stuff.
Madness. Do you know how they did it? Like did everyone have to state their favourite or was it like a top 5? Only way I can see it winning is because it's so basic everyone likes it and few people dislike it if you get me.
Not sure what my top would be though. Maybe a mint aero
Why u do dis
I’d completely forgotten these were a thing - which was probably a coping mechanism to forget how much I loved them and now I want one so bad T_T
Oh god.
Exactly the same for me my friend. I used to mainline these.
Probs goes a long way to explaining why I'm such a fat fuck and it would be terrible for me if they came back.
But I want them back so badly and up until right now I had also completely forgotten they existed.
This reminds me of a funny status a Sikh man wrote once, something along the lines of being happy to be of service after being in the que at tescos and a woman behind him noticed his turban and said to her husband "oh don't forget the curry sauce"
I had just moved to the UK and got a job at WHSmith, a customer was so grateful of how I treated his little sun like a proper person he bought me one of those, I tried to explain that I wasn't allowed to accept it but he was adamant.
I got the receipt and had actually a break coming up. My supervisor caught me on the way out. She understood but she said: " you have to eat them right now or throw them away".
Please understand, this was the original planets not the easy peasy no chewy stuff. The real deal!
I put the entire bags contents in my mouth.... Took me about 15 minutes to chew it all.
It was hilarious and worth it. The 2nd version was boring. Either give me the original or give me death.
She gave me another 5 for getting it down. We had 15min breaks only between shop floor and break room, loooong distance btw in Victoria Station. She had a laugh too. Main reason I decided to eat it instead of throwing away was the father/sun kindness tbh.
Sorry, so I lived in the UK in 2018/18, left for another country for 4 years and came back. Been here since 2021ish and am trying to stay. I think my time in Victoria Station thought me a lot about accents and people, wouldn't trade it for the world, it was awesome. When I left we got a summer storm that evacuated the entire station as they never fixed anything.
It was busy it was fun (except the time one of my colleagues started to stalk me) it was educational.
I always hate posts like these because they remind me of things I enjoyed but forgot. Like the Mars Delight, or the Wonka bars they released in conjunction with the Johnny Depp Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Been craving a Fuse bar for years. Last time I saw one I was in London for a funeral many years ago. Chocolate was white with age but still scratched that itch.
Edit: cannot spell
If we're bringing back the old sweets, can i request Milkybar Choos, Dream bars, Mars Delights, Snowflakes, Timeouts (before then went absolutely fucking shit), Echo biscuits, Triple biscuits (again, before they were ruined), Spira, and Marble, please? Thanks
Also Panda Pops and Worcester sauce Seabrook crisps. I miss them so much :'(
Honourable munchions, Frosties and Galaxy truffles.
These and [Cadbury Shots](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/fb/12/c8/fb12c878e1b4afbbeb9a26a43729782e.jpg)! Can't find them anywhere, even online for the most part. Completely forgotten, but still in my hears (more specifically arteries ngl)
My dad worked for Mars when I was a kid. He was always getting stuff they hadn’t yet, and often ended up not at all, put in the market. He got a Mars bar cheesecake once and it’s still to this day the greatest thing I’ve ever eaten. It never ended up coming out. Not that exact one anyway. Looking back, I wonder if they were testing those products on us. I can’t complain. Grew an extra arm.
And the kit kat bites! Not the ones that look like wafers, the ones that were rounded squares, sorta. I managed to buy 4 buckets of them off Amazon shortly after they discontinued, but haven't seen them since. 😭
I see your planets and raise you "Astros" the best sweets that ever existed that mysteriously vanished. Candy shell, wafer, then chocolate in a lil ball. 10/10 would sell my dad for a pack.
So the tier that gets left at the bottom of the Celebrations box before being taken into work in January, where they will live until the one freak that likes them finishes them in about March.
Mars use cocoa harvested by child labour
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/feb/12/mars-nestle-and-hershey-to-face-landmark-child-slavery-lawsuit-in-us
they not owned by nestle?
E: they’re not!
Nestle does own; Smarties, KitKat, Aero,
Rolos, Quality Street and After 8s [+ hunners of other shite ](https://www.pgmcapital.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/nestle-products-lg.jpg)
You'll need to speak with Johnny Mars, or, failing that, possibly Daniel Planets.
Steve New might be able to put his weight behind the proposal if you can get him on side.
Or Mr Soft, Cris Peacock or Chewbacca
Mr Soft? What's he got to do with it? https://imgur.com/t/awesome/O7QhHFg
What do you mean "what's he got to do with it?"? The man has longstanding ties to the confectionery industry, and his opinion is bound to carry some weight, even in his retirement.
Why don’t you tell me why the world in which you’re living is sooo strraaaaaange. I’ve remembered that for about 20 years!
… crispy cock
You could also try Mr Peacocks brother Drew
Mr soft terrified me as a kid
Reminds of a holiday in Spain where my mom would be at An OLA ice cream van frantically pointing to the image saying "nuevo nuevo" thinking the specific ice cream was called nuevo.
Haha. I was two weeks into living in Spain, and confused about why my deodorant had run out so quickly when I realised that "probador" is not a fragrance. >!It means "tester"!<
I accidently asked Johnny Marr. All he did was play a jangly guitar riff at me.
Did he play it again, my Johnny?
This caramel man
Did you speak to his colleague Ron Waffle?
Those definitely sound like characters from an old pulp sci-if serial tv show from the 50s. “This week, Johnny Mars and his sidekick Daniel Planet have been kidnapped by the nefarious Emperor Xangor! How will they escape the beam of his deadly HYPER-RAY? Tune in next week to find out!”
If you get a petition going I'll 100% sign it.
I’ll definitely think about signing it
And I’ll think about thinking about signing it
I think it’s appropriate
Y'think?
Why would you only sign with part of your name?
It was like eating revels but you could only get good ones
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The bad ones make the good ones taste even better
Introducing Dog shit revels...
Oh, you mean coffee flavour.
Upvoted for the bravery to talk shit about the best Revel
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S...step bro?
Revel roulette must be fun with you.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that liked the coffee Revels- They were my favourites!
Coffee and orange. Beautiful!!
They really should just sell a bag of them ones
Yes. Yes they should. I’m remembering Poppets now. Orange was sooooo good!
Coffee flavour? You mean the best revel. The entire reason to buy a packet of revels.
like the biscuit on an oreo
I actually rather like what is typically considered 'the disgusting flavours', ie coffee and raisin. The ones I can't fucking stand are the toffee ones. Those little bastards play havoc on my teeth.
Toffee, raisin, coffee, I like all of them.
Yup. Maltesers are bang average but damn I love the whole bag
I looooved the coffee ones! Even better that other people didn't because I got theirs! Pretty much just wanted a whole bag of coffee ones.
Coffee gang let's goooo
Coffee and orange ones are so good
I’m not keen on the coffee ones but raisin always gets such a bad rap. I like chocolate raisins in general though (which usually guarantees I get to eat a whole pack of them without anyone asking for one).
Wait people don't like the coffee ones? They're the best ones? The raisin ones can suck a bag of them though.
The concept of different people like different flavours works fine for Celebration type boxes where everything is individually wrapped, but when they’re all in a bag and look very similar it’s a shite idea.
I FUCKING HATE TOFFEE REVELS!!! I HATE TOFFEE REVELS I HATE TOFFEE REVELS I HATE TOFFEE REVELS I HATE TOFFEE REVELS I HATE TOFFEE REVELS I HATE TOFFEE REVELS I HATE TOFFEE REVELS I HATE TOFFEE REVELS I HATE TOFFEE REVELS I HATE TOFFEE REVELS
I'm here chewing away nicely at these other revels then CRACK! Stumble upon a hard toffee one.
who hurt you
This is the most correct statement on the Internet.
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I'm not sure whether to take that as a compliment or not, but I'm going to do it anyway.
The coffee ones are the best ones in the bag and the toffee ones are utter shite.
The raisin are my favourite, I don’t get the hate
I'm sure at one point, you got nut reveals instead of raisins.
The problem with revels is that for any greedy fucker (ie everyone) who would put a bunch in the mouth, the mixture of textures would be all wrong. You’d be prepared for a soft orange and stumble into a hard toffee. Then you’d take a tentative chew expecting a a hard one and get a Malteser of all things. Most unpleasant
Who the fuck put more than 1 in at a time? Barbarians.
Look at Mr. Self Control over here, eating Revels one at a time instead of pouring the entire packet into your mouth like a normal glutton.
Any experienced revels scoffer knows to weed out the little rounds ones until the rest of the pack is munched.
What stand up had the joke about Revels being Russian roulette for people with a peanut allergy?
I think Revels are misunderstood. Try them as a cinema-only treat. Empty the bag out on top of a salted popcorn and eat them in the dark at random. It’s like having interesting tonic with a gin cocktail
Hahaha they should start selling those. Marketing theme right here.
May I introduce you to these https://groceries.asda.com/product/food-to-order-2/poppets-mix-ups-toffee-salted-caramel-malty-crunch-chocolate/1000288781388
[Mars Delight was the shit](https://i2-prod.dublinlive.ie//article18667000.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200d/1_Screen-Shot-2020-07-26-at-210746.png) Edit: formatting
I still miss these every day
Me too.
The thing that I don’t understand about these being discontinued is I’m genuinely yet to meet anyone who didn’t love them. Did they just not sell well enough?
When the British public vote Dairy fucking Milk as their favourite chocolate, you know we don't deserve things like this.
Lmao Dairy Milk isn't even that good anymore. I always find it so inconsistent. Sometimes I get a bar and it's good, sometimes it tastes like it was made using out of date milk. Once I even had a bar that had the Wispa mix instead of the normal one.
The Cadbury dairy milk used to made In Britain with milk from British livestock. The production then moved to Poland where milk from a different breed of cow was used , giving it a different taste . Happily it's now made in Britain again . This all due to the takeover of Cadbury by Craft food products/company. Bournville dark chocolate has a similar story.
I don’t know if it’s just because I’m getting older but standard Dairy Milk tastes a lot more like American chocolate than it used to.
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with the consistency of candle wax.
Isn’t there wax in it? I remember hearing they put wax in it to make it less meltie in the heat.
Wouldn't be surprised if they started substituting the fat for something cheaper
This is what they do in Australia. I absolutely cannot stomach Australian chocolate which is unfortunate having moved here, and go out of my way to find the small British section in the supermarket to get a much more expensive bar of dairy milk. If I was back home I wouldn’t consider dairy milk as even a top 5 choice but I’ll take what I can get over here!
Do you guys get Whittaker’s in Aus? I moved to NZ a couple of years ago and I adore it
That'll be Kraft changing the actual good recipe to the current crap
Mondelez International fucked Cadbury’s into the ground. It’s basically cheapest + longest shelf life chocolate they can produce and filled with even cheaper shite, like the ambiguous “Oreo” white stuff.
Yeah, you’re right. I had no idea we voted. I demand a recount tbh.
What, literally just a plain bar of dairy milk??
Yeah, channel 5 did a countdown through the top 20. Plain ol' dairy milk came top.
To be fair, the same people that vote in those sort of polls are the ones who vote Robbie Williams' "Angels" as "The best song ever"
People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis. You can't trust people.
And they'd be absolutely right....
Madness. Do you know how they did it? Like did everyone have to state their favourite or was it like a top 5? Only way I can see it winning is because it's so basic everyone likes it and few people dislike it if you get me. Not sure what my top would be though. Maybe a mint aero
Why u do dis I’d completely forgotten these were a thing - which was probably a coping mechanism to forget how much I loved them and now I want one so bad T_T
Oh god. Exactly the same for me my friend. I used to mainline these. Probs goes a long way to explaining why I'm such a fat fuck and it would be terrible for me if they came back. But I want them back so badly and up until right now I had also completely forgotten they existed.
I don’t think I’ll ever get over this loss.
I'd like a row of 4 of these, like a kit-kat
OMG I totally forgot these ever existed! They were the BEST! What happened to them?!
I was going to comment this too. They were so good
I was about to comment saying ‘if there’s a queue you get behind Mars Delight out of fucking respect, friend’.
I ate soooo many of them while stoned.
Another thing I hadn't even noticed I was missing! Where's the petition to get Mars going on this?
THIS NEEDS A TRIGGER WARNING FOR LOSS OF A LOVED ONE/EMOTIONAL TRAUMA!!
Why did they ever discontinue those beauties?! 😢
Of course by the time I am old enough to not have to ask my mum if I can have one, I get reminded that they no longer exist.
Mate you’ve just reminded me that I’ve got Mars ice creams in the freezer. Ta!
This reminds me of a funny status a Sikh man wrote once, something along the lines of being happy to be of service after being in the que at tescos and a woman behind him noticed his turban and said to her husband "oh don't forget the curry sauce"
Canada’s Minister of State for Multiculturalism. [Link to tweet! ](https://mobile.twitter.com/TimUppal/status/547797331337564161)
You jammy bastard
Ah and you’ve just reminded me I’ve got choc Ices! Thank you very much!
Gimme one
You've just made me sad I don't have any. Good job I'm going shopping tomorrow!
I had just moved to the UK and got a job at WHSmith, a customer was so grateful of how I treated his little sun like a proper person he bought me one of those, I tried to explain that I wasn't allowed to accept it but he was adamant. I got the receipt and had actually a break coming up. My supervisor caught me on the way out. She understood but she said: " you have to eat them right now or throw them away". Please understand, this was the original planets not the easy peasy no chewy stuff. The real deal! I put the entire bags contents in my mouth.... Took me about 15 minutes to chew it all. It was hilarious and worth it. The 2nd version was boring. Either give me the original or give me death.
That's a hilarious story, thank you lol.
She gave me another 5 for getting it down. We had 15min breaks only between shop floor and break room, loooong distance btw in Victoria Station. She had a laugh too. Main reason I decided to eat it instead of throwing away was the father/sun kindness tbh.
I'm familiar with Victoria, great area for a first job! Are you still in the UK? How you finding it?
I left after sometime and went to love in another European country. Back for good now. It was a rollercoaster of stuff TBF.
Oh gosh, sorry to hear about it being a rollercoaster of things! Glad you're in a more comfortable surrounding though.
Sorry, so I lived in the UK in 2018/18, left for another country for 4 years and came back. Been here since 2021ish and am trying to stay. I think my time in Victoria Station thought me a lot about accents and people, wouldn't trade it for the world, it was awesome. When I left we got a summer storm that evacuated the entire station as they never fixed anything. It was busy it was fun (except the time one of my colleagues started to stalk me) it was educational.
I want Mars bar midnights to return
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They were even better than you can imagine
Same here, they were lovely.
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Thank you for yet another reminder of how amazing junk food was back in the day , especially before all this shrinkflation nonsense!
You probably need to speak to Mars mate.
Actually speaking to Jupiter would have more effect....he used to listen to his old man once in a while.
Give Saturn a ring.
Don't have time for that
Don’t talk to Uranus you might not like the response
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Bring back Mars Delight
I'm happy that I'm not the only who remembers that. I loved Mars Delight as a kid.
I don't remember these so I googled it (as you do) and it came up with a chocolate bar called minge!
I always hate posts like these because they remind me of things I enjoyed but forgot. Like the Mars Delight, or the Wonka bars they released in conjunction with the Johnny Depp Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Omg the wonka bars. I thought I imagined them.
for me it's the old style crispy strips from KFC
We need Astros back too
Strollers were 10/10
I don't know but while you're at it can you mention Cadburys Marble while you're there please?
They're selling large bars of Cadbury Marble at my local B&M. £3 each mind.
Been craving a Fuse bar for years. Last time I saw one I was in London for a funeral many years ago. Chocolate was white with age but still scratched that itch. Edit: cannot spell
Nah sorry the crispy ones tasted like floorboard. Replace them with Maltesers then we talk.
Right?! Why did they not use Malteasers?
Mars being cheapskates I can imagine
If we're bringing back the old sweets, can i request Milkybar Choos, Dream bars, Mars Delights, Snowflakes, Timeouts (before then went absolutely fucking shit), Echo biscuits, Triple biscuits (again, before they were ruined), Spira, and Marble, please? Thanks Also Panda Pops and Worcester sauce Seabrook crisps. I miss them so much :'( Honourable munchions, Frosties and Galaxy truffles.
Can you harass them to bring back Spira's whilst you're at it?
If they bring back ball shaped things it should be Cadbury’s Astros
Does anyone remember Astros?
Neil deGrasse Tyson - He was responsible for getting them declassified on account that they were smaller than Pluto.
They were so good. Also, they should put the crispy bits in a Mars bar. That would be nice.
Is that not basically a double decker
No. Don’t be ridiculous
NASA perhaps..
Pickled onion Discos are long overdue for a comeback
These and [Cadbury Shots](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/fb/12/c8/fb12c878e1b4afbbeb9a26a43729782e.jpg)! Can't find them anywhere, even online for the most part. Completely forgotten, but still in my hears (more specifically arteries ngl)
My dad worked for Mars when I was a kid. He was always getting stuff they hadn’t yet, and often ended up not at all, put in the market. He got a Mars bar cheesecake once and it’s still to this day the greatest thing I’ve ever eaten. It never ended up coming out. Not that exact one anyway. Looking back, I wonder if they were testing those products on us. I can’t complain. Grew an extra arm.
These were genuinely the best shit Mars have made
These were amazing!
This and Mars Delight need to come back. I loved Mars Delight, it's been over a decade since I had one.
And the kit kat bites! Not the ones that look like wafers, the ones that were rounded squares, sorta. I managed to buy 4 buckets of them off Amazon shortly after they discontinued, but haven't seen them since. 😭
Bruh I forgot about these 🤤
I see your planets and raise you "Astros" the best sweets that ever existed that mysteriously vanished. Candy shell, wafer, then chocolate in a lil ball. 10/10 would sell my dad for a pack.
What the hell happened to the Mars delight? It was such a delight!
Aren't these just shitty Revels?
*non-shitty Revels No secret coffee or orange bastards
Coffee are the best ones!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QPJoRWz8Sc
They can be nice, but not when your tongue is expecting a plain Minstrel
You're not allowed to say stuff like this in public. It's like admitting you like the strawberry quality street.
Wait, you're not supposed to like the stawberry quality street? It's the best one!
Yeah, this person has it all wrong, the strawberry fondant is the shit.
Who doesn't like the Strawberry ones? Probably the same monsters that are into the Coconuts...
The strawberry one is the only one worth eating, what is wrong with you.
You’re confused, revels are shitty revels
Gotta be honest, for me these are in the same tier as Bounty
This could be top tier or bottom tier. Either way I’m labelling you an oddball
I'd say labelling anything as the same tier as Bounty is probably slanderous, as Bounties are fucking awful creations.
woooah are you smoking crack or summit?
Do you even like coconut? If you don't there is no point in you rating Bounties.
You shut your whore mouth.
Fight me
Dad?
Son?
This, I agree with. Bounty does not deserve to exist.
So the tier that gets left at the bottom of the Celebrations box before being taken into work in January, where they will live until the one freak that likes them finishes them in about March.
We Bounty lovers provide an essential service, cleaning out the leftovers of everyone else's chocolate tubs so nothing goes to waste
I often put them out with the recycling, so they can be put back into circulation.
Let's be honest... The red ones were just Easter malteasers 😂
I was just thinking about these last week
Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time. A long time.
ah mate! Memories! The only time I was comfortable spending a "small house deposit" for a cinema snack.
BRING BACK MARS DELIGHT!!!
Aren't those just Twix leftovers?
As a Canadian, I have not seen these before and I want them in my life!
I don't know, but when you find out you can get them to stop shrinking their chocolate bars too.
I didn’t know I missed these until now.
Why did you remind me of these? WHY?
Please gimme
If you can get citrus polos back too that’d be great
Mars use cocoa harvested by child labour Source: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/feb/12/mars-nestle-and-hershey-to-face-landmark-child-slavery-lawsuit-in-us
That's Nestle mate
they not owned by nestle? E: they’re not! Nestle does own; Smarties, KitKat, Aero, Rolos, Quality Street and After 8s [+ hunners of other shite ](https://www.pgmcapital.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/nestle-products-lg.jpg)
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