What do you remember?

[Greenman]

Hard to believe that Raymond was a prude but he created a massive empire, much better quality wise than that chancer Sullivan. His stuff was classier, magazine speaking but he got round the law about obscenity by making his Raymond Revuebar a private club. Sullivan was raided practically every week, mind you a lot of the police were bent and probably turned a blind eye to some of his magazines. You are right to say his 'gaff' was all leopard skin prints and gold, Raymond had a bit more class. His daughter took over the business but then fell desperately ill-hell of a shame, she was a lovely girl-his friend died suddenly too, and all that in the end proved to be the end of him and his empire-selling M*yf*ir to others was a big mistake it was never the same after that. Who however could forget that and Model Celebrities Index-crammed full of birds.

[Greenman]

I was thinking back to the stuff we had as kids and its amazing to see what is still around after all these years, but does anyone remember HARLEQUIN GATEAU. It was made Kipling and was a sponge cake with pink icing with hundreds & thousands on it(sprinkles to our American friends) and one of my favourites. Some time ago I found a website for Kipling and wrote to them about it-alas I never got a reply.

[USBPepsi]

I remember holding M&Ms long enough to prove that they would eventually melt in your hands. My mother was not amused.

I loved comic books as a kid, and I still do today. Thanks to the wonders of the internet and burning data to DVD, I now have a complete set of digital Marvel comics that starts in 1960 (when they actually became Marvel, rather than Timely/Atlas) and continues all the way up to about two months ago. As each monthly update appears, I scoop it up. I'm taking my time reading them, though. I'm only up to October 1975 at the moment.

Not every comic I loved as a kid was from the big two, (Marvel or DC) though. When I was really young I thought Magnus, Robot Fighter was the coolest guy around:



It never occurred to me to wonder why a future society that was so dependent on robot servants would make them so shoddily that they'd constantly go haywire and try to kill people.

[Greenman]

I remember when they introduced M&M's to this country-they were like all chocolate from America-bloody awful. I think our chocolate is better, SMARTIES are ten times more flavoursome and look better-M&M's look too shiny. I lamented the loss of the cardboard tube with the colourful top. I think MINSTRELS



were the chocolate you could hold in your hand without them melting. I also remember TREATS with the peanuts in them but its amazing to see how many childhood sweets and chocolates survived and are still made today WISPA,
CARAMAC,
MILKY WAY etc.

When I was a lad I read The Crunch! ACTION comic, STARLORD, BULLET(Fireball) etc.

[NIN]

Possibly one for another thread this (did you know? ... coz i aint sure )but, I did hear that Re: Smarties they tailor the chocolate to the regions of europe.

In the UK the Orange ones are Orange flavoured choc, I think the Swiss prefer Mint chocolate (must be the Green ones) and Germany.., Oh damn i can't remember now

... . is it chocolate flavour? Yup, definitely one for another thread coz i can't remember
..anyone else know?

[USBPepsi]

Originally Posted by Greenman

I remember when they introduced M&M's to this country-they were like all chocolate from America-bloody awful. I think our chocolate is better, SMARTIES are ten times more flavoursome

Sir, I am afraid I shall have to ask you to step outside! Um, and go ahead and leave that candy on the counter...

By the way, in the U.S. Smarties is the name of a different candy entirely. Little chalky discs, extremely sweet and tart (in fact, they're a lot like Swee Tarts, but smaller and not as hard). The things are so tiny that you can eat about twenty rolls in one sitting (which, come to think of it, I ended up doing on November 1st this year, after we hadn't got as many Trick or Treaters as we expected the night before).

[USBPepsi]

...and the U.S. version of the Mars Bar is completely different, including a row of almonds on top (still under the chocolate). Our Milky Way is closest to your Mars Bar, but not as sweet (I'm told).

Because of the difference in candy, when boardwalks and carnivals over here started replicating the UK's success of the fried Mars bars, they substituted Milky Ways.

[Greenman]

My Dad usually brings at least one MILKY WAY or MARS as we call it back from his trips to America and once he bought back a legendary bar of HERSHEY's-it was horrible, no taste at all-I think that is because we use different ingredients in our chocolate-in Brussels they once called us to task and were going to rename our chocolate as VEGOLATE-we soon put a stop to that load of nonsense
I've not seen those sort of Smarties I think they are called FIZZERS

here smaller versions it looks like of REFRESHERS

, but I do remember they used to do a little tube of the innards of POLO FRUITS or LIFE SAVERS which my parents got from the US.

[USBPepsi]

Originally Posted by Greenman

My Dad usually brings at least one MILKY WAY or MARS as we call it back from his trips to America and once he bought back a legendary bar of HERSHEY's-it was horrible, no taste at all-

The wife and I agree that Mars Inc. makes better-tasting chocolate than Hershey's... which is a shame, because Mars was a cut-throat businessman and a bit of a bastard, whereas Hershey's family has been helping school underprivileged children for over a hundred years now.

Bastard or not, though, Mars came up with a better formula.

[Greenman]

Oh yes I saw something about that on a recent edition of ACE OF CAKES where Duff Goldman made a HERSHEY bar out of cake and presented it to the children of a school for the underprivileged. However in the same vein Mr Cadbury here opened a special factory in Bourneville and created a village for his workers and housing for all as well as recreational facilities-they were originally part of the underprivileged of Britain too. Good to see these manufacturers putting back into the respective communities.

A lot of manufacturers have disappeared, TERRY's for one, they used to make ALL GOLD boxes of chocolates and they were taken over by ROWNTREE-MACINTOSH who I think were taken over by Nestlé and Cadbury's main factory has been taken over by Kraft.