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- Wham bar
Never liked 'em...Ironically in the 80's my uncle was a rep for McCowans who made them and I spent an all too large portion of my childhood raking about in the cupboard under the stairs amonst the many boxes of sweeties he gave us for something I did like. My fave was fizzy lizzies and I quite liked the licorice, and egg and milk flavoured penny chews- there was also banana, orange and treacle flavours, cant remember any others. There were penny dainties, highland toffee, chocolate coated highland toffee (used to sook the cheap chocolate off and throw away the toffee), the chunky toffee and fudge bars (fudge was quite good), Crystal bars I think they were called - kind of like a chewy boiled sweet bars (liked 'em), and the green and black variation on the wham which might have been gargoyle bars (for some reason there werent ever many of them in the boxes). Best ever thing I had though was another relative had something to do with cadburys and they appeared with a huge (and I mean huge) bag of lumps of cadburys chocolate. I turns out that they transported it around in tankers that were heated to keep it liquid. On this occasion something had gone wrong and the heaters had packed in so once they drained what they could, someone was sent in with a hammer and bolser to chisel the solidified chocolate off of the inside of the tanker. I have never tasted chocolate like it since. - Top Deck
Up the Irons!!! - Top Deck
Up the Irons!!! - Top Deck
Beautiful!! - Texan Bar
I seem to remember that sometimes you would get one where the nougat was much less chewy than the usual - an early version of winning the lottery! - Smax
Smax!! I though I was the only one to remember them. If memory serves you could get them in multi packs...I loved them, really strong flavour and they made you dry as a bone. Would have been great to eat with a beer but sadly they were long gone before I reached drinking age. And they call it progress ffs! - Gambit Bars
Just spent the last few hours looking on the internet for the name of these bloomin bars!! I remember that I really liked them and they were only around for a short while, my mum liked them too which was unusual for her as she rarely ate chocolate. Anyway, the main thing I remember about them other than they were good was the TV advert of the guy crossing the ravine...turns out you can find that on some French facebook page that came up when I googled Gambit bar. Am surprised the advert doesnt appear on youtube compilation videos especially as Cadbury made them. Now that I know the name I wont be kept awake all night racking my brain...