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General Category => Old Products => Topic started by: oldspice on July 25, 2005, 09:39:38 am

Title: Reward
Post by: oldspice on July 25, 2005, 09:39:38 am

Does anyone remember a chocolate assortment called Reward? They were available in the 60s and 70s but I can't remember the last time I saw them. Probably late 70s/early 80s.White box with coloured writing I think Cadburys?


What other now defunct chocolate assortments can people remember?

Title: Reward
Post by: smurfboy on July 25, 2005, 10:48:19 am

Do Harlequin chocolates still exist? They were like a downmarket Quality Street. Our gardner always used t buy my sister and I a box each at Christmas.

Title: Reward
Post by: loulou on July 25, 2005, 01:19:57 pm
you had a gardener?
Title: Reward
Post by: smurfboy on July 25, 2005, 03:02:08 pm
We did. He was Romanian.
Title: Reward
Post by: loulou on July 25, 2005, 09:44:10 pm
That's nice. Did you have a big house and a big garden? What was his name? Was he very old?
Title: Reward
Post by: goldencup on July 25, 2005, 09:50:43 pm
Now that's got me thinking. When I was a child we had a cleaner (only a few hours a week!) who every Christmas bought me and my sisters a box each of these horrible mint creme things.  I wonder what they were?  I seem to remember a green box.  Any ideas Oldspice?
Title: Reward
Post by: loulou on July 25, 2005, 10:34:27 pm
I don't know, gardeners, cleaners....all we had was a window cleaner.
Title: Reward
Post by: Beaner on July 26, 2005, 03:58:44 am
Do they still make Dairy Box? What was the difference between those and Milk Tray?
Title: Reward
Post by: on July 26, 2005, 08:53:17 am

A Romanian gardener - sounds rather romantic.

Title: Reward
Post by: oldspice on July 26, 2005, 10:19:57 am

Goldencup - did they have chocolate on them? Needlers mint cremes came in a brown and green, odd-shaped box. If no chocolate, they could have been Clarnico mint cremes which i think you can still buy loose.


Re domestic help - we had a home help because my mother was very ill (she was called an invalid in those days) but we used to have to rush round cleaning up before the home help came!


Re Dairy Box and Milk Tray - they were made by different companies (Rowntrees made Dairy Box, Cadburys made Milk Tray). Dairy box used to be my favourites until those global terrorists and ban-the-taste monkeys NESTLE got their hands on them. Now I think they are CRAP. Milk Tray were always a bit special but suffered from Cadburys mucking around with the contents. Everyone I know of my age is begging Cadburys to BRING BACK THE LIME BARREL!!!!!!!


Sorry folks, feeling a bit intense this morning !!!!

Title: Reward
Post by: smurfboy on July 26, 2005, 10:40:52 am

Quote from: loulou
That's nice. Did you have a big house and a big garden? What was his name? Was he very old?


His name was Mr Binder and he looked about 100, but I think he was about 70 by the time he retired. My parents' house isn't massive but the garden is quite big and complicated. It all got too much for the poor old soul in the end and my parents were very relieved when he retired because they didn't want to have to let him go.


The gardener we had before him died (I don't really remember him), and the two we had after both ended up with terrible health problems! I think it was a poisoned chalice!

Title: Reward
Post by: goldencup on July 26, 2005, 10:46:23 am

Thanks Oldspice, I think they were indeed Needlers Mint Cremes.


 

Title: Reward
Post by: loulou on July 26, 2005, 01:13:04 pm
Smurfy I think you should write a book and include all about Mr Binder. I would buy it.
Title: Reward
Post by: smurfboy on July 26, 2005, 02:49:22 pm
I would love to do that. I'd put my great-grandmother in it too. She committed suicide after a dispute over the family pub.
Title: Reward
Post by: loulou on July 26, 2005, 04:17:55 pm
That's sad. Do feel free to elaborate. I feel I need to read this book.
Title: Reward
Post by: smurfboy on July 26, 2005, 06:03:20 pm
It was years before I was born, back in Ireland. She gave her pub to her eldest son because she disapproved of her younger son going off with an older woman who had a daughter. Then it turned out he was actually marrying the daughter. Meanwhile the son who had the pub kept all the money for himself, and it was my uncle and his new wife who ended up looking after my great-grandmother. I think it played on her mind that she had let her son down.
Title: Reward
Post by: goldencup on July 26, 2005, 06:06:42 pm
Aww, that's VERY sad.
Title: Reward
Post by: smurfboy on July 26, 2005, 06:10:24 pm
I know, and of course in Ireland in the 60s, it was considered very scandalous. The pub is still in the family though.
Title: Reward
Post by: Bunny on July 28, 2005, 11:25:44 pm

I remember Reward but can't recall what the centres were like. i used to like the old Black Magic assortment because they had unusual centres like butterscotch and a dreamy cherry one. They have changed a lot since then though.


I remember a Cadburys assortment called Something Special that came in an unusual box. There was also a strange assortment by Terrys with a date as its name (1847 or something like that) and they had funny shaped chocolates - long thin ones and round flat ones - some just plain chocolate and some with fillings. Am I going made??


i don't remember Harlequin but that could be because they are more recent and I no longer buy boxed chocolates.

Title: Reward
Post by: loulou on July 29, 2005, 01:33:14 am
smurfy that was a sad story but I think it was nice of you to share it with us. I like to hear about Mr.Binder best. When are you starting on your book?
Title: Reward
Post by: smurfboy on July 29, 2005, 10:35:48 am
Does Biarritz still exist?
Title: Reward
Post by: loulou on July 29, 2005, 07:27:24 pm
I don't think so.
Title: Reward
Post by: Bunny on July 29, 2005, 08:15:23 pm
They were very nice
Title: Reward
Post by: loulou on July 29, 2005, 08:15:59 pm
yes
Title: Reward
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on August 18, 2005, 11:39:27 am

Biarritz were good. And I loved the blue trianguar box. They remind me of my Nan - she gave me a box of Biarritz for the Christmas before she died.


Cadbury used to do a box of chocolates called Vogue - they were before my time but my Gran has a Vogue box she keeps some old photos in.

Title: Reward
Post by: on August 18, 2005, 12:11:38 pm
I'm sure I saw them Christmas 2003, but not sure about last year.
Title: Reward
Post by: oldspice on August 18, 2005, 02:25:05 pm
I have never heard of Vogue. Must be before my time. It's lovely to keep old photos in an old chocolate box or biscuit tin. Did anyone have a treasure box as a kid?
Title: Reward
Post by: smurfboy on August 18, 2005, 02:51:39 pm
My mom still keeps her foreign coins in an old Mackintosh's Quality Street tin.
Title: Reward
Post by: loulou on August 19, 2005, 12:00:11 am
My mam has a Quality street tin that is her button tin. Does anyone else's mam have a button tin?
Title: Reward
Post by: goldencup on August 19, 2005, 09:21:39 am
Yes, my mum also has a Quality Street button tin!  I have a very small one that only contains boring white shirt buttons as my husband and two boys are always losing them off theirs.
Title: Reward
Post by: oldspice on August 19, 2005, 10:25:45 am

Do you know - I am going to start a treasure box! I am going to find an old-fashioned, cardboard chocolate box (you know, the sort that has a lift off lid - you see them at car boot sales now and then) and i am going to start a treasure box! What shall I put in it?


As a kid I used to put in conkers, marbles (especially white or red flashes), nice-looking beads, ferns, old coins, interesting toys from Christmas crackers, love notes from the little boy two doors away (sadly he was killed aged 16 on a moped) and sometimes even interesting-looking chocolate wrappers. I wish I'd kept them all!

Title: Reward
Post by: chocolate chick on August 19, 2005, 11:52:54 am
My mum has a button tin! Its got a load of old buttons in from when I was little. There are numbers, strawberries etc.