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Chat => General => Topic started by: oldspice on August 24, 2005, 10:12:13 pm

Title: Walnut Whips
Post by: oldspice on August 24, 2005, 10:12:13 pm

When I was a kid, these were made by Duncans (later taken over by Mackintoshes I think) and were always called Whipped Cream Walnuts. They were the height of luxury (so were Toblerone bars) and the filling was so dreamy.

They are hardly mentioned these days.

What do others think?

Title: Walnut Whips
Post by: Hello Sweetie on August 24, 2005, 10:31:12 pm

I love them. M&S do a version with an extra walnut
inside at the bottom  

Title: Walnut Whips
Post by: gbliz on August 24, 2005, 10:50:19 pm

i adore walnut whips

omg they are heavenly

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Post by: loulou on August 25, 2005, 01:32:20 am

Walut whips are in my fave top ten chocolates.

Title: Walnut Whips
Post by: on August 25, 2005, 06:51:27 am

Yes, they are very nice with a coffee, rolled up in fron of the fire.

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Post by: goldencup on August 25, 2005, 01:41:17 pm

Oldspice do you remember those old ads - "It's like biting the top.....off an Easter egg"

Title: Walnut Whips
Post by: oldspice on August 25, 2005, 06:13:30 pm

No, I don't remember those, but then I didn't have a TV at home until I moved in with relatives when I was 12. By then I was too bust to watch much TV. What years are we talking about?

Does anyone else, like me, discard the walnut before eating the whip? Does anyone else remember when they started making different flavours such as plain chocolate and coffee flavoured filling?

M&S did some brilliant versions of their own whips including a mint filled one, now sadly not available. Just as well really, i could easily eat a box of three.

Title: Walnut Whips
Post by: robbie on August 25, 2005, 06:17:41 pm

I think the cream inside is Beta-Max.

Title: Walnut Whips
Post by: oldspice on August 25, 2005, 06:24:06 pm

Wasn't that a type of video recorder, vastly superior to VHS ?

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Post by: goldencup on August 25, 2005, 09:48:52 pm

Indeed it was.  And yes Oldspice, I too discard the walnut!  I hated the coffee ones and remember occasionally buying one by mistake and having a nasty shock.  The 'biting the top off an Easter egg' tag ran for years - probably throughout the 70's.  When I went to Australia a few years ago it was the one thing I was asked to bring for an ex-pat who loved them, and it took me ages to find any.

Title: Walnut Whips
Post by: oldspice on August 25, 2005, 09:52:42 pm

That's right. You don't see them about much these days. There used to be a special stand for them divided into flavours. Come to think of it, I haven't eaten a WW for yonks.

Title: Walnut Whips
Post by: goldencup on August 25, 2005, 09:54:31 pm

Nor me.  And when I last saw them (like everything else) they seemed to have shrunk!

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Post by: smurfboy on August 25, 2005, 09:57:59 pm

My dad always used to buy my mom one when he was in a soppy mood.

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Post by: goldencup on August 25, 2005, 10:02:49 pm

Ah, sweet!

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Post by: chocolate chick on August 26, 2005, 09:56:19 am

Ah thats sweet.



I ahven't had a WW for a long while either. It gets very over looked when I go to buy chocolate.

Title: Walnut Whips
Post by: oldspice on August 26, 2005, 10:04:06 am

That's probably because many places don't stock them or they are stored where people can't see them. Do any supermarkets sell them?

Title: Walnut Whips
Post by: loulou on August 26, 2005, 03:19:59 pm

Morrison sell WW's in boxes of 3.

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Post by: Bunny on August 26, 2005, 11:15:03 pm

Sadly, like many chocolate products that are as old as the hills, Walnut Whips are just run-of-the-mill these days. It is perhaps because we can all enjoy chocolate when and where we wish with today's more affluent society, whereas some years ago, when such things were more of a luxury and enjoyed more rarely, they were appreciated more.