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General Category => Old Products => Topic started by: nickyw_uk on March 11, 2006, 02:28:38 am

Title: Frys Bars
Post by: nickyw_uk on March 11, 2006, 02:28:38 am
I had a Frys chocolate cream bar today and was just wondering if anyone knows how many dofferent flavours there are of the bar? 
Title: Frys Bars
Post by: smurfboy on March 11, 2006, 03:00:04 am

If you want us to say 'five' you're fourteen years too late sadly...

Title: Frys Bars
Post by: oldspice on March 11, 2006, 08:33:18 am

Three - plain fondant filling (I don't know what flavour that is supposed to be) orange and peppermint. They are a sad shadow of their former selves.


I have a question to pose - the orange flavour bar was introduced after they got rid of the multi-flavoured bar. WHY? If the fruit flvaours didn't sell, why introduce orange? I think I know why - manufactering costs! It's nothing to do with how popular the bar is, it's to do with how easy and cheap it is to make.

Title: Frys Bars
Post by: smurfboy on March 11, 2006, 03:08:12 pm
Well if a bar isn't popular enough to justify the costs of production, what do you expect?
Title: Frys Bars
Post by: oldspice on March 11, 2006, 05:22:08 pm
Do you think that Five Centres wasn't popular enough? How many orange flavour bars do you think they sell? More than the Five centres? I doubt it!
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Post by: loulou on March 11, 2006, 06:05:28 pm
Do you think they sat down with Frys Five Centres and took a vote on the most popular flavour because I don't think orange was it.
Title: Frys Bars
Post by: oldspice on March 11, 2006, 08:37:02 pm
No. I think they just thought well every other chocolate bar comes with mint and orange varieties so we'll do the same to be on the safe side!
Title: Frys Bars
Post by: on March 11, 2006, 08:51:21 pm

Quote from: oldspice
No. I think they just thought well every other chocolate bar comes with mint and orange varieties so we'll do the same to be on the safe side!



I knew you would understand my disappointment in Cadbury one day.

Title: Frys Bars
Post by: oldspice on March 12, 2006, 09:51:22 am
When it comes to opinions about cadbury, you sound so much like our old friend Pualham at times Black Knight
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Post by: loulou on March 12, 2006, 03:14:50 pm
 Shocked  





Title: Frys Bars
Post by: smurfboy on March 12, 2006, 03:51:06 pm

Quote from: oldspice
Do you think that Five Centres wasn't popular enough? How many orange flavour bars do you think they sell? More than the Five centres? I doubt it!


You know me well enough to know I don't think it was unpopular - I loved it. But if something is difficult, and therefore expensive, to make, it has to be hugely successful. Orange bars are popular; why do you think Terry's stopped making the Chocolate Apple and Lemon? Why do you think most fruit variations on bars are orange? (Wispa Orange, Aero Orange, Twix and Drifter Orange, Rolo Orange...) 

Title: Frys Bars
Post by: smurfboy on March 12, 2006, 04:12:51 pm
Quote from: Black-Knight

Quote from: oldspice
No. I think they just thought well every other chocolate bar comes with mint and orange varieties so we'll do the same to be on the safe side!



I knew you would understand my disappointment in Cadbury one day.



You almost sound as if you've been moaning about it for years...

Title: Frys Bars
Post by: on March 12, 2006, 04:20:36 pm

No it just seems like it to some people!


 

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Post by: Nikkers on March 12, 2006, 04:21:16 pm
my dad was talking about a frys bar called a sandwich, it was dark chocolate sandwiched between milk chocolate, said it was yum. anybody remember that?
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Post by: oldspice on March 12, 2006, 04:59:32 pm

Yes, I do, but haven't found anyone else who does!


There was a milk version with plain chocolate in the middle and a plain version with milk chocolate in the middle. I even remember a mint version with plain chocolate top and bottom and a white mint filling in the sandwhich!


I wasn't being funny about Frys Five Centres Smurfy - and I agree with you that if manufactering became difficult, the popularity would have to be huge to keep them going - that's what I was trying to (badly) say- they were popular but modern day costs put the kybosh on them!

Title: Frys Bars
Post by: Nikkers on March 12, 2006, 08:18:11 pm
oldspice, that mint one sounds lush
Title: Frys Bars
Post by: smurfboy on March 13, 2006, 04:03:39 pm
Quote from: oldspice

Yes, I do, but haven't found anyone else who does!


There was a milk version with plain chocolate in the middle and a plain version with milk chocolate in the middle. I even remember a mint version with plain chocolate top and bottom and a white mint filling in the sandwhich!


I wasn't being funny about Frys Five Centres Smurfy - and I agree with you that if manufactering became difficult, the popularity would have to be huge to keep them going - that's what I was trying to (badly) say- they were popular but modern day costs put the kybosh on them!



It's a great pity because there is absolutely nothing like it on the market. These sandwich bars sound great - I bet they'd be huge if they were launched now.

Title: Frys Bars
Post by: oldspice on March 13, 2006, 05:21:20 pm
They were around for years and years and I can't remember when they disappeared but you know what it's like - suddenly they're just not there anymore.
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Post by: smurfboy on March 13, 2006, 05:54:40 pm
Does anyone else think they'd sell well now? (The sandwich bars, not FFC.) They sound nice without being unusual enough to scare people off; no worrying fruit etc!
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Post by: bluekitty on April 19, 2006, 09:16:49 pm
At the present time I just buy the original, but if they brought back the 5 centres I would definatley by it.  Oldspice is correct about things just vanishing. You can guarantee whatever I like they stop selling

Title: Frys Bars
Post by: ayrshirechocman on October 23, 2007, 11:24:14 am
Anyone know if there is a product similar to the 'Five Centres' bar?....
 

Not Fry's, but another company's product. 
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Post by: naxos on October 23, 2007, 02:08:52 pm
Leaf used to make a whole series with cream centres (maybe they still do), and seemingly always on offer at Woolies. And rightly so - they were vile.
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Post by: ayrshirechocman on October 24, 2007, 11:08:04 pm
Cheers.
 

Never heard of them, to be honest. They still for sale?.
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Post by: naxos on October 25, 2007, 08:41:26 am
Haven't seen them for a while, but it might be worth checking the pound shops - it'd be the sort of line they'd carry.
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Post by: davidc on October 05, 2008, 07:07:43 pm
Quote from: smurfboy on March 13, 2006, 05:54:40 pm
Does anyone else think they'd sell well now? (The sandwich bars, not FFC.) They sound nice without being unusual enough to scare people off; no worrying fruit etc! <IMG src="smileys/smiley36.gif" border="0">

I could be mistaken but I'm sure I've seen these somewhere. Now I've got to hunt for them tomorrow!
I'll let you know if I find them. :D
Title: Re: Frys Bars
Post by: greenbean on February 10, 2009, 03:57:40 pm
It has always slightly concerned me that they went with orange just assuming that orange would be the most popular because there are always a lot of chocolate orange products already available. Frys Five Centres were amazing. For some reason the five centres didn't always come in the same order (unless i just started at a different end and have forgotten which may have been the case as I haven't had one for 16 long years) but I wonder if they did hold a survey whether orange would be the flavour people want as a whole bar. I'd have to say strawberry (or the pink bit if it wasn't strawberry). The nearest you can get to that is a Raspberry Ruffle but that's just not the same thing really, like Supa Noodles aren't the same as Pot Noodles but you might think so if you weren't initiated. I don't know who decided that orange would be the default flavour for chocolate.
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Post by: drterror666 on February 10, 2009, 05:55:05 pm
I always thought Five Centres rocked!
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Post by: loulou on February 13, 2009, 08:41:10 am
me too :)
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Post by: paulham on February 15, 2009, 08:55:40 pm
Mint one for me.
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Post by: drterror666 on February 16, 2009, 12:27:10 pm
I liked that one as well.  In fact, I don't think there's one I don't like.
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Post by: loulou on February 16, 2009, 01:53:02 pm
I like them all too.
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Post by: smurfboy on February 22, 2009, 06:43:33 pm
My mother says Fry's Chocolate Cream tastes like perfume. She says that about Turkish Delight too. Is there a secret conspiracy at the Fry's plant where Chanel No. 5 is added to every bar? Or should I be more worried abot how much perfume my mother drinks?
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Post by: paulham on February 22, 2009, 07:36:30 pm
I know what she means. There is a whiff of something in there. Not lavender though.
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Post by: oldspice on February 22, 2009, 08:49:26 pm
Perhaps it's vanilla - which is commonly used in perfumes?
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Post by: drterror666 on February 23, 2009, 12:00:20 pm
Fry's Chocolate Cream rocks!  They're one of the only choccies that taste like they did back on the day (nearly).
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Post by: Ginni on April 09, 2009, 09:38:15 am
I wonder if anyone can help me: I play at making chocolates from home, and one of my new molds is the Frys bar shape. I've made my first crack at doing a peppermint cream (eh - not bad, but not right consistency!), but when I showed the guys at work, they all INSIST that I make a 5 centers.

The question: What were they? Can anyone remember? Our current theory is Strawberry, Orange, Peppermint, Original plain and Lime? (in random fashion, of course!)

Anyone got any clues? I'm happy to make up my own Ginni's 5 Centers, (though actually, the mold has 6 chunks, so it should be Ginni's 6 Center, really. I was just going to randomly repeat a flavour.), but it would be good if I knew what clearly worked for decades before profit took over the world in place of reputational excellence.

edited to add: According to the website (Cadbury's website, that is - which bizarrely didn't come up on a google search) it's "raspberry, lime, vanilla, coffee and orange" Really? Can anyone confirm? Particularly since the wrapper image has pictures of a strawberry, orange, raspberry, lime (lemon?) and a pineapple. Not a coffee bean in sight, and I wouldn't really classify coffee as a fruit flavour. Most bizarre.
Title: Re: Frys Bars
Post by: drterror666 on April 09, 2009, 12:22:36 pm
Coffee?  I don't ever remember coffee.  Or vanilla for that matter!
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Post by: JadeD on April 09, 2009, 04:32:45 pm
turkish delight is flavoured using rosewater which is why it tastes perfumey!
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Post by: drterror666 on April 09, 2009, 05:41:38 pm
Is that right?  Er, cheers for that...
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Post by: netbuddy on April 09, 2009, 10:35:53 pm
As far as I can remember, 5 centers was made up of citrus flavours.

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Post by: JadeD on April 10, 2009, 01:38:36 am
Yep, sounds horrific doesn't it - if you try real turkish delight with icing sugar coating instead of chocolate they are REALLY perfumey, you can actually taste the rose *Newbie wisdom imparted*
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Post by: drterror666 on April 12, 2009, 01:11:45 pm
Turkish delight comes in many flavours, including lemon, mint and just about anything else (a bit like ice cream).  The gloopy stuff itself is the Turkish delight, you can flavour it as you want, although rose or lemon appears to be the norm.
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Post by: paulham on April 12, 2009, 04:52:51 pm
As is pistachio for some reason.
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Post by: loulou on April 14, 2009, 10:51:45 pm
Turkish delight is best when chocolate coated.
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Post by: drterror666 on April 15, 2009, 11:47:51 am
I second that!
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Post by: loulou on April 20, 2009, 11:17:37 pm
Most things are better when chocolate coated.
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Post by: drterror666 on April 21, 2009, 12:35:24 pm
Including women!
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Post by: loulou on April 21, 2009, 01:24:03 pm
whatever floats your boat.
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Post by: drterror666 on April 21, 2009, 05:52:02 pm
You know it makes sense!