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General Category => Old Products => Topic started by: NoAdsForTopics on March 13, 2006, 08:02:44 pm

Title: Double Deckers
Post by: NoAdsForTopics on March 13, 2006, 08:02:44 pm

When did they get so big?

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Post by: loulou on March 13, 2006, 10:01:11 pm

Did they?

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Post by: Forth Bridges on March 13, 2006, 11:39:07 pm

I thourgh ther got smaller!

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Post by: chocolate chick on March 14, 2006, 03:21:41 pm

I thought they had got smaller? I am sure they were huge when I was little

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Post by: smurfboy on March 14, 2006, 04:23:50 pm

No, you were just smaller.

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Post by: chocolate chick on March 14, 2006, 04:24:06 pm

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Post by: on March 14, 2006, 08:01:10 pm

Double Deckers did go large a few years ago. I'm not saying anything more......The Fifth Amendment

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Post by: bethypoos on March 14, 2006, 08:27:08 pm

They are definitely bigger!!!

I'm quite kcal conscious, and sadly i remember when they contained 235kcal, and now they are 300kcal. Therefore I rarely have them nowadays!!!

 

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Post by: loulou on March 15, 2006, 07:31:57 am

Well if they are bigger I'll have one.

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Post by: on March 16, 2006, 08:28:14 pm

Large portion?

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Post by: loulou on March 18, 2006, 08:54:02 pm

The bigger the better.

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Post by: MugGy bONehEad on March 19, 2006, 10:05:05 pm

Definately when it comes to Double Deckers. So who eats the top layer first & who eats the bottom 1st? To do the latter is easier if its been in the fridge.

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Post by: smurfboy on March 20, 2006, 03:21:47 am

I don't buy them now they've taken the raisins out.

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Post by: oldspice on March 20, 2006, 07:03:12 am

Where were the raisins? In the crunchy bit or the soft bit? Cadbury must have a down on raisins - the got rid of Amazin Raisin too.

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Post by: on March 20, 2006, 08:17:29 am

*Crunch*

sigh!

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Post by: BONKERS on May 17, 2006, 01:24:23 am

Hello guys, just stumbled upon your site whilst reminiscing about sweets and my childhood. Following other topics on confectionary from the 70's-80's, like cabanas, 5 centres, and the infamous Cadbury's Bar Six, who can remember Banjo's which were two finger wafers covered in chocolate and came in 2 verieties, blue wrapper for peanut and the red wrapper for coconut. Also was there not a toffee bar? in the seventies called "nutty" which came in a brown wrapper and was covered in peanuts???????

Cadbury's have certainly let us all down in the past by withdrawing products like Cabana and taking the raisins out of the base of Double Deckers and I think they did it again by withdrawing coconut Boosts as well (probably the nearest they got to re-introducing the Cabana, but not quite) It'll be interesting to see what they come up with in the next 10-20 years.

 

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Post by: oldspice on May 17, 2006, 08:01:55 am

Welcome Bonkers.

I was a huge fan of Bar Six and Cabanas and cannot understand why these were axed. Boosts I think are horrendous and I think they made a big mistake in getting rid of Wispa.

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Post by: minty on May 17, 2006, 11:25:20 am

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Post by: smurfboy on May 17, 2006, 01:57:44 pm

Quote from: BONKERS

Cadbury's have certainly let us all down in the past by withdrawing products like Cabana and taking the raisins out of the base of Double Deckers and I think they did it again by withdrawing coconut Boosts as well (probably the nearest they got to re-introducing the Cabana, but not quite)

But wasn't Coconut Boost introduced in the mid-eighties anyway, which is when the Cabana was supposed to have been axed?

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Post by: BONKERS on May 17, 2006, 07:56:11 pm

I thought the Cabana dissappeared in the early eighties. From memory it wasn't around for long. Appologies if that's not the case

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Post by: smurfboy on May 17, 2006, 08:43:48 pm

I don't remember it at all myself, but I read on an eighties website that it only lasted a year. Most people on thid forum disagree with that though.

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Post by: on May 24, 2006, 08:50:00 pm

Quote from: smurfboy

I don't remember it at all myself, but I read on an eighties website that it only lasted a year. Most people on thid forum disagree with that though.

I can't be certain but it must have been a very long year as I recall! Still, when you are young, everything seems to last longer. (Ok, most things)

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Post by: oldspice on May 25, 2006, 07:53:44 am

There is no way that Cabanas lasted only a year. Three or four is more like it. Possibly longer. What do you think Lou?

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Post by: loulou on May 26, 2006, 07:34:04 pm

I think they were out for a few years.

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Post by: oldspice on May 26, 2006, 08:06:04 pm

That's what i thought,

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Post by: EasterBunny on June 04, 2006, 09:40:09 pm

I was hiding my stash of double deckers in the car and they melted over the weekend.  Luckily they were rescued by refrigerating and i'm sure they tasted better for it.  I think raisins would have ruined the whole experience.

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Post by: smurfboy on June 05, 2006, 02:39:56 am

If you think that you have misunderstood what a Double Decker experience is.

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Post by: andrew1971 on June 06, 2006, 04:47:33 pm

Sorry but trying to remember when DD had Raisins in them? It wasn't a limited edition was it?

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Post by: on June 11, 2006, 02:51:55 pm

No. DD started out with raisins then were dropped after a few years.

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Post by: loulou on June 12, 2006, 11:24:31 pm

dropped raisins? sweep them up.

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Post by: Jamsi on June 24, 2006, 10:12:36 pm

I remember them with raisins in, I prefer them without!

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Post by: on June 24, 2006, 10:42:31 pm

Class. There is a lack of class among some members on here!

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Post by: loulou on June 25, 2006, 06:12:16 pm

I would like to try a DD with raisins.

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Post by: on June 25, 2006, 06:14:31 pm

OooooooooH! You've got class!

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Post by: loulou on June 25, 2006, 11:24:18 pm

Yeah i is a classy bird.

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Post by: on July 06, 2006, 10:14:07 pm

Did you say GASSY? 

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Post by: kevvosa on July 06, 2006, 10:40:48 pm

She is after a night out.

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Post by: on July 06, 2006, 10:45:47 pm

Upstairs on a double decker?

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Post by: on July 07, 2006, 08:16:36 pm

I had a Double Decker today.

I thought it quite unexceptional.

*sigh* Raisins....

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Post by: kevvosa on July 07, 2006, 08:35:30 pm

What do you expect from Cadbury's? 

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Post by: on July 07, 2006, 09:02:50 pm

Faeces-free chocolate!

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Post by: loulou on July 07, 2006, 10:24:54 pm

  

Quote from: Black-Knight

Did you say GASSY? 

 

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Post by: kevvosa on July 08, 2006, 12:41:43 am

Thats not very lady like lou. 

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Post by: oldspice on July 08, 2006, 09:29:01 am

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Post by: phyllisbermann on July 08, 2006, 11:27:47 am

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Post by: dctimc on July 24, 2006, 05:26:57 am

double deckers are the forgotten chocolate. Me and my mate went on a mission to get them popular again by eating at least 2 or 3 every day whilst we were in the first year at college 2001. Then out of nowhere there was an advert for double decker, I'd never seen one before or since, and we felt like our money increased their revenue and they got more popular. The end!

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Post by: oldspice on July 24, 2006, 10:18:41 am

I think that nowadays, companies like Cadbury think that sponsorship of programmes is miore lucrative than actually making adverts.

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Post by: smurfboy on July 24, 2006, 12:17:16 pm

It's probably true. If there's a new bar out, like the Creme Egg bar, you get advertising, but otherwise you're telling people about products they already know.

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Post by: goldencup on July 25, 2006, 09:12:52 am

Not necessarily.  When Kelloggs started advertising Corn Flakes ("Have you forgotten how good they taste" or whatever it was) it was extremely successful and I think most people were already aware they existed.

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Post by: smurfboy on July 25, 2006, 12:35:12 pm

But that was a good 15 years ago. Oldspice said 'nowadays'. Do try and keep up GC.

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Post by: goldencup on July 25, 2006, 06:40:02 pm

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Post by: DoKtor on September 23, 2006, 11:31:05 am

I know the Raisins have gone but either i've seriously damaged my brain
through drink and other naughty things,or Double Deckers were completely
different when I was a kid to what they are now.
There wasn't as much of that nougaty milky way stuff and also,if I'm not
mistaken,the cereal was cornflake based and not Rice Krispies.Am I
correct,or totally insane?

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Post by: Jamsi on September 23, 2006, 10:10:19 pm

I don't think they were cornflakes but I may be wrong and you may not be insane

 

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Post by: DoKtor on September 24, 2006, 11:44:32 am

Thanks for confirming my sanity Jamsi..............I'm sure they didn't originally
have rice krispies tho.....maybe someone else can recall