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General Category => Old Products => Topic started by: Bill Taylor on April 12, 2008, 01:55:06 am

Title: Zing Biscuits
Post by: Bill Taylor on April 12, 2008, 01:55:06 am

When I was a youngster, I used to get Zing chocolate biscuits from a vending machine at my local swimming pool. I used to love them, but I can't find anyone else who even remembers them.

 

Anyone on here know what I'm talking about?

Title: Zing Biscuits
Post by: oldspice on April 12, 2008, 09:53:33 am

Hoe long ago are we talking here Billy?

Title: Zing Biscuits
Post by: loulou on April 13, 2008, 07:17:30 pm

In this country billy?

Title: Zing Biscuits
Post by: Bill Taylor on April 13, 2008, 08:20:47 pm

Yes guys, in West London, late 60's early 70's.

 

I think you got two in a pack, and they were about 3 ins long, 2 ins wide, and very thin.

Title: Zing Biscuits
Post by: loulou on April 13, 2008, 10:18:17 pm

Too early for me to know about them. Sorry

Title: Zing Biscuits
Post by: goldencup on April 14, 2008, 08:59:56 am

Quote from: loulou

Too early for me to know about them. Sorry

 

Title: Zing Biscuits
Post by: on April 15, 2008, 01:51:13 pm

I've had a scout about but can find nothing!  I wonder if it was a localised thing?  Does anyone else you know remember them?

Title: Zing Biscuits
Post by: Bill Taylor on April 18, 2008, 09:15:38 pm

They certainly do, at least two of my friends can also remember buying them, and it's a bit annoying that I can't find out more.

 

Still, never mind eh?

 

Bill.

 

Title: Zing Biscuits
Post by: oldspice on April 19, 2008, 10:33:22 am

I go back that far - but I lived on the other side of London - north east. Did they have raisins in them? I have a vague memory of a thin bar, came in milk and plain chocolate, and I seem to remember them having raisins in.

Title: Zing Biscuits
Post by: Bill Taylor on April 21, 2008, 12:37:58 am

Raisins? no they didn't have raisins.

 

They were thin, and about the size of a playing card.

They were thin, crisp, and covered in chocolate.

Title: Re: Zing Biscuits
Post by: theboygreen on March 10, 2010, 10:23:36 am

Yeah I remember them, I was at Teacher Training College in Hull in the mid 70's and I lived on them and Hull Brewery Mild and it didn't do me any harm!! Disappeared without trace.

Title: Re: Zing Biscuits
Post by: drterror666 on March 10, 2010, 07:02:39 pm

Yay, someone else knows about them!

Title: Re: Zing Biscuits
Post by: loulou on March 27, 2010, 10:14:34 pm

och aye

Title: Re: Zing Biscuits
Post by: drterror666 on March 28, 2010, 02:18:39 pm

Aye, indeed, lassy!

Title: Re: Zing Biscuits
Post by: MGILL on April 26, 2013, 12:22:32 pm

As a teenager my folks ran a small corner shop.  I used to have ZINGs on a daily basis.  Easily the best chocolate biscuit ever.  Apparently most of the rest of the UK did not agree with me.  What we need is a RETRO shop to reproduce these old mouth watering sweets.  Bring back Chocolate Mint Cracnell!!!

Title: Re: Zing Biscuits
Post by: GimmeTheSoddingChoc on April 26, 2013, 03:03:01 pm

At last, someone who has something intelligent to say and not a piece of spam in site. Well done, sir.

Zing's must have been regional. I don't rememeber them at all.

Title: Re: Zing Biscuits
Post by: Nige on November 23, 2013, 10:59:31 pm

zing biscuits.................... the only reason I came on here is because its the only clue I had to finding anything about them lol. My mother in law used to work for huntley and palmers in liverpool and the wife said her favourite biscuits were Zing biscuits. I remember them but I didnt get mine for free unlike she did ;-)

Title: Re: Zing Biscuits
Post by: oldspice on November 24, 2013, 02:08:22 pm

I kind of remember them. That is to say, I remember thin, chocolate, vending machine biscuits from that era but I have somehow got the idea they had dried fruit in them. The name is definitely familiar. There were all sorts of fabulous products around then that you can no longer buy. Mint Cracknell was mentioned in an earlier post - and they did a lime version too. Wonderful, wonderful stuff!

Title: Re: Zing Biscuits
Post by: oldspice on December 08, 2013, 12:04:31 pm

Here is a picture!

http://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/threads/2145-Biscuits/page6 (http://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/threads/2145-Biscuits/page6)