Chocolate Forum
Chat => General => Topic started by: bounty hunter on November 25, 2008, 07:09:59 am
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I'm having my garden landscaped and when we were moving some rubbish from under the hedge yesterday, I came across a Banjo wrapper. It was very faded and dilapidated but clear enough what it was. However, I can't for the life of me remember anything about them. Any help appreciated.
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It was a twin chocolate bar (like a Twix) but it contained peanuts. Nothing special. Around until the 80s I think.
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So, it's been in my garden for 20 years!!! Is that some sort of record?
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It was a twin chocolate bar (like a Twix) but it contained peanuts. Nothing special. Around until the 80s I think.
Actually it was hazelnuts if I recall correctly.
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So, it's been in my garden for 20 years!!! Is that some sort of record?
No it's an old wrapper. Records were round flat black things with grooves in them.
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I was just going to post something similar! I'm convinced they were peanuts and having just Googled them, that seems to be the general opinion.
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I am sure it was hazelnuts.
http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/biscuits/views.php3?icons[0][]=4&icons[0][]=16
(http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/media/feedback/banjode.jpg)
Alive and well in Germany.
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You know that Wikopedia is never wrong.....
Banjo is a chocolate bar once available in the UK. Introduced with a substantial television advertising campaign in 1976, Banjo was a twin bar (similar in shape and size to Twix) and based upon a wafer with a chopped peanut layer and the whole covered in milk chocolate. It was packaged in distinctive navy blue - with the brand name prominently displayed in yellow block text - and was one of the first British snack bars to have a heat-sealed wrapper closure instead of the reverse-side fold common to most domestically-produced chocolate bars at that time. It was available into the 1980s
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You know that Wikopedia is never wrong.....
I'll have to try that - it sounds much more reliable than Wikipedia!
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I saw it there too, GC. It just did not ring true for me. I noticed it on other sites too.
The reason I am confident is that I do not like peanuts in chocolate bars (Reese's Nutrageous excepted) and would not have eaten such a bar.
I actually remember eating and enjoying Banjos.
That's why I am sure.
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Hmmm, we'll have to agree to differ on this one as I remember the exact opposite for the same reason - not being a fan of peanuts, I never liked Banjos! We need to find that annoying jingle to 'Oh Susannah' which some sources said mentioned peanuts.
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Just a suggestion... couldn't Bounty just look at the ingredients list on this wrapper?
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It was very faded and dilapidated but clear enough what it was.
Maybe a problem?