Chocolate Forum
Chat => General => Topic started by: drterror_6_6_6 on August 07, 2013, 06:54:16 pm
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I don't know if some of the older members remember, but I wanted to know about a couple of things I ate in my youth that had been discontinued long ago. One was a chocolate bar with hexagonal pieces filled with raspberry or strawberry cream and the other was a type of boiled sweet that I used to love; I even remember the advert! Well, wonder no longer...
On my time away from this forum, I did a little bit of digging. Firstly, the chocolate bar. I remember thinking it was a Secret, but now I know that was that gunky mess covered in a chocolate bird's nest. No, what I remember was a Cadbury's Zousse.
(http://i636.photobucket.com/albums/uu86/DarrenLeeStephens/sweets%203/4531721430_9a3a996fd9_o.jpg)
That's about the only photo I can find anywhere; I'm sorry it's so big. I knew immediately when I saw it. It had hexagonal pieces which were filled with this lovely strawberry mousse; the flavour was pretty powerful. They seemed to appear in my local sweet shop in the 80's and then they were gone. Anyone remember those?
The second thing was a boiled sweet and I knew it wasn't a Spangle, because it was the wrong shape. No it was Trebor Blobs!
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbwhumCsQH1qzzsdjo1_1280.jpg)
Again, I apologise for the size of the photo. They had lots of different flavours like Toffee Apple, Fizzy Cider, Fizzy Cola, Raspberry & Sherbet, Strawberry & Cream and Apple, Banana & Pear! So, does anyone remember those?
I was so happy when I realised that I'd uncovered some of the mysteries of my sweet eating youth. I don't think I need to find any other answers now.
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Well done hunting these don. I personally have never head of them.
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No, I can't say I've heard of them either, but then I'm not that old!!! ;D
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I remember both of these but, being well on the way to my middle years by then, I don't think I tried either of them.
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That Zousse bar does sound nice though, although I'm not sure about those crazy Blobs flavours!
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Wow - never heard of Zousse. I wonder if it was a regional trial? Cadbury did it a lot in the eighties.
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It's beginning to look like it was a regional trial. No-one seems to have heard of one. There are a number of people who've heard of Blobs, though.
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Certainly remember Blobs but not Zousse.
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That Zousse bar cannot be that old surely?
When did nutritional labelling first appear on foods?
I would have thought in the early to mid 90's.
Apparently the bar was out in the mid 80's.
I didn't think that kind of labelling was that old! :o
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The best before date looks like 1989, so I must have been eating them around that time, if not before.
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15p for a choccy bar! Ah, those were the days.