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After such a long running and catchy commercial, the decision to rename the product was commercial suicide - if ever there was league table of bad corporate decisoins, that would have to be up there..!

Tom

Split by admin from Did Quinta do Noval ever make a single quinta? 6 Sep 2007

Cherry Starburst? Opal Fruit?

She is imagining it.

As for commercial suicide - wharrabaart Marathon to Snickers?

wharrabaart Marathon to Snickers

- Certainly in the hall of fame..

Tom

Jif >> Cif - what's that all about

I have to say that the Snickers scandal was the hardest for me to accept. Not that I have. I still find myself occasionally wanting a Marathon. Not once have I contemplated needing a Snicker. It's just not Rounders.

Derek

PS: Opal Fruit >> Starburst - why was there no vote?

Bejam→Iceland?

Burma is still recognised by the US and UK as Burma, though the local dictatorship disagrees.

This has got to be the first case of Uncle Tom trashing a legitimate thread but it's gotta go because it is a great topic for Meaningless Drivel.

I'm still getting over chocolate Treets being Minstrels... and I'd like the toffee ones back please.

Admin: a fair move, but please mark this thread with where it came from, and mark that with where this went. (Precedent elsewhere on the web is why, well, do I need to say? Just do it.)

Ooops

Admin, go to the bottom of the garden and flog yourself with a branch

Derek

Alright, alright, enough of the admin-bashing.

Back on topic and can we stop the obsesson with putting "Dairy Milk" in front of everything, please? I had no problems with Whole Nut, Fruit & Nut and Caramel and didn't need to be reminded that it had Dairy Milk covering them. Shock horror! Buttons are made from Dairy Milk - we know.

KillerB wrote:Back on topic

Did Topic used to have a different name or did I just make that up

Derek

PS: Admin bashing is allowed on this site. It's a rule.

KillerB wrote:can we stop the obsesson with putting "Dairy Milk" in front of everything

But what’s wrong with “Dairy Milk Nacional 1985†?

KillerB wrote:...can we stop the obsesson with putting "Dairy Milk" in front of everything, please? I had no problems with Whole Nut, Fruit & Nut and Caramel and didn't need to be reminded that it had Dairy Milk covering them.

Actually, they don't. They have Cadbury's Dairy Milk Chocolate covering them. If it just had Dairy Milk (presumably as opposed to Sheep's Milk or Soya Milk) covering them then
(a) it would be more of a challenge to wrap; and
(b) you'd get your feet wet every time you opened a bar and all the milk fell out of the wrapper leaving you with a soggy collection of nuts (from the Whole Nut bar) or nuts and raisins.

Alex

AHB wrote: (b) you'd get your feet wet every time you opened a bar and all the milk fell out of the wrapper leaving you with a soggy collection of nuts (from the Whole Nut bar) or nuts and raisins.

The qualifying statement was very helpful in removing a disturbing image that was developing in my head

Snickers was always Snickers on this side of the pond. But why Raiders had to change its name into Twix is beyond me. It happened just as quickly as Smith's into Lay's and Oil of Ulay into Oil of Olaz and then just Olaz.

Derek T wrote:The qualifying statement was very helpful in removing a disturbing image that was developing in my head

It was purely for you and your imagination that I put the qualifying statement in the post.

The last thing I wanted was to be the cause of you running out of Spanish Table plonk or your 4 day bottle of port.

Alex

Note: Syntax error fixed by Assistant Admin

Ronnie - Twix was always Twix here. A single Twix is obviously a Unix.

Ulay is now Olay here so that doesn't even make it international.

Smith's got taken over by Walkers, which is why you now have the Walkers colour scheme but no idea why they are called 'Lays'.

My Olivio margarine is now called Bertolli, which is an oil.

The Midland Bank is now HSBC. So long Griffin.

The Liberal Party is now The Liberal Democratic Party.

Labour turned into New Labour then dropped the New. Should this now be called Ye Olde Originale Laboure Partye? Or New Improved Labour, now with added socialism? Or Reduced Spin Labour? Or Bugger an Election We Might Lose Labour?

I never could get the hang of the Conservative or Tory thing.

Smith's got taken over by Walkers, which is why you now have the Walkers colour scheme but no idea why they are called 'Lays'.

I'm very willing to accept that, but why then have the 'special categories' (Bugles, Wokkels, Chipitos and all the other gross stuff that we Dutchies like so much) changed back to Smith's after being Lays for a short while... I think I'm not smart enough for global marketing.

I know someone who changed his name from Arthur to Julia - but that's for another thread on a different BB

Derek

Actual names kept secret to protect privacy

As a lover of Rowntree-MacIntosh, who had some of the greatest choclate brands ever: Toffee Crisp; Rolos; Kit-Kat; Smarties; Fruit Gums; Fruits Pastilles, I object strongly to them being called Nestlé.

What's more, when I was a kid the song went "Nestle's Milky Bar". It was only when some language pedant noticed the accent that they had to sing "Nestlé's Milky Bar" adding an extra quaver to the vocal. This is confusing as Quavers were made by Golden Wonder, which was also taken over by Walkers.

The fact that 'Werther's Echte' is now called 'Werther's Original' doesn't make it a hip product, if that's what they tried to achieve.

An example from the port world:

Gilbert's Port has gotten a makeover, aimed at a young crowd, and is now called 'G-Porto'.

KillerB wrote:The Liberal Party is now The Liberal Democratic Party.

Labour turned into New Labour then dropped the New. Should this now be called Ye Olde Originale Laboure Partye? Or New Improved Labour, now with added socialism? Or Reduced Spin Labour? Or Bugger an Election We Might Lose Labour?

I never could get the hang of the Conservative or Tory thing.

Good self-restraint not to mention the Whigs.

Surprisingly, I am not old enough to know them as Whigs, only Whiberwhals.

In Scotland we had some different names for them, especially around the time of the Poll Tax

Derek

The latest takeover affects me deeply Lions sport mixtures were taken over by Maynards last year and to my horror they've slung out the liquorice black ones for blackberry dark blue what happened to democracy.

Oh don't start on changes - whatever happened to Revels? It used to be straightforward - I could eat everything. Then they got rid of the coconut ones and replaced them with the most vile coffee cremes. Now they've got rid of the peanut ones and replaced them with squashed flies.

Gentlemen...

this way please,

the Doctor will give you some pills and the nurse will take you to your room,

there's nothing to worry about,

Sanity is an over-rated concept, anyway...

the Doctor will give you some pills

I remember when they were called 'tablets'