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Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12      Non-Film Score Discussion: I really miss Aztec Bars (1967 - 1977)    FIRST   PRIOR   2 3 4 5 6    NEXT   LAST   Last Post   Posted:   Dec 4, 2015 - 6:49 AM     By:   Jim Phelps   (Member) One of the rare instances of a "quality" and fondly-remembered-by-me candy still being around is the Charleston Chew, a chocolate-covered-in-vanilla-flavored-nougat confection that is not only sold in most fine candy stores, but is also usually available in its chocolate and strawberry-flavored nougat counterparts.    Posted:   Jan 24, 2016 - 12:00 PM     By:   Jim Phelps   (Member) Copella "English Apple" juice (from Suffolk). Found it in a London Waitrose on Kensington High Street (near Waterstones bookshop) and drank it by the litre. I think they now call the juice "Cloudy Apple." I have been unable to find even a similar apple juice--whch I generally don't like--here, even at so-called organic grocers. There was also an apple and Elderflower variety, though it wasn't as transcendent as the English/Cloudy apple juice. http://www.copellafruitjuice.co.uk/    Posted:   Jan 24, 2016 - 1:24 PM     By:   Mike_J   (Member) Copella "English Apple" juice (from Suffolk). Found it in a London Waitrose on Kensington High Street (near Waterstones bookshop) and drank it by the litre. I think they now call the juice "Cloudy Apple." I have been unable to find even a similar apple juice--whch I generally don't like--here, even at so-called organic grocers. There was also an apple and Elderflower variety, though it wasn't as transcendent as the English/Cloudy apple juice. http://www.copellafruitjuice.co.uk/ Jim, both of those are still easily available here in the UK in our main stores, Teaco and Sainsbury.    Posted:   Jan 24, 2016 - 1:50 PM     By:   Jim Phelps   (Member) http://www.copellafruitjuice.co.uk/ Jim, both of those are still easily available here in the UK in our main stores, Teaco and Sainsbury. Sure, rub it in! I should have specified that there does not exist, at least to my knowledge, any apple juice quite like that heavenly stuff like you have in the UK here in my region of the US.    Posted:   Jul 31, 2016 - 11:58 AM     By:   Jim Phelps   (Member) Went to the aforementioned specialty candy store "To the Moon" and picked up a chocolate bar that was highly recommended by the shop owner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freia_Melkesjokolade Anyone want to bet whether or not our resident Norwegian contrarian, Thor, whom I beleve doesn't go in for sweets, likes this brand of chocolate? Whatever the case, I'm looking forward to trying this later.    Posted:   Aug 1, 2016 - 7:15 AM     By:   Ian J.   (Member) The Sainsburys local to me has a small section of shelving for U.S. imports, including sweets. I baulked at paying £1.80 for a peanut butter Twix, but did try a 'Butterfinger'. Now, I'm sure some people love it, but to me the chocolate tasted very weak. Is that a common thing with American candy?    Posted:   Aug 1, 2016 - 7:36 AM     By:   Jim Phelps   (Member) The Sainsburys local to me has a small section of shelving for U.S. imports, including sweets. I baulked at paying £1.80 for a peanut butter Twix, but did try a 'Butterfinger'. Now, I'm sure some people love it, but to me the chocolate tasted very weak. Is that a common thing with American candy? I suppose the watering down/deflavorization process is used so as not to be "too" anything in order to ensure mass appeal: spicy, sweet, salty, etc, even though many products are loaded with those attributes. Sadly, yes. I like Hershey's chocolate--a lot--it has an ever so slight bitterness to it though it'll never be confused for a European chocolate. Nestle's in Europe is also markedly superior to what we have here. The reduced flavor concept is even worse when it comes to American beer, which tastes like bitter soda pop. However, the draught Stella Artois (ostensibly Belgian) tasted much the same way, but I digress. If I keep voicing my opinion on these matters, they're not going to let me back in! I love the USA---honest!    Posted:   Aug 1, 2016 - 10:45 AM     By:   Jim Phelps   (Member) Wow - a little home from home. All desirable, although PG Tips pales against our cup of choice, Yorkshire Tea by Taylors of Harrogate. I used to send boxes of it to Cindy (CAT, formerly of this parish), in return for which she sent me bars of Herschey's Chocolate. I can't remember exactly which type of bar, but I liked it. I'm halfway through a jar of Harrowgate's ginger and orange marmalade that my wife didn't like so I got to "inherit" it. Lots of ginger, but they've clearly dialed back the orange content.    Posted:   Aug 2, 2016 - 11:20 AM     By:   jackfu   (Member) "Two Aztecs walk into a bar..." Sorry My two favorite as a kid are now banned candy. Bubblegum cigars and candy cigarettes. Anyone remember watermelon wedges candy? Do they still make those? I loved those candy cigarettes. There were: Marboro, Winstom, Pell Mall, (Jolly) Viceroy, Popeye, etc., and some had really convincing "packs". Some, particularly Popeye (which also featured a red tip), contained enough powdered sugar that you could blow a puff of "smoke". We loved taking these to school in the early 60's and trying to shock our teachers by using them at recess, that is, until they were banned. Of course the teachers knew they weren't real. It was really the parents that got them banned.    Posted:   Aug 4, 2016 - 9:06 AM     By:   Jim Phelps   (Member) Candy cigarettes are still available. A retro ice cream parlor near me has them. Time to pick up the "habit" once more.    Posted:   Aug 4, 2016 - 12:35 PM     By:   jackfu   (Member) Candy cigarettes are still available. A retro ice cream parlor near me has them. Time to pick up the "habit" once more. I remember in the early 90s they were rebranded as "dino bones" with Jurassic Park-looking packaging and without the paper wrappers on each cig.    Posted:   Aug 6, 2016 - 5:22 AM     By:   Jim Phelps   (Member) I remember in the early 90s they were rebranded as "dino bones" with Jurassic Park-looking packaging and without the paper wrappers on each cig. "I'm burnin' diesel, I'm burnin' dino(saur) bones..."    Posted:   Aug 8, 2016 - 7:12 PM     By:   jenkwombat   (Member) Wow, I can't believe that with my sweet tooth, and in the era I grew up in, I never tried an Aztec bar or an Ice Breaker!    Posted:   Jun 16, 2017 - 12:50 PM     By:   Jim Phelps   (Member) Thank ye kindly Jim My old grandma was partial to a drop of rum and loved the occasional bar of Old Jamaica. "Old Jamaica... It's like a treasure!" Aaaarrrrr! On The Beeb radio, Georgey Spanswick mentioned that her father enjoyed that aforementioned candy bar, and it's apparently still available. Must. Try.    Posted:   Jun 16, 2017 - 2:12 PM     By:   Mike_J   (Member) Thank ye kindly Jim My old grandma was partial to a drop of rum and loved the occasional bar of Old Jamaica. "Old Jamaica... It's like a treasure!" Aaaarrrrr! On The Beeb radio, Georgey Spanswick mentioned that her father enjoyed that aforementioned candy bar, and it's apparently still available. Must. Try. This was my Dad's favourite chocolate bar and mine too - absolutely love it although haven't had it for a while. You can still get it but it has been repackaged and the new packet isn't anywhere near as good as the classic    Posted:   Jun 16, 2017 - 2:54 PM     By:   Graham Watt   (Member) I wouldn't buy that new Old Jamaiky based on the bland wrapper. The old one was banned for stirring up sentiments of colonialism, piracy and cannibalism. Their loss.    Posted:   Jun 16, 2017 - 3:14 PM     By:   Last Child   (Member) DavidinBerkeley used to meet women at Aztec Bars, back when he was interested in them. http://filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=39629&forumID=7&archive=1    Posted:   Jun 17, 2017 - 2:49 PM     By:   Jim Phelps   (Member) This was my Dad's favourite chocolate bar and mine too - absolutely love it although haven't had it for a while. You can still get it but it has been repackaged and the new packet isn't anywhere near as good as the classic Many thanks, Mike. I'll be on the lookout for the new wrapper. As for the candy bar itself, the "novel" concept of rum-soaked raisins as well as dark and milk chocolate in the same bar--is it mixed or are there two separate halves?--make the Old Jamaica a must-try for me. Point taken, Grahamn, about the new wrapper having none of the "excitement" of the previous, piratical wrapper.    Posted:   Jun 21, 2017 - 5:24 AM     By:   Jim Phelps   (Member) JIM PHELPS: Thanks. I found them online at Walmart and Amazon. It ticks me off that I ordered from Walmart a few weeks ago for the first time in years and could've gotten the Zeros with free shipping. I'm still going to try and find them locally. dragon53: Did you ever get those Zero bars?    Posted:   Oct 28, 2017 - 3:05 PM     By:   Jim Phelps   (Member) In addition to the still-extant chocolate bars already listed in this thread, are there any other candy bars/sweets/whathaveyou that you Britishers enthusiastically endorse?     Non-Film Score Discussion: I really miss Aztec Bars (1967 - 1977)    << < 2 3 4 5 6  > >>  Go to page:  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

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