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Fo'andles
Elite Baiter
Joined: 06 Jul 2007
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Mon Aug 04, 2008 9:38 am |
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Cadbury announces Wispa comeback
The Wispa bar is to make a full comeback following a successful campaign on social networking websites.
Birmingham-based Cadbury sold 20 million of the bars when it brought the brand back for a seven-week limited run trial in 2007.
It had bowed to public pressure after a popular campaign on the Facebook and MySpace websites.
Cadbury spokesperson Tony Bilsborough said: "Wispa is a true icon loved by its fans everywhere."
He added: "We brought it back temporarily to see if the desire was genuine, but fans are still rallying so we took the decision to bring it back for good.
"We know others have looked at Wispa and tried to copy its success by bringing back other brands, but we don't believe anyone has managed to recreate the same excitement."
The bar will return to permanent sale on 6 October and cost 45p. It originally cost 16p when it was introduced in 1981.
Television adverts for the bubbly-centred bar featured Yes Minister's Paul Eddington and Nigel Hawthorne, Victoria Wood and Julie Walters and Hi-De-Hi's Simon Cadell and Ruth Madoc.
It was taken out of production in 2003 after sales fell in the 1990s. |
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Mr_Happy
Master Baiter
Joined: 30 Jul 2008
Posts: 130
Location: Manchester UK
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Mon Aug 04, 2008 9:58 am |
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(sigh) I remember with fondness when they first launced the bar.
If you collected 25 Wispa wrappers and sent them off you got vouchers for 5 Wispa bars in return. Me and my mate used to look for discarded wrappers in the street. |
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foxhat
Not quite a Newb
Joined: 14 May 2008
Posts: 56
Location: Dark side of the moon
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Mon Aug 04, 2008 10:31 am |
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I did the same thing!
Except it was for mugs...kept our student house well supplied.
And I can't STAND Wispas... |
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Nanny Ogg
Baiting Guru
Joined: 19 Mar 2007
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Mon Aug 04, 2008 10:50 am |
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Oh joy!
Bet they don't taste the same though.
Now if I could find an Aztec bar, coffee walnut whip, Cabana bar...
@ Fox re avatar. Did you know there's one in Orkney as well as Shetland? |
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foxhat
Not quite a Newb
Joined: 14 May 2008
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Location: Dark side of the moon
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Mon Aug 04, 2008 12:58 pm |
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@Nanny Ogg
Yes, been to the Shetland one (you just have to...) but not the other. I would say its a bit of a sh1tehole, but somehow that wouldn't quite be right...(hope you don't live there... ).
Also, found a few graves of people with that as a surname, which gave me a perverse snigger! |
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remmy223
Elite Baiter
Joined: 12 Jun 2006
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Location: butt f*** middle of nowhwere
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Mon Aug 04, 2008 3:53 pm |
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smartbomb
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Joined: 14 May 2007
Posts: 750
Location: Air
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Mon Aug 04, 2008 9:43 pm |
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They done a Wispa Gold for a little while, in a red packet with gold writing. It was just a wispa with a strip of caramel through it.
Bloody Awful. |
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Tommo Shanter
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Tue Aug 05, 2008 10:29 am |
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Wispa is that the one a bit like a Cadbury Flake right but with a thick chocolate coating?
To be honest, I'm still in mourning since Mars took out the cardboard liners in Bounty bars. And is it me, or are Wagon Wheels not as big as they used to be in the good old days of black and white television? |
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Mr_Happy
Master Baiter
Joined: 30 Jul 2008
Posts: 130
Location: Manchester UK
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Tue Aug 05, 2008 11:11 am |
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Tommo Shanter wrote: |
To be honest, I'm still in mourning since Mars took out the cardboard liners in Bounty bars. |
Mmmmm Dark Chocolate Bounty! |
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Mugatu
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Joined: 13 May 2007
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Location: The star of India
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Tue Aug 05, 2008 2:24 pm |
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Tommo Shanter wrote: |
Wispa is that the one a bit like a Cadbury Flake right but with a thick chocolate coating?
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No, that would probably be the Galaxy Ripple bar, which was a bit nicer than 90% of the cack that passes itself off as chocolate in UK shops.
The Wispa was like an Aero but much denser, it had smaller bubbles, hence more of the truly bloody awful cadbury "chocolate".
We have a lot to learn from the Belgians. |
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Tommo Shanter
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Tue Aug 05, 2008 3:04 pm |
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Mugatu wrote: |
We have a lot to learn from the Belgians. |
I can't argue with you there. They may not have very many famous residents but they certainly know how to make a nice choccy and also brew a decent beer. |
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Rorschach
419Eater is my life
Joined: 31 Jan 2005
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Tue Aug 05, 2008 4:54 pm |
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Why did george Michael have chocolate on his shirt?
He was Careless with his Wispa.
(Posted that in the joke thread a while back but it seemed appropriate.)
I was never a Bounty fan, Tommo, but I've been deeply upset ever since they changed the Smartie tubes so that I can no longer finish off by firing the plastic cap at a random work-mate..... |
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Eight
Retired Moderator
Joined: 11 Sep 2004
Posts: 8710
Location: UK
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Tue Aug 05, 2008 5:24 pm |
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Craig007
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Tue Aug 05, 2008 5:25 pm |
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McDonalds have a Wispa McFlurrytm |
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Mugatu
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Tue Aug 05, 2008 6:48 pm |
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Eight wrote: |
Shall we elope there for the next Valentine's Day thread? |
I'll book the Eurostar tickets now. That "thread" stuff is SO last year.
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Roycropper
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Tue Aug 05, 2008 7:35 pm |
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a tip for cat owners. save your Smartie tubes until you have enough to slip over their legs, then watch them walk like robots! |
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smartbomb
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Tue Aug 05, 2008 7:43 pm |
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A snickers cost me 66 pence today.
remember when they were about 24p ? And called 'Marathon'
I want to go back ... |
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Tommo Shanter
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Tue Aug 05, 2008 7:47 pm |
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Spangles are coming back.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2503905/British-public-call-for-return-of-Spangles.html
Snickers suck and whoever decided on that name should be made to run 23 miles and 375 yards, give or take. |
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"You need to visit a good psychiatrist very fast, because some nuts are missing from your brain." - PROF.SOLUDO
"...it is very important you forward the your cycling proficiency certificate which by right belongs to you." - Prof Charles Soludo.
"note i can still change my mind to blow you off and whenever" - T0ny 'The Killerman' Erik
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Doodle Bug
Master of Master Baiters
Joined: 06 Feb 2008
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Tue Aug 05, 2008 8:23 pm |
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Old Brit joke
William worked in the chocolate factory, one day the new lad fell into the molten chocolate vat. William
Went to dive in to save him but was pulled back by the rest of the staff, saying Billy don’t be a Aero |
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Nanny Ogg
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Tue Aug 05, 2008 9:45 pm |
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^ Oh dearie me
I knew someone who lost a bet with their kids.
Child said they could name colour of smartie with thier eyes closed. Sibling administered orange smartie, dad didnt know they're the only flavoured ones.
Anyone else remember Lord Toffingham ice creams, well lollies really?
Ki ora juice sold at the cinema?
Ice Breakers?
Five Boys chocolate bars? |
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haywood_jablowmi
Master of Master Baiters
Joined: 20 Jan 2006
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Wed Aug 06, 2008 8:52 am |
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wispa and aero, whats the difference, both just a way to sell you less chocolate by adding er air to it. |
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Tommo Shanter
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Wed Aug 06, 2008 8:59 am |
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Rorschach wrote: |
... I've been deeply upset ever since they changed the Smartie tubes so that I can no longer finish off by firing the plastic cap at a random work-mate..... |
Do they no longer have letters of the alphabet on the underside of the lids? We used to make up rude words out of them. How my mother laughed before packing us off to an early bed with smarting legs and no bread and dripping supper. Happy days! |
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"i see your not interested in the transaction but catching your fun, calling names and my muckery of me." - Usman Bello
"You need to visit a good psychiatrist very fast, because some nuts are missing from your brain." - PROF.SOLUDO
"...it is very important you forward the your cycling proficiency certificate which by right belongs to you." - Prof Charles Soludo.
"note i can still change my mind to blow you off and whenever" - T0ny 'The Killerman' Erik
YOUR GENERATION WILL ROAST IN ABSTRACT POVERTY,BASTARD IDIOT -Daniel Mensah
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Rorschach
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Wed Aug 06, 2008 12:02 pm |
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^^ No plastic lids at all now, just a boring cardboard flip top thing.
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Mr_Happy
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Wed Aug 06, 2008 1:12 pm |
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Plastic lids are a choking hazard.
Strange because I never heard of anyone choking on a plastic smartie lid.
What I used to love was the old ring pulls on cans. If you seperated the ring from the tab, slot the tab in the groove you could fire it clear across the room
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Tommo Shanter
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Wed Aug 06, 2008 1:15 pm |
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Anybody used to make lolly stick rafts? <sigh> |
_________________ £1,052,334.30 (=US$2,121,125.60) lads fake cheques out of circulation (at 11/6/2008)
x135 (at 26/9/2008) x138
"i see your not interested in the transaction but catching your fun, calling names and my muckery of me." - Usman Bello
"You need to visit a good psychiatrist very fast, because some nuts are missing from your brain." - PROF.SOLUDO
"...it is very important you forward the your cycling proficiency certificate which by right belongs to you." - Prof Charles Soludo.
"note i can still change my mind to blow you off and whenever" - T0ny 'The Killerman' Erik
YOUR GENERATION WILL ROAST IN ABSTRACT POVERTY,BASTARD IDIOT -Daniel Mensah
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