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    From Utopian Galt@21:4/108 to All on Mon Jun 17 21:24:28 2024
    I like candy like Aero and Cadburries more than American stuff.


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  • From k9zw@21:1/224 to Utopian Galt on Tue Jun 18 06:26:23 2024
    On 17 Jun 2024, Utopian Galt said the following...

    I like candy like Aero and Cadburries more than American stuff.

    The varities of different chocolate types amazes.

    Seems that various places have rules that declare other styles to not be able to be labeled as "chocolate." Hence you see some similar to M&M/Smarties type candies labeled "Cocoa Candies" as they have too much to be called "chocolate" in the USA/Canada.

    All the variety is cool, as people like the different types. Maybe not all, but enough to keep the varieties going.

    Cadburry makes some great stuff and they also make some products that don't appeal to me.

    The North American style "Milk Chocolate" often seems wearisome, that is until you end up living in a country where it is hard to get, then somehow you decide you like it.

    Some of my personal favorities get sold as "chocolate liquor flavored candy" when sold in the USA.

    In the end, it is all about how many and how big the smiles are when people eat it?!

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  • From Warpslide@21:3/110 to k9zw on Tue Jun 18 04:52:36 2024
    On 18 Jun 2024, k9zw said the following...

    Seems that various places have rules that declare other styles to not be able to be labeled as "chocolate." Hence you see some similar to M&M/Smarties type candies labeled "Cocoa Candies" as they have too much
    to be called "chocolate" in the USA/Canada.

    Here in Canada the Smarties are still thankfully labelled as "Candy coated milk chocolate" but other things have been renamed from "chocolate" to "chocolatey" to try and get around those rules. CBC did an article about this not too long ago in regards to shrinkflation/skimpflation:

    "According to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, products must meet certain criteria to be labelled "chocolate", including a specified minimum amount of cocoa butter and powder, and no vegetable oils."

    https://t.ly/V6P1J


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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to k9zw on Tue Jun 18 08:23:19 2024
    Re: Re: candy
    By: k9zw to Utopian Galt on Tue Jun 18 2024 06:26 am

    able to be labeled as "chocolate." Hence you see some similar to M&M/Smarties type candies labeled "Cocoa Candies" as they have too much to be called "chocolate" in the USA/Canada.

    In the US, Smarties are not the M&M-style candy that is commonly known in Canada. The Smarties known in the US look like small round pills and break apart when you chew them; they're all sweet and some are also a bit tart:
    https://www.smarties.com

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  • From k9zw@21:1/224 to Nightfox on Tue Jun 18 14:27:00 2024
    On 18 Jun 2024, Nightfox said the following...

    In the US, Smarties are not the M&M-style candy that is commonly known in Canada. The Smarties known in the US look like small round pills and break apart when you chew them; they're all sweet and some are also a
    bit tart: https://www.smarties.com

    Haven't seen those in a long time.

    What other brand names are used on completely different products between the USA, Canada, UK and Australia?

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to k9zw on Tue Jun 18 13:40:29 2024
    Re: Re: candy
    By: k9zw to Nightfox on Tue Jun 18 2024 02:27 pm

    tart: https://www.smarties.com

    Haven't seen those in a long time.

    What other brand names are used on completely different products between the USA, Canada, UK and Australia?

    I'm not sure off the top of my head, but one time I had read that the fast food chain Burger King is known as Hungry Jack's in Australia because there was already a local Burger King there when international Burger King wanted to build locations in Australia.

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  • From Cozmo@21:3/135 to Utopian Galt on Tue Jun 18 13:37:09 2024
    I like candy like Aero and Cadburries more than American stuff.


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  • From neoshock@21:1/150 to Utopian Galt on Tue Jun 18 16:15:51 2024
    I like candy like Aero and Cadburries more than American stuff.

    Any Reese product is the way to go, my favourite is the Reese Sticks.

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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Nightfox on Thu Jun 20 00:28:00 2024
    able to be labeled as "chocolate." Hence you see some similar to M&M/Smarties type candies labeled "Cocoa Candies" as they have too

    In the US, Smarties are not the M&M-style candy that is commonly known in Canada. The Smarties known in the US look like small round pills and break apart when you chew them; they're all sweet and some are also a bit tart: https://www.smarties.com

    Downunder Nestles SMARTIES are a dubious chocolate covered in a shell similar to M&Ms were always aimed and kids and until M&Ms came along... maybe 90s was all we had. Mars M&Ms took most of the market with significantly better chocolate. Both are counted as chocolates as it would make most of the
    volume of each piece and thats what you'd be buying it for.

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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Utopian Galt on Thu Jun 20 00:34:00 2024
    I like candy like Aero and Cadburries more than American stuff.

    Here Cadbury is generally your #1 chocolate choice, unless you go in for some of that fangled european stuff like Lindt or, Milka. Wouldn't count either
    as candy or lollies as we'd call them anyways.. its just Chocolate, order der schokolade to throw in eine bischon Deutsch.

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  • From k9zw@21:1/224 to Spectre on Wed Jun 19 06:20:59 2024
    On 20 Jun 2024, Spectre said the following...

    I like candy like Aero and Cadburries more than American stuff.

    Here Cadbury is generally your #1 chocolate choice, unless you go in for

    Isn't is amazing how many types there are, and how even the best brands put out some duds, and the brands you think of a "for kids only" have something interesting somewhere in their lineup?

    The processes vary - whether ground ultra fine (Beligian) or Paddled "just so" (Swiss) or blended with curded milk (American/Milk), they all have a special technique or two they make best use of.

    Then there are the very artisan brands - our household seems to favor HUman brand these days. I grew up with Ritter bars as a major treat brough home from travels.

    Lots and lots of good stuff!

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to k9zw on Wed Jun 19 06:36:00 2024
    k9zw wrote to Nightfox <=-

    What other brand names are used on completely different products
    between the USA, Canada, UK and Australia?

    Not completely different, but MARS bars are much better in the UK than
    here. Better chocolate, and if memory serves, it's dark chocolate in the
    UK.



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Nightfox on Wed Jun 19 06:38:00 2024
    Nightfox wrote to k9zw <=-

    I'm not sure off the top of my head, but one time I had read that the
    fast food chain Burger King is known as Hungry Jack's in Australia
    because there was already a local Burger King

    "Hungry Jack" sounds like a guy you'd hear people in an Australian bar
    talking stories about.

    "I remember when Hungry Jack walked through the outback then ate an
    entire wallaby!"




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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to poindexter FORTRAN on Wed Jun 19 09:03:06 2024
    Re: Re: candy
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Wed Jun 19 2024 06:38 am

    "Hungry Jack" sounds like a guy you'd hear people in an Australian bar talking stories about.

    "I remember when Hungry Jack walked through the outback then ate an entire wallaby!"

    It could be the equivalent of Chuck Norris in the US.
    "Hungry Jack ate an entire wallaby and lost 50 pounds"

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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Jun 20 17:38:00 2024
    I'm not sure off the top of my head, but one time I had read that the fast food chain Burger King is known as Hungry Jack's in Australia because there was already a local Burger King

    "Hungry Jack" sounds like a guy you'd hear people in an Australian bar talking stories about.

    He is actually a local. Jack Cowin got the enterprise rolling here, turning
    out little Fat Jacks.. :P He still gets around presentation nights... The missus used to work for them as a manager..

    Spec


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  • From Ed Vance@21:1/175 to Spectre on Thu Jun 20 16:08:48 2024


    Downunder Nestles SMARTIES are a dubious chocolate covered in a shell similar to M&Ms were always aimed and kids and until M&Ms came along... maybe 90s was all we had. Mars M&Ms took most of the market with significantly better chocolate. Both are counted as chocolates as it would make most of the volume of each piece and thats what you'd be buying it for.

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    Seeing the word Nestles in that message causes me to think of two thoughts I have.

    Nestles QUIK - many years ago as I was watching a Quiz Show on TV and a contestant answered "Nestles QUIK" and that wasn't the correct answer.
    The host said the answer was "NesQuik" which was the newer name for the product.
    (The new name hadn't come to my mind, so I was wrong too).

    Second, Farfo saying CHOCOLATE after Danny O'Day(?) saying
    N E S T L E S Nestles makes the very best.

    I still have a Teaspoon with the QUIK Bunny on the handle.
    Sent 25 cents and two coupons off of Nestle QUIK boxes to get it.
    When the package arrived I saw the spoon wasn't cheaply made, so went out and bought a lot more QUIK packages that had the same offer on the box.

    Ed
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  • From neoshock@21:1/150 to Nightfox on Thu Jun 20 22:15:02 2024
    It could be the equivalent of Chuck Norris in the US.
    "Hungry Jack ate an entire wallaby and lost 50 pounds"

    LOL, I was just thinking of that exact same thing when ready the previous msg. Behold, when reading this message Nightfox beat me to it. LOL

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  • From Dumas Walker@21:1/175 to ED VANCE on Fri Jun 21 08:35:00 2024
    I still have a Teaspoon with the QUIK Bunny on the handle.
    Sent 25 cents and two coupons off of Nestle QUIK boxes to get it.
    When the package arrived I saw the spoon wasn't cheaply made, so went out and bought a lot more QUIK packages that had the same offer on the box.

    When I was a kid, we had a few spoons and forks like that with Mickey
    Mouse, Donald Duck, and I think Pluto on them. I miss being entertained by such things. ;)


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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Ed Vance on Sat Jun 22 17:30:00 2024
    Second, Farfo saying CHOCOLATE after Danny O'Day(?) saying
    N E S T L E S Nestles makes the very best.

    Who or what is a Farfo? Sounds reminiscent of a furphy, a stretching of the truth or outright lie, which is probably accurate for Nestle making the very best :P

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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Dumas Walker on Sat Jun 22 17:33:00 2024
    When I was a kid, we had a few spoons and forks like that with Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and I think Pluto on them. I miss being entertained by such things. ;)

    We had similar, although I have no idea where we got them from. Mickey and Minnie teaspoons, often used with eggs served up in Noddy and Big Ears egg cups.

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  • From Dumas Walker@21:1/175 to SPECTRE on Sat Jun 22 09:20:00 2024
    When I was a kid, we had a few spoons and forks like that with Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and I think Pluto on them. I miss being entertained by such things. ;)

    We had similar, although I have no idea where we got them from. Mickey and Minnie teaspoons, often used with eggs served up in Noddy and Big Ears egg cups.

    Sounds like you had your animated options pretty well covered. :D

    I still have a Cool Cat glass here somewhere that my Aunt gave me when I
    was a kid. I remember we also had some Ronald McDonald cartoonish plates
    with different characters (Grimace, Hamburgler) and maybe some glasses.

    Somewhere around here, I still have my Snoopy and Bugs Bunny piggy banks,
    and a Jabberjaw lunch pail. ;)


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  • From Dumas Walker@21:1/175 to SPECTRE on Sat Jun 22 09:34:00 2024
    Second, Farfo saying CHOCOLATE after Danny O'Day(?) saying
    N E S T L E S Nestles makes the very best.

    Who or what is a Farfo? Sounds reminiscent of a furphy, a stretching of the truth or outright lie, which is probably accurate for Nestle making the very best :P

    I think it was a puppet character, but will have to let Ed confirm.


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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Dumas Walker on Sun Jun 23 18:17:00 2024
    Sounds like you had your animated options pretty well covered. :D

    That was it for the next 12 years though :)

    I still have a Cool Cat glass here somewhere that my Aunt gave me when I was a kid. I remember we also had some Ronald McDonald cartoonish plates with different characters (Grimace, Hamburgler) and maybe some glasses.

    Still got the plastic Noddy n Big Ears, but the spoons are long gone, last
    time I saw them they'd lost their enameling so they were just bright shiny mice.

    Somewhere around here, I still have my Snoopy and Bugs Bunny piggy banks, and a Jabberjaw lunch pail. ;)

    We could only dream of those things...

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  • From Ed Vance@21:1/175 to Spectre on Mon Jun 24 12:21:55 2024

    Farfo is the Dog marionette that said CHOCOLATE in a low bass voice at the end of the commercial.
    It was a long time ago that commercial was on TV. I guess I'm showing my age. Ed
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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Ed Vance on Wed Jun 26 00:36:00 2024
    end of the commercial. It was a long time ago that commercial
    was on TV. I guess I'm showing my age. Ed

    Could well be we just never got it here... I don't recall anything like that.

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  • From Ed Vance@21:1/175 to Spectre on Tue Jun 25 15:18:52 2024


    Could well be we just never got it here... I don't recall anything like that.

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    IIRC the Vinquoloquist(sp?) was Jimmy and he was the voice for Danny O'Day and the Dog Farfo.
    I live in Indiana across the Ohio River from Louisville Kentucky.

    It was an old Nestle's commercial that was reshown around CHRISTmas one year. We recorded a TV show/movie and later while editing commercials out I saw the old commercial and wanted to save it to another VCR tape.

    It took about 20 Minutes to get all of the 10 Seconds edited off the first tape on to another tape.
    Yes, I have 2 VCR's.
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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Ed Vance on Wed Jun 26 13:03:00 2024
    IIRC the Vinquoloquist(sp?) was Jimmy and he was the voice for Danny O'Day and the Dog Farfo. I live in Indiana across the Ohio River from
    Louisville Kentucky.

    That'd be ventriloquist. :) Some further investigation lead me to some info. I'm guessing we never saw it in Australia.. It first appeared ~1955 and
    retired ~65 so its even more unlikely I'd have seen it, even I'm not that
    old ;) And the poor hounds name is apparently Farfel, named after some
    Jewish pasta dish <boggle>.

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  • From Ed Vance@21:1/175 to Spectre on Wed Jun 26 11:23:01 2024


    That'd be ventriloquist. :) Some further investigation lead me to some info. I'm guessing we never saw it in Australia.. It first appeared ~1955 and retired ~65 so its even more unlikely I'd have seen it, even I'm not that
    old ;) And the poor hounds name is apparently Farfel, named after some Jewish pasta dish <boggle>.

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    The Dogs name always sounded like Farfo to me when I saw the commercial or when watching Jimmy do his Act on TV when she had a Show back then.
    I wouldn't know that a Chocolate Farfel could be made.,
    Don't think I would care for chocolate pudding (or chocolate milk) on noodles. Ed
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  • From 2E0IZH@21:1/246 to Utopian Galt on Thu Sep 12 07:13:42 2024
    Me too

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