I was eating a Kit Kat Me Too this morning from Lidl. Quite delicious and no doubt half the price. Can't recall the name, which for some reason doesn't matter. You just know its a Me Too.
Whilst chomping, I was lamenting the demise of the late Bar Six and Waifa, both favourite wafery chocolate bars of mine. Bar Six vanished years ago and Waifa may have lingered into the noughties but seems to have gone now.
I got to thinking that a Me Too version of these two treats would suffice, Lidl knockoffs with forgettable names like Snap Choc and Wafery. I wouldn't mind the names, its the look, shape and taste I'd be after. Bar Six was a vertical bar with six snap-off chunks. Waifa was square and again a snapper-offer.
But then I realised there'd be no point in these Me Toos. Like cuckoos, the whole function of a knockoff is to replace the popular original brand with a cheaper version that makes someone somewhere some money. Just not the original brand. We've seen it countless times in the Sixties and Seventies toy industries so we know it well on Moonbase!
Bar Six and Waifa don't exist anymore so why would anyone buy the Me Too versions? Big brands like Nutella and Mars Bar have their Chocco Nussi and Titan alter-egos and who needs Cadburys when you've got Dairyfine. Part of the thrill of Lidling is getting a bargain and these non-brands are cheap to say the least.
No, Bar Six and Waifa won't be cloned any time soon and I'll just have to be satisfied with my knockoff Kit Kat for my wafery kicks for now.
What do you think?
So, following your mentioning Bar Six, I was thinking about a bar I remembered as Cadbury's Special Recipe.
ReplyDeleteTwin bars of chocolate covered rum truffle. Delicious!
Except that, checking online, I discovered this product was actually a Rumba. The Special Recipe bar was orange and walnut flavoured.
All these years I've miss remembered the name of what was, for a while, my favourite bar.
Mish.
D'ya know Special Recipe rings a bell Mish but I'm seeing Tiffin and cadbury's Sandwish for some reason! Its one big chocolate blur! As for Rumba, that rings more sweet bells!
DeleteI always adored Aztec bars in the lush purple wrapper, till I ate three and made myself sick. ok- Why was the biscuit lonely ? -- because his mum was a wafer so long! bdum,, tish! Im here all week.
ReplyDeleteha ha, I like that joke! Aztecs were simply divine and I could have guzzled three too! Better than Mars bars anyday.
DeleteAs a kid in the UK I used to like Tunnock's Caramel wafers.
ReplyDeleteI found them here in Australia about 10 years ago and i occasionally buy a multi pack, but they are very expensive imports here.
Recently I bought a pack and after tasting them, decided I would buy no more. The chocolate coating thickness is now measurable only in the microns as cost-cutting has taken it's toll and the product no longer tastes the way I remember it...
Enter the Me Too from Aldi! It tastes very close to the way Tunnock's used to, but as you say, for half the price!
It tastes remarkably close to the remembered original too.
Sadly the only thing is doesn't have is the splendid Art Deco striped foil wrapper that Tunnock's have had since I was a kid. That glittery gold and cherry red striping is impossible to duplicate (without a lawsuit!).
Luckily I saved a wrapper, so I can look at it, as I munch on my Me Too!
Bon apetit, chaps!
Why not photocopy your wrapper Looey and re-wrap the Me toos and wahay! full retro experience! I love Tunnocks too and the Aldo clones are just as good. No brand loyalty here! Just taste nostalgia!
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