I adored Weekend chocolates as a kid. Sadly no longer with us but we can drool over old ads and pictures like this.
Did you Weekend?
I don't recall Five Boys but it looks delicious! Five big words too!
Do you remember it?
Bar Six! Ah! A real favourite of mine back in the day. Delicious wafer covered in choc. Six snap-off chunks!
Mmmm!
Did you Bar Six?
Fry's Milk Chocolate always seemed a little less sweet than Cadbury's Milk Chocolate but was offset by the sweetness of the CRUNCHIE bar and the contents of the TURKISH DELIGHT. Eventually it would disappear replaced by Cadbury's branding.
ReplyDeleteIn the 1950's some railway station platforms had old metal signs for Fry's Five Boy Bars.
My favourite Fry's is still Peppermint Creme but ages ago it was the similar looking fruit creme version, which was delicious. I agree Terran, Fry's chocolate was special, darker, bitterish maybe.
DeleteNever had any of those treats over here - our brands were Russell Stover, Brachs and Whitmans. But that mouth-watering illustration on the Weekends box would make anybody a choco addict! SFZ
ReplyDeletePictures please SF. None of those appeared in Blighty.
DeleteDefinitely Bar Sixed and Weekended Woodsy, but like you, no Five Boys.
ReplyDeleteThose were the days when chocolate ruled Mish!
DeleteI don't Bar Six, but I do Kit Kat!
ReplyDeleteYou're lucky Ed in that you get the licensed American made Kit Kat. It has sealed foil wrapper so you can replicate the ads: "Have a break, have a Kit Kat" In the UK the Kit Kat foil wasn't sealed and if you tried to snap the confectionery it just bent, not crisp at all.
DeleteIt's odd Terra in that, here in the States all we had was regular Kit Kat (milk chocolate covered wafers). It took them decades to finally release a white chocolate covered bar. Yet in Japan, they've had over 30 varieties since forever!
DeleteWow, thirty varieties! I do like the white Kit Kat and the chunky one too Ed!
DeleteWoodsy, looks like I was W-A-Y off with the Japanese Kit Kat. According to this website, there are OVER 300 different flavors or iterations!!! https://www.japancandystore.com/blogs/okashi/kit-kat-flavors
DeleteYa know, we Americans are known for going over the top with things, but this has us beat hands-down!
Not my experience at all Terra.
ReplyDeleteKit Kat always crisp for me in the UK !
They were crisp after the early 70's in the UK. In the 50's they were 'bendy'
DeleteKit Kat eating is an art. There are many things to consider and engineer. The paper, the foil, the joints, the chocolate and finally the wafer. Dunkable in tea or coffee, I want one now!
DeleteI remember 5 Boys chocolate as a nipper back in the 60's! I suppose they got "Retired" a few years later, after a run of many years...
ReplyDeleteHmmm. I just can't picture Five Boys in my Sixties childhood Looey. Then again my memory is getting like a curly wurly!
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