Sweets Of The 90s, Noughties And Now

A bag of Tangfastics can start an argument and a friendship. We dive into the sweet spot where nostalgia meets taste buds: the 90s surge of Haribo, the playground bravado of Toxic Waste and Warheads, and the great divide over Starmix fried eggs. From ribbons and ring pops to the pure joy of bubble tape, we trace how sweets became social currency and tiny acts of rebellion.

Then we open the chocolate drawer. Think Yorkie’s swagger years, Boost’s energy claims, and the wafer wars of KitKat Chunky versus anything too flimsy. We unpack Cadbury legends with the true origin of Flake, how Twirl fixed the crumb problem, and why Aero’s old-school bar still lives rent-free in our heads. Secret Bars and Spira make a bittersweet comeback in memory, while dark milk, fruit and nut, and the sacred art of cold chocolate spark strong opinions. There’s a detour to Cadbury World for freebies, factory lore, and the joy of hugging a giant Freddo.

Global flavours arrive with Reese’s love-it-or-leave-it energy, Kinder’s enduring magic, and Wonka’s novelty charm. We map the 2010s as the age of the retro revival, vegan sweets, and brand mascots like Percy Pig, all under the shadow of shrinkflation. Freddos got pricier, Wagon Wheels got smaller, and we all noticed. A listener guides us through Polish treats, including warm ice cream and bubblegum classics, proving that candy nostalgia speaks a universal language.

We wrap by choosing the one treat we’d bring back and the one we’d eat right now, drawing a line from chalky 80s jars to today’s split between health halos and throwback thrills. Subscribe, share with a fellow sweet-toothed friend, and drop us a comment: which discontinued bar deserves a second life?

Transcript

Kicking Off Part Two

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Hello and welcome to Bonus Dad.

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Bonus Daughter, a special father-daughter podcast with me, Hannah.

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And me, Davy, where we discuss our differences, similarities, share a few laughs and stories. Within our ever-changing and complex world.

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Each week we will discuss a topic from our own point of view. And influences throughout the decades. Or you could choose one by contacting us via email, Instagram, Facebook, or TikTok. Links in bio. Welcome to a very special episode of Bonus Dad, Bonus Daughter, part two of Sweets, because we didn't think this would be a part two, and here we are again.

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We didn't, and we're actually recording four episodes today.

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Four episodes. I am feeling it.

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Because we we recorded another two part before this one.

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Yeah.

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And we thought we better record the second part of the sweets episode, not leave it a week, because otherwise. We forget. We forget where we were.

Enter The 90s: Haribo Takes Over

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We forget what we talked about.

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Yeah. And we're at the nineties.

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We're at the nineties.

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We're in the nineties now. My eras is in the world of sweets. This is where the sour sweets came in.

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I disagree. You've had sour sweets in the 80s. Really.

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Well, we did, but this is where this is where Haribo kind of really starts taking its.

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I didn't say this in the last episode, but a lot of your 80s sweets are very chalk-based.

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Yeah.

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Love hearts, the sherbet dust and dib dab dust. Yeah, it was very dusty. It was very like dusty.

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White powder.

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Yeah. It's amazing what the culture was like back then. Let's make some sweets that emulate everything that we shouldn't be doing right now.

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What exactly that isn't it? Isn't it? Is that?

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I love how sweets have evolved to actually being four kids. Yeah.

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Um well when you look, when you look, like I said, the the last bit when we said last time was like the uh the chocolate cigarettes. Yeah. It was like everything was geared towards being an adult.

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Again, this is why we saw making children into adults too quickly, isn't it?

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Yeah, which is why our generation, my my generation, Gen X, we grew up before we were supposed to. We were adults when we were kids. I can see that. We were we were we were 30 at the age of five.

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Avenue cigarettes.

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And we're still 30 now.

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Yeah, exactly.

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You know, consuming lots of white babies.

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Exactly, yeah, exactly. Yeah, things haven't really changed, have they? Right, let's talk about the 90s because I can actually add a bit of context here.

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Yes, so this is where Haribo kind of really took over.

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Kids and lovers love it so the happy world of Haribo.

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Uh so tangphastics were brought in the 90s.

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Yep, tangfastics, not a fan because they're sour sweets, but everyone that I know loves them.

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I love tangfastics. Yeah. I absolutely love them. And in the 90s, moving on from like the tang fastics and the haribos and things like Starmix.

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Starmix is another haribo. Um what's your favourite type of haribo? It's is the sour. It's the tang fastics.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Oh, it's starmix for me. Uh no, it's not starmix, it's super mix for me. Your supermix has the bit the jelly babies in it. No. Oh, the white ones. Do you like gold bears? Yeah. Do you? Huge fan. Huge fan. I'll tell you what.

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And the rings. I'll tell you, I like the rings. I like the rings. And I don't like the fried eggs.

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Why don't you like fried eggs? We were having a conversation the other day with our friends. They don't like fried eggs either. Is it the foam squishiness?

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Uh yeah.

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I love that bit. That's the best bit.

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Yeah.

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Eat the yolk off.

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Yeah, I love I love normal fried eggs.

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Yeah, I do.

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But not the Haribow fried eggs.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, not really a big fan of those at all. Did you do you ever remember a sweet called Toxic Waste?

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Ugh. Sour, yes, I remember them so well. Because I don't eat sour sweets, people used to give them to me to see my reaction. And that's why I don't like toxic waste. They were too sour. They made your cheeks hurt.

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Yeah.

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They were horrible.

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I bet you loved them. I loved them. Yeah, I bet you did. Absolutely loved. I'd eat them now if I had them. Then it says here there's an American import, although I don't remember these ones. I know. I know this brand. Warheads. What are warheads?

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Warheads are very similar, vein. They're like little tiny, like chewy, like sour sweets. Um you can also get warhead drinks. So Mitchell had some, he got like a pack of, I don't know, say like 10 cans, and they were like all um like that blue raspberry flavour, I think.

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Yeah.

Nostalgia Lollies: Ribbons, Push Pops, Ring Pops

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Yeah, they're they're fine.

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Oh hang on. Do you remember them did you say about blue raspberry? Them strip things. Can you remember those? Like the ribbons? Like the pencils? Yeah, the ribbons.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Yeah. You'd like bite the ribbon off.

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And they were they were sour as well.

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Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Um millions.

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Millions! What millions? Millions. I have some on my shelf back there. Um millions are like tiny little chewy sweets. And they come in little tubes. Oh they're great. What do you do? They're kind of like rain, they're like very similar to um rainbow drops. Right. But instead of being rice crispy, they're just chewy little chewy little things. And you get them on all different flavours and colours and sizes and don't think I've ever seen them. Oh, millions, they're great.

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Yeah?

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Yeah. No, no, I don't know. Yeah, they were the epitome of childhood.

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I I remember these push pops.

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Don't know.

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So they were like they were like like a lolly, like a hard candy lolly, and you would push them like a through like a so they yeah, they have like a wooden stick at the bottom and you just push them up. Well, not like a wooden stick, I think they were plastic sticks.

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Oh, I see. Yeah, looking at the images, uh, yeah, it kind of looks very much like a lipstick really.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Were they sour? They look sour.

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No, I don't think they were sour, they were more fruity.

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Um yeah, um, not something that I vibed with, but um or would vibe with, but um yeah, they they look fine.

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Oh, going back to the 80s, yeah, very quickly, similar to things talking about hard, hard sweets, jawbreakers.

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Oh, yeah, I'm familiar with jawbreakers.

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Bubblegum in the middle.

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Yeah, I am familiar with jawbreakers, not my type of sweet either. Something that you have to work to get to the goodness.

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Yeah.

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Not for me.

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Yeah, let's skip to the good pub.

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Yeah. Let's skip to the good pub.

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Oh, I remember these ring pops.

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Now, ring pops I only remember being in Great Yarmouth.

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Right.

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Uh oh no, am I confusing them with dummies actually? What's a ring pop?

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A ring pop. So they were like a kind of like jewellery that you had that you'd wear you wear it on your finger.

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Yes. Yeah. Yeah, and you can suck the yeah, the yeah. Not for me again, but I understand the appeal. Um, yeah, very much. So they're very similar to dummies, actually, but they were bigger. The dummies are more like hard rock candy, like hard, uh, what's it called? Rock.

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Yeah.

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Actual rock.

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Yeah. Because I I remember because I was obviously I was by this sort of age, I was starting getting a little bit too old for those types of sweets. Yeah, yeah. But I do remember them. Yeah, you remember them being around. Remember being around, but I know.

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Maybe your brothers and sisters seeing them. Yeah.

Bubblegum & Chewing Gum Lore

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But I would never have I didn't have ring pops, but no, they passed me by a little bit.

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I think I'm a was a little bit too young, whereas you're a little bit too old. That was kind of that that is your your siblings rather than yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Cool.

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Yeah, remember those? Yeah. Yeah.

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Yeah, enough. Enough when I googled it, I was like, oh yeah, I remember them. But yeah.

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And then of course we've got the the hubba bubba and the bubble tape. Which we've kind of already mentioned, but hubba bubba tape.

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Oh my gosh, yeah. Um, you used to get them in a in a round box, they've definitely got smaller over the years. And they hubberbubba, I used to know was the best bubble gum for making bubbles.

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Mm-hmm.

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Oh yeah. It took me ages to learn how to make a bubble as well.

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So I'm it's a rite of passage, that's let's let's just talk about chewing gum for a minute. Okay. Okay, chewing gum. Because when I grew up, we had we had like spearmint, peppermint chewing gum, juicy fruit, and hubber. I mean, hubba bubba came later on.

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Hubba bubba's more of a bubble gum than a chewing gum.

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Hubba Bubba used to get me here in my thing. That kind of a little bit of sort of sour thing, but I didn't used to like hubba bubba. I love it. I was more of a more of like a spearm Wrigley spearman.

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I think I think the difference between bubble gum and chewing gum is that bubble gum eventually did dissolve. You uh you when you ate it, you you swallowed it. Whereas chewing gum you don't.

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No, you didn't. I used to swallow hubba bubba. Oh my god. I remember being told as a kid that if you swallowed chewing gum, chewing gum, yes, but it would say you didn't hubba bubba, yeah.

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You can swallow it. No, you can't. You can swallow hubba bubba. It goes down. Um take it.

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I'm sure you can't. I'm sure you're not supposed to I'm googling it. Yeah, you have you googled it, but I'm it can you? I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to swallow bubblegum.

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I'm specifically talking about hubba bubba. Uh oh.

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I don't think you can.

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Swallowing a single piece of huba bubba or other chewing gum is generally harmless.

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Generally harmless.

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However, you should avoid swallowing it intentionally at large amounts, or frequent ingestion can lead to intestinal blockages. Is this why I have health puppies?

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How much hubba did you swallow?

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I I seem to remember it dissolving. No, it doesn't. I don't ever remember.

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That's the whole point of chewing gum, is it doesn't dissolve it.

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I'm saying I think it was slightly different. No. But um no, it's not. When did you swallow hubba? I I honestly remember it dissolving on my tongue.

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No, no, no. It couldn't have been hubba, it must have been something else you were eating if it dissolved.

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Oh no.

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Oh dear.

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Okay, um uh PSA. Don't swallow hubba like I did, thinking that it was fine. I knew you couldn't swallow chewing gum, but that is uh honestly, that has broken my mind.

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Absolutely not.

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Well I can I can certainly tell you I did. And I have mildly survived the Yeah.

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Oh, can you remember you used to sit at a school desk and you put your hand on the desk and there'd be chewing gum underneath it? Oh my god.

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I was gonna say when you were in school and you opened a pack of chewing gum, everyone wanted it as well. So you never it never lasted long.

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When I was at school, it was when I used to open a pack of cigarettes, everyone wanted one.

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Yeah, yeah. Different times, different times.

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Oh, Dan in the tennis courts.

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Oh, yeah.

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So where I used to go to school at Carl's Grammar, right? We'd have we'd have the school, and then there was the the field at the back where the sports being played. And when we used to go and smoke, we used to go in two places. They used to be like right at the very far back of the field, you could go right right in the very far right hand corner, and there was a little dip, and you could sit in like this little almost like little bunker, and we always used to sit in there. And there was always like the group of the smokers always used to go on there. But if we didn't have time, we used to go to the tennis courts. So the tennis courts were about halfway up the field we can dip and no one could see us in the sub.

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Did the teachers just turn a blind eye?

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Well, the thing is when we used to go up to this far corner, we could see the teachers walking up the field. We could see them.

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Right.

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So by the time they got there, we'd put the cigarettes out and we were just sitting there talking. But they knew damn well what we were doing. Yeah. They knew damn well what we were doing.

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What age were you?

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Uh about 14.

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Oh gosh, so young. 13, 14. It's so young.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

Schoolyard Smoking Stories

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Yeah. Well, we used to go, we used to dive out of school as well and go around the corner and that and used to when we were in the sixth form. Yeah, yeah. And then we used to go to school in the morning. We always so the three schools in Sleaford would have Ker Stephen High School for Girls, St. George's School, and ours, Carl's Grammar. Because we kind of all went to primary school together, but then we all got split up to go to separate schools, depending on whether or not we passed the 11 plus. Who those of us who are friends at primary school, so me and a few others, we used to meet at what we call the blue bar.

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Oh, okay.

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And what the blue bar was, it was kind of like in between all three schools. Well, well, no, the high school was further because Stephen High School for Girls was further down, but the blue bar was in between St George's and Carl's Grammar School. And we used to meet there first thing in the morning and have a couple of cigarettes and talk and then go to our separate schools. So we used to leave, we used to leave for school early to go and meet at the blue bar.

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That's hilarious.

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Yeah.

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It's very social, wasn't it, smoking back then? It was.

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Yeah, well, we were all we were all really good friends and we'd all kind of lost touch because even though we still went to this, we went to Yeah. Yeah. But then there was this really when we were in the fifth year, there was like this really weird rivalry between Carr's grammar and St. George's. Oh, okay. Where they didn't get on. Right. But we were all friends. But we were friends, but we yeah, it was it was bizarre. It was really weird. So one minute we were friends, next minute we went, then we were friends again. Yes, yeah, God. So should we go to chocolate bars in the 90s? Let's go. Lion bars. Remember those?

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Yeah, I do remember those. You can still get them, I think, as well. Uh again, not not a choice that I would make, but they were around. They were a thing. Again, it was caramel. I wasn't. Yeah, you're not a caramel lover. I'm not a caramel for a person.

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It's like salted caramel, I think, is just wrong. Yeah, yeah, I'm not a fan. Yeah. They were very 90s. They were like caramel wafer and like this crunchy. I did have one, but just remembered, like, nah, not for me. I was much when it came to chocolate, I was just more of a pure chocolate kind of person.

SPEAKER_00 12:50

That's fair enough. Yeah, I think I'd say the same.

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Rather than. Although I liked Mars bar.

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Yeah, Mars Bar. I did like Mars is a different kind of kettle of fish, really.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I'll tell you what, I mean, obviously, flakes were my favourite. So flakes we used to get. You used to get like obviously the flake, but then you could get like little boxes of flakes that you'd have for the ice creams. Yes. And I used to love buying a box of flakes. Yeah. And walnut whips.

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Yeah, I missed I missed walnut whips. I think they're a little bit before my time.

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Yeah.

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But I'm aware of them.

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I used to, so my granddad used to like walnuts, and I didn't like walnuts, but I like the walnut whip. So I was take the walnut off the walnut whip, give it to my granddad, and then eat the eat the walnut. Yeah, nice, nice. Now, you know how you said you ate a cream egg?

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Yeah.

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I would eat a walnut whip like that.

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Okay, exactly. That's how I would eat a walnut whip.

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So bite the top off. Suck it out. Suck out all the innards. Because the bottom of walnut whip was really thick chocolate.

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Yeah.

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Really, really thick. And if you were really clever, you could bite the base off the actual top of the walnut whip.

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Nice, nice. A bit like a cornetto when you get that bit of chocolate at the end.

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Oh yeah.

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Oh yeah.

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Yeah. Do you want anything from the shop?

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Cornetto.

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There you go. Boost bars.

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Now, boost bars, I feel like left the the the chat and then came back again. Yeah. Because you can get boost bars again now.

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Mm-hmm.

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Uh, they're okay.

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Yeah.

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I'd choose them if there was nothing else.

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I wouldn't have a boost bar.

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They're Cadbury's, aren't they? Boost.

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Um again, caramel.

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Yeah, I'm okay with that. Yeah.

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Well, it does say here, they were they they were basically the original energy bar.

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Yeah.

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See, to me, Mars bars were the original energy bar. I would eat a Mars bar.

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I wouldn't even class that as energy bar. Anything with fruit, like sorry, with like notes and notes.

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Notes?

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Nuts or oats in it. I'm like, oh yeah, okay, I can understand the energy side of that. Like a Snickers, I would say, is closer to an energy bar than I do.

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Don't like Snickers, don't I like nuts and chocolate? Oh, I think. I like nuts separately.

90s Chocolate Bars We Loved And Loathed

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I love chocolate-covered peanuts. They're like the best thing ever.

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I'll tell you what, I do like chocolate-covered coffee. Coffee beans.

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I knew you were about to say that.

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Oh my word.

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I don't like coffee, but when I went to Cara Road once for a uh a client took us there, they have chocolate-covered coffee beans uh on just on the tables, and they're just they're just ready for you to eat like between like meals and stuff.

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They seem so wrong that you're eating coffee beans. Yeah, yeah, but I love them.

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So good. And I'm not as as a non-coffee lover, they're so good. They take the bitterness out of coffee.

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Lover, lover, love a chocolate, love a chocolate. Yeah. Um, actually, thinking about it, there's something that we have missed when I was talking about it, because we had flakes, right? And then what I used to obviously flakes used to flake away and used to lose quite a lot of things. Very erotic um advertising in the 80s with flakes. Yeah, lady in the bath.

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Yeah.

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Um but then you know, like ripples, galaxy ripples, so it's like flake but encased chocolate encased over the top. There was something in between flakes and ripples.

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There's a twirl, isn't there?

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There is twelve, but it's before twirls. It was before there was something in the 80s or 90s that was post-flake, pre-ripples, pre-twirls. Which they discontinued.

SPEAKER_00 15:57

I feel like ripples are the galaxy version, right?

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Yeah, ripples are the galaxy version. Love a ripple, love a galaxy.

SPEAKER_00 16:02

Nah, I don't like galaxy at all.

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What is your favourite? You like dairy milk, don't you?

SPEAKER_00 16:05

I'm a Cabri girl, yeah. Galaxy makes my throat hurt.

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I see, I like I like the silkiness of Galaxy, but it is quite sickly, so I only like sickly and creamy, yeah.

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I don't like that.

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I don't see I'm I really like dark chocolate. That's my favourite. But I do like occasionally I think, oh do you know what? I fancy a ripple.

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I quite like it's a newer, it's a newer chocolate, but I really like dark milk. It's it's slightly less bitter than Bournemouth. I like that. Yeah, it's less bitter than Bourneville, but darker than Cadbury's normal dairy milk. Yeah, dark milk is good.

SPEAKER_02 16:36

I like the in-between. I like the so in Liddles you can get different percentages of cocoa. Yes, yes. Oh, like and there's a s there's a raspberry chocolate one of those with dark chocolate. Lush.

SPEAKER_00 16:48

Yeah, that's something.

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Absolutely lush. Yeah, love that. Love that. Mentioned boost bars, timeouts.

SPEAKER_00 16:54

I don't remember timeouts. Are they more of a biscuit bar?

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Yeah, kind of wafer. They were kind of chocolate with wafer in them.

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Timeout bar. Oh yeah, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're Cadbury's.

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Yeah.

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Yes, they're more wafery. Yeah. I would like it. I don't think I've ever had one, but I would I would enjoy that.

SPEAKER_02 17:11

Yeah, no, I I didn't used to like the wafer kind of chocolate. The reason I like wafer. It reminded me of that horrible pink and white wafer thingy. Remember them? Pink Panthers. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 17:22

Oh my gosh, they're so good. They're so good. Oh, you're wrong. They're so good.

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Just absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 17:30

No, you're wrong. I'm sorry, you're wrong on this occasion. No. Pink Panthers are elite god tier.

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No, dear God, no.

SPEAKER_00 17:36

Yep, yep, yep, yep.

SPEAKER_02 17:37

No. They were more of a biscuit, weren't they?

SPEAKER_00 17:40

No, they're they're a wafer. Were they? Pink ladies. Pink ladies. I know. Pink Panthers, sorry. All wafer with a little bit of cream in the wafer cream, wafer cream, wafer.

SPEAKER_02 17:52

Oh god, no.

SPEAKER_00 17:53

Wafer sandwich. Ugh. So good.

SPEAKER_02 17:55

Horrible.

SPEAKER_00 17:56

So good.

SPEAKER_02 17:56

Now we're coming on to my favourite ones now.

SPEAKER_00 17:59

Let's go.

SPEAKER_02 18:00

Yorky. Love a Yorkie.

SPEAKER_00 18:03

Yes. Very controversial Yorkis.

SPEAKER_02 18:05

Well, they were back then because Yorkis weren't for girls.

SPEAKER_00 18:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 18:09

Yorkies were seen as a man chocolate. It's not for girls. Big kind of cross, you know, the no girls. No girls.

SPEAKER_00 18:16

I remember the no girl thing on it. Um, they're just solid chocolate. They're just a chunky bit of chocolate. I love a Yorkie. No.

SPEAKER_02 18:23

But they've definitely got smaller.

SPEAKER_00 18:24

I'm sure they have. I uh I'd I'd have a Kit Kat Chunky over a Yorky.

SPEAKER_02 18:29

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 18:30

Easy.

SPEAKER_02 18:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:31

If I want something chunky, it's a Kit Kat Chunky. Kit Kat Chunky? Yeah, I'm not really You don't vibe with wafer, that's why.

SPEAKER_02 18:39

Yeah, again, like, yeah, yeah. Uh now Whispers.

SPEAKER_00 18:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 18:42

But but Whisper I like a Whisper now, but earlier I used to like arrows.

SPEAKER_00 18:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 18:49

No, old arrows were one long like a whisper, the original arrow, and I'm swear to God they changed the bloody recipe on that because the taste changed once.

SPEAKER_00 18:59

The mint ones are nice. Mint ones.

SPEAKER_02 19:00

I have a mint arrow.

SPEAKER_00 19:01

You used to buy me mint arrows. Every time you went and filled up your car with petrol, you'd always bring a mint arrow back to the car for me.

SPEAKER_02 19:08

Did I? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's because I loved you. Yes, I've been. Oh, I did. Not because I loved you. That's that seems like okay.

SPEAKER_00 19:15

See how you feel about me.

SPEAKER_02 19:17

Um, but whispers, yeah. Whispers kind of what when when arrows weren't available anymore, yeah. I went on to whispers.

SPEAKER_00 19:24

I think they are available.

Aero, Wispa, Twirl And The Flake Origin

SPEAKER_02 19:25

You can still get arrow, but not the same way. Not the same way. So the arrow that I used to have was one bar, like yeah, they're like bubbly now.

SPEAKER_00 19:32

They've got the the the separate chunks.

SPEAKER_02 19:36

And now these these were my absolute favourite and they don't exist anymore. Spiras.

SPEAKER_00 19:43

I don't remember them.

SPEAKER_02 19:44

Oh my days. They they were like little cylindrical chocolate bits with holes in the middle.

SPEAKER_00 19:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 19:50

Sort of running all the way through the middle of the chocolate, and you would break them off. Oh my god, I loved a spiral. They were cabries.

SPEAKER_00 19:57

Yeah, I've never sorry, I was quickly googling another chocolate bar that I thought of. Um, but it'll have to come later in the in the in the past.

SPEAKER_02 20:04

Okay, okay. Now there was a thing called secret bars, but I don't think I remember those.

SPEAKER_00 20:08

I don't remember secret bars.

SPEAKER_02 20:10

Remember secret bars? It says here they were moose filled chocolate. And it says one of the most missed bars ever. It said on the on the article. Yeah, I don't I don't even know what they look like. But spiras were my favourite.

SPEAKER_00 20:24

Secret bars chocolate.

SPEAKER_02 20:26

And I can you still get Terry's Pyramint?

SPEAKER_00 20:29

Don't know.

SPEAKER_02 20:30

So I remember having Terry's Pyramid.

SPEAKER_00 20:32

They look very interesting. This is the secret. Oh I do remember they were amazing. Oh my god, yeah. These don't ring a bell to me as well. Yeah, they're round trees, so then the same um maker as well. As Yorkie. Oh, I was gonna say fruit pastels.

SPEAKER_02 20:49

No, no, round trees, Yorkie's Nestle of Fruit Pastel. Yeah, yeah. Fruit pastels is round trees. Yeah. Oh, I used to love secret bars. They were my favourite.

SPEAKER_00 20:57

Yeah, no, I've never seen that before in my life.

SPEAKER_02 20:59

Oh, that's almost like I don't know if I've been, you know, when you get traumatized because something discontinues, so my memory blocked it out. And now I've seen it of all those happy memories have come flooding back in with secret bars.

SPEAKER_00 21:12

I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_02 21:13

Oh, that was amazing. Actually, you've just mentioned something really interesting that we've not mentioned.

SPEAKER_00 21:18

What's that?

SPEAKER_02 21:18

You've said about fruit pastels.

SPEAKER_00 21:20

Yeah, I mentioned the last one with jelly top.

SPEAKER_02 21:22

Did you, yeah, so fruit pastels, but can you remember fruit gums?

SPEAKER_00 21:26

Are you talking about like wine gums, like midget gems?

SPEAKER_02 21:29

So they would come in the tube like fruit pastels, but they were called fruit gums.

SPEAKER_00 21:32

Oh no, don't they were them? Well, actually, no, you've mentioned it, yeah. Yeah, they're not again the poor man's fruit pastel. Yeah, and you get stuck in your teeth. Yeah, so very similar to a wine gum, to be honest.

SPEAKER_02 21:42

Oh, I love wine gums.

SPEAKER_00 21:43

I know you love wine gums.

SPEAKER_02 21:44

Oh, wine gum's my favourite. Wine gums and licorice all sorts. Licorice all sorts help you poo.

SPEAKER_00 21:49

Good to know. Fun facts with Biggie Beady Podcast.

SPEAKER_02 21:52

There you go. If if if you're if you're ever stuck down below, have some licorice all sorts. Licorice all sorts and Polo mints.

SPEAKER_00 22:00

I was gonna say mint mint is normally a very is a natural laxative.

SPEAKER_02 22:03

It is a natural laxative, yeah. Yeah. Okay. So oh yeah, we haven't mentioned polo mints either.

SPEAKER_00 22:07

We have not. I've actually got some polos behind us.

SPEAKER_02 22:10

Have you really?

SPEAKER_00 22:10

Yeah. Yeah. Do you want one there?

SPEAKER_02 22:12

No. Tootie fruities.

SPEAKER_00 22:14

Tootie fruity. I don't think I've ever had a tootie fruity.

SPEAKER_02 22:19

You've never had a tootie fruit?

SPEAKER_00 22:20

I don't think so. Wouldn't be my thing.

SPEAKER_02 22:21

No. So tootie fruities were like these kind of like square little hard shell with something soft in the middle.

SPEAKER_00 22:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:30

Yeah. Never liked them.

SPEAKER_00 22:31

Nah.

SPEAKER_02 22:31

Nah, not too fruity for me. Not my fan.

SPEAKER_00 22:34

Not a fan.

SPEAKER_02 22:35

Not really my big not really my fruit.

SPEAKER_00 22:37

Not my bag.

SPEAKER_02 22:38

Cadbury's fuse. Cabri's fuse. Look though, look up a Cadbury's fuse.

SPEAKER_00 22:42

Cadbury's fuse. Oh gosh, they look like a Snickers.

SPEAKER_02 22:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:50

Oh, they kind of look like a bit like Rocky Road.

SPEAKER_02 22:52

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 22:52

A bit in a bar.

SPEAKER_02 22:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:54

They're a Rocky Road bar, basically.

SPEAKER_01 22:57

Yeah.

Cadbury World Adventures And Freebies

SPEAKER_00 22:58

Uh apparently you can still get them. Um but in the mini version, so you can get them like in a pack. Like you would get buttons, for example. Oh, I love buttons. Buttons are good.

SPEAKER_02 23:08

Oh. The chocolate buttons, not the white chocolate buttons.

SPEAKER_00 23:11

I would actually, if anyone is really interested in chocolate, please go to Cabary World. It is like one of the most fun experiences. And plus you get free chocolate, which I think is like the thing. Also, when you're in the shop at the end, they sell like the chocolate that was misshapen at a very, very low cost.

SPEAKER_02 23:25

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. It's almost worth going all the way to Birmingham for.

SPEAKER_00 23:28

It honestly is. I did go all the way to Birmingham for it. I mean, I did go to Roller Coaster Park as well. I went to Drayton Manor, but. Yeah. Um, if you're into Roller Coaster Parks also, why do you know what? I have not talked about roller coaster parks in one of our episodes for a long time.

SPEAKER_02 23:41

You haven't.

SPEAKER_00 23:42

Uh it's because I haven't been to one in a while. Just because I've been so unwell.

SPEAKER_02 23:46

But that was when last when we went to the chocolate factory, we did Drayton Manor and then we did Cabry World afterwards, didn't we?

SPEAKER_00 23:52

Yeah. Um but Cabry World has changed a lot since then. Yeah. Um, you do still get lots of free chocolate and you get the free full bars as well. Oh, nice. As soon as I walked in to like pass my ticket over to say, Oh yeah, I'm here today, this is my like thing. They were just like, Oh yeah, here's a um full-size uh cat uh uh dairy milk caramel bar. And I was like, oh I'm in the right place. And it was such a slow day that we actually got two each. And so we had them in our little like goodie bags. And then when you go round, you get lots of chocolate as you're looking at like the factory line. And there's another bit where you get to write stuff in the chocolate as well. There's um there's a very uh if you're competitive like uh me and my husband are, there is a um a game that you can go round and you and it's like the evolution of how chocolate is made in the Cabries world and there's like sort of thing. And you feel like you should salt. You shoot the I did, and you shoot the milk cartons, and then you get like however, whatever your score is at the end, you get in terms of chocolate or anything. So it's yeah, you need to go over someone that's a good shooter, like Mitchell, because we got loads. Um it it he has as many uses, and that is one of them. Um getting lots of chocolate. Yeah, it was it was a fun experience. Um it took us it did take us a good while to get through that chocolate as well. There might even be some still left in the cabinet, but um yeah, it's good.

Reese’s, Kinder And American Influences

SPEAKER_02 25:09

Uh-oh. Talking about chocolate, yes, Fredos.

SPEAKER_00 25:12

Yeah, so Freddo, obviously, I remember Freddo's. Um, I do remember them being 10p. Um, I think they're about 20, 25p now.

SPEAKER_02 25:19

I think it cost a mortgage, no.

SPEAKER_00 25:21

And they're a lot smaller.

SPEAKER_02 25:23

They are.

SPEAKER_00 25:24

My favourite is the caramel freddo. I know you're not keen on caramel much.

SPEAKER_02 25:27

Chocolate Freddo.

SPEAKER_00 25:28

But for me, caramel freddo's are just the right amount of caramel to chocolate ratio.

unknown 25:32

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 25:34

They are not too sweet, but they are so good. Moorish. You want to eat lots of them.

SPEAKER_02 25:40

Oh, what's his name? Um, Garen. Irish guy from County Mayo.

SPEAKER_00 25:45

Oh, right, okay.

SPEAKER_02 25:46

Yeah, who he follow me. I'm delicious.

SPEAKER_00 25:48

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 25:49

He goes on a rant about Fredo's.

SPEAKER_00 25:52

It's so funny. I'm a huge fan of him, actually.

SPEAKER_02 25:54

I really like him. Have you heard him sing?

SPEAKER_00 25:56

No, is he any good?

SPEAKER_02 25:57

My god.

SPEAKER_00 25:58

He strikes me as someone that wouldn't.

SPEAKER_02 25:59

He has got a phenomenal class. Operatic? It's I'm not gonna, you've just gotta listen to it. So he sang um what's the what's the one Christmas song that I like?

SPEAKER_00 26:11

Um God, you don't like any Christmas song.

SPEAKER_02 26:13

I know, but there is one three, four, beat. Well, not the Pokes.

SPEAKER_00 26:18

That's Irish.

SPEAKER_02 26:18

Space Band Came Travelling.

SPEAKER_00 26:19

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02 26:20

So he sings that at last Christmas on Irish TV. It's phenomenal. His voice is absolutely phenomenal. So yeah, his I'll check it out. But he's yeah, he's he's brilliant. I love him. He's awesome.

SPEAKER_00 26:34

Yeah, nice.

SPEAKER_02 26:34

Um, so of course, what you like is dairy milk, don't you? I do love dairy milk. So, of course, dairy milk in the 90s expanded.

SPEAKER_00 26:43

Expanded.

SPEAKER_02 26:44

Expanded, it opened its horizons.

SPEAKER_00 26:47

Did it now?

SPEAKER_02 26:47

Yes, and didn't just do plain chocolate, it went down the caramel, yeah, whole nut, yeah, fruit nut, yeah, buttons, yeah. And then the big old giant bars.

SPEAKER_00 26:57

Yeah, big old bars, and then I guess twirls, um no, not twirls, sorry. Flakes, twirls. Flakes were created by a mistake in the uh manufacturing process. Were they really? Yep. Learnt that at Cabri World, go. Um yeah, yeah, it was made by complete accident. When they're scraping off the chocolate at the end of the day, it all went into the flake format, ribboned.

SPEAKER_02 27:23

Oh, yeah. So it's like penicill the penicillin of the chocolate world.

SPEAKER_00 27:27

It's the penicillin of the chocolate world, indeed. Yep, so um, so yeah, that's how flakes were born. And then twirls were born because people were saying that flakes were too messy, which I actually agree with. Yeah. And the twelves were born so that it coated that. Um, and then the whisper was born from obviously aerated chocolate, um, which was really cool.

SPEAKER_01 27:44

Another twelve.

SPEAKER_00 27:45

Yeah, you can you can go to Cadbury World and figure out how they do all the separate types of dairy milk funneless on interactive machines. I'm really we're not we're not you know sponsored by Cadbury World, but again, if you did want to sponsor us Cadbury World, I am your uh biggest advocate, to be honest. Um huge fan, huge fan of your work. Um you taste good, and I got to hug Fredo. I don't know how many times I can reiterate that hugging Fredo was probably one of the greatest moments of my life.

SPEAKER_02 28:17

Oh god. You know, other than I hugged Woody Bear once at Pleasurewood Hills.

SPEAKER_00 28:21

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 28:22

There yeah. That's a good hug. There's a picture of me hugging Woody Bear.

SPEAKER_00 28:25

Me and Sonic at Alton Towers. Yeah. Yep. Hug Sonic.

Retro Revival, Vegan Swaps And Shop Brands

SPEAKER_02 28:29

So, what is your favourite dairy milk? Do you prefer the plain chocolate or are you a caramel, whole nut, fruit and nut kind of gal?

SPEAKER_00 28:36

I actually basic bitch, I do enjoy just bogstandard dairy milk.

SPEAKER_01 28:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:41

Caramel on a good day, like if I if I I it's not something I would choose unless I really fancied it, but I do like the caramel. But yeah, I think honestly, basic bitch mode, I would dairy milk, but I love it when at Easter they've started doing the mini eggs in the chocolate. And at Christmas they do the snowballs in the chocolate, which is basically the same thing.

SPEAKER_02 29:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:00

Oh, I love I love it when chocolate has a bit of a crunch in it.

SPEAKER_02 29:03

I do, that's what I like. I like cold chocolate. I like cold chocolate. We always put our chocolate in the fridge.

SPEAKER_00 29:08

Yeah, so do we. Yeah, so do we.

SPEAKER_02 29:09

I'll tell you what my favourite chocolate is. Go on. Is the rum and raisin Bourneville, the old Jamaica.

SPEAKER_00 29:14

Oh.

SPEAKER_02 29:14

Oh, slush.

SPEAKER_00 29:15

Oh, it's quite expensive. Can't say I've ever tried it.

SPEAKER_02 29:17

It's quite expensive, but it's slush.

SPEAKER_00 29:18

It's a bit too bougie for me. That's that's weight troos written all over that.

SPEAKER_02 29:22

The next kind of four are all kind of kind of semi-simil that that kind of chocolate, such as the the double decker, the crunchy.

SPEAKER_00 29:30

Get out of town. I'm not a fan of honeycomb at all.

SPEAKER_02 29:33

I like I I can I can do a crunchy.

SPEAKER_00 29:36

You can vibe.

SPEAKER_02 29:37

I vibe with a crunchy picnic.

SPEAKER_00 29:39

Yeah, again, picnic. I don't like raisins.

SPEAKER_02 29:42

No. No. Not a fan. No. Apparently, my mum, when she was pregnant with me, got a craving for raisins.

SPEAKER_00 29:50

Oh.

SPEAKER_02 29:51

I don't like raisins.

SPEAKER_00 29:52

Yeah. I'm not really a fan.

SPEAKER_02 29:53

I'll eat them, but I'm not really. She out-raisined you. She ate raisin me. Yeah. Apparently that's what she got a craving for. Rollos.

SPEAKER_00 30:01

Yeah, greatest, greatest.

SPEAKER_02 30:03

Do you love anyone enough to give them your last Rolo? Soft, chewy chocolate. No, soft chewy caramel in a in a crisp chocolate shell. Something like that was the advert.

SPEAKER_00 30:11

Rolo, yeah. Top tier.

SPEAKER_02 30:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 30:13

Love a Rolo. Love a Rolo. Yeah, even though it's not Cabries. Rolo, me baby.

SPEAKER_02 30:17

I would eat a Rolo, but probably only one or two, because again, they are sickly.

SPEAKER_00 30:21

Yeah. Caramel.

SPEAKER_02 30:22

But um, and then of course in the uh 90s, we had the American influence of Reese's pieces.

SPEAKER_00 30:30

As someone that doesn't like peanut butter, I genuinely really love Reese's. Reese's is good.

SPEAKER_02 30:35

No, don't like that. Don't like Reese's pieces. Yeah. Um, but they say snow caps and Hershey's, yeah, get on board with that. Yeah. But Reese's, no. Sorry, Hills. No, no. Do not like peanut butter. I like peanuts, like butter. Never the do they should never meet.

SPEAKER_00 30:49

Oh no, no, they absolutely should.

SPEAKER_02 30:51

Yeah. Your mum knows if she doesn't want me anywhere near her, she just has to eat peanut butter.

SPEAKER_00 30:56

Mum really likes peanut MMs as well.

SPEAKER_02 30:59

Just the smell of peanut butter makes me gag.

SPEAKER_00 31:01

Really? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:02

Just the smell of it.

SPEAKER_00 31:03

Do you like satay chicken?

SPEAKER_02 31:04

No.

SPEAKER_00 31:05

No.

SPEAKER_02 31:06

No.

SPEAKER_00 31:06

Not not a peanut fan.

SPEAKER_02 31:08

No. But you eat peanuts. I like roasted, dry roasted nuts, I like.

SPEAKER_00 31:12

Yeah, but that's not a peanut, is it, is it? It is a peanut butter. Well it is a peanut butter.

SPEAKER_02 31:14

It's marmal flavour with yeast extract on it, essentially.

SPEAKER_00 31:17

So basically anything that covers the taste of the actual peanut.

SPEAKER_02 31:20

Yeah. Right. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:21

So you don't actually like peanuts.

SPEAKER_02 31:22

I don't know peanuts, no. Then of course we've got the novelty. It's like Kinder. Kinder Duby.

SPEAKER_00 31:28

Kinder was obviously German. Kinder's German. Kinder's German, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:31

Just basically means children in German.

SPEAKER_00 31:33

Yeah. Fantastic chocolate.

SPEAKER_02 31:34

I still get it.

SPEAKER_00 31:35

Huge fan. Yeah. Huge, huge fan. I would eat several Kinder eggs just to get all the prizes.

SPEAKER_02 31:42

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 31:42

I was, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:43

Did you know that Kinder is banned in the in the US?

SPEAKER_00 31:46

Yes, because the kids are so stupid that they choke on the toy. Which I cannot understand because it's in a case in the middle. So unless they're eating the case.

SPEAKER_02 31:54

Well, I must admit, I have on occasion not been able to open them bloody things, and I've kind of put it in my mouth and it has popped into my mouth.

SPEAKER_00 32:05

But you haven't swallowed it. That's the difference.

SPEAKER_02 32:08

No, I haven't swallowed it. No. No.

SPEAKER_00 32:09

Nah I I I can't understand why.

SPEAKER_02 32:12

But it's like when things are like on food wrappers where you get like McDonald's and they have to write, do not eat the wrapper on it. Yeah. Who's doing that? Yeah. Do you know what? Maybe let Darwin take over. That's one thinking.

SPEAKER_00 32:26

That's one thing.

SPEAKER_02 32:27

Evolution's a wonderful thing.

SPEAKER_00 32:29

So what you're saying is push kinda to the US. Lift the ban. No.

SPEAKER_02 32:34

No, no, not at all. Not at all. Oh, I love these chocolate dip pots. So you get like like little breadsticks with the chocolate chocolate dips.

SPEAKER_00 32:43

There is a Nutella version of this. Get in my belly.

SPEAKER_02 32:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:48

Yeah. Huge band.

SPEAKER_02 32:50

Oh, I know you don't look at TikTok, but um on probably on Instagram, there's a lady called Mamalu. Okay. She's hilarious. So she's got these two, she's got two daughters, right? And she's oh, but she's just really not like abusive is the wrong word, but she just but in such a funny way. Okay. And they film it and they do it on purpose, whatever. Right, right, right. And the one of her daughters is called Apple. And her other daughter is like filming Mama Lulu and Apple sitting together. And he goes, uh, and or she goes, she goes, Oh Mama, would you um would you hit Apple for a hundred for for a million dollars? She just looks and goes, I will do it for Nutella.

SPEAKER_00 33:28

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 33:30

But yeah, look Mama Lulu up, she's brilliant, it's absolutely hilarious. She's really inappropriate. So she'll pick up an aubergine and she'll look at Apple and go, I miss your father. Like Apple goes, yeah, not good. Wonka bars and nerds.

SPEAKER_00 33:47

Uh I mean nerds, yeah, they've they've been around. Um never had a Wonka bar. No.

SPEAKER_02 33:52

Oh no, you can get Wonka bars now. I've I've seen them.

Polish Treats: Warm Ice Cream And More

SPEAKER_00 33:55

What's a wonka bar? What's that made out of? Uh it just as an iconical iconic fictional chocolate bar. I've never I've never had a bar.

SPEAKER_02 34:04

I've seen Wonka bars. I haven't I've never bought one, but I have seen them in the shops now.

SPEAKER_00 34:08

Real Wonka bars, yeah. I don't yeah. I've never tried them.

SPEAKER_02 34:12

Yeah. So that's kind of the 90s over and done with.

SPEAKER_00 34:16

Let's talk about 2010s.

SPEAKER_02 34:18

So 2010s, so or nineties to noughties is kind of dumb. So that kind of nineties and noughties kind of stayed the same, say quite similar. Yeah. But then the 2010s to now is like you've already mentioned it, actually, the retro revival.

SPEAKER_00 34:31

Yeah, retro revival. So there's some of the 80s. Where the where the refreshers came back in drumsticks, etc. That's how I know a lot of those ones. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 34:38

Yeah. And I find now as well in different shops they have their own versions of things.

SPEAKER_00 34:43

Yeah, their own retro.

SPEAKER_02 34:44

Yeah, like MS. Like Percy Pig and MS. Yeah, and all these little spin-offs in these different shops.

SPEAKER_00 34:51

I'm gonna say something controversial. No one I'm not a fan of Percy Pigs.

SPEAKER_02 34:54

I've never had them.

SPEAKER_00 34:56

They're just chewy. You wouldn't like them. They're actually really similar to a fried egg, which goes against everything I said in the last episode. But I don't know. Percy pigs for me, they just taste too. I don't like the texture. And their flavour's not that nice either. Okay. I'm not I'm not a Percy Pig fan. And uh they are like vegan and cruelty-free. No pigs harmed in the making of.

SPEAKER_02 35:18

Yeah, that's where the kind of the the 2010s kind of started coming in. They started getting a lot more vegan sweets. Which is fine. Because of the sugar tax, a lot less sugar, things got smaller. Although I would say I would argue that the smaller portions isn't a health thing, it's more of a let's make more money.

SPEAKER_00 35:37

Yes, I think that is also accurate. One chocolate we didn't mention, sorry, which I thought would come up, but it didn't, is Tony's.

SPEAKER_02 35:45

Oh yeah, well, you can get Tony's still.

SPEAKER_00 35:47

Well, you can get Tony's in supermarkets now, but obviously it originates in Amsterdam, that's where Tony's top is. And I've been to the Tony's shop in Amsterdam. I like Tony's very heavy on the salt in their products.

SPEAKER_02 36:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 36:01

One thing I like. Yeah, the one thing I will say about Tony's is I like the chocolate. I think it tastes really good. The bars, you know, when you get Cabries bars and they're all uniform little squares, Tony's is like all jaggered, like like they're all like the segments are like little triangles, but you could have a big triangle or a small triangle. It's not split in a traditional way. So it's really hard to share a bar. So you could look at this one of two ways. One, you can have a whole bar to yourself because yum.

Era Summary And Desert Island Sweets

SPEAKER_03 36:29

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 36:30

Um but not great for sharing if you're someone that only eats a small amount of chocolate at a time. Um, so if you are a gannet, love you would love Tony's. If you are someone that likes a little bit little and often, Tony's is not for you.

SPEAKER_02 36:45

So where's Tony's in Amsterdam?

SPEAKER_00 36:47

Um it's on the corner of Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_02 36:53

What Dam Square?

SPEAKER_00 36:54

Yes. Is it? Yeah. Just off of the corner.

SPEAKER_02 36:57

Opposite Ripley's. So where you've got where you've got Dam Square. You've got Ripley's believe it or not.

SPEAKER_00 37:02

If you think of Dam Square like this, it's on the corner here on the left. As you go Ripley's trains is there. Yeah, train train stations over there.

SPEAKER_02 37:10

Yeah, Ripley's is there.

SPEAKER_00 37:11

Yeah. I don't know where Ripley's is, but yeah, I'm sure it is what you're saying is kind of on a corner.

SPEAKER_02 37:17

There's if you if you go up past there, there is an amazing bakery just on the right hand side. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 37:23

I think it's really close to the the museum. I think it is just called the sex museum.

SPEAKER_02 37:29

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Area to that, I think. Yeah, because the red light diswitches just further down.

SPEAKER_00 37:34

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 37:35

It's it's with all in within that vicinity of anyway.

SPEAKER_00 37:39

Sorry.

SPEAKER_02 37:40

Uh so Percy Pigs. Uh yeah, Percy Piggs, no, no, but yeah, things started getting smaller. But like but you've already mentioned it. As you said about the the retro suites, they just kind of kind of really came back with the refreshers and all of that.

SPEAKER_00 37:53

A resurgence of people kind of wanting that nostalgia here, which I can I can appreciate and understand.

SPEAKER_02 37:58

Yeah, I'll agree with this. What it says here, everything started going salted caramel. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 38:02

Yeah. One thing, again, we haven't really mentioned. I a huge lover of wagon wheels, like any any marshmallow and chocolate. Not a fan of the jam ones, but just the normal ones. But I remember distinctively Nana getting them for every single bonfire night when we were kids. And then I remember like the last couple of bonfire nights, she got wagon wheels in because she knows she knows we all like them. And we all remember mark remarking on how small they were.

SPEAKER_01 38:30

They were.

SPEAKER_00 38:31

And it's it's crazy to me because yeah, I I think they've got away with it a little bit because our hands were smaller then. So now things look kind of smaller in our bigger hands, but it it defin they definitely have changed. The girls got smaller. Definitely changed.

SPEAKER_02 38:44

Definitely got smaller.

SPEAKER_00 38:45

And I remember my even like Nan in Kent Nan, that Nan as well, she used to get wagon wheels in for me too. She always used to get uh full-fat coke for me and wagon wheels, and she always used to get as well cocoa pops, the cereal. Yeah, but it was the cocoa rocks.

SPEAKER_02 39:00

Oh, but the the thicker ones.

Final Picks, Fun Facts And Sign-Off

SPEAKER_00 39:02

They've got the boulders, they've got like Nest Quick boulders, but they've also got those awesome ones that were like cocoons with chocolate in the middle. They're so good, so good. Um, but yeah, wagon wheels, yeah, everything has got smaller, and I can blame my the size of my hands getting bigger, but let's face it, my hands are quite small anyway. So I just they they can't get away with this. No, we can't let them get away with this evening more. Shrink shrinkflation is probably one of the hardest hits because they've increased the price and given you less product. Yeah. Freddos, particularly. Um, wagon wheels.

SPEAKER_02 39:38

I miss oh I just keep thinking about secret bars now. I'll try and find the chocolate. Oh, I don't think you can get them anymore. I'll try and find them. Um so actually, but look before we do the before we do the final thoughts, I just want to Final thoughts. Bonus dad, bonus sort of final thoughts. Is just want to run through some of these Polish ones that Anya sent me.

SPEAKER_00 39:59

So Googling.

SPEAKER_02 40:01

Never never heard of this. Thankfully, thank you, Anya, for sending me pictures and have you got a pronunciation guide. Well, warm ice cream is not really hard, is it? They're not I'm not gonna speak Polish. Okay, okay, okay, carry on. Okay, so this is what warm ice cream is, and this is what it looks like. Oh, looks quite nice. Yeah, this is what it looks like. Um it says it's a war it's a Polish dessert made of egg white based mousse topped by a syrup.

SPEAKER_00 40:27

Like meringue.

SPEAKER_02 40:28

Yeah, like a chocolate or other topping and presented in a waffle cup resembling soft serve ice cream, and as such, giving name to the dessert. It's relatively cheap and high in calories. So it's like a whip.

SPEAKER_00 40:41

Yum.

SPEAKER_02 40:41

It's like an egg whip. Yeah. But that I was like, okay. Okay. Uh uh. Then she's got something called turbo, which is soft bubblegum. Okay, okay. Yeah, she sent me that. Go guma turbo. Let's actually say uh no, that's it really similar to Starburst. That's written in Polish. I'm not even going to attempt that. And she's then sent me Andratti, I believe. It I'm not quite sure what that is.

SPEAKER_00 41:11

That looks like a nipple cover. Why is that?

SPEAKER_02 41:16

I don't know. Just that genuinely looks like a nipple cover. Google it, it's it's Andrutti. A-N-D-R-L-I-T-Y. So Andre Litty, Andre Litty. I am sorry, Anya, if I didn't pronounce that correctly.

SPEAKER_00 41:29

I think you need to spell that for me again. A-N-D-R.

SPEAKER_02 41:32

Uh A-N-D A-N-D-R-L-I-T-Y. There's a picture of a pirate on there.

SPEAKER_00 41:40

It's actually not coming, it's not coming up.

SPEAKER_02 41:42

Is it a chocolate or a I I don't quite know what it is.

SPEAKER_00 41:45

I'll put sweet. It's not coming up with the same picture you've got.

SPEAKER_02 41:48

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 41:49

Maybe if I put in Polish. Oh I've put polish.

SPEAKER_02 41:52

Rob was put on the message back to Anya, he's put, what are they? They look like coasters.

SPEAKER_00 41:58

Like I said, nipple covers. It's just coming up with nail polish now.

SPEAKER_02 42:02

Oh, okay. But then she had these, and I swear I think we used to have these as well.

SPEAKER_00 42:07

Yeah, it's not coming up for me.

SPEAKER_02 42:09

Bubblegum cigarettes.

SPEAKER_00 42:11

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02 42:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 42:13

So they had a bubblegum version of the cigarettes.

SPEAKER_02 42:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 42:16

Interesting.

SPEAKER_02 42:17

Yeah. And again, there's a Polish version, but I'm not even going to pronounce that. So they were the ones, they were the ones that Anya sent me. Nice.

SPEAKER_00 42:23

So there we are. Nipple covers and cigarettes. What more could you want?

SPEAKER_02 42:27

And warm ice cream. Warm ice cream. Interesting. So when thinking about the different eras, yeah. So in the 80s, it was that kind of chalk. Chalk. Classic corner shop jars.

SPEAKER_00 42:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 42:40

Yep. The 90s was more sour and novelty.

SPEAKER_00 42:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 42:45

And chocolate started coming in and dominating.

SPEAKER_00 42:47

As it should.

SPEAKER_02 42:48

Yeah. 2000s, chocolate dominance.

SPEAKER_00 42:51

Haribow.

SPEAKER_02 42:52

And then in the 2000s of 10, 2000s of 10, 2000s, 2000. 2000 onwards. It was more let's try and be healthy.

SPEAKER_00 43:00

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 43:01

Let's go vegan. Let's go vegan. But let's have some retro stuff back as well at the same time. So it was like polarizing two worlds.

SPEAKER_00 43:08

Polarizing.

SPEAKER_02 43:09

So question for you, Hannah. Final, final question.

SPEAKER_00 43:13

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 43:13

If you could bring any sweet back now, what would it be?

SPEAKER_00 43:17

I did really enjoy Arrow back in the day. A lot of the stuff that I like is still about, really. So I guess yeah, original Aero, perhaps. Original Arrow?

SPEAKER_01 43:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 43:30

The full size wagon wheel. Um yeah, I'm gonna go with full size wagon wheel.

SPEAKER_01 43:36

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 43:36

Yeah. Give me that back to the size it was. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 43:40

Yeah. Full size wagon wheel. Yeah. Mine's secret bar. Now I've seen that secret bar. I want that back. I want that back.

SPEAKER_00 43:46

How much has the wagon wheels?

SPEAKER_02 43:50

It is. Final, final question. What is your favourite chocolate or sweet now? If you could have anything right now, what would it be?

SPEAKER_00 43:58

Right now, I actually do fancy. Cabries Caramel.

SPEAKER_02 44:01

Yeah?

SPEAKER_00 44:01

Yeah, I do. I could go for a cream egg though. Oh no, Kinder Egg. There's so many to choose. Kinder will be. I like Kinder Bueno as well. Kinder Bueno. Oh, I like a Kinder Bueno. How much is the white one?

SPEAKER_02 44:12

Mine would be dark chocolate Terry's chocolate orange.

SPEAKER_00 44:16

Yeah, Terry's chocolate orange. I like mint Terry's chocolate orange.

SPEAKER_02 44:21

Because you can get the ones with the spangles in them as well, can't you? Like the popping candy.

SPEAKER_00 44:25

The diameter reduction in wagon wheels is between five and ten millimetres. So that's half to a centimetre.

SPEAKER_02 44:34

Yeah. And so when you think of that as a diameter, that's quite a lot of chalk. It's quite a lot of chalk.

SPEAKER_00 44:39

Yeah. So it was 88 millimetres, 3.5 inches, but it's now 3 inches, which is 77 millimeters. That's how much they've reduced.

SPEAKER_02 44:47

There you are.

SPEAKER_00 44:48

So it's not our big hands.

SPEAKER_02 44:50

It's not our big hands.

SPEAKER_00 44:51

Full size wagon wheel, come back to me.

SPEAKER_02 44:53

Honestly, we're getting scammed, people.

SPEAKER_00 44:55

We're getting scammed.

SPEAKER_02 44:56

We're getting scammed.

SPEAKER_00 44:56

It's not like they didn't already know.

SPEAKER_02 44:58

We shall call it the Freddo Tax.

SPEAKER_00 44:59

The Freddo Tax.

SPEAKER_02 45:00

Yes. There we go.

SPEAKER_00 45:02

And the wagon wheel reduction. There we are. Well that concludes sweets uh part two. The bonus dad, bonus daughter. Hello. Um you can find us on all of our other channels. We do have an outro that says all of this, but sometimes I just quite like to say it again, just so that you go to these places. No, if we update anything about the podcast, if we're late uh uploading an episode or anything like that, it's always on our Instagram and Facebook page, so just check those out. Hit us up. We like your comments, we like you coming in. And this episode was brought by one of our listeners, uh, suggested by one of our listeners. So if you've got ideas yourself, we're running low, so um let us know. And we'll leave it there. Cue the outro. Thanks for joining us on bonus dad, bonus daughter. Don't forget to follow us on all our socials and share the podcast with someone who'd love it. We are available on all streaming platforms. See you next time. Bye-bye.