Two & Two bars

AwaitYourReply · 12-01-2018 6:38pm

Just did a quick input for website: http://urneychocolates.com/
The below placeholder is now coming up instead at cleeves.net although I did not find any date reference anywhere so; it's hard to tell when this was first published online or for how long the site the website is "under construction".

Welcome to Hazelbrook Confectionery, the home of Cleeves, Urney Chocolates, Iced Caramels, Merrytime and a wide range of chocolate and sugar confectionery from Ireland.

We have recently restructured our business and over the next month we will be restructuring our website to reflect some exciting new developments planned for our business. We have decided to feature Cleeves as our main brand for the future and our main website will be www.cleeves.net We will continue to use our Urney brand on certain products and enquiries to www.urneychocolates.com will be redirected to www.cleeves.net So we ask for your patience while this work is completed.

In the meantime should you wish to contact us, here are our contact details
Hazelbrook Confectionery Ltd t/a Cleeves, Cutlery Road, Newbridge, Co Kildare, W12 AD85, Ireland. Tel 00353 45 434650
Factory- Manufacturing : Garry Lawlor garry@hbcl.ie
Admin / Finance : David Stone Registered Office 55 Dame St, Dublin 1 dstone@hbcl.ie
Sales & New Products / Customers : Leo Cummins leo@hbcl.ie

As a business Hazelbrook can offer customers an extensive range of sugar confectionery and chocolate confectionery products, some of them totally unique.

Iced Caramels,
Chocolate Caramels,
Slab Toffee Bars,
Toffees Assortment,
Chocolate Bars,
Chocolates,

Chocolate Novelties including advents, easter eggs, shaped chocolates and lollipops, Fudge and Assortment Packs.

With a growing export sales business we welcome enquiries from businesses who can offer comprehensive distribution in their markets. Hazelbrook also has a strong capability in customising packs for businesses at relatively low volumes.

Thank you for taking the time and interest to visit our website and we look forward to welcoming you back in the coming weeks when our new website is launched.

Copyright © Cleeves

AwaitYourReply · 12-01-2018 6:43pm

I recall eating the Two & Two bars in my early childhood as a special treat. I think it was a large dark chocolate bar with a vanilla soft filling inside. If memory serves me correct, it may have been distributed by HB (not sure if it was same HB Ice Cream) as that's the company address I remember reading on the back.

HeidiHeidi · 12-01-2018 6:52pm

AwaitYourReply wrote: »

I recall eating the Two & Two bars in my early childhood as a special treat. I think it was a large dark chocolate bar with a vanilla soft filling inside. If memory serves me correct, it may have been distributed by HB (not sure if it was same HB Ice Cream) as that's the company address I remember reading on the back.

Much more exotic than that!

It was a dark and milk chocolate (one Two) and vanilla and coffee fillings (the other Two) bar, but was 3 x 3 squares!

This was hands down my favourite bar of all, ever as a kid.

I got all excited reading through this thread (which I saw for the first time just now), but it seems to be just one false alarm after another :mad:

AwaitYourReply · 12-01-2018 6:53pm

Below is image I would be familiar with EXCEPT; I never recall the name "Urney" written anywhere on the wrappers that I had bought and consumed and I would have eaten them from mid-late 1970's until they disappeared a number of years later. I was always fascinated in this bar as it was not Cadbury's or the usual confectionery firms to my mind at the time as a young child. HB sticks out in my mind which I could never understand as I thought HB could only make ice cream and not chocolate when I was a young child. Of course in late years you saw the introduction of MARS ice cream products etc;

http://www.chocolatewrappers.info/Sevropa/Irsko/ieurtwo.jpg

AwaitYourReply · 12-01-2018 6:59pm

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Much more exotic than that!

It was a dark and milk chocolate (one Two) and vanilla and coffee fillings (the other Two) bar, but was 3 x 3 squares!

This was hands down my favourite bar of all, ever as a kid.

I got all excited reading through this thread (which I saw for the first time just now), but it seems to be just one false alarm after another :mad:

haha Well it was very unusual for me to choose "dark" also called "plain chocolate" but this was the exception. I was not into coffee flavour so never tasted that version. It was unique versus Cadbury, Rowntree Macintosh, Nestlé, MARS/Masterfoods confectionery of the day. It's so long since I saw it and tasted it so my memory is not accurate of both dark & milk and exact number of squares as I was quite young at the time. Happy days and more innocent times! I guess if there was the milk chocolate in there as well this might explain why I was willing to buy it as all plain would have been a step too far for my palate given that I always tended to prefer milk chocolate especially as a child/teen.

HeidiHeidi · 12-01-2018 7:06pm

AwaitYourReply wrote: »

haha Well it was very unusual for me to choose "dark" also called "plain chocolate" but this was the exception. I was not into coffee flavour so never tasted that version. It was unique versus Cadbury, Rowntree Macintosh, Nestlé, MARS/Masterfoods confectionery of the day. It's so long since I saw it and tasted it so my memory is not accurate of both dark & milk and exact number of squares as I was quite young at the time. Happy days and more innocent times! I guess if there was the milk chocolate in there as well this might explain why I was willing to buy it as all plain would have been a step too far for my palate given that I always tended to prefer milk chocolate especially as a child/teen.

I was the unusual one in that I've always preferred dark choc! Milk chocolate has a lot more sugar in it, which always appeals to the younger palate (and accounts for the popularity of white chocolate which is basically pure sugar - yuck!)

This one was dark chocolate covering on top, and the base chocolate was the milk. I got the coffee bit wrong - I see from that wrapper you posted that it was fudge - and I remember it being grainy rather than the smooth creme that was often in those types of chocolate.

I LOVED it!

AwaitYourReply · 12-01-2018 7:27pm

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

I was the unusual one in that I've always preferred dark choc! Milk chocolate has a lot more sugar in it, which always appeals to the younger palate (and accounts for the popularity of white chocolate which is basically pure sugar - yuck!)

This one was dark chocolate covering on top, and the base chocolate was the milk. I got the coffee bit wrong - I see from that wrapper you posted that it was fudge - and I remember it being grainy rather than the smooth creme that was often in those types of chocolate.

I LOVED it!

I just used the wrapper for "illustration purposes only"

- you know that line of print that appeared at the bottom edge of biscuit confectionery tins that permitted them to exclude certain varieties from time to time when they ran out of certain ingredients. You always felt cheated by that as it was permanently printed on the tins! I only seemed to opt for the vanilla filling. Indeed you are right about how sweet some forms of chocolate is. I always found that the white chocolate too sweet altogether. In fact, my first encounter with Nestlé would have been the "Nestlé Milky Bar" which was before Rowntree Macintosh had been bought out. The chocolate range and selection is nothing like it used to be. All the boxes of chocolates are pathetic these days as fewer varieties and even if different sweet, the ingredients are similar. I used love the bags of "Choffees" which were the chocolate covered square toffees. You buy a Cadbury's "Crunchie" or "Snack" sandwich purple biscuit and there is barely a coating of chocolate which devalues these products too much.

You'd really miss "Double Centres" which were a nice collection. Today's boxes of Cadbury's Roses & Milk Tray are crap and Nestlé Black Magic, Quality Street not great any more. MARS "Celebrations" is not too bad but could be better. I used like Lemon's Seasons Greeting box at Christmas time and I saw it on display in December but they were charging 10.00EUR whereas the larger tubs of Roses were half that price. I would imagine all confectioners have dramatically had to cut their costs if cocoa is more scarce and expensive.

bodhrandude · 12-01-2018 9:05pm

Two & Two had a similar relation called the Cocktail Bar, dark chocolate I think with a lime centre.

Zebbedee · 13-01-2018 11:08am

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Much more exotic than that!

It was a dark and milk chocolate (one Two) and vanilla and coffee fillings (the other Two) bar, but was 3 x 3 squares!

This was hands down my favourite bar of all, ever as a kid.

I got all excited reading through this thread (which I saw for the first time just now), but it seems to be just one false alarm after another :mad:

You're correct about the 9 squares.
It was the only bar that defied the usual even numbered amount of squares.
These squares were joined by a slightly larger than normal section of the two chocolate types without the filling making it particularly easy to break off the squares.
This larger 'in between the squares' section was also a treat which I relished and could be nibbled off first before eating the main square.
I think it cost about 20p.
I'd happily pay up to 2 euro for a bar now

bodhrandude · 26-09-2018 1:33am

When is this fecking bar gonna be ever launched, rumours since 2013.

Ann22 · 26-09-2018 7:25am

AwaitYourReply wrote:

Below is image I would be familiar with EXCEPT; I never recall the name "Urney" written anywhere on the wrappers that I had bought and consumed and I would have eaten them from mid-late 1970's until they disappeared a number of years later. I was always fascinated in this bar as it was not Cadbury's or the usual confectionery firms to my mind at the time as a young child. HB sticks out in my mind which I could never understand as I thought HB could only make ice cream and not chocolate when I was a young child. Of course in late years you saw the introduction of MARS ice cream products etc;

I'm sure "Cleeves" was the brand on the bar I remember from early to mid eighties. They then launched 3 other bars- strawberry, mint and orange versions with similar packaging.

blade1 · 26-09-2018 11:12am

bodhrandude wrote: »

When is this fecking bar gonna be ever launched, rumours since 2013.

We put Two & Two together and got five....................years of bullshìt!!

Lord Glentoran · 25-11-2018 12:23am

AwaitYourReply wrote: »

Below is image I would be familiar with EXCEPT; I never recall the name "Urney" written anywhere on the wrappers that I had bought and consumed and I would have eaten them from mid-late 1970's until they disappeared a number of years later. I was always fascinated in this bar as it was not Cadbury's or the usual confectionery firms to my mind at the time as a young child. HB sticks out in my mind which I could never understand as I thought HB could only make ice cream and not chocolate when I was a young child. Of course in late years you saw the introduction of MARS ice cream products etc;

http://www.chocolatewrappers.info/Sevropa/Irsko/ieurtwo.jpg

HB took over the Urney brands around 1974/5. Two and Two bars were definitely branded with HB in the mid to late seventies. I do recall the HB Milk Chocolate bars, and have fond memories of Rovals. Their knock-off of Smarties wasn’t so nice though. Catch bars, introduced around that time were also branded with HB as well.

eamonnq · 25-11-2018 12:38am

Lord Glentoran wrote: »

HB took over the Urney brands around 1974/5. Two and Two bars were definitely branded with HB in the mid to late seventies. I do recall the HB Milk Chocolate bars, and have fond memories of Rovals. Their knock-off of Smarties wasn’t so nice though. Catch bars, introduced around that time were also branded with HB as well.

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