Anyone remember this bar?

RacoonQueen

For a friend :pac:

It looked really cheap and nasty, I think it was or was close to the macaroons, the wrapper was really papery. I think the packaging was mostly white coloured, but with green stripes or checks or something.

We've discovered that it's not the mint crisp as a shop where I work sells mint crisps and macaroons, unless they've changed the mint crisp wrapper.

peanuthead

there was a kalippo or kalipso or something like that but it was nothing near or like a macaroon. It was really hard and toffee like

nkay1985

peanuthead wrote: »

there was a kalippo or kalipso or something like that but it was nothing near or like a macaroon. It was really hard and toffee like

Yep you're dead right. Kalipso I think it was called. They were one of my favourite bars when I was younger. Used to break the teeth off you!

And I can see what the post means by being like a Macaroon. In terms of packaging, they looked quite similar.

Irishshin

Love Kalipso's

Found them in my local Spar a couple of weeks ago.
Bought way too many of them!

nkay1985

Irishshin wrote: »

Love Kalipso's

Found them in my local Spar a couple of weeks ago.
Bought way too many of them!

No way!!! They still exist? :eek:

And there's no such thing as too many.

Kevster

They're made by some place in Walkinstown or Tallaght I think; and you can buy all of those 'retro' choccie bars in that 'EuroWorld' shope (or whatever it's called) just inside the entrance to The Square on the left. Which entrance you ask? - ummm, it's the - ummmm - the one that you'd walk into if you're coming from the hospital (nearest the LUAS stop)

ha-ya-said-what

Damn!!! :eek:

Them jaw breaker bars still around...... ohhhhh now I want one!!!!

Kevster

On that note, what's the hardest bar/sweet you've ever eaten? Those honeycomb bars are the hardest that I can think of right now.

star-pants

Like the 'Big Time' bars? (in response to question above)

irish_goat

Saw those Kalipso bars in a shop in Sligo the other day too. Never knew they were still going.

heavyballs

remember the choc toffee mouse,really hard
as bars go i have two favs,telex and number 1 UNITED bars,massive

Quazzie

star-pants wrote: »

Like the 'Big Time' bars? (in response to question above)

'Big Time' Bars were very similar but the toffee used was slightly different as it was a more buttery toffee compared to the Calipso.

Big Times FTW!

star-pants

Quazzie wrote: »

'Big Time' Bars were very similar but the toffee used was slightly different as it was a more buttery toffee compared to the Calipso.

Big Times FTW!

Sorry I meant for the 'hardest bar' question

Kevster

I dont remember what these Time bars looked like, but the name is very familiar. THere's nothing on faithful Google either (...now unfaithful)

emeraldstar

Yeah Kalipsos were good!

Anyone remember Touchdowns? 10p back in the day.

Quazzie

Kevster wrote: »

I dont remember what these Time bars looked like, but the name is very familiar. THere's nothing on faithful Google either (...now unfaithful)

Never doubt Google

peanuthead

Quazzie wrote: »

Never doubt Google

lol


Anyone remember GIGGLE bars?

Would love one of them

Plowman

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emeraldstar

Plowman wrote: »

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Yeah, exactly! It's because they're so crap that they're so nice. Bought a Macaroon for the first time in YEARS a few weeks ago. It was amazingly good

Plowman wrote: »

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Woppa bars, they were yummy. Spearmint or Cola flavour. My sister and I used always get the spearmint one and my brother the cola, so I developed this thing in my head that mint was for girls and cola was for boys

Kevster

emeraldstar wrote: »

Woppa bars, they were yummy. Spearmint or Cola flavour. My sister and I used always get the spearmint one and my brother the cola, so I developed this thing in my head that mint was for girls and cola was for boys

Woppa bars? - Were they the ones you use to have to bend and twist with your teeth in order to break apart? You'd spend nearly a feckin hour eating one (not literally).

Plowman

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EI111

emeraldstar wrote: »

Woppa bars, they were yummy. Spearmint or Cola flavour. My sister and I used always get the spearmint one and my brother the cola, so I developed this thing in my head that mint was for girls and cola was for boys

Same!

emeraldstar

Kevster wrote: »

Woppa bars? - Were they the ones you use to have to bend and twist with your teeth in order to break apart? You'd spend nearly a feckin hour eating one (not literally).

Yeah, they were quite wide and flat and chewy.

EI111 wrote: »

Same!

Lol!

idunno78

http://www.urneychocolates.com/wilton.htm

these?? there from robt-roberts.

mumto3

mint crisp wrappers have changed...now white used to be green and made of paper.....

TeletextPear

I took a tooth out on a big time bar when i was a kid, those things were lethal!

Remember secret bars? They had this cardboard insert in the packet, a kind of chocolate shell around em and a hazelnut or something in the middle. Loved them...

truecrippler

TeletextPear wrote: »

I took a tooth out on a big time bar when i was a kid, those things were lethal!

Remember secret bars? They had this cardboard insert in the packet, a kind of chocolate shell around em and a hazelnut or something in the middle. Loved them...

Wow I think I know what you're talking about. I remember the last one I ever had, it fell on the ground . Loved them... I think.

star-pants

TeletextPear wrote: »

Remember secret bars? They had this cardboard insert in the packet, a kind of chocolate shell around em and a hazelnut or something in the middle. Loved them...

Not a million miles away from a Mars delight

Mellor

TeletextPear wrote: »

I took a tooth out on a big time bar when i was a kid, those things were lethal!

Remember secret bars? They had this cardboard insert in the packet, a kind of chocolate shell around em and a hazelnut or something in the middle. Loved them...

These were the best bars ever, I really wish they'd be back

pyramuid man

Touchdowns and Stingers and Roy of the rovers bars. Cant beat em.
Also the Postman Pat sweets.

Firetrap

nkay1985 wrote: »

Yep you're dead right. Kalipso I think it was called. They were one of my favourite bars when I was younger. Used to break the teeth off you!

And I can see what the post means by being like a Macaroon. In terms of packaging, they looked quite similar.

Actually, I did break a front tooth on a Kalipso bar when I was a kid

emzolita

my local newsagent. "the corner shop" in Kilmore West sells Mint crisps, theyre not in paper anymore, thin plastic wrappers.
they also sell most these bars yiz are talkin about, like whoppa, Stinger, Refreshers etc.

anyone remember Giant Chew?? they were like big refresher bars (they were huge in my mind when i was a kid) and they were 15p so were real dear for a cheapo bar, but they were amazin!

me_right_one

Remember those WWF sweets, you'd always get a sticker of some wrestler in them. I had a massive collection of about 6 stickers when I was a kid:p

Millie

I'm going way back to the vaults of my memory and there was a chocolate bar called something like 20/20, or I'm sure it had 20 in it somewhere.
It had small square's, with a leprechaun or something on each square and there was a soft white centre, I think the chocolate was sort of dark.
Came in a red pack if I remember rightly.

Firetrap

Wonder was that the Two and Two bar from Urney's? I've not had once since I was knee high to a grasshopper but I vaguely remember a red wrapper, squares with a pattern on them, dark chocolate and white fondant.