End of a childhood institution?

ballsymchugh

for those of us in our 30s, today could be a very significant day.
while REM have announced their break up, the company that makes wham bars has gone into administration.

those wham bars extracted most of my baby teeth themselves.

link

Highland Toffee and Wham Bar maker goes into administration
Marketing / UK
New McCowans, the makers of Highland Toffee, has gone into administration.

The company, which employs over 100 people, appointed administrator Grant Thornton last Friday.

As well as Highland Toffee, the company also produced Wham bars, Pan Drops and Bonbons.

The company was founded in the late 19th century and was sold to Nestle in the 1960’s. It underwent two other acquisitions, most recently through two management buy outs in the last decade.

karma_

First piece of good news all day. (REM breaking up that is)

I will mourn for the Wham bars!

Handy11

LOVED Wham bars. And Dan bars and Stingers. I was led to believe that Stingers gave you cancer. That made them more tasty

Temptamperu

Tis a sad day indeed

**** off! No more Wham bars? Shhiiiiitt.

Kevin Duffy

I'm sure there's a name for this phenomenon, but I haven't wanted a Wham bar in years and right now I want nothing more

RonMexico

My delight at the end of those ***** REM has been somewhat ruined by this Wham Bar news.

pablomakaveli

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tim5nU3DwIE

Richard tea

I only bought 2 wham bars yesterday for the first time in about 15 years:(

nkay1985

I had a Wham bar yesterday evening. Had I know it may be my last I would have savoured it!

Time to stock up I suppose.

Richard tea

Richard tea wrote: »

I only bought 2 wham bars yesterday for the first time in about 15 years:(

It's people like you that have caused this...

Cool_CM

nkay1985 wrote: »

I had a Wham bar yesterday evening. Had I know it may be my last I would have savoured it!

Time to stock up I suppose.

Go! Go! Go!

I'll miss you Highland Toffee. You were so much better than Wham Bars, but not nearly as good as Roy of the Rovers.

darragh666

Its the end of the world as we know it.

Ruu_Old

Handy11 wrote: »

LOVED Wham bars. And Dan bars and Stingers. I was led to believe that Stingers gave you cancer. That made them more tasty

The black sugar pieces in Dan bars were also a cause of cancer.

pablomakaveli

Ruu wrote: »

The black sugar pieces in Dan bars were also a cause of cancer.

Totally worth it though.:)

humbert

Does going into administration necessarily mean stopping production though?

buswankers

Ruu wrote: »

The black sugar pieces in Dan bars were also a cause of cancer.

I also had this nugget of info drummed into me as a child! they were yum regardless

Lidl have big bags of mini wham bars on sale at the minute....for those of you that want to stock up while you can & wish to possibly extract some of your big teeth!!

WindSock

Ah balls. Shame to see Wham split up. Not a fan of those REM bars though.

Yitzhak Rabin

darragh666 wrote: »

Its the end of the world as we know it.

I feel fine...

orourkeda

shiny happy wham bars

Bullchomper

Noooooooo!

I remember munching those and such was the might of the sugar rush that I fell off a wall in to a pile of nettles.......... but I came up smiling.

Handy11

Ruu wrote: »

The black sugar pieces in Dan bars were also a cause of cancer.

I know!!! That made them all the more tasty!!

Temptamperu

I just bought a fivers worth of wham bars a few fillings? sure its worth it

Phenomenally Phrank

WeShouldRememberThemForThe GoodTimes and not the Bad. After all, it's not the end of the world.

ballsymchugh

humbert wrote: »

Does going into administration necessarily mean stopping production though?

not necessarily, but more than likely. even if they are bought, there'll be changes made, like when walkers bought monster munch, and made them smaller and started dicking about with the flavour. tayto eventually copped on and brought out mighty munch after a while.

kfallon

Wham Bars
Desperate Dan Bars
Roy Of The Rovers Bars
Stinger Bars

All fooking lovely. I actually bought two Stinger bars last weekend, oh the minutes of chewing on them I had were a throw back!

I'll miss the Wham Bars and I'll kinda miss R.E.M. too

kfallon

Temptamperu wrote: »

I just bought a fivers worth of wham bars a few fillings? sure its worth it

Where did you get them???

Gordon Gecko

Must say to lose Wham bars would be sad, but to lose Roy of the Rovers would be a tragedy

Cee-Jay-Cee

Did Wham split up???

Irish Guitarist

I'm trying to remember what a Wham Bar was and I can't envisage it. I remember Desperate Dan Bars though. I'm almost certain there was a Dennis The Menace Bar too. I could be imagining things but I remember getting a free one with a copy of The Beano comic.

Handy11

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

I'm trying to remember what a Wham Bar was and I can't envisage it. I remember Desperate Dan Bars though. I'm almost certain there was a Dennis The Menace Bar too. I could be imagining things but I remember getting a free one with a copy of The Beano comic.

Pink chewy bar with multi-coloured "space rocks" in it (similar to Dan Bar's boulders).

om nyom nyom

Dennis the Menace bar was 2-tone (one flavour per side) - raspberry & blackcurrant

GrizzlyMan

Wham and Roy Rover bars gotta love 'em!

Wattle

Wham Bars? Meh. If they stopped making Moro's now I'd be seriously upset. King of bars.

CrazyRabbit

darragh666 wrote: »

Its the end of the world as we know it.

And I feel fine.

Cunning Stunt

8 mnths pregnant and was just remarking to someone today, how I havn't had any food cravings whatsoever...

...WHO MENTIONED THE FCUKING WHAM BARS??!!:mad:

Think I'm gonna kill someone if I don't get one!! And they don't even sell them over here

Gordon Gecko

Wattle wrote: »

Wham Bars? Meh. If they stopped making Moro's now I'd be seriously upset. King of bars.

Whole different category of bars there mate: if it's chocolate and costs(ed) more than 10p it's a completely different kettle of fish

WindSock

Gargoyle bars. Now they were a sugary retro masterpiece.

gbee

I shouldn't post, I knew neither band nor bar and I had children who possibly should, but don't.

But it's always sad, you'll find as you grow older, nothing ever actually replaces the bands or bars you've loved.

I have more or less given up chocolate because one of my favourites as a schoolboy disappeared ~ I've been on a holy grail of chocolate hunting since, but I've never found a GOOD substitute ~ some come close, but ..

x_Ellie_x

When I was a child, my dad used to make a water slide for me and my friends in my back garden on hot sunny days. He used to tie the hose to the top of our slide and put a paddling pool at the bottom. If we got a couple of weeks of sunshine, the water slide would still be running all day every day till we got tired of it or it rained. kids nowdays are never going be able to do stuff like that because of the water charges.

ballsymchugh

x_Ellie_x wrote: »

When I was a child, my dad used to make a water slide for me and my friends in my back garden on hot sunny days. He used to tie the hose to the top of our slide and put a paddling pool at the bottom. If we got a couple of weeks of sunshine, the water slide would still be running all day every day till we got tired of it or it rained. kids nowdays are never going be able to do stuff like that because of the water charges.

did you have wham bars after or what??

pablomakaveli

Actually come to think of it they're making boxes of Nerds again. Another childhood favourite.