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Anyone remember this chocolate wafer bar?

  • 19-04-2013 6:45pm
    #1
    barneysplash
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    Hi all

    I've taken to going to a local European grocery store.
    They have lots of cheap goodies, sweets and bars.
    I came across this wafer bar called "Tatranky".


    tatranky.jpg

    It reminded me of a similar bar on sale in Ireland years ago.

    It was like a chocolate wafer bar in possibly a blue and silver wrapper?

    Anyone remember this bar?


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  • #2
    strangel00p
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 284 ✭✭strangel00p


    reminds me of a panky bar(blue wrapper) or a brinky bar....cheap chocolate wafer from the 80s...


  • #3
    barneysplash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,205 ✭✭✭barneysplash


    strangel00p wrote: »
    reminds me of a panky bar(blue wrapper) or a brinky bar....cheap chocolate wafer from the 80s...


    Thanks for the name, I'm pretty sure that's what they were called. Here is an updated package,
    but due to my old age, I would need a picture of the original wrapper to confirm.

    0069499008572_A?$img_size_380x380$


    I see a similarity in the names Panky / Brinky / Tatranky.

    Someone else was talking about these on boards.ie back in 2003:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=121112

    At the bottom of the post someone mentions the excellent Telex bars, I remember those as well.
    They were like the yellow club milk chocolate bars.


  • #4
    strangel00p
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 284 ✭✭strangel00p


    the 80s panky bars had a blue wrapper and silver paper. quite fond of them at the time:)


  • #5
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    Good old Pankys. The staple lunchbox treat for the 80s kid.
    Fuppin crumbs all over your school geansi eating it though!


  • #6
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,386 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    strangel00p wrote: »
    the 80s panky bars had a blue wrapper and silver paper.
    Yeah a darker blue than the photo above, more navy. & drier than the sahara desert.

    United bars were the other popular lunchbox ones. I think they had 3 squares and changed to 2.


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  • #7
    Lovely Bloke
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    There was also a red wrapper Panky with peanut butter between the wafers.


  • #8
    BlaasForRafa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭BlaasForRafa


    rubadub wrote: »
    Yeah a darker blue than the photo above, more navy. & drier than the sahara desert.

    United bars were the other popular lunchbox ones. I think they had 3 squares and changed to 2.

    Yeah, United Bars and 5,4,3,2,1

    Now after reading this thread I've got a hankering for a panky bar, didn't they have a chocolate flavour fondant between the wafers or am I remembering them wrong?


  • #9
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,386 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    I loved the ad for those, reworded manfred mann song
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjJ1_Rabs2w


  • #10
    barneysplash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,205 ✭✭✭barneysplash


    It appears that the Panky bars were from Czechoslovakia.

    After the fall of communism and the division of the country on
    January 1sst 1993, it seems that the parent company
    (I have not found the name) was divided in into
    Opavia, in the Czech Republic and IDC Holdings in Slovakia.

    Opavia was later bought by American multinational, Kraft Foods.

    Both companies appear to still be in business and have had disputes
    over the rights to the name "Horalky" a wafer-based bar similar to Panky bars.

    There are some nice old pictures on the IDC website. Here's one:

    4odsek1---590859095e565b1601.jpg

    Here's one from a more recent time:

    img-6322---590859095e565b1601.jpg


    I find it strange that consumer goods from Eastern Bloc were available in Ireland.
    Maybe further investigation would reveal other things we enjoyed long ago
    were from behind the Iron Curtain.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.D.C._Holding
    http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opavia (in Czech)


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