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Cadbury's Touchdown Bars

  • 10-07-2017 10:11PM
    #1
    JaMarcusHustle
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    Anyone remember these? Nicest bars around at the time.

    Cadburys-Touch-Down.jpg

    But settle a bet for me - the above wrapper is Red with Blue writing. I recall there also being a Blue wrapper with Red writing, but no one else I've asked seems to recall this. I don't recall them being any different taste wise (ie. not a case of yellow vs blue Freddos), but does anyone else remember there being 2 varieties of wrapper?


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  • #2
    D9Male
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    I remember. You are correct.


  • #3
    JaMarcusHustle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,719 ✭✭✭JaMarcusHustle


    D9Male wrote: »
    I remember. You are correct.

    That's all I needed. Thank you :)


  • #4
    deisemum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,728 ✭✭✭deisemum


    Yeah your memory is spot on. I remember them.


  • #5
    Ipso
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    Are you sure the wrapper wasn't navy?
    Can you still get Moro bars?


  • #6
    368100
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    Ipso wrote: »
    Are you sure the wrapper wasn't navy?
    Can you still get Moro bars?

    It was Deffo blue, can see the colour in my head!

    Didn't moro become boost?


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  • #7
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,546 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Yep, Moro is boost now.

    Were 54321 bars similar to touch downs?


  • #8
    Degag
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    Think they were more of a purple colour myself but in any case, yes, you are correct.


  • #9
    vicwatson
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    368100 wrote: »
    It was Deffo blue, can see the colour in my head!

    Didn't moro become boost?
    colm_mcm wrote: »
    Yep, Moro is boost now.

    Were 54321 bars similar to touch downs?

    No, afaik nunch became star bar became moro, Boost was always a different bar as it was a coconutty flavour v peanutty flavour in the star bar/moro


  • #10
    Midnight Sundance
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 798 ✭✭✭Midnight Sundance


    vicwatson wrote: »
    No, afaik nunch became star bar became moro, Boost was always a different bar as it was a coconutty flavour v peanutty flavour in the star bar/moro

    Boost and Moro are the same. Have biscuit and caramel.
    Star bar is not the same as a boost/Moro -it has peanut and caramel inside. Don't know any coconut flavour bar apart from bounty?


  • #11
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    vicwatson wrote: »
    No, afaik nunch became star bar became moro, Boost was always a different bar as it was a coconutty flavour v peanutty flavour in the star bar/moro

    Star Bar and Moro existed at the same time, Star bar was more peanutty and Moro more caramelly.

    Looks Star bar got re-branded.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moro_(chocolate_bar)


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  • #12
    _Kaiser_
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    368100 wrote: »
    Didn't moro become boost?

    Yep, and like most bars now they have become f*cking tiny when compared to their 80s/90s counterparts.. cause it's "unhealthy" and all that.

    Price hasn't similarly reduced though.. quite the opposite


  • #13
    sassyj
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    Were touch downs the precursor to the time out?


  • #14
    368100
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,067 ✭✭✭368100


    _Kaiser_ wrote: »
    Yep, and like most bars now they have become f*cking tiny when compared to their 80s/90s counterparts.. cause it's "unhealthy" and all that.

    Price hasn't similarly reduced though.. quite the opposite

    I remember when they were both on sale.....moro was much nicer


  • #15
    sassyj
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    Midnight Sundance wrote: »
    Boost and Moro are the same. Have biscuit and caramel.
    Star bar is not the same as a boost/Moro -it has peanut and caramel inside. Don't know any coconut flavour bar apart from bounty?

    Boost used to be coconut, was different to Moro


  • #16
    QuiteInterestin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 623 ✭✭✭QuiteInterestin


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    Yep, Moro is boost now.

    Were 54321 bars similar to touch downs?

    Pretty certain 54321 bars had caramel and wafer in them, covered in chocolate while the Touchdown bars (both blue and red - no different in the content, just the wrapper as far as I remember) was just a chocolate wafer coated in chocolate.


  • #17
    Danco
    Closed Accounts Posts: 153 ✭✭Danco


    Degag wrote: »
    Think they were more of a purple colour myself but in any case, yes, you are correct.

    They were definitely purple!

    Sure the wrapper pictured is red and purple, not blue. The other wrapper just had the colours reversed.


  • #18
    Autosport
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,280 ✭✭✭✭Autosport


    JaMarcusHustle wrote: »
    Anyone remember these? Nicest bars around at the time.

    But settle a bet for me - the above wrapper is Red with Blue writing. I recall there also being a Blue wrapper with Red writing, but no one else I've asked seems to recall this. I don't recall them being any different taste wise (ie. not a case of yellow vs blue Freddos), but does anyone else remember there being 2 varieties of wrapper?

    You could get them in a green wrapper too ;)


  • #19
    Danco
    Closed Accounts Posts: 153 ✭✭Danco


    Autosport wrote: »
    You could get them in a green wrapper too ;)

    Mind blown if true.


  • #20
    messy tessy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 889 ✭✭✭messy tessy


    _Kaiser_ wrote: »
    Yep, and like most bars now they have become f*cking tiny when compared to their 80s/90s counterparts.. cause it's "unhealthy" and all that.

    Price hasn't similarly reduced though.. quite the opposite

    Had a Moro/ Boost bar for the first time in ages recently. Think they have quadrupled the sugar content in them. Wasn't as nice a bar as I remembered :(


  • #21
    [Deleted User]
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    My kingdom for a Boost Guarana


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  • #22
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Horrible yokes, I remember losing a tenner punts over the head of them bastards once


  • #23
    Autosport
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    Danco wrote: »
    Mind blown if true.

    It was mainly Blue and red bug in some (old) shops they had green ;)


  • #24
    twill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 587 ✭✭✭twill


    Ah, the old dilemma of whether you would spend your 10p on one of these or a 10p mix, which might last a little longer. I wish they were still around.


  • #25
    Nabber
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    If I had 10p it was sure to go on ten golf balls. I chewed those ****ers until I could taste the cheap rubber they were made from.


  • #26
    idunno78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 856 ✭✭✭idunno78


    I wish they would bring back all the old type sweets or stop changing them! Got a wham bar recently and they have completely changed! Disgusted!!!


  • #27
    Ann_Landers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 292 ✭✭Ann_Landers


    _Kaiser_ wrote: »
    Yep, and like most bars now they have become f*cking tiny when compared to their 80s/90s counterparts.. cause it's "unhealthy" and all that.

    Price hasn't similarly reduced though.. quite the opposite

    The companies argue that to keep them the same size they would have had to up the price due to production costs rising. Who knows? But personally I have no problem with the bars getting smaller, there's still plenty in them and I can't work up any annoyance in the price staying the same. Nobody has to buy them!


  • #28
    gramar
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    I want a Telex.


  • #29
    [Deleted User]
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    Nabber wrote: »
    If I had 10p it was sure to go on ten golf balls. I chewed those ****ers until I could taste the cheap rubber they were made from.

    Cigarrete sweets were what all the cool kids smoked at 4 and 5 years of age.


  • #30
    Badly Drunk Boy
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    Anytime a friend of mine in work buys a Snickers in the canteen, he covers the first 'S' in Snickers and asks the gorgeous, giggly Polish girl at the till if she likes these. Every time, she giggles and blushes.


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  • #31
    dodzy
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    Go buy a macaroon bar. The feckers left the wrapper full size but cut the bar in half.


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