Cadbury's Touchdown Bars

gizmo81 · 11-07-2017 08:07AM

colm_mcm wrote: »

Yep, Moro is boost now.

Were 54321 bars similar to touch downs?

54321 Bars were the best bars ever.

Mr. CooL ICE · 11-07-2017 08:20AM

I have fond memories of thinking I was being healthy when I bought peanut and raisin Yorkie bars

elefant · 11-07-2017 08:24AM

Ipso wrote: »

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)

The almighty Star Bar was sold as Moro Peanut for a time, I believe. It is now Star Bar again, amen.

mojesius · 11-07-2017 08:42AM

I used to love touchdowns. Right up their with the good aul chomp for me if I couldnt afford a 28p dairy milk. (The dairy milk has plummeted in quality).

Couldn't stand those orange smiley bars next.to the chomps though

valoren · 11-07-2017 09:10AM

Our aunt's family used to have a small shop in Cork. Sometimes she would borrow their merchant card for discounts at Musgraves wholesaler. She and my mam would buy in bulk and come home with boxes of chocolate, bottles of Taylor Keith, sweets etc. Enough to last us weeks. One afternoon, after we came home from School, our Kitchen looked like a supermarket ailse with the boxes upon boxes of goodies all bought at a steep discount. My brother, 8 at the time, thought his Christmas had come early. By chance, we heard a shrill siren off in the distance. It must have been an ambulance. Quick as a flash my Aunt, who loved to joke around, shouted to my mam "Oh no, it's the Guards! We're caught!". My mam responded in kind by getting faux-angry "I told you we'd get into trouble for stealing them!"

My brother practically wet himself. Through tears, thinking his mam and aunt were going to get arrested, he grabbed the 3 boxes of Touchdown bars and put the under the stairs. Unsatisfied with his first attempt at concealment, he then grabbed a bunch of coats and threw them over the Touchdown's, hoping he might at least save them being lovely and all as they were. Now satisfied, he lay prone over the chocolate, quietly sobbing at their imminent arrest.

GLaDOS · 11-07-2017 09:21AM

Moro/Boost is known as 5star is certain foreign markets, Which may add to the confusion. They make them here cause my girfriends dad does some work for cadburies and gets them for fúck all.

razorblunt · 11-07-2017 09:28AM

It was only Moro in Ireland, Oz and New Zealand (weirdly, we had a chat about this in work last week).

Starbar became Moro Peanut for a while and then reverted to Starbar where it remains the best bar available.
Moro became Boost with Guruana first didn't it? Its now the same Boost as the UK market, who also have Boost Coconut too I think.

RacoonQueen · 11-07-2017 09:30AM

Degag wrote: »

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

Yep...as soon as I saw the pic I thought ''wasn't there a purple wrapper also''

And I'm always right. So you are correct too.

Crazyteacher · 11-07-2017 09:32PM

Anybody remember the freddo bars being called Taz bars for a while? In the 90's.

whoopsadoodles · 11-07-2017 09:49PM

Boosts were originally coconut. They brought out a moro coconut then around the time they brought out boost guarana and renamed starbars to moro peanut.

Original boosts and then moro coconuts were amazing.

Degag · 12-07-2017 12:09AM

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

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.

Think everyone knows a few people like that. Mostly pricks IMO.

Degag · 12-07-2017 12:12AM

Crazyteacher wrote: »

Anybody remember the freddo bars being called Taz bars for a while? In the 90's.

Did they not exist at the same time though? I could be wrong but i thought a Taz only came with caramel in it while a Freddo was the solid chocolate equivelant - then they started making caramel Freddos.

Crazyteacher · 12-07-2017 12:26AM

All I know is that I could get taz bars, Only knew them as taz bars, then they suddenly became freddos. I must have missed them the first time around?

wally79 · 12-07-2017 12:36AM

What blew my mind recently was an American colleague telling me that mars bars were called milky ways in the US. Mentallers

Crazyteacher · 12-07-2017 09:48AM

Now that's pushing it. Very different bars altogether.

wally79 · 12-07-2017 10:09AM

Crazyteacher wrote: »

Now that's pushing it. Very different bars altogether.

I know. Apparently our milkyways are their 3 musketeer bars

Kimbot · 12-07-2017 10:16AM

Freddo's and Taz bars were out around the same time together and both done the caramel variety

boardsuser1 · 12-07-2017 10:19AM

jonnycivic wrote: »

Freddo's and Taz bars were out around the same time together and both done the caramel variety

Oh the memories of the Taz bar and having no teeth afterwards :pac:

Called Freddo caramel now though

gramar · 12-07-2017 11:47AM

Cork Truck Driver wrote: »

Oh the memories of the Taz bar and having no teeth afterwards :pac:

Called Freddo caramel now though

Big Times were another that would pull the teeth out of your head.

MoodeRator · 12-07-2017 12:12PM

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I give you Rowntrees Cabana

Caramel, coconut and cherry pieces.

Thundercats Ho · 12-07-2017 02:01PM

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dodzy · 12-07-2017 02:45PM

I remember as kids we'd get big time bars and have to crack them off the foot path to break off bits. They were good days. Nunch were epic. Along with the original Yorkie Raisin & Biscuit (mentioned earlier) that were similar in size to a length of 4" x 2".