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Time Bars

kraggy · 2008-07-20 23:18:37

Remember these? They were delicious. Yellow wrapper with a Clock on it. mmm...

21-07-2008 12:18AM

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Remember these?

They were delicious.

Yellow wrapper with a Clock on it.

mmm...

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#2 21-07-2008 12:19AM

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Big Time bars I think they were called? Great things, toffee and chocolate, winning combination!

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#3 21-07-2008 12:30AM

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Were they called Big Time?

Yeah, chocolate covering a harder toffee.

So yummy. Any idea who made them? Wonder why they stopped. They were quite popular.

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#4 21-07-2008 12:35AM

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I think they still make them, I remember seeing them somewhere recently and having a little nostalgic moment

There are websites you can order all that kind of thing off, the folks over here should be able to help you out

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=505

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#5 21-07-2008 12:43AM

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They could take teeth out....

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#6 21-07-2008 12:47AM

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The name rings a bell, but I'm struggling to picture one

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#7 21-07-2008 12:49AM

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Was it a company called Caffreys? Think they were called Big Time bars...

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#8 21-07-2008 01:24AM

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Yep, and you'd spend the best part of an hour dedictaed to chewing the thing.

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#9 21-07-2008 02:58AM

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Maxol on the Howth Road in Fairview still sell them.

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#10 21-07-2008 03:48PM

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caffreys in walkinstown was bankrolled by the dental association of ireland

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#11 21-07-2008 05:07PM

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Oh I loved them, haven't seen them in ages - may have to take a trip over to Fairview... Desperado!!

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#12 21-07-2008 06:32PM

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Karsini wrote: »

Maxol on the Howth Road in Fairview still sell them.

Man, they still sell them?! That's mad.

Haven't seen them in years.

Thought they were finished, hence posting in Retro.

Would nearly travel over to get a box of them!

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#13 21-07-2008 07:30PM

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They were hardy stuff alright. God knows how any of us had teeth left in our heads after eating those bars :eek:

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#14 21-07-2008 11:41PM

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You can still get them in Waterford (last time I was home!)

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#15 22-07-2008 02:18AM

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Mmmm caramel. Bloody right they used to rip the teeth out.

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#16 03-08-2008 12:41AM

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remember 5 4 3 2 1 bars??? couldn't go to school without one of them in my lunchbox ( along with strawberry jam sandwiches)

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#17 03-08-2008 11:33AM

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I remember the song that was on the ad. I don't remember the bars so well. Did they have crispy things in them?

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#18 05-08-2008 02:14AM

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Does anyone out there remember Big Time bars when they had green minty stuff in the middle? They had a green wrapper with the clock on it. Was disappointed when they became only available in toffee in the yellow wrapper, have never met anyone who remembers.
There also used to be a red packet of white sherbert powder with a toffee lolly with a cartoon of a little old lady on the front no one remembers either.
Fizzle sticks were nice and a very distant memory of peggy's legs-not so nice.Peppermint Pate's were round flat dark choc things with mint fondant inside.
One more thing Cleeves 'two and two'-what a delicious choc bar was that!There was a little pic of a leprechaun fishing or something on each square. It was taken off the market mid seventies and brought out again early eighties. Cleeves then introduced a strawberry, orange and mint version.

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#19 05-08-2008 02:26AM

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stovelid wrote: »

They could take teeth out....

and they did take teeth out!!!!!!!!!!!!

My mother's method of taking out our baby teeth was to tie a piece of string onto the offending tooth, tie the other end of the string onto the handle of a closed door then open the door real quick. A novel way of doing it but using Time bars was a far better and tastier way of doing it.

I remember manys of time taking out the big lump of goohy toffee to find a tooth in the middle of it. Used to take out the tooth and lop the toffee back into the mouth:D:D:D:D

My favourite way of eating a Time bar was to roll it up like a Swiss roll and put into the mouth. Oh the sight of me trying to wrench open and squeese down my teeth with brown dribbles of saliva pouring down form each side of mouth. At least a good half hour of chewing, spitting, slurping and generally making a mess.

Kids these days would want it pre-chewed for them

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#20 06-08-2008 03:56PM

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Remember these bars well..........pass a good hour away chewing one of those things...............also a very simular bar was the "Honey Bee" but they had like a reddie orangie type cheap wrapper anyone member those?

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#21 06-08-2008 04:01PM

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I vaguely remember honey bee bars. Does anyone remember these ice pops? Ricki raspers,Captain Quenchers or Draculas-mmmm! Kilimanjaros,or Jrs after Jr from Dallas I presume.

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#22 06-08-2008 05:11PM

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Captain Quechers and Jrs ring bells alright.............jaysus a big time bar, packet of Cruncho's crips (think they were actually called American Cruncho's........they were like in the shape of a drumstick and really hard) and a packet of rubble gum chewing gum (hundreds of little pieces of colour chewing gum in a packet) would cost ya about 30p and ya would be set up for the day.

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#23 06-08-2008 05:15PM

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I remember those wee bubble gums. Remember those big roundy sweets-were they fizz bombs? Or money balls? Some had a 2p piece in them. I never found one in mine. Jaw breakers which changed colour. Big choc covered toffee mice-remember them? Your mouth would be bulging full with choc dribblin down your face.:D

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#24 06-08-2008 05:23PM

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Oh yeah those toffee mice were deadly............hey would ya remember the Trio bar.........here was the advert might bring back the memories........cant believe i found it:

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=U-V-KCY7SMU

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#25 06-08-2008 05:31PM

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:D:DI used to love that ad!! That actually popped into my mind lately-I was singing it at the top of my voice-my young fella thought I was mad. Remember the ad 'a happy birthday to Toby'? Was that topic? And the Blue Riband bar ad with your man singing with his guitar.'can't get enough of those blue riband blues'.

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#26 07-08-2008 11:55AM

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Yeah topics were class..........always wanted them to be bigger though:rolleyes:

Do ya remember the Boost bar........remember me dad coming home one night with a plastic bag full of boost bars that he got from his friend who worked for cadburys.........the packets were all stuck together ........meself and the bro were the coolest kids in skool that week as we would give our mates some

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#27 07-08-2008 01:01PM

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Mmmmmmm Topic Bars are class alright.I had one last night.I could eat them every day.Still though they are quite small and at 85c are pretty expensive.Won't stop me buying them though.

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#28 07-08-2008 09:00PM

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The mini Topic bars in Celebrations were taken out of it.... they were my favourite ones.:mad:
Star bars used to be called something else-was it 'lunch'? Remember when Snickers used to be Marathon. There was another bar called 'Nutty' in a brown see through wrapper around 1980-ish It was lots of peanuts stuck together with some kind of fudge stuff. They were lovely.
A big jump to 1989-remember 'secret' bars? MMMM!:)

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#29 09-08-2008 01:48PM

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I remember Time Bars all too well. I nearly choked to death on one at the pictures! We went to see Airplane in the Classic in Harolds Cross and I was laughing so much the bloody thing went down the wrong way!

I remember Dracula ice pops too. They were a sickly sweet thing but addictive.

As for topics... Toby had a little song which we modified much to my mothers horror....

"What has a hazelnut in every bite"
SQUIRREL SH*TE"

Man, we were innocent then....

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#30 11-08-2008 07:37PM

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Ann22 wrote: »

The mini Topic bars in Celebrations were taken out of it.... they were my favourite ones.:mad:

WHAT?! Scandalous! :mad:

Are Time OUT bars still around?

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#31 11-08-2008 07:42PM

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I think so. I'm not pushed on them though so I don't know if i'd notice. Don't really like wafery bars like pink snacks. Remember Candy tots and Tiger tots-only Jelly tots left-and Beanos-think they tasted like choc m&ms except they were bigger.

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