No more pink snacks?

PandaPoo · 27-02-2015 02:50AM

Yellow snack is best snack. I wouldn't even glance at the other ones.

conorh91 · 27-02-2015 02:53AM

Baby Jane wrote: »

Never understood the Club Milk love.

Those were the best of all the Snacks (the blue Club Milks, not the yellow ones)

The trick was always to bite off the chocolate first, until you were left with pure, naked biscuit lying beneath.

I seem to remember there was, for a time, such thing as a white-chocolate club milk. Does anyone remember that failed experiment? Or am I thinking of 'All Gold'?

Baby Jane · 27-02-2015 02:56AM

God yeh, nibble off all the chocolate you can possibly nibble - with the hope that it would be one of those erroneously constructed ones that has an extra big chunk of chocolate before the biscuit starts.

JupiterKid · 27-02-2015 03:05AM

Pink snacks facing its demise I can handle...

...but Time Outs too? Noooooooooooo!!!:eek::(

PandaPoo · 27-02-2015 03:06AM

Getting a kit kat with no wafer in it was like winning the lotto for me when I was younger!

darkpagandeath · 27-02-2015 03:58AM

catallus wrote: »

That's what she said.

An actual very well placed one, Did give me a very good laugh thanks.

old_aussie · 27-02-2015 04:51AM

Next thing the snakbar will go out of business, due to no more pink bits

27-02-2015 06:53AM

I never really liked them but the decision to switch to 2 fingers after having 3 fingers for so long is a terrible thing to do in any situation.

Long live the pink snack! And Club milks. And mint crisps.

diomed · 27-02-2015 07:30AM

PandaPoo wrote: »

Yellow snack is best snack. I wouldn't even glance at the other ones.

I started work in 1969. They were on sale then. I still buy them.
Cadburys website "Snack Shortcake has been available for over 50 years and is a firm favourite in Ireland."

smash · 27-02-2015 07:51AM

I always like to snack on a bit of pink....

Rashers72 · 27-02-2015 08:01AM

Cadburys's recent price increases are bit much for me. Now EUR1.20 for a basic bar. Was 90cent. While we are still cheaper then the continent I think people will simply stop buying the smaller bars like they used to. Lager bars in Supermarkets at 'reasonable' prices will start to dominate I think. Smaller retailers will take the hit. Won't help the challenge around obesity also.

blade1 · 27-02-2015 08:29AM

Rashers72 wrote: »

Cadburys's recent price increases are bit much for me. Now EUR1.20 for a basic bar. Was 90cent. While we are still cheaper then the continent I think people will simply stop buying the smaller bars like they used to. Lager bars in Supermarkets at 'reasonable' prices will start to dominate I think. Smaller retailers will take the hit. Won't help the challenge around obesity also.

It wouldn't be as bad if the bars were the same size as they used be!
Take the Double Decker.
It used to be one serious bar.
I got one last week and it's wasn't much bigger than a Milky Way from years ago.

shedweller · 27-02-2015 11:35AM

blade1 wrote: »

It wouldn't be as bad if the bars were the same size as they used be!
Take the Double Decker.
It used to be one serious bar.
I got one last week and it's wasn't much bigger than a Milky Way from years ago.

They say it's for our health but it's not. It's just a way of getting more bars made for the same amount of chocolate. These places have already automated the hell out their factories and have saved a lot by doing that. But the shareholders need their returns so more jobs need to go. You know, there are private jails in america that use slave labour to manufacture goods. Hopefully it wont get that bad here but its what they want anyway.

hal9000 · 27-02-2015 12:03PM

Rashers72 wrote: »

Lager bars in Supermarkets at 'reasonable' prices will start to dominate I think. Smaller retailers will take the hit. Won't help the challenge around obesity also.

These lager bars sound interesting, are they beside the cans or bottles? :pac::pac:

rob316 · 27-02-2015 12:26PM

Awful to see jobs lost.

StewartGriffin · 27-02-2015 12:38PM

Thought this was another Gay thread.

conorh91 · 01-03-2015 07:45PM

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/consumer/man-launches-campaign-to-save-cadbury-s-pink-snack-bars-1.2121641

Gerard Maguire, owner of 64 Wine in Glasthule, Co Dublin, has taken it upon himself to save the bar as we know it,by starting a social media campaign #SavePinkSnacks to keep it on our shelves...

A post on 64 Wine’s Facebook page reads: “Gerard is bereft!!!!! His favourite indulgence; the Pink Cadbury Snack bar is being discontinued!!! Realising it would leave a huge gap in his life, he bought all the remaining stock: Tea without a Snack Bar was unimaginable! Having bought up all the stock he then felt guilty of depriving others of its wafery goodness, so he has started a campaign for its return. Come into 64 Wine to sign the Save our Snack Campaign!!!”

Upon hearing the news on Friday, Mr Maguire bought up as many of the bars as possible.

“I went down to Musgrave wholesalers and bought up boxes and boxes of pink snack bars, they were all roaring laughing at me,” he said.

Mr Maguire said he has around 20-30 boxes of Pink Snack bars, which he gives away for free to children and sweet toothed adults in his wine shop.

Mint Aero · 01-03-2015 07:47PM

Isn't most of that stuff made in Birmingham anyways. Always was a British bar.

Quazzie · 01-03-2015 07:51PM

Sure purple snacks might aswell be gone because Club Milks are far superior

No more pink snacks?

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