Sweets/chocolate/crisps

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Sep 12, 2008 10:39

10,000bags of popping candy for that tache wiggling action Mimi.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

It's just a little red cross here, thankfully.

The Rev Owen · **Posted:** Fri Sep 12, 2008 10:40

Mr Chris wrote:

You need help, Owen. Here, have some popping candy.

You should have seen the uncensored version.

kalmar · **Posted:** Fri Sep 12, 2008 10:40

I was imagining that on a Mimi level, not a Rev Owen level. Man, that guy is sick!

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

The Rev Owen wrote:

Mr Chris wrote:

You need help, Owen. Here, have some popping candy.

You should have seen the uncensored version.

Did something, er, happen to you while you were watching HeMan as a child?

DBSnappa · **Posted:** Fri Sep 12, 2008 10:55

Mr Chris wrote:

Ian Osborne wrote:

Anyone remember Space Dust? Small fragments of god-knows-what which literally exploded on your tongue? I think they banned it in the end.

That stuff had... uses.

Fizzy BJs FTW

DBSnappa · **Posted:** Fri Sep 12, 2008 10:58

Actually, if you can't get space dust, alka seltzer will do just as well

Mr Russell · **Joined:** 6th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 12247

kalmar wrote:

I liked "Nerds", I think they were withdrawn from the market for a while though due to having psychosis-causing levels of sourness chemical in them.

Also yes, what uses?

Didn't Nerds also have about four similar candy based companions in similar packets but different flavours?

Dweebs was one of them I'm sure.

kalmar · **Posted:** Fri Sep 12, 2008 12:23

Mr Russ wrote:

kalmar wrote:

I liked "Nerds", I think they were withdrawn from the market for a while though due to having psychosis-causing levels of sourness chemical in them.

Also yes, what uses?

Didn't Nerds also have about four similar candy based companions in similar packets but different flavours?

Dweebs was one of them I'm sure.

Dweebs were slightly bigger IIRC. Same manufacturer though, undoubtedly. Can't remember any other derivatives..?

Mr Russell · **Joined:** 6th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 12247

I'm pretty sure the manufacturer was something like Willy Wonka, as something like that sticks in your head as a child. To the Google-dome!

EDIT:

http://candyaddict.com/blog/2007/01/12/ ... ck-dweebs/

Just the two names, but in lots of flavours. yes.

kalmar · **Posted:** Fri Sep 12, 2008 12:36

Hmm, I'm not convinced they were soft though. I reckon his Dweebs had gone soft in the intervening 17 years.

Shin · **Posted:** Fri Sep 12, 2008 12:47

Dweebs were a sweet aswell weren't they? And POPPETS! Oh my god, I loved the raisiny-goodness

Tmuk · **Posted:** Fri Sep 12, 2008 12:54

I'd have to say an ounce of maui wowie would be a nice surprise. Mind you, I'd probably have to head up to the shops to buys sweets pretty soon after.

I remember Dweebs. Didn't they come in a double pack with Nerds as well? Really sour little luminous yellow nuggets of pure chemical joy.

ElephantBanjoGnome · **Joined:** 22nd Dec, 2010 **Posts:** 8175

I still love Parma Violents, and packets of these must be kept away from me as I'm liable to nosh though a load and hurt my teeth.

Shin · **Posted:** Fri Sep 12, 2008 13:00

Tmuk wrote:

I'd have to say an ounce of maui wowie would be a nice surprise. Mind you, I'd probably have to head up to the shops to buys sweets pretty soon after.

I remember Dweebs. Didn't they come in a double pack with Nerds as well? Really sour little luminous yellow nuggets of pure chemical joy.

Yeah that's right!! I knew I wasn't going mad

CG-Me and my mum love those aswell. My perfume smells a little bit like them

Tmuk · **Posted:** Fri Sep 12, 2008 13:05

Nerds were pink, Dweebs were yellow or vice versa. What a memory. I bet men would turn up in boiler suits and breathing apparatus and take them away to be safely disposed of nowadays, they were absolutely crammed with E-numbers.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

Of everyone here, Mr Russ has the least excuse for not having tried a given item of confectionary.

Dudesflame · **Posted:** Fri Sep 12, 2008 21:32

I think the best sweet would have to be those little chocolate raisins, the best chocloate bar being milky bar!(yay milky bar) and the best crisps being the teddy bear potato snack pom bears.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25603

I like raisins, but chocolate raisins always end up with one gritty raisin among them, which then destroys the joy of the preceding raisins.

Tam · **Joined:** 25th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 159

Shin wrote:

Dweebs were a sweet aswell weren't they? And POPPETS! Oh my god, I loved the raisiny-goodness

I preferred the mint poppets. They're horrible now, the mint cream inside isn't even cream anymore, it's just a solid ball of tingly cool mintness :'(

Da5e · **Posted:** Sat Sep 13, 2008 15:57

I used to like Toxic Waste sweets, before they were calmed down a bit. I like the sour stuff.

I bet i eat more crisps than any of you.

Tam · **Joined:** 25th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 159

Davydd Grimm wrote:

I bet i eat more crisps than any of you.

"Trufax"

-we used to go out and buy a bag or two for him pretty much every day.

kalmar · **Posted:** Sat Sep 13, 2008 16:47

Dudesflame wrote:

the best crisps being the teddy bear potato snack porn bears.

Da5e · **Posted:** Sat Sep 13, 2008 18:05

Pom-Bears aren't crisps! Not even close, man.

Shin · **Posted:** Sat Sep 13, 2008 19:31

Flamin' hot Monster Munch!

Ian Osborne · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 424

Shin wrote:

Flamin' hot Monster Munch!

Yuk! Loved the beef version, but the hot one is like eating a lit match.

Malabelm · **Posted:** Sun Sep 14, 2008 11:44

I stopped caring about Monster Munch when they shrank them. Especially how I was still growing when it happened; all my memories of those lovely crisps were as a child, and they were huge — I had to nibble bits off; there was no chance of eating one whole.

Tam · **Joined:** 25th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 159

Ian Osborne wrote:

Yuk! Loved the beef version, but the hot one is like eating a lit match.

Shin · **Posted:** Mon Sep 15, 2008 10:53

Ugh! I didn't even know they had a beef version!? I must investigate this. A lit match : :DD

Now, whilst we are on the subject of things getting smaller (dirty laugh) Wagonwheels!! Now they DID get smaller didn't they??

myp · **Posted:** Mon Sep 15, 2008 11:04

Shin wrote:

Flamin' hot Monster Munch!

You're about a week slow.

Shin · **Posted:** Mon Sep 15, 2008 11:07

myoptika wrote:

Shin wrote:

Flamin' hot Monster Munch!

You're about a week slow.

This is, sadly, nothing new

devilman · **Posted:** Mon Sep 15, 2008 11:18

Shin wrote:

Wagonwheels!! Now they DID get smaller didn't they??

Maybe your mouth just got bigger?

Shin · **Posted:** Mon Sep 15, 2008 11:19

devilman wrote:

Shin wrote:

Wagonwheels!! Now they DID get smaller didn't they??

Maybe your mouth just got bigger?

EDIT: I also noticed, in an amused way, that this could be an impression of me with my mouth open-I do have more than one tooth though

Ian Osborne · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 424

Perhaps we should ask when they got smaller? I suspect that everyone, regardless of age, would argue they were bigger during their childhood than their teen years.

Devilman's right - it's not that the Wagon Wheels got smaller, it's that our mouths got bigger.

myp · **Posted:** Mon Sep 15, 2008 12:27

I remember Monster Munch definitely did get smaller, but I'm sure they've increased in size again sometime in the last few years.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Hang on - were the snacks bigger or were we just smaller?

Malc · **Posted:** Mon Sep 15, 2008 13:18

Or are they just very far away?

It's quite a common tactic isn't it?

Rather than put up your prices, you make what you are selling smaller.

Malc

myp · **Posted:** Mon Sep 15, 2008 13:18

Unless I shrank again, Monster Munch definitely changed size.

ZOMGEDIT!

Quote:

As of August 2008, it has been announced that Walkers is bringing back the original style of Monster Munch snacks, which launched in 1977. The re-launch sees the reintroduction of a bigger, crunchier Monster Munch corn snack, a bigger pack format and retro pack design featuring the iconic Monster characters.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_Munch

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25603

I preferred the smaller Monster Munch

1) you get more of 'em

2) they are tastier - more surface area per gram for flavouriffic coating, you see.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Spinglo Sponglo! wrote:

It's quite a common tactic isn't it?

Rather than put up your prices, you make what you are selling smaller.

Malc

This explains all of the dwarf prostitutes hanging around Paddington.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Sep 15, 2008 13:24

Things getting tight eh?

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25603

Er, why are you all bypassing my extremely sensible and scientific post? It's the only one I'll ever make!

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

Because we were offered an opportunity to begin discussing dwarf prostitutes. You don't pass up a thread tangent opportunity like that.

myp · **Posted:** Mon Sep 15, 2008 13:35

My question is, is there any room in the science of Monster Munch to debunk the creation aspect? I'm sure a lot of people will be asking how many days it took to make.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25603

They also have more surface area per gram and... Oh no ?:|

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25603

Monster munch were at their best when you had cartoon of the monsters on the back and could cut out individual eyes/noses etc from all the packs to assemble your own monsters, which I did.

When the packets looked like this:

myp · **Posted:** Mon Sep 15, 2008 13:44

Did you see my post on the previous page, Meems?

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25603

Woop! No, I didn't. My scissors and PVA glue and a huge sheet of paper are at the ready!

Runcle · **Posted:** Mon Sep 15, 2008 13:53

cheese and onion monster munch?!

Sinestro · **Posted:** Tue Sep 16, 2008 19:55

Wasn't there a limited-edition ice-cream flavoured Monster Munch once? Or am I thinking of something else?

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