Chocolate
Ads from the 80′s selling chocolate.
Topic Chocolate Bar 1976
Published July 6, 2010 | 
1976 commercial for TOPIC chocolate bar
Topic is a chocolate bar made by Mars, Incorporated in France and sold throughout Europe and the United States. It contains hazelnuts, nougat and caramel.
The fictional character Arnold Rimmer from the British TV sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf mentioned that he was the only person ever to buy a Topic bar with no hazelnuts in it at all. This was a joke based on the bar’s 1980s advertising slogan which claimed there was “a hazelnut in every bite”. In another episode, when Rimmer is trying to chat with Lister to distract him from thinking about food, he states that he “can’t think of another topic” – prompting the response “don’t talk about Topics, they’re food!”
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Leave a commentRolos 1974
Published April 6, 2010 | 1974 advert for Rolos.
Rolo (pronounced “Roll-Oh” in the U.S. or “Roh-loh” in the U.K.) is a brand of truncated-cone-shaped chocolates with a caramel centre. They are made by Nestlé, except in the United States where production has been under licence by The Hershey Company since 1969. They were advertised for many years with the slogan “Do you love anyone enough to give them your last Rolo?”.
Posted in Chocolate | caramel, Chocolate, chocolates, hershey company, mackintosh, rolos, rowntree, slogan, toffee, tyneside | Leave a commentKitKat 1974
Published March 31, 2010 | 1974 commercial for KitKat!
A Kit Kat is a confection which was first created by Rowntree’s of York, England and now produced worldwide by Nestlé, which acquired Rowntree in 1988, except in the United States where it is made under licence by The Hershey Company. Each bar consists of fingers composed of three layers of crème-filled wafer, covered in an outer layer of chocolate. Each finger can be snapped from the bar one at a time.
Posted in Chocolate | Chocolate, chocolate bar, confection, crisp, four fingers, hershey company, kit cat club, kit kat bars, rowntree, wafer, york england | Leave a commentMARATHON Chocolate Bar 1974
Published March 19, 2010 | 1974 commercial for Marathon chocolate bar featuring some nice ladies! 
In the UK and Ireland, it was originally sold under the name Marathon. Mars standardized many of its global brand names and the name was changed to Snickers in 1990. For 18 months before the name changed, the words “Internationally known as Snickers” were printed on the side of the Marathon wrapper. Following the name change, the bar moved from being Britain’s ninth most popular bar to the third most popular.
Mars has since re-registered the original name as a UK trademark. There is also a campaign to rename the bar: Bring Back Marathon
Posted in Chocolate | candy bar, caramel, chocolate bar, energy bars, ireland, marathon, marathon bar, milk chocolate, nougat, roasted peanuts, snickers, united kingdom | Leave a commentTrebor Extra Strong Mints 1990
Published January 4, 2010 | 1990 commercial for Trebor Extra Strong Mints.
In 1824, John Cadbury began vending tea, coffee and, later, chocolate at Bull Street in Birmingham and sometimes in India. The company was known as “Cadbury Brothers Limited”. After John Cadbury’s retirement, his sons, Richard and George, opened a major factory in the purpose-built suburb of Bournville, four miles south of the city.
After World War I, Cadbury Brothers Limited undertook a financial merger with J.S. Fry & Sons Limited. In 1969, it merged with Schweppes to form the international confectionery and beverage company Cadbury Schweppes (now Cadbury plc). In 1989, the company purchased Trebor Bassett, forming the UK confectionery subsidiary “Cadbury Trebor Bassett”.
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