1978 Mars Minis
Published June 19, 2011 | 
Mars (also Mars bar) is a chocolate bar manufactured by Mars, Incorporated. It was first manufactured in Slough, Berkshire in the United Kingdom in 1932 as a sweeter version of the American Milky Way bar which Mars, Inc. produced in the USA (not to be confused with the European version of Milky Way, which is a different confection and similar to the US 3 Musketeers). It was advertised to the trade as being made with Cadbury’s chocolate as ‘couverture’.
In the United States, a different confection bears the Mars bar name. Featuring nougat, soft caramel, and almonds coated in milk chocolate, the American Mars bar was relaunched in 2010 after being discontinued in 2002.
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Leave a comment1989 MARATHON Chocolate Bar
Published March 25, 2011 | 
1989 Classic MARATHON Chocolate Bar commercial from the UK & Ireland.
Snickers is a brand name chocolate bar made by Mars, Incorporated. It consists of peanut nougat topped with roasted peanuts and caramel, enrobed in milk chocolate. Snickers has an annual global sales of $2 billion.
In the United Kingdom and Ireland, Snickers was formerly sold under the brand name Marathon until 1990. More recently, Snickers Marathon branded energy bars have been sold in some markets.
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Posted in Chocolate | caramel, chocolate bar, classic marathon, energy bars, ireland, marathon, milk chocolate, nougat, roasted peanuts, snickers, united kingdom | Leave a comment1978 Milky Way Chocolate Bar
Published January 4, 2011 | 
1978 UK and Ireland commercial for Milky Way Chocolate Bars
The Milky Way bar is a chocolate bar distributed by the Mars confectionery company. The American version of the Milky Way bar is made of chocolate-malt nougat topped with caramel and covered with milk chocolate and is very similar to the Mars bar sold in other countries. The non-US Milky Way bar, on the other hand, is not topped with caramel and is therefore similar to the American 3 Musketeers bar.
The European version of the bar has no caramel topping, and consists of a nougat centre that is considerably lighter than that of the Mars bar. Because of this low density (0,88 g/cm³), it will float in water (and/or in milk) without sinking. This rare attribute was used for an advertising campaign in Germany, France, Russia, Republic of Ireland, Poland, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
BANJO 1978
Published July 12, 2010 | 1978 commercial form BANJO chocolate Bar
Banjo is a chocolate bar once available in the UK. Introduced with a substantial television advertising campaign in 1976, Banjo was a twin bar (similar in shape and size to Twix) and based upon a wafer with a chopped peanut layer and the whole covered in milk chocolate. It was packaged in distinctive navy blue – with the brand name prominently displayed in yellow block text – and was one of the first British snack bars to have a heat-sealed wrapper closure instead of the reverse-side fold common to most domestically-produced chocolate bars at that time. It was available into the 1980s. There was a coconut version also available in a red wrapper with yellow text.
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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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