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General Category => Old Products => Topic started by: wendymother on September 07, 2006, 09:00:58 am

Title: Where’s my marathon?
Post by: wendymother on September 07, 2006, 09:00:58 am
I refuse to call these snickers!
Title: Where’s my marathon?
Post by: on September 07, 2006, 09:08:16 am

You're in a global market now. You gotta do as the rest of the world says.


Why does the name never globalise into the British name?

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Post by: wendymother on September 07, 2006, 09:15:48 am
Because we don't rule the world anymore?
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Post by: smurfboy on September 07, 2006, 01:57:12 pm

Quote from: Black-Knight


Why does the name never globalise into the British name?


They do. The Twix was called Raider across Europe until 1992.


The story behind Snickers/Marathon is this. The product name was actually registered in the UK first, with plans for a worldwide launch within the next few months. Unfortunately while the launch was being planned another brand registered the trademark Marathon in the rest of the world; hence the product became Snickers in the US and Europe.

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Post by: Cherry_Ripe on September 07, 2006, 02:04:29 pm
Quote from: smurfboy

 hence the product became Snickers in the US and Europe.



There's a huge leap between the word Marathon and the word Snickers. I wonder how they came up with it. SOmething to do with sneakers maybe?

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Post by: oldspice on September 07, 2006, 08:00:10 pm
Snickers is a terrible name for a chocolate bar. It's meaningless.
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Post by: smurfboy on September 07, 2006, 08:02:28 pm
To be fair Marathon makes no more sense.
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Post by: oldspice on September 07, 2006, 08:08:38 pm
True.
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Post by: smurfboy on September 07, 2006, 09:03:57 pm
Although I wouldn't turn my nose up at a 26-mile long one!
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Post by: loulou on September 07, 2006, 11:31:40 pm
Change Topics name to Terrific Topic and make it a foot long.
Title: Where’s my marathon?
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on September 08, 2006, 09:18:24 am

Quote from: smurfboy
To be fair Marathon makes no more sense.


I thought is was a Marathon because of all the energy it gives you? It's more sensible than Mars, IMHO.

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Post by: Forth Bridges on September 08, 2006, 09:31:06 pm
it like Opera fruit, OF CIF the later was change to a C becasue the Freanch can;t pronce the J correlty! 
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Post by: on September 09, 2006, 06:26:24 pm
Quote from: Cherry_Ripe

Quote from: smurfboy
To be fair Marathon makes no more sense.


I thought is was a Marathon because of all the energy it gives you? It's more sensible than Mars, IMHO.



Why? It is out of this world!

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Post by: loulou on September 10, 2006, 05:42:24 pm
Does a name really matter?
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Post by: Jamsi on September 10, 2006, 05:53:36 pm
No Lou it's what's on the inside that counts!
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Post by: smurfboy on September 10, 2006, 06:51:12 pm

Quote from: loulou
Does a name really matter?


From the woman who once said she'd stop eating Twixes if they changed the name to Raider?

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Post by: loulou on September 10, 2006, 07:33:40 pm
I stopped eating Twix when they became more crunchier.
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Post by: smurfboy on September 10, 2006, 07:45:48 pm

That's impossible.

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Post by: EasterBunny on September 10, 2006, 08:10:40 pm
It's true, they have become more crunchier.  They are like an amalgamation of Cadbury's crunchy fingers and caramel fingers.
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Post by: loulou on September 10, 2006, 10:38:35 pm
That's an excellent description EB.
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Post by: Forth Bridges on September 11, 2006, 12:47:36 am
there have got churicher! 
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Post by: loulou on September 11, 2006, 01:04:56 am
I don't buy them now. I'd rather have some cadburys fingers.
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Post by: Forth Bridges on September 11, 2006, 01:08:49 am
ther eNo carmal in thoses
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Post by: loulou on September 11, 2006, 01:35:39 am
 Never Mind 





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Post by: kevvosa on September 11, 2006, 04:03:45 pm

Twix are horrible now, I used to love them. The chocolate is too thin and tasteless and the biscuit is too bland and crunchy.

And by the way, you CAN get Cadbury fingers with caramel in, or at least you used to be able to.

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Post by: smurfboy on September 11, 2006, 07:04:32 pm

Quote from: EasterBunny
It's true, they have become more crunchier. 


No they haven't. They have either become crunchier or more crunchy.

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Post by: loulou on September 12, 2006, 09:21:18 pm
Ooooooooh listen to picky knickers.
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Post by: on September 12, 2006, 09:35:50 pm

Maybe his are crunchier.


His knickers, like.

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Post by: smurfboy on September 13, 2006, 12:57:29 pm
No one has offered to bite them yet
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Post by: EasterBunny on September 13, 2006, 08:47:18 pm
I think you will find it wasn't me who said "more crunchier" first.   
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Post by: on September 13, 2006, 08:57:01 pm
Who's being more crunchier knickers now? Er, picky.
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Post by: EasterBunny on September 13, 2006, 10:20:55 pm
Well not me as I don't wear knickers
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Post by: on September 13, 2006, 10:26:27 pm
Title: Where’s my marathon?
Post by: smurfboy on September 14, 2006, 12:43:33 am

Quote from: EasterBunny
I think you will find it wasn't me who said "more crunchier" first.   


I didn't say it was. Does it make it any better that you copied someone else?