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General Category => Old Products => Topic started by: tetley on August 18, 2007, 10:33:54 pm

Title: Rumba Bar ?
Post by: tetley on August 18, 2007, 10:33:54 pm

Does anyone remember a rum flavoured nougatine bar covered in milk chocolate? I think it was called a rumba but can't remember who made it.


 If memory serves correctly this would be made about 1970 or thereabouts.
Title: Rumba Bar ?
Post by: goldencup on August 18, 2007, 11:16:12 pm
Yes you're right - here's a quote from "A quarter of" website.
 


RUMBA


This was a chocolate covered bar of soft nougat with a rum flavour.

Title: Rumba Bar ?
Post by: oldspice on August 18, 2007, 11:23:26 pm
It was made by Cadburys. If my memory serves me right, it was actually two, quite short fingers of fudgey rum flavoured nougat joined in the middle.
Title: Rumba Bar ?
Post by: tetley on August 19, 2007, 08:01:31 pm
Thank goodness somebody else remembers it as well!!!! I have had a few blank looks when i've mentioned it before.
 

It was my favourite chocolate bar of the time satisfying my life long fondness for rum flavouring.  I remember it as being a single bar somewhere between the size of a Milkyway and a Mars bar and wrapped in  foil covered paper. Mind you sometime the memory plays tricks!

 

Talking of rum flavouring what about a campaign to bring back Old Jamaica probably the best chocolate bar ever.
Title: Rumba Bar ?
Post by: loulou on August 20, 2007, 12:46:25 am
I'm not overly keen on rum tasting chocolate.
Title: Rumba Bar ?
Post by: goldencup on August 20, 2007, 02:04:07 pm
Nor me, I bought some by mistake in Prague a couple of weeks ago and had to throw it away.
Title: Rumba Bar ?
Post by: oldspice on August 20, 2007, 02:28:43 pm
Quote from: tetley
Thank goodness somebody else remembers it as well!!!! I have had a few blank looks when i've mentioned it before.
 

It was my favourite chocolate bar of the time satisfying my life long fondness for rum flavouring.  I remember it as being a single bar somewhere between the size of a Milkyway and a Mars bar and wrapped in  foil covered paper. Mind you sometime the memory plays tricks!

 

Talking of rum flavouring what about a campaign to bring back Old Jamaica probably the best chocolate bar ever.

 

I am probably wrong about it being a twin bar. It's just a vague memory. It's so long ago.
Title: Rumba Bar ?
Post by: tetley on August 20, 2007, 10:46:03 pm

Its just as well we don't all like the same tastes or flavours what a dull world that would be.


My preference is for full flavours combined with chocolate e.g. rum or ginger. I prefer plain chocolate to milk chocolate and find white chocolate too sweet and sickly for my palate. It is all down to personal preference and we are fortunate that with such a diversity of chocolate products available there is sure to be something to suit almost everyone.
Title: Rumba Bar ?
Post by: oldspice on August 21, 2007, 05:30:37 pm
I don't much like white chocolate for the same reason.
 

I love chocolate with ginger - I'd especially like  to see a ginger fondant bar.  Waitrose do a nice ginger truffle bar.

 

I miss Amazin bars and mint cracknell. I miss the days when there was more choice across chocolate bars and fillings in boxed chocolates. I'm bored with caramels, bicuit/wafer combinations and truffles and pralines.

 

 
Title: Rumba Bar ?
Post by: Logger on August 21, 2007, 08:48:21 pm
Quote from: goldencup
Nor me, I bought some by mistake in Prague a couple of weeks ago and had to throw it away.

 

I made the same mistake when I was in Prague.  Went to Tescos and bought what I thought was some kind of tropical coconut type bar only to discover it was rum flavoured...and not a particularly nice rum flavour at that!
Title: Rumba Bar ?
Post by: tetley on August 21, 2007, 10:06:28 pm
Quote from: oldspice
I don't much like white chocolate for the same reason.
 

I love chocolate with ginger - I'd especially like  to see a ginger fondant bar.  Waitrose do a nice ginger truffle bar.

 

I miss Amazin bars and mint cracknell. I miss the days when there was more choice across chocolate bars and fillings in boxed chocolates. I'm bored with caramels, bicuit/wafer combinations and truffles and pralines.

 

 
Couldn't agree more old spice. Especially on the ginger fondant bar.
Title: Rumba Bar ?
Post by: tetley on August 21, 2007, 10:09:22 pm
This part appears to be missing from the above on screen.
 

Couldn't agree more old spice. Especially on the ginger fondant bar.
Title: Rumba Bar ?
Post by: goldencup on August 22, 2007, 09:47:15 am
Quote from: Logger
Quote from: goldencup
Nor me, I bought some by mistake in Prague a couple of weeks ago and had to throw it away.

 

I made the same mistake when I was in Prague.  Went to Tescos and bought what I thought was some kind of tropical coconut type bar only to discover it was rum flavoured...and not a particularly nice rum flavour at that!

 

That must have been the exact same bar - I was expecting coconut too!
Title: Rumba Bar ?
Post by: Logger on August 22, 2007, 04:07:08 pm
If memory serves, i think it was in a blue wrapper and was a very thick chunky bar which was light brown in the middle and had a coconut ice kind of texture with a really strong and not particularly sweet rum taste...yuk! Dead
Title: Rumba Bar ?
Post by: goldencup on August 23, 2007, 06:00:56 pm
Yes that was it!  I saved it for a 'treat' on the flight home as well - some treat!
Title: Rumba Bar ?
Post by: dodderi on October 17, 2007, 12:42:31 am
Bring back "Old Jamaica"?
You will definitely have at least one signature on any petition you start!