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General Category => Old Products => Topic started by: Scoots on September 04, 2007, 12:32:09 pm

Title: Mint Cracknell
Post by: Scoots on September 04, 2007, 12:32:09 pm

Can anyone please start a campaign - anywhere - to have Mint Cracknell reinstated. Why it was ever taken off the market is beyond me. It was the best chocolate bar. The chocolate was divine and the shards of mint were just to die for. There is and has been nothing quite like it since - and believe me I have tried a few. What I would give just to have one more bar. Does anyone know the reasons for the withdrawal of MC? Who made it? Could I write to them. Surely they must still have the recipes etc. Do any of these big chocolate firms ever have an open  week where they produce discontinued chocolate bars for people like us. If not  - they should!  

Title: Mint Cracknell
Post by: smurfboy on September 04, 2007, 02:54:41 pm

It would be incredibly expensive to just start reproducing old bars at random every few weeks.

Title: Mint Cracknell
Post by: goldencup on September 05, 2007, 09:51:34 am

Quote from: smurfboy

It would be incredibly expensive to just start reproducing old bars at random every few weeks.

 

Indeed - and presumably manufacturers don't withdraw bars that are economically viable - tastes change and things move on.  Personally I hated Mint Cracknell, it was like biting on bits of gravel.

Title: Mint Cracknell
Post by: Bent Rotter on September 07, 2007, 01:58:42 pm

Strange stuff, Mint Cracknell. It came as two chocolate-covered squares, on a cardboard tray like a Bounty (and don't get me started on the absence of those trays in current-day Bounties...). Bite into it, and you'd discover something with the consistency of fibreglass matting, green in colour. And boy, was it green - it was the greenest thing I've ever seen. Heavily laced with essence of mint, it wasn't quite in the Sharp's Extra Strong Mint league of mintiness, but you certainly knew when you'd eaten one. Probably about a pound of sugar in each square too.

Bring 'em back? Yeah, why not , but please - spare us the telly adverts featuring Noel Edmonds.

Title: Mint Cracknell
Post by: Daisychain on October 18, 2007, 11:27:37 pm

I remember the green strands used to stick into your tongue - but they were still delicious.  Kind of masochistic chocolate.

There was another one too with blue minty crystals - was it Icebreaker?

Title: Mint Cracknell
Post by: oldspice on October 19, 2007, 08:05:59 am

I used to suck the Mint Cracknell until the chocolate melted and you could draw that mint hit through your teeth and press the cracknell bit into your tongue until it melted away. oldspice2007-10-19 07:06:21

Title: Mint Cracknell
Post by: smurfboy on October 19, 2007, 11:34:52 am

Quote from: Daisychain

I remember the green strands used to stick into your tongue - but they were still delicious.  Kind of masochistic chocolate.

There was another one too with blue minty crystals - was it Icebreaker?

 

It was, yes.