Post by: Pyramint Ponderer on October 11, 2004, 02:10:50 am
Hello there chocolate lovers!
What a great site you all have here! So much chocolate, but even more memories.
I was hoping "Chocolate Review" would feature a long lost chocolate which I have quite vivid memories of despite being quite young at the time...
TERRY'S CHOCOLATE PYRAMINT...the forgotten sibling of the Chocolate Orange.
It was packaged in a small cardboard, pyramid shaped box, perhaps standing 2 inches or so high. The design featured chocolate coloured sihouttes of palm trees, and desert scenes (i think) set to a mint green sky. You would open one of the sides of the pyramid and could slide out the chocolate.
The chocolate itself was obviously a pyramid shape which had a hollow centre filled with mint cream (think of an "After Eight" but with enough mint centre to fill a Creme Egg). One thing I seem to remember is that the chocolate walls were particularly thick. I guess it was from a time where manufacturers did not skimp on such things and gave us chunky chocolate walls instead of the thin, and inferior ones chocolate manufacturers often provide today.
I have such a fond memory of the Pyramint, there used to be this gorgeous minty smell when u opened the box and I guess I remember all this from around the 1985-1987 era.
They clearly stopped making these AGES ago and perhaps they were never even available that long as hardly anyone I know remembers them. Would be great to hear from anyone else who remembers it and any pictures/further details would be fantastic.
Keep up the good work and I hope to get some replies soon!
Pyramint Lover
Post by: oldspice on October 11, 2004, 07:24:36 pm
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Post by: Bunny on October 16, 2004, 09:37:51 am
If they brought back all of these old bars, would they taste the same? Would we get bored with them?
I think that the problem with today's choc bars is the lack of variety and imagination. There is very little variation on the toffee/caramel/biscuit/nougat theme. Fruit-filled bars have all but gone.
In boxed chocolates there is so little choice - you know there'll always be a caramel cup, hazelnut whirl, strawberry cream etc. and these are all ok but years ago, as people on the forum have pointed out, there were gooseberry creams, pineapple creams, blackcurrant cups etc. Chocolate companies blame manufacturing problems (that is why Texan went) but i think they are too lazy to listen to what people want and too eager to follow trends.
Post by: loulou on October 17, 2004, 11:42:35 pm
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Post by: smurfboy on October 21, 2004, 05:44:48 pm
Pyramint was brilliant - it was changing it from the pyramid shape to a normal bar that killed it. Why get rid of your main selling point?
I've only just found this forum, but I reckon between us we could revolutionise the marketing departments of Cadbury, Terry's etc.!
Post by: on October 21, 2004, 08:46:57 pm
Believe me I have tried. They are just not interested.
" We have marketing consultants who tell us all we need to know."
Blah, bloody blah multi-nationals.
Post by: loulou on October 24, 2004, 04:34:43 pm
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Post by: milty on June 11, 2006, 03:34:27 am
Post by: EasterBunny on June 11, 2006, 02:03:21 pm
now come on why would we have a photo of one?
Post by: oldspice on June 11, 2006, 07:16:38 pm
Post by: smurfboy on June 11, 2006, 08:25:50 pm
Does anyone have a photo of the Terry's Mint Pyramid. We had the odd one or two (or more!!) back in 1989 when we visited the UK. We've told friends about how delicious they were but they simply don't believe us that such a product even existed.
Tell them to bugger off.
Post by: goldencup on June 12, 2006, 08:47:53 am
now come on why would we have a photo of one?
Note to self: in future if I find a particularly nice chocolate product, be sure to take a photo of it for safe-keeping.
Post by: loulou on June 12, 2006, 12:17:10 pm
Good idea.
Post by: smurfboy on June 12, 2006, 02:20:37 pm
now come on why would we have a photo of one?
It's not that silly a question is it? There are lots of images in the discontinued section of old products, and others have been pasted in the forum by members.
Post by: loulou on June 12, 2006, 09:00:44 pm
Post by: goldencup on June 12, 2006, 09:06:18 pm
Post by: loulou on June 12, 2006, 09:07:14 pm
I'm on your side GC.
Post by: EasterBunny on June 12, 2006, 09:13:09 pm
actually, i'm more likely to have kept the box- great shape and it kept the smell mmmmmmmm minty
Post by: goldencup on June 12, 2006, 09:15:47 pm
I'm on your side GC.
