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Old Products / galexy chocolate
« on: March 16, 2008, 06:49:20 pm »

Since MARS closed one of there 2 large factories on the SLOUGH TRADING ESTATE near WINSOR they have moved much of there production to EUROPE and in doing so lost the originality and quality of there products, i understand the MARS BAR will remain in the UK. if u want A NICE CHOCHOLATE from a uk company (and yes still made here) TRY beeches chocholates THERE VERY NICE AND MADE IN PRESTON LANCS!!!, well at least i tried.


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Old Products / After Eights
« on: March 16, 2008, 06:23:52 pm »

As far as i know AFTEREIGHT are made at the nestle factory in frankfurt germany i agree they dont taste the same and are packaged differently. I know another large part of the vast ROWNTREE FACTORY in york is going to close and be re-developed, i imagine that will involve moving more products overseas as KRAFT did when they bought out TERRY,S and CADBURY,S are planning to do when they close there BRISTOL factory, NOT TO MENTION mars WHO HAVE CLOSED ONE OF THERE LARGE FACTORIES in SLOUGH and moved many of there products to europe.  Its about time we boycotted there products and bought ENGLISH  only , problem is we dont know whats made where. I think this is common with everything thats changing and its nice to have nostalgic memories of when life was simple and uncomplicated..


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Old Products / bring back golden cup
« on: March 16, 2008, 06:10:19 pm »
When a huge europen money orientated conglomerate like NESTLE buys huge swathes of our confectionary industry its inevitable what will happen, the same applies to KRAFT who bought out TERRY,S and now we hear CADBURYS are closing there large factory in BRISTOL and moving production to POLAND is it any surprise our products either vanish for good or taste like crap. In fact i am surprised CADBURY,S has,nt moved to china AFTER ALL EVERYTHING ELSE WE BUY SEEMS TO ORIGINATE FROM THERE.

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Old Products / Reward Chocolates
« on: March 16, 2008, 04:58:55 pm »
REWARD chocholates were made here in NORWICH at the former MACKINTOSH FACTORY eventually taken over by the NESTLES and closed. the production line was next door to the WEEKEND line and consisted of about 60 woman sat on chairs with trays of chocholates beside them , all filled by hand. a very friendly place to work and now sadly demolished. Just for the record a large part of the factory was devoted to production of YORKIE . The busiest area was ROLO, incidently they also made a dark chocholate ROLO only sold for the GERMAN market. other sections of the factory were for the manufacture of GOLDEN CUP, CARAMAC and MUCHIES, MINTOLA and TURKISH DELIGHT . the factory also made EASTER EGGS and about 3 or 4 chocholates for ROWNTREE of YORK which ended up in there BLACK MAGIC BOX.

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Old Products / Weekend
« on: March 16, 2008, 04:45:31 pm »
I worked at the FACTORY here in NORWICH which was the home of  WEEKEND  and REWARD , unfortunately the product and the factory are history.

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Old Products / prize
« on: March 16, 2008, 04:42:32 pm »
The Prize bar was made at the old MACKINTOSH factory here in NORWICH , taken over by the infamous swiss giant and closed soon after. we also made CARAMAC there and GOLDEN CUP and ROLOS, when i first started working there i was involved with production of WEEKEND and REWARD all now sadly a memory just like the factory demolished 4 years ago....now a shopping centre.

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