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drterror_6_6_6

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I Found My Answers!
« on: August 07, 2013, 06:54:16 pm »
I don't know if some of the older members remember, but I wanted to know about a couple of things I ate in my youth that had been discontinued long ago. One was a chocolate bar with hexagonal pieces filled with raspberry or strawberry cream and the other was a type of boiled sweet that I used to love; I even remember the advert! Well, wonder no longer...

On my time away from this forum, I did a little bit of digging. Firstly, the chocolate bar. I remember thinking it was a Secret, but now I know that was that gunky mess covered in a chocolate bird's nest. No, what I remember was a Cadbury's Zousse.



That's about the only photo I can find anywhere; I'm sorry it's so big. I knew immediately when I saw it. It had hexagonal pieces which were filled with this lovely strawberry mousse; the flavour was pretty powerful. They seemed to appear in my local sweet shop in the 80's and then they were gone. Anyone remember those?

The second thing was a boiled sweet and I knew it wasn't a Spangle, because it was the wrong shape. No it was Trebor Blobs!



Again, I apologise for the size of the photo. They had lots of different flavours like Toffee Apple, Fizzy Cider, Fizzy Cola, Raspberry & Sherbet, Strawberry & Cream and Apple, Banana & Pear! So, does anyone remember those?

I was so happy when I realised that I'd uncovered some of the mysteries of my sweet eating youth. I don't think I need to find any other answers now.

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Re: I Found My Answers!
« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2013, 04:24:13 am »
Well done hunting these don. I personally have never head of them.
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Re: I Found My Answers!
« Reply #2 on: August 08, 2013, 10:29:46 am »
No, I can't say I've heard of them either, but then I'm not that old!!!  ;D

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Re: I Found My Answers!
« Reply #3 on: August 08, 2013, 08:32:55 pm »
I remember both of these but, being well on the way to my middle years by then, I don't think I tried either of them.
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Re: I Found My Answers!
« Reply #4 on: August 09, 2013, 11:30:38 am »
That Zousse bar does sound nice though, although I'm not sure about those crazy Blobs flavours!

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Re: I Found My Answers!
« Reply #5 on: August 09, 2013, 11:11:21 pm »
Wow - never heard of Zousse. I wonder if it was a regional trial? Cadbury did it a lot in the eighties.
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« Reply #6 on: August 12, 2013, 07:49:55 pm »
It's beginning to look like it was a regional trial. No-one seems to have heard of one. There are a number of people who've heard of Blobs, though.

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Re: I Found My Answers!
« Reply #7 on: August 18, 2013, 10:42:29 am »
Certainly remember Blobs but not Zousse.
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Re: I Found My Answers!
« Reply #8 on: August 18, 2013, 05:00:10 pm »
That Zousse bar cannot be that old surely?

When did nutritional labelling first appear on foods?
I would have thought in the early to mid 90's.

Apparently the bar was out in the mid 80's.

I didn't think that kind of labelling was that old! :o
« Last Edit: August 18, 2013, 05:02:14 pm by Dr Zoidberg »

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Re: I Found My Answers!
« Reply #9 on: August 18, 2013, 06:46:17 pm »
The best before date looks like 1989, so I must have been eating them around that time, if not before.

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Re: I Found My Answers!
« Reply #10 on: August 19, 2013, 05:08:07 am »
15p for a choccy bar! Ah, those were the days.
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