Cadbury Gambit

[martydee]

Anyone remember Gambit's? They were 15p and had an advert with a cartoon man who stopped at a canyon and couldn't get across. He had a bite of Gambit, pulled a rainbow from the sky and used it as a bridge to cross the canyon. It came in a burgandy colour wrapper with gold writing I think.

[smurfboy]

A new one on me

[oldspice]

What was it like? Can you describe it? I know the same but can't picture the filling?

[martydee]

I'm sure it was a solid bar, not very big and was a mixture of milk and dark (bournville) chocolate.

[oldspice]

That doesn't sound like anything I remember. How long ago?

Gambit - nowt to do with Fred Dinenage - it was a blend of Cadbury's milk and plain chocolate. Presumably the nature of the portion you bit into at any one time was the 'gambit'. Or perhaps not.

http://tv.cream.org/specialassignments/bestbefore/arksweet.h tm

 

[martydee]

Was in the 80's.

What was your most favourite childhood sweet?
Do you remember Gambit bars? They consisted of two strips of chocolate, one plain and one milk, stuck together. Nobody else seems to have any memory of them. I suppose it’s possible that my subconscious has generated a novelty Eighties confection, but it does seem a little unlikely.

http://www.forthone.co.uk/showdj.asp?DJID=27303

 

[anothersparkle]

I remember Gambit! Was it milk chocolate...?  Was it plain...?

Who knows.

 

The tv ad was a surrealist masterpiece (as far as tv advertising goes) and the chocolate was delicious.  In fact, I'm going to write to Cadburys and ask them where all the Gambit bars have gone-somewhere under the rainbow perhaps.

Bring back Gambit!

 

[anothersparkle]

What was your most favourite childhood sweet?
Do you remember Gambit bars? They consisted of two strips of chocolate, one plain and one milk, stuck together. Nobody else seems to have any memory of them. I suppose it’s possible that my subconscious has generated a novelty Eighties confection, but it does seem a little unlikely.

http://www.forthone.co.uk/showdj.asp?DJID=27303

It wasn't two strips of chocolate though, it was one bar with two types of chocolate all mixed up.  It was sort of plain milk chocolate, or was it milky plain chocolate?  Either way, it was yummy and my life is incomplete without it.