Vintage UK Sweets & Snack Adverts (Vol.8)

[@m75s87]

The comments on these vids are always ace. It’s always interesting to see what folk remember.

[@museonfilm8919]

Run the Bounty and Flake adverts on prime time TV in 2022, and there would be a lynching!! However, I for one - would like to see more of those!

[@jwb52z9]

You can add the Siiesta bar also, if you're talking about American TV.

[@J_M_E_83]

I'm only staying alive to see if they come out with time travel! It would be straight back to 1983 for me

[@xFF7xGIRLx]

Toffo's were my favourite!

[@davidmothersill1318]

Brings back great memories also them tv sets were brilliant

[@DanceySteveYNWA]

Back when chocolate 🍫 bars actually filled you up for half hour

[@markrigg7038]

Marathon, massive compared to today

[@RetroSteveUK]

Yeah, you can really see that when someone in an old advert holds one in their hand.

[@redblade8160]

A “Marathon bar” today or “Snickers” is not only smaller; they also have an inferior flavour. Which is not as good as the original.

[@thefrecklepuny]

What happened to Drifter bars? I used to like those a lot! Bring 'em back!

[@jwb52z9]

Late 2018 was the last time you could buy a Drifter bar.

[@jwb52z9]

I have never seen a "Jive Talker" in a commercial before. That's really funny that they put translations in for him. These ads like this just make me wish even more that it wasn't so expensive to get foods delivered from around the world. :)

[@OofusTwillip]

Hubba Bubba - The old man who says, "He's a-comin!" is Dub Taylor, an American character actor, who worked mostly in Westerns, starting in the 1940s. In the 1980s, he was a regular on "Hee Haw".

[@tuco7398]

The cowboy who blows the bubble then blows on it was a ranch hand on "the high chapperal"

[@stephenchecksfield632]

I remember the Rowntrees Toffos they had flavours like banana and strawberry and chocolate also in a tube yummy they were

[@philgarage2522]

I just wish we new what year these were but brought back some nice memories 😃👍👍🇬🇧

[@stevestocker8467]

Love it! Single malt and double nostalgia 👌

[@elizaann8495]

Opal fruits narrated by Willy Ruston who narrated Trap door

[@martinworld7214]

I get a lot more out of school trips these days :) you sir are a legend . Helped me get away from my Blue Ribband blues - aaaooowwwwwwwww

[@TheRetroManRandySavage]

6:10 do you catch my drift, lol. Heard that plenty of times in the school playground. That catchphrase really caught on.😂

[@TheRetroManRandySavage]

Loved opal fruits. Whatever happened to them? All these years later and I still call a snickers bar a marathon. 😂

[@RetroSteveUK]

Opal Fruits changed their name to Starburst.

[@TheRetroManRandySavage]

@@RetroSteveUK I'll have for some when I'm next in the shop.

[@jwb52z9]

@@TheRetroManRandySavage They changed the name to Starburst in about 1967 when they first started being sold in the US. Not long ago, they had a special packaging that labeled them Opal Fruits in the UK again, but I think that is over now.

[@OofusTwillip]

Thrifties - Jam voiced by Rita Webb.

[@jaybe2908]

I fancy having a trio bar now, cheers for that, shame they are difficult to get nowdays.

[@JamBar1873]

1:22 ‘Our striker’s worth half a million laddie!’ Being Scottish myself, I don’t know if we have a striker worth half a million today. Sigh.

[@TheRetroManRandySavage]

When was the last, Ally mcCoist.😂

[@roywilson4514]

Brilliant

[@mattw8332]

Whatever happened to pickled onion flavoured crisps? I liked 'em! Love the image of the wood grain TV set on these videos. "TRIO...TRI-I-I-O..." 😃 Loved those adverts

[@RetroSteveUK]

Picked Onion Monster Munch are still available. I once made the mistake of eating three packets in a row. They wrecked my tongue & I was sore for a few days.

[@gibbie80s61]

Walkers also do Pickled Onion, though they can be harder to find. I just got a box off of Amazon. They are as strong as the Monster Munch.

[@FatNorthernBigot]

There were a lot of sweets in the Wild West.

[@stevedickson5853]

Hellas bars were absolutely yummy, Strawberry or mint flavour were tops.

[@JamBar1873]

Size of a Marathon bar compared to a Snickers.

[@MultiKs22]

they were previously known as marathon but the changed the name to snickers in 1990. for what reason i don't know why it seemed a bit idiotic the were cheaper as well back then

[@redblade8160]

@@MultiKs22 Many of the British confectionaries had their names changed when American Companies bought them up. Example: “Starburst” used to be known as “Opal Fruits”. “Skittles” “ “ “ “ “ “Treats”.

[@jwb52z9]

@@MultiKs22 As far as I know, the UK was the only part of the world where they were known as Marathon.

[@thefrecklepuny]

Yep. A tropical paradise is best encapsulated by sweetened desiccated coconut, coated in chocolate mass-produced in a confectionary factory! Cynical mode now off!

[@candythomson844]

I always preferred the dark ones then the milk ones

[@BenPanced]

Mike Berry in the Blue Riband ad? And I'm pretty sure the Hubba Bubba ad was shown with a change in the packaging in the US

[@klisher]

Joann Kenny in the Sunpat advert. used to be in Grange Hill. Died in 2009

[@RetroSteveUK]

RIP🪦

[@davidjones6470]

Nice one sir 🤘

[@El-Ritmo]

It’s fun to suddenly think about exactly what’s being said in an advert, and realise just how stupid it is (when normally you’re only vaguely paying attention, because it’s an advert). “Wrigley’s Spearmint Gum, tastes so good you’ll just love to chew it” - how is this a valid slogan?!? “Food, tastes so good you’ll just love to eat it”. 🤔 “Made to make your mouth water”, though. Now that was a classic, and made sense.

[@OofusTwillip]

Trio - Inspired by Stan Freberg's version of "Banana Boat Song".

[@elainebeckford99]

Snaps cost 2p when I first started getting pocket money. Walkers crisps were 2.5p

[@RetroSteveUK]

I remember a lot of things having a half pence price, too. 19½p for a drink can at one point.

[@Fallenlords1969]

Size of that Flake - two Flakes today don't even match the size or taste as nice.

[@mgthestrange9098]

I wonder if the Kick bar was ever mistaken for an ice cream Kit Kat?

[@RetroSteveUK]

I had a similar thought when I saw that.

[@mgthestrange9098]

@@RetroSteveUK I also wonder if Nestle/Rowantree ever threatened legal action, the name is quite similar.

[@RIXRADvidz]

Marathon Bar : in the UK it was the US's Snickers bar, the Marathon in America was the UK's Curly Wurly still have Bounty bars, they're better than Mounds, I've eaten enough of each to know. wasn't the Past funny? must have been, we're all being entertained by it here in the Future.

[@redblade8160]

RIXRADvidz. You're wrong, "Marathon bars" were made by "Mars" (a British company at the time), then went through a name change to "Snickers" when "Mars" sold their business to America.

[@jwb52z9]

@@redblade8160 Sorry, the US had a chocolate bar called a Marathon that was braided chocolate like the Curly Wurly.

[@victorhernandez8723]

5:57 Is that Cleavon Little as that pimp?

[@RetroSteveUK]

I don't think so. He was the Sheriff in Blazing Saddles, wasn't he?

[@AndreiTupolev]

Goodness, the Bounty ad was surprisingly erotic wasn't it

[@RetroSteveUK]

Oh, yes! A lot of them were, though.

[@mgthestrange9098]

Used to love a boost, especially coconut but the last time I had one, it tasted like cheap chocolate. Shame, used to be a lovely bar.

[@thomascook578]

I don't remember Walls Kick

[@Sheffield_Steve]

Drifters! The chocolate bar I would always reach for on the shelves 1st!! It's about time Nestlé brought them back, idiots! 😡

[@JamBar1873]

So I was once told that legendary F1 commentator Murray Walker worked in advertising and came up with the Mars slogan ‘A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play’. Is this true or another urban legend??

[@RetroSteveUK]

It's widely accepted but I don't think it's ever been confirmed.

[@InAMinMaths]

His was made to make your mouth water

[@AndreiTupolev]

I think the great man did deny it actually. He certainly did work in advertising though

[@redblade8160]

These must be American ads; I've never seen any of them.

[@RetroSteveUK]

Before your time, maybe?

[@redblade8160]

@@RetroSteveUK I doubt it; I was born in 1957 and I still remember the ads from the 1960's, 70's, and 80's but none of that lot in the video!

[@jwb52z9]

@@redblade8160 They weren't US ads because only the gum products were ever sold in the US directly.

[@mattabouttrails]

Yep, these are defo UK ads, remember most of them. Watch alot of tv as a kid.

[@martinworld7214]

your parents must have starved you from the tele as i can remember 90% of them (& still sing them to myself)

[@RcNerd]

More bubble no trouble.