After such a long running and catchy commercial, the decision to rename the product was commercial suicide - if ever there was league table of bad corporate decisoins, that would have to be up there..!
I have to say that the Snickers scandal was the hardest for me to accept. Not that I have. I still find myself occasionally wanting a Marathon. Not once have I contemplated needing a Snicker. It's just not Rounders.
Derek
PS: Opal Fruit >> Starburst - why was there no vote?
"The first duty of Port is to be red" Ernest H. Cockburn
Admin: a fair move, but please mark this thread with where it came from, and mark that with where this went. (Precedent elsewhere on the web is why, well, do I need to say? Just do it.)
Back on topic and can we stop the obsesson with putting "Dairy Milk" in front of everything, please? I had no problems with Whole Nut, Fruit & Nut and Caramel and didn't need to be reminded that it had Dairy Milk covering them. Shock horror! Buttons are made from Dairy Milk - we know.
KillerB wrote:...can we stop the obsesson with putting "Dairy Milk" in front of everything, please? I had no problems with Whole Nut, Fruit & Nut and Caramel and didn't need to be reminded that it had Dairy Milk covering them.
Actually, they don't. They have Cadbury's Dairy Milk Chocolate covering them. If it just had Dairy Milk (presumably as opposed to Sheep's Milk or Soya Milk) covering them then
(a) it would be more of a challenge to wrap; and
(b) you'd get your feet wet every time you opened a bar and all the milk fell out of the wrapper leaving you with a soggy collection of nuts (from the Whole Nut bar) or nuts and raisins.
Alex
Top Ports in 2023: Taylor 1896 Colheita, b. 2021. A perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
AHB wrote: (b) you'd get your feet wet every time you opened a bar and all the milk fell out of the wrapper leaving you with a soggy collection of nuts (from the Whole Nut bar) or nuts and raisins.
The qualifying statement was very helpful in removing a disturbing image that was developing in my head
"The first duty of Port is to be red" Ernest H. Cockburn
Snickers was always Snickers on this side of the pond. But why Raiders had to change its name into Twix is beyond me. It happened just as quickly as Smith's into Lay's and Oil of Ulay into Oil of Olaz and then just Olaz.
Ronnie - Twix was always Twix here. A single Twix is obviously a Unix.
Ulay is now Olay here so that doesn't even make it international.
Smith's got taken over by Walkers, which is why you now have the Walkers colour scheme but no idea why they are called 'Lays'.
My Olivio margarine is now called Bertolli, which is an oil.
The Midland Bank is now HSBC. So long Griffin.
The Liberal Party is now The Liberal Democratic Party.
Labour turned into New Labour then dropped the New. Should this now be called Ye Olde Originale Laboure Partye? Or New Improved Labour, now with added socialism? Or Reduced Spin Labour? Or Bugger an Election We Might Lose Labour?
I never could get the hang of the Conservative or Tory thing.
Smith's got taken over by Walkers, which is why you now have the Walkers colour scheme but no idea why they are called 'Lays'.
I'm very willing to accept that, but why then have the 'special categories' (Bugles, Wokkels, Chipitos and all the other gross stuff that we Dutchies like so much) changed back to Smith's after being Lays for a short while... I think I'm not smart enough for global marketing.
As a lover of Rowntree-MacIntosh, who had some of the greatest choclate brands ever: Toffee Crisp; Rolos; Kit-Kat; Smarties; Fruit Gums; Fruits Pastilles, I object strongly to them being called Nestlé.
What's more, when I was a kid the song went "Nestle's Milky Bar". It was only when some language pedant noticed the accent that they had to sing "Nestlé's Milky Bar" adding an extra quaver to the vocal. This is confusing as Quavers were made by Golden Wonder, which was also taken over by Walkers.
KillerB wrote:The Liberal Party is now The Liberal Democratic Party.
Labour turned into New Labour then dropped the New. Should this now be called Ye Olde Originale Laboure Partye? Or New Improved Labour, now with added socialism? Or Reduced Spin Labour? Or Bugger an Election We Might Lose Labour?
I never could get the hang of the Conservative or Tory thing.
