Seen Christmas stuff on sale today...

[Alison]

you can get Cadburys cream eggs(yuck) all year round

They were lovely when I was a kid - had one a couple of years ago, am sure it was smaller and it tasted vile

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They were lovely when I was a kid - had one a couple of years ago, am sure it was smaller and it tasted vile

Sooner have a walnut whip!!!

[Alison]

Sooner have a walnut whip!!!

They're good but not been the same since they stopped doing the plain chocolate ones with coffee filling. Guess I was the only person that liked them.

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They're good but not been the same since they stopped doing the plain chocolate ones with coffee filling. Guess I was the only person that liked them.

I don't think they put the walnut in the bottom any more?
Were originally made by Duncan (when I was young)

[Alison]

I'm now sad enough to google walnut whips - the Nestles site says "Launched in 1910, Walnut Whip is Nestle Rowntree's oldest current brand. It was previously made by Duncan's of Edinburgh. Over 1 million walnuts are used every week in the manufacture of Walnut Whips at Halifax, West Yorkshire. Most of them are imported from China and India. The original Walnut Whip used to have a walnut placed inside the shell as well as on top. Almost one Walnut Whip is eaten every 2 seconds in the UK. Walnut Whip generated £8million of sales in 2003."

Didn't know most of that but it's kind of put me off them.

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I'm now sad enough to google walnut whips - the Nestles site says "Launched in 1910, Walnut Whip is Nestle Rowntree's oldest current brand. It was previously made by Duncan's of Edinburgh. Over 1 million walnuts are used every week in the manufacture of Walnut Whips at Halifax, West Yorkshire. Most of them are imported from China and India. The original Walnut Whip used to have a walnut placed inside the shell as well as on top. Almost one Walnut Whip is eaten every 2 seconds in the UK. Walnut Whip generated £8million of sales in 2003."

Didn't know most of that but it's kind of put me off them.

I think he Halifax factory was originally owned by Macintosh

[Pumpkin Becki]

We used to have a Rowntree factory over at Maidstone when I was a little girl, right near the Maidstone Football Club grounds!

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We used to have a Rowntree factory over at Maidstone when I was a little girl, right near the Maidstone Football Club grounds!

I think that my have been Trebor I think their other factory is(was?) in Chesterfield!

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There used to be a sweet factory near to my Grandmothers in Radford(Nottingham) I think it was Barnhips?

[Shortie]

Bubblewrap... how do you know so much about sweet factories??

[skegblade]

My fave sweet factory is in Sheffield; Bassetts. Still the best liquorice allsorts.

Talking of old sweets; can anyone remember the sweet tobacco stuff and what they called it?

[zebedee]

Sooner have a walnut whip!!!

Ooooh, anything with a whip! Must be on bare skin, coz I'm not into protected smacking!!! Not so sure about the walnut in the bottom, though!

[Pumpkin Becki]

I think that my have been Trebor I think their other factory is(was?) in Chesterfield!

Do you know, I think you're right, but I was only a little girl at the time. Have you been Googling sweetie factories by any chance?

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Bubblewrap... how do you know so much about sweet factories??

Guess what I wear dentures!!

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Do you know, I think you're right, but I was only a little girl at the time. Have you been Googling sweetie factories by any chance?

No a good memory from reading sweet packets.

What about Fry's of Bristol

or Terry's of York
Trebor in Chesterfield is(or was) next to the railway station