Vintage UK Sweets & Snack Adverts (Vol.1)
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- Опубликовано: 8 июн 2024
- Vintage sweets & snack adverts from British TV, hand-picked for this compilation with cleaned-up audio & video. Check out the playlists on my channel page for more vintage ad compilations: / retrosteveuk
Chapter Markers:
00:00 Bounty
00:31 Cadbury's Fingers
01:03 Cadbury's Creme Eggs
01:32 Kit Kat (You Can't Sing)
02:03 Jacob's Club
02:35 Cadbury's Flake
03:06 Extra Strong Mints
03:17 Hula Hoops
03:58 Smarties
04:18 Applause
04:49 Galaxy
05:30 Milk Tray
05:42 Kit Kat (Scarecrow)
06:13 Penguin
06:45 Mars Bar
07:15 Bacon Flavour Fries
07:45 Walkers Crisps
08:18 Relays
08:49 Polo Spearmint
09:20 Kit Kat (Grandfather Clock)
09:51 KP Nuts 
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The 80s was the best decade when life was so care free ❤️ 😊😊
My Dad directed two of the best Flake ads - along with many others - thanks for the memories
Those adverts were art, pure and simple.
Cool.
A very nice and classic way to have a claim to fame...kudos to your dad...
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Wow respect
Great memories. Back in the days when chocolate bars were a decent size, the adverts on TV were entertaining and funny and they weren't all about the same 3 things, holidays, gambling and life insurance. Oh how things have changed.
Some bars you can get at the same size, but they are called "giant" or somesuch, and cost twice as much as the regular, smaller bar!
@@gamingtonight1526 Packed in twice as much sugar.
That's it exactly. And feck me they was cheaper.
I don’t buy any chocolate or sweets now because of the rip off price and reduce size the big benefits I have lost a lot of weight and can now swim 30 lengths of the pool with out stopping
Hell yeah!!!!
Loved them days!
Now, pot noodles don’t taste the same!!!!
I’m upping arms!!! 😂
The adverts were entertaining in the 80s I enjoyed watching them as a kid 🤩 happy days
Thank you so much for taking me back to my childhood. This is how you go back in time 🙏🏼
Back when adverts advertised more than bloody life insurance and gambling.
Think it's cause you can't advertise sweets and fags anymore.
@@yolomorgannwg7713 excellent
Aye, gambling, booze, repeat, energy drinks, junk food, just eat, junk, poisons, depression inducing non sense.
Don't forget bloody mattress
@@saturn1returns panty pads , huge arses being a skater ,dont want to see women talking about periods , in the 80s it was a bit of ink squirted on it ,and tombola whats that about people doing things that arent online talking about being online bingo its like the online version of why dont you ,why dont you go to a bingo hall and do something less boring instead , casinos wtf i went years ago it was full of scruffy people and chinese not at all like thunderbirds or james bond livid livid i was
Cabana bar....a definite favourite of mine
I was quite partial to a Caramac, myself.
These videos are brilliant. This is like re living part of your childhood. Thank you for all your hard work 👍
You're welcome! 🙂
The Jacob's Club Wizard of Oz ad was brilliant
Surprisingly good at the time, and still holds up today.
0.58 Harry the spider's coming out party!!! Cripes!!
Great ads a great era
The Galaxy advert, "why have cotton when you can have silk", introduced me to my favourite piece of music - Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin. The follow up advert also used a Gershwin piece - an excerpt from the Ballet sequence in An American in Paris.
14p for a KitKat. Amazing value compared to today. I remember crisps used to be 12p in the 80s. And golden wonder was the brand of choice. Have you seen how small the twirl and whisper bars are in the 4 pack costing £1.25? Any smaller, they'll be nothing there! Why did the government ever allow Cadburys to be sold to Craft, I'll never know.
The only specific price memory I have is 9 1/2p for a slim can of pop.
People's salary have went up costs more people to make it duh .
@@RetroSteveUK I can remember paying 7p for a bag of skips from the school tuck shop. Not sure of the exact year but I'm guessing 78 / 79 as we still got a little bottle of milk after the morning break :)
@@MrDirkles I remember the break time milk. 1/4 pint bottle with a straw. They weren't refrigerated though, so the milk always had a slight sour taste to it. I remember hating it for that reason.
@@RetroSteveUK haha I used to refuse to drink the milk that wasn't cold because it had been left in the sun after being delivered, much to the annoyance of the teacher.
Love the kit kat ones. Forgot how funny they were
They should do a rerun on tv, everyone would love it!
Good old happy days
Yep😊
I'll always remember when I was on University Challenge and the starter question was "who lost the final of the 1994 snooker world championship to Stephen Henry?" I pressed the buzzer, said "Um, was it Jimmy White?" and Jeremy Paxman said "Yes, yes it was". For some reason the other contestants (who were very nice) thought that was the coolest question to get right. And it made my mum laugh.
*Hendry
Nice one ☝
Bounty was definitely paradise! Great chocolate and great ads!!!
That's Katrina Skepper in the Flake ad - check her out - she also appeared in one of the James Bond main title sequences. Great jingle by the late Ronnie Bond who did endless jingles for ads.
'Smarties Place' jingle written AND sung by Mike Batt!
In the 80s those Milk Tray ads got shorter and shorter. The original actor Gary Myers played him for years (1968-1984). James Coombes took over the role in 1987.
The late, great Roy Kinnear in the Kit Kat ad - his co-star is Su Pollard.
Applause sounds nice
I remember eating a couple of those & being gutted when they stopped selling them. They were lovely.
I rembember when some companies really did put real money inside their crisps, snacks and drinks. I won a few quids from couple of Walkers and won 10 pounds was inside the Ovaltine can. This was way back in 1988. The note was folded so small into a square shape and was placed inside a simple plastic.
You won't ever find anything like that anymore without giving up your personal info and doesn't even guarantee you could get any prizes
I do remember that. I've always wondered what happened to any cash in packets that might have ended up being disposed of in some way.
I remember as late as the early '90s, cash-in-hand promotions inside crisp packets. A workmate landed a tenner; I found maybe a couple of free packet vouchers. Not complaining.
Agreed about the loss of that type of promotion. I don't know if they still put 'gifts' (plastic effigy tat) inside boxes of breakfast cereal because I don't buy breakfast cereal - but what happened to the good old 'send (as in write and post) name and address' / 'answer a simple question' / 'coin a catchphrase' / 'collect vouchers' type of promotion?
I think the unfortunate truth is that the entities which run those companies now have carved up a crony monopoly which corrupts our governments and spies on us through electrical gadgets. They're pushers, not dealers.
One of the voices in the Penguin ad is definitely Bernard Bresslaw.
Christopher Biggins voice-over sandwiches Bernard Bresslaw's voice-over segment.
Wow, they got Cab Calloway for Hula Hoops. Very impressive!
Yes, I thought that. A touch of class.
Spearmint Polos, Danny John-Jules! Fantastic!
Jimmy White was always my favourite snooker player. Still is!
The vintage adverts are just the Cadbury's Ticket for a tea break with McVities Fruit Jaspers.
Crackin ! Thanks for posting
Great days 😆😆 The KitKat add is genius ! Remember it well 👍👍👍👍👍
Unlike the majority of ‘Wizard of Oz parodies in advertising that _Jacob’s Club_ effort is impressively accurate (visually) to the classic 1939 film. Very accurate in fact. Must’ve cost them a fair bit!!
I had the same thought. It is impressive.
Why would it cost anymore than any other advert, the cast, the duration, the screen set, I fail to see why you come to that conclusion.
@@MT-rc7mv These are clearly bespoke-tailored costumes meticulously designed to closely resemble the originals. That’s assuredly a more expensive prospect compared to most other Oz-themed adverts of which typically feature loose, probably hired in approximations of said costumes…
Regardless, if ‘must’ve cost them a fair bit’ still bemuses you then by all means swap it out for ‘superb attention to detail!’ or similar!
@@makara80
I can see the attention to detail is definitely a step up compared to the bog standard advert, though actual cost would depend upon timeslot of the advert for the captive audience
@@MT-rc7mv It's plain obvious to most people why?
I don’t remember Relays but they sound bloody nice! 😋
The flake advert is a classic advert
I’d love to see the years these were on tv it would be so much better. I was born in 84 and feel like I would have seen some of these when I was a little toddler. My son now will probably be watching a RUclips video like this when he’s older wondering exactly the same 😂
I originally intended to include the years of broadcast on the TV display, but the research was taking way too long (time I just don't have to spare), so I decided to go with presenting them as-is.
The 20th century. When we really did get our money's worth. It'd be great if they brought all of the deleted snacks back. On the other side, these ads are memorable. Today's ads are truly forgettable.
Nice to see the old Smarties colours again however fleetingly.
Great stuff. Every ad is familiar here.
A personal stereo.. 😂😀😂
I've been known to say that still.
My mum would buy me these in the 70s , sadly those days have gone and so has my old mum.
BRILLIANT STUFF STEVE thanks for this i absolutely love this sort of thing the memories are unbelievable the thing that gets me is at the time you don't realise how Good it is please keep them coming X CHARLOTTE 👌🙏🎅
Will do. Collecting these old ads has become quite the obsession, (in a good way.) 👍
Brilliant memories Steve of the classic ads 👍
Cab Calloway doing the Hoops was genius! Must’ve cost em a few quid!!
I bet. Memorable ad, though. They probably made it back in sales boosts, big time.
That was Cab Calloway? God, he looks so different than I remember
It should have been Betty Boop doing the hula dance though.
god I'd forgotten that one
I miss those times before the
Nanny state. I'm pushing 50 and physically still feel 20+ years younger, not over weight still have all my teeth, and still eat tons of chocolate crisps and biscuits, my choice
I lived in that time when we had a lot less obesity and tons more variety and twice the size, of the tiny fun size bars and bags of mainly air we get today.
Makes me laugh that now these ads are up for banning before water shed time.
By younger unhealthier people than me 🤣
Lovley video 👍
This is a terrible thing to say, but Bounty bars make me sick. My Dad used to love them, and when we went out on a Saturday afternoon to search out model aeroplane engines, he always kept a few in the glove compartment. He especially liked the red ones - the dark chocolate. Anyway one afternoon we ran out of petrol in Bearwood of all places, Dad had to go to a phone box to call his friend to bring some, and I was very hungry and wanted my tea. As we sat, very cold, in the car, Dad said "you can have my Bounty bar if you like". So I did. And then I was violently sick. So I don't think coconut agrees with me. X
I'm with your dad on that one - I love the dark chocolate Bounties.
My mother liked Bounty but I don't think any of the rest of us did. I know I can't stand coconut - not so much the taste as the bitty bits that get between your teeth.
brilliant better then todays boring adverts
Always used to laugh at the way they opened kitkats in the ads lol. Foil flaking off on to the fingers. And if you've got fillings... Watch out!
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Ah the creme egg ad - when creme eggs were a decent size!
And tasted nice
Last time I bought Club biscuits (c. 2015) the chocolate looked a micron thin.
Only turned the telly on to watch the adverts back then.
now I mute them
Five boys and fry's bliss were my favs...plus ,you can't have a box of chocolates for sixpence but you can have a bag of Revels...
Harry the spiders coming out party 😆😆😆😁
They new, how to make adverts in those days.
Watching this video is the first time I'm the adverts in colour. I grew up with a black and white TV. My Grandad refused too pay the licence fee for a colour TV
Our first home TV was color, but we did have a portable B&W set that my sister used in her bedroom, and my Grandma's living room TV was always a B&W, for the same reasons you mentioned - cheaper license.
I think we got our first colour telly when I was about 16. The rented b & w throughout my entire childhood was a constant source of ignominy as well as being irksome to my faculty of football nut. Ironically, always having been an aficionado of b-movies, the majority of my favourite films are b & w, and I don't think I've ever ventured to try the 'colorized' option in DVD extras. The one I'd like to see colourised is Arthur Ripley's 'Thunder Road' (1958 - starring Bob Mitchum, of course) but it's not available on the DVD edition I have.
I wonder if the Hula Hoops advert would be allowed these days?...and I just realised it was the Kat from Red Dwarf on the Polo advert...
Yup, Danny John Jules. Delivering a mint performance as always 😁
Would be nice to go back in time .
If you've got a spare 1.22GW .. 🙂
I recognised Gavin Richards from Eastenders and Allo Allo as the music producer at 1:42.
Love these 70's adverts...they are iconic.
I grew up in the 70's, remember every advert...loved Relays..
Bought one or two Applause, they were nice from memory.
All the chocolate bars ect were so much bigger then...thanks to the EU we now have smaller confectionary..
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I used to like Applause bars. As for the smaller sizes, I'd put that down to companies maximising profits without increasing prices. 'Shrinkflation' I think they call it.
I cant eat any of them, not worth having as they are too small, far too sweet and barely any chocolate on them, they cant go any smaller. I would rather pay for a more expensive bar from one of the better chocolate bar makers. As for these ads, they are funny, far less irritating and non woke, unlike the insanity of today, in fact its a shock hearing the near extinct cockney accent in these ads, not heard that for decades.
Who’s the girl in the Applause ad? Can’t remember seeing either the ad or the product! She’s kinda cute!
I don't remember Relays or Applause !
Does anybody else remember the limited edition Mint Creme Egg ? It can't just be me !
I remember mint eggs, but I remember it as a different product rather than a variation on the Cadbury Creme Egg. I might have to look that up.
10% bigger KitKat. You don't see things like that these days. The modern trend is to make things smaller and try to hide it.
Story of my life, mate..
Also the taste is horrible these days. The same with rollos yuk .
10% bigger Kit Kat !? OMG everything is 50% smaller now the sugar police are on the case.
14p for a 4 finger KitKat lol
What I would like to do is to go back to this time bring back a creme egg and then buy one in 2020 and compare the SIZE 🤔🤔😂😂
I remember them being more runny, too. Those creme centres are like cake icing in some I've had in recent years.
Cant eat them since that disgusting ad.
Roy Kinnear and Sue Pollard in the Kit Kat ad.
Desmond Askew from Grange Hill was the Harry the spider boy I think.
I vaguely remember Relays. I miss Fuse bars.
Yeah, Fuses were genius. How did they mess up with those??
One moment when I was watching this video, I reached out to my TV screen to turn up the volume and then I found out the TV volume knob doesn’t work.
I'll have to get on that. I'll call the Grandada man out. 😉👍
Packets of relays ,magic 😀
Wish kitkat's were still 14p!!😁👍 Danny Joules voice of the polo mint ad?
Yes, using his 'Cat from Red Dwarf' voice.
@@RetroSteveUK Thanks!! I thought so! , getting good at voice-over guessing!!
Another great video all the sweets and chocolates got smaller apart from my stomach 😋
Chocs get smaller .. belly gets bigger. Tell me about it! 🙄
10 them creme eggs used to be. And my son thought he got a bargain yesterday at 2 for £1.50 lol.
I can't believe nobody has mentioned "Bitz" chocolate bar on here !
Polo Spearmint sounded like the Cat on Red Dwarf. Also the last kit kat on didn't she play on Hi De Hi
Yeah, both spot on. Danny John Jules & Sue Pollard.
When chocolate tasted like chocolate 🍫
Applause and Relays didn’t hit my demographic area, it would be nice to see an Opal Fruits (made to make your mouth water) or Marathon advert before they were rebranded by their conglomerate owners. A trick of all the adverts, never mention the price, in fact make it seem as if they magically appear for free! Also some of the stranger purchase points like saying Cadbury’s Bourneville dark chocolate was “for adults only” , ah, simpler times.
There's an Opal Fruits ad on one of the other Sweets compilations, and I have some Marathon ads in storage for the next Sweets collection. Watch this space.
If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit join our club. 🎶
Whatever happened to plain chocolate Bounty bars ? in the red & white wrappers. Were they ever advertised on TV ?
I know I've had one in recent years, but I've been off chocolate bars for a while so not sure if they're still out there.
They're my favourite and not so easy to find.
"A birfday in thee arse?" Does that kid mean "A birthday in the house" ?
I do love a good colloquialism! 🤣
Is that Peter Duncan in the Mars ad ?
I don't think so. Looks like him though.
9:00 is that danny John jules?
Yes
@@RetroSteveUK well he must have been young!
@@Seasider70 I think he's just old now. Same thing, I suppose. 😂
Is that Polo advert voiced by Danny John Jules?
Yes, it's definitely him. No doubt. 🐱
Is that Danny John Jules doing the Polo advert?
Yes. Same voice as Cat from Red Dwarf.
I'm sure they tasted better then as well.
Did the little boy in the Cadbury's Chocolate Fingers ad grow up to be an actor? I feel I recognise him from somewhere. He was certainly a natural. Made me laugh.
I think he played the son Stanley in Shine On Harvey Moon.
@@rosiebottom3870 Thank you. I just searched on IMDb, then googled his name (Lee Whitlock), and shocked to see has recently passed away on either 17th or 18th Feb.
So sad that I was watching him in this video yesterday (18th), as a little boy and laughing at how funny and talented he was.
@@Bev.S oh no! He was so young, God bless him.
Have u seen the size of those creme eggs....didn't realise just how small they'd got......we've been robbed...
Do you remember the Golden Egg hunt across England?
I cannot remember that.
@@RetroSteveUK Creme Egg eaters collected wrappers and sent off for books of clues, then hunted all over England for one of seven (or maybe nine) solid gold eggs hidden in things, up things or under things (presumably).
You are right about the change of size, thickness of chocolate, and yolk consistency. Proper Creme Eggs had a smooth, heavy and thick filling, but that was before Cadbury's stopped being Cadbury's.
Back in the days when chocolate bars were still a decent size,
Is 'Texan' bar mentioned in any of these volumes?
Yes. One of the Sweets compilations has it. If you're on a computer rather than a phone, the search function on the channel page will bring up the video that has it if you search for the word. I don't know why that doesn't work on phones. RUclips need to update that.
@@RetroSteveUK OK, Thank you.
I'm guessing the Walkers quiz involves the name 'David'.
Anyone know where to find the quiz?
Not a clue. Might show up in a distant corner of a Google search somewhere, maybe.
@@RetroSteveUK Maybe on page 984 once I've scrolled past all the Walking Dead quiz/Walkers Crisp holiday competition controversy results....
I love flake only it was very messy and the bits of chocolates gave away you have been eating it. My favour was Penguin, chocolate biscuit and you do not make a mess.
I always use to make it a challenge to eat a flake without dropping any bits.
Lol - Cadbury's Cream Eggs now half the size #bastards
I still can't work out of it's the eggs that are smaller or my hands that are bigger. 🥚✋🏽
I don't remember Applause at all.
I wonder what the Flake bint is up to now
www.leaderscouncil.co.uk/news/i-d-always-wanted-to-be-a-writer-but-modelling-and-acting-seduced-me-for-a-while-the-story-of-janis-levy-the-most-famous-face-on-tv-whose-name-you-didn-t-know
Rumour is that she died because someone raped her with a flake bar it was a mess
fingers advert scary
Of all the great ads, the KitKat rock band advert is the one that stayed with me the most. If only we knew how awful modern music would really become.
Brap! Bruh!
@YOLO MORGANNWG wtf
Danny John Jules made a great Polo
He'd look good in anything! 😆
Can you tell me the advert where the man says to the boy "It's Not for Kids"...It's puzzling me. Thanks.
Puzzlng me too. I remember that but can't remember the product.
I don't recall the advert but that was a cast iron edict in our household, for much of my childhood, concerning anything other than black jacks and pink prawns - i.e. penny sweets. It was a proud day for me when, aged 35, I walked into a newsagent and purchased my first Milky Way.
Muter und Fuhrer would scoff Mars bars and tell us they were 'grown-up sweets'.
Is that Sam fox in bounty advert
Nah .. well before her time. Looks like her a bit though.
Not sure that Hula Hoop advert would work these days lol
Probably not, no.
People are so easy offended
Britain has changed and not for the better as are present day commercials show.
no mention of Diabetes ?
Nah .. it would adversely affect profits.
David .......
Indeed
I agree, gambling adverts should be banned, they banned cigarette adverts, you don't always win.
Definitely all addiction should be banned.
Harry the spider is gay? 🙀
Nah .. He was thinking outside the box.
What's the difference between a Scouse bird and a Kitkat ? - You only get three fing....Actually, never mind
Ooer! 😬🤣
Bounti is the taste horrible in my mouth, coconut doosent agree with my taste buds, and have nott changeged. for 52 years, still cant handle the (fiber) bits, but open to anny other things....discusting... and holding lolipop sticks (wooden) icecram sticks givs me the chills, its the texture, fine otherwisewith wood,, no problem, weird.
It is strange. I generally don't like coconut, but a Bounty I really enjoy. 🤷🏽