When I was a child my mum used to childmind. The mother of the little girl she looked after used to create flavours in a flavour and spice company and she regularly brought samples for my sister and I to test. Hedgehog flavour was amongst them at least a year before commercial release. I loved them :)
They were artificially flavoured but were 'guaranteed' to have the authentic flavour of roasted hedgehog, by experts in Romany/Gypsy cuisine! (it said so on the bags!) My wife and I spotted them on sale during a camping trip to the Lake District in the early '80s and were so intrigued with our amazing discovery, that we went to the trouble of taking home a bag for each member of our families, only to hear my noticeably unimpressed sister tell us: "Oh yeah, they sell these down at our local corner shop!"
BTW, as someone who can't claim to have a Romany background, I can't claim to be an expert, but to my uneducated palate, they tasted EXACTLY like Smokey Bacon flavour!
The lady in the Walkers Crisps ad was Janice Long, one of the UK's longest -lasting BBC Radio DJs, and one of the most innovative, in terms of finding new talent (and genres). Very sadly she passed away just a few weeks ago.
Cadbury's Flake ads are legendary from the "how did they get away with that" standpoint. The Milk Tray ads were a James Bond parody of sorts and worth a look. Not a sweet, but the ads for the soft drink Tango were good too.
The Cornetto ad was so famous that Boddingtons did a beer ad where a bloke goes and buys a pint of Boddingtons from an ice cream van, and the girl asks him if he wants a Flake in it. I still hear that reference in pubs if you get a pint with too much head.
The Corneto advert hasn’t been on TV for decades yet Alanna who wasn’t even born in the 80s has heard Brits singing it coz they remember it decades later. That proves what a memorable advert it was. Very nostalgic too.
Thanks Alanna, that was fun! Little bit of trivia - the sexy Caramel bunny's voice was Miriam Margolyes, better know these days as Professor Sprout from Harry Potter.
The Walls Cornetto ad was so ubiquitous that, as you found, it's still sung today. It became a comedy trope on TV shows, and even mocked in a later TV commercial for beer
I was a kid in Britain in the 80s. And the 70s. "Only the crumbliest flakiest chocolate/Tastes like chocolate never tasted before." Nothing else comes close.
Sorry only French chocolate available in this video lol. To be honest I wouldn't mind but it isn't even very good. Somewhere in-between American chocolate and British chocolate. I've had some good Belgian chocolate and Swiss chocolate but Nestlé in particular make the worst chocolate unless you count Hershey bars.
A series of television commercials for Cornetto ice cream, broadcast regularly in Britain during the 1980s, used a jingle ("Just One Cornetto ...") set to the melody of "’O sole mio".
I remember most of these. I can confirm that the little boy in the Breakaway commercial was definitely speaking in a Liverpool accent otherwise known as a scouse accent as I am originally from Liverpool myself. My personal favourite adverts growing up were the Brooke Bond tea ads with chimpanzees doing parodies of the James Bond films. They looked quite expensively produced and then there were the Cadbury's flake commercials which had...er, a bit of a reputation. A lot of stuff they did in British adds back in the day you could just not get away with these days. Lol.
@@eadweard. I was a kid at the time so didn't get the reference, so I was okay. Also, loved flakes in the 99 ice creams you got from the ice cream vans.
This was a surprise for me! I do not recall any of those adverts! Yet I was definitely there. Born in UK 1951, so in my 30's around that time! My brain must resembles a strawberry Aero bar now I have forgotten so much!
I remember in a comic, there was a spoof version of the Cornetto song "Just one Cornetto, give it to me!" replied by someone else singing "Not bloody likely, they cost 90p!!!"
The After Eights advert reminded me of an ad featuring an even more decadent setting from the 1990s: Ferrero Rocher being distributed at an event hosted by a European Ambassador.
I was around but very young in the 80's and recognize most of those so thanks for the trip down Memory Lane... and the Cadburys Caramel Bunny might have been my very first television crush... ;o) Also, though, the Jaffa Cakes ad is way later than the 80's, probably 2000's...
Some absolute bangers there!! Watch 90s tango adverts. Especially the james corden ones they are ridiculous, funny and terrifying all at the same time!!
I think that the Tango ads were responsible for the craze of "Happy Slapping" which involved youths randomly slapping total strangers in the street. Very fortunately, it was short-lived.
Only seems like yesterday when I was watching these on the box . Angel Delight was really a staple desert in the ‘70s when I was a youngster especially after your Findus Pancakes . God this is a pure nostalgia trip and I’m loving it , thank you 😊
Ahh, the days when ads were worth watching! Moving on from food, the old Heineken lager (The water in Gibraltar!) and Hamlet cigars (photo booth) are worth a look if you fancy a giggle.
My favourite adverts were, the James bond style character, diving off cliffs jumping out of helecopters etc.With the strap line " And all because the lady loves Milk Tray"
Prior to “your” Smarties ad, my memory goes back further 😉 as in ‘singing’ “Smartie people are happy people, they smile all the time because they’re feeling fine as it’s Smartie time…Smartie people make funny faces, clap their hands, they're Smartie fans you know the taste is grand, we're all living in Smartie land, ba doo doo n doo doo doooo, Smaarrartiieees.” And thank you ‘bows and exits stage left to wild applause…” 😳😂
Hi Alanna,I believe that there was a legal wrangle over VAT.with Jaffa cake .it was declared a cake,because a biscuit goes soft when left ,but a Jaffa goes hard when stale,as does a cake.great video.Roly.🇬🇧.PS.the advertisements really made me feel old,but with resilience of mind over matter (that being me)not for long 😀
This. Biscuits go soft, cakes go hard. Been hearing this debate come up again a lot lately. Weird. The court case was about a tax loophole I think. Why is there less tax on cakes though?
@@deathbysnusnu515 Biscuits are classed as confectionary, so when they contain chocolate or chocolate forms a part of them, the chocolate attracts partial/proportional VAT, whereas cakes are classed as food, which is exempt from VAT, (uness it's sold hot, to compliment things,) so it was all down to whether the tax man could collect VAT on the chocolate part of a Jaffa Cake.
I love Black Magic chocolates. I ask for a box every Christmas 😂. Not long just finished this years box. Although, it definitely didn’t have as many crammed in it as that adverts box did! I love the shape of the old chocolate boxes. Also that Aero bar. That bought back some memories of it being that shape.. great video Alanna, took me down memory Lane . Lovely.
When these adverts came out M&Ms did not exist, and we had "Peanut Treets" instead. They brought back Treets in the UK in 2009, but only for one week. They are still sold by Mars in Germany today, but in an orange coloured, rather than the canary yellow packaging that used to be used in the UK.
🙋♀️🙋♀️ now I feel old!! Remember all of these sweets and treats, and even a couple of the ads (especially the Cornetto one), great video as always. Off for a snack now…
3:55: the Toffee Crisp ad contains two British obsessions: chocolate and embarrassment. 4:55: there may have been furries within Cadbury’s PR department when the Caramel ad came out.🐇🐿
If you like adverts with a story, check out the Nescafé Gold Blend ones that ran from 1987 to 1993 with Anthony Stewart Head. I think there were 12 of them that all followed on from each other.
That was a nice trip down memory lane, thank you, I didn’t realise at the start how much I would remember and enjoy. Like yourself I don’t watch adverts anymore but I find them annoying now anyway. I hope you do this again sometime, the nineties probably had some memorable ads. I hope you have a great week.
It was clearly a more innocent age where you could have a scouse kid with a tooth missing advertising chocolate and the PR department didn't have to defend the company on social media for weeks afterwards moaning that sugar is the devil's seed! Great video kid - keep 'em coming!
Nowadays the idea of a Liverpudlian kid having pinched something off his sister would probably evoke outrage that Scousers are being typecast as thieves. As if...
I'm was a child of the 80s and I remember all of these adverts. My favourite is the KitKat one, really loved this video thanks for the memories it all seems like yesterday. Ps Black Magic doesn't exist anymore.😁
Wow, they brought back some memories - I can just about remember them all. Sad to see Janice Long on the Walker's crisps advert who only just died on Christmas day. Great 'food/sweets' video, you always make them so much fun. Thanks.
Hello Alanna. These adverts take me back a bit! Loved the reactions to so many of these - you seemed a little... taken aback by the Caramel bunny ad. That's nothing to the sheer suggestive, sensual Cadbury Flake ads of that era. (If I start describing them, my glasses will steam up...🤭😳. WOW...."'Shouldn't be allowed...") There were some really creative ads back then, particularly Weetabix (breakfast cereals). "The Lone Ranger", "Robin Hood", "The Cub Scouts" "English Civil War" & "Trojan Horse" were true works of art. Must've been hugely expensive to produce but mini-masterpieces. Love the videos, keep on keepin' on, stay safe & have fun . From Yorkshire...
Born in 77 so i remember all these thanks for a trip to my chilhood and yes the caramel bunny is strange! My mom used to give me a breakaway after school with my tea bless her!
omg its like i forgot these adverts existed but seeing them again like a flash back there i am infront of the tv as a kid happier times "smarties truly did have the answer" they always did!!!
I'm surprised they didn't include the Milk Tray adverts with the James Bond type character who secretly delivers boxes of chocolates to beautiful women!
That was great fun Alanna - I recognise and have eaten large amounts of them all (I worked weekends and school hols in a sweet shop in the early 80's). Cadbury's Caramel wrappers were always mainly yellow, Fox's mints are still going strong and I have a bag in the house at the moment, Cornetto's were huge in popularity and much bigger in size back then, at the time Quality Street's big rival were Cadbury's Roses and the country seemed pretty evenly split in terms of favourites - always Roses for me! Finally, the lady doing the Walker's Crisps advert was Radio 1 DJ Janice Long (she sadly passed away recently). A great trip down memory lane, thank you!
...are you sure that Cornettos were larger in the old days, or is that just selective memory? I seem to remember Curly Wurlys about 18 inches long, and Wagon Wheels as big as dustbin lids when I was a kid😊
@@iainmalcolm9583 They were my late grandmother's favourites because they were all dark chocolate, but by her reckoning, never as good post 2005 ish when they were changed, first to all squares so you couldn't tell at a passing glance what each was, then a couple of years later back to their original shapes and sizes but the recipes had changed and she felt personally insulted by them. I'd forgotten all about that, thanks, the memory has made me smile.
Just into the 1990s there was a run of ads to inform people that what *was* known as a 'Marathon' bar was being renamed to 'Snickers' to match the rest of the world. Worth a watch. "Do you have the Snickers?" "No, it's just the way I walk!"
Ahhhh - I miss adverts that actually tell you what they're advertising - rare these days. I like to play a game called "guess what this is an advert for" . Sometimes, even if I have seen one lots of times, I still haven't a clue.
Frank Muir Cadbury Fruit and Nut advert. Absolute classic and the tune is still stuck in my, and probably lots of other peoples head to this day. Soft mints advert was very different when it came out in the 80's or 90's too. Flake ads were the most sexually charged, followed by Cadburys Caramel ads.
Great great video! With 2 Canadian references - the beaver in Cadbury's Caramel and the polar bear in Foxes glacier mints. I remember them all. Those mints really did look like mini ice cubes. Was the woman in the Cornetto ad a young Elizabeth Hurley? She would have been about 20 at the time. By the way last week a guy was killed in the Cadbury's warehouse when a palette of white chocolate fell on him - sadly whenever he shouted "The Milky bars are on me" everybody cheered. I'll get my coat.
I love how varied your videos are! It makes every video really interesting to watch! And your editing is really good too! Your videos feel really well done but also very chill! I really like them! Hope your video does well! Your videos are such a nice part of my week!
Hi, Alanna, I really enjoyed that, you were brilliant. I'm not certain some of those are still available. The accent i think was Liverpool. That was fun and really good.
Hi Alanna,loved the vid,I was around in the 80s,some of them I don’t remember, much younger & out a lot more enjoying myself then,the walkers crisp ad was with Janice Long,the first female DJ on radio one,sadly she passed away last week.the young boys accent was scouse- Liverpool.
When you get round to trying an Angel Delight go for the strawberry flavour... And buy a Cadbury's Flake, smash it up in the wrapper & then pour it ontop.
Perhaps Black Magic is a fading brand, but as a Canadian kid from the 50's I can confirm they were the go to present you bought your mother for whatever occasion required gifts. That is, unless you bought her a model airplane kit and then volunteered to help her build it.
That Jaffa Cakes ad is waaay later than 80s, fwiw. like, late 90s f'sure. Fun fact about it - watch it again and notice the spooky-looking character that pops up at the back of the class, midway through. Supposedly, there was a scene with a Headmaster character that was cut... leaving only that random, quite unnerving scene, in the final edit 😂
The Walkers crisps ads I don't think ever took off until a certain footballer took over the role. There is an excellent Tudor crisps advert from Gateshead featuring a tower block that's now been destroyed. Yes, I visited Venice and made sure to have a cornetto. Not on a gondola though because there are thieves about!
Most of my life, until the past few years, Black Magic was considered the best box of chocolates to buy here in Canada (Saskatchewan). We would always have them at Christmas and my dad would buy them for mom on special occasions. Pot Of Gold was its main competitor. Thanks for the great video!
@@AdventuresAndNaps they have been around since I was a young lady such as you. They are not the best chocolates but in a pinch. I'm 70 now so that's quite a while. You would find them in places like Walmart or Shoppers Drug Mart these days.
That was great fun Alanna! Thank you. As an Australian, all of these ads and most of the sweets were new to me so now at 0300hrs I’m hungry. And there’s NO chocolate in the house!!
Actually you did try Angel Delight back in your November 2018 video "Immigrant in the UK tries British pudding". I think I remember commenting on that video that Angel Delight works best if you serve it with some fruit then put it back in the fridge for a bit to thicken after making it.
Crushed biscoff biscuits, butterscotch angel delight layers are great cheap desert. Same with banana angel delight and crushed ginger nut biscuit layers.
I remember all of these adverts.Cadbury’s Caramel changed packaging a number of years ago. Quality Streeets used to be sold in metal tins as did Cadbury’s Roses, until they changed to plastic packaging. Black Magic is still being sold in supermarkets.
Hey Alanna, I raise my hand to both. Should I be proud to remember all of these? You've opened up a very deep well with these. For sexy, check out the 80's Cadbury's Flake ads. The lady off the Walker's advert was a famous Radio 1 DJ at the time called Janice Long. No reason you would know her, so that's fair. If you wish to cover a drinks video and like catchy advert music, search for Kia-Ora, it's too orangey for crows. The old Castlemaine XXXX adverts were really funny too.
The guy in the Toffee Crisp advert is Paul Bown, famous from the sitcom 'Watching' which ran for 6 years on ITV in the late 80s/early 90s. He also appeared in Coronation Street as Roy Cropper's brother, and is from my neck of the woods, Stoke-on-Trent.
Ah, these ad's brought back a lot of happy memories for me Alanna. The days when a Mars a day helped you work rest and play, a finger of Fudge was just enough to give your kids a treat and it was full of peppery goodness plus the fact a Milky Way was a sweet you could eat between meals without ruining your appetite, good times. Thanks for a great video this week. I shall finish by saying the Milky Bars are on me. ☺☺☺
Right, good reminder, here is the helpful, nice, sweet, fruity ... comment you expect rightfully :) (Also one of the first "words" of mine was MAA-HMM ... which phonetically tried to resemble Smarties)
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The best Kit Kat advert ever has to be "Alien Invasion" - "You can't sing, you can't play and you look awful... you'll go a long way"
No way! It's the one with the skating giant pandas and the photographer who keeps missing them! 😎😁
Does anyone else remember hedgehog flavoured crisps?? Yes, Alanna, they really did exist!
Yes! Only ever had them in one particular café too so they've acquired a perfect mythical taste for me 🙂
When I was a child my mum used to childmind. The mother of the little girl she looked after used to create flavours in a flavour and spice company and she regularly brought samples for my sister and I to test. Hedgehog flavour was amongst them at least a year before commercial release. I loved them :)
They were artificially flavoured but were 'guaranteed' to have the authentic flavour of roasted hedgehog, by experts in Romany/Gypsy cuisine! (it said so on the bags!)
My wife and I spotted them on sale during a camping trip to the Lake District in the early '80s and were so intrigued with our amazing discovery, that we went to the trouble of taking home a bag for each member of our families, only to hear my noticeably unimpressed sister tell us: "Oh yeah, they sell these down at our local corner shop!"
Yeah
BTW, as someone who can't claim to have a Romany background, I can't claim to be an expert, but to my uneducated palate, they tasted EXACTLY like Smokey Bacon flavour!
Haha! Wow! So weird to see my compilation commentated on. Glad you enjoyed some of our old TV ad memories. 🙂👍
Thanks so much for making it!!
The lady in the Walkers Crisps ad was Janice Long, one of the UK's longest -lasting BBC Radio DJs, and one of the most innovative, in terms of finding new talent (and genres). Very sadly she passed away just a few weeks ago.
Was it because Gary Linekar bludgeoned her to death? (For those of you who get the reference.)
@@hughtube5154 come on, the lady just died so it isn’t really in good taste to make jokes about it.
The Ronnie Barker ones were my favourite
@@stephenwest977 Relax it's not as if you ever even met her, sad she died but get a grip
She was Keith Chegwins sister.
The lad in the Breakaway advert is a Scouser from Liverpool
🙋🏻♂️ That smarties ad was quite a revolution. The computing power needed to make it was immense!
Oh and btw. The voice actor for the Cadbury’s and caramel bunny was Miriam Margolyes!
Cadbury's Flake ads are legendary from the "how did they get away with that" standpoint. The Milk Tray ads were a James Bond parody of sorts and worth a look. Not a sweet, but the ads for the soft drink Tango were good too.
You've been tangoed 😂😂😂😂 remember the little orange tango man we had one it was like maybe 8 inches high? Memories 😁
The Cornetto ad was so famous that Boddingtons did a beer ad where a bloke goes and buys a pint of Boddingtons from an ice cream van, and the girl asks him if he wants a Flake in it.
I still hear that reference in pubs if you get a pint with too much head.
Not only was I alive in the 80s, my kids were born in the 80s. Thanks for a lovely trip down memory Lane…. love, 😉
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The Corneto advert hasn’t been on TV for decades yet Alanna who wasn’t even born in the 80s has heard Brits singing it coz they remember it decades later. That proves what a memorable advert it was. Very nostalgic too.
I was both alive and in the UK in the 80s. This is nostalgia at its finest!
Thanks Alanna, that was fun! Little bit of trivia - the sexy Caramel bunny's voice was Miriam Margolyes, better know these days as Professor Sprout from Harry Potter.
Best pub fact ever.
It was along side bugs bunny type. Shecwas his GF
"I wasn't alive in the 80's." Thanks for rubbing it in, Alanna.
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Hmmph, reminds me of the old joke.
Man to girl: Where have you been all my life?
Girl to man: Well for first eighteen years I wasn’t even born.
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Wow. As someone born in 79 and growing up in 80s ...nostalgia overload. Brilliant.
Not sweets related ... but have you seen the PGTips and Bisto adverts from the 80s / early 90s.
Same here. And the quality of the products was better than today.
Oh no! I think that women in the Walkers crisps ad, literally just past away last week. Janice Long I think?
The crisps was Janice Long. Very famous radio personality and tv DJ . Passed away a few weeks ago.
The Walls Cornetto ad was so ubiquitous that, as you found, it's still sung today. It became a comedy trope on TV shows, and even mocked in a later TV commercial for beer
I was a kid in Britain in the 80s. And the 70s. "Only the crumbliest flakiest chocolate/Tastes like chocolate never tasted before." Nothing else comes close.
Love Flakes. Love the “all because the lady loves Cadbury’s Milk Tray”.
the flake advert was a very important part of my adolescence
Sorry only French chocolate available in this video lol. To be honest I wouldn't mind but it isn't even very good. Somewhere in-between American chocolate and British chocolate. I've had some good Belgian chocolate and Swiss chocolate but Nestlé in particular make the worst chocolate unless you count Hershey bars.
A series of television commercials for Cornetto ice cream, broadcast regularly in Britain during the 1980s, used a jingle ("Just One Cornetto ...") set to the melody of "’O sole mio".
I don't know how many times I've heard the statement "the adverts are the best part of TV" sometimes that is so true!
I remember most of these. I can confirm that the little boy in the Breakaway commercial was definitely speaking in a Liverpool accent otherwise known as a scouse accent as I am originally from Liverpool myself. My personal favourite adverts growing up were the Brooke Bond tea ads with chimpanzees doing parodies of the James Bond films. They looked quite expensively produced and then there were the Cadbury's flake commercials which had...er, a bit of a reputation. A lot of stuff they did in British adds back in the day you could just not get away with these days. Lol.
Speaking of scouse kids. Do you remember the milk adverts.
Accrition stanley!? Who are they?
Not sure how successful those flake adverts really were as they meant no man would be seen dead eating one until about 2002.
I remember there being a parody of those ads and it was called Fallic.
@@alexcockburn8975 Exactly. Yes, I remember that one but I'd forgotten about it until you reminded me, lol.
@@eadweard. I was a kid at the time so didn't get the reference, so I was okay. Also, loved flakes in the 99 ice creams you got from the ice cream vans.
It's definitive. Cakes go hard when stale. Biscuits go soft. Ergo, Jaffa cakes are cakes. 😎
If you think the Cadburys Caramel ad was suggestive check out the old Cadburys Flake ads
Ah yes, the Cadbury's Phallic
This was a surprise for me! I do not recall any of those adverts! Yet I was definitely there. Born in UK 1951, so in my 30's around that time! My brain must resembles a strawberry Aero bar now I have forgotten so much!
I remember in a comic, there was a spoof version of the Cornetto song "Just one Cornetto, give it to me!" replied by someone else singing "Not bloody likely, they cost 90p!!!"
The After Eights advert reminded me of an ad featuring an even more decadent setting from the 1990s: Ferrero Rocher being distributed at an event hosted by a European Ambassador.
I was around but very young in the 80's and recognize most of those so thanks for the trip down Memory Lane... and the Cadburys Caramel Bunny might have been my very first television crush... ;o) Also, though, the Jaffa Cakes ad is way later than the 80's, probably 2000's...
I was born in 1961, so remember those advertisements. Thank you, Alanna.
Alanna's reaction to the After Eights advert was priceless! 😂🇬🇧
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Some absolute bangers there!! Watch 90s tango adverts. Especially the james corden ones they are ridiculous, funny and terrifying all at the same time!!
I think that the Tango ads were responsible for the craze of "Happy Slapping" which involved youths randomly slapping total strangers in the street. Very fortunately, it was short-lived.
@@stephenphillip5656 I believe the ads got banned.
Great vid . Love seeing old things like this ..Thank you so much for posting this ..Byeeeee. .
Thanks so much!
Only seems like yesterday when I was watching these on the box . Angel Delight was really a staple desert in the ‘70s when I was a youngster especially after your Findus Pancakes .
God this is a pure nostalgia trip and I’m loving it , thank you 😊
Ahh, the days when ads were worth watching! Moving on from food, the old Heineken lager (The water in Gibraltar!) and Hamlet cigars (photo booth) are worth a look if you fancy a giggle.
It was "The water in Majorca don't taste like what it oughta' "
@@pginvoice3995 Damn! Yes, you're right. Memory not what it was...
The Cadbury caramel rabbit is legendary, all the lads of the day had a crush on her lol 😂😂😂😂
The Cadburys Caramel add is voiced by Myriam Margolyes, a very funny lady, find her out on videos with Graham Norton.
Or just watch that one episode of series 2 of Blackadder.
Just read that in her book, she also did voices in The Water Margin and Monkey
@@chriskerfoot491 Really?? Well I never knew that! I wonder if she did the voice for Tripitaka! 😄
My favourite adverts were, the James bond style character, diving off cliffs jumping out of helecopters etc.With the strap line
" And all because the lady loves Milk Tray"
Prior to “your” Smarties ad, my memory goes back further 😉 as in ‘singing’ “Smartie people are happy people, they smile all the time because they’re feeling fine as it’s Smartie time…Smartie people make funny faces, clap their hands, they're Smartie fans you know the taste is grand, we're all living in Smartie land, ba doo doo n doo doo doooo, Smaarrartiieees.” And thank you ‘bows and exits stage left to wild applause…” 😳😂
Haha, well remembered, I remember that ad from when I was a kid!
Hi Alanna,I believe that there was a legal wrangle over VAT.with Jaffa cake .it was declared a cake,because a biscuit goes soft when left ,but a Jaffa goes hard when stale,as does a cake.great video.Roly.🇬🇧.PS.the advertisements really made me feel old,but with resilience of mind over matter (that being me)not for long 😀
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This. Biscuits go soft, cakes go hard. Been hearing this debate come up again a lot lately. Weird. The court case was about a tax loophole I think. Why is there less tax on cakes though?
@@deathbysnusnu515 Biscuits are classed as confectionary, so when they contain chocolate or chocolate forms a part of them, the chocolate attracts partial/proportional VAT, whereas cakes are classed as food, which is exempt from VAT, (uness it's sold hot, to compliment things,) so it was all down to whether the tax man could collect VAT on the chocolate part of a Jaffa Cake.
Italians must have wondered why so many Brits on holiday would sing "Just one Cornetto...."
@@raymondporter2094 Based on "O Sole Mio"....
Some of these ads are so nostalgic., I’d forgotten a lot of them so this really takes me back. Happy days!
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You have no idea how much joy has this video brought me! Especially when you say "naughty" in 16:50 - priceless! Cheers, lovely Alanna! XOXOXO
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Damn. I'd forgotten about Black Magic even existed.
Still miss Terry's Pyramint (they original pyramid version).
As an American born in 1995, I find these advertisements fascinating!
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Hiya Grant, what was your favorite British advert in this selection, this is Choppy in Whitehaven, Cumbria ,United Kingdom
Yes the caramel is that colour because of that. The plain choc was always in the blue/purple type of colour.
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I love Black Magic chocolates. I ask for a box every Christmas 😂. Not long just finished this years box. Although, it definitely didn’t have as many crammed in it as that adverts box did! I love the shape of the old chocolate boxes. Also that Aero bar. That bought back some memories of it being that shape.. great video Alanna, took me down memory Lane . Lovely.
When these adverts came out M&Ms did not exist, and we had "Peanut Treets" instead. They brought back Treets in the UK in 2009, but only for one week. They are still sold by Mars in Germany today, but in an orange coloured, rather than the canary yellow packaging that used to be used in the UK.
I used to love Toffee Treats.
This took me back YEARS! Thanks, Alanna. 🤗
🙋♀️🙋♀️ now I feel old!! Remember all of these sweets and treats, and even a couple of the ads (especially the Cornetto one), great video as always.
Off for a snack now…
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I also remember all of them. That Cornetto ad is a true classic of advertising and had a very long run.
Wow I really miss the 80s such a good decade. this makes me miss it even more
I remembered every single one. Thanks for reminding me I'm getting old, Alanna. Made my day, that has 😂
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3:55: the Toffee Crisp ad contains two British obsessions: chocolate and embarrassment. 4:55: there may have been furries within Cadbury’s PR department when the Caramel ad came out.🐇🐿
If you like adverts with a story, check out the Nescafé Gold Blend ones that ran from 1987 to 1993 with Anthony Stewart Head. I think there were 12 of them that all followed on from each other.
The teacher from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
@@johnmccallum8512 Librarian from Buffy
@@stuartferguson8967 Always thought of him as a teacher, but then I never did see all the programes got bored.
Please react to all the flake adverts from 60’s- 80’s some are very suggestive. They are so well filmed and produced
That was a nice trip down memory lane, thank you, I didn’t realise at the start how much I would remember and enjoy. Like yourself I don’t watch adverts anymore but I find them annoying now anyway. I hope you do this again sometime, the nineties probably had some memorable ads. I hope you have a great week.
Thanks so much!
@@AdventuresAndNaps as you’re in Kent, have you tried Kent crisps yet? They’re a regional brand which the co-op stocked also available in independents
Heading straight to the shops right now for fruit pastilles. Sweet baby Jesus, I must have 'em ! See what you've done!
It was clearly a more innocent age where you could have a scouse kid with a tooth missing advertising chocolate and the PR department didn't have to defend the company on social media for weeks afterwards moaning that sugar is the devil's seed! Great video kid - keep 'em coming!
Nowadays the idea of a Liverpudlian kid having pinched something off his sister would probably evoke outrage that Scousers are being typecast as thieves. As if...
I'm was a child of the 80s and I remember all of these adverts. My favourite is the KitKat one, really loved this video thanks for the memories it all seems like yesterday. Ps Black Magic doesn't exist anymore.😁
Wow, they brought back some memories - I can just about remember them all. Sad to see Janice Long on the Walker's crisps advert who only just died on Christmas day. Great 'food/sweets' video, you always make them so much fun. Thanks.
Thanks for watching!
Loved seeing those old ads! Caramel ads were always hot stuff with that bunny
There is nothing finer than a peppermint aero and a double Scotch and breakaways used to be part of my packed lunch for school love em.
I was a kid born in the U.K. in the 1980’s. Born in 1972.
I feel so old watching these adverts.
Hello Alanna. These adverts take me back a bit! Loved the reactions to so many of these - you seemed a little... taken aback by the Caramel bunny ad. That's nothing to the sheer suggestive, sensual Cadbury Flake ads of that era. (If I start describing them, my glasses will steam up...🤭😳. WOW...."'Shouldn't be allowed...")
There were some really creative ads back then, particularly Weetabix (breakfast cereals). "The Lone Ranger", "Robin Hood", "The Cub Scouts" "English Civil War" & "Trojan Horse" were true works of art. Must've been hugely expensive to produce but mini-masterpieces.
Love the videos, keep on keepin' on, stay safe & have fun . From Yorkshire...
Born in 77 so i remember all these thanks for a trip to my chilhood and yes the caramel bunny is strange! My mom used to give me a breakaway after school with my tea bless her!
Sadly for the first 6 or 7 years of my life sweets were rationed in the UK, but when the rationing ended my sister and myself gorged ourselves lol
omg its like i forgot these adverts existed but seeing them again like a flash back there i am infront of the tv as a kid happier times "smarties truly did have the answer" they always did!!!
I'm surprised they didn't include the Milk Tray adverts with the James Bond type character who secretly delivers boxes of chocolates to beautiful women!
The séance toffee crisp ad was the best.. "are you there Sidney?".. and the the music as the toffee crisp floats down to the table 😆
That was great fun Alanna - I recognise and have eaten large amounts of them all (I worked weekends and school hols in a sweet shop in the early 80's). Cadbury's Caramel wrappers were always mainly yellow, Fox's mints are still going strong and I have a bag in the house at the moment, Cornetto's were huge in popularity and much bigger in size back then, at the time Quality Street's big rival were Cadbury's Roses and the country seemed pretty evenly split in terms of favourites - always Roses for me! Finally, the lady doing the Walker's Crisps advert was Radio 1 DJ Janice Long (she sadly passed away recently). A great trip down memory lane, thank you!
...are you sure that Cornettos were larger in the old days, or is that just selective memory? I seem to remember Curly Wurlys about 18 inches long, and Wagon Wheels as big as dustbin lids when I was a kid😊
@@DaveBartlett I know what you mean Dave, but Cornetto were seriously big back then😂
Biscuit : Goes soft when exposed to air.
Cake : Goes hard when exposed to air.
You're welcome. ;o)
We were discussing Black Magic the other day and I can confirm that Sainsbury still sell them as well as Milk Tray another advert fave.
Incredible! I'll have to have a look, can't say I've seen one before
I saw them in Poundland before Christmas. They’re my mums favourites!
@@AdventuresAndNaps From memory, they were called 'Black Magic' because they are all dark/plain chocolate rather than milk chocolate.
@@iainmalcolm9583 They were my late grandmother's favourites because they were all dark chocolate, but by her reckoning, never as good post 2005 ish when they were changed, first to all squares so you couldn't tell at a passing glance what each was, then a couple of years later back to their original shapes and sizes but the recipes had changed and she felt personally insulted by them. I'd forgotten all about that, thanks, the memory has made me smile.
@@Coylee91 Sadly, they are not alone in being changed from 'original' to 'New & improved' (code for we now use cheaper ingredients).
Just into the 1990s there was a run of ads to inform people that what *was* known as a 'Marathon' bar was being renamed to 'Snickers' to match the rest of the world. Worth a watch.
"Do you have the Snickers?"
"No, it's just the way I walk!"
Really enjoyed the video! Would love to see more reacting to older adverts. They are really interesting to see the cultural change.
Thanks for watching!
hahaha pg tips adverts " dad do you know there's a piano on my foot ' you hum it I'll play it "😂.
Ahhhh - I miss adverts that actually tell you what they're advertising - rare these days. I like to play a game called "guess what this is an advert for" . Sometimes, even if I have seen one lots of times, I still haven't a clue.
I agree
The woman in the Walkers Crisp ad is Janice Long, a radio DJ and presenter for many years. V sadly she died just a couple of weeks ago.
Keith Chegwin's sister as well.
Frank Muir Cadbury Fruit and Nut advert. Absolute classic and the tune is still stuck in my, and probably lots of other peoples head to this day. Soft mints advert was very different when it came out in the 80's or 90's too. Flake ads were the most sexually charged, followed by Cadburys Caramel ads.
Evwyone's a fwuit and nutcase, cwazy for those Cadbwy's nuts and waisins.
You could do the long running Gold Blend coffee adverts with Anthony Head ( Giles in Buffy ) or the even longer running Bisto adverts.
Or the OXO ads
Great great video! With 2 Canadian references - the beaver in Cadbury's Caramel and the polar bear in Foxes glacier mints. I remember them all. Those mints really did look like mini ice cubes. Was the woman in the Cornetto ad a young Elizabeth Hurley? She would have been about 20 at the time. By the way last week a guy was killed in the Cadbury's warehouse when a palette of white chocolate fell on him - sadly whenever he shouted "The Milky bars are on me" everybody cheered. I'll get my coat.
WoW! I love all the advertisements.
I ❤ your reaction, Alanna 😁 And thanks for taking me down memory lane (I raised my hand to both questions at the start) One of your best videos yet 👍
Thanks for watching!
The thought of fruit pastels got my mouth watering. It has probably been a good 16 years since I've had them. Gotta add them to my shopping list!
I love how varied your videos are! It makes every video really interesting to watch! And your editing is really good too! Your videos feel really well done but also very chill! I really like them! Hope your video does well! Your videos are such a nice part of my week!
Thank you so much!!
There is so much nastiness on RUclips, but this made me laugh and go back to my childhood. Cheers.
Thanks so much!
Hi, Alanna, I really enjoyed that, you were brilliant. I'm not certain some of those are still available. The accent i think was Liverpool. That was fun and really good.
Thank you! 😃
Hi Alanna,loved the vid,I was around in the 80s,some of them I don’t remember, much younger & out a lot more enjoying myself then,the walkers crisp ad was with Janice Long,the first female DJ on radio one,sadly she passed away last week.the young boys accent was scouse- Liverpool.
When you get round to trying an Angel Delight go for the strawberry flavour... And buy a Cadbury's Flake, smash it up in the wrapper & then pour it ontop.
Will do!
This video was a lovely trip down memory lane. I remember all of these ads.
Perhaps Black Magic is a fading brand, but as a Canadian kid from the 50's I can confirm they were the go to present you bought your mother for whatever occasion required gifts. That is, unless you bought her a model airplane kit and then volunteered to help her build it.
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That Jaffa Cakes ad is waaay later than 80s, fwiw. like, late 90s f'sure.
Fun fact about it - watch it again and notice the spooky-looking character that pops up at the back of the class, midway through. Supposedly, there was a scene with a Headmaster character that was cut... leaving only that random, quite unnerving scene, in the final edit 😂
The Walkers crisps ads I don't think ever took off until a certain footballer took over the role. There is an excellent Tudor crisps advert from Gateshead featuring a tower block that's now been destroyed. Yes, I visited Venice and made sure to have a cornetto. Not on a gondola though because there are thieves about!
Most of my life, until the past few years, Black Magic was considered the best box of chocolates to buy here in Canada (Saskatchewan). We would always have them at Christmas and my dad would buy them for mom on special occasions. Pot Of Gold was its main competitor. Thanks for the great video!
The old Carlsberg advertisements were brilliant you should check them out 🍻
Canadian here...Black Magic Chocolates are available on this side of the pond.
Interesting! Never heard of them before.
@@AdventuresAndNaps they have been around since I was a young lady such as you. They are not the best chocolates but in a pinch. I'm 70 now so that's quite a while. You would find them in places like Walmart or Shoppers Drug Mart these days.
Thanks Alanna. I really enjoyed the trip down memory lane, accompanied by your unique perspective as a Canadian. Great fun!
Glad you enjoyed it!
That was great fun Alanna! Thank you. As an Australian, all of these ads and most of the sweets were new to me so now at 0300hrs I’m hungry. And there’s NO chocolate in the house!!
Actually you did try Angel Delight back in your November 2018 video "Immigrant in the UK tries British pudding". I think I remember commenting on that video that Angel Delight works best if you serve it with some fruit then put it back in the fridge for a bit to thicken after making it.
Crushed biscoff biscuits, butterscotch angel delight layers are great cheap desert. Same with banana angel delight and crushed ginger nut biscuit layers.
I remember all of these adverts.Cadbury’s Caramel changed packaging a number of years ago. Quality Streeets used to be sold in metal tins as did Cadbury’s Roses, until they changed to plastic packaging. Black Magic is still being sold in supermarkets.
Hey Alanna, I raise my hand to both. Should I be proud to remember all of these? You've opened up a very deep well with these. For sexy, check out the 80's Cadbury's Flake ads. The lady off the Walker's advert was a famous Radio 1 DJ at the time called Janice Long. No reason you would know her, so that's fair.
If you wish to cover a drinks video and like catchy advert music, search for Kia-Ora, it's too orangey for crows. The old Castlemaine XXXX adverts were really funny too.
The guy in the Toffee Crisp advert is Paul Bown, famous from the sitcom 'Watching' which ran for 6 years on ITV in the late 80s/early 90s. He also appeared in Coronation Street as Roy Cropper's brother, and is from my neck of the woods, Stoke-on-Trent.
Ah, these ad's brought back a lot of happy memories for me Alanna. The days when a Mars a day helped you work rest and play, a finger of Fudge was just enough to give your kids a treat and it was full of peppery goodness plus the fact a Milky Way was a sweet you could eat between meals without ruining your appetite, good times. Thanks for a great video this week. I shall finish by saying the Milky Bars are on me. ☺☺☺
It's full of Cadbury goodness. Nothing peppery about Fudge!
@@martinclegg8536 Could have been. 😄😄😄
Right, good reminder, here is the helpful, nice, sweet, fruity ... comment you expect rightfully :)
(Also one of the first "words" of mine was MAA-HMM ... which phonetically tried to resemble Smarties)