I'm Not A Chocoholic...Honest!
and from what I am about to say but the truth is much as I love confectionery. I am able to go for ages without buying any. Sure, it's better for your health not to but you'd have eat some stock or have a medical condition to really be affected.
I often avoid it as when I shop it is not on my mind(It's the same with alchohol)unless I am having a specific run on such items(usually it is prompted by events like Christmas, Birthdays etc...)and when I have some in the house I often forget about it.
However, as I passed through the local newsagents they had an offer of 5 new Mars produced chocolate bars for £1(I think they are in 3 flavours)Can I remember them? Caramel, Orange and Cinnamon and Milk Chocolate.
Also some Cadbury's children's chocolate bars 20 for £1. These were different in that they have some magical popping candy inside(so I am told on the wrapper)
So I came home with a bumper stash of chocolate. I wonder how long they will last?
posted by The Great Gildersleeve | 11:44 pm
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I love chocolate as well...I always have a few bars in the house, mainly fruit and nut big chunky stuff but often multi packs of Mars abars/snickers/twix in the fridge.
I thought Dove wa sa soap and shower gel brand but I could be wrong...are they like caramel filled centres and stuff?
I don't think i could name a single chocy snack that I like above all others, maybe Flake.
Span, you are correct about Dove and the logo even looks the same...when these offers come up they often are written in Polish etc...so I assume they are meant mainly for another market in Europe.
And certain shops manage to get hold of a stash for a short amount of time and then get another product in...sometimes they are never seen again. They have some malteasers in at present all written in another language.
The caramel bar is very much like thecadbury's caramel bar as advertised with that cartoon of a sexy looking female rabbit though that was a Cadbury's product, the filling is very sqidgy.
I saw a piece of film on a documentary on tv today and thought how lovely everything looked(In Ireland)it was candies and chocolate and then...it wasn't confectionery at all but...soap! Made to look like sweets...
I bet it could could down a storm if they opened stores in the UK/Europe(maybe they have but I don't know of any)unless they are in cities. I think the store was called Lush.
Chocolate is good for the skin so I guess it's logical!
Some research suggests that Lush has shops around the world and a presense on the net at it's own site and e-bay...and as I had no idea I suspect as I said earlier they probably have shops in cities like London.
I did have a link to an international site and I have visited it but Google is not happy about something and that link does not work through their system and now the UK web address is not working here. So you may have to look via a search engine.
They have more shops than I realised in the UK approx 80+
and some are quite close if I was prepared to travel. Of course my old holiday haunt of Bournemouth has one as I might've expected.
I purchased some Dove soap the other day containing green tea and cucumber! Soap seems to last a long time in this house.
"Soap seems to last a long time in this house."
...no comment.
:-)
It's used daily but maybe it is more likely to be used up quicker when in a home with a large family. Also I do think that some soaps disolve faster than others, that coal tar soap seemed to last forever...
Funny...there we were talking about Dove as a soap and there I was talking about Dove chocolate...and there is an article in the guardian newspaper today about advertising and how brands are called different names in different countries and markets and how there is more evidence of companies wanting to call their product the same name in all their markets.
The article suggests that Galaxy Chocolate as we know it in the UK is known around the world as Dove so we are out of step with everyone else.
To save money as much as anything on advertising costs as they may be able to run the same campaign across all of them.
This was prompted by a new advert running in the UK for Bounty Kitchen Rolls which are to be rebranded as Plenty Kitchen Rolls. It seems a silly idea to me.
However, in recent years we've had Jif cleaning liquid become Cif, Marathon Bars become Snickers Bars, Oil of Ulay beauty products to Oil Of Olay and so on.
It could very well be that we are in for a run of such changes in future years...
The fact that Galaxy chocolate is known elsewhere as Dove and has the same logo as the beauty products confuses me in that usually if a logo or name is similar often a company will demand that another changes the design or name so in these markets are the chocolate bars and beauty products on sale side by side?
Or perhaps Dove beauty products have a different name elsewhere.
No, we have Dove (soap, gel etc) here in Spain, same products and nearly the same ads.
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