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Title: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: mugnapper on November 03, 2022, 09:14:46 am
https://news.sky.com/story/bounty-bars-in-tubs-of-celebrations-could-be-a-lot-harder-to-find-this-christmas-heres-why-12736868

The chocolate bar I have a pathological hatred of, may be on the way out. I like coconut, I like chocolate, but the 2 together make me want to hurl in a bucket.

What’s your feelings?
Are Bounty bars a force for good or evil?

Are there any other foodstuffs you have an irrational hatred of?
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: SydneyRover on November 03, 2022, 09:19:36 am
not a fan of coconut therefore never been a bounty hunter. I hate the thought of sucking on a prawn head but can't say I wouldn't like as if course I've never tried it.
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: tommy toes on November 03, 2022, 09:27:11 am
Bounty bars are very nice. Can't remember when I last had one like, but even so.

I hate cucumber. Can't stand the smell or rotten taste. Or tinned salmon.
Put the two together and it's a recipe for projectile vomiting.
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: BillyStubbsTears on November 03, 2022, 09:53:05 am

https://news.sky.com/story/bounty-bars-in-tubs-of-celebrations-could-be-a-lot-harder-to-find-this-christmas-heres-why-12736868

The chocolate bar I have a pathological hatred of, may be on the way out. I like coconut, I like chocolate, but the 2 together make me want to hurl in a bucket.

What’s your feelings?
Are Bounty bars a force for good or evil?

Are there any other foodstuffs you have an irrational hatred of?


It was bound to happen.

A truly visionary artist saw the start of the end many years ago.

https://youtu.be/qSkCy1MvICM
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: tommy toes on November 03, 2022, 09:56:57 am
Brilliant BST!
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: Not Now Kato on November 03, 2022, 09:57:09 am
The dark chocolate ones are the best - great contrast between the dryness of the chocolate and the sweetness of the coconut.   :woohoo:
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: IDM on November 03, 2022, 09:58:07 am
Bounty - hell yes, but preferably the dark chocolate one, and out of the fridge.

Even better, dark chocolate bounty ice cream bar.
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: BillyStubbsTears on November 03, 2022, 10:01:55 am
Brilliant BST!

Shuttleworth. The Bob Dylan of South Yorkshire.
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: tommy toes on November 03, 2022, 10:10:13 am
Count Arthur and JS. Legends.

https://youtu.be/KleEVpDU6Ys
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: tommy toes on November 03, 2022, 10:19:43 am
5-1 mug. Looks like your losing.
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: Hounslowrover on November 03, 2022, 10:49:59 am
Have to agree with the dark chocolate version.
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: i_ateallthepies on November 03, 2022, 11:39:47 am
Love anything with coconut in, barring a Korma.  Bounty bar a bit too sweet for my liking but I like the idea of the dark chocolate one.
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: mugnapper on November 03, 2022, 11:43:25 am
Stop the Steal!! It can't just be me who hates them. I demand a recount!!!
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: mugnapper on November 03, 2022, 11:49:56 am
As for coconuts, any food you have to eat with a hammer is too much like hard work for me!
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: tommy toes on November 03, 2022, 11:50:33 am
It's like Barnstonewith United.

8 bloody 1
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: mugnapper on November 03, 2022, 12:01:13 pm
I ate a sheeps eyeball when in Jordan once. It was crunchier than you'd think.
As for cucumber TT, it's basically cucumber flavoured water. If I never ate cucumber again, I wouldn't complain.
For some reason, Mrs Mug cuts the green skin off before using it. What's the point in that? It's still chuffing cucumber!!
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: tommy toes on November 03, 2022, 12:05:55 pm
Mrs Mug is right. The skin is the worst bit and it stinks.
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: big fat yorkshire pudding on November 03, 2022, 12:25:38 pm
I'm with mugnapper. Devils chocolate.
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: Bentley Bullet on November 03, 2022, 12:44:35 pm
I ate a sheeps eyeball when in Jordan once. It was crunchier than you'd think.
As for cucumber TT, it's basically cucumber flavoured water. If I never ate cucumber again, I wouldn't complain.
For some reason, Mrs Mug cuts the green skin off before using it. What's the point in that? It's still chuffing cucumber!!
Didn't Peter Andre do the same in the jungle?
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: Prez on November 03, 2022, 12:52:03 pm
Agree with the OP. Love the smell of coconut, paradoxically cant stand bountys. Its the texture more than anything.
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: mugnapper on November 03, 2022, 01:25:11 pm
Freakishly, our poll currently, exactly mirrors the Mars poll ie 39% of people hate Bounties.
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: Draytonian III on November 03, 2022, 03:26:07 pm
Hate coconut.
I like cucumber.
I always peel cucumber.
Cucumber peel/skin gives me the runs
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: roversontheup on November 03, 2022, 04:42:07 pm
Absolutely love Bounty bars with milk chocolate. If they take them out of the Celebrations(or whichever they’re in) I will be mortified!
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: tommy toes on November 03, 2022, 04:47:03 pm
Absolutely love Bounty bars with milk chocolate. If they take them out of the Celebrations(or whichever they’re in) I will be mortified!
Never fear, if they do you could always get a tin of Quality Street. The chocolate coconuts are in the green wrapper I think.
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: roversontheup on November 03, 2022, 04:50:01 pm
Absolutely love Bounty bars with milk chocolate. If they take them out of the Celebrations(or whichever they’re in) I will be mortified!
Never fear, if they do you could always get a tin of Quality Street. The chocolate coconuts are in the green wrapper I think.
Ah another of my favourites
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: phllvslc on November 03, 2022, 07:04:40 pm
Why was the pirate wearing a hat made of chocolate?

He had a bounty on his head.

 :coat:
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: turnbull for england on November 03, 2022, 07:25:06 pm
I've always shied away from them
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: i_ateallthepies on November 03, 2022, 07:37:05 pm
I see what you did there, turnbull.
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: scawsby steve on November 03, 2022, 09:37:59 pm
A question here, for which there's no logical explanation.

Why did it take so long for a blue Smartie to be introduced?
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: SydneyRover on November 03, 2022, 09:40:05 pm
because they were meanie
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: mugnapper on November 03, 2022, 09:49:05 pm
A question here, for which there's no logical explanation.

Why did it take so long for a blue Smartie to be introduced?

My wife used to make me take the blue smarties out of the tube as she reckoned they sent my youngest daughter bonkers.
We later found out that she actually was bonkers and Smarties had nowt to do with it.

On a different matter, I used to love smarties, but they don’t taste the same nowadays, too much sweetener I think.
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: les@donr on November 03, 2022, 11:29:09 pm
Can't eat dark choc, a migraine trigger. I always enjoyed milk choc bounty, available here in Canada!
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: Bentley Bullet on November 04, 2022, 12:01:45 am
Why was the pirate wearing a hat made of chocolate?

He had a bounty on his head.


 :coat:
What's the difference between a coconut and a pirate?

One is thick and hairy, and the other one's a tropical fruit.
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: phil old leake on November 04, 2022, 12:41:45 am
Chocolate that’s no longer available

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwisq5e_pJP7AhVWQkEAHapRDa8QFnoECA4QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.delish.com%2Fuk%2Ffood-news%2Fg33309992%2Fdiscontinued-chocolate-bars%2F&usg=AOvVaw27trygoyLtv5TfcdO0p843
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: IDM on November 04, 2022, 09:19:10 am
Absolutely love Bounty bars with milk chocolate. If they take them out of the Celebrations(or whichever they’re in) I will be mortified!
Never fear, if they do you could always get a tin of Quality Street. The chocolate coconuts are in the green wrapper I think.

Blue methinks.

But that reminds me of the age old debate - what is the correct packaging colour for salt and vinegar flavour snacks, blue or green?
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: BobG on November 04, 2022, 02:50:34 pm
I just looked on your discontinued chocolates link Phil. I didn't see Caramac on there. Or Milky Bars. Does that mean I could still buy 'em somewhere??! Oh. And what about Fry's Peppermint Cream? I haven't seen one of them in decades either.

BobG
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: phil old leake on November 04, 2022, 04:53:11 pm
That is just a link I found.  I think you can still buy caramac. My good lady bought me some not too long ago    I quite certain you can still get Milky Way. 
I’m going to show my age now.  I can remember going to theseeet shop in Cantley with my mum after school. Everyone called it the wooden hut near sycamore school.  If my memory serves me right 4 sports mixtures were 1/2 an old penny the same as fruit salads. Penny toffee chews were a penny
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: BobG on November 04, 2022, 04:55:00 pm
I meant the Milky Bar that the Milky Bar Kid used to advertise Phil not Milky Ways. I havent seen them for a while either mind!


I'll have to google Caramac and Frys Peppermint Cream though. Haven't hjad them in aeons!

BobG
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: belton rover on November 04, 2022, 05:47:31 pm
Someone on here (sorry, not sure who) recommended chucking a Bounty into a curry. That has revolutionised my Saturday night home made curries.
I do also like eating them by nibbling the chocolate off first, then enjoying the stodgy coconut separately. 
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: belton rover on November 04, 2022, 06:00:07 pm
Count Arthur and JS. Legends.

https://youtu.be/KleEVpDU6Ys

I know I’m not your favourite person, Tommy, but at least we have one thing in common: Count Arthur Strong is probably my all time favourite comedy character. From Radio 4, to BBC1 (disgraceful that they axed it, yet keep going with Mrs Brown’s Boys) and his theatre shows. Steve Delaney is an absolute comic genius.
I suspose you might not want to respond, but it’s warmed my heart a bit
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: knockers on November 04, 2022, 06:41:20 pm
Quote from: belton rover link=topic=286358.msg1198208#msg1198208
I do also like eating them by nibbling the chocolate off first, then enjoying the stodgy coconut separately. 
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That’s how I eat mine!
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: phil old leake on November 05, 2022, 05:14:08 am
Bounty bar melted into a home made curry sounds like something to try
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: normal rules on November 05, 2022, 08:12:39 am
We won’t be buying celebrations any more.
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: mugnapper on November 05, 2022, 08:27:48 am
Someone on here (sorry, not sure who) recommended chucking a Bounty into a curry. That has revolutionised my Saturday night home made curries.
I do also like eating them by nibbling the chocolate off first, then enjoying the stodgy coconut separately. 

I’m sorry Belton. I started this thread as a bit of light entertainment and to try get another thread where we can have a laugh without slagging each other off.
Look I’ve even managed to get you and TT on the verge of ceasing hostilities and having a private candlelit curry together.
But after your comment above, I’m afraid you should be locked up and whoever told you to put a Bounty in a curry should be burnt at the stake!!
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: belton rover on November 05, 2022, 08:34:38 am
Someone on here (sorry, not sure who) recommended chucking a Bounty into a curry. That has revolutionised my Saturday night home made curries.
I do also like eating them by nibbling the chocolate off first, then enjoying the stodgy coconut separately. 

I’m sorry Belton. I started this thread as a bit of light entertainment and to try get another thread where we can have a laugh without slagging each other off.
Look I’ve even managed to get you and TT on the verge of ceasing hostilities and having a private candlelit curry together.
But after your comment above, I’m afraid you should be locked up and whoever told you to put a Bounty in a curry should be burnt at the stake!!
Don’t knock it ‘til you’ve tried it, mug.
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: belton rover on November 05, 2022, 08:37:54 am
I just looked on your discontinued chocolates link Phil. I didn't see Caramac on there. Or Milky Bars. Does that mean I could still buy 'em somewhere??! Oh. And what about Fry's Peppermint Cream? I haven't seen one of them in decades either.

BobG

Caramac definitely still around, just not as popular. Strangley, I often find it in the cheaper shops: Home Bargains etc.
It’s another favourite of mine.

Wow - this thread really is bringing us together.
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: Bentley Bullet on November 05, 2022, 08:51:52 am
I always go to Home Bargains in Barnsley for my chocolate. The Kit-Kats have 6 fingers.
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: mugnapper on November 05, 2022, 09:02:13 am
I just looked on your discontinued chocolates link Phil. I didn't see Caramac on there. Or Milky Bars. Does that mean I could still buy 'em somewhere??! Oh. And what about Fry's Peppermint Cream? I haven't seen one of them in decades either.

BobG

Caramac definitely still around, just not as popular. Strangley, I often find it in the cheaper shops: Home Bargains etc.
It’s another favourite of mine.

Wow - this thread really is bringing us together.

My work here is done lol
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: IDM on November 05, 2022, 09:40:01 am
Bounty bar melted into a home made curry sounds like something to try

We put a few chunks of quality dark chocolate into our chili, which works, so a bounty in a curry is a possibiliy.
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: Janso on November 05, 2022, 01:19:38 pm
Bounty bar melted into a home made curry sounds like something to try

We put a few chunks of quality dark chocolate into our chili, which works, so a bounty in a curry is a possibiliy.

It's a great addition. I was the one who recommended it so glad to see others are enjoying it.
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: Bollinger on November 05, 2022, 02:12:57 pm
Count Arthur and JS. Legends.

https://youtu.be/KleEVpDU6Ys

I know I’m not your favourite person, Tommy, but at least we have one thing in common: Count Arthur Strong is probably my all time favourite comedy character. From Radio 4, to BBC1 (disgraceful that they axed it, yet keep going with Mrs Brown’s Boys) and his theatre shows. Steve Delaney is an absolute comic genius.





Thank God it’s not just me….

I was listening to Count Arthur years ago when he was a guest on Mark Radcliffe’s late night radio prog. It was during a World Cup and Mark asked him which team he would be supporting and he said ‘Doncaster Rovers  of course’. He has referred to them since.

I went to a Q&A event featuring Steve Delaney and Graham Linehan when the TV series was launched and I got the chance to ask Steve Delaney if he was a DRFC fan or just Count Arthur.

Count Arthur is definitely which will do for me. Steve Delaney was a bit cryptic about who he supported but the hint was it was Leeds, but it’s one Leeds supporter I can forgive.
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: belton rover on November 05, 2022, 03:22:28 pm
Count Arthur is from Donny, Steve Delaney is from Leeds.
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: phil old leake on November 05, 2022, 06:17:38 pm
Can people remember when kids sweets were cheap.  I remember as a primary school kid going to the Wooden Hut in Cantley after school.  Sports mixture 4 for 1/2 pence if I remember correctly.   Same with black jacks and fruit salads.  Penny toffee was a penny. 
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: belton rover on November 05, 2022, 06:20:55 pm
Can people remember when kids sweets were cheap.  I remember as a primary school kid going to the Wooden Hut in Cantley after school.  Sports mixture 4 for 1/2 pence if I remember correctly.   Same with black jacks and fruit salads.  Penny toffee was a penny. 


How much was penny toffee?
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: BobG on November 06, 2022, 01:16:03 am
If Caramac is available  (who makes it btw??!) I will subscribe to a ceasefire :):):)

Cheers everyone

BobG
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: Sprotyrover on November 06, 2022, 03:34:29 pm
I once found a farthing and went to the shop. Could buy either a fruit salad or a Blackjack Circa 1966
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: Sprotyrover on November 06, 2022, 03:36:07 pm
German, Swiss and Belgian chocolate put our stuff to shame.
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: BobG on November 06, 2022, 06:50:56 pm
But ours, happily, is light years better than that awful muck produced by Hershey.

BobG
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: SydneyRover on November 06, 2022, 06:56:35 pm
Can people remember when kids sweets were cheap.  I remember as a primary school kid going to the Wooden Hut in Cantley after school.  Sports mixture 4 for 1/2 pence if I remember correctly.   Same with black jacks and fruit salads.  Penny toffee was a penny.

my old man used to call them spice
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: idler on November 06, 2022, 07:07:45 pm
Can people remember when kids sweets were cheap.  I remember as a primary school kid going to the Wooden Hut in Cantley after school.  Sports mixture 4 for 1/2 pence if I remember correctly.   Same with black jacks and fruit salads.  Penny toffee was a penny.

my old man used to call them spice
He'd make a fortune selling spice these days Syd.
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: SydneyRover on November 06, 2022, 07:19:18 pm
Ha, failed join the dots on that one Idler. There was a sweet factory in Balby where humbugs and rock type stuff was rolled out. At the top of Sanford rd down behind some allotments.
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: Sprotyrover on November 06, 2022, 09:15:48 pm
Armitages, they had a stall on Donny Market
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: BahrainRover on November 07, 2022, 08:50:22 am
Can people remember when kids sweets were cheap.  I remember as a primary school kid going to the Wooden Hut in Cantley after school.  Sports mixture 4 for 1/2 pence if I remember correctly.   Same with black jacks and fruit salads.  Penny toffee was a penny.

my old man used to call them spice
I always knew sweets as spice growing up on the Wakefield/Leeds border.
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: ravenrover on November 07, 2022, 09:25:09 am
I once found a farthing and went to the shop. Could buy either a fruit salad or a Blackjack Circa 1966
Farthings ceased in 1960 Sproty
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: idler on November 07, 2022, 05:58:30 pm
Ha, failed join the dots on that one Idler. There was a sweet factory in Balby where humbugs and rock type stuff was rolled out. At the top of Sanford rd down behind some allotments.
We sometimes bought sweets there walking back home from Oswin Ave.
My cousins in Hull always called sweets spice. We called them scoffs.
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: normal rules on November 07, 2022, 06:23:40 pm
Armitages, they had a stall on Donny Market

Is this the stall that sold their own made fudge? Indoor market.
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: Sprotyrover on November 07, 2022, 06:33:55 pm
Yea that’s the one.
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: phil old leake on November 08, 2022, 12:25:26 pm
Sproty when donny market was worth a visit and a hive of activity and community
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: IDM on November 12, 2022, 02:43:05 pm
Can people remember when kids sweets were cheap.  I remember as a primary school kid going to the Wooden Hut in Cantley after school.  Sports mixture 4 for 1/2 pence if I remember correctly.   Same with black jacks and fruit salads.  Penny toffee was a penny.

my old man used to call them spice
I always knew sweets as spice growing up on the Wakefield/Leeds border.

In the Ponte area too…
Title: Re: Bounty Chocolate Bars
Post by: IDM on November 12, 2022, 02:44:20 pm
But ours, happily, is light years better than that awful muck produced by Hershey.

BobG

It’s disgusting, smells - and tastes - like puke.