GSV Ethics Gradient
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Given what you've said recently about losing a few pounds, maybe this is a thread you should avoid!
I’ve given up on that diet now it makes me feel ill.Given what you've said recently about losing a few pounds, maybe this is a thread you should avoid!
Al ears
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Me, I'm a Toblerone Fruit and Nut addict..... When you can actually find it...
Al ears
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GSV Ethics Gradient
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Never know when you might need those Tyrrell's!You certainly behave very odd storage habits.
You charmer. They are too expensive, I'll try to look for the brand but most of my shopping is done at Lidlpoor you, all the more reason to keep your local pub going...
Next time I Tesco it, I'll have a butchers (pun intended)
WayneKerr
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Almost forgot... Belgian chocolates! My last job had me travelling to Holland on a regular basis and I would always stop-by Adinkerke on the return journey to stock-up on chocs and booze
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Samd
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You can never remember a lost forgot! Belgian frites, slightly off topic, but best there is by far - lived less than a hundred yards from a fritter for a few years - yummmy!!Alost forgot... Belgian chocolates! My last job had me travelling to Holland on a regular basis and I would always stop-by Adinkerke on the return journey to stock-up on chocs and booze
Al ears
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Frites are not, and never can be confectionery...... Having said that nor can crisps.
Back on track guys!
Al ears
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Just found out my usual supplier of liquorice now does a chocolate coated variety.... Pity it's milk chocolate..... It's now heading into deep fried Mars bar territory....
Quadrophonic.4Ever
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I'll second that.I'd like to take this opportunity to purge some of my rage at the discontinuation of the greatest cookie creation in the history of the universe: Flaky Flix.
This indescribably incredible confection was a sure sign that humanity was on the right path, when suddenly, they vanished.
I've been a shell of a man ever since.
In a different way, I used to enjoy almost all forms of sweets and chocolates, as well as the odd drop of Alcohol (maybe not so much a drop, because I turned into an alcoholic, thus since 1978, I haven't partaken of that ever since) As for confectionary, if I could get my hands on it, I ate it.
That's why I wish to second your anguish, at the rage I have against myself, for being too overindulgent in anything sweet.
I used to think the Dr's had made a huge mistake, when they insisted I MUST take Insulin, and reduce my sugar intake, which I sort of did, (between sessions of over-indulgence)
I must confess though, that when I woke up in hospital recently, to see?
Nothing.
My lower left leg & foot had "vanished".
I was oh so angry at my stupid decisions to eat sweets, when told not too.
As, even though they persist in making ill-fitting prosthetics
I can't force myself to wear them as they are way too painful, and I don't have any balance on the false leg
(I'm onto my 6th now, in just under a year. And I can't walk on the latest one for more than 2 hours, before I am forced to remove it, and am restricted once again, in a wheelchair).
Hence why I agree.
I too, have been a shell of what I used to be.
(although - I'd like to try one of those "Flaky Flix" bars.?)
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Quadrophonic.4Ever
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I have though, found something that may "tilt" that craving over the edge again...I'd like to take this opportunity to purge some of my rage at the discontinuation of the greatest cookie creation in the history of the universe: Flaky Flix.
This indescribably incredible confection was a sure sign that humanity was on the right path, when suddenly, they vanished.
I've been a shell of a man ever since.
A world wide petition, to Mother's Cookies, to bring the Flaky Flix "back".
Revolutions
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Seeing this reminded me that there was still one shop in the town I grew up in that sold sweets in glass jars by the eighth, quarter etc.
Cola cubes… 🤤
Cola cubes… 🤤
I remember getting sweets from a jar, nowadays health and safety doesn't allow that unless it's packaged.
Revolutions
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Somehow pick n mix is still a thing though. Strange how that gets a pass.
I worked in Woolworths for years- can promise everyone the big bags of sweets being managed by 16 year-olds weren’t always properly closed up in dusty stockrooms. Not to mention; I don’t actually remember cleaning the tubs & scoops when I was working full-time during holidays from college.
Stuart83
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Has anybody looked into the size debate ??
I fondly remember chocolate bars being much bigger back in the early 90s.
It seems everyone thinks that chocolate bars were bigger in times past, usually in their childhood
The people I've spoken to mainly friends when sat wanting the chocolate bar they are eating to get bigger think they are at their all time smallest size ever now.
The truth however isn't as expected.
My partner wants the Texan bar back mainly for prompting sentimental childhood memories, me I want the many unknown bars of chocolate and sweets I can never seem to remember the name of.
Isn't that the way though, we get hold of something we really really like them it disappears before its name can be committed to memory.
I liked the original "bruiser bars" that I would buy for 10 p at school that now taste totally different having all the sugar etc pulled out.
I loved "desperate Dan" bars too which are different now.
That's my my gripe they change things irreparably usually 😢
It's rare I hear people say they like the new version of a said treat.
I do however hear people in general lament over how things used to taste and how much more they got.
I fondly remember chocolate bars being much bigger back in the early 90s.
It seems everyone thinks that chocolate bars were bigger in times past, usually in their childhood
The people I've spoken to mainly friends when sat wanting the chocolate bar they are eating to get bigger think they are at their all time smallest size ever now.
The truth however isn't as expected.
My partner wants the Texan bar back mainly for prompting sentimental childhood memories, me I want the many unknown bars of chocolate and sweets I can never seem to remember the name of.
Isn't that the way though, we get hold of something we really really like them it disappears before its name can be committed to memory.
I liked the original "bruiser bars" that I would buy for 10 p at school that now taste totally different having all the sugar etc pulled out.
I loved "desperate Dan" bars too which are different now.
That's my my gripe they change things irreparably usually 😢
It's rare I hear people say they like the new version of a said treat.
I do however hear people in general lament over how things used to taste and how much more they got.
GSV Ethics Gradient
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Yes, but those pick n mix sweets, all the ones I've seen, have wrappers. Never seen loose squares of 🍫 or anything unwrapped. As Woolworth closed down well over a decade ago....
Al ears
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And a sad loss it was to. I bought my very first LP in Woolworth
Al ears
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Friesiansam
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Al ears
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Wasn't connected to the school bike shed.What do you mean 'proper '???
My parents used to buy me their Winfield trainers. Crikey, they were rubbish but cheap.
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