(UK) Which company made the "Banjo" chocolate bar?!
How about getting these oldies remade?
70's -80's the Banjo came in 2 varieties (as i remember) coconut and hazlenut - I really fancy 1 at the mo
Also... while they're at it....
A Texan - got some new fillings that need removing
and...
A Striper Bar - my kids miss out on all the good e-numbers
Answers: With the current climate for fancy-dan choccy bars...
How about getting these oldies remade?
70's -80's the Banjo came in 2 varieties (as i remember) coconut and hazlenut - I really fancy 1 at the mo
Also... while they're at it....
A Texan - got some new fillings that need removing
and...
A Striper Bar - my kids miss out on all the good e-numbers
I think it may have been Rowntree-Mackintosh.
Would really like to see their return, the only thing better than a Kit-Kat.
huntly and palmer made them i think
I loved the old Texan Bar, however I don't remember the Striper. As for the Banjo, read the following taken from http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com
Banjo Wafers
Status Discontinued: Last sighted Early 1980s
Description A chocolate covered wafer finger biscuit with chocolate cream and caramel layers. Fairly broad and long. Dominic Lloyd mailed to say "I'm not sure, but I think that a Banjo used to have crushed nuts on them, either under the chocolate on the top or in the wafers." Nick Fletcher adds "I was lucky enough as a young lad, in the very late 70's, to work on a tv commercial for the snack and still find myself singing their jingle to this day. And if that wasn't interesting enough,the lyrics hold a clue to the delightful ingredients To the tune of 'Banjo on my knee' (of course) 'banjo,banjo,the one for me and you light and crispy wafer and roast nut flavour too' hope this is of some use" Liam Carney from Scotland had this to say "First of all, I am almost certain that the wafers were just fondant based, no caramel. Confusion may be arising on this point as there was a twin-bar, chocolate-covered caramel wafer-style sweet at one time, but I can't remember what it was called off the top of my head (actually, now I think about it, this too was a fondant-based wafer, but enclosed in a thin jacket of chewy caramel and then covered in chocolate. But I digress). Back to Banjo. They did indeed come in roasted peanut and toasted coconut varieties the former in a royal blue wrapper with yellow writing. However, the coconut (by far the superior version - but I don't like peanuts, so I would say that wouldn't I) Banjo wrapper was not pink, it was a deep scarletty/maroon type colour. Also I am pretty sure it was available into the early 80s, since this when I was at high school and could afford to buy them with my dinner money." I have very clear memories of this particular confection as it was a personal favourite. In fact, I only managed to purge myself of the trauma of its demise upon the appearance of the Time Out bar. Toby Venables wrote "The Banjo I knew did indeed come in a blue wrapper with yellow writing, and consisted of two chocolate covered bars (in the familiar Twix manner, though slimmer and squarer in section) within which was Kit Kat style wafer, topped - and this was the critical factor - with crushed, roasted hazelnuts. There was at least one other variation on the original, I believe, but I had no truck with it. The other thing that sticks in my mind is the advert, with its jaunty bluegrass tune and its appalling low production values. Like many chocolate covered bar ads at the time it featured a shot of one of the bars having chocolate poured all over it - but when you looked closely it was also obvious that the bar had a piece of white card positioned in front of it to create the optical illusion of a neat bottom edge, masking the fact that the chocolate was in fact flowing straight off again. Ah, those were simpler happier times..."
Pack Blue with yellow writing individually wrapped (thanks for jogging our memory to Ian kay) Rob Parkinson recalls "Incidently, Banjos did have nuts on them, but there was a pink version also which was coconutty as opposed to the blue-and-yellow version."
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