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Oh dear, how sad, never mind

Post by RockitRon » Wed Nov 08, 2023 3:23 pm

Nestlé consigns Caramac to the "Remember...?" corner

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67355475

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Post by Julian Mince » Wed Nov 08, 2023 3:24 pm

I liked those I think. Haven't had one for countless years mind!
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Post by Phillip Phlopp » Wed Nov 08, 2023 3:38 pm

Or it could be a marketing ploy to drum up OUTRAGE11!!! at it being discontinued. It worked for Heinz (?) salad cream which as any fule kno looks and tastes like the devil's own snot. They said it was being ditched and a social media storm ensued with Save Our Devil's Own Snot campaigns and it was reinstated.
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Post by Redpig59 » Wed Nov 08, 2023 3:47 pm

NO!
I haven't had one since I left Scotland but...NO!!
A wanker AND a pansy apparently.
Oh, and a wimp, and 'not a real man'.

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Post by mis » Wed Nov 08, 2023 4:55 pm

Is Caramac the one that looks and tastes like solidified puke?
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Post by Phillip Phlopp » Wed Nov 08, 2023 5:16 pm

It is also so sweet that it makes one's toothypegs jump for safety,
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Post by Redpig59 » Wed Nov 08, 2023 7:56 pm

mis wrote:
Wed Nov 08, 2023 4:55 pm
Is Caramac the one that looks and tastes like solidified puke?
Tsk!
But yes.
A wanker AND a pansy apparently.
Oh, and a wimp, and 'not a real man'.

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Post by RockitRon » Wed Nov 08, 2023 8:44 pm

mis wrote:
Wed Nov 08, 2023 4:55 pm
Is Caramac the one that looks and tastes like solidified puke?
Yup. Ingredients are sweetened condensed milk, butter and sugar, coincidentally the same as in the Scots' Butter Tablet, but tasted nasty.

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Post by mis » Wed Nov 08, 2023 9:10 pm

Something like gipsy tart filling but solid.
I once had a whim and I had to obey it
To buy a French Horn in a second-hand shop;
I polished it up and I started to play it
In spite of the neighbours who begged me to stop.

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