Some bars you can get at the same size, but they are called "giant" or somesuch, and cost twice as much as the regular, smaller bar!

@@gamingtonight1526 Packed in twice as much sugar.

That's it exactly. And feck me they was cheaper.

I don’t buy any chocolate or sweets now because of the rip off price and reduce size the big benefits I have lost a lot of weight and can now swim 30 lengths of the pool with out stopping

Hell yeah!!!! Loved them days! Now, pot noodles don’t taste the same!!!! I’m upping arms!!! 😂

Those adverts were art, pure and simple.

Cool.

A very nice and classic way to have a claim to fame...kudos to your dad...

‘Spect

Wow respect

Think it's cause you can't advertise sweets and fags anymore.

@@yolomorgannwg7713 excellent

Aye, gambling, booze, repeat, energy drinks, junk food, just eat, junk, poisons, depression inducing non sense.

Don't forget bloody mattress

@@saturn1returns panty pads , huge arses being a skater ,dont want to see women talking about periods , in the 80s it was a bit of ink squirted on it ,and tombola whats that about people doing things that arent online talking about being online bingo its like the online version of why dont you ,why dont you go to a bingo hall and do something less boring instead , casinos wtf i went years ago it was full of scruffy people and chinese not at all like thunderbirds or james bond livid livid i was

I was quite partial to a Caramac, myself.

Surprisingly good at the time, and still holds up today.

You're welcome! 🙂

The only specific price memory I have is 9 1/2p for a slim can of pop.

People's salary have went up costs more people to make it duh .

​@@RetroSteveUK I can remember paying 7p for a bag of skips from the school tuck shop. Not sure of the exact year but I'm guessing 78 / 79 as we still got a little bottle of milk after the morning break :)

@@MrDirkles I remember the break time milk. 1/4 pint bottle with a straw. They weren't refrigerated though, so the milk always had a slight sour taste to it. I remember hating it for that reason.

@@RetroSteveUK haha I used to refuse to drink the milk that wasn't cold because it had been left in the sun after being delivered, much to the annoyance of the teacher.

Yep😊

*Hendry

Nice one ☝

Yes, I thought that. A touch of class.

I do remember that. I've always wondered what happened to any cash in packets that might have ended up being disposed of in some way.

I remember as late as the early '90s, cash-in-hand promotions inside crisp packets. A workmate landed a tenner; I found maybe a couple of free packet vouchers. Not complaining. Agreed about the loss of that type of promotion. I don't know if they still put 'gifts' (plastic effigy tat) inside boxes of breakfast cereal because I don't buy breakfast cereal - but what happened to the good old 'send (as in write and post) name and address' / 'answer a simple question' / 'coin a catchphrase' / 'collect vouchers' type of promotion? I think the unfortunate truth is that the entities which run those companies now have carved up a crony monopoly which corrupts our governments and spies on us through electrical gadgets. They're pushers, not dealers.

Christopher Biggins voice-over sandwiches Bernard Bresslaw's voice-over segment.

I had the same thought. It is impressive.

Why would it cost anymore than any other advert, the cast, the duration, the screen set, I fail to see why you come to that conclusion.

@@MT-rc7mv These are clearly bespoke-tailored costumes meticulously designed to closely resemble the originals. That’s assuredly a more expensive prospect compared to most other Oz-themed adverts of which typically feature loose, probably hired in approximations of said costumes… Regardless, if ‘must’ve cost them a fair bit’ still bemuses you then by all means swap it out for ‘superb attention to detail!’ or similar!

@@makara80 I can see the attention to detail is definitely a step up compared to the bog standard advert, though actual cost would depend upon timeslot of the advert for the captive audience

@@MT-rc7mv It's plain obvious to most people why?

I remember eating a couple of those & being gutted when they stopped selling them. They were lovely.

I originally intended to include the years of broadcast on the TV display, but the research was taking way too long (time I just don't have to spare), so I decided to go with presenting them as-is.

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I bet. Memorable ad, though. They probably made it back in sales boosts, big time.

That was Cab Calloway? God, he looks so different than I remember

It should have been Betty Boop doing the hula dance though.

god I'd forgotten that one

I'm with your dad on that one - I love the dark chocolate Bounties.

My mother liked Bounty but I don't think any of the rest of us did. I know I can't stand coconut - not so much the taste as the bitty bits that get between your teeth.

And tasted nice

now I mute them

Will do. Collecting these old ads has become quite the obsession, (in a good way.) 👍

Brilliant memories Steve of the classic ads 👍

If you've got a spare 1.22GW .. 🙂

I used to like Applause bars. As for the smaller sizes, I'd put that down to companies maximising profits without increasing prices. 'Shrinkflation' I think they call it.

I cant eat any of them, not worth having as they are too small, far too sweet and barely any chocolate on them, they cant go any smaller. I would rather pay for a more expensive bar from one of the better chocolate bar makers. As for these ads, they are funny, far less irritating and non woke, unlike the insanity of today, in fact its a shock hearing the near extinct cockney accent in these ads, not heard that for decades.

Who’s the girl in the Applause ad? Can’t remember seeing either the ad or the product! She’s kinda cute!

Our first home TV was color, but we did have a portable B&W set that my sister used in her bedroom, and my Grandma's living room TV was always a B&W, for the same reasons you mentioned - cheaper license.

I think we got our first colour telly when I was about 16. The rented b & w throughout my entire childhood was a constant source of ignominy as well as being irksome to my faculty of football nut. Ironically, always having been an aficionado of b-movies, the majority of my favourite films are b & w, and I don't think I've ever ventured to try the 'colorized' option in DVD extras. The one I'd like to see colourised is Arthur Ripley's 'Thunder Road' (1958 - starring Bob Mitchum, of course) but it's not available on the DVD edition I have.

Yup, Danny John Jules. Delivering a mint performance as always 😁

Story of my life, mate..

Also the taste is horrible these days. The same with rollos yuk .

I remember mint eggs, but I remember it as a different product rather than a variation on the Cadbury Creme Egg. I might have to look that up.

I remember them being more runny, too. Those creme centres are like cake icing in some I've had in recent years.

Cant eat them since that disgusting ad.

Yeah, Fuses were genius. How did they mess up with those??

Yes, using his 'Cat from Red Dwarf' voice.

@@RetroSteveUK Thanks!! I thought so! , getting good at voice-over guessing!!

Yeah, both spot on. Danny John Jules & Sue Pollard.

I'll have to get on that. I'll call the Grandada man out. 😉👍

There's an Opal Fruits ad on one of the other Sweets compilations, and I have some Marathon ads in storage for the next Sweets collection. Watch this space.

Chocs get smaller .. belly gets bigger. Tell me about it! 🙄

I do love a good colloquialism! 🤣

Yes

@@RetroSteveUK well he must have been young!

@@Seasider70 I think he's just old now. Same thing, I suppose. 😂

I know I've had one in recent years, but I've been off chocolate bars for a while so not sure if they're still out there.

They're my favourite and not so easy to find.

I don't think so. Looks like him though.

Yes, it's definitely him. No doubt. 🐱

Yes. Same voice as Cat from Red Dwarf.

Brap! Bruh!

@YOLO MORGANNWG wtf

I think he played the son Stanley in Shine On Harvey Moon.

@@rosiebottom3870 Thank you. I just searched on IMDb, then googled his name (Lee Whitlock), and shocked to see has recently passed away on either 17th or 18th Feb. So sad that I was watching him in this video yesterday (18th), as a little boy and laughing at how funny and talented he was.

@@Bev.S oh no! He was so young, God bless him.

I cannot remember that.

@@RetroSteveUK Creme Egg eaters collected wrappers and sent off for books of clues, then hunted all over England for one of seven (or maybe nine) solid gold eggs hidden in things, up things or under things (presumably). You are right about the change of size, thickness of chocolate, and yolk consistency. Proper Creme Eggs had a smooth, heavy and thick filling, but that was before Cadbury's stopped being Cadbury's.

I still can't work out of it's the eggs that are smaller or my hands that are bigger. 🥚✋🏽

Yes. One of the Sweets compilations has it. If you're on a computer rather than a phone, the search function on the channel page will bring up the video that has it if you search for the word. I don't know why that doesn't work on phones. KZfaq need to update that.

@@RetroSteveUK OK, Thank you.

I always use to make it a challenge to eat a flake without dropping any bits.

Nah .. it would adversely affect profits.

He'd look good in anything! 😆

Not a clue. Might show up in a distant corner of a Google search somewhere, maybe.

@@RetroSteveUK Maybe on page 984 once I've scrolled past all the Walking Dead quiz/Walkers Crisp holiday competition controversy results....

www.leaderscouncil.co.uk/news/i-d-always-wanted-to-be-a-writer-but-modelling-and-acting-seduced-me-for-a-while-the-story-of-janis-levy-the-most-famous-face-on-tv-whose-name-you-didn-t-know

Rumour is that she died because someone raped her with a flake bar it was a mess

Nah .. well before her time. Looks like her a bit though.

Puzzlng me too. I remember that but can't remember the product.

I don't recall the advert but that was a cast iron edict in our household, for much of my childhood, concerning anything other than black jacks and pink prawns - i.e. penny sweets. It was a proud day for me when, aged 35, I walked into a newsagent and purchased my first Milky Way. Muter und Fuhrer would scoff Mars bars and tell us they were 'grown-up sweets'.

Probably not, no.

People are so easy offended

Definitely all addiction should be banned.

Indeed

Nah .. He was thinking outside the box.

Ooer! 😬🤣

It is strange. I generally don't like coconut, but a Bounty I really enjoy. 🤷🏽