M&S Change Name Of Sweets Over Fears The Name Is Offensive.

[Guest sibon]

9 hours ago, ab6262 said:

whats all the fuss about Midget gems some woke pr stunt at M&S , be better if they brought back , Black jacks and sherbert puffs!!

Why, have they gone away?

 

Fruit Salad and Black Jacks Chews 1 Kilo Bag https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0047075KM/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_i_M1T396J5B7YC3MKZ7WDW

 

Reincarnation is a funny old thing.

Edited January 18, 2022 by sibon

[Mister M 1,608]

I hope Weatherspoons don't change the name of gammon and chips because apparently it's offensive to a certain segment of the population.

[Jim117 72]

I don’t care what the spice are called. I just wish the manufacturers would go back to using gelatin or whatever it was before they started using India rubber. Tackling a bag of jelly babies or wine gums nowadays is to invite a case of repetitive jaw strain injury.

[ab6262 202]

1 minute ago, Jim117 said:

I don’t care what the spice are called. I just wish the manufacturers would go back to using gelatin or whatever it was before they started using India rubber. Tackling a bag of jelly babies or wine gums nowadays is to invite a case of repetitive jaw strain injury.

ooooh they wont do that for fear of upsetting vegans and religious nuts!

 

[alchresearch 214]

17 minutes ago, Jim117 said:

I don’t care what the spice are called. I just wish the manufacturers would go back to using gelatin or whatever it was before they started using India rubber. Tackling a bag of jelly babies or wine gums nowadays is to invite a case of repetitive jaw strain injury.

Try the vegan ones, they're often much softer

[trastrick 866]

I think I've said this before, but there's a case to be made for a class action suite against Thornton's Toffee.

 

I'm sure they were aware of how it was rotting the teeth of a whole generation.

 

But in those days, we didn't blame everybody else for our own poor choices. 

Edited January 20, 2022 by trastrick

[pintor 32]

Everyone should stop buying these & other stuff that woke companies advertise, let their takings drop till they learn,  getting ridiculous now!

[Jim117 72]

trastrick, teeth didn’t have chance to rot with Thorntons special toffee. That stuff used to get such a grip it would just pull them out by the roots 😂 Tasted lovely though.

[altus 538]

2 hours ago, ab6262 said:

ooooh they wont do that for fear of upsetting vegans and religious nuts!

 

You do realise that changing recipes has absolutely nothing to do with upsetting people or not and is an entirely commercial decision. It might not have mattered when there were only a few thousand people who would not buy your product because of its ingredients but now there are enough of them that not catering for them significantly cuts into a company's potential customer base.

[trastrick 866]

6 hours ago, Jim117 said:

trastrick, teeth didn’t have chance to rot with Thorntons special toffee. That stuff used to get such a grip it would just pull them out by the roots 😂 Tasted lovely though.

Thorntons was the posh stuff that aunties would bring up from downtown.

 

We got the cheap stuff from the corner shop.

 

[Baron99 779]

Think I'd better start ordering a bottle of N. E. England ale of colour, next time I go to the pub, just to be on the safe side. 

[trastrick 866]

5 minutes ago, Baron99 said:

Think I'd better start ordering a bottle of N. E. England ale of colour, next time I go to the pub, just to be on the safe side. 

As long as you don't order a "stout"!

 

lol