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After unwrapping and tasting the first piece, the lady drifts off into her own world. Glees: c.1965 Series showing girls eating a Flake in exotic settings, e.g. sitting in a gipsy caravan in 1981, and rowing a boat through a waterfall into a cave in Jamaica in 1983] A lady (over-elegantly dressed (for the hot climate) swans in and seats herself on a couch, beneath a ceiling fan, and reaches for a bar of Galaxy, slipping off her high heels as she unwraps it
into a sweet shop while singing. Someone who took part as young child adds: “It was filmed intheCotswolds, in the villages of Lower Slaughter, where we ran through the village and over the bridge and Fifield where the shop was filmed. We children were mostly from Lower and Upper Slaughter and we had to run around singing the song while patting our heads and rubbing our stomachs simultaneously” Voiceover: Bite into the shell of a Trebor spearmint Softmint and everything turns chewy and soft! Mmm— they’re crispy on the outside and chewy on the inside! Cadbury’s took over Fry’s in 1916, and both Trebor and Bassett’s in 1989 (calling the latter Trebor Bassett). Polar bear: There’s a bear on Fox’s Glacier Mints because they’re so clear and cool and minty. Fox’s Glacier Mints (2): 1983Voiceover: Rowntree’s Fruit Pastilles with the tingle tongue taste — just a thought! Rowntree’s Fruit Pastilles (3): 1972
Advert depicting a boy who had a spider called Sammy in a matchbox: he was proposing to celebrate “Sammy's Coming Out Party” and to scare a girl with the spider Cadbury’s Flake (1) With a young Dennis Waterman. Later changed to “Don’t forget the fruit gums, chum” to stop mums from being coerced] Rowntree’s Fruit Gums (2)Texan Cowboy: Hold on there Bald Eagle. You wouldn’t fire a man ’til he’d finished his Texan bar would you? Man at the kiosk cannot remember the name of what he wants, says things like “it’s a … er …. snappy, snappy taste” to the bewildered kiosk lady; cue a schoolboy swiftly into view “Butter Snap, please, thanks!” and out again, and the chap remembers too late as the kiosk lady pulls down the shutter
Man: It will always remind me of you … slim, dark, sophisticated … yet, underneath it all … a soft heart … and a sweetness that will hold me all my life. Voiceover: Enjoy a new kind of freshness — new striped Pacers: peppermint stripes for two-mint freshness. Pascall sweets: mid-1950sThat’s