Cornettos

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I think they still taste good but crikey they don't half look small now. My wife reckons they are much smaller than they used to be and refuses to believe we used to eat a bigger one called Magnifico so I was made up to find another post on this site confirming it wasn't just my imagination. The ordinary ones were still bigger than now and I found a fellow saddo who also frets over Cornetto sizes and found the original ad .....

https://tooptroop.wordpress.com/2013...-much-smaller/

They got even smaller as reported by the Grauniad .....

https://www.theguardian.com/business...t-cut-calories

FWIW - Any Cornetto fans reading this now (end Feb 2020)should get down to their local Asda as I went in last night to see if they had any chocolate type ice cream treats and saw they had Buy 5 for £5 on boxes of Cornetto Classic. I've no idea what they normally cost but 30 of them for a fiver seemed a good deal. If you do decide to invest make sure you take a bag because the Cornetto might be small but a box of 6 isn't and 5 icy slippy ones is near to the limit of what you can carry to the car.

[Twocky61]

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When I worked at Iceland frozen foods supermarket we had our own brand of 'Cornetto's'

One Friday someone came in from the local bible college. They asked how many of them they could buy for the weekend BBQ there. They ended up buying, not only the stock in the display freezer's, but our entire stock from the freezer room too

I asked my manager if they could be bought on my 10% staff discount as if I was buying them

He agreed & signed the form

[marc]

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Cornettos came in different sizes, I've checked Wikipedia. Many of us are probably remembering the Cornetto King Cone. This was 260 ml in size. The most popular ones now are 90 ml and 125 ml.

The first Cornetto I had was in 1978 on a school day trip. I think it was somewhere in the Brecon Beacons National Park. It seemed huge when I bought it. It was the strawberry Cornetto. They do seem to be lacking in quality now. The ice-cream is not the same and there seems to be less extras with them. I very rarely buy them, has I no longer think they are worth the price you pay for them. Some shop own brands seem to be better now.

[George 1978]

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I just cannot resist Cornettos at the moment - I have a box of them in the freezer.

[darren]

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more cornetto pics.

https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/i...l1czBSvGCzXAJu


http://www.walls.co.uk/Resources/Ima...P92-175132.png

https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/i...cerjtFlBgemmKO

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Rloed4Tx8T...packs-main.jpg

[xmark1234]

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Mint was my fav

[darren]

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wow toffee ones dont remember them from the old days.

i can only remember mint and strawberry and this one http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Awu3tU-XII...0/Cornetto.jpg.

ill be interested to see what new flavours there are maybe orange etc actually look orange.

Nowadays You can get a variety of flavours including toffee ones

Also magnums 25th anniversary this year you had a silver coloured one with a hint of champagne taste

[amethyst]

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i love pretty much any of them mint ones strawberry and ones with nuts.

id normally eat all the cream then eat the shell.

Nowadays You can get a variety of flavours including toffee ones

Also magnums 25th anniversary this year you had a silver coloured one with a hint of champagne taste

[darren]

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i love pretty much any of them mint ones strawberry and ones with nuts.

id normally eat all the cream then eat the shell.

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I had a strawberry one today. Not very nice but refreshed me. I was surprised to it not having the nuts on the top when I opened it up. It also had sorbet and inside the cone was strawberry ice cream...And yes, it was indeed smaller. I also was surprised that Solero's are even more smaller now!

[branny]

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I only ever bothered with the mint ones. Didn't like nuts when i was a kid and still can't abide anything remotely strawberry.

[darren]

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From the moment I saw the title of this topic I knew everyone would mention smaller size, lack of taste, lack of quality and economy over prestige....Its awful n'est pas? Ugh. I remember we ate Cornetto's from time to time as a family and they where just as everyone's mentioned - better in every way. Walls should be ashamed of themselves today. Its all about quick and larger profit over quality now.

I remember the old Cornetto's used to have more nutty bits on the top too and even in the 1990's I couldn't really finish a whole one as they where bigger. Has anyone else noticed how new things come along even in recent times and are really nice, then after a couple of years they too reduce in size and quality? Penguin cake Bars and Sollero's spring to mind.

I've often attributed the downfall of god quality frozen foods to the end of Lyons Maid and then Walls followed suit by buying many of their brands alongside the terrible UK arm of Nestle ruining products further...

thing is if walls made better quality products they would make even more money.

thing is walls and other companies should know once people realise products are not as good they stop buying them.


Products should be the way they where the people deciding what they eat and do not eat.
should not be up to anyone else.

[vanhelsing]

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Everything and everybody HAVE to be healthy these days.
I remember when we could eat bags of nuts and eat what we wanted withouth the healthy eating nazis banging on our doors and telling us what THEY decided what we should and shouldn't be eating.

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From the moment I saw the title of this topic I knew everyone would mention smaller size, lack of taste, lack of quality and economy over prestige....Its awful n'est pas? Ugh. I remember we ate Cornetto's from time to time as a family and they where just as everyone's mentioned - better in every way. Walls should be ashamed of themselves today. Its all about quick and larger profit over quality now.

I remember the old Cornetto's used to have more nutty bits on the top too and even in the 1990's I couldn't really finish a whole one as they where bigger. Has anyone else noticed how new things come along even in recent times and are really nice, then after a couple of years they too reduce in size and quality? Penguin cake Bars and Sollero's spring to mind.

I've often attributed the downfall of god quality frozen foods to the end of Lyons Maid and then Walls followed suit by buying many of their brands alongside the terrible UK arm of Nestle ruining products further...

[darren]

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Well they could use other sweetners not sugar to compensate for taking out the fat.
there are natural sweetners they could have used.


really using sugar instead of fat there no real difference.