Mint Cracknel

[DaveBrussels]

Re: Mint Cracknel

I've been searching for this wonderful confectionery in vain for years, I loved it as a child and the 70s advert based on "Jimmy Crack Corn".

The line was discontinued because it had a lot of shelf life problems resulting in a high level of returns, the sugar strands are unstable in hot conditions.

It is a real shame but you can't get it any more.

Another lamented lost favourite of mine is Cresta.

[Solo]

Re: Mint Cracknel

Ahh wow, Horlicks tablets! I remember getting them from the chemist too, yum. I love eating dry Horlicks powder now!

[sixtyten]

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YUM! I can taste it now

[branny]

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Didin't they do another small version, similar to a box of quality street but just full of mini mint cracknel in a green see through wrapper? May not have been mint cracknel but they definately existed because I remember scoffing most of my Grans. This would have been around mid 70's. I also loved Horlicks tablets. Every Saturday, my Gran would take me for a walk down the main road. Seemed like a very long walk at the time and culminated with a visit to a chemists shop that sold them (couldn't find them anywhere else.) to buy some.

[Mat]

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my sirname is cracknell and i used to get the **** taken out of me because of this ^^

[salemsmine]

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oh i loved mint cracknel, it was two bits you got, i think.who remembers candy tots, teddy tots, bunny tots, tiger tots, and the ad went like, now theres a new one. salemsmine

[Morcar]

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Yum Mint Cracknel. Rough on the tongue though.

Same as Pear Drops that make your mouth sore if you have a few.

[Austin 1100]

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I seem to remember that it came in a shiny silver wrapper, and think it had a lightning strike on the front.

I think a bar called Icebreaker had lightning on the wrapper.
I loved Mint Cracknel and I'm sure it had a green wrapper with two bars sitting on a strip of black card inside. I remember how I used to break a bit off each end, hold it up to the light and look through the tiny green glassy "tubes".

I absolutely loved those Horlicks tablets as well!

[SALS]

Mint Cracknell & Horlicks Tablets

I wrote to Nestle - who make Peppermint Crisp to ask why it's not sold in the UK - I was told that the market is not there for it and peoples tastes in the UK are different. So it's a NO GO.

I told them to check out this forum and others - to see the interest that there is.

Anyway - poo to all that I've found the PEPPERMINT CRISP supplier in the UK.

CHECK OUT http://www.sanza.co.uk they sell them there - and some great looking crisps THEY EVEN SELL HORLICKS TABLETs (ovaltineeies)

[SALS]

Mint Cracknall and...............

Splinters of green minty sugar that 'pinched' your tounge as you ate it. I saw someone else remembers it too :-)

Have just had some Tic Tac's - UHHHHggggggg what's happened to them? 'Fresh Mint' - they're soft, bigger and have a 'fruity' taste not that nice 'round' flat minty taste they used to have.

Anyone want the return of BOVRIL crisps - marmite one's just aren't the same.

[Ecky Thump]

I seem to remember that it came in a shiny silver wrapper, and think it had a lightning strike on the front.

[tanas]

Gosh, I wonder if its the same Mint Cracknel that we remember!

[dondons69]

just found this site that sells mint cracknel!!!! http://www.thewelshsweetshop.co.uk/a...ale_Trade.html

[dondons69]

mint cracknel sounds lush!

[tanas]

What about 'Who put the chocolate in the mint?'. What were they called, anybody know?