Mars brings Marathon name back in UK as nostalgia rises for retro sweets

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• EnderMB@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Anything to give the boomers and flag-shaggers something to cling on to.

  Next they’ll be whining about Opal Fruits, Jim Davidson, and the return of Four Star Petrol.

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  • steeznson@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I still think Opal Fruits is a more descriptive name

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  • HumanPenguin@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Haven’t heard anyone caring about the name change since the 1990s. So I’d love to know where you’re seeing it all.

    It sounds more like you are whingeing about a private Corporation deciding to sell a very small amount of something to a few older folks using nostalgia. (Literally in Morrisons alone)

    And the language you use suggests a desperate need to seek some mental care. While I’ll agree, a large part of my generation (just old enough to remember the pre name change bars) are responsible for voting idiots who do not fund mental health care. It’s been rare over the last 50 years that those parties won with anything close to 50%. So please remember we ain’t all arseholes.

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    • Mr_Blott@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And the language you use suggests a desperate need to seek some mental care.

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      Condescending Clarence of 27, Patronising Place, Superciliouston, Egotisticalshire

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• frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah but it won’t taste the way it used to

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  • i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And it’ll be smaller.

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    • Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “Fun size equals smaller” said no-one ever.

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• andrew_s@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think I've finally fully mourned the loss of the 'Marathon' name to the clearly inferior 'Snickers' - bring 'em back at the size Marathons bars were, that'd be a thing!

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  • frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes, July the 19th was a sad day

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• reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In the US, the Marathon branding was used for a 12” long caramel braid covered in chocolate. The marketing was that it was so big, it would take a long time and a lot of effort to finish (like running a marathon).

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  • Mex@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That my friend is a curly wurly snamix.com/chocolate/cadbury-curly-wurly

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  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “we have curly wurlys at home”

    the curly wurlys at home:

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• BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Eat our garbage with the boomer name

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