Vintage UK Sweets & Snack Adverts (Vol.5) 

I still call them Marathons, and always will!

Can't beat nostalgic sweet adverts

Memories of happier days ❤️

Ohhh I so wish I could go back to that time and never leave. Thanks for bringing back these memories of better times.

the texan bar was brilliant it came back for a while but was never the same as it always happens

When the sweets and chocolates had the right names!!! And the right sizes!!! As always excellent upload young man 🤘

I’m old enough to remember nearly everyone of these adverts ,oh take me back to the good old days of being a kid, thanks for sharing this.👍🏻

This took right back to my childhood. I remember every single confectionary and every advert shown, I think I watched too much TV 😃

I could watch these all day, happy times 😁

Dime bars were like eating chocolate covered glass.

Harry Enfield doing the Patrick Moore impression for the Smarties advert. But his Dime ads were the classics, *especially* the armadillos one. To this day I still occasionally find myself saying, "Oi prefer armadillos. Smooth on the inside, crunchy on the outside. Armadillos!" I wish I could pretend it was ever even prompted by anything... 🤣

More trips down memory lane and reading the comments ,where people add bits of information just makes it all the better 😊

Just imagine all the complaints there would be if that flake advert was shown. What a bloody country!

There was a Marathon bar here in the states around the mid 70s, but it was basically a Cadbury Curly-Wurly.

Some wagon wheels happens to fall in my shopping basket recently.While scoffing one with my brew, I mentioned to my wife that I am sure they had got a lot smaller than when I was a lad. She said ‘no, your gob has just got bigger! ‘ 🤣enjoying the videos Steve, cheers!

Oh, the Flake adverts! I remember the joke Flake advert we sang in school - "Only the crumbliest, flakiest Y-fronts, taste like Y-fronts never tasted before"! Once sung, never forgotten!

Who else used to take a Wagon Wheel or Taxi or Blue Riband or Breakaway to school for morning break?

I can remember most of these adverts, interesting seeing them again

I love the way the chocolate bars are held to make them look bigger. 😆

@6:41 "Wagon Wheels are still as big and wholesome as ever". They were having to state they were just as big back in the gold wrapper days. As for calling them "as wholesome as ever", I guess it's not lying. Adding "as ever" could be taken to mean, they were never wholesome.

Ha ! The Texan Bar ! Now those I'd forgotten about,brilliant

Jeez that Texan bar ad really took me right back

There was a 2nd Treets variety in a blue bag. These had caramel between the nut and the chocolate layer and were bloody fantastic.

I remember the Extra Strong Mints one as a kid and have only realised now after seeing it again after all this time that that's Stephen Fry. lol

Who remembers smiths crisps with the little blue salt bags?

I always hit the ''LIKE'' button, to know I've been here.

Who remembers Cabana Bars, coconut and cherry.

Texan bars lol loved em 😋

Remember just about all of these! Creme eggs are somewhat blaaaagh though! Too sweet.

Keith Chegwin in the Marathon advert.

Always Happy memories on this channel 🤘

A *very* nice selection here. I remember the Cadbury's Creme Eggs ads - voiced / sung by Frank Muir - this one was from 1981/2. The same ad also features 'Diddy' David Hamilton. Keith 'Cheggers' Chegwin in the Marathon ad (now called Snickers for many years) - used to love these. Milky Way (Red Car, Blue Car) ad is called 'American Excess' and is from 1990. That's the very first Yorkie ad which is a 'classic' ('Coast to Coast') from 1976 - the year all the trucking started and we had hits like 'Convoy'. A superb advert with actor Martin Fisk - the music was written by library man Graham De Wilde who produced a commercial version (vocal and instrumental) released under the name of 'Cirrus' - it only spent a week in the charts at No.68! Wagon Wheels aired in 1979/80 - Nobody has the Wagon Wheels ad from the 70s with Don Collier - yet it used to be on all the time. That Flake ad ('Hotel' - 1987/8) is monster! The music was by ace jingle-writer Ronnie Bond who sadly died some years ago. A commercial version was also released from this series of ads by Graham Stokes and called 'Only The Love' (1990). again a vocal and instrumental. Sadly, it never charted. The actress here is Deborah Leng (check her out!) and the full ad and jingle - shown in cinema ran for a full 60 seconds. You don't get much better than the Flake ads. Dime was 1988/9 - I love those Fry's Chocolate Creme when the centre was runny - do you remember 'Five Centres'? They ended many year ago sadly after changing from liquid centres to fondant. That Dairy Milk ad (A Glass and a Half) is an early one from 1980. Penguin commercial was from 1979/80 and the voiceover was by Derek Nimmo. I found both versions of Treets irresistible.

Creme Eggs- back in the days when they were nearly twice the size they are now, were made using dairy milk chocolate and they were fully filled with gooey, drippy fondant, not the dry smidgen you get now!

Treets were so good

Flake - one in an ice cream cone off the ice cream van = a 99!

Texan's were an amazing chocy bar, nobody seems to remember them 😂 so great to see the old add thank you brother 😃😋😋😋

Keith chegwin marathon I feel old ,those were the days sweets tasted nice

Memories 🥲

Pickled onion monster munch the memory makes my tongue tingle 😅😅😅😅😅 Paula x

Useless trivia: The woman in the Flake ad was Queen drummer Roger Taylor’s model girlfriend, who dumped him for two-timing her.

Harry Enfield for Dime. Hale & Pace for Clorets. Stephen Fry as Claude, for Extra Strong Mints.

The only Marathon i ever finished ..or started

🎵Thank you very much for uploading this, thank you very much, thank you very very much!🎵 Really enjoyed this!

yes, it's Marathon and Opal Fruits, not bloody Snickers and Starburst

Before Dime bars were available, we had the same chocolate bar - only it was called Buttersnap! I remember it well, with its buttery taste.

There's a very similar product in the US to a Wagon Wheel. They're called "Moon Pies". They come in banana, chocolate covered, or, I think, vanilla flavored now. The commercial makes the Wagon Wheel look much moister than a Moon Pie, though.

I’ve never liked Cadbury’s Cream eggs, finding them too sickly. As a kid in the seventies I preferred a thing called a Mallow egg.

Wagon wheels now should be called mini wheels

Cheggers @ 1:43. Bless him.

I also had the misfortune of getting a peanut stuck in my ear when I was a small boy.The doctor poured in some melted chocolate…..it came out a Treet😬

A time when chocolate bars were getting bigger .. Perish the thought these days

My personal favourite was during my childhood was Rainbow 🌈 Drops coloured flavoured rice Drops which I recall was made by Swizzles Matlow in Derbyshire but I also remember another sweet called Rainbow Drops chocolate buttons with hundreds and thousands on them 😉

I think they should change the name back to opal fruits and bring back marathon bars

A young cheggers in the Marathon extra advert lol..and loved the Cadbury Roses ad too..they didn't actually sing the song but it had the classic tune so.....🎶🎶Thank you very much for making these videos🎵🎵 thank you very much thank you very very very much!👌

Sweets were nicer years ago

@8:48 I think that muscleman is Michael Van Wijk, before he became better known as Wolf on Gladiators.

I miss Ice Breaker bars and Mint Cracknel the most. Usually ended up with a cut tongue from Mint Cracknel though becausee the green stuff inside was razor sharp!.

Why has the lorry driver in that Yorkie ad been labelled ‘creepy’? Despite a fondness for a chocolate bar likely to break all his teeth he seems pretty normal really!

did anyone call opal fruits by their flavour, red ones were quality!

Packed with nuts and so big you gotta grin to get it in. The 1980s.

Does anyone remember Nicholas Lyndhurst (Rodney in Only Fools) in an advert for Curly Wurly ? Think he was about 11-12.

One box of " Wagon Wheels " please...........

Snickers voiceover by Stephen Fry. OpalFruits became Starburst, just like Marathon became Snickers. Because it was too much bother for a multibillion-dollar American company like M&M Mars to have separate brand-names for England. 🙄

They are Marathons. I remember as a child really wanting a Yorkie "Easter Egg" because the bar came in cool cardboard wrapping like a truck. But I only ever got Chocolate Buttons! 🙄

The Cadbury's Cream Egg ad at 2.05 is based on a Bonzo Dog Band song, but was that actually Vivian Stanshall doing the voice over?

We had Texan bars in Australia when I was a kid, do they still exist?

Open fruits have been renamed

All the actors seem 'normal' compared to today's advertising.

When did the name change from marathon to snickers. We always had snickers in the states and we also had a marathon bar that was 8 inches of braided caramel covered in milk chocolate.

Cheggars in the Marathon advert!

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 the flake advert is so fãkke, ain’t nobody looking s£xy eating it, the flakes go everywhere!!! The only s£xy thing about eating flake is trying to pick up the flakes in between the cl£avage 😏🙃🙃

Apparently Texan bars were revived for while but have been discontinued again

The guy on the Texan advert basically bottled it and ran off.

What gone wrong with the uk. Groan

Interesting compilation. Plenty of Marathon adverts. Very dated hairstyles and sung jingles. "Comes up peanuts, slice after slice." Hmm, right....did anyone actually slice Marathon bars? I don't get it! That Roses advert I remembered the music as soon as I heard it, even thought the last time I heard it was 30+ years ago. My mind is weird like that! I remembered the words to the Milky Way advert with the red and blue cars. I loved the Yorkie ad with the masculine lorry driver ogling women and chomping on his "milk chocolate brick." loooool! Absolutely hated Wagon Wheels as well as the naff adverts for them. Remember the phallic Flake advert with that lizard on the telephone! I remember the Pepperami ad too. "It's the meaty snack that drives you barmy," erm no it isn't, it just makes you throw up with that vile stench emanating from the packet! Hated Dime bars. Might as well have tried eating a kitchen tile. Asfor the Clorets ad, Hale & Pace were about as funny as genital herpes. I remember that Monster Munch advert. I used to love Monster Munch, especially the roast beef / pickled onion flavours. I bet they've made the packets ridiculously small now. Never heard of "Treets," but they look boring. Way before my time!

See if you can find the ad for Jelly-Mallo sung like the Beatles

Back then thick chocolate now it,s rubbish.

Not a charity advert in sight

80s

I miss Peanut Treets. Peanut M&M's just aren't as nice.

Chocolate orange don’t taste as nice 1990

Funny how thing are getting small now

I always found it funny that it was only called a "Marathon" bar in the UK and Ireland. Every other market calls it Snickers from the start. Did the UK ever get the other flavors of Snickers?

Is it me or were Waggon Wheels bigger back then than now? I'm bigger now, so that may be the problem.

There is so much greed these days. In those days confectionery tasted so much nicer.......& Not so much of a rip off, like it is these days.

It's weird the effort publicity of that era made to try to look and feel americanised

Lol cheggers