crodonilson
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Went into the Post Office in Lyme Regis today and they’ve got Christmas Cards now on sale, seemed to be doing a good trade. Also don’t know if it’s nationwide at Post Offices but Polo mints 20% off.
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Mine is selling "Game of Thrones" style figurines and artwork. I presume they are franchised if similar aren't available there. So no, no discounted Polos here unfortunately.
As an aside, what happened to Polo fruits?
Nottseagull
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There are remote parts of the Commonwealth and beyond where the last posting times are several weeks before Christmas, so maybe that is the reason.
Leekbrookgull
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The Plough at Endon already taking Christmas bookings,leaving it a bit late as it was July last year.
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Raleigh Chopper
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I liked Polo fruits, better than the mints.
On a hot day, if they were in your pocket they would all stick together.
On a hot day, if they were in your pocket they would all stick together.
Knocky's Nose
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Hard boiled shite. They tasted like the bottom of a pensioners handbag.
If you wanted rotten teeth, a sugar rush and inoffensive breath, Pacers were the way forward
Raleigh Chopper
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I have always thought that the bottom of a pensioners handbag would taste more like Parma Violets than Polo Fruits, but I could be wrong.
Mmmmm. Loved em.These bad boys (and girls)?
I've never licked the bottom of a pensioner's handbag so I couldn't possibly comment.Hard boiled shite. They tasted like the bottom of a pensioners handbag.
If you wanted rotten teeth, a sugar rush and inoffensive breath, Pacers were the way forward
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Pacers were a bit boring though imo.
Cowfold Seagull
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OMG Christmas cards at the beginning of August! Mind you, with fewer and fewer people using the Post Office now they have to get their revenue from somewhere, hence the Polo Mints.
albionfan37
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Parma violets with just a hint of the sickly sweet werthers
And some forgotten, rancid cat food. Or a mouldy pork pie (oh no, that's Steve McClaren).
Selfridge's opened their Christmas department, a couple of weeks ago.
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
But mint is not the only version of Polo that has been manufactured. Many will remember the fruit version, and in the confectionery’s glory days of the 1980s, several varieties were made. Ice came in a blue rather than green wrapper and had a more mellow flavour, and Tropical was a mixture of banana, melon, coconut and other flavours.
In India they were once manufactured in paan flavour, combining betel leaf with areca nut, while Indonesian consumers favour a mint and fruit mashup called Mint O Fruit. Cinnamon, buttermint and citrus sharp (lemon and lime) have also hit the sweet shop shelves at various times.
Nestlé India took the packaging of the sweets in a new direction when, in 2011, it commissioned Wendell Rodricks to design wrappers for a fashion-influenced range of Polo mints.
The new flavours of lime mojito, watermelon sorbet, peach schnapps and cocoa mocha came encased in packaging featuring bright Indian colours, and were an immediate hit, with a spokesperson for Nestlé saying that 80 per cent of the limited edition stock sold out within a couple of weeks of the launch.
In 1994 the manufacturers changed the recipe for the sweets, making them 13.063 per cent mintier – news that was communicated in the UK via a £400,000 radio-only advertising campaign. The same year, the company failed in its bid to expand its trademark to cover the shape of the mint, in any size or colour, and without the word Polo on it
In India they were once manufactured in paan flavour, combining betel leaf with areca nut, while Indonesian consumers favour a mint and fruit mashup called Mint O Fruit. Cinnamon, buttermint and citrus sharp (lemon and lime) have also hit the sweet shop shelves at various times.
Nestlé India took the packaging of the sweets in a new direction when, in 2011, it commissioned Wendell Rodricks to design wrappers for a fashion-influenced range of Polo mints.
The new flavours of lime mojito, watermelon sorbet, peach schnapps and cocoa mocha came encased in packaging featuring bright Indian colours, and were an immediate hit, with a spokesperson for Nestlé saying that 80 per cent of the limited edition stock sold out within a couple of weeks of the launch.
In 1994 the manufacturers changed the recipe for the sweets, making them 13.063 per cent mintier – news that was communicated in the UK via a £400,000 radio-only advertising campaign. The same year, the company failed in its bid to expand its trademark to cover the shape of the mint, in any size or colour, and without the word Polo on it
Cowfold Seagull
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Gawd, stop the world I wan't to get off.
southstandandy
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Last year a few shops in Worthing started selling Easter Eggs in October!
Super Steve Earle
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They were selling Polo fruits at Hove Court last time I did jury duty a few years ago. I bought a tube every day for nine days.
SELFRIDGES OPENS CHRISTMAS SHOP ‘RECORD’ 149 DAYS BEFORE BIG DAY
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-...-record-department-store-london-a9025151.html
hart's shirt
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Crodo, here's wishing you, Mrs Crodo, Gurjit from Accounts, Polly and Giles a very Merry Christmas!
