[Cricket] Christmas Cards

[Super Steve Earle]

Hmmmm. I'd like a butterscotch Spangle.

 

[jakarta]

What is the fuss, I bought personal and company Christmas Cards in July, got a 25% discount for doing so and they are stored away for December, one less thing to think about...

 

[dolphins]

Reason is I think partly for those who are sending Christmas presents abroad - last year, the last recommended posting date using the International Economy rate was September 28th, and that covered Australia, New Zealand and all other non-European destinations (except Canada, Far East, Middle East, South Africa and USA).

 

[crodonilson]

I've never licked the bottom of a pensioner's handbag so I couldn't possibly comment.

Pacers were a bit boring though imo.

Crodo, here's wishing you, Mrs Crodo, Gurjit from Accounts, Polly and Giles a very Merry Christmas!

Many thanks.

Seasons greetings to you and the rest of the hart’s shirts clan too.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Hmmmm. I'd like a butterscotch Spangle.

I love butterscotch, but Spangles should always be fruiit flavoured in my opinion.

 

[Leekbrookgull]

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

Do you mean these ?

 

[Is it PotG?]

Do you mean these ?View attachment 113784

Which one is the paan flavour?

 

[dadams2k11]

Already have the kids main presents so just the small bits and stocking fillers to do.

 

[Weststander]

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.

or dust covered Maynard’s wine gums.

 

[swindonseagull]

There is a Christmas shop in Lechlade thats open all year.....imagine the excitement when Christmas comes if you work there..

http://www.christmasdecorations-uk.com/

 

[zefarelly]

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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I used to love them . . . .and toffos . . . .probably explains why my first teeth rotted before the big ones grew!

 

[zefarelly]

Hmmmm. I'd like a butterscotch Spangle.

Guilty pleasures . . . .could you not make it to Brighton this weekend ;-)

 

[crodonilson]

There is a Christmas shop in Lechlade thats open all year.....imagine the excitement when Christmas comes if you work there..

http://www.christmasdecorations-uk.com/

The best bit must be working there in Jan/Feb. When the rest of the nation is depressed Yuletide is over for another year you can continue to indulge in all the winter festivities.

 

[Knocky's Nose]

I used to love them . . . .and toffos . . . .probably explains why my first teeth rotted before the big ones grew!

Did you have the Fruit Toffo down on these shores? I bloody LOVED those

 

[Weststander]

Loose sweets:
Chocolate Mojo’s - 1/2 pence each

Jarred sweers:
Callard & Bowser’s Chocolate Limes

Were my favourites. Both not good for teeth.

 

[zefarelly]

Did you have the Fruit Toffo down on these shores? I bloody LOVED those

Yes! Strawberry - yum
Banana - double yum
Chocolate - fan****ingtastic.

 

[crodonilson]

Reason is I think partly for those who are sending Christmas presents abroad - last year, the last recommended posting date using the International Economy rate was September 28th, and that covered Australia, New Zealand and all other non-European destinations (except Canada, Far East, Middle East, South Africa and USA).

Sage advice, I've added this date to my calendar at home.

 

[dolphins]

Sage advice, I've added this date to my calendar at home.

They haven't announced this year's recommended last posting dates yet but suspect will be similar date.

 

[schmunk]

They haven't announced this year's recommended last posting dates yet but suspect will be similar date.

Do we even know when Christmas will be yet?

 

[Hampden Park]

Time to put the tree up?