@tinamarie1974 you have to go outside North America to get them. Even when Cadburys were independent I think they had some agreement with Hershey not to enter the US and NA markets; Hershey licensed the right to make chocolate under the Cadbury name over here which is why Cadbury products over here don’t taste right… It’s not Cadbury it’s Hershey in a Cadbury label.
Cant get all the crazy flavours of Kit Kat in the US or the Kit Kat chunky because Hershey licensed the right to make Kit Kats from nestle in the US and won’t let nestle import their more fun varieties. (I think Hershey recently started making their only varieties of Kit Kat now though finally after a few decades).
You can get the imported Cadbury and Nestle chocolates in Cost Plus/World Market sometimes.
@OnionSoup@tinamarie1974 All sorts of flavors, April had Sakura and Saki and OMG was it different! My husband hated it, my son liked it, and his girlfriend and I LOVED it.
@cinoclav@OldCatLady@OnionSoup@tinamarie1974CRUNCHIES! I was in London maybe 15 years ago and had multiple Crunchie McFlurries while there. I’m not saying it’s why I went, but it’s not not why I went. I just looked it up and they discontinued them last year! Guess I’m not worried about being barred from European travel anymore…
@AuntMean67@OnionSoup@tinamarie1974 my wife once got me an assortment from Japan. Included were asahi sandwich (I think; like a Japanese bean based PB&J), rum raisin, and wasabi. Those are the ones I remember, I think there were six varieties. I liked them all, but I really like weird international stuff like that in general.
@AuntMean67@djslack@OnionSoup@RiotDemon we have no big national chain grocery stores around here besides Target, Wal Mart and Aldi. Aldi has v good chocolate. Our big two, Schnucks and Dierbergs are both locally owned.
Then there are Chinese Whispers (yeah, that name probably needs to go), the kids game where one person whispers a message to another person in his or her ear, and that person whispers it to the next… after about 4 or 5 people you end up with a message usually completely different to the original.
@OnionSoup I’ve never heard it called Chinese Whispers… mine was basically the same as @tinamarie1974’s but we just straight up called it Telephone. Apparently it has basically universal appeal as a game and is known under dozens of names, many of which name other languages to denote incomprehensibility or confusion. WP
I remember as a child the “Eenie meenie minee mo” rhyme used the “N” word in my school. Completely white county, not said out of racism… I don’t think I (or my friends) even knew what that word meant or signified at the time.
It wasn’t until as an adult one day hearing kids say “catch a tiger by its tail” that I realised what a horrible rhyme we had been saying as kids, completely unaware of its meaning.
Felt really bad … Still do, even though it wasn’t meant maliciously… I didn’t know any better at the time. Didn’t know the racist origins of that childhood rhyme.
I guess because I grew up with nothing but white people for 100miles in each direction we had no idea that things like “Chinese whispers” and “Eenie meanie” were so bad.
If it were a more multicultural area those terms (I hope) wouldn’t have been used.
@Kidsandliz@OnionSoup@tinamarie1974
Back in my childhood (a bit earlier than most of you), that game was called “Gossip” - which I’ve always thought was appropriate. I didn’t hear it referred to as “The telephone game” until I was an adult - for someone my age, who also remembered the era of “party line” phones. One problem with party lines was that each phone had a distinctive ring, but anyone on the party line could pick up the phone and listen in on a conversation. For a while, my aunt had a “compulsive eavesdropper” on her party line who did not realize that her breathing could be heard on the line when she picked up. So, of course, cousins galore plus friends kept thinking up juicy-but-absurd bits of “gossip” to pass on during phone calls. To our great delight, some of this “gossip” was passed on by the eavesdropper, who invariably got the details muddled and exaggerated what was left. It took her more than a year to finally tumble to the fact that she was being played. Fun times. We really missed her when she stopped eavesdropping.
@tinamarie1974 Not just creepy: tacky, ridiculous, insulting, a little gross. But also amusing (at least to me), and for some reason it inspires a sick sort of nostalgia. For better and for worse, this is one of those taglines that stuck, probably in part because of its absurdity.
Not only is that hilarious and similarly cringey, but my wife mockingly sings it around the house with some regularity. And I needed the laugh. Thank you.
It’s a way to talk with someone without talking to everyone else. It’s often used for things like shipping addresses or snarky comments.
Thank you for the explanation. I’ve wanted to make private comments but was afraid it might be sexual or something else very not nice.
@AuntMean67 Here’s a thing we wrote about it: https://meh.com/forum/topics/introducing-whispers
@shawn Thank you!
@AuntMean67 @shawn
not sure those are necessarily synonomous!
They’re delicious!
/image Cadbury Wispa
@OnionSoup I want several, and a Flake in soft serve ice cream. Right now!
@OldCatLady ahhh yes, Flakes are better than Whispa.
I’d take a Double Decker or Lion Bar though.
/image double decker chocolate
/image lion bar
@OldCatLady @OnionSoup I have NEVER seen these candy bars?!?!??!
@OldCatLady @OnionSoup @tinamarie1974 Someone throw me a Crunchie please!
@tinamarie1974 you have to go outside North America to get them. Even when Cadburys were independent I think they had some agreement with Hershey not to enter the US and NA markets; Hershey licensed the right to make chocolate under the Cadbury name over here which is why Cadbury products over here don’t taste right… It’s not Cadbury it’s Hershey in a Cadbury label.
Cant get all the crazy flavours of Kit Kat in the US or the Kit Kat chunky because Hershey licensed the right to make Kit Kats from nestle in the US and won’t let nestle import their more fun varieties. (I think Hershey recently started making their only varieties of Kit Kat now though finally after a few decades).
You can get the imported Cadbury and Nestle chocolates in Cost Plus/World Market sometimes.
@OnionSoup ah, well that explains it. Thank you! Maybe one day if we are allowed to travel to Europe again I will check it out!
@cinoclav @OldCatLady @OnionSoup @tinamarie1974 looks delicious.
@OnionSoup @tinamarie1974 I’ve tried kit kat’s from my japan crate and boy are they yummy!
@AuntMean67 @OnionSoup oh that sounds interesting. I am intrigued
@OnionSoup @tinamarie1974 All sorts of flavors, April had Sakura and Saki and OMG was it different! My husband hated it, my son liked it, and his girlfriend and I LOVED it.
@cinoclav @OldCatLady @OnionSoup @tinamarie1974 CRUNCHIES! I was in London maybe 15 years ago and had multiple Crunchie McFlurries while there. I’m not saying it’s why I went, but it’s not not why I went. I just looked it up and they discontinued them last year! Guess I’m not worried about being barred from European travel anymore…
@cinoclav @mossygreen @OldCatLady @OnionSoup @tinamarie1974
@AuntMean67 @OnionSoup @tinamarie1974 my wife once got me an assortment from Japan. Included were asahi sandwich (I think; like a Japanese bean based PB&J), rum raisin, and wasabi. Those are the ones I remember, I think there were six varieties. I liked them all, but I really like weird international stuff like that in general.
@AuntMean67 @djslack @OnionSoup @tinamarie1974 you can get Aero and Lion bars at Publix in their UK section!
@AuntMean67 @djslack @OnionSoup @RiotDemon we have no big national chain grocery stores around here besides Target, Wal Mart and Aldi. Aldi has v good chocolate. Our big two, Schnucks and Dierbergs are both locally owned.
Thank you all for being so nice about explaining and not making fun of me.
@OldCatLady @OnionSoup I loved Lion Bars when I was England in the early 80’s. These days they are blah. Did they change or did I?
@OnionSoup @tinamarie1974 Allow me to help you satisfy your curiosity and/or appetite.
https://www.englishteastore.com/chocolate.html
@OnionSoup @tinamarie1974 Enjoy!
https://scandybars.com/
@blaineg @OnionSoup well now I want to buy tea and chocolate. I have a weakness for REAL English tea.
@OnionSoup @tinamarie1974 Shame I don’t get a commission!
@OnionSoup @tinamarie1974 They’re also a good source for Christmas Crackers.
/youtube careless whisper
/youtube sexy sax man
@djslack That’s a man with no fear.
Then there are Chinese Whispers (yeah, that name probably needs to go), the kids game where one person whispers a message to another person in his or her ear, and that person whispers it to the next… after about 4 or 5 people you end up with a message usually completely different to the original.
@OnionSoup we called that The Telephone Game growing up
@tinamarie1974 that’s probably a lot less problematic of a name for it.
@OnionSoup I’ve never heard it called Chinese Whispers… mine was basically the same as @tinamarie1974’s but we just straight up called it Telephone. Apparently it has basically universal appeal as a game and is known under dozens of names, many of which name other languages to denote incomprehensibility or confusion. WP
@OnionSoup @tinamarie1974 called telephone game where I grew up too.
@Kidsandliz @tinamarie1974 just my home town that is racist then I guess… Lol
I remember as a child the “Eenie meenie minee mo” rhyme used the “N” word in my school. Completely white county, not said out of racism… I don’t think I (or my friends) even knew what that word meant or signified at the time.
It wasn’t until as an adult one day hearing kids say “catch a tiger by its tail” that I realised what a horrible rhyme we had been saying as kids, completely unaware of its meaning.
Felt really bad … Still do, even though it wasn’t meant maliciously… I didn’t know any better at the time. Didn’t know the racist origins of that childhood rhyme.
I guess because I grew up with nothing but white people for 100miles in each direction we had no idea that things like “Chinese whispers” and “Eenie meanie” were so bad.
If it were a more multicultural area those terms (I hope) wouldn’t have been used.
@Kidsandliz @OnionSoup @tinamarie1974
Back in my childhood (a bit earlier than most of you), that game was called “Gossip” - which I’ve always thought was appropriate. I didn’t hear it referred to as “The telephone game” until I was an adult - for someone my age, who also remembered the era of “party line” phones. One problem with party lines was that each phone had a distinctive ring, but anyone on the party line could pick up the phone and listen in on a conversation. For a while, my aunt had a “compulsive eavesdropper” on her party line who did not realize that her breathing could be heard on the line when she picked up. So, of course, cousins galore plus friends kept thinking up juicy-but-absurd bits of “gossip” to pass on during phone calls. To our great delight, some of this “gossip” was passed on by the eavesdropper, who invariably got the details muddled and exaggerated what was left. It took her more than a year to finally tumble to the fact that she was being played. Fun times. We really missed her when she stopped eavesdropping.
@joelmw creepy!!
/giphy indeed
@tinamarie1974 Not just creepy: tacky, ridiculous, insulting, a little gross. But also amusing (at least to me), and for some reason it inspires a sick sort of nostalgia. For better and for worse, this is one of those taglines that stuck, probably in part because of its absurdity.
@joelmw agree and it reminded me of this…
@tinamarie1974
Not only is that hilarious and similarly cringey, but my wife mockingly sings it around the house with some regularity. And I needed the laugh. Thank you.
@joelmw glad I could provide some levity!
And we both just admitted our age
@tinamarie1974 Admitted my age?! I want full credit for my years of tribulation and suffering.
/giphy old man
