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Post by Ginnie on Jan 5, 2013 17:03:10 GMT
I grew up eating these things in Newfoundland. They still have them there too, and a local Newfie store stocks them here. Didn't realize until I looked on the package recently that they were made in ... Scotland!  Newfoundlanders love them so much we even have our own version of them:  ANyone here ever tried Snowballs? |
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Post by penny on Jan 5, 2013 17:13:23 GMT
Ooh, yes, Ginnie!! They are gawjus!!
Also look out for Tunnocks Tea Cakes, biscuit with jam on the top, mallow on top of that and the whole lot covered in chocolate...scrummy!! Also, Tunnocks wafer biscuits in milk or dark chocolate...also scrummy.
The packaging is very famous here and it can be bought printed on cushions, aprons and tea towels.
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Post by Catherine on Jan 6, 2013 10:47:20 GMT
![]() [/img]Tunnock's Milk Chocolate Coated Caramel Wafer Biscuit, is a bar consisting of five layers of wafer, interspersed with 4 layers of caramel. The bar itself is coated in chocolate, made from condensed milk. The wafers are wrapped in red and gold coloured foil. Dark chocolate wafers, wrapped blue and gold, are also available. An individual wafer is devoid of a sell-by date, though the multipacks do have one. However, in many small outlets they are available separately. The wrappers of the milk chocolate version bear the wording "more than 5,000,000 of these biscuits made and sold every week" Tunnock's Caramel is a very popular snack in Trinidad and Tobago. A favourite amongst all ages, these are guaranteed fresh. Enjoy your Caramel today!     |
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Post by Catherine on Jan 6, 2013 10:59:21 GMT
 As in Sir Gin's post, Lees also made snowballs but the jewel in their crown was this, the Lees macaroon bar!! Dad's favourite!! (Dad would have been 99 today!!) I've chosen the pic with the brown wrapper because that's how they were, I think now in blue. The song from the ad (also on youtube) from memory (not pc either) Lees! Lees! More, if you please! All of us beg on our bended knees! For picaninnies and grandpapas, Lees have luscious macaroon bars. Very firm chocolate coated fondant, smothered in toasted coconut bits - that go EVERYWHERE as soon as you open the pack!! I always have at least one to sustain me on the journey south out of Scotland, likewise tablet - oooo my teeth are aching at the thought.......and my mouth is watering!! How odd is this, in copying the pic from Google, in the background was a conversation Hoggy, TK and I were having on this very forum on a thread about sweets of days gone by!!!! Isobel Addie (our Addy's pal) makes GAWJUS macaroon bars  |
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Post by Catherine on Jan 6, 2013 11:15:23 GMT
The further yet joy of teacakes and snowballs is that they are really low calorie - there's nothing of them, just angels' kisses and a little bit of very thin chocolate.......
The Cooperative bakery also made what they called a snowball - yuk!! An unhandleable ball of hard sponge, sandwiched with jam, coated in jam then dipped in dessicated coconut.
I'd eat one if there was no other food available but I never would choose one!!
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Post by gary on Aug 12, 2013 15:10:25 GMT
must be the 2 weeks in june !
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Post by ian on Aug 12, 2013 23:35:02 GMT
I've yet to find anyone that remembers *DAINTEES* Assuming it's not some drink induced hallucinatory memory of my childhood, this is how I remember them. They were a block shape, say 3x2x1 inches (ish) and had a mallow filling, perhaps a little more creamy like the filling of a walnut whip. On top and below the filling was an ice cream type wafer and the whole thing was covered in chocolate and sprinkled in coconut, making them similar in appearance to a Snowball. Absolutely lush they were.... I'd buy one everyday from my local corner shop for the sum of 3 old pennies.... Heaven  I do keep thinking I've dreamt up this magical piece of confectionary because I've yet to find a proper image or description using Google. I've even lost touch with the friends I had then that would join me around our 'backs' in a Daintee scoffing party and who could have corroborated my flight of chocolate fancy. If by chance there are any other ex Dainteeholics out there, please let me know... we could start a fat-facebook group or something and campaign for their return. And if it is all in my imagination I'm going to get cracking in my kitchen and suck the fondant out of a few walnut whips and make something up to take on Dragons Den |
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Post by mehrtsfan on Aug 13, 2013 17:00:14 GMT
I am sure I have a tin with 'daintees' written on it in mygarage somewhere. I shall look for it to make sure we are not both suffering some false recollection syndrome.
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Post by penny on Aug 16, 2013 1:09:53 GMT
I hope "Daintees" turn out to have existed - never heard of them myself, but they do sound nice Ian.
If you have a "Daintees" tin in your garage Mr. Evans, what do you keep in it? My mother in law was a great one for keeping old tins and packaging, most of it still had the "vintage" food in it too!
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