The Wispa is back!

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 10 Oct 2007, 19:27

Eighties favourite - the Wispa - is back by popular demand.
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Cadbury has agreed to re-launch the chocolate bar in response to calls from internet campaigners.

It is putting around 23 million Wispas on sale from this week, four years after the bar was dropped due to declining sales.

More than 14,000 Facebook members lobbied the confectionary giant to "bring back Wispa".

Online campaigns were also held on social networking sites Bebo, MySpace and YouTube.

Wispa bars were launched as trial product in the Tyne Tees area in 1981 and rolled out nationally two years later.

Their return has been welcomed by actress Rula Lenska, who appeared in one of the original Wispa commercials alongside then-husband Dennis Waterman.

She said: "It is bringing back an iconic thing from the Eighties due to huge public demand. It was certainly my beloved chocolate bar then and I was devastated to see it go. But as so often happens, the good things do tend to come back in a circle."

Describing the 1980s, she added: "It was probably one of the happiest times of my life. I knew who I was, my career was going well and I had a young, very beautiful daughter. It was a really great time for music, fashion, everything really."

I had a couple the other day - so much nicer than Dairy Milk Bubbly.

Wispas

gasteropod · Post by **gasteropod** » 10 Oct 2007, 20:00

I hadn't even noticed they'd gone, lol.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 10 Oct 2007, 20:12

This was announced on the news months back??? Maybe it took this long to bring them to market.

Sure they're nice but it's just chocolate. They don't different really from other bars. I'm not really a chocolate person. I adore crisps though. Those are my chocolate.

Online campaigns were also held on social networking sites Bebo, MySpace and YouTube.

Man some people are sad.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 10 Oct 2007, 20:18

I know what you mean. Seems a bit OTT.

You're right, they only just came back in the market I only noticed them in the shops a couple of weeks ago.

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 10 Oct 2007, 20:39

Not really a fan of Cadbury's chocolate.

Very dry for my buds.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 10 Oct 2007, 22:59

For your buds???

I like Cadbury's chocolate, it's no better or worse than anything chocolate though. It doesn't say any drier.

I bet it was young students who partitioned online.

gasteropod · Post by **gasteropod** » 10 Oct 2007, 23:17

bradavon wrote:For your buds???

Tastebuds.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 11 Oct 2007, 08:16

Yeah, probably - certainly people who were around in the 80's.
I like Cadbury's chocolate, Lindt and a bit of Green and Blacks

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 11 Oct 2007, 13:31

What green bogees and black heads?

gasteropod wrote:Tastebuds.

Ah. I've also heard people say their buds when they mean their ears, which would've course be gross. Unless Mark has a fetish for putting chocolate in his ears.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 11 Oct 2007, 17:11

No no, there's a brand of (expensive) organic chocolate called Green & Black's.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 11 Oct 2007, 17:26

I figured that

. I've never heard of them before though.

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 11 Oct 2007, 17:36

Chocolate in ears?

Brad, what shit you been smokin'?

Killer Meteor · Post by **Killer Meteor** » 11 Oct 2007, 23:49

Saw the Wispa is back. YAY!!!

My fave chocs are Wispa, Galaxy, Dairy Milk Biscuit, Malteasers and any combination of chocolate and orange. I'm also partial to Welsh Chocolate Toffee Waffles!

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 12 Oct 2007, 00:05

I can't stand orange in chocolate, yuck!

Killer Meteor · Post by **Killer Meteor** » 12 Oct 2007, 00:07

You're crazy! Oh well, all the more for me!

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 12 Oct 2007, 00:32

Give me your address and I'll post you all the orange chocolatey muck in my area your way

I especially cannot stand Terry's Chocolate Orange, the advert is funny though. While we're on the subject I've never understood why anyone would like Cadbury's Creams, yuck!

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 12 Oct 2007, 01:13

I love Chocolate Orange. 8)

Killer Meteor · Post by **Killer Meteor** » 12 Oct 2007, 05:49

Yeah, Chocolate Orange is wonderful. They recently did a Chocolate Orange Mint, which doesn't sound too tempting

Hope they revived Wispa Mint, Gold and Biscuit

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 12 Oct 2007, 09:31

I love Terry's Chocolate Orange too 8) And Dairy Milk Biscuit.
I hope Wispa Gold and Wispa Bite come back too.
Brad by Cadbury's Creams you mean Creme Eggs right? You're crazy, you can't beat a Creme Egg

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 12 Oct 2007, 13:29

Yes, yuck.

I don't remember Bite but Gold was pretty good. Is there any chocolate you don't like Grim?

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 12 Oct 2007, 13:36

Solid Dark (palin) chocolate, mint chocolate, Bountys (coconut). Yuk.]
Wispa Bite was like Gold but it has biscuit pieces in as well.

Killer Meteor · Post by **Killer Meteor** » 12 Oct 2007, 13:54

Hate Turkish Delight

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 12 Oct 2007, 14:03

Turkish Delight isn't a chocolate

.

I quite like "Fry's" Turkish Delight. It tastes virtually nothing like real Turkish Delight though, which has no chocolate and a completely different texture. I love real Turkish Delight, especially from Turkey.

I love Mint chocolate, especially After Eight Mints, Yumm, yumm. Bounty's are lovely too. Dark Chocolate is pretty nice too. My Dad is allergic to milk so we used to get that quite often as kids (it has much less milk).

grim_tales wrote:Wispa Bite was like Gold but it has biscuit pieces in as well.

We know

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 12 Oct 2007, 14:03

Don't really like that either (Fry's), also not a fan of nuts but I do like praline centres. Real Turkish Delight is quite nice though.

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 12 Oct 2007, 16:26

I love real Turkish Delight, especially from Turkey.

How pretentious?

I only eat a French Pastry if it's made in France.

I get Tom to export them for me.