Father’s Day Chocolate at Thorntons

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Thorntons have put together a great range of chocolatey yumminess for Father’s Day on June 15th.
There’s chocolate sports cars with iced messages, such as “I Love My Dad” and “World’s No. 1 Dad” and a chocolate football which can be iced with your own special message for just 50p extra.
The ulimate Thorton’s gift is the [...]

Mars Have No Plans to Bring Back Marathon Bars

Monday, May 19th, 2008

In 1990 I wrote a letter of complaint to Mars about their plans to rebrand the Marathon Bar to the Snickers Bar. I pointed out the dictionary defined snicker as “to laugh in a half-suppressed, indecorous or disrespectful manner, and the madness of using a plural as a singular. Incredibly, despite this, they [...]

HotZest Discoveries: Cybercandy

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Cybercandy is more of a rediscovery than discovery. I used them several years ago when I made-up personalised Christmas selection boxes for various nephews and nieces (plus one for myself of course).
Cybercandy import and sell sweets, chocolate and soft drinks from various places around the world, including America, Canada, Australia, Japan and Europe. [...]