CANADIAN REACTS | 80s British Sweets Adverts
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- Who doesn't love some classic British sweets adverts?? This week I'm taking us all on a trip down memory lane and reacting to some very 80s-looking British sweets and snacks commercials!
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Hey! I'm Alanna - a twenty-something documenting my life as a Canadian living in England.
I share the ups and downs of an expat living abroad and what it's really like living in the UK. It's not always easy, but there's been so many wonderful experiences, too. I post a TH-cam video every Tuesday and an additional video every Saturday on my Patreon account. I also livestream every Wednesday and Sunday at 6:30pm GMT on Twitch.
Alanna x
Does anyone else remember hedgehog flavoured crisps?? Yes, Alanna, they really did exist!
Yes! Only ever had them in one particular café too so they've acquired a perfect mythical taste for me 🙂
When I was a child my mum used to childmind. The mother of the little girl she looked after used to create flavours in a flavour and spice company and she regularly brought samples for my sister and I to test. Hedgehog flavour was amongst them at least a year before commercial release. I loved them :)
They were artificially flavoured but were 'guaranteed' to have the authentic flavour of roasted hedgehog, by experts in Romany/Gypsy cuisine! (it said so on the bags!)
My wife and I spotted them on sale during a camping trip to the Lake District in the early '80s and were so intrigued with our amazing discovery, that we went to the trouble of taking home a bag for each member of our families, only to hear my noticeably unimpressed sister tell us: "Oh yeah, they sell these down at our local corner shop!"
Yeah
BTW, as someone who can't claim to have a Romany background, I can't claim to be an expert, but to my uneducated palate, they tasted EXACTLY like Smokey Bacon flavour!
The best Kit Kat advert ever has to be "Alien Invasion" - "You can't sing, you can't play and you look awful... you'll go a long way"
No way! It's the one with the skating giant pandas and the photographer who keeps missing them! 😎😁
Haha! Wow! So weird to see my compilation commentated on. Glad you enjoyed some of our old TV ad memories. 🙂👍
Thanks so much for making it!!
The lady in the Walkers Crisps ad was Janice Long, one of the UK's longest -lasting BBC Radio DJs, and one of the most innovative, in terms of finding new talent (and genres). Very sadly she passed away just a few weeks ago.
Was it because Gary Linekar bludgeoned her to death? (For those of you who get the reference.)
@@hughtube5154 come on, the lady just died so it isn’t really in good taste to make jokes about it.
The Ronnie Barker ones were my favourite
@@stephenwest977 Relax it's not as if you ever even met her, sad she died but get a grip
She was Keith Chegwins sister.
🙋🏻♂️ That smarties ad was quite a revolution. The computing power needed to make it was immense!
Oh and btw. The voice actor for the Cadbury’s and caramel bunny was Miriam Margolyes!
Cadbury's Flake ads are legendary from the "how did they get away with that" standpoint. The Milk Tray ads were a James Bond parody of sorts and worth a look. Not a sweet, but the ads for the soft drink Tango were good too.
You've been tangoed 😂😂😂😂 remember the little orange tango man we had one it was like maybe 8 inches high? Memories 😁
I was a kid in Britain in the 80s. And the 70s. "Only the crumbliest flakiest chocolate/Tastes like chocolate never tasted before." Nothing else comes close.
Love Flakes. Love the “all because the lady loves Cadbury’s Milk Tray”.
the flake advert was a very important part of my adolescence
Sorry only French chocolate available in this video lol. To be honest I wouldn't mind but it isn't even very good. Somewhere in-between American chocolate and British chocolate. I've had some good Belgian chocolate and Swiss chocolate but Nestlé in particular make the worst chocolate unless you count Hershey bars.
If you think the Cadburys Caramel ad was suggestive check out the old Cadburys Flake ads
The crisps was Janice Long. Very famous radio personality and tv DJ . Passed away a few weeks ago.
Oh no! I think that women in the Walkers crisps ad, literally just past away last week. Janice Long I think?
I was both alive and in the UK in the 80s. This is nostalgia at its finest!
"I wasn't alive in the 80's." Thanks for rubbing it in, Alanna.
😂
Hmmph, reminds me of the old joke.
Man to girl: Where have you been all my life?
Girl to man: Well for first eighteen years I wasn’t even born.
😟🤨☹️
Thanks Alanna, that was fun! Little bit of trivia - the sexy Caramel bunny's voice was Miriam Margolyes, better know these days as Professor Sprout from Harry Potter.
Best pub fact ever.
It was along side bugs bunny type. Shecwas his GF
Not only was I alive in the 80s, my kids were born in the 80s. Thanks for a lovely trip down memory Lane…. love, 😉
Thanks for watching!
The Walls Cornetto ad was so ubiquitous that, as you found, it's still sung today. It became a comedy trope on TV shows, and even mocked in a later TV commercial for beer
It's definitive. Cakes go hard when stale. Biscuits go soft. Ergo, Jaffa cakes are cakes. 😎
I remember most of these. I can confirm that the little boy in the Breakaway commercial was definitely speaking in a Liverpool accent otherwise known as a scouse accent as I am originally from Liverpool myself. My personal favourite adverts growing up were the Brooke Bond tea ads with chimpanzees doing parodies of the James Bond films. They looked quite expensively produced and then there were the Cadbury's flake commercials which had...er, a bit of a reputation. A lot of stuff they did in British adds back in the day you could just not get away with these days. Lol.
Speaking of scouse kids. Do you remember the milk adverts.
Accrition stanley!? Who are they?
Not sure how successful those flake adverts really were as they meant no man would be seen dead eating one until about 2002.
I remember there being a parody of those ads and it was called Fallic.
@@alexcockburn8975 Exactly. Yes, I remember that one but I'd forgotten about it until you reminded me, lol.
@@eadweard. I was a kid at the time so didn't get the reference, so I was okay. Also, loved flakes in the 99 ice creams you got from the ice cream vans.
The Corneto advert hasn’t been on TV for decades yet Alanna who wasn’t even born in the 80s has heard Brits singing it coz they remember it decades later. That proves what a memorable advert it was. Very nostalgic too.
The Cadburys Caramel add is voiced by Myriam Margolyes, a very funny lady, find her out on videos with Graham Norton.
Or just watch that one episode of series 2 of Blackadder.
Just read that in her book, she also did voices in The Water Margin and Monkey
@@chriskerfoot491 Really?? Well I never knew that! I wonder if she did the voice for Tripitaka! 😄
A series of television commercials for Cornetto ice cream, broadcast regularly in Britain during the 1980s, used a jingle ("Just One Cornetto ...") set to the melody of "’O sole mio".
Alanna's reaction to the After Eights advert was priceless! 😂🇬🇧
😂 Thanks for watching!
The lad in the Breakaway advert is a Scouser from Liverpool
I don't know how many times I've heard the statement "the adverts are the best part of TV" sometimes that is so true!
As an American born in 1995, I find these advertisements fascinating!
Thanks for watching!
Hiya Grant, what was your favorite British advert in this selection, this is Choppy in Whitehaven, Cumbria ,United Kingdom
I remember in a comic, there was a spoof version of the Cornetto song "Just one Cornetto, give it to me!" replied by someone else singing "Not bloody likely, they cost 90p!!!"
I was born in 1961, so remember those advertisements. Thank you, Alanna.
When these adverts came out M&Ms did not exist, and we had "Peanut Treets" instead. They brought back Treets in the UK in 2009, but only for one week. They are still sold by Mars in Germany today, but in an orange coloured, rather than the canary yellow packaging that used to be used in the UK.
I used to love Toffee Treats.
Only seems like yesterday when I was watching these on the box . Angel Delight was really a staple desert in the ‘70s when I was a youngster especially after your Findus Pancakes .
God this is a pure nostalgia trip and I’m loving it , thank you 😊
This was a surprise for me! I do not recall any of those adverts! Yet I was definitely there. Born in UK 1951, so in my 30's around that time! My brain must resembles a strawberry Aero bar now I have forgotten so much!
The woman in the Walkers Crisp ad is Janice Long, a radio DJ and presenter for many years. V sadly she died just a couple of weeks ago.
Keith Chegwin's sister as well.
My favourite adverts were, the James bond style character, diving off cliffs jumping out of helecopters etc.With the strap line
" And all because the lady loves Milk Tray"
Yes the caramel is that colour because of that. The plain choc was always in the blue/purple type of colour.
Thanks for watching!
The After Eights advert reminded me of an ad featuring an even more decadent setting from the 1990s: Ferrero Rocher being distributed at an event hosted by a European Ambassador.
I was a kid born in the U.K. in the 1980’s. Born in 1972.
I feel so old watching these adverts.
The Walkers Crisps ad featured DJ, broadcaster and first woman with her own daily radio show on Radio 1, Janice Long, who sadly died on Christmas day 2021.
If you like adverts with a story, check out the Nescafé Gold Blend ones that ran from 1987 to 1993 with Anthony Stewart Head. I think there were 12 of them that all followed on from each other.
The teacher from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
@@johnmccallum8512 Librarian from Buffy
@@stuartferguson8967 Always thought of him as a teacher, but then I never did see all the programes got bored.
Some of these ads are so nostalgic., I’d forgotten a lot of them so this really takes me back. Happy days!
Thanks for watching!
The woman in the Walkers Crisp advert is Janice Long a well known and much respected radio DJ and TV personality who sadly passed away on Christmas day 2021.
3:55: the Toffee Crisp ad contains two British obsessions: chocolate and embarrassment. 4:55: there may have been furries within Cadbury’s PR department when the Caramel ad came out.🐇🐿
Great vid . Love seeing old things like this ..Thank you so much for posting this ..Byeeeee. .
Thanks so much!
Now that jaffa cake full moon half moon wasn't 80s
Jaffa's original 'eclipse' campaign in 1999 was probably one of the more irritating - most notably the TV ad featuring the Eastern European infant school teacher explaining what an eclipse was using a Jaffa Cake (if you're old enough, all together now: “Full moon, half moon… total eclipse!”).26 Mar 2015
I found that ad a bit creepy to be honest!
The product was neither sweets nor snacks, but for adverts with a story it would be difficult to beat the Nescafe Gold Blend couple of Anthony Head and Sharon Maughan...
There was always the series of Ben and his Birds Eye beefburgers.
Hi Alanna,I believe that there was a legal wrangle over VAT.with Jaffa cake .it was declared a cake,because a biscuit goes soft when left ,but a Jaffa goes hard when stale,as does a cake.great video.Roly.🇬🇧.PS.the advertisements really made me feel old,but with resilience of mind over matter (that being me)not for long 😀
Thanks for watching!
This. Biscuits go soft, cakes go hard. Been hearing this debate come up again a lot lately. Weird. The court case was about a tax loophole I think. Why is there less tax on cakes though?
@@deathbysnusnu515 Biscuits are classed as confectionary, so when they contain chocolate or chocolate forms a part of them, the chocolate attracts partial/proportional VAT, whereas cakes are classed as food, which is exempt from VAT, (uness it's sold hot, to compliment things,) so it was all down to whether the tax man could collect VAT on the chocolate part of a Jaffa Cake.
Italians must have wondered why so many Brits on holiday would sing "Just one Cornetto...."
@@raymondporter2094 Based on "O Sole Mio"....
Prior to “your” Smarties ad, my memory goes back further 😉 as in ‘singing’ “Smartie people are happy people, they smile all the time because they’re feeling fine as it’s Smartie time…Smartie people make funny faces, clap their hands, they're Smartie fans you know the taste is grand, we're all living in Smartie land, ba doo doo n doo doo doooo, Smaarrartiieees.” And thank you ‘bows and exits stage left to wild applause…” 😳😂
Haha, well remembered, I remember that ad from when I was a kid!
I was around but very young in the 80's and recognize most of those so thanks for the trip down Memory Lane... and the Cadburys Caramel Bunny might have been my very first television crush... ;o) Also, though, the Jaffa Cakes ad is way later than the 80's, probably 2000's...
The guy in the Toffee Crisp advert is Paul Bown, famous from the sitcom 'Watching' which ran for 6 years on ITV in the late 80s/early 90s. He also appeared in Coronation Street as Roy Cropper's brother, and is from my neck of the woods, Stoke-on-Trent.
Growing up as a kid in the 80's in the UK I can't tell you how many sweet ads became our catchphrases. I can't tell you how many times we would say "It's Wicked" with the special Northern inflection on the "ick".
We were discussing Black Magic the other day and I can confirm that Sainsbury still sell them as well as Milk Tray another advert fave.
Incredible! I'll have to have a look, can't say I've seen one before
I saw them in Poundland before Christmas. They’re my mums favourites!
@@AdventuresAndNaps From memory, they were called 'Black Magic' because they are all dark/plain chocolate rather than milk chocolate.
@@iainmalcolm9583 They were my late grandmother's favourites because they were all dark chocolate, but by her reckoning, never as good post 2005 ish when they were changed, first to all squares so you couldn't tell at a passing glance what each was, then a couple of years later back to their original shapes and sizes but the recipes had changed and she felt personally insulted by them. I'd forgotten all about that, thanks, the memory has made me smile.
@@Coylee91 Sadly, they are not alone in being changed from 'original' to 'New & improved' (code for we now use cheaper ingredients).
Ahhhh - I miss adverts that actually tell you what they're advertising - rare these days. I like to play a game called "guess what this is an advert for" . Sometimes, even if I have seen one lots of times, I still haven't a clue.
I agree
The kids accent in the 2nd one is from the Liverpool area.
And one of the most recognisable accents on TV. I still smile when I see a rerun of the milk advert with the two Liverpool kids. "Accrington Stanley? Who are they?"
Born in 77 so i remember all these thanks for a trip to my chilhood and yes the caramel bunny is strange! My mom used to give me a breakaway after school with my tea bless her!
It was clearly a more innocent age where you could have a scouse kid with a tooth missing advertising chocolate and the PR department didn't have to defend the company on social media for weeks afterwards moaning that sugar is the devil's seed! Great video kid - keep 'em coming!
Nowadays the idea of a Liverpudlian kid having pinched something off his sister would probably evoke outrage that Scousers are being typecast as thieves. As if...
Frank Muir Cadbury Fruit and Nut advert. Absolute classic and the tune is still stuck in my, and probably lots of other peoples head to this day. Soft mints advert was very different when it came out in the 80's or 90's too. Flake ads were the most sexually charged, followed by Cadburys Caramel ads.
Evwyone's a fwuit and nutcase, cwazy for those Cadbwy's nuts and waisins.
You have no idea how much joy has this video brought me! Especially when you say "naughty" in 16:50 - priceless! Cheers, lovely Alanna! XOXOXO
Thanks for watching!
I love Black Magic chocolates. I ask for a box every Christmas 😂. Not long just finished this years box. Although, it definitely didn’t have as many crammed in it as that adverts box did! I love the shape of the old chocolate boxes. Also that Aero bar. That bought back some memories of it being that shape.. great video Alanna, took me down memory Lane . Lovely.
Damn. I'd forgotten about Black Magic even existed.
Still miss Terry's Pyramint (they original pyramid version).
Remember them all (now I feel old)…Smarties where nicer & the tubes were cooler….back then.
The breakaway accent is Liverpudlian.
The Cadbury’s Caramel Bunny voice is none other than Miriam Margolyes.
Fox’s also do Glacier Fruits, the mints are strong.
Jaffa Cakes are Cakes, it’s in the title and the law says they are, as HMRC found out when they lost the case.
Walkers Crisps woman is radio DJ Janice Long who died on Christmas Day just gone.
Not seen Black Magic in ages, or Dairy Box & Terry’s All Gold…Milk Tray are still around…they were the main 4 boxes of chocolates.
Thanks for watching!
@@AdventuresAndNaps please help me don't egnore please
LEGENDARY BBC Radio presenter and former Top of the Pops host Janice Long passed away on Christmas day at the age of 66 following a short illness. Sister of Keith Chegwin.
Keith Chegwin (17 January 1957 - 11 December 2017) was an English television presenter and actor, appearing in several children's entertainment shows in the 1970s and 1980s, including Multi-Coloured Swap Shop and Cheggers Plays Pop.
His early career saw him performing in such West End stage shows as Tom Brown's School Days and Captain Pugwash. He also had a career as a singer, releasing singles on the Pye Records label and worked as a disc jockey for 194 Radio City in Liverpool. He spent four years at BBC Radio 1 on Tony Blackburn's weekend morning show. In 2000, he presented the Channel 5 nudist game-show Naked Jungle, appearing naked except for a hat and later describing it as "the worst career move" in his life.
This took me back YEARS! Thanks, Alanna. 🤗
Ahh, the days when ads were worth watching! Moving on from food, the old Heineken lager (The water in Gibraltar!) and Hamlet cigars (photo booth) are worth a look if you fancy a giggle.
It was "The water in Majorca don't taste like what it oughta' "
@@pginvoice3995 Damn! Yes, you're right. Memory not what it was...
Some absolute bangers there!! Watch 90s tango adverts. Especially the james corden ones they are ridiculous, funny and terrifying all at the same time!!
I think that the Tango ads were responsible for the craze of "Happy Slapping" which involved youths randomly slapping total strangers in the street. Very fortunately, it was short-lived.
@@stephenphillip5656 I believe the ads got banned.
That Jaffa Cakes ad is waaay later than 80s, fwiw. like, late 90s f'sure.
Fun fact about it - watch it again and notice the spooky-looking character that pops up at the back of the class, midway through. Supposedly, there was a scene with a Headmaster character that was cut... leaving only that random, quite unnerving scene, in the final edit 😂
Just into the 1990s there was a run of ads to inform people that what *was* known as a 'Marathon' bar was being renamed to 'Snickers' to match the rest of the world. Worth a watch.
"Do you have the Snickers?"
"No, it's just the way I walk!"
I remembered every single one. Thanks for reminding me I'm getting old, Alanna. Made my day, that has 😂
Thanks for watching!
Perhaps Black Magic is a fading brand, but as a Canadian kid from the 50's I can confirm they were the go to present you bought your mother for whatever occasion required gifts. That is, unless you bought her a model airplane kit and then volunteered to help her build it.
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80s kids will probably recognise all of these. To the 80s kid, the adverts were almost as important as the programs. We even used to sing the adverts to each other in the school playground.
The séance toffee crisp ad was the best.. "are you there Sidney?".. and the the music as the toffee crisp floats down to the table 😆
Sadly for the first 6 or 7 years of my life sweets were rationed in the UK, but when the rationing ended my sister and myself gorged ourselves lol
That was a nice trip down memory lane, thank you, I didn’t realise at the start how much I would remember and enjoy. Like yourself I don’t watch adverts anymore but I find them annoying now anyway. I hope you do this again sometime, the nineties probably had some memorable ads. I hope you have a great week.
Thanks so much!
@@AdventuresAndNaps as you’re in Kent, have you tried Kent crisps yet? They’re a regional brand which the co-op stocked also available in independents
omg its like i forgot these adverts existed but seeing them again like a flash back there i am infront of the tv as a kid happier times "smarties truly did have the answer" they always did!!!
The kid's accent was Scouse - Merseyside. A great catch phrase I recall for McVitie's Digestive biscuits was, "A drink's too wet without one!"
I'm surprised they didn't include the Milk Tray adverts with the James Bond type character who secretly delivers boxes of chocolates to beautiful women!
Wow, they brought back some memories - I can just about remember them all. Sad to see Janice Long on the Walker's crisps advert who only just died on Christmas day. Great 'food/sweets' video, you always make them so much fun. Thanks.
Thanks for watching!
The Cornetto ad was so famous that Boddingtons did a beer ad where a bloke goes and buys a pint of Boddingtons from an ice cream van, and the girl asks him if he wants a Flake in it.
I still hear that reference in pubs if you get a pint with too much head.
The Breakaway boy was Scouse (Liverpool)
There is nothing finer than a peppermint aero and a double Scotch and breakaways used to be part of my packed lunch for school love em.
🙋♀️🙋♀️ now I feel old!! Remember all of these sweets and treats, and even a couple of the ads (especially the Cornetto one), great video as always.
Off for a snack now…
Thanks for watching!
I also remember all of them. That Cornetto ad is a true classic of advertising and had a very long run.
Wow I really miss the 80s such a good decade. this makes me miss it even more
Note also that a lot of these are made by Rowntree Mackintosh before they got bought out by Nestle etc
Quality Street are bad now, thanks to Nestle...but they used to be nice when it was owned and made by Rowntree Mackintosh (and not just using the name).
Best thing about Breakaways (and it sometimes happened with Kit Kats) was that sometimes you got one that was just chocolate with no biscuit...that was a result!
The Walker's crisp ad was Janice Long...regular Top of the Pops presenter and Radio 1 DJ...
Breakaway kid had a scouse accent (Liverpool).
Toffee Crisp - again, ruined by Nestle.
Glacier Mints - awful, never did like those, they always outstayed their welcome...Nuttall's Mintoes were far better.
Black Magic - can still get those...they're dark chocolate (and Nestle 👎)
Cornetto song...'O sole mio' obviously loads of classical opera types have sung it...but Elvis had a big hit with a kind of a version of it using the melody but with different lyrics etc...It's Now or Never
I always liked the Cadbury's Fruit and Nut adverts with Frank Muir...
Quality street recipe has not really changed but like everything new flavours have been introduced.
My other half got us a tin of Quality Street at Christmas for the first time in years as we agreed they were ruined by Nestle. We were really surprised as they tasted like they used to. Give them another go.
Asda launched an own-brand rip-off of Kit Kats in (I think) the early 90s, the chocolate was super sugary and about 1 in 4 were just solid chocolate, I absolutely loved those.
Quality Street were never good, so many memories at Christmas getting a present expecting a tin of Roses and opening a tin of QS 😫😫
Hello Alanna. These adverts take me back a bit! Loved the reactions to so many of these - you seemed a little... taken aback by the Caramel bunny ad. That's nothing to the sheer suggestive, sensual Cadbury Flake ads of that era. (If I start describing them, my glasses will steam up...🤭😳. WOW...."'Shouldn't be allowed...")
There were some really creative ads back then, particularly Weetabix (breakfast cereals). "The Lone Ranger", "Robin Hood", "The Cub Scouts" "English Civil War" & "Trojan Horse" were true works of art. Must've been hugely expensive to produce but mini-masterpieces.
Love the videos, keep on keepin' on, stay safe & have fun . From Yorkshire...
The Smarties advert was from when electronics really made a push into graphics and sound, most notably Pixar starting in 1986.
You could do the long running Gold Blend coffee adverts with Anthony Head ( Giles in Buffy ) or the even longer running Bisto adverts.
Or the OXO ads
When you get round to trying an Angel Delight go for the strawberry flavour... And buy a Cadbury's Flake, smash it up in the wrapper & then pour it ontop.
Will do!
I love how varied your videos are! It makes every video really interesting to watch! And your editing is really good too! Your videos feel really well done but also very chill! I really like them! Hope your video does well! Your videos are such a nice part of my week!
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I lived in London as a child in the 60s and 7Os and used to visit my grandparents in Wales. There were always new sweets or flavours in Wales we didnt get in London for months later ie space dust and assorted flavour toffos
This video was a lovely trip down memory lane. I remember all of these ads.
Jaffa cakes are classed as cakes and I'm sure they went to court about it and won which resulted in saving a lot of money because they avoided biscuit tax 🤷🏻♂️ That was also a 90s advert I think
Clue is in the name :)
The old Carlsberg advertisements were brilliant you should check them out 🍻
Please react to all the flake adverts from 60’s- 80’s some are very suggestive. They are so well filmed and produced
Quality Street were pretty good when this was made as they were made by Rowntree Macintosh. When they got taken over by Nestle things went down hill.
Also the plastic tubs you get now for £3.99 are not the proper tins. The proper ones like in this are nearly £9 and even then may be a bit smaller.
How could you not know a scouse accent? Probably the most recognisable English accent alongside Geordie and Cockney.
Jaffa Cakes are, legally speaking, cakes as there was a famous court case where the tax authorities tried to levy VAT on them on the basis they were chocolate biscuits. McVities won, and one of the deciding factors was, that cakes go stale and dry when exposed to the air for a long time and biscuits go soggy. The voice over on that advertisement was by Donald Sinden, a well known TV actor but one who was also a stalwart of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
The One Cornetto advertisement featured Elisabeth Sladen, who played Sarah Jane Smith one of the Doctor's best loved companions in Dr. Who. Later in life, she starred in a couple of spin-off series including the Sarah Jane Adventures.
The actor operating the ATM in the Toffee Crisp advert looks like John Gordon Sinclair who is best known for a Bill Forsyth film called Gregory's Girl (whilst he's fairly hapless, and loses the girl he dreams of, in my view he did much better by ending up with Clare Grogan). The voice over on that ad is by the jazz musician George Melly.
Also, if you think the Cadbury's Caramel advertisement is sexual, then try finding a Cadbury's Flake advertisement of the era. That will blow your mind (unfortunate phrase) and something so suggestive would surely not be acceptable now.
nb. one interesting point is that almost all the great British confectionery companies were founded by Quakers. That includes Terrys, Rowntree's, Cadbury and Frys. Sadly almost the entire UK confectionery industry is in foreign hands, and Nestle have committed historical vandalism by eliminating the famous name of Rowntree's. The reason the Quakers got into the business is because they had a moral objection to the damage that alcohol was seen to be doing to the working classes, and it was perceived that confectionery was a harmless alternative. Well, that's before you start taking into account the damage it causes through diabetes, but they were not to know when these companies were founded in the 19th century.
Jaffa Cakes are cakes because they're called Jaffa Cakes. Frankly, the clues in the name. If that was Elisabeth Sladen in the Cornetto ad, it didn't look like her. I'll have another look and see. The chap at the cashpoint was Paul Bown, who is probably best known for the sitcom Watching and occasionally being the stooge for Mr Bean. He may even have been that just the once, in fact. Now, I don't know if it applies in this instance, but the Caramel bunny - and yes, she was intentionally seductive - was voiced at certain times by Miriam Margolyes. A lot of children's television of the 80s was less prudish than it is now, and I'm not convinced that the current attitudes are all that healthy, frankly.
That wasn't John Gordon Sinclair. I do recognise him though, but couldn't tell you his name. He did go on to feature in various sitcoms though.
EDIT: I see his name was mentioned in the next comment, which I had failed to read fully before I commented! 😄
The victim of the cornetto mugging was Kika Markham rather than Elisabeth Sladen.
if yer not from the u.k. or more specifically england a 'scouse' accent is meaningless. i know british people think accent differences should be plainly obvious to everybody but that would not be the case for anybody not familiar with them. i'm yankee but i only know it because i worship THE BEATLES and lived in manchester fer 2 1/2 years. yer average john qq. citizen yankee will likely not know one from another.
The Walkers crisps ads I don't think ever took off until a certain footballer took over the role. There is an excellent Tudor crisps advert from Gateshead featuring a tower block that's now been destroyed. Yes, I visited Venice and made sure to have a cornetto. Not on a gondola though because there are thieves about!
As kids we used to use the phrase “Fox’s Glacier Mints” as a replacement for swearing. As in “oh for F…ox’s Glacier Mints”. Drove my mother up the wall.
The lady in the Bassets All sorts ad is Joanne Whalley Kilmer, Val Kilmers wife, she was in Willow 😁
It's not her, JWK is another lady popular at the time. This advert lady I think went on to have a part in a BBC sitcom, with a 'jack the lad' painter which was popular for a while?
The two biggest 80’s Chocolate adverts are missing; Milk Tray (All because the Lady Loves Milk Tray)….
And if you thought the Cadbury’s Caramel Bunny was sexually; watch some of the Cadbury’s Flake adverts from the 80’s…..WOW
Both are still regarded as some of the best adverts ever….watch & react to them.
Frys turkish delight also not here
Just left a similar comment about the flake as didn't read comments before posting, and totally agree!
Really enjoyed the video! Would love to see more reacting to older adverts. They are really interesting to see the cultural change.
Thanks for watching!
Black Magic chocolates were countrywide.
The accent of the boy in the Breakaway advert was Scouse (Liverpool).
The woman in the Walkers advert was Janice Long, a Radio 1 DJ.
The voiceover in the Angel Delight advert sounds like Hugh Laurie, though I couldn't swear that it's him.
I remember all of these adverts.Cadbury’s Caramel changed packaging a number of years ago. Quality Streeets used to be sold in metal tins as did Cadbury’s Roses, until they changed to plastic packaging. Black Magic is still being sold in supermarkets.
Ah, these ad's brought back a lot of happy memories for me Alanna. The days when a Mars a day helped you work rest and play, a finger of Fudge was just enough to give your kids a treat and it was full of peppery goodness plus the fact a Milky Way was a sweet you could eat between meals without ruining your appetite, good times. Thanks for a great video this week. I shall finish by saying the Milky Bars are on me. ☺☺☺
It's full of Cadbury goodness. Nothing peppery about Fudge!
@@martinclegg8536 Could have been. 😄😄😄