| It's no secret - Wispa's are coming back! What would you like to come back?
Posted: 8/19/2007 6:37:47 PM | I just saw this article and thought I would ask who remembers them and what sweets, chocolates etc. not made anymore would you like to see return? 
Source: http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/mail/news
Aug 17 2007.
By Jasbir Authi, Birmingham Mail.
SSSHHH... One of the biggest names in the world of chocolate is creeping back on to a shop shelf near you. After years of cries, internet protests and pleas from legions of loyal Wispa fans, Birmingham confectionary giant Cadbury's is bowing to pressure and bringing back the beloved chocolate bar. A limited edition of the richly textured bubbly bar, with its distinctive blue and bold red packaging, will be once again gracing shops from October 8, priced 42p. Cadbury bosses will see how sales of the limited edition bars go before deciding whether to resume full-time production of the bar.Tony Bilborough, from Bournville-based Cadbury's, said: "We have noticed the web interest for some time and the consumer passion has undeniably swayed our opinion to re-launch Wispa. "We could not ignore the massive internet interest, it wasn't hundreds, it was thousands and thousands of people. "We have made 23 million bars and are trying to find out, by bringing out a limited edition, if it is internet chatter or if it is genuine and the public really want to see Wispa back." A succession of stars announced the arrival of the chocolate bar in 1983. The tongue-in-cheek Wispa TV adverts which aired throughout the 80s and 90s, featured famous comedy duos including Ruth Madoc and Simon Cadell from Hi-De-Hi, Nigel Hawthorne and Paul Eddington from Yes Minister, Victoria Wood and Julie Walters, and not forgetting Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones. Fans were horrified when the Wispa bars range, which included the original milk chocolate bar, Wispa Gold, Wispa Mint and Wispa Bite, disappeared off the shelves in 2003, due to falling sales. Hundreds of Bring Back Wispa campaigns were set up by loyal fans urging the firm to once again whip up the gently bubbled chocolate. Two fans even stormed Iggy Pop's performance at Glastonbury this year holding a BRING BACK WISPA banner.
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| It's no secret - Wispa's are coming back! What would you like to come back?
Posted: 8/19/2007 9:32:37 PM |
"A limited edition of the richly textured bubbly bar, with its distinctive blue and bold red packaging, will be once again gracing shops from October 8, priced 42p."
I never knew they took those off the market, used to be one of my faves. October 8 is my birthday.....can chocolate be shipped cross-continentally through personal post?  | |
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| It's no secret - Wispa's are coming back! What would you like to come back?
Posted: 8/20/2007 2:18:01 AM | its sweets to me, but there has been a decline in recent years of midlands carbon based bitter. brew 11, marstons and a few others have simply disapeared. i drink lager if i drink now, which is like pop. i hate the cream flow stuff, only tastes good as a micky mouse.
bring back proper bitter!
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| It's no secret - Wispa's are coming back! What would you like to come back?
Posted: 8/20/2007 3:29:42 AM | Yep, definitely has to be the Texan bar for me too.
For loads more sweet memories, visit aquarterof.co.uk where it say's
"Texan is our most requested chocolate bar. Texan was a chewy nougat centre covered in milk chocolate. It was made by Macintoshes (now part of Nestle). Texan was launched in the mid 1970's and disappeared in the mid 1980's." | |
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| It's no secret - Wispa's are coming back! What would you like to come back?
Posted: 8/20/2007 4:26:13 AM | I'd like to see the coconut tabbacco stuff come back again - Last time I saw it was in the late 70's i as called something like Jamaican Inn and was in an orange and white tabbacco shaped pouch made from waxed paper - yummy!
As for chocolate i'd like the original Picnic back and the Nutty bar | |
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| It's no secret - Wispa's are coming back! What would you like to come back?
Posted: 8/20/2007 8:47:02 AM | | what bitter are you want to come back there was joes smith brewed in my own town now its a rugby union grownd that was a great bitter but get ing back to wispa yes i like that chocy but i have to watch what i eati be diabetic so why not make more for us to eat without sugar and make it less expensive to go with it | |
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| It's no secret - Wispa's are coming back! What would you like to come back?
Posted: 8/21/2007 2:16:52 PM |
Wagon Wheels used to be *wagon* wheels - now they're barely go-kart wheels!
I know a ex-marketing manager for Burtons Biscuits (Maker of wagon wheels) and she says that the company were aderment that wagon wheels hadn't got smaller. It was just that we had got bigger so they SEEM smaller! 
Don't you just LUVVVVE marketing people? So inventive! | |
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