CANADIAN REACTS | 80s British Sweets Adverts

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  • čas přidán 5. 07. 2024
  • 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!
    Thanks so much to RetroSteveUK for the video! You can watch the original here: • Vintage UK Sweets & Sn...
    Also thanks to viewer Andy for suggesting this video!
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Komentáře • 946

  • @johnturner4400
    @johnturner4400 Před 2 lety +44

    🙋🏻‍♂️ That smarties ad was quite a revolution. The computing power needed to make it was immense!

    • @johnturner4400
      @johnturner4400 Před 2 lety +8

      Oh and btw. The voice actor for the Cadbury’s and caramel bunny was Miriam Margolyes!

  • @eldrad142
    @eldrad142 Před 2 lety +79

    Does anyone else remember hedgehog flavoured crisps?? Yes, Alanna, they really did exist!

    • @benjaminsmith3625
      @benjaminsmith3625 Před 2 lety

      Yes! Only ever had them in one particular café too so they've acquired a perfect mythical taste for me 🙂

    • @tonybennett1306
      @tonybennett1306 Před 2 lety +1

      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 :)

    • @DaveBartlett
      @DaveBartlett Před 2 lety +2

      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!"

    • @garyblower1921
      @garyblower1921 Před 2 lety

      Yeah

    • @DaveBartlett
      @DaveBartlett Před 2 lety +3

      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!

  • @RetroSteveUK
    @RetroSteveUK Před 2 lety +6

    Haha! Wow! So weird to see my compilation commentated on. Glad you enjoyed some of our old TV ad memories. 🙂👍

  • @eddymccabe5351
    @eddymccabe5351 Před 2 lety +99

    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.

    • @hughtube5154
      @hughtube5154 Před 2 lety +2

      Was it because Gary Linekar bludgeoned her to death? (For those of you who get the reference.)

    • @stephenwest977
      @stephenwest977 Před 2 lety +13

      @@hughtube5154 come on, the lady just died so it isn’t really in good taste to make jokes about it.

    • @abucketofelves
      @abucketofelves Před 2 lety +1

      The Ronnie Barker ones were my favourite

    • @morganthedruid1
      @morganthedruid1 Před 2 lety +2

      @@stephenwest977 Relax it's not as if you ever even met her, sad she died but get a grip

    • @paulcockerill4260
      @paulcockerill4260 Před 2 lety +5

      She was Keith Chegwins sister.

  • @markrobinson8237
    @markrobinson8237 Před 2 lety +5

    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"

    • @wilmaknickersfit
      @wilmaknickersfit Před 2 lety

      No way! It's the one with the skating giant pandas and the photographer who keeps missing them! 😎😁

  • @adrianchell
    @adrianchell Před 2 lety +9

    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.

    • @sarahroberts7374
      @sarahroberts7374 Před 2 lety

      You've been tangoed 😂😂😂😂 remember the little orange tango man we had one it was like maybe 8 inches high? Memories 😁

  • @vixkal
    @vixkal Před 2 lety +6

    I was both alive and in the UK in the 80s. This is nostalgia at its finest!

  • @Judgles
    @Judgles Před 2 lety +18

    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.

  • @stephenwest977
    @stephenwest977 Před 2 lety +4

    The crisps was Janice Long. Very famous radio personality and tv DJ . Passed away a few weeks ago.

  • @finallydone8640
    @finallydone8640 Před 2 lety +10

    If you think the Cadburys Caramel ad was suggestive check out the old Cadburys Flake ads

  • @matc6221
    @matc6221 Před 2 lety +7

    Oh no! I think that women in the Walkers crisps ad, literally just past away last week. Janice Long I think?

  • @jakartaharpman
    @jakartaharpman Před 2 lety +32

    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.

    • @stanettiels7367
      @stanettiels7367 Před 2 lety +2

      Love Flakes. Love the “all because the lady loves Cadbury’s Milk Tray”.

    • @silkaverage
      @silkaverage Před 2 lety +7

      the flake advert was a very important part of my adolescence

    • @sebastianguerre6868
      @sebastianguerre6868 Před 2 lety

      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.

  • @SheddyIan
    @SheddyIan Před 2 lety +7

    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

  • @markjone671
    @markjone671 Před 2 lety +33

    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.

    • @alexcockburn8975
      @alexcockburn8975 Před 2 lety +4

      Speaking of scouse kids. Do you remember the milk adverts.
      Accrition stanley!? Who are they?

    • @eadweard.
      @eadweard. Před 2 lety +3

      Not sure how successful those flake adverts really were as they meant no man would be seen dead eating one until about 2002.

    • @chrisshelley3027
      @chrisshelley3027 Před 2 lety +2

      I remember there being a parody of those ads and it was called Fallic.

    • @markjone671
      @markjone671 Před 2 lety

      @@alexcockburn8975 Exactly. Yes, I remember that one but I'd forgotten about it until you reminded me, lol.

    • @markjone671
      @markjone671 Před 2 lety +1

      @@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.

  • @stevieduggan1763
    @stevieduggan1763 Před 2 lety +11

    It's definitive. Cakes go hard when stale. Biscuits go soft. Ergo, Jaffa cakes are cakes. 😎

  • @primalengland
    @primalengland Před 2 lety +3

    Not only was I alive in the 80s, my kids were born in the 80s. Thanks for a lovely trip down memory Lane…. love, 😉

  • @barriehull7076
    @barriehull7076 Před 2 lety +3

    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".

  • @essexianman847
    @essexianman847 Před 2 lety

    I was born in 1961, so remember those advertisements. Thank you, Alanna.

  • @chrisshelley3027
    @chrisshelley3027 Před 2 lety +18

    The Cadburys Caramel add is voiced by Myriam Margolyes, a very funny lady, find her out on videos with Graham Norton.

    • @stevelknievel4183
      @stevelknievel4183 Před 2 lety +3

      Or just watch that one episode of series 2 of Blackadder.

    • @chriskerfoot491
      @chriskerfoot491 Před 2 lety +2

      Just read that in her book, she also did voices in The Water Margin and Monkey

    • @andybaker2456
      @andybaker2456 Před 2 lety

      @@chriskerfoot491 Really?? Well I never knew that! I wonder if she did the voice for Tripitaka! 😄

  • @SteveMikre44
    @SteveMikre44 Před 2 lety +9

    Alanna's reaction to the After Eights advert was priceless! 😂🇬🇧

  • @petebradley725
    @petebradley725 Před 2 lety +5

    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 😊

  • @johndare3576
    @johndare3576 Před 2 lety +4

    Some of these ads are so nostalgic., I’d forgotten a lot of them so this really takes me back. Happy days!

  • @markwalsh1474
    @markwalsh1474 Před 2 lety +4

    Great vid . Love seeing old things like this ..Thank you so much for posting this ..Byeeeee. .

  • @geoffpoole483
    @geoffpoole483 Před 2 lety +5

    "I wasn't alive in the 80's." Thanks for rubbing it in, Alanna.

    • @AdventuresAndNaps
      @AdventuresAndNaps  Před 2 lety

      😂

    • @nigelanscombe8658
      @nigelanscombe8658 Před 2 lety

      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.
      😟🤨☹️

  • @mittfh
    @mittfh Před 2 lety +3

    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.

  • @martinleclairvoyant
    @martinleclairvoyant Před 2 lety +2

    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

  • @philipjamesarmstrong1364

    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.

  • @dglthrawn1
    @dglthrawn1 Před 2 lety +17

    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.

    • @johnmccallum8512
      @johnmccallum8512 Před 2 lety

      The teacher from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

    • @stuartferguson8967
      @stuartferguson8967 Před 2 lety

      @@johnmccallum8512 Librarian from Buffy

    • @johnmccallum8512
      @johnmccallum8512 Před 2 lety

      @@stuartferguson8967 Always thought of him as a teacher, but then I never did see all the programes got bored.

  • @shearerslegs
    @shearerslegs Před 2 lety +11

    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.

    • @AdventuresAndNaps
      @AdventuresAndNaps  Před 2 lety

      Thanks so much!

    • @johnleonard9090
      @johnleonard9090 Před 2 lety

      @@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

  • @jonathanocallaghan9202
    @jonathanocallaghan9202 Před 7 měsíci

    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"

  • @TitianTopsyTurvy
    @TitianTopsyTurvy Před 2 lety +1

    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!

  • @nickjeffery536
    @nickjeffery536 Před 2 lety +4

    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!!!"

  • @terrytartu
    @terrytartu Před 2 lety +3

    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!

  • @twelvesmylimit
    @twelvesmylimit Před 2 lety +1

    This took me back YEARS! Thanks, Alanna. 🤗

  • @KevinTheCaravanner
    @KevinTheCaravanner Před 11 měsíci +1

    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.

  • @rolanddunk5054
    @rolanddunk5054 Před 2 lety +24

    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 😀

    • @AdventuresAndNaps
      @AdventuresAndNaps  Před 2 lety +1

      Thanks for watching!

    • @deathbysnusnu515
      @deathbysnusnu515 Před 2 lety +3

      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?

    • @DaveBartlett
      @DaveBartlett Před 2 lety +3

      @@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.

    • @raymondporter2094
      @raymondporter2094 Před 2 lety +1

      Italians must have wondered why so many Brits on holiday would sing "Just one Cornetto...."

    • @stephenphillip5656
      @stephenphillip5656 Před 2 lety

      @@raymondporter2094 Based on "O Sole Mio"....

  • @theoldpcgamer77
    @theoldpcgamer77 Před 2 lety +4

    Yes the caramel is that colour because of that. The plain choc was always in the blue/purple type of colour.

  • @supermansbigsister3012

    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.

  • @timglennon6814
    @timglennon6814 Před rokem

    I was a kid born in the U.K. in the 1980’s. Born in 1972.
    I feel so old watching these adverts.

  • @weedle30
    @weedle30 Před 2 lety +7

    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…” 😳😂

    • @andybaker2456
      @andybaker2456 Před 2 lety

      Haha, well remembered, I remember that ad from when I was a kid!

  • @SteveGouldinSpain
    @SteveGouldinSpain Před 2 lety +6

    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!

    • @davidjones332
      @davidjones332 Před 2 lety

      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...

  • @happywanderer34
    @happywanderer34 Před 2 lety +2

    The lad in the Breakaway advert is a Scouser from Liverpool

  • @Stu-Vino
    @Stu-Vino Před 2 lety +1

    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.

  • @mrade5321
    @mrade5321 Před 2 lety +4

    I remembered every single one. Thanks for reminding me I'm getting old, Alanna. Made my day, that has 😂

  • @fourthdrawerdown6297
    @fourthdrawerdown6297 Před 2 lety +4

    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.🐇🐿

  • @ngiallag2792
    @ngiallag2792 Před rokem

    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!!!

  • @davidjames3080
    @davidjames3080 Před 2 lety

    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.

  • @markpstapley
    @markpstapley Před 2 lety +3

    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.

    • @DJKC
      @DJKC Před 2 lety

      I used to love Toffee Treats.

  • @Quaker521
    @Quaker521 Před 2 lety +5

    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.

  • @dominicspurrier5331
    @dominicspurrier5331 Před 2 lety

    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!

  • @suesue1486
    @suesue1486 Před 2 lety +1

    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.

  • @cathrynbagley8005
    @cathrynbagley8005 Před 2 lety +6

    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.

  • @eugeneshadwell6596
    @eugeneshadwell6596 Před 2 lety +3

    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...

  • @sarahgreen653
    @sarahgreen653 Před rokem

    This video was a lovely trip down memory lane. I remember all of these ads.

  • @damienyoung9080
    @damienyoung9080 Před 2 lety

    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 😆

  • @johnfry1011
    @johnfry1011 Před 2 lety +5

    🙋‍♀️🙋‍♀️ 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…

    • @AdventuresAndNaps
      @AdventuresAndNaps  Před 2 lety +1

      Thanks for watching!

    • @Elwaves2925
      @Elwaves2925 Před 2 lety +1

      I also remember all of them. That Cornetto ad is a true classic of advertising and had a very long run.

  • @grantparman4705
    @grantparman4705 Před 2 lety +4

    As an American born in 1995, I find these advertisements fascinating!

    • @AdventuresAndNaps
      @AdventuresAndNaps  Před 2 lety +1

      Thanks for watching!

    • @paulguise698
      @paulguise698 Před 2 lety

      Hiya Grant, what was your favorite British advert in this selection, this is Choppy in Whitehaven, Cumbria ,United Kingdom

  • @matthewwalker5430
    @matthewwalker5430 Před 11 měsíci

    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".

  • @kbrickell4732
    @kbrickell4732 Před 2 lety +2

    Wow I really miss the 80s such a good decade. this makes me miss it even more

  • @tonybennett1306
    @tonybennett1306 Před 2 lety +10

    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.

    • @Pwecko
      @Pwecko Před 2 lety

      Evwyone's a fwuit and nutcase, cwazy for those Cadbwy's nuts and waisins.

  • @andrewbutler7681
    @andrewbutler7681 Před 2 lety +13

    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...

    • @ianz9916
      @ianz9916 Před 4 dny

      There was always the series of Ben and his Birds Eye beefburgers.

  • @giovanniilacad2098
    @giovanniilacad2098 Před 2 lety +1

    WoW! I love all the advertisements.

  • @sixfaced
    @sixfaced Před 2 lety +1

    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 😂

  • @MartinPettitt
    @MartinPettitt Před 2 lety +10

    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.

    • @AdventuresAndNaps
      @AdventuresAndNaps  Před 2 lety +3

      Incredible! I'll have to have a look, can't say I've seen one before

    • @helenchristie6530
      @helenchristie6530 Před 2 lety +3

      I saw them in Poundland before Christmas. They’re my mums favourites!

    • @iainmalcolm9583
      @iainmalcolm9583 Před 2 lety +5

      @@AdventuresAndNaps From memory, they were called 'Black Magic' because they are all dark/plain chocolate rather than milk chocolate.

    • @Coylee91
      @Coylee91 Před 2 lety +1

      @@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.

    • @iainmalcolm9583
      @iainmalcolm9583 Před 2 lety +1

      @@Coylee91 Sadly, they are not alone in being changed from 'original' to 'New & improved' (code for we now use cheaper ingredients).

  • @Mohegan13
    @Mohegan13 Před 2 lety +3

    Damn. I'd forgotten about Black Magic even existed.
    Still miss Terry's Pyramint (they original pyramid version).

  • @stephenphillip5656
    @stephenphillip5656 Před 2 lety +3

    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...

  • @theoldpcgamer77
    @theoldpcgamer77 Před 2 lety +2

    The kids accent in the 2nd one is from the Liverpool area.

    • @peteince
      @peteince Před 2 lety

      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?"

  • @musicobsessive56
    @musicobsessive56 Před 2 lety +3

    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.

    • @pginvoice3995
      @pginvoice3995 Před 2 lety

      It was "The water in Majorca don't taste like what it oughta' "

    • @musicobsessive56
      @musicobsessive56 Před 2 lety

      @@pginvoice3995 Damn! Yes, you're right. Memory not what it was...

  • @cmurch85
    @cmurch85 Před 2 lety +3

    Some absolute bangers there!! Watch 90s tango adverts. Especially the james corden ones they are ridiculous, funny and terrifying all at the same time!!

    • @stephenphillip5656
      @stephenphillip5656 Před 2 lety

      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.

    • @davidsummerfield2594
      @davidsummerfield2594 Před 2 lety

      @@stephenphillip5656 I believe the ads got banned.

  • @Nanonic001
    @Nanonic001 Před 2 lety +1

    Note also that a lot of these are made by Rowntree Mackintosh before they got bought out by Nestle etc

  • @kcchapman3630
    @kcchapman3630 Před rokem

    You're the only youtuber that always makes me smile so I always give you a thumbs-up before I've even seen the video. I've left more comments for your videos than I ever have for anyone else. I would love to see you and your partner do a video together. Maybe a video of you giving him a silly makeover...lol.

  • @23879988
    @23879988 Před 2 lety +7

    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

  • @davidchristian8218
    @davidchristian8218 Před 2 lety +3

    I ❤ your reaction, Alanna 😁 And thanks for taking me down memory lane (I raised my hand to both questions at the start) One of your best videos yet 👍

  • @markthomas2577
    @markthomas2577 Před 2 lety +1

    The Breakaway boy was Scouse (Liverpool)

  • @afpwebworks
    @afpwebworks Před 2 lety +2

    That was great fun Alanna! Thank you. As an Australian, all of these ads and most of the sweets were new to me so now at 0300hrs I’m hungry. And there’s NO chocolate in the house!!

  • @scottwebb1978
    @scottwebb1978 Před 2 lety +12

    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

    • @pheart2381
      @pheart2381 Před 2 lety

      I found that ad a bit creepy to be honest!

  • @FaithPixel
    @FaithPixel Před 2 lety +8

    Really enjoyed the video! Would love to see more reacting to older adverts. They are really interesting to see the cultural change.

  • @t.a.k.palfrey3882
    @t.a.k.palfrey3882 Před 2 lety

    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!"

  • @davidcramb5793
    @davidcramb5793 Před 2 lety

    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.

  • @AaronTheHipHopGuy
    @AaronTheHipHopGuy Před 2 lety +6

    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!

  • @alanhilton3611
    @alanhilton3611 Před 2 lety +3

    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.

  • @rbrooks2007
    @rbrooks2007 Před 2 lety

    The Smarties advert was from when electronics really made a push into graphics and sound, most notably Pixar starting in 1986.

  • @gutinstinct4067
    @gutinstinct4067 Před 2 lety +2

    You could do the long running Gold Blend coffee adverts with Anthony Head ( Giles in Buffy ) or the even longer running Bisto adverts.

  • @Phiyedough
    @Phiyedough Před 2 lety +7

    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!

  • @christophercory8742
    @christophercory8742 Před 2 lety +11

    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

  • @paulmason6474
    @paulmason6474 Před 2 lety +1

    Please react to all the flake adverts from 60’s- 80’s some are very suggestive. They are so well filmed and produced

  • @nowt1002
    @nowt1002 Před 2 lety

    The old wine gums advert with the song Hoots Mon was my favourite as a kid. Its ace. Tango had some good adverts as well.

  • @jno5
    @jno5 Před 2 lety +7

    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.

  • @tomsenior7405
    @tomsenior7405 Před 2 lety +3

    Thanks Alanna. I really enjoyed the trip down memory lane, accompanied by your unique perspective as a Canadian. Great fun!

  • @philnolan9903
    @philnolan9903 Před 2 lety +1

    The lady in the Bassets All sorts ad is Joanne Whalley Kilmer, Val Kilmers wife, she was in Willow 😁

    • @eze8970
      @eze8970 Před 2 lety

      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?

  • @TheChrissywhissy
    @TheChrissywhissy Před 2 lety +1

    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

  • @hairyairey
    @hairyairey Před 2 lety +3

    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!

  • @docostler
    @docostler Před 2 lety +3

    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.

  • @tonyjax8454
    @tonyjax8454 Před 2 lety

    Janice Long she was lovely she used to be a radio dj on BBC radio 2 a few years ago, sadly passed away recently

  • @barriehull7076
    @barriehull7076 Před 2 lety

    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.

  • @MaYoRofSMACK
    @MaYoRofSMACK Před 2 lety +3

    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.

  • @Malfie657
    @Malfie657 Před 2 lety +4

    That was great fun Alanna - I recognise and have eaten large amounts of them all (I worked weekends and school hols in a sweet shop in the early 80's). Cadbury's Caramel wrappers were always mainly yellow, Fox's mints are still going strong and I have a bag in the house at the moment, Cornetto's were huge in popularity and much bigger in size back then, at the time Quality Street's big rival were Cadbury's Roses and the country seemed pretty evenly split in terms of favourites - always Roses for me! Finally, the lady doing the Walker's Crisps advert was Radio 1 DJ Janice Long (she sadly passed away recently). A great trip down memory lane, thank you!

    • @DaveBartlett
      @DaveBartlett Před 2 lety +2

      ...are you sure that Cornettos were larger in the old days, or is that just selective memory? I seem to remember Curly Wurlys about 18 inches long, and Wagon Wheels as big as dustbin lids when I was a kid😊

    • @Malfie657
      @Malfie657 Před 2 lety +1

      @@DaveBartlett I know what you mean Dave, but Cornetto were seriously big back then😂

  • @Chris_GY1
    @Chris_GY1 Před 2 lety +1

    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.

  • @nickmitchell6443
    @nickmitchell6443 Před 2 lety +1

    I'm was a child of the 80s and I remember all of these adverts. My favourite is the KitKat one, really loved this video thanks for the memories it all seems like yesterday. Ps Black Magic doesn't exist anymore.😁

  • @petersmith5638
    @petersmith5638 Před 2 lety +4

    The old Carlsberg advertisements were brilliant you should check them out 🍻