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Posted January 19, 2010
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Ois: Vegemite Chocolate Bar!
Actually, that sounds rather terrible.
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michaelleung: Vegemite itself is rather terrible.

It is food of the gods! GODS DO YOU HEAR ME!
Well okay its SPREAD of the gods
Posted January 20, 2010
In the spirit of L4D2 I'd start a boycott of Terry's products to show craft that the same treatment of cadburys won't be tolerated... but I rarely see any terry's products anymore. So I don't think it'd really work.
Is Fry's still british?
The sad thing is that Cadbury's was a very nice, progressive company that did a lot for it's workers.
Posted January 20, 2010
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Ois: Vegemite Chocolate Bar!
Actually, that sounds rather terrible.
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michaelleung: Vegemite itself is rather terrible.

Vegemite is awesome on Toast or SAO crackers.
Posted January 20, 2010
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michaelleung: Vegemite itself is rather terrible.
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Ois: Vegemite is awesome on Toast or SAO crackers.

Vegimite is weak Marmite. :-p
Posted January 20, 2010
Well there's chocolate cheese slices. Had a Chesdale packaged one before, ended up on the avoid list in an instance.
Posted January 20, 2010
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Lucibel: Personally I hate Cadbury's chocolate. Sickly, excessively sweet stuff! I do buy Cadbury's cocoa though and occasionally indulge in their special bars they have from time to time (creme egg bar, turkish delight bar etc).
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Navagon: So Cadbury's chocolate is sickly sweet, but creme egg bars aren't? Ooookay.

Wasn't saying anything of the kind. All their chocolate is too sweet for me but tempatation is overwhelming if I come across oddities like a creme egg or turkish delight bar.
Posted January 20, 2010
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soulgrindr: sigh. are there any great british companies left anymore?
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michaelleung: Aston Martin, I suppose.

Ford used to own Aston Martin. I have no idea who (if anyone) does now.
Posted January 20, 2010
Isn't Kraft owned by Phillip Morris?
Posted January 20, 2010
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Wraith: Isn't Kraft owned by Phillip Morris?

Not for a long time.
Posted January 20, 2010
Not too long. They got rid of Kraft in like 2003 or 2004, right around the same time PM changed its name to "Altria" in an attempt to re-make their image.
Posted January 20, 2010
I find it a mix of amusement and soul-crushing agony how much of the UK is sold off to foreign companies.
How we justify being the 6th largest economy in the world I don't know, because it's all on credit.
I often believe we're on the brink of total collapse, we used to be an empire, and that helped with our major buildings, bridges and railways. The remains of industry, oil and gas kept us going for motorways and the channel tunnel, the financial "wizards" in the City kept London fat and house prices high... what do we really have left?
Gah, now I'm depressed...
Posted January 20, 2010
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Andy_Panthro: I find it a mix of amusement and soul-crushing agony how much of the UK is sold off to foreign companies.
How we justify being the 6th largest economy in the world I don't know, because it's all on credit.
I often believe we're on the brink of total collapse, we used to be an empire, and that helped with our major buildings, bridges and railways. The remains of industry, oil and gas kept us going for motorways and the channel tunnel, the financial "wizards" in the City kept London fat and house prices high... what do we really have left?
Gah, now I'm depressed...

How do you think we feel here in the US? None of our companies are actually ours and our only major manufacturing industry left, the auto industry, is collapsing due to foreign competition... "foreign competition"... kind of funny to say that when the American auto industry is mostly owned by "foreigners". At least you guys had many centuries of empire and success, we managed to build up and then destroy the largest manufacturing economy in the world in only a bit more than 200 years.
Posted January 21, 2010
It's interesting to compare the UK to Japan, and bear in mind that japan has essentially been in recession for 10+ years, and think about all the world famous Japanese companies (Sony, Nintendo, Hitachi, Panasonic, Toyota, Honda, Suzuki, etc..) and the world famous UK ones (er.... well a few people know Barclays... can't think of any others off the top of my head.. a lot of people still think Rover is going...)
Oh yeah, Tesco is a little known outside the UK... and Burberry.
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Posted January 21, 2010
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soulgrindr: It's interesting to compare the UK to Japan, and bear in mind that japan has essentially been in recession for 10+ years, and think about all the world famous Japanese companies (Sony, Nintendo, Hitachi, Panasonic, Toyota, Honda, Suzuki, etc..) and the world famous UK ones (er.... well a few people know Barclays... can't think of any others off the top of my head.. a lot of people still think Rover is going...)
Oh yeah, Tesco is a little known outside the UK... and Burberry.

Rover IS still going... it's been bought out by the Chinese along with MG under the name Roewe (which sounds like a neutered dog).
Posted January 21, 2010
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soulgrindr: Oh yeah, Tesco is a little known outside the UK... and Burberry.

Tesco is pretty well known in Poland, and the rep is not that good.:P
I miss the days when UK rocked the world with games.
I mean UK literally rocked the Commodore!
And don't forget the Speccy/Atari market, Jet Set Willy and such.
Guys, get back to games, and show those Yankees how it should be made!
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