no that’s starburst these days. Fruitella were always better.
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Spangles - didn’t they have a coca cola flavour?
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Yes they did. They did several packs of the same flavours as well as assorted. Ahh the good old days 
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I’m afraid I’m no coffee buff and I have no idea what all these new names mean.
Skinny? Does that mean with only a little milk, or with a skin on top?
Latte? With milk?
Cappuccino? A type of monkey?
Americano? Expensive?
Flat white? Not at all frothy, but with a bit of milk?
Mocha? I know that one because it has chocolate on the top.
Espresso? Does that mean it comes quickly?
Macchiato? Haven’t the faintest idea about that one?
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Anyone asking for a skinny cappuccino or even one made with semi-skimmed milk wants their heads looking at in my opinion simply because you need the full fat content in the milk to make a decent head of foam.
In answer to JBR’s questions:
Skinny - low fat skimmed milk is used.
Latte - a very milky drink flavoured with a shot of espresso coffee.
Cappuccino - 1 shot of espresso coffee, ½ cup of steamed full fat milk, remainder of cup filled with foamed full fat milk. Ask for an “extra dry” cappuccino if you want it made this way in the UK otherwise, in my experience, you get a latte with more foam than usual.
Americano - an espresso coffee in a cup which is then filled with hot water (almost like a black filter coffee)
Flat white - a latte with no foam at all.
Mocha - an espresso with a chocolate taste to it.
Espresso - a very short cup of very strong black coffee.
Macchiato - an espresso with a tiny dash of hot milk added.
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I wonder where one would go these days to buy just a cup of coffee. 
Oh I thought flat white was normal coffee with milk didn’t realise it was latte.
Come to mine, I’ll make you a normal coffee 
Not too long after all this fancy coffee craze started, I remember going into Starbuck’s for the first time and asking for a cup of black coffee. After the initial surprise of receiving such a strange request, the assistant asked if I meant an “Americano”. Since then I have learned how to stare them squarely in the eye when I ask for the coffee, and that seems to deter them from messing me about. 
You’re a sensible man. So am I. I always ask for a Mocha because it’s the only one I remember what it is. And I like it.
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When I have a Mocha out, I always have it topped with cream and chocolate sprinkles …… yum yum!
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Don’t they always do that? The mochas I’ve had have always had sprinkles on the top.
Chocolates, Got to be Cadburys, but I like others too, if I get given them.
Sweets are Tictacs, those fizzy lollies & fruit ones you get in a selection bag & sherbert lemons.
Though I really will eat most given to me except Liquorice sweets, I loath those, ginger or coconut.
Daft thing is I can eat proper coconut from the shell & love the milk, but not as a chocolate bar or individual choc…
Oh no. Oh no, not any more.
I’m afraid that Cadbury’s isn’t Cadbury’s any more since it was taken over by an American company. I know it doesn’t tast the same from my own experience and I have heard others say that it isn’t even real chocolate now, but some sort of vegetable concoction!
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As far as the taste of their chocolate is concerned, I can confirm that.
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M&S do a very tasty box of chocolates…
That’s if I wanted a box of chockies of course…
Not a big coffee fan even though I drink quite a lot. All my kids have these fancy coffee machines that grinds the beans and make getting a cup of coffee an academy award winning process. If I am not having tea I prefer my Nescafe Blend 43 Instant after 2 minutes in a microwave. I take a small jar of Nescafe when I visit my kids - I drink at least 10 cups of tea or coffee each day.
When I am out I never order tea because the buggers all use teabags <spit> so I tend to order a flat white. I hate it when these coffees are served anything less than scalding hot, I don’t know how they manage that considering they use boiling water and steam heated milk.
This is what Cadburys said, or rather the company who took them over.
A spokesman from Mondelez International told Express.co.uk: “We have not changed the recipe of the much-loved Cadbury Dairy Milk.
“Bournville is still absolutely the home and heart of Cadbury. All the classic Cadbury Dairy Milk bars are manufactured here except for the small 95 calorie bar and the limited edition 850 gram bar, which have never been made in Bournville.
“On occasion, we have to seek temporary support from other factories, such as the one in Poland. This is all part of our £75 million investment at the site so that we can actually increase the amount of chocolate we make here in the UK, which is good news for British manufacturing and secures manufacturing in Bournville for the next generation.”
Responding to criticism to the speculation over the use of Palm oil in the bars’ ingredients, the spokeswoman added: “We have not introduced palm oil as a new ingredient in our products; we have been using vegetable fats including palm oil since the 1950s and its inclusion in this recipe is not a new addition.
“In order to provide clearer information to our consumers, and in accordance with the new EU regulations on food labelling, we now specify the vegetable oils that are used in the composition of our products.
Palm oil is used in our recipes because it has properties that are ideal to obtain the texture and taste of the final product.”
Whether they are being truthful I can’t say, but the dairy bars bars labeled with the glass & a half of milk still taste the same to me.
It must be my fault that it doesn’t taste the same as it used to. 
So they “have always used vegetable fats and palm oil”.
OK, can they confirm that they don’t use a great deal more than when it was real chocolate?
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I have no idea as I haven’t contacted them personally, just copied & pasted a clip from the newspaper that they Mondelez International were supposed to have answered after being asked by a reader to said paper…