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#143214 - 14/02/2003 08:41 No salt :-(
g_attrill
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Registered: 14/04/2002
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Loc: Hants, UK
Just opended a 35p pack of Salt & Shake and couldn't find the salt - emptied it out onto the table and it definately isn't there. First time in hundreds of packets *that's* happened...



edit: they taste *crap* without salt

Gareth


Edited by g_attrill (14/02/2003 08:42)

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#143215 - 14/02/2003 09:38 Re: No salt :-( [Re: g_attrill]
tman
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I actually prefer those with nearly no salt. The normal Walker's ready salted are way too salty for my tastes...
You could write to Walkers to see what they'll say. Probably end up with a packet of salt coming back in the post though

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#143216 - 14/02/2003 09:47 Re: No salt :-( [Re: g_attrill]
wfaulk
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Registered: 25/12/2000
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I'm assuming this is a food product.
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#143217 - 14/02/2003 09:54 Re: No salt :-( [Re: wfaulk]
Roger
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Yeah, they're (actually plain) plain crisps, which come with a little bag of salt, so you can season them to your preference.
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#143218 - 14/02/2003 09:58 Re: No salt :-( [Re: g_attrill]
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One time my friend had a bitesize snickers bar with no bar inside. It was just air. But then someone he was showing it to squeezed it and popped it.

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#143219 - 14/02/2003 10:00 Re: No salt :-( [Re: ]
tman
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Registered: 24/12/2001
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Duh. That's a bit annoying!
I've had a Kitkat chocolate bar which was solid chocolate once. The wafer stuff in the middle wasn't there at all. I ate the evidence though

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#143220 - 14/02/2003 10:03 Re: No salt :-( [Re: tman]
wfaulk
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I've had one of those, too. I've also had them where half of it was solid chocolate, and much of the time, the wafers are at an angle so that they almost stick out of the bottom.

I don't think the KitKat quality control process is up to snuff.
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#143221 - 14/02/2003 10:37 Re: No salt :-( [Re: wfaulk]
lopan
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Registered: 28/01/2002
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Loc: Manassas VA
In reply to:

I don't think the KitKat quality control process is up to snuff.



Personally haven't had any kit kat factory rejects, but the "Big Cat" was a gift from the gods....

I have experienced air filled Whoppers, but I think thats fairly normal, usually 2 or 3 per carton.
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#143222 - 14/02/2003 10:54 Re: No salt :-( [Re: tman]
genixia
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Yeah, I've had one of those too. Lovely...
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#143223 - 14/02/2003 11:18 Re: No salt :-( [Re: g_attrill]
butter
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Registered: 07/03/2002
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[Milton]
Excuse me Seņor? I ordered a maragrita and this is a pina colada. and the last margarita i asked for no salt, NO SALT, and there was salt...
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#143224 - 14/02/2003 11:29 Re: No salt :-( [Re: g_attrill]
Ezekiel
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Registered: 25/08/2000
Posts: 2413
Loc: NH USA
I had a similar problem once on a package of 'Salt & Vinegar' chips from Wise. They had the salt, but not the vinegar. I wrote them a nice letter explaining how sad I was to have received vinegar-less chips & sent the package in. About a week and a half later I received coupons for four free bags of chips & a nice explanation of how chip salting/flavoring tumblers work by return mail. For the cost of a stamp I bet they'd do the same for you. Just a thought.

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#143225 - 14/02/2003 11:37 Re: No salt :-( [Re: g_attrill]
tfabris
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Registered: 20/12/1999
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Loc: Seattle, WA
Our family buys a lot of a certain kind of stroganoff-flavored noodle, to be made as a side dish with dinner. It comes in a little envelope, with the dry noodles and the powdered sauce/flavoring all mixed together. You tear open the envelope, pour it all in the pan with some water/milk/margarine, and cook. Easy to make, and delicious.

It's a popular flavor for that brand of noodle, and we sometimes go to the store and find them to be out of stock for just that flavor. So one week, on our shopping trip, we decided to stock up. We don't like getting caught without our noodles (so to speak). We bought the entire on-shelf stock they had at the time, which was close to a dozen of these envelopes.

We got it home to discover that they all were noodles-only, no flavoring.
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#143226 - 14/02/2003 12:50 Re: No salt :-( [Re: wfaulk]
David
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Posts: 623
Loc: Cambridge
> I don't think the KitKat quality control process is up to snuff.

Well they do sell over 4 million bars a day (worldwise I assume, not just in the UK), so it's probably a tiny, tiny percentage overall.

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#143227 - 14/02/2003 12:51 Re: No salt :-( [Re: David]
tonyc
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Registered: 27/06/1999
Posts: 7058
Loc: Pittsburgh, PA
Where, oh where do you get these wonderful statistics?
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#143228 - 14/02/2003 12:53 Re: No salt :-( [Re: tonyc]
tfabris
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Loc: Seattle, WA
Where, oh where do you get these wonderful statistics?
He makes them up, just like 95 percent of all statistics.
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#143229 - 14/02/2003 12:54 Re: No salt :-( [Re: g_attrill]
Tim
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Registered: 25/04/2000
Posts: 1529
Loc: Arizona
One of my last trips I was on, the package of peanuts I got had one peanut. The rest of the weight was all salt.

I guess it evens out

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#143230 - 14/02/2003 12:56 Re: No salt :-( [Re: tfabris]
tonyc
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Loc: Pittsburgh, PA
Thanks for filling the void I've left by slacking on my Simpsons quote of the day.
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#143231 - 14/02/2003 12:59 Re: No salt :-( [Re: David]
David
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Loc: Cambridge
I saw it on the side of a box of kit kats many years ago when stacking a supermarket shelf. (And before anyone asks; yes, I was commended for my customer service while I worked there).

Edit: I have the evidence (as much as a non-descript webpage can be evidence) from http://www.hancocks.co.uk/strange.htm

Launched in 1935 as Rowntree's chocolate Crisp, Kit Kat was supposedly named after the Kit Kat Club, an 18th century Whig literary club. As the building had very low ceilings, it could accommodate only paintings which were wide but not too high. In the art world, such paintings became known as "kit kats". It is therefore conceivable that the Kit Kat derived its name from paintings which had to be snapped off to fit into low ceilinged rooms.

1) Four million Kit Kats are consumed every day and a year's production
would stretch around the London Underground more than 350 times.

2) 47 Kit Kats are eaten per second in the UK.

3) 500 million Kit Kats will be exported to over 60 countries.

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I'll never forgive Nestle for buying Rowntrees - they changed the chocolate in all the products to their recipe and it's horrid.

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#143232 - 14/02/2003 13:15 Re: No salt :-( [Re: lopan]
visuvius
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Registered: 18/02/2002
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I wholeheartedly agree -- those Big Cats are one of the greatest candy inventions in quite a while. Sure beats the hell out of those stupid "self-rotating" lolipops.

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#143233 - 14/02/2003 13:27 Re: No salt :-( [Re: visuvius]
butter
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Registered: 07/03/2002
Posts: 211
Loc: State side
now if they would only start making giant sized Pez! Then my life would be complete.
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#143234 - 14/02/2003 13:29 Re: No salt :-( [Re: butter]
tonyc
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Registered: 27/06/1999
Posts: 7058
Loc: Pittsburgh, PA
now if they would only start making giant sized Pez! Then my life would be complete.


How about a Giant Pez dispenser which dispenses normal sized Pez?
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#143235 - 14/02/2003 13:31 Re: No salt :-( [Re: visuvius]
wfaulk
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Registered: 25/12/2000
Posts: 16706
Loc: Raleigh, NC US
"self-rotating" lolipops
Or, as I like to think of them, ``automatic tongue lacerators''.
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#143236 - 14/02/2003 15:57 Re: No salt :-( [Re: Ezekiel]
g_attrill
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Registered: 14/04/2002
Posts: 1172
Loc: Hants, UK
Just remembered a relevant Red Dwarf quote:

Rimmer: Everything always goes wrong for me. I'm probably the only
person in the world to buy a Topic bar without a single hazelnut in it.


The advertising slogan at the time was "A hazelnut in every bit"

Gareth

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#143237 - 15/02/2003 03:40 Re: No salt :-( [Re: g_attrill]
andy
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Registered: 10/06/1999
Posts: 5916
Loc: Wivenhoe, Essex, UK
The advertising slogan at the time was "A hazelnut in every bit"

Yeah, which also precisely describes squirrel shit...
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#143238 - 15/02/2003 06:09 Re: No salt :-( [Re: David]
snoopstah
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Registered: 07/01/2002
Posts: 339
Loc: Squamish, BC
In reply to:


Well they do sell over 4 million bars a day (worldwise I assume, not just in the UK), so it's probably a tiny, tiny percentage overall.



And if you've ever eaten an American one, you'll never want a kit-kat again.

Why is it that US chocolate is so, well, terrible? Kit-kat chocolate is foul, Dairy Milk tastes of cardboard, and Hersheys?! Can that actually be classed as food?!
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#143239 - 15/02/2003 06:36 Re: No salt :-( [Re: andy]
muzza
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The advertising slogan at the time was "A hazelnut in every bit"

Yeah, which also precisely describes squirrel shit...


LOL



The shops around here are shocking. When you go to the shops to buy a can of, say, corn kernels, there's a little picture on the outside of the corn and the corn kernels. And yet, I have Never, ever found the appropriate contents inside a can which is clearly labeled 'Cat food'. There's always some mashed fish or chicken. Quality control in those cans is disgraceful.
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#143240 - 15/02/2003 06:44 Re: No salt :-( [Re: muzza]
Biscuitsjam
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Registered: 22/01/2002
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Have you had any better luck with the cans of baby food?

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#143241 - 15/02/2003 06:59 Re: No salt :-( [Re: snoopstah]
andy
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Posts: 5916
Loc: Wivenhoe, Essex, UK
Hersheys?! Can that actually be classed as food?!

Well said that man. I tried a Hersheys last time I was in the States. I had to get a USian to try it to make sure the bar hadn't gone bad. Nasty stuff.
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#143242 - 15/02/2003 07:54 Re: No salt :-( [Re: andy]
CrackersMcCheese
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Registered: 14/01/2002
Posts: 2489
I've only tried Hershey's Cookies 'n' Creme. I loved it. Is the plain bar not so good then? Thought Hersheys were meant to be the chocolate Kings?

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#143243 - 15/02/2003 08:10 Re: No salt :-( [Re: CrackersMcCheese]
andy
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Registered: 10/06/1999
Posts: 5916
Loc: Wivenhoe, Essex, UK
I don't remember which one it was, it just didn't like chocolate at all.
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#143244 - 15/02/2003 09:21 Re: No salt :-( [Re: andy]
g_attrill
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Registered: 14/04/2002
Posts: 1172
Loc: Hants, UK
sorry, in every bite - I thought I edited it immediately after posting that but I guess something screwed up....

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#143245 - 15/02/2003 13:24 Re: No salt :-( [Re: andy]
wfaulk
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Registered: 25/12/2000
Posts: 16706
Loc: Raleigh, NC US
So what's everyday chocolate in the UK? Cadbury's? I wonder if the Cadbury's we have over here is the same as what you have over there. It's certainly wildly different than Hershey's, which is hardly the best chocolate around, and, I think, many of their different chocolate products use different sorts of chocolate. For example, the chocolate in Kisses tastes much different to me than in the plain bar.

Out of curiosity, did the Hershey's taste waxy to you?
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#143246 - 15/02/2003 13:47 Re: No salt :-( [Re: wfaulk]
genixia
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Cadbury's Milk Chocolate in the UK would be fairly representative of UK chocolate. I can't for the life of me remember whether the US version is the same though.

I'd agree that some US chocolate tastes waxy, and some just tastes nasty (to me). But that's in line with other US candy. Whoever thought that candy that tastes like smokers toothpaste would be appealing was wrong. It really bugs me when I don't expect it - there I am enjoying a pack of candy, a multititude of pleasant flavors delighting my tastebuds and all of a sudden they're violently assaulted. It's just not right.
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#143247 - 15/02/2003 16:46 Re: No salt :-( [Re: wfaulk]
Daria
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Registered: 24/01/2002
Posts: 3937
Loc: Providence, RI
We don't have Cadbury Twirl here. I wonder if I can find some while I'm in Stockholm in a couple weeks to bring back with me.

And I think I'm due for a trip south to get some Cheerwine after I get back.

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#143248 - 16/02/2003 21:31 Re: No salt :-( [Re: Daria]
lectric
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Registered: 20/01/2002
Posts: 2085
Loc: New Orleans, LA
Mmmmm, Cheerwine, good stuff. Haven't had it since summer camp years ago.

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