uh oh. I remember Coles couldn’t give away the Cadbury Dairy Milk popcorn flavour chocolate blocks. They sat on shelves for weeks at 50 cents at my local one because they couldn’t move them. They were shit - like someone mixed in creamed corn into the chocolate. Darrell Lea will have to be doing something a bit different with their recipe to sell them.
Well adding Popping Candy won’t work 
There are boxes of them at my local Coles too where they have been slashed to 50c but still just sitting there.
Maybe just popping candy would have been better. A bit like the Cadbury Marvellous Creations which is hanging on as a mainstay.
1 Like
Nup.
Give me good old fashioned milk chocolate any day.
1 Like
They’ve had those at Christmas in the past - they’re pretty bloody good.
I’m pretty surprised at how quickly Australia Post has switched the branding over on their delivery vehicles. Pretty much all of them now have the new colour scheme and word mark.
1 Like
Funny they can do this for vehicles, yet so much of the branding of the PostShop network (I won’t count LPOs as that’s not up to Australia Post) is stuck in the 90s.
1 Like
Alexandria Post Office (just near my work) has the pre-PostShop branding applied to it. It’s still got the ER crown on the front of it…
and “Commonwealth Savings Bank” just goes to show how truly ancient this PO’s signage is. It would have to be from at least prior to 1984, when Commonwealth Savings Bank changed its name to Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
That being said, I do like the stale Client Liaison-esque 80s Australiana vibes that these neglected POs tend to have. All it needs is the smell of stale cigarette smoke lingering inside and it’s like you’ve been transported back to 1985.
14 Likes
Mentioned on HYBPA tonight was that iconic brand R.M. Williams could fall into Chinese hands. That’s the first time I hear of it. I look up on the net and there is only one article (The Australian) which says CDH and Citic Group are kicking tyres of R.M. Williams. It doesn’t mean the transaction will go through.
For many of these brands it will be their third foreign owner after NZ (Lion) and Japan (Kirin).
Laming-ton chips? r they serious?
1 Like
Apparently. Why the hyphen?
Eh, it’ll just be toasted coconut. Nothing terribly exciting.
Same deal with that Cadbury Vegemite chocolate that was essentially just rebadged salted caramel.
1 Like
Apparently, spellcheck doesn’t take lamington without a hyphen.
As much as I like both lamingtons and chips… no, no, no…
2 Likes
…or Pizza Hut’s “Thank f*** they were only available for a limited time!” Doritos and Four & Twenty Party Pie-infused Stuffed Crust pizzas about four or five years back.
1 Like
Ready to 
Just checking the calendar. Definitely not April Fools Day.
What’s a Lamington without jam and creme?
1 Like