Tayto Chocolate

[Darius43]

Just found out about this.

I remember “hedgehog” flavour crisps in the 1980s - marginally unpleasant but we didn’t know what hedgehogs tasted like anyway so had no frame of reference.

Cheese and onion crisp bits in a chocolate bar…

Has anyone tried them?

Cheers

Darius

[minister_for_hardship]

The other Tayto (the Free Staytos) did a choc bar a few years back. It wasn't the rip roaring success they thought it would be, in fact I think its discontinued.

[Westcorkrailway]

4 minutes ago, minister_for_hardship said:

The other Tayto (the Free Staytos) did a choc bar a few years back. It wasn't the rip roaring success they thought it would be, in fact I think its discontinued.

because the chocolate used in it was cheap and the bar was quite expensive for the time most people ended up buying cadburys and a bag of taytos which was better value 

 

recently came across an old kitkat bar with Irish rail branding and advertising from 1992

[Niles]

I remember Tayto sending in samples of said bars to the publisher I worked for about 10 years ago... I don't recall them going down particularly well!

I recall one whit describing them as 'tasting like a child's birthday party'.

[Edo]

2 hours ago, minister_for_hardship said:

The other Tayto (the Free Staytos) did a choc bar a few years back. It wasn't the rip roaring success they thought it would be, in fact I think its discontinued.

As a retail manager at the time - i can tell you that it was a limited edition only for publicity purposes - i think maybe 100,000 one off run...made by Butlers chocolates on behalf of Largo (tayto)....we got 4 outers and they sold out in a morning - pure gimmick -still the country went nuts for them for a couple of weeks  - my wife has 4 of them in a bag in our freezer since....must be nearly 10 years ago now!

Edited January 24, 2023 by Edo

[Broithe]

3 hours ago, Niles said:

I remember Tayto sending in samples of said bars to the publisher I worked for about 10 years ago... I don't recall them going down particularly well!

I recall one whit describing them as 'tasting like a child's birthday party'.

The Damned released an LP called Strawberries.

The cover had a "scratch'n'sniff" facility - the released odour was described by the reviewer in NME, with 100% accuracy, as being like "a toddler had thrown up a whole packet of Opal Fruits".

[Horsetan]

9 hours ago, Edo said:

...  - my wife has 4 of them in a bag in our freezer since....must be nearly 10 years ago now!

Will she be looking to flog 'em on eBay? Or are they family heirlooms to be passed down the generations?

[Edo]

28 minutes ago, Horsetan said:

Will she be looking to flog 'em on eBay? Or are they family heirlooms to be passed down the generations?

I have no idea ...everytime I defrost freezer i look at them and go "seriously"!!!

[Branchline121]

They still have them in Tayto Park — or, well, did.

They were surprisingly nice for something branded a “cheese & onion chocolate bar”, but suffered from, like what @Westcorkrailway said: awfully cheap chocolate. Apart from that, a nice little yoke to have and eat, but a bit too much of a gimmick to make them viable on store shelves.