Melts in Your Mouth, Not in Your Hand
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Ok upon further research the corect slogans are
1 M&Ms-Melt in your mouth not in your hand
2 Maltesers-The lighter way to enjoy chocolate
3 Smartie-Only Smarties have the answer/Do you eat the red one last?
4 Minstrels-Melt in your mouth not in your hand
Before you think that's a mistake 1 and 4 are the same read my next post.
1 M&Ms-Melt in your mouth not in your hand
2 Maltesers-The lighter way to enjoy chocolate
3 Smartie-Only Smarties have the answer/Do you eat the red one last?
4 Minstrels-Melt in your mouth not in your hand
Before you think that's a mistake 1 and 4 are the same read my next post.
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In the United Kingdom and Germany Peanut M&M's were known as Treets until 1990. Additionally, Toffee Treets were also available for some time. The chocolate versions were not introduced until the brand became M&M's. This was partly to do with the market dominance of the similar candy Nestlé Smarties which made competing under anything but a very high profile brand difficult, with the added risk of reducing sales of the existing Treets brand. Though Treets used the same "melt in your mouth not in your hand" slogan in the UK in the 1970s, this was transferred to Minstrels when the Treets brand was dropped.
So there you go the corrrect answer is both M&Ms and Minstrels. Hopefully this brings the matter to a close and removes the confusion.
So there you go the corrrect answer is both M&Ms and Minstrels. Hopefully this brings the matter to a close and removes the confusion.
Happiness is only two nudges away.Pity you only got 1!
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minstrels were around for some time before m&m's appeared, the slogan was first used in england for Minstrels, i can see the dopey bird now, holding her hand out flat with a few minstrels sitting on it, then she smoothed her dress to show there were no chocolate marks on her hand. its sad, but i remember adverts really well! if it's also been used for m&m's then that just shows how forward thinking and innovative the british advertising industry really is.
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enough about chocolate, let's talk about beer
do you remeber the beamish ad of about 12/15 years ago which was all line drawing? the barman says "what will be your pleasure tonight Joseph" last line was "as he sipped at his beamish the city warmed around him" that was the best advert ever but anyone i've mentioned it to just gazes blankly.
nobody ever wins on those things.
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