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Like the Jacob’s Trio, here’s another blast from the past chocolate bar that’s no longer available. It was called United, and I’m presuming it was also manufactured by United Biscuits, though I don’t know for sure. I haven’t been able to track down an image at all, but hopefully this description might jog the old grey cells a little.
The bar itself was divided into three bite size chunks, and consisted, if I remember correctly anyway, of a biscuit base coated in fairly thick chocolate. The chocolate contained little bits of that strange crunchy honeycomby stuff. I’m not sure exactly what you call it, but the closest thing I can compare it to that is currently available in the UK are the crunchy bits in a Cadbury’s Dairy Milk Mint or Orange Crunch chocolate bar. I suspect it was actually nothing more than lumps of crystallised sugar, but it could have been little biscuit crumbs perhaps?
Anyway, that’s how I remember them. They were very tasty, and available in two varieties. Original flavour (whatever an “original” is), which was in a blue wrapper, and an orange flavoured one (unsurprisingly in an orange wrapper). The only other thing I remember about them is that the TV advert was based around football fans, given that the name of the biscuit is also an often used shortening for football teams such as Manchester United.
Does anyone else out there remember these?
Nevrr mind the beautiful uniteds and sports bars…….does anyone remember ‘quirks’ they were basically a mint smartie in a little brown box- gorg!!!
We, (my siblings and I) used to get Uniteds, Breakaways, Trios etc with our packed lunches every day in primary school. We still talk fondly about the time we got a pack that must have missed QC – the bars were solid chooclate, the buscuit bit missing!!
I remember having a similar pack of Kit Kats once that were missing the wafer entirely. Yum!
The was a football chant about this biscuit. They were made by McVities. Check out the T-shirt on the link http://www.pop-tops.co.uk/index.php/theres-only-one-united-and-thats-a-chocolate-biscuit-t-shirt.html
LOVED BANDITS! As a teenager in the early 70’s my girlfriends mother had boxes of them in a kitchen drawer & I think Patty & I finished them off every chance we got, would love to taste them again!
Hi i remeber them they were awsum and I would love to be able to get them again..
I remember united biscuits they were the best also skydiver crisps yum yum so many things that were nice that they don’t do anymore
Yes they were fantastic, please bring them back! I grew up in the eighties what a fantastic era it was. Sky divers were great to, the pickled onion ones :).
Used to love United bars bring them bk plz