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Here’s a bit of an obscure UK sweet that I bet most of you will have forgotten about. The Terry’s Pyramint. It was about the time that sweet manufacturers suddenly realised how popular Cadbury’s Creme Egg had become, and a plethora of cream/fondant or toffee filled egg products came on the market, many of which are still popular in the Easter period today.
Terry’s, better known for the gorgeous Chocolate Orange, noticed this too, but figured why limit your sales to Easter by making the sweet egg shaped? They came up with the Pyramint, a product where surely the name must have been devised more the sweet itself. The Pyramint was a plain chocolate pyramid shape filled with a really tasty mint fondant filling. It came in a little pyramid shaped cardboard box and I remember them being extremely nice.
The Pyramint was very successful on launch but sadly didn’t stay on shop shelves for very long and disappeared as quickly as it had appeared. As I recall the Pyramint wasn’t the cheapest of sweets and for the money you got something that didn’t last long enough and was actually quite tricky to eat due to its unusual shape. A real shame, and a personal favourite that I would love to see again.
Apologies for yet another of my rather lame drawings, but photo evidence of this delicious morsel seems pretty hard to come by…
…Update 26/10/08! Thanks to Emma Burns who proves if you look hard enough you’ll find what you want. She’s kindly pointed me at the rather excellent tellyAds site, which happens to have a video of a Terry’s Pyramint advert. I’d forgotten about this ad, and unless I’m mistaken it features the voice talents of both Leslie Phillips and Kenneth Williams!
March 10th, 2009 at 1:14 am
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August 27th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
Two chocolate bars I’d love to see again were Novo (top half chocolate, bottom half oat bar) and Delight (had a creamy filling, pastel pink and blue silvery wrapper, and was made by the same company who make Dime bars).
July 22nd, 2010 at 6:38 pm
I personally couldn’t remember the name of the bar until I found it here; I remember Pyramint was either dark chocolate with mint flavour fondant where the underground burial would have been or a bar with pyramid shaped segments, came in either lemon or orange flavour and had wafer in them.
I remember eating either the lemon or orange Pyramint bar (with wafer in them) and steam came out; the steam coming out of the bars looked like Heaven!
July 22nd, 2010 at 6:45 pm
Who remembers Mammoth Straws? They were tall, large, lenghty, thin inedible straws (made of plastic, of course) with differently coloured fruit flavoured sherbet crystals (the different colours depended on the flavour of the sherbet).
You had to rip off the square paper on the height of the straws and then had to suck the sherbet crystals out of the straws; for that matter, who remembers the box these straws came in?
The box was tall, thin, large and lengthy, was made of cardboard, was 3D, was yellow and had no lid. It said ‘MAMMOTH STRAW’ in block capitals (written vertically) [because mammoth can mean 'incredibly large'].
The box had four corners and each corner had four different professional cartoon drawn people of a rugby player, a clown, a skier and a magician.
All their legs were the same size and length of the straws (and the box) and they all wore white trousers with differently coloured vertical stripes.
I so miss this box. Who still has it?
July 22nd, 2010 at 8:58 pm
Can’t say I remember the Pyramint bars Michael, and are you sure about the steam coming out? I’d love to know what process they used to do that!
I certainly remember Mammoth Straws though, or at least something incredibly similar to what you describe. I always found the sherbet got too stick from condensation from your breath and would block the tube, so you’d need to snip that bit off in order to get more out.
July 23rd, 2010 at 3:02 pm
Thanks for answering my questions Big Boo; that definitely WAS steam coming out of the lemon and orange wafer filled bars. Though I unfortunately still don’t know how the STEAM was able to made in the bars and come out of them when you bit off one of the pyramid segments of the bars.
Anyway, do you remember the box I described? I doubt you HAVE it (rest assured that I’m emphasising ‘was’ and ‘have’; not shouting them).
If you still HAD that box, I could tell you where to send it to.
July 24th, 2010 at 12:11 am
No, sorry Michael, I don’t remember the Mammoth Straws box itself, I just remember the tubes of sherbet. I always preferred the Sherbet Fountain myself (except for the Liquorice) and the Sherbet Dip Dab. Much nicer sherbet in my opinion.
February 5th, 2011 at 3:22 pm
Nestle secred bars – had some gooey marshmallow type stuff inside with chocolate strands wrapped like a cage around – really miss them, but yeah, the pyramint , back then a usual chocci bar was like 15 to 23p, but these were between 50 & 60p so expensive – but they would sell nowadays – or they could make a bar or mini ones
August 12th, 2011 at 11:42 pm
i remember pyramints they were amazing but they were really expensive like 70p and u used to end up covered in it because of the pyramid shape…………………… my favourite sweet of all time has to be the original wonker bar that was purple chocolate with green snosberrys (nerds) in. truely awesome sweet that vanishedvand nobody seems to remember
January 5th, 2012 at 11:54 am
At last! Someone else remembers Delights! I did worry i’d made them up in my head! Didn’t the advert have Ted Bovis out of Hi De Hi in it?
I also used to love Pyramints, Secrets (which sat on a cardboard platform as they were very friable and easily broken, but utterly delicious) and Novo bars.
But I would sell my soul for one more Delight bar!
January 29th, 2012 at 8:47 pm
I think Michael has gone crazy, steam indeed! Maybe he read the Wikipedia page and tried to pass it off his own, or maybe it is his own… Either way it’s horseapples! Who would make a lemon or orange flavour sweetmeat under the name of Pyramint? Not a single soul, Michael needs a chat with a head doctor… Blessim!