Chocolate peanuts exactly like M and M's from old

[tim west]

I've tried googling and googling but cannot find or remember what famous make of chocolate peanuts in a hard crispy shell and chocolate exactly like peanut M and M's are today were called in the 70's before M and M's came to this shore.

Anyone remebmer them and what they were called?

 

[dave1953]

Paynes Poppets I think

 

[tim west]

Paynes Poppets I think

Nah unfortunately those are the toffee ones that broke your teeth when you first chewed them thanks for trying.

I wrongly thought that they just changed their name from ?? to M and M's rather like Marathon to Snickers but M and M's have been around since the 50's in america and got introduced over here in the 70's

 

[breezer]

That would be treets

 

[tim west]

Thats the one Brilliant! thanks for that

Breezer as a matter of interest who made them?

 

[breezer]

robert did.

oh sorry Trebor (i think)

 

[tim west]

Now I know what they are called i've been doing some googling and some people seem to think that Treets and M&m's were both made by Mars?

Thing is if you go on the official website for M&M's there's no mention of treets in the History of M&M's section.

 

[dave1953]

I bow to greater knowledge chaps, however in my defence Paynes did make the teeth busting choc/toffee's your, right Tim, but they also made choc/raisins for people who had bust their entire set and just sucked them to death and they also made choc/peanuts for those who still had the odd molar left. If I remember rightly they were dispensed out of machines on railway platforms or has senility kicked in?

 

[tim west]

I bow to greater knowledge chaps, however in my defence Paynes did make the teeth busting choc/toffee's your, right Tim, but they also made choc/raisins for people who had bust their entire set and just sucked them to death and they also made choc/peanuts for those who still had the odd molar left. If I remember rightly they were dispensed out of machines on railway platforms or has senility kicked in?

I think you're right about the peanut ones but the difference with them was they didnt have the hard outer shell but were soft

 

[dave1953]

Actually your right and on that note I'll shut up

 

[NS215]

didn't they also come in a box and not a packet ????

 

[breezer]

 

[tim west]

As you're picture shows thats correct and as mentioned they were also available in vending machines at stations etc.

 

[Bilioustrumpstaine]

Paynes did have a range of boxed choccie things, most tube stations had vending machines that offered them. They were easy to dispense in a box as the machines then were fairly crude affairs.

Chocolate covered peanuts and raisins and mints were some of the choices from memory.

 

[breezer]

They were easy to dispense in a box as the machines then were fairly crude affairs.

That will be because most of them were converted fag machines