CRANKING IT UP # 2

Well, this new series has already made it to the second issue.

Now I might be stretching it a bit complaining about the disappearance of a product I last bought in 1965 but there was a chocolate covered toffee bar that I loved when I was a kid.

I don't have an image of it but it was in a rectangle shape about 50mm wide by 90mm long.
It was avery hard caramel (maybe toffee) covered in dark chocolate. It was probably made by local producer Whittakers who seemed to dominate in those days before the international multi's took over supply in New Zealand.
The thing that made this bar memorable was its shape. It consisted of about 6 'bumps' or 'knucles' that theoretically you could break off and eat individuyally. In reality you'd need to have teeth like a horse to bite one off or leave the bar in the sun for a while but then the chocolate would all melt off.

These were delicious and cost 3d I think.

I used to buy one once a week on the way to woodwork class. I went to Marist Newtown which was a small school and didn't have workshops. To go to woodwork class we had to walk down Tasman Street to the polytech in Buckle Street passing the 'dairy' by the Boy's Institute on the way. This place stocked some great things like the afore-mentioned slab and these:





















This 'dairy' was where I first discovered Banana Bikes which had just been introduced.

Yummy

Banana Bikes weaned me off the chocolate thingy.