Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Strange Candy

You know what freaks me out the most about British comic books?

It's the ads for weird candies that I've never heard of before:

I mean, it's like they're a weird alternate universe over there, where one trivial yet glaring detail is different, so you just know they're evil or pod people or something. They speak the same language we do (sort of), they read many of the same comics we do, watch many of the same movie and TV shows--but they have these weird freaky candy things that I've never heard of before, and that just creeps me out!!!

Sorry, lost control there. Nothing personal, British readers. I know it's just me, and not you. I guess I'll just relax and have a Snickers. You do have those over there...don't you? Don't you???

From 2000 AD #217 (1981).
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6 comments:

  1. StephenJune 15, 2011 at 10:51 AM

    Private Sweetly...? Facehugger seeds. Definitely.

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  2. DougieJune 15, 2011 at 1:58 PM

    I'm bloody ancient and I've never heard of them. I remember that Battle incorporated Action (which was infamous in the Seventies in the UK for over-the-top violence) but Sweetly Fruit Gums? New one to me.

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  3. Al EwingJune 15, 2011 at 2:19 PM

    A... 'Snickers'? Surely you mean:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfPum7kZWuI

    (Or you would have then.)

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  4. snellJune 15, 2011 at 8:01 PM

    Oh, lordy, is there nothing that Britain cannot ruin? Snickers, man...SNICKERS!!!

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  5. googumJune 16, 2011 at 9:48 AM

    Don't look at me, I've always been stuck on British money. Schillings? Pence? Pounds? What the hell? And some obviously made up for Judge Dredd sounding thing, "ur-o's."

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  6. PippyJune 25, 2011 at 12:04 PM

    Actually they changed the name for marathon in the UK to snickers to bring it into line with the new world order's chocolate bar regime 20 or 30 years ago or sometime last millenium anyway

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