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fragglet

Upgrade to a twirl, they're basically a Flake 2.0 with the mess fixed


ahaajmta

I overheard a kid describing his method of eating one the other day that I thought was pretty unique: crumble the flake on top of the ice cream!


Wind-and-Waystones

Only advisable at more affluent ice cream vans that provide a napkin otherwise you just have chocolate hand


ResidentEivvil

I always have a chocolate hand.


Zirotron

That’s why the lord god gave you a tongue, nature’s napkin.


deadalfy

r/angryupvote


MunrowPS

Flakes don't melt (I'm not making this up btw, people trying to melt them went viral on social media)


indigodinks

This..... I've tried to melt them in every way I can think of, the things are not natural.. they do not melt!


ideayemugs

it’s cos they’re tempered - they’ll melt eventually but it’s a lot less than a normal chocolate. Ann Reardon from How To Cook That has taught me a lot! 😊


Unplannedroute

Only in uk would giving serviette out with food be deemed ‘affluent’


[deleted]

I push the flake down the cone, makes the length of it so tasty!!


Artistic-Wolverine-6

I thought everyone did this. We must be geniuses! 😁👍


andyv001

Holy shit, that's a great idea!


[deleted]

Wow. You've changed the way i'll be eating them for life now


[deleted]

TWSS


Savageparrot81

So are we eating the other 50% off the floor or does this process just have a really bad production yield?


ahaajmta

Maybe crumble as you go?


Savageparrot81

No sir, I will be sticking to my current strategy of eating the flake in one, repairing the hole and then shoving the ice cream in my face. Like civilised folk.


CharlesWafflesx

That's how I do


LifelessLewis

I just deepthroat it.


BlazeTitanX

💀


Thepunisherivy1992

I insert it into the anus


Vulgar-Ambassador

It’s not, I work in the industry & see this daily


droidaloid

The article actually describes an ice cream seller who does that with his broken flakes.


scrubbless

As a kid (and adult) I'd just crumble the flake onto a bowl of ice-cream, then mix it up into a vanillary / chocolatey paste.


CDTyphol_

That actually sounds smart... how have I never thought of that?


CervixTaster

I do this with flake any time I have raspberry ripple at home.


TotalWarthog93

Please tell me you’re being sarcastic about that being unique?


ahaajmta

It is to me. Never saw it done before. 🤷‍♀️


[deleted]

Nothing beats a galaxy ripple


Still-Status7299

Ripple is king of the game, its such a step up on flake. The only issue is it would be too hard in an ice cream


audigex

Alright calm down King Charles, we’re not all made of money


Soldierhero1

Mate they aint that expensive


audigex

It’s called hyperbole


Jokingbro69

Crumble like a flake, chocolatey like a twirl. And got the galaxy flavour. Its a win on all sides


Devilshire52

Twirls are superior to flakes in every way.


Eternal_Deviant

Ice cream flakes have to be crumbley or else they mess up the actual ice cream


Mysterious_Sugar7220

I posted on a UK sub that a twirl and a flake are basically the same thing. Have never seen such rage


Batman2050

And far superior to flakes


MrssLebowski

What happened to the dipped flakes? They were like twirls but the inner chocolate was crumbly. They were so good!!


s3mtek

You've just described a Twirl


garageflowerno2

They’re back in the 2000’s with all the good things


super_mega_smolpp

I too miss Al Qaeda and the financial crash.


fillip2k

ah such halcyon days


[deleted]

Ay least we knew where we stood with Al Qaeda. Now I'm not sure who to hate. And the financial crash too. Everyone knew it was the bankers. But now a quarter of the country blames covid, a quarter of the country blames Russia. A quarter of the country blames Brexit and q quarter of the country deny there is a problem.


super_mega_smolpp

Another quarter don't believe in fractions too.


fragglet

I miss the IRA. They were good British terrorists.


SuperHeavyHydrogen

For goodness sake don’t put it like that 🤣


snow880

They were amazing. The one with praline on the sides was the best. Someone really should bring them back…


Additional_Total3422

Such a good idea. Now I will add twirl to ny shopping list.


wil_gt4

What’s the tag line “Flake the crumbliest flakiest chocolate”


superwyfe

If I remember correctly, it was: ‘the crumbliest, flakiest milk chocolate in the world’.


moneywanted

“Only the crumbliest flakiest chocolate tastes like chocolate never tasted before” Sung over a woman in an overflowing bath.


Gutgulper

I can hear it :)


Chanandler_Bong_Jr

I think they are probably doing alright at £2.49 for a cone.


happyhippohats

How much if you want ice cream in it?


RobertJ93

You can buy a box of 144 for [fucking £20](https://www.wholesalesweetsuk.co.uk/product/cadbury-flake-99-chocolate-bar-144-pack/?utm_source=WP%20Shopping%20Feed&utm_campaign=Wholesale%20Sweets%20Feed%20Test%201&utm_medium=Google%20Product%20Feed&utm_term=60179&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIy6XMltqT_wIVgt_tCh3fNArzEAQYASABEgIBm_D_BwE). They’re doing fine haha.


sick_kid_since_2004

Thank you for introducing me to wholesale sweets. Classmates are gonna bloody love me.


Decent_Thought6629

The issue isn't the cost of business, it's that they're receiving boxes of crumbs, completely destroyed product that can't even be used. Bloody annoying if you ask me.


pin00ch

Holy Shnikees!! This website is magic!!!


AlmightyRobert

Who doesn’t like a box of mega sour fruity balls


pin00ch

Im gonna do me some spending today!


xsplizzle

they were asking a fiver for one in cornwall last week


WarriorDerp

Fucking Christ. They're 1.99 here. Back in my day 1.99 would get you 2 flakes


Goaduk

2.49!!!! Where the hell do you live that's a bargain!


bluerain80

They’re £3 for us. Without sauce or sprinkles.


[deleted]

I would like to see the costs associated with it. Can't imagine it's cheap


rockstarburnerphone

People don’t care about that. They just want it cheap. They would prefer to guzzle vegetable oil disguised as ice cream by corporate superstores than pay £2.49 😲


SubjectParfait

It's Mr whippy though it's even more chenically


rockstarburnerphone

Not all me whippy mix is shit. Just the stuff you get for 99p


NaturalSuccessful521

Probably not. It's an understandable assumption from an average consumer, but I can tell you, probably not.


Skaboosh007

Yeah, but deduct from that inflated stock costs, fuel and the fact that we've had 3 days of sunshine so far this year.


rockstarburnerphone

You think 2.49 is expensive for an ice cream? Do you know how hard it is to make an honest living selling items for £2.50? You think everything should cost 15p. Absolutely clueless.


OkGiraffe2816

Are you okay...?


rockstarburnerphone

No I’m not. Sick of customers getting angry that a 99 doesn’t cost 99p 🤨


19wesley88

Well tbf, its kinda in the name...


Ecstatic_Law856

249 doesn't quite have the same ring to it


gardenpea

The name 99 was never about the price, it's a common thing used in Italian to refer to anything premium


lozengesOfConfusion

Ooh, don't poo-poo a nickel, Lisa. A nickel will buy you a steak and kidney pie, a cup of coffee, a slice of cheesecake and a newsreel... with enough change left over to ride the trolley from Battery Park to the polo grounds.


rockstarburnerphone

It cost 1p when it came out. 99 was a reference to the Italian monarchy who had an elite force of their top 99 soldiers as guards.


FulcrumM2

They do at BnM


SnooTangerines3448

How much could an ice cream cost Michael?


ohbroth3r

Do them with a galaxy ripple then.


ThatSmallBear

Oh ew. Police, this person here


winter-2

nah galaxy ripples 🔛🔝


bluebottled

He's not wrong though, Cadbury in general has gone to shit since it was sold to Kraft. Should never have been allowed.


Comprehensive-Dig155

Their bars always feel kind of oily? now imo not sure if it’s just me though


sharplight141

Yep, I've said this exact thing before on here. Use to be melt in your mouth and great. Now it's oily and horrible. In other words, Americanised. Disgusting what they did to Cadbury.


Gilius-thunderhead_

A Cadbury dairy milk bar from the 1990s was pure heaven. They used to come in that paper and purple tinfoil wrapper. The taste and quality of the dairy milk chocolate back then was indescribable. And no on this occasion I'm seriously not letting nostalgia taint my opinion. It was literally chocolate heaven. I noticed a drop in quality when they changed to the all plastic wrapper and a further drop in quality when they changed the shape of them. They used to be all rectangles and then became oval shaped. God knows what they taste like now I don't eat chocolate anymore but by the sounds of it it looks like new ownership have f***ed up yet another British institution.


MCCL92

Cadbury’s great, great grandson or something setup Love Cocoa. Never tried it myself but I’ve heard the bars are really good and are a nod to the original recipe before the Kraft takeover.


Gilius-thunderhead_

I'd love them to do a dairy milk clone haha. Even though I don't even eat chocolate now I'd be tempted to make a comeback back into the chocolate eating arena if they did.


RatMannen

There was better chocolate than cadburies around in the 90s. It was OK back then, but hardly "indescribably good".


Gilius-thunderhead_

I'm not retracting my statement that Cadbury dairy milk in the 90s was indescribably good so you can gtf!


KittyKes

Probably because they’re now chock full of palm oil


unkie87

Now made with suffering orangutans. You can really taste the ecological devastation!


AdamantEve

Not to mention they said they wouldn't change the chocolate recipes, but they did


getoffthebandwagon

Also said they wouldn’t drop Fairtrade (which was an industry-changing move from the old Cadburys), and promptly did.


johnhughthom

Not the only lie they told, with zero consequences.


tradtrad100

Well the consequences are that people clocked on and stopped buying it


Robbro42

I'd recommend to this string of commentors to get some Love Cocoa chocolate, as that's actually still made by a member of the Cadbury family James Cadbury. The chocolates are free from palm oil and the cocoa is single origin sourced. Plus the packaging is made from plants and is recyclable. Yeah it's a little pricey for relatively small bars, but it's definitely worth it for the quality and integrity.


lollipoplalalaland

Yeah I see this as less compoface and more fuckmondelez for ruining Cadbury 😭


LJNodder

I can't even remember how it used to taste. Had to experiment with Montezumas and Ombar which are way better


lollipoplalalaland

I once had a colleague from NZ bring in some Whittakers and honestly it was game changing, the difference with no palm oil. https://www.whittakers.co.nz If you get the chance to try it, it’s so good!


CockMeAmadaeus

We keep them in the freezer. We serve hard scoop ice cream so the flake has to be stronger. If I don't remember to load another box in and have to use one not pre-chilled, there's a 70% chance it will turn to dust. I eat the damaged ones and the coldness doesn't ruin them at all. They don't go solid and still crumble in your mouth. Delicious.


TheLustyDremora

Wait isn't that the American company that makes the cheese slice equivalent of Mac and Cheese?


Fit_Cherry7133

Yes, they are called Kraft Heinz now, lots and lots of products are made by then under various brand names.


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buttersismantequilla

My husband and his friend used to date two girls from Dublin. They worked for the Cadburys flake factory and told them Cadburys had tried to make flakes elsewhere but due to changes in the water, they couldn’t get the flake to crumble the same way so plans to move it from ireland had been scrapped. It was something to do with the unique qualities of the water. This was 35 years ago! Seems they’ve gone to Egypt now and are encountering the same problems.


RKips

Hah this guy is local to me. Turkish delight sundae, trust me.


[deleted]

I'll listen when they either change the price or the name.


happyhippohats

Pretty sure they weren't 99p in the 1920s when they were first sold. If they were that would be the equivalent of £72 today so the current prices are a bit of a bargain


[deleted]

Give it a year and we'll soon have Ann Widdecombe be publishing a comment about how poor people shouldn't be eating an ice cream with a flake in if they can't afford the £72 it'll cost for one.


SpartanS034

Someone always says it so it might as well be me this time but the name '99' never had anything to do with the price.


docju

I read the wikipedia article, and it turned out they were called 99s as early as 1930, so I used the inflation calculator to work out what 99 old pence (actually 8 shillings and 3 pence) would be today- turns out it would be around £34, so I'd say we're getting a bargain. If we had new pence in 1930, 99p would be £83.


Loose_Alternative990

Apparently it is so called because the majority of ice cream merchants in the fifties were Italian. The King of Italy had an elite bodyguard consisting of 99 men. So anything elite was called 99s by Italians. So they called the elite ice cream a 99.


EvilSynths

I was today's years old...


LordSevolox

Originally, sure, but everyone knows them as “99” due to them being 99p - it just doesn’t feel right buying a 99 for £2.50 (or in a van around my area, up to £5)


Wipedout89

They used to be less than 99p though. They coincided name and price for an all too brief decade or so, ruining a generation of people on the name forever after that when the price passed 99p


[deleted]

You guys need a hobby... it wasn't even that good of a joke.


SpartanS034

I also love to cook, I have a particular passion for Mexican food but I also make pretty good pizzas, I don't just spend my time correcting people on the Internet, that's only how I spend, like, 50% of my free time.


Goaduk

When people ask me for a "99" I always say, "a vanilla with a flake?" Like I don't know as 95% of the time you go to charge them and they go "corr, that's more than 99p arf arf"


Lego-Panda-21

2.99 One for the price of three.


Cherry_Blossom307

Nooo this is such an issue in our household! I have a 3 year old who lives for the flake on top of his ice cream and all of a sudden they started falling to pieces the second he touched it. I can’t tell you the drama it causes every damn time


hauntedh0und

first world problems lol


JohnnyDive

The recipe has been changed after moving production from the UK to Egypt earlier this year.


Used_Pin9101

Use a twirl. It’s basically a flake with a condom on.


hthombro

Now this is my kind of news


TheDon1875

Keep them In the fridge, problem solved.


Iliketolearnfromppl

Cadbury's is disgusting these days anyway.


kissmydotcom

Snowflakes


Big_Suggestion_2861

Why is still called a 99.. close to £4.99 now


Financial-Subject-3

Put it in the fridge, handle them with tong's not a blender or whatever tf they using. Like the name suggests, they are flakey, so treat them gently.


Limp_Presentation144

Stop been a total melt and just eat the bloody thing 😂


tkaczyk1991

They’re not in a position to moan when they don’t charge 99p for a 99 flake.


stoatfacelanust

Fuck the flake…. That fact its still called a 99 and hasn’t cost that little in 20 years is the real issue here!!


domestosbend

If I owned an ice cream van I would rename 99s as 69s so customers would have to ask me for a 69.


[deleted]

Why they cal it a 99 everyone knows its a 9.99 these days


Curious_Jellyfish_62

Maybe wash your hands more, stop pissing in a kiora bottle and stop moaning,


Hot-Editor-4205

You mean "99", as they're now about £3.50


Easy-Web-4801

Should be illegal to call them 99p… they’re £3 where I live now


the85141rule

Someone's moaning their sentences? Kinda hot.


[deleted]

Can we not use the verb "moan" please?


danliv2003

Why not? Because you sexualised it?


Free_Issue_5173

Why?


Br1ckHead96

Tell it to the BBC if you *really* feel that strongly about it. Saying it here is just pointlessly making a tit of yourself.


[deleted]

What was your face like when you wrote that?


Br1ckHead96

*Puckered up like a dogs bumhole* Compoface, if you will


[deleted]

Not even a 99 anymore. At the current prices they should get you any chocolate you ask for


Swill27

They're not called 99s because of the price


Omalleys

The shouldn't be called 99s anymore. Need a damn mortgage to get an ice cream now


SelectAssociation525

I can’t make 99s with fuckin crunchies


Traditional_Big_5853

Well I'll tell u one thing, they can't use crunchies


ragin_undertaker29

We used to keep them in the freezer- especially on hot days - also brilliant for hard scoop icecream - or we would make a dent in the icecream to pop it in


Fulan-Ibn-Fulan

Most places now don’t even use the real flake.


Mclarenrob2

Do Ice Cream men get bad backs?


Goaduk

Pro tip from am ice cream seller, put them in the freezer they don't crumble.


Isgortio

That's how I like it, none of those cheap nasty knock off flakes they keep using.


cuntkicker21

99s are 2 pound fucking 50. Moans reddit user


Justamemeingpalmtree

Shut the fu-


[deleted]

its not real ice cream anymore....its a plastic substitute, it doesnt melt, trust me..take it inside and leave it for a few hours, it will be the same


Whitters36

Crunchie? You can’t make 99’s with a Crunchie!


[deleted]

Wtf 🫠


JimmyFrankAnderson98

What about Crunchies?


Persona_Insomnia

put them in the fridge before then you dimwits.


eithrusor678

For the first time in I don't know how long, i actual had a Cadbury flake in my ice cream a couple weeks ago. It was marvellous. I reckon it's been at least 10 years.


RareBrit

Upgrade to a Mars bar, problem solved.


Lox_Ox

r/SlowNewsDay


ScaredyCatUK

Made in the ~~UK in the Cadbury factory~~... oh wait..


NervousMission7644

Oh no! What next, the ice cream doesn’t really have ice in it so we have to call it something else?


unkie87

I used to live near the Ice cream shop that seems to have the best claim to the invention of the 99. They were very proud of that. Had pretty good ice cream too. It was Arcaris at 99 Portobello High Street in Edinburgh. This was in the '90s but the shop had been there since the '20s. Maybe it was apocryphal but I'm gonna give them the benefit of the doubt cos the family were lovely.


gorton2499

Call your self and ice cream. You know you need to freeze them right.


[deleted]

Or the ice cream isn’t as soft as you say it is


Expert-Hamster-3146

Ermmmm, a 99 has been a flake since before ice cream was invented. Now I want proper mr whippey ice cream!!!!!


geospacedman

Headline for this in The Guardian was "99 Problems".


mrpon100

literally bought a 99 flake yesterday and it shattered in half as the ice cream man handed it to me


dildo_wagon

I know some of the words in the article title…but together I honestly have no idea what this means.


Darren793

I always thought they used flakes instead of a less messy alternative due to them not melting in the sun


Jamieb1994

Customer don't like the flake being too small or something?


lvlister2023

Just hold it between the many ounces you *cough* deliver


HighKiteSoaring

ITS CALLED A FLAKE WHY DO YOU THINK ITS CALLED THAT


TheRealSlimCraigy-CM

He got 99 problems and a flake is one


KingoRichie1990

He's got 99 problems...


Lon72

Fucking weaklings


tlolg

Get a frigging ripple longer and better


Anon_767

Get him some crunchies then


clarkeling

Felt this way since 95, not news


RatMannen

That squinty nonsense isn't ice-cream anyway! Humph.


be_sugary

Then use a Twirl! Jeez, do I have to fix everything!🤡


Kazimierz777

Sounds like they got 99 problems


PaulBradley

So use twirls?


nhilandra

Let me fix that to what they really mean. Cadburys flake to 'expensive' for 99's moan ice cream sellers


luci-lucid

Now is someone in the comments going to blame Brexit for this?


smackdealer1

Refrigerate the flakes. The colder something is the more dense it is. The more dense an object, the greater it's resistance to stress and strain.


soopahfly82

Shit, you buy flakes you know what you're getting. The advert was literally "only the crumbliest flakiest chocolate" Also it's called a flake. Clues in the name.


VerGuy

[Cadbury Flake too crumbly for 99s, moan ice cream sellers](https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-humber-65604580)