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Remember these?

They were a similar shape to a Topic but smaller and filled with coconut and cherries (a bit like a Bounty). They appeared in (in Northern Ireland anyway) around 1980 and cost 16p. I remember this because a friend told me about this 'lush' new chocolate bar that 'cost a fortune'.

I last remember seeing it around the late 80's when I left N.Ireland to study in England.

Anyone seen one since?

HI THERE I REMEMBER CABANA BARS I LOVED THEM AND I ONLY WISH YOU COULD STILL GET THEM BUY THEY ARE DISCONTINUED I LIVE IN CARDIFF SOUTH WALES AND YOU CANT GET THEM OVER HERE. BUT WHAT I CANT UNDERSTAND IS WHY DO THE CHOCOLATE FIRMS DO THIS ANYWAY HERE IS A LIST OF ALL THE CHOCOLATE BARS I WOULD LIKE TO SEE AND CANDY BARS AS WELL. RIGHT HERE GOES PACERS, CABANA, THE ONE YOU ARE ON ABOUT GOLDEN CUP, FRYS FIVE CENTRE BAR, BAR SIX, BANJO, TREETS, SPANGLES. AND ALSO CHIPMUNK CRISPS OXTAIL FLAVOUR DO YOU REMEMBER THEM. AND ANOTHER THING THAT I DONT LIKE IS WHEN SWEET FIRMS CHANGE THE TASTE ON THEIR PRODUCTS LIKE FOR INSTANCE ROUNDTREES FRUIT GUMS THEY ARE SOFT NOW YEARS AGO THEY USED TO BE HARD THEY ARE NOT THE SAME NOW.

We used to get Cabanas in Northern England but now living down south, have never met any 'suvoners' who have heard of them.

Three or fours years ago we asked Cadbury about them and they denied they ever made them. We then started a 'Bring Back Cabanas' campaign and inundated them with e-mails full of this one line, repeated over and over.

After a month the people at Cadbury begged us not to send any more messages as we bunged up their e-mail system. They then admitted they HAD made 'em but had withdrawn them due to poor sales in the 'trial areas'. Funny that, as everyone I know from up North loved 'em and bought them.

We are thinking of going to Cadbury Land with 'Bring Back Cabana' tee-shirts on. Now that Star Bar has been back (and they are horrible), why don't they bring back the gorgeous Cabana? Anyone who agrees should e-mail Cadbury.

One of our team is heavily pregnant and has craved a Cabana right throughout.

Forgot to say on my last report - The Cabana bar ALSO had pieces of melon in it, which is why it was so tasty.

And Jelly Tots used to taste much nicer - things rapidly went downhill when the nation awoke to the existence of E numbers.

"Made with natural fruit flavours" - bleurgh!

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I don't suppose you or anyone else know the exact ingredients of the Cabana do you? I wouldn't mind having a bash at making a home-made one. I wonder if Cadbury would still have that information, and if they would let me know if I wrote to them?

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manda

I was starting to think I'd imagined Cabanas as no-one else remembered them, I used to get them up north and darn sarf but last saw one sometime around 1985. Cant believe they didn't sell well, I bought loads of them.

I don't remember Cabanas!!!

How can you people not remeber Cabana bars I am truly shocked but that advert so catchy
remeber all together now "HEY MR MAGIC MAN, MAGIC ME CABANA,..."
damn can't remember the rest.

hi, i seem to remember cabana's had cherry to start with and then
ended up with melon.
i would like to know if anyone remembers SUPERMOUSE:a sort of milky-
way,or MINT CRACKNEL:an almost glass-like candy that used to cut your
mouth,it was kind of woven brittle bright green mint and covered in
chocolate,TEXAN BAR:a nougat-ish candy bar covered with chocolate with a taste similar to the upper part of a cadburys double decker,
BUTTERSNAP BAR:a very brittle almost sort of praline-ish toffee,very
thin and covered with chocolate,i think mackintosh made them,
NUTTY BAR:a sort of fudgy nougat bar with peanuts all over surface,
BETABAR OR BETTABAR:a very light bar made from crisped rice,held together with caramel type stuff.

there are still quite a lot of sweets from way back, available on quite a number of sites on the web at this present time, the trouble
with some of the products,particularly the 'penny sweets' that are
still in manufacture are in most cases no longer the same as they were, this is sometimes due to recipies no longer containing e-numbered ingredients ,and in other cases the products are made using
modern production methods that make it nothing like its original.
also when brands are sold on to other manufacturers ,they always seem
to be different from the originals, anyway ,just thought i'd share that with you.

ohhhh i loved Cabanas too and am sure i read somewhere that lots of new products are tried and tested in the north east, if they don't take off they are taken off sale. when cadbury's wispa bars first came out i went to visit relatives in chester, i asked my cousin to get me one when he went to the shop and they had never heard of them.

can anyone remember a bar that was similar inside to a crunchie but finer and it was mint and covered in dark chocolate?

also some snacks ( crisps ) called pork and bean ranchero's?