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Tunnocks tea cakes can be added to the list
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I was the same. Bounties put me off coconut for a long time. An insult to an otherwise great flavour.
It's not a snobbery thing for me, plenty of decent cheap coconut chocolates out there. Just not into a hardened slurry of sugar and glucose syrup. Its about as difficult to eat as kendal mint cake.
dancing james
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@itsbruce
When I was a child, I thought I hated coconut becauseI first encountered it in Bounties. Turned out coconut is fine, just Bounties are shit.
Fry's pulled a similar trick with Turkish Delight, which according to them is supposed to taste like lard mixed with stain-removing tooth powder. When I reached the bit in "The lion, the witch and the wardrobe" where the white witch uses enchanted turkish delight to tempt the boy, I thought "It must be fucking magic if he wants to eat another piece". Few years before I found out that British confectioners can turn good things into shit.