100 word anonymous challenge for January... or in fact not.

[jastius]

I always like to enter things too, but sometimes can't get an entry in for whatever reason.
If I'm not entered in, feel free to use me as another red herring should the need arise.


What are red Bounty's?
I googled it and got Christmas printed paper towel images.

Wait, is it those cherry mounds bars from Australia with the different name here?

 

[HareBrain]

Shredded coconut soaked in syrup and then covered/enrobed/enfolded/embraced in dark chocolate.

Those Christmas-printed paper towels would be useful, though, to wipe up all the drool now on my keyboard.

 

[Kerrybuchanan]

Hard to get red bounties these days. Shops only seem to stock blue (milk chocolate for those who haven't seen them).

 

[farntfar]

No bounties at all round here. Or digestive biscuits. .

 

[Kerrybuchanan]

Seriously? What do you drop in your tea when you're supposed to be dunking?

 

[ratsy]

I've never heard of a red bounty. I tried digestive cookies once but I couldn't stomach them...

 

[farntfar]

We use croissants here Kerry.

 

[jastius]

We use croissants here Kerry.

What?! No Madeline's? I am aghast...
Croissants leave flakes in my tea if I dunk them. Do you brush them off first before dunking?

 

[farntfar]

Madeleines don't last til tea time.

 

[TheDustyZebra]

I see, with the help of my friend Google, that Bounty is what we call Mounds in the US. The blue one, that is. The red one, dark chocolate, I don't think we have. Our choices are Mounds or Almond Joy -- the latter being the same but with two almonds on top of the coconut but under the chocolate. Both, as far as I know, are milk chocolate.

(Edited to adjust for my poor memory and a sudden recollection.)

 

[Mouse]

"Mounds" made me snigger like such a child.

And curse you all because I now want a Bounty. (A proper one, none of this red nonsense).

 

[HareBrain]

Our choices are Mounds or Almond Joy -- the latter being the same but with two almonds on top of the coconut but under the chocolate. Both, as far as I know, are milk chocolate.

Wikipedia tells me that Mounds is dark chocolate, and Almond Joy (dear God I can't believe I'm typing these names) is milk.

During the 1970s, the Peter Paul company used the jingle, "Sometimes you feel like a nut / Sometimes you don't / Almond Joy's got nuts / Mounds don't," to advertise Almond Joy and Mounds in tandem

Holy crap.

 

[TheDustyZebra]

Is Mounds dark chocolate? I guess maybe it is.

Yes, that is actually the jingle, and they've recycled it more recently as well. It was a masterpiece of epic proportions. I can't even imagine the man-hours that went into crafting those words.

 

[Phyrebrat]

Yes, @HareBrain you can still get red bounty - very much so; the kids frequently bring them to class for me when they haven't developed their choreography/done their homework/brought their training kit...(it's also cute hearing the Caribbean students unable to pronounce it correctly; 'Sir, mi nuh have no kit nuh, so mi a seh let mi bring a red bungty fi yuh.'

I accept then punish them.

Let me know if you want me to send you a red cross package

@Mouse is just colourist - ruins tea with blue milk instead of red; ruins bounty with milk chocolate.

pH

 

[jastius]

Wikipedia tells me that Mounds is dark chocolate, and Almond Joy (dear God I can't believe I'm typing these names) is milk.



Holy crap.

And in Australia they like their cherry bounty...

(harebrain you have just hit upon the fodder for ninety percent of the smarmy jokes i would hear in grammar school..)

 

[Phyrebrat]

Yeah, but they tend to mutiny.