AlanCurragh Posted 30 November , 2014 Share Posted 30 November , 2014 Forgive my possible ignorance, but isn't it just standard Sainsbury's chocolate, rebranded? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pighills Posted 30 November , 2014 Share Posted 30 November , 2014 No, no, no, no, no! It's made to an original 100 year old Belgian recipe and very nice it is too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw Posted 30 November , 2014 Share Posted 30 November , 2014 Forgive my possible ignorance, but isn't it just standard Sainsbury's chocolate, rebranded? No Alan , I think it is sourced specially from Ypres - that said not that great IMHO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mandy hall Posted 30 November , 2014 Share Posted 30 November , 2014 Forgive my possible ignorance, but isn't it just standard Sainsbury's chocolate, rebranded? I think you are correct Alan, but it is Belgian chocolate, whatever that means. Mandy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanCurragh Posted 30 November , 2014 Share Posted 30 November , 2014 Thanks - I could probably have read the last twenty pages and found this out myself! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pighills Posted 30 November , 2014 Share Posted 30 November , 2014 My apologies, I'm getting my chocolate and my hardtack mixed uo. This from Sainsburys website: The limited edition 100g Taste the Difference Belgian Milk Chocolate bar is manufactured in Ypres, Belgium, and features the same period packaging seen in the ad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Black Posted 1 December , 2014 Share Posted 1 December , 2014 Would the feelgood factor have come through in the ad had this account been recreated for it?... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hazelclark Posted 1 December , 2014 Share Posted 1 December , 2014 Proof positive!! H Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Black Posted 1 December , 2014 Share Posted 1 December , 2014 I think the one below would work better, a bully beef tin for the ball, who hasn't played fitba with a can! Or a comforter stuffed with straw, don't think you could kick that far.... Derek. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hazelclark Posted 1 December , 2014 Share Posted 1 December , 2014 That will still be classed as anecdote by those pedants who insist it never happened. Don't suppose they played by N.F.L. rules? Proper size ball, field size, goals and all that stuff. (Canada's famous Grey Cup Final is currently on T.V.) H. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Tulloch-Marshall Posted 1 December , 2014 Share Posted 1 December , 2014 Whilst raising funds for some very deserving forces charities, "Military Voices", the Armed Forces choir, and the Royal Marines Corps of Drums and various cadet units are using the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior as their stage prop > HERE. Now that is tacky Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MelPack Posted 2 December , 2014 Share Posted 2 December , 2014 Having dipped into this thread, a seizure induced by anoraknophobia has followed. I dread next year's sequel of Gallipoli and the re-packaging of Turkish Delight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Hone Posted 2 December , 2014 Share Posted 2 December , 2014 Interesting-I wonder who in Ieper is making the chocolate bars? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw Posted 2 December , 2014 Share Posted 2 December , 2014 Whilst raising funds for some very deserving forces charities, "Military Voices", the Armed Forces choir, and the Royal Marines Corps of Drums and various cadet units, are using the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior as their stage prop > HERE. Now that is tacky Tom Yes, ill-judged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keithfazzani Posted 2 December , 2014 Share Posted 2 December , 2014 I have finally seen the advert. It is an advert was my reaction, and joins all the other Christmas adverts, which to my mind are all mildly annoying. But no sleep was lost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Wade Posted 2 December , 2014 Share Posted 2 December , 2014 I never realised that the makers of the film "All quiet on the Western Front" were in fact war profiteers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarylW Posted 2 December , 2014 Share Posted 2 December , 2014 Podcast from the IWM. Christmas Truce 1914 http://www.iwm.org.uk/history/podcasts/voices-of-the-first-world-war/podcast-9-the-christmas-truce (Probably posted on the forum somewhere, but can't find and I hadn't listened to this before) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Filsell Posted 2 December , 2014 Share Posted 2 December , 2014 Like the author? Get real. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Black Posted 2 December , 2014 Share Posted 2 December , 2014 Podcast from the IWM. Christmas Truce 1914 http://www.iwm.org.uk/history/podcasts/voices-of-the-first-world-war/podcast-9-the-christmas-truce (Probably posted on the forum somewhere, but can't find and I hadn't listened to this before) Thanks for that, it was nice to hear. Poor Harold Lewis of the RFA, he just couldn't accept it. Derek. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keithmroberts Posted 4 December , 2014 Share Posted 4 December , 2014 There was far too much off topic here. I have hidden quite a few comments, some of which I quite enjoyed, but can we please stay close to the Sainsbury's advertisement and the Christmas Truce. The wider ranging comments would not be an issue in Skindles, but they are not appropriate here. Thanks Keith Roberts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveGreen Posted 4 December , 2014 Share Posted 4 December , 2014 An interesting article in the Daily Mail: General Sir Walter Congreve, Rifle Brigade, writes home about Christmas 1914.. and mentions football, Now what do we make of this? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2860468/WWI-General-Sir-Walter-Congreve-s-letter-reveals-reluctance-join-Christmas-truce-fearing-shot-fraternising-Germans.html "Next door the two battalions opposite each other were shooting away all day & so I hear it was further north, 1st R.B. playing football with the Germans opposite them - next Regiments shooting each other." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anneca Posted 4 December , 2014 Share Posted 4 December , 2014 Another thread about this here: http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=221732&hl= Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancashire Fusilier Posted 4 December , 2014 Share Posted 4 December , 2014 An interesting article in the Daily Mail: General Sir Walter Congreve, Rifle Brigade, writes home about Christmas 1914.. and mentions football, Now what do we make of this? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2860468/WWI-General-Sir-Walter-Congreve-s-letter-reveals-reluctance-join-Christmas-truce-fearing-shot-fraternising-Germans.html "Next door the two battalions opposite each other were shooting away all day & so I hear it was further north, 1st R.B. playing football with the Germans opposite them - next Regiments shooting each other." Steve, Extremely interesting to have a first hand written account of the 1914 Christmas Truce, also of interest was the report that General Congreve won the Victoria Cross during the Second Boer War and his son Billy also won the V.C., making them the only instance of a father and son in the same regiment being awarded the V.C. Regards, LF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger H Posted 4 December , 2014 Share Posted 4 December , 2014 Is it a first hand written account? Sounds like hearsay to me " I hear...." Roger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancashire Fusilier Posted 4 December , 2014 Share Posted 4 December , 2014 Is it a first hand written account? Sounds like hearsay to me " I hear...." Roger Now now Roger, don't get all pedantic, the General wrote his account on the day, Christmas Day 1914, at the location where the Truce took place, taking information directly from his own troops who had just taken part in the Truce. He himself was offered a meeting with the Germans during the Truce, and declined due to his General's rank. I think that can all safely be called a ' first hand written account '. Regards, LF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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