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Thread ID: 97305	2009-02-11 08:27:00	M&Ms	radium (8645)	PC World Chat

Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
746896	2009-02-12 06:30:00	Pebbles arn't M&Ms anymore than Mars bars are Moros :) Photo as requested.	radium (8645)
746897	2009-02-12 07:38:00	I wasn't suggesting they were, merely that by being graced with pebbles there is simply no need to worry about what the American food company is doing. In the battle of sugar coated candy, Pebbles kill M&M's. Kills em dead.dead,DEAD.	Metla (12)
746898	2009-02-12 14:50:00	Smarties are better than M&M's and Pebbles, better, richer colours and taste better, chocolate is better quality. Box looks better as well.	zqwerty (97)
746899	2009-02-12 22:26:00	Smarties are better than M&M's and Pebbles, better, richer colours and taste better, chocolate is better quality. Box looks better as well. Smarties are best but even they seem to lost their edge when Nestle took over the original producer Rowntrees	bonzo29 (2348)
746900	2009-02-12 22:31:00	Hi Guys Reading this post took me back a few years. When I was a hellva lot younger, I was involved in making Pebbles at the Griffin's factory in Lower Hutt, bottom of the Wainuiomata Hill. They had just bought out Sweetacres at the time. We, three of us, used to work 12 hr days, five, sometimes seven days a week making nothing but Pebbles. If nothing else, it proves how popular they were. Anyway, thought you guys might be interested in how Pebbles are made. Imagine M&M's and Smarties are made in a similar fashion. In our room there were six large two metre diameter stainless steel bowls tipped at about 45 degrees. They were mounted on a motor unit base. The motor spun the bowl slowly round. Into this we would put our chocolate base circular pieces, (came from another part of the factory). Once in the bowl the chocolate pieces would sit in the bottom of the bowl but would constantly move in relation to each other. They did not go round and round with the bowl. Even though we affectionally called the bowls, "concrete mixers", they were smooth inside, no arms or mixer blades. In the middle of the room we had a small vat that heated sugar and water together to make syrup. Each man was equipped with a small stainless steel cup with a long handle and a large spoon. Fill your cup up with syrup and very slowly pour it over the moving chocolate pieces with the spoon. Each piece would eventually get coated with a layer of syrup. Do the same to the other vat. Give it a few minutes and repeat. Soon there would be a good layer of syrup on each pebble and slowly pour in the dye. Notice I said dye not favour. It use to amaze us that constantly people would say they like the red ones or the green ones best. :eek: :groan: As I recall. I even think a television ad expoited this, the actors saying the same thing. Now you have six vats full of pebbles ready for packaging. Pour out into special transport carts. The bowls had a exterior handle like a concrete mixer for this purpose. Wash everything down. Job done. Repeat tomorrow. BURNZEE	Burnzee (6950)
746901	2009-02-12 22:56:00	Did you get free samples? SWMBO and I had a dairy in Jafaland in the 60's. Bummer of an occupation for sweet toothed chocoholics like us! Got sick of them after a very short period of time. The Mark 1 version of my avatar never stopped loving pineapple lumps though and I used to take her home a small bag once a week. Took a while to get the taste back for choccy after we sold, but I have perservered right to this day.... :clap:clap Ken PS Those were the days when a company in Otahuhu used to make all the boiled lollies and sell them to us shopkeepers in big tins. God they were nice. Real flavour that is so lacking nowadays. Someone may remember their name?	kenj (9738)
746902	2009-02-13 00:59:00	Heards. The Home of Good Candy?	R2x1 (4628)
746903	2009-02-13 10:19:00	Hi Kenj Did you get free samples? Yes and no. You could eat as many as you wanted on the job but were not allowed to take any home. You could buy them at staff discount however. Fortunately or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it, I'm one of those funny buggers who don't like chocolate!! :groan: Didn't then, don't now. Love other types of lollies though. BURNZEE	Burnzee (6950)
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