Talk:Maltesers/Archives/2012

Etymology

The word "Malteser" appears to be the German word for "Maltese", i.e. someone from Malta, the Maltese language, or a member of the Order of Malta. What is the connection between any of these and the candy? --Macrakis 13:48, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

Malteser Secret

A UK Open University Programme in which they were looking at methods of heating and cooling for engineering purposes, showed a clip from the Malteser factory.

The centres are made by heating sugar till it's golden then adding bicarbonate of soda and malt, it efferveces and expands, this sticky mixture is rolled into balls which are then coated in potato starch and sent still hot into a large heated spinning drum, then the maltesers are sprayed with chocolate and rolled into another drum and dried, bagged and shipped.

The remaining scraps and miss-shapes are taken to the nearby Horlicks factory and crushed to make Horlick's Drinking Chocolate.

Waiting for OU Reference. Futur3 boy 17:51, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Only made in the UK?

I heard the other day that aparently Maltesers are only made in the UK as they can't replicate the machine used. Has anyone else heard this before? Rogwan 17:04, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

use as in insult?

so, nothing on how malteser is used to describe a brunette that acts like a blonde? --UltraMagnus (talk) 08:39, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

It's also commonly used as a slanderous term for someone with dark skin who is of cowardly rapport. This may be Australian only, but if you ask any Aussie they'll know what it means. 124.179.19.254 (talk) 12:41, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

hydrogonated veg oil

my current box doesn't mention it being hydrogenated. perhaps they've ditched it due to the current dislike for the stuff in the uk? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.41.243.253 (talk) 21:04, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

"In the 1930s, advertisements claimed that the Maltesers honeycomb center is seven times less fattening than ordinary chocolate centers, this made marketers claim it was beneficial for weight loss"

"Seven times less fattening"?? What the hell does THAT mean? I assume it is supposed to mean "one seventh the calories", but even that doesnt mean its necessarily "Less fattening". It depends how many of them you eat! What a load of tosh! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.168.11.60 (talk) 22:33, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

That is pretty innocuous by the standards of the time. Many adverts featured outright nonsense claims. Even well into the 1950s cigarette adverts claimed that their brand would actually soothe your coughing, Guinness was claimed to be "good for you" and even in the 1980s "A Mars a day" was still claimed to "help you work, rest and play" and Milky Way was "the sweet you can eat between meals without ruining your appetite". These days food products can only "promote weight loss as part of a calorie controlled diet" which basically means "This product won't make you fat so long as you don't eat it.". Lets face it advertising slogans are all nonsense. Our job is to report the notable ones without endorsing them. --DanielRigal (talk) 22:41, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

Sponsership Advertising

Maltesers have recently sponsered Harry Hill's TV Burp in name, although on the mini-adverts used just after part 1 and before part 2 of TV Burp which star 'bag' items by Mars, which are Maltesers, M&Ms, Galaxy Minsterals, Mars Planets and Revels. I belive that it. Each time they do one of a dance-off or juggle-off or something to see which of the bags is the ones the family eats. Yes, the bags are alive!

Not only that, but Maltesers also advertise Ant & Dec's Push The Button. The mini-adverts used between each part of Push The Button show the story of a giant Maltesers bag in it's house, when a giant hand comes in the house. It chases the giant maltesers bag out of it's house, around the park, before it finally catches the malteasers on the grass, and, persumably, kills it. All of the malteasers friends (M&M'S, Revels, Mars Planets and Galaxy Minsterals), who are also giant bags, see the malteasers and help it once the hand has gone away.

Can anyone think of anything else? Everything just mentioned appliles to 2010 only.

I think they are worthy of a mention on the article.--213.83.125.225 (talk) 14:23, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

In the body it says "The Australian version also contains the line: "Made in Australia... ...exported to the world." Thats not actually true. Ive got a packet right here and it doesn't say anything of the kind, and i did buy it in Australia. I think that phrase is unique to Cadbury Chocolates but im not sure. I dont know how to edit properly so could someone else do it please? 203.122.243.98 (talk) 10:16, 3 August 2010 (UTC)