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What was this 1980s / Early 1990s snack?

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twobarnsmammisonthebus · 13/04/2021 19:59

Please help me identify this snack, it’s been driving me crazy for years!!

It was sold in the UK at some point between 1987 and 1990 (maybe over a longer period, I don’t know).

I think it was strawberry / yoghurt / chocolate with strawberry bits in.

I think it was meant to have some kind of healthy element to it....

I think it was called Halo.

It was possibly German. But I don’t know.

Here are some things it wasn’t: Balisto, Yoghurette, Dream

WHAT WAS IT?!?!?!?! 💕🤞

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twobarnsmammisonthebus · 13/04/2021 19:59

(Obviously it wasn’t called Halo - i have googled the life out of that and it wasn’t Halo - but it might have had something to do with the idea....)

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FlibbertyGiblets · 13/04/2021 20:01

A cereal bar? A yoghurt? Chocolate wafer? Not clear from your OP (this might be me being a bit thick)

FlibbertyGiblets · 13/04/2021 20:02

Or a chewy sweet?

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twobarnsmammisonthebus · 13/04/2021 20:03

Ah sorry yeah I didn’t make that clear - it was a bar... Not specifically a chocolate bar and not exactly a cereal bar... somehow a mix of both.... But yoghurt flavour was somehow involved.. I think...

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FlibbertyGiblets · 13/04/2021 20:04

Okay I'll be back.

FlibbertyGiblets · 13/04/2021 20:05

Oh cripes that sounded a bit Arnie.

FlibbertyGiblets · 13/04/2021 20:11

Kudos?

Tittyfilarious · 13/04/2021 20:11

Kudos?

Avebury · 13/04/2021 20:14

I am sure I remember Halo bars being sold in Boots. I think I liked the orange one - chocolate on the outside and chewy nougat type stuff inside. Marketed as a healthy treat.

Chwaraeteg · 13/04/2021 20:14

Nutrigrain? They did a strawberry yog flavour.

WeeFae · 13/04/2021 20:16

Was it marketed at kids or adults?

LouLou198 · 13/04/2021 20:17

I know exactly what you mean but no idea what it was called!

twobarnsmammisonthebus · 13/04/2021 20:19

Hmm, interesting! It defo wasn’t Nutrigrain (but thanks!) or Kudos (also thanks!), but it’s kind of reassuring that someone else recalls the existence of a bar with that name....and it was defo some kind of healthy ish treat marketing There were other varieties, although i only remember the strawb one... The only snag is that if they were only sold in Boots, ie Boots brand, then it wasn’t the same ones, cos I bought these in a very rural Spar shop...

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noodlezoodle · 13/04/2021 20:19

It wasn't the Special K breakfast bar was it?

twobarnsmammisonthebus · 13/04/2021 20:19

Marketed at adults I think

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twobarnsmammisonthebus · 13/04/2021 20:20

No I’m afraid it wasn’t the Special K bar, but thanks! It was earlier than that

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Scrunchcake · 13/04/2021 20:22

Was it a freeze-dried yoghurt thingy?

battleaxe2000 · 13/04/2021 20:22

I remember this.

twobarnsmammisonthebus · 13/04/2021 20:22

Yeah freeze dried rings some kind of bell...

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Drivingmyselfcrazee · 13/04/2021 20:24

Was it Hellas bars. Chocolate around a strawberry filling, but there were other varieties. A quick google suggests mint, strawberry, coffee, chocolate, but there were up to 6 varieties.

Fruityfriday · 13/04/2021 20:24

Sounds like a Wham bar

Scrunchcake · 13/04/2021 20:28

I think I remember it - it was like eating oddly delicious polystyrene. But I'm buggered if I can remember what it's called. Sorry!

littledrummergirl · 13/04/2021 20:28

I was thinking wham bar...

twobarnsmammisonthebus · 13/04/2021 20:29

Definitely not a Wham bar (at least not the type i’m thinking of anyways, the ones that would pull your teeth out??)... but the Hellas bar idea lead me to a Pavlidis Kiss bar which i’m pretty sure isn’t it, but does definitely seem to get closer...!!

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Prokupatuscrakedatus · 13/04/2021 20:33

Yogurette?