I am happy to say I have finally got my hands on Hostess Ding Dongs and
Ho Hos  !!

Also I have just taken delivery of some Pretzel M&M’s !!

The new warehouse is really taking shape now and the shop will be open as soon as I can get it done. Having said that don’t let that stop you paying me a visit if you are in the area.

New address is Alexandria Court, Alexandria Drive, Off Lord Sheldon Way, Ashton Under Lyne, Lancashire OL7 0QN

Just thought I would give you some info on M&M’s which I have just finished researching the history of.

M&M candies were originally created back in 1941, when Mars Company founder Forrest Mars, Sr. got the idea from seeing the chocolate pellets that soldiers would while fighting in the Spanish Civil War.  Mr. Mars filed for a patent for his own take on chocolate candies and put them into production in 1941.  Due to rations that were put into place for chocolate at the time, so Mars joined up with Hershey, which was in control of the rationed product.  They were originally sold in tubes made of cardboard and came in various colours, including violet, red, yellow, green and brown.  Over the years, new varieties have been added to the line-up which include Peanut M&M’s and M&M Peanut Butter candies.

Even though director Steven Spielberg initially approached Mars about using M&M’s in his film E.T. The Extra Terrestrial, when they declined, he went to Hershey and asked about Hershey Kisses instead.  They said no to one of their leading chocolate creations, but did let him use Reese’s Pieces for product placement instead, which increased sales by a whopping 65% when the film came out.  In 1990, the Mars Company released their own peanut butter filled creation with M&M Peanut Butter candies.

One of the original colours, violet, was replaced early on by tan.  In 1995, the Mars Company let customers decide what new colour would replace tan.  They got to choose from purple, pink and blue, with blue ending up as tan’s replacement.  Around the same time the blue M&M came about, the company changed up their commercial strategy, replacing traditionally animated characters with computer generated mascots.  Each of their different varieties of M&M candies was represented by a CG character in their commercials.  Red was a traditional milk chocolate M&M.  Yellow represented the bigger peanut M&M’s.  Green, the only female character of the group, represented the M&M Peanut Butter candies, as well as dark chocolate and mint.  Blue represented the almond M&M’s and Orange represented the now defunct Crispy M&M’s.

Newer versions of the candy include things like M&M’s Minis, which came about in 1996.  These miniature candies were much smaller and thus came a tube rather than a bag.  Crispy M&M’s were released in 1999, which had the traditional milk chocolate coating, but had a rice centre.  This type was dropped 2005 in the US, but can be found in some places in Europe and Asia.  The traditional milk chocolate and peanut M&M’s, as well as M&M Peanut Butter candies still exist and continue to be best sellers.

Well its been a frantic few weeks trying to keep eveything going but we are almost settled into our new home, just thought I’d post some pictures so you can see the progress so far…

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 More pics to come, will keep you posted…

Just to let you folk’s know we will be moving in June to a BRAND NEW warehouse in June..

Our new address is
American Soda
Unit 8
Alexandria Court
Alexandria Drive
Off Lord Sheldon Way(opposite Screwfix)
Ashton Under Lyne
OL7  0QN

Tel 0161 3700 955

Sending emails that actually get read is getting harder and harder what with spam filters and free email accounts getting full and as a result many of you are no longer recieving the great offers and promotions that I run.

I have created a toolbar that you can install in seconds and it allows me to send out alerts to you to make you aware of any new products, offers or promotions that are going on.

For those who download the toolbar between now and Wednesday 21st April I will send out an alert at 6pm on Wednesday that will have a discount code for you to use against your next purchase.

When you download the AmericanSoda Toolbar it will give you the option to customise it and add helpful apps to it.

I hope you download the toolbar and help me stay in touch with you.

Dave
www.americansoda.co.uk

Some more American goodies just in…

Betty Crocker Au Gratin

M&M Coconut

Betty Crocker Cup Cake Icing

Bone Suckin Sauces

Vlasic products

Hope you enjoy them as much as I do !

I’ve had dozens of requests to put up a list of all the new products in one place..so here we go !!

Swiss Miss Marshmallow Lovers Pack

Swiss Miss Dark Chocolate Sensation

Smuckers Natural Creamy Peanut Butter

Skippy Creamy Peanut Butter

Skippy Natural Super Chunk Peanut Butter

Smuckers Blueberry Preserve

Kool Aid Grape Tub

Kool Aid Tropical Punch Tub

TANG Orange Tub

Fanta Grape Soda

Variety of Crystal Light mixes

Variety of new Jell-O

Kool Aid Jammers

Variety of Life Saver bags

Red Velvet Cake Mix

Shake n Bake Italian

Bisquick Shake n Pour 300g Buttermilk Pancake mix

Phew !! thats the lot

Hope you enjoy them.

Dave