Marathon, Man!
Hot on the heels of RTE announcing a return to past glories with the return of the Sunday Game theme tune comes this - possibly the best news I’ve ever heard in my whole entire life.
Thats right folks! Now that the whole world hates America, and anything to do with America, the Marathon Bar will soon be called a Marathon again instead of that stoopid yank name of Snickers.
And to celebrate, here’s Thin Lizzy’s Chinatown. Remember? Off the ad?
‘Peanuts……caramel……nougat……and chocolate…”
Now all we need is the Monster Munch with the Cyclops on the back and for the ‘Moro With Peanut’ to be renamed Starbar and we can all kill ourselves, safe in the fact that everything will be alright with the world.
Get the fuck in!
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YES YES YES! Rocking news, fucking brilliant. Snickers me hole MARATHON!
Is it safe?
damn, this means i’ve to rename my snickers blog.
what was the point in changing the name?
what is the point in changing it back?
If memory serves me correctly, the Cyclops was also tearing a phone book in half, he was fucking horrific. Definitely get him back.
Oh and return Hot Lips to their full glory as Face’s Hot Lips complete with smiling Dirk Benedict on the pack.
How easy must it be to get a degree in marketing these days?
“how will we sell this new product?”
“eh….repackage it like it was ages ago”
“well done. have a degree”
still tnough, Marathon rocks.
I shall immediately buy a hundred.
Don’t think I;m joking. The world was a better place in the Marathon days. There were no wars and tea was always at 5 o’clock.
BRING BACK OPEL FRUITS!!!!!!!!
The Cyclops was misleadingly described as “No 1: The Cyclops” - implying that he was but the first in an ever-expanding Monster series. I waited in vain for No. 2 (eating 3,000 packs on Monster Munch as I did so). No joy.
There were other monsters. They appeared on the other flavours, I think you could only get them in a multipack in this country, not in newsagents. There was a weird blue one with floppy ears and loads of arms on salt and vinegar and a pink one that was on roast beef flavoured. I’m sure there was a yellow one too but i don’t know what flavour… probably cheese.
They’re really english flavours so they didn’t catch on over here when this was the land of “cheese and onion” Regular Monster Munch were exotic enough.
Crazy english with their roast beef crisps and fizzy blackcurrant Vimto.
I wasn’t at all jealous…