99 Problems
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Original Poster:

16,432 posts

114 months

Monday 17th May 2021
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And a lack of Flakes is one of them.

Ice cream vendors are reporting a dire shortage of the crumbly chocolate goodness sticks. This could be serious.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57149071

john2443

6,503 posts

235 months

Tuesday 18th May 2021
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I always knew that Boris/Brexit/Starmer/Covid/Trump/Biden/Israel/Suez etc would cause an international crisis and here's the proof!

Biggy Stardust

7,068 posts

68 months

Tuesday 18th May 2021
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To put things into perspective, every year on British roads we lose hundreds and thousands in accidents involving ice cream vans.

red_slr

20,066 posts

213 months

Tuesday 18th May 2021
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We have an ice cream van that comes in the summer. I am pretty sure the 99 flakes are not Cadbury.
They come out of a Cadbury box, and they look like a proper flake but they taste like dog chocolate LOL.

carl_w

10,461 posts

282 months

Tuesday 18th May 2021
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red_slr said:
They come out of a Cadbury box, and they look like a proper flake but they taste like dog chocolate LOL.
There is an obvious question here.

Camoradi

4,831 posts

280 months

Tuesday 18th May 2021
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BBC Article said:
The ice cream toppers are half the size of the Flakes sold at newsagents and petrol station counters.
scratchchin

21TonyK

12,986 posts

233 months

Tuesday 18th May 2021
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Biggy Stardust said:
To put things into perspective, every year on British roads we lose hundreds and thousands in accidents involving ice cream vans.
Do you have a sauce for that interesting fact?

Killer2005

20,467 posts

252 months

Tuesday 18th May 2021
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They should switch to Twirls instead.

pquinn

7,167 posts

70 months

Tuesday 18th May 2021
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red_slr said:
We have an ice cream van that comes in the summer. I am pretty sure the 99 flakes are not Cadbury.
They come out of a Cadbury box, and they look like a proper flake but they taste like dog chocolate LOL.
That's genuine Cadbury ever since the Americans got involved with it. You're right, it's about as close to being chocolate as the dog stuff is.

king arthur

7,699 posts

285 months

Tuesday 18th May 2021
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This is a crummy story.

crofty1984

16,926 posts

228 months

Wednesday 19th May 2021
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anonymous said:
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For now. Eventually they'll cone in on the real answer.

biggbn

30,455 posts

244 months

Wednesday 19th May 2021
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My mate had an ice cream van, the police found him in it one night, unconscious, everything gone, covered in flakes, hundreds and thousands, strawberry and chocolate sauce...initially they thought it had been a violent robbery, but it turned out he had tried to top himself.....


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