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"The story about the 99 guards of the Italian monarch has been proved to be unfounded. The Wordhunt initiative in 2005 found that the myth referred to the Vatican's Swiss Guard which actually traditionally had 105 members and now has 100." I viewed the program a few minutes ago and it had no resolution to ths question of where the @99@ came from - is there any citation for the claim it came from the Vatican?
THE 99 FLAKE IS THE CADBURY CHOCOLATE BAR AND NOT THE ICE CREAM WITH THE CHOCOLATE BAR INSERTED
The BBC has recently disp[roved many of the theories of the prodcuts origins as stated here and sated on the Cadbury's website.
Yeah I would concur that I (in Eastern England) ordered a '99 all the way through my childhood, and never once heard the term '99 flake'. If you didn't want a flake then you just asked for an ice-cream cone, whereas if you did then you asked for a '99. The flake did not have to be made by Cadbury's particularly, even if it was branded as an ACME chocolate stick or whatever, putting it into an ice-cream still produced a '99. -- Zeth
Living on the south coast and growing-up in the 1970's and 80's, I only ever heard the phrase or used the phrase '99 when buying one these ice creams from a beach-side parlour or ice cream van. Anything else is superfluous. JD 19:15, 15 May 2013
I haven't stopped an ice cream van lately, but both the small Flakes and the ready-made 99s are now sold as Flake99, not 99 Flake. See pictures on main article.
Surely it's because the flakes are 99mm long... Try it yourself and measure one.
Or more likely because they were introduced 99 years after the formation of Cadburys. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.164.14.2 ( talk) 13:39, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
The theory on the article page about a cone being sold for 99 pence seems incredibly unlikely. The 99 cone has existed since before decimalization in the UK. There was no such thing as 99 pence, and anything close would be an absurd amount of money for a cone. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.75.4.251 ( talk) 01:49, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
The internal link from Name at the top is wrong. S C Cheese ( talk) 13:29, 16 June 2022 (UTC)
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"The story about the 99 guards of the Italian monarch has been proved to be unfounded. The Wordhunt initiative in 2005 found that the myth referred to the Vatican's Swiss Guard which actually traditionally had 105 members and now has 100." I viewed the program a few minutes ago and it had no resolution to ths question of where the @99@ came from - is there any citation for the claim it came from the Vatican?
THE 99 FLAKE IS THE CADBURY CHOCOLATE BAR AND NOT THE ICE CREAM WITH THE CHOCOLATE BAR INSERTED
The BBC has recently disp[roved many of the theories of the prodcuts origins as stated here and sated on the Cadbury's website.
Yeah I would concur that I (in Eastern England) ordered a '99 all the way through my childhood, and never once heard the term '99 flake'. If you didn't want a flake then you just asked for an ice-cream cone, whereas if you did then you asked for a '99. The flake did not have to be made by Cadbury's particularly, even if it was branded as an ACME chocolate stick or whatever, putting it into an ice-cream still produced a '99. -- Zeth
Living on the south coast and growing-up in the 1970's and 80's, I only ever heard the phrase or used the phrase '99 when buying one these ice creams from a beach-side parlour or ice cream van. Anything else is superfluous. JD 19:15, 15 May 2013
I haven't stopped an ice cream van lately, but both the small Flakes and the ready-made 99s are now sold as Flake99, not 99 Flake. See pictures on main article.
Surely it's because the flakes are 99mm long... Try it yourself and measure one.
Or more likely because they were introduced 99 years after the formation of Cadburys. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.164.14.2 ( talk) 13:39, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
The theory on the article page about a cone being sold for 99 pence seems incredibly unlikely. The 99 cone has existed since before decimalization in the UK. There was no such thing as 99 pence, and anything close would be an absurd amount of money for a cone. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.75.4.251 ( talk) 01:49, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
The internal link from Name at the top is wrong. S C Cheese ( talk) 13:29, 16 June 2022 (UTC)