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These seem to be similar both in background story and in general appearance to the French Bêtise de Cambrai. Are they the same? -- Iustinus 03:51, 14 July 2005 (UTC) |
They do seem remarkably similar, but I have no idea if one or the other inspired the other. What do Bêtises de Cambrai look like? Peregrine981 04:33, July 14, 2005 (UTC)
The recent big batch of additions to this article have a number of problems:
I'll leave it as it is for now to allow the contributor a chance to tweak. ike9898 19:03, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
https://www.oldestsweets hop.co.uk/liquorice-allsorts Nuttyskin ( talk) 00:05, 24 September 2018 (UTC)
How about a picture of Bertie, if anyone has one?-- StarChaser Tyger 02:47, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
I have the Bertie logo and the masterbrand but for some reason
wiki doesen't want ordinary people to add pictures. Here is a link anyway.
http://www.casablanca.se/bilder/bertie.jpg —Preceding
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This article says that "Bertie was created by John "Jack" McEwan and was finally made known to the public on 1 January 1929 after months of internal discussion.", while the Bertie Bassett article (which I've just merged into this one) claimed "Its origins lie with the advertising copywriters of the 1930s when Frank Regan,a young advertising copywriter,in London, sat down with the product and his pipe-cleaners. He constructed an original version of Bertie from the Liquorice Allsorts and pipe cleaners." - neither is sourced, although the latter was added by someone claiming to be the child of Frank Regan, which is perhaps better than nothing. I've gone with that for now. -- McGeddon ( talk) 18:05, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
If you want a more obscure reference, in "The Pirate Planet", The Doctor steals a flying vehicle by luring the pilot away with a trail of candy. He'd been offering people Jelly Babies, but if you look at the trail of candies, they are clearly allsorts. DonPMitchell ( talk) 07:09, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
This may be useful:
Leary, Nigel, 1., Liquorice Roots. Based on the meeting in Pontecfract on 6th July 2002 Pt CILVol.XX . Deals with the history of the sweet product associated with Pontefract, made from Glycyrriza vulgaris (common liquorice). Contributions also from Gill Briscoe, Tom Dixon, Brian Mercer, and including John Betjeman’s The Licorice Fields at Pontefract, photographs and dialect and trade terms relating to the industry. Transactions of the Yorkshire Dialect Society 2002 Pt CII Vol.XX. pp 14-26
All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough (the apparently calm and reasonable)
14:51, 27 January 2020 (UTC).
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These seem to be similar both in background story and in general appearance to the French Bêtise de Cambrai. Are they the same? -- Iustinus 03:51, 14 July 2005 (UTC) |
They do seem remarkably similar, but I have no idea if one or the other inspired the other. What do Bêtises de Cambrai look like? Peregrine981 04:33, July 14, 2005 (UTC)
The recent big batch of additions to this article have a number of problems:
I'll leave it as it is for now to allow the contributor a chance to tweak. ike9898 19:03, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
https://www.oldestsweets hop.co.uk/liquorice-allsorts Nuttyskin ( talk) 00:05, 24 September 2018 (UTC)
How about a picture of Bertie, if anyone has one?-- StarChaser Tyger 02:47, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
I have the Bertie logo and the masterbrand but for some reason
wiki doesen't want ordinary people to add pictures. Here is a link anyway.
http://www.casablanca.se/bilder/bertie.jpg —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Joffboff (
talk •
contribs)
10:40, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
This article says that "Bertie was created by John "Jack" McEwan and was finally made known to the public on 1 January 1929 after months of internal discussion.", while the Bertie Bassett article (which I've just merged into this one) claimed "Its origins lie with the advertising copywriters of the 1930s when Frank Regan,a young advertising copywriter,in London, sat down with the product and his pipe-cleaners. He constructed an original version of Bertie from the Liquorice Allsorts and pipe cleaners." - neither is sourced, although the latter was added by someone claiming to be the child of Frank Regan, which is perhaps better than nothing. I've gone with that for now. -- McGeddon ( talk) 18:05, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
If you want a more obscure reference, in "The Pirate Planet", The Doctor steals a flying vehicle by luring the pilot away with a trail of candy. He'd been offering people Jelly Babies, but if you look at the trail of candies, they are clearly allsorts. DonPMitchell ( talk) 07:09, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
This may be useful:
Leary, Nigel, 1., Liquorice Roots. Based on the meeting in Pontecfract on 6th July 2002 Pt CILVol.XX . Deals with the history of the sweet product associated with Pontefract, made from Glycyrriza vulgaris (common liquorice). Contributions also from Gill Briscoe, Tom Dixon, Brian Mercer, and including John Betjeman’s The Licorice Fields at Pontefract, photographs and dialect and trade terms relating to the industry. Transactions of the Yorkshire Dialect Society 2002 Pt CII Vol.XX. pp 14-26
All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough (the apparently calm and reasonable)
14:51, 27 January 2020 (UTC).