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Percy Pig "Easter Egg"
Oh Percy. What have they done to you now? The shame - forced to wear what can only be described as a multi-coloured thong made of hundreds and thousands. Look at him, waving coquettishly like he's...
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The White Twix
PREPARE YOUR EYES FOR A SHOCK: The fabled White Twix - right in front of your face. I'd heard legends of the White Twix before - whispered on street corners or loudly discredited in branches of...
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Oats So Simple: Extreme
I like cinnamon. I like sweets. I like instant porridge. So imagine my delight when I spied Oats So Simple: Sweet Cinnamon in my local Sainsburys Local.I quickly snapped up two giant packs of ten...
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Cadbury's Dairy Milk buttons Easter Egg
It's almost Egg Day!!! Or Egg Sunday, or Eat As Many Chocolate Eggs As Possible Weekend or whatever you like to call it. What egg will you be getting this Egg Day? Hmmm?HERE'S AN IDEA: just buy a bar...
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Tango Demolition Balls
AT LAST! It's here! YES! Tango Chocolate!* What do you mean you don't want any? I don't know why Tango Chocolate* has taken this long, to be honest. The logic is simple: Everyone likes Tango, so why...
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The Great American Cereal Book
Check out this book I got:Yeah that's right, a 368 page hardback book all about cereal. That's the kind of book I like reading OK? Cereal is good - as Jerry Seinfeld said, what could be better than...
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Percy in the Pink
I was getting worried when Marks and Spencers hadn't released a new Percy Pig themed product for a least a week - but then these came out: PHEWCheck out Percy there, hard at work in the kitchen. MAKING...
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Bassetts Jelly Mascots
Hello! Look, Bassett's have made some jelly sweets especially for the Olympic Games in June. HERE THEY ARE:They are jellied versions of London's Olympic mascots Wenlock and Mandeville, who are...
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Galaxy Flutes
What do you do if you're on a diet but you still want to constantly eat chocolate?a) eat an appleb) pour yourself some Diet Coke, put on Sex and The City and think about buttercups for a bitORc) eat...
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Curiously Strawberry
Quick, what is the one thing you are most curious about in the whole world?Decided?Was it a strawberry?No?Oh.Well look at this and tell me you're not the least bit curious about it:Hmmmmmmmmm? Just...
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Pinky Pigs
My face went mental this week when I saw this:@Angela_Barnesy: "This is my pal Jo Hoare's design project from school in 1991. M+S introduce Percy Pigs in 1995."Jo Hoare 1991.M&S 1995.YOU DO THE...
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Twix McFlurry
So way back in Jan 2012, I wondered if this year would see the release of the almost mythical "Twix McFlurry" from McDonald's. Now I'm not saying the McDonald's bigwigs religiously read Gobble Monkey...
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Milka: Oreo
I like chocolate and I like Oreos.BUTWhat if I'm far too lazy to get a packet of Oreos and some chocolate separately, take a mouthful of each and chew them together inside my face? It takes up too much...
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Vice Versas
Remember these from the 90s?They were a bit like Minstrels - but with a twist!Can you guess what the twist was?That's right, the ones with milk chocolate shells have white chocolate inside and the...
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Angel Delight Ice Cream
I love Angel Delight - even to the point where sometimes I can't even be bothered to whisk it properly and just drink it like a sweet soup. Don't judge me! It's the perfect dessert (apart from the...
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So long... and thanks for all the sweets
Hey, so this is the last Gobble Monkey post for a while!There's only so much you can say about sweets, and let's face it, it's barely been about the sweets anyway.Thank you to all the companies that...
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Royal Blueberry Mochi
Hey! These are Japanese 'Mochi" - they're a rice cake made from something called glutinous rice.Hands up who doesn't like glutinous rice? What do you mean "no Monsieur Gobble Monkey I don't like...
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Cadbury Egg 'n' Spoon
It's at this time of the year that confectionary companies like to ready their new egg-themed products in preparation for Egg Day, the highlight of their financial calendar.This time, Cadbury have come...
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Rowntree's Randoms: Squidgy Speak
Hey! We all remember Rowntree's Randoms don't we? Foam gums shaped as "crazy" "random" objects like an ice cream cone or a trumpet or something like that. Ha ha I am laughing just thinking about...
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Cadbury Marvellous Creations
Now, imagine eating a handful of jelly tots quickly followed by a handful of chocolate. That would be a time consuming way of eating a fairly disgusting snack, wouldn't it? Well, Cadbury's best...
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Ice Cream Chocolates
Remember when they made all those ice-creams based on your favourite chocolate bars? EG Twix Ice cream, Mars Ice Cream - even your least favourite ones, EG Bounty?Well what about if they made all your...
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Gobble Monkey Chocolate Bar Competition 2013
HEY!Remember the infamous Gobble Monkey cereal box competition of 2011? WHAT?!? What do mean no?!?Check it out here then!OK so here's a new competition - this time I want you to design your own 'Gobble...
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Rowntree's Randoms Rip'ems
Oh fantastic a new Rowntree's Randoms product!It's only been, like what, a week since Squidgy Speak were forced upon an unsuspecting nation? And now we've got these:Rowntree's Randoms Rip'ems.HEY...
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GOBBLE MONKEY CHOCOLATE BAR WINNERS!
Last month I posed a question: What if you could design your very own Gobble Monkey chocolate bar?What would it look like? What would it TASTE like? What would the slogan be?Well, the entries came in...
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