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[Steven Maas (CUTR)]

Of course Monty Python did a famous DECD of their own, featuring such
succulents as Crunchy Frog and Lark's Vomit.

Here in the US the advertising media have recently been flooded with ads
for "Altoids, the Curiously Strong Mints" or something like that, which I
take to be an Americanized version of a DEC, no doubt now owned by one or
another multinational. 

        Steve
 
On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, stencil wrote:
> >...do the English really make such awfull candy?
> In addition to some perfectly normal sweets, yes. It seems to be one
> of those national-identity things, like Belgian lambic beer or schmalz
> herring or kim chee, and if foreigners don't like it, that's tough. A
> while back Peake Freen (sp?), the cookie peple, hired John Cleese to
> get weird on "adult" cookie flavors for an ad cycle... he was
> rhapsodizing about Smokey Orange and Banana Tansy, just like Darlene.
> Straining a bit, you could hear TRP warning you not to get too
> complacent about what's beneath the surfaces of the bonbons to come.