🤾‍♀️ Throw stuff at the chocolate bar! Je suis Twirly Glenn!

The Junkees - Dave O'Neil and Kitty Flanagan

Dave O'Neil and Kitty Flanagan are joined by special guest Twirly Glenn for a snack-focused episode of The Junkees. The trio conducts blind

Key takeaways

• Allens launched three new chocolate bars featuring chaotic flavor combos like Block Party (Sherbet Fizzy Chips & Mini Smarties) that the hosts heavily criticized as a 'fight in your mouth.'
• Twirly Glenn brought mini Toblerone pralines and confirmed production remains in Switzerland after public outcry forced the cancellation of a planned move to Slovakia.

Main topics

• Allens experimental chocolate bars
• Toblerone factory location update

Notable quotes

It's not a party in my mouth. It's a fight in my mouth.

Conclusion

Listeners get a humorous, unfiltered review of quirky snack innovations alongside

Transcript preview

Speaker 1 (0:00) For many of us, going further isn't a choice. It's a feeling we can't ignore because ambition has a way of outgrowing where it began. Speaker 1 (0:11) Turning dreams into direction. Speaker 1 (0:17) Every journey brings us closer to the life we imagine. Speaker 1 (0:23) So, where will your journey take you? Etihad. Beyond Borders. Speaker 5 (0:39) Hello and welcome to our podcast The Junkies. I'm Dave O'Neill. Speaker 3 (0:42) I'm Kitty Flanagan. You're on the Sweet and Salty Roundabout with Possum and the Big Guy and Twirly Speaker 4 (0:48) Glen. Speaker 5 (0:59) Special guest Twirly Glen. Special Speaker 3 (1:01) guest Twirly Glen. If we had Speaker 5 (1:02) a program director, he'd come and go, mate, you've got to push it. You've Speaker 3 (1:04) got to do it again. A Speaker 5 (1:05) bit Speaker 3 (1:05) more confident, mate. A bit more confident. A bit more petrol. Try and sound a bit more twirly. Speaker 4 (1:09) Twirl Glen or Twirly Glen? Twirly Glen. Kitty will give you the intro. Okay. Speaker 3 (1:15) Our special guest... Speaker 4 (1:17) Twirly Glen. Speaker 3 (1:23) Much nicer. Much nicer. Now, Glenn, Speaker 5 (1:26) you've got to say hello because you speak languages too. Hello, French. French Speaker 4 (1:29) listeners, go on. Go. Bonjour tout le monde. I am Twirly Glenn. Je suis Twirly Glenn. Speaker 5 (1:35) And now Italian for Italian listeners. Speaker 4 (1:38) Bonne journée à tous. Je suis Twirly Glenn. That sounds Speaker 5 (1:44) good. Speaker 4 (1:45) You should just talk about it all the time. Speaker 5 (1:48) You go into shops in Australia. Speaker 2 (1:50) Hello, England. Speaker 5 (1:53) All right. So, Kitty, I was very excited when I saw these and I sent you a photo. Alan's? Is this throwing stuff at the wall? No, Speaker 3 (2:02) you know what this is? Speaker 3 (2:05) Slip, slip, slip, slip, slip, slip, Speaker 2 (2:07) slip, Speaker 3 (2:07) slip, Speaker 2 (2:07) slip, Speaker 5 (2:07) slip. Speaker 3 (2:09) But, I mean, also with a little bit of throwing stuff at the wall as well. Speaker 5 (2:13) Yeah, so Alan's Traditional Lollimakers have Speaker 3 (2:17) got Speaker 5 (2:17) together with Nestle, is it? They're probably owned by the same people. Speaker 3 (2:21) Are these – I don't think these are collabs. Oh. Speaker 5 (2:24) They're just Speaker 3 (2:25) straight out let's throw stuff at the chocolate bar. Speaker 5 (2:28) Yeah, and so they've got these chocolate bars that sort of are a tribute to some of their lollies, I suppose you'd say. Speaker 3 (2:34) Alan's is on a bit of a new jag. They're obviously trying to make a stamp on the aisle given how much Lifesavers are pushing in. Speaker 5 (2:44) Yeah. Do you reckon they've got a new graduate program or something? Oh, for sure. They've got some young people like Speaker 3 (2:49) - Speaker 5 (2:49) They've Speaker 3 (2:49) got a new development. Speaker 5 (2:50) Tarquin and Buttercup have turned up as new employees. They Speaker 3 (2:54) probably have brought some young people in. I Speaker 5 (2:56) reckon. Speaker 3 (2:56) Because some of these chocolate bars they've brought in, they're never going to sell with the old people. I'll tell you that right now. No. These are not classic flavours. They're not- Traditional combinations. These are just someone a little bit high deciding, I know what we could do. Let's put this, this and this in it. Speaker 5 (3:15) Well, so Block Party, that's the first one we'll do. Smooth Milk Choc, Fudge Pieces, Sherbet Fizzy Chips and Mini Smarties. So it's a little bit marvellous creations. Yeah, Speaker 3 (3:26) but also. Has anyone thought about any of that? Like, none of that goes together. Speaker 5 (3:31) Block Party's a famous British band from the 2000s. Yeah, great band. Without the K. Without the K. But should we try this one? And then they've got two others, but we'll try this one first. I find this appealing. I Speaker 3 (3:43) don't ever like when they put Fruit Tingle in. I don't like that. Speaker 3 (3:52) None of it goes together. It fights. It's a fight in your mouth. Speaker 5 (3:56) Yeah. Conflict. Speaker 5 (4:00) Oh, there we go. Speaker 3 (4:01) It's not a party in my mouth. It's a fight in my mouth. Speaker 5 (4:03) Okay. Speaker 3 (4:04) That's three in the spittoon. Speaker 5 (4:05) It is a little bit Marvelous Creations, though. It Speaker 3 (4:08) is a bit. Yeah. Speaker 5 (4:08) But Speaker 3 (4:09) I think Marvelous Creations thought about their flavour combination a bit better. I Speaker 5 (4:12) reckon. I reckon Tarquin. Because they Speaker 3 (4:14) put Poppin' Candy in instead of Sherbet Speaker 5 (4:16) Bits. Speaker 3 (4:16) Yeah, there's no Poppin' Speaker 5 (4:17) Candy in it. I don't know if Tarquin thought much about it. There's no Speaker 4 (4:19) party in the block party. No. Milk, choc, fudge. I think that's a Speaker 3 (4:22) brawl. That's a brawl on the street corner. That's what that is. It's Speaker 5 (4:25) a brawl. It's a cheap brawl. All right. Well, okay. We'll move on to the next one. Speaker 3 (4:29) That's like everyone running away going, call the cops. They're fighting. Yeah, call them. Speaker 5 (4:33) Okay. What's the next one? So I think Speaker 3 (4:35) the next one. This one actually looks like it's got potential because at least these things go together. Strawberries and cream. So smooth white chocolate, fudge pieces and sherbet fizzy chips. See, I would have put a bit of jelly in there. Don't you want a bit of jelly in there? Yeah, Speaker 5 (4:50) a bit Speaker 3 (4:50) of Speaker 5 (4:50) jelly. Why Speaker 3 (4:51) not white chocolate with Speaker 5 (4:51) strawberry jelly in there? Speaker 3 (4:54) White chocolate, fudge, Speaker 5 (4:54) sherbet fizzy chips. I can't even Speaker 3 (4:57) see. The bits are so tiny. Speaker 4 (5:05) I like white chocolate. I Speaker 2 (5:06) don't mind that. I like the white chocolate. Speaker 4 (5:07) They're beautiful. Something that tastes a bit, what is it, medicinal. Medicinal? Medicinal. Yeah. Is it the strawberries? Speaker 3 (5:15) I Speaker 5 (5:16) would eat that. That's not bad. That's better than the other one. It's better than Block Party. Speaker 3 (5:20) It is much better than Block Party. There's not as much fighting going on. Speaker 5 (5:24) No. And that's sort of more calmer. That's Speaker 3 (5:27) kind of like the party as it's winding down. Yeah. That's like the end of the party. That's Speaker 5 (5:31) like a party in an old people's home. Nothing's going to happen. Last one. These are all the Allen's new chocolate Speaker 3 (5:39) bars. Speaker 5 (5:39) All Allen's. Speaker 3 (5:40) And Speaker 5 (5:40) they're all the same size. They're a 170 grammer. Speaker 3 (5:44) And this one is sherbet fizz. What's Speaker 5 (5:47) the Speaker 3 (5:47) description? Okay, this is interesting. Sherbet fizzy chips. They've got to get over putting fizzy chips in there. No one likes them. And waffle cone crisp. Now, I'm interested in the waffle cone. Like a choc top. But Speaker 5 (5:58) I Speaker 3 (5:58) don't know why you'd ruin it with sherbet fizzy chips. Yeah. Why not just call it the choc top and put waffle cone crisps in there? Speaker 2 (6:06) All right. Speaker 3 (6:06) Let's have a go. Speaker 3 (6:13) All I'm tasting is fizzy chip. Speaker 2 (6:15) And Speaker 3 (6:16) it's making my face screw up. I don't like that. That's the worst of the three. Speaker 2 (6:22) Yeah. Speaker 5 (6:22) And Speaker 3 (6:22) yet the one that should have had the most potential with the waffle chips. Speaker 5 (6:26) You can't taste the waffle cone. Speaker 3 (6:28) No, because all you're tasting is... Is it Speaker 5 (6:30) the Speaker 3 (6:30) sherbet? Speaker 5 (6:30) It's the sherbet you can taste and the milk chocolate. That was like an angry Speaker 3 (6:34) throw into the spittoon. Speaker 5 (6:35) You're angry. No. You're angry. Don't get angry. Speaker 2 (6:40) Wow. Speaker 3 (6:42) Do you know what I call that one? What? Call the cops. That's illegally bad. Speaker 5 (6:46) No. Call the cops. There's been a crime. Call the Speaker 3 (6:49) cops. There's Speaker 5 (6:49) been a crime against Speaker 2 (6:51) chocolate. Speaker 5 (6:52) No, Courtney, we need a siren there. Speaker 5 (6:56) Rightio, rightio. Right, there's been a report, Alan, that you have been committing crimes in this factory. Where's Tarquin and Buttercup? Speaker 3 (7:04) Sherbert Fizz, call the cops. No, we've got one more from Glenn, has brought a new chocolate for us, but he wants us to guess it. So take it away, Glenn. It's Speaker 4 (7:13) a new Toblerone flavour that just comes in the mini individual Toblerones. Speaker 3 (7:17) Did you get these at the airport? Speaker 4 (7:19) And I got them in Switzerland, actually, in a supermarket. Speaker 3 (7:21) Someone, Ed Cavalli, in fact, tells me that the only place you can get white Toblerone, which is the one he loves, is at the airport. Speaker 5 (7:28) Oh, okay. Are you in Ed's new movie, Cop This? No. Speaker 4 (7:31) What the Speaker 3 (7:32) hell? Speaker 4 (7:32) Call the cops. I'm not in the movie. Yeah, you would call the cops. We knew the only two comedians in Melbourne who aren't in that film. Speaker 5 (7:39) I'm looking forward to it because it's going to be on after half the heart. Have you been paying attention? Speaker 3 (7:42) This looks like caramilk. Speaker 4 (7:44) Yeah. All right. Could be. Oh. Speaker 5 (7:47) What is that? Oh, there's something in the middle. Oh. What is it? What is that? What Speaker 4 (7:53) is that? Speaker 3 (7:55) Oh, it's like there's a Toblerone inside a Toblerone. Is it a babushka doll Toblerone? Speaker 4 (8:00) It's orange. No, not orange, Speaker 5 (8:02) no. Speaker 3 (8:03) Not orange? Caramel? Speaker 4 (8:05) It's caramel, yes. Golden caramel. Speaker 5 (8:07) Is it the flavour? That's the flavour, yeah. That's not Speaker 4 (8:09) even a Toblerone. Speaker 3 (8:10) No, it's not a Toblerone. Where's the bits of nougat? Speaker 4 (8:13) Now, Glenn's got to give us an update on Speaker 5 (8:14) the Toblerone factory. Speaker 4 (8:16) Yes, so the regular listeners will recall that... Toblerone announced they were moving the production of Toblerone from Switzerland to Slovakia. And there was a huge uproar in Switzerland and they had Speaker 3 (8:27) to Speaker