Bernard Matthews brings back the best food product in British history: Turkey Twizzler

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by KK » Mon Aug 17, 2020 4:32 pm

Bernard Matthews has confirmed the return of one of its most missed products: the Turkey Twizzler.

On Monday, the food manufacturer announced that the corkscrew strips of meat, which were a staple on school menus in the 1990s and early 2000s, will be returning to supermarket shelves, 15 years after they stopped making them due to a wave of negative publicity.

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Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver was instrumental in the demise of Turkey Twizzlers after he called them bad for children's health during a TV campaign for better school dinners in 2005.

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Speaking of the product's 34 per cent turkey meat content, Oliver said at the time: “The prospect of what else is in them isn’t particularly good.”

But now Bernard Matthews is relaunching the controversial product with double the turkey meat of the original.

The new, revamped Turkey Twizzlers, have been made using “healthier” recipes with lower fat, salt and sugar, which score orange and green on the traffic-light food labelling system. They also contain 70 per cent turkey meat and no E-numbers.

The company has said it would like the product to return to school menus eventually.

“We have been discussing the return of the Twizzler for some time,” David Leigh, marketing director at Bernard Matthews, told the BBC.

“Obviously we'd like the product to go into schools, but for the minute, we've focused on going into what I guess you'd call mass market retail.”

Turkey Twizzlers will be available to buy from Thursday 20 August, and will come in two flavours: Original Tangy Tomato and Chilli Cheese – both found in freezer aisles retailing at £3.00 for a pack of eight.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-styl ... 73496.html

Bet you can't wait to get down to Tezzies now and pick up 5 boxes. :datass:

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by Dual » Mon Aug 17, 2020 4:35 pm

This is Brexit Britain

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by Cuttooth » Mon Aug 17, 2020 4:42 pm

Tangy tomato turkey? :dread:

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by Moggy » Mon Aug 17, 2020 5:03 pm

I've never had one but after all the fuss I am curious to try one.

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by SEP » Mon Aug 17, 2020 5:06 pm

I never had them when they were first out. Might try it just to satisfy my curiosity.

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by RJ Badman » Mon Aug 17, 2020 5:15 pm

I remember them, they were a bit crap to be honest: so thin and so little actual meat that they were almost always just rock-hard things, like mega-cremated chicken dippers after you leave 'em in the oven way too long.

However they are the mortal enemy of Jamie Oliver, so ten on ten.

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by Jam-Master Jay » Mon Aug 17, 2020 5:15 pm

I never knew these were even a thing. Look shite.

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by Ironhide » Mon Aug 17, 2020 5:39 pm

68% meat is still 32% 'mystery' ingredients.

Think I'll give them a miss.

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by SEP » Mon Aug 17, 2020 5:52 pm

Ironhide wrote:68% meat is still 32% 'mystery' ingredients.

Think I'll give them a miss.


Not that much of a mystery. They're written on the back of the box.

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by Moggy » Mon Aug 17, 2020 5:54 pm

Somebody Else's Problem wrote:
Ironhide wrote:68% meat is still 32% 'mystery' ingredients.

Think I'll give them a miss.


Not that much of a mystery. They're written on the back of the box.


:lol:

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by KK » Mon Aug 17, 2020 6:01 pm

I remember them being very elasticated.

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by Qikz » Mon Aug 17, 2020 6:04 pm

Somebody Else's Problem wrote:
Ironhide wrote:68% meat is still 32% 'mystery' ingredients.

Think I'll give them a miss.


Not that much of a mystery. They're written on the back of the box.


:lol: :lol:

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PostRe: Bernard Matthews brings back the best food product in British history: Turkey Twizzler
by Fade » Mon Aug 17, 2020 6:04 pm

The food that Jamie Oliver got banned from SCHOOL strawberry floating DINNERS

Oh boy can't wait!

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by Hypes » Mon Aug 17, 2020 6:07 pm

School staple apparently but where?

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by Curls » Mon Aug 17, 2020 6:30 pm

I used to enjoy them a lot as a child.

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PostRe: Bernard Matthews brings back the best food product in British history: Turkey Twizzler
by Ironhide » Mon Aug 17, 2020 7:27 pm

I remember a variety of questionable things being served for lunch when I was at school but Twizzlers definitely weren't among them, I assume I left school before they existed.

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by Victor Mildew » Mon Aug 17, 2020 7:32 pm

SPIRIT OF DA BLITZ TURNKEY TWAZZLERZ 4 CALLUM HE GON B SO HAP E

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by OrangeRKN » Mon Aug 17, 2020 7:43 pm

Never had one, will buy

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PostRe: Bernard Matthews brings back the best food product in British history: Turkey Twizzler
by That » Mon Aug 17, 2020 8:07 pm

If I see these I might buy them to spite Jamie Oliver.

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by Cuttooth » Mon Aug 17, 2020 8:16 pm

Victor Mildew wrote:SPIRIT OF DA BLITZ TURNKEY TWAZZLERZ 4 CALLUM HE GON B SO HAP E

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