Starbursts are Opal Fruits again wat?

Jif hasn't tasted the same since they changed it to Cif.

e: fresh shenanigans appear!! I've just checked our cleaning products and we do indeed have 'Jif' although that might be a local market agreement as I'm in NZ. I'm sure it changed to Cif in the UK in the 90's :confused:

e2: wiki suggests:

wiki said:
Cif is a French brand of household cleaning products owned by the Anglo-Dutch company Unilever, known as Jif in Australia, New Zealand, Japan,[1] Middle East and the Nordic countries.[citation needed]

Cif was launched in France in 1965 and was marketed in competition against scouring powders (such as Vim scouring powder) as a creamy and hence protective, but powerful domestic cleaner.

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Cif is sold under the names Jif, Vim, Viss and Handy Andy, depending on which of the 51 countries it is sold in.

In Sweden, the United Kingdom and South Africa, the products were originally sold under the name Vim before this was changed to Jif, the launch name in Ireland, the Netherlands and Hong Kong. In January 2001, the name in most of these countries was changed to Cif in order to align marketing and product inventories across the continent. Despite this, many in the United Kingdom, and most in Ireland, continue to call the product Jif.[according to whom?]

The name change from Jif to Cif was confirmed by Unilever in December 2000.[2]

In Belgium, Finland and Portugal, the product was known as Vim for quite some time, after which it became Cif. In Canada and India, it is still called Vim. Recently[when?] advertisements for Cif surface grease cleaner have started to appear in India, while the Vim name is still used for the kitchen dish cleaning product. In Germany, the cleaner's name is Viss. In Norway, the product is still today traded as Jif. It is also still traded in Iraq as Jif, with local Arabic and English writing.
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You can keep your Opal Fruits. I want my KP Space Raiders back. And none of those poncy 90s ones without the colouring either. I want my red and blue Raiders.
And while they're sorting that out they can sort me out with some Bitsa Pizza too.
 
Twix was called Raiders briefly here in the UK, although in some jurisdictions, they kept the Raiders name.

Dime Bar became Daim Bar.

Then as we are talking household products too (Cif vs Jif), there was also Oil of Ulay vs Olay.

When it comes to Opal Fruits and Starburst names, I always preferred Opal Fruits. There are also 2 online fruit machines with those names and I prefer Opal Fruits (by Big Time Gaming) to Starburst (by NetEnt) :)

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Well I've stubbornly continued to call them Opal Fruits for the 20 odd years since they changed the name, so who has the last laugh now?

Yep, I've been playing the long game.
 
BallistixOnZ490 said:
Well I couldn't wait to sample one of each flavour ... Theres no blackcurrent but I swear they taste a lot better than Starburst do.

OMG APPLE GREEN WHICH USED TO BE MY FAVOURITE, ITS EXACTLY HOW I REMEMBER IT OMGOMGOMGOMG!
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IIRC they were not the original flavours of Opal Fruits. They were Lemon, Lime, Strawberry and Orange (And later Blackcurrant) when i was a kid(Late 70s/Mid 80s) that was in the pack .
 
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