Retro sweet chew (Wham Bar)

Member Name: norton501

Product:	Wham Bar
Date:	15/08/09 (66 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: cheap and easily available

Disadvantages: E numbers, sugar, chewyness

Wham bars are chewy candy bars made by Millar McCowan and have been around since the early 1980s. They are chewy but you can snap a piece off the bar by bending it swiftly. Alternatively you can just chew on the end of the bar as these soften up when you start to eat them.

What do you get?
Miniature, standard or Mega sized bars. Miniature Wham bars come in assorted flavours are available in most pound shops. There you get Original, Cola, 'Brew' (similar to Iron Bru), Sour Apple, Sour Cherry and Strawberry.

A standard bar will cost you 10p and you can buy these in the sweet sections of most supermarkets and also in newsagents and sweet shops. Mega bars are bigger and will cost 20p.

Ingredients:
Glucose syrup, hydrogenated vegetable oil, maltodextrin, citric acid E330, solubilised milk protein, stabilser, glycerol E422, emulsifier, lecithin E322, flavouring, colours E122, E124, E104, E133- so 7 "E" numbers in all.

One of the standard bars will provide you with 79 calories. The Wham bars are low in fat as they are mainly sugar (sugar contains no fat).

I like these, the Original version is raspberry flavour and contains sugar srystals so you get a fizzy effect when you eat them- similar to a refreshers bar but these are thinner with less fizz.

Wham bars were really popular in the 1980s and gained most of their cult following in the North and Scotland- Millar McCowan is a Scottish Firm and as they have a "Bru" flavour- similar to Iron Bru, I can see how this was marketed heavily in the North.

Overall
These are good to buy because they are a sweet. They are quite retro/ nostalgic to buy and chew on over a movie or to have in the house (if you are anything like me, I have to have a box of sweets in the house). They are cheap and easily available and make a change to chocolate bars. But, you will find your teeth/ jaw hurts if you eat a few of these as they are really chewy.

Definitely not recommended for children sensitive to E numbers, for anyone with loose teeth or dentures or for anyone sensitive to sugar!

Summary: Nice for a change