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Cadbury Flake 99 Multipack Box, 144 Individual Chocolate Bars for Ice Cream, Baking and Catering, 1.4 Kg (Packaging May Vary)

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A 99 Flake, 99 or ninety-nine [1] is an ice cream cone with a Cadbury Flake inserted in the ice cream. The term can also refer to the half-sized Cadbury-produced Flake bar, itself specially made for such ice cream cones, and to a wrapped product marketed by Cadbury “for ice cream and culinary use”. There are other theories too about how the 99 got its name. As Cadbury itself admits, it does not fully know how the 99 came to be and the Oxford English Dictionary has questioned Cadbury's lines.

With the temperatures rising in Nottinghamshire, ice cream sales are booming. There are plenty of lovely things to eat to cool down but few beat whipped ice cream in a cone served with a chocolate flake. The early "99 Flake" was a wafer "sandwich", not a flake bar inserted into a cone of ice cream. It consisted of a small chocolate flake inserted between two servings of ice cream and placed between two wafer biscuits. What's On Why is it called a 99 ice cream? Name actually nothing to do with its cost and may have been invented in Durham a b "Corporate history of the product". Cadbury. Archived from the original on 2006-08-22 . Retrieved 2011-04-17. a b c d Oliver Thring (24 August 2010). "Consider the 99 Flake". The Guardian . Retrieved 15 November 2010.This Cadbury Flake shortage that’s in the news would be a perfect opportunity to trial selling 99s with Freddos instead— Johnathan Randall (@MrJRan) May 17, 2021 How much do 99 ice creams cost?

In the interwar period of the 20th Century, Italian immigrants in Britain opened ice cream parlours across the country, including the North East. Examples include Notarianni, which opened in Sunderland in the 1930s and Mincellas, which started as a pitch in Boldon Colliery and is still a thriving business today in Ocean Road, South Shields. A 99 is nothing without a Flake. That shattering finger gives depth and body to the scummy, foamy ice-cream and desiccated cone. The Flake emerged around 1920 when a clever worker at Cadbury's Bournville factory noticed that chocolate overflowing its moulds fell and set in appealing ripples. People seem to have spotted its affinity with ice-cream almost immediately. By 1930, Cadbury's was selling half-length Flake "99s" specifically for prodding into Mr Whippy, or his equivalent. Often, people wrongly assume that a 99 Flake must have gotten its name from its original cost. But, that isn’t the case.The ice creams topped with flakes were named 99s in honour of Italy, as in the days of the Italian monarchy the king had a specially chosen guard of 99 men. The number then became a synonym for special or first class, Cadbury claims.

So now you know - and if you wanted to know more, if you add two flakes to an ice cream it is called Bunny Ears, while a Flake with strawberry sauce is known as Monkey's Blood.

Individually wrapped. Ideal for ice cream, hot chocolate and the decoration of desserts and cakes. Suitable for vegetarians. Cadbury. The shop was named99 Portobello High Street and legend says that Stefano would break a traditional flake in half and add to his soft serve. And alas the name was born. While Cadbury admits the invention of the 99 ice cream "has been lost in the mists of time", it does have evidence that County Durham-based Italians could be the creators of the 99. You'll struggle to find a 99 for 99p these days - but the cone, ice cream and flake combination's name actually has nothing to do with the price it is - or was - sold for. There are all sort of theories as to how the 99 ice cream got its name, although the general consensus is that Italian parlours in Britain were the first to call their cones 99s, in the inter-war period. Eventually, those wafer ice cream sandwiches with Flakes morphed into the sugar cones we eat today. Small Cadbury Flakes were marketed for ice cream cones by the 1930s, according to the Guardian. There are other theories too about how the 99 got its name

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