Some sweets are named for comfort. This one is named for what happens to your face.
The Tango Shocker Bar Cherry is the little bar that lived by the till in every British corner shop, the one you bought with whatever change was left after the paper round. Cherry, chewy, and over far too quickly.
It is the taste of walking home from school with a mate, both of you pulling faces and pretending you were not. Nobody ever bought just one. Nobody ever admitted how many.
Frequently asked questions about Tango Shocker Bar Cherry
Q: Is this the UK Tango Shocker bar?
A: Yes, it is the British bar, the one from the corner shop counter, and we ship it from within Canada.
Q: How big is it?
A: It is a small single bar, 11g, so it is gone in a few chews. That is why people buy several.
Q: Is it good to send as a gift?
A: Very. Tuck a few into a parcel of British sweets for someone who misses home and watch them make the face they made at twelve.
More about Tango Shocker Bar Cherry
Tango is one of those British names that means fizzy orange and a bit of mischief, and the Shocker bars took that attitude to the pick and mix end of the sweet shop. They belong with the cheap, bright, slightly daft sweets that every British childhood was built on.
People in Canada go looking for this one because it is tiny and specific. It is not the sort of thing you think to pack in a suitcase, and then one day you remember the corner shop counter and nothing else will do.
It is a small single bar, made to be eaten there and then rather than saved for later. Keep a few in a cool, dry cupboard, out of the sun, and they will be ready when the craving hits. They also slip neatly into a lunchbox or a party bag.
Most people buy it alongside other British sweets and a can of something fizzy, building their own little corner shop haul. A mixed bag of bars like this makes a cheerful parcel for anyone who grew up in Britain.
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A handy shortcut to the British favourites flying out the door.
Some brands ask nicely. Tango never did. Spot that orange name next to the word cherry and you are straight back at a corner shop counter, pocket money going warm in your fist, working out what would last the walk home. Same cheek the can always had, just in your pocket instead. Tango's range runs to real-fruit flavours such as orange, apple, cherry and mango, and the brand long ago stopped being only a drink: it has stretched into non-drink products, bonbon sweets among them. You know this one. You are already reaching for it.
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Blame the temperance movement
Tango started with two grocers. William Thomas and William Evans founded Corona in response to the growing temperance movement, which is a polite way of saying people needed something to drink that was not beer. Their first factory was in Porth, in the Rhondda, South Wales, and the firm grew to 87 depots and factories across Britain. In April 1958 Corona launched Tango, an orangeade set apart from regular Corona by real fruit and real sugar.
Outlived the parents
The new arrival did not stay put for long. The Beecham Group bought Corona, and Tango with it, in September 1958. In 1986 Beecham sold Tango, Corona and other soft drink brands to Britvic. Corona itself stopped trading as a brand in the late 1990s, but the orange upstart carried on regardless. Tango is owned and manufactured today by Britvic, a Carlsberg Britvic subsidiary. Not bad for an orangeade from Porth.
The slap heard round the playground
Then there was the advert. Created by agency HHCL, filmed in 1991 and aired in 1992, it showed an orange-painted figure slapping a man after he drank Tango, and handed the country a catchphrase: you know when you've been Tango'd. It was the first in a long-running campaign. It was also withdrawn, after reports that children were copying the slap and injuring each other in school playgrounds. Every class had one who took it too far. You might have been that one.
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