The name is a warning. Nobody has ever read it as one.
The Tango Shocker Bar Orange is a little orange bar that tastes of Tango, the fizzy orange drink behind the adverts that had a whole country saying "you know when you've been Tango'd".
It is the bar you bought with the change in your pocket, ate on the walk home and pulled a face at the entire way. Then you bought another one the next day.
Small enough to justify. Loud enough to remember. Keep a few in the drawer for the afternoons that need a jolt.
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Frequently asked questions about Tango Shocker Bar Orange
Q: Is this the UK version?
A: It is, the proper British bar, and it ships to you from within Canada. Same name, same orange, same face afterwards.
Q: How big is it?
A: An 11g bar, so a few bites. That is why most people order a handful rather than just the one.
Q: Is it good to send to someone who misses home?
A: Very. Tuck a few into a parcel of British sweets and let the name do the rest.
More about Tango Shocker Bar Orange
Bars like this live on the counter by the till in every British corner shop, the pocket-money end of the sweet aisle where you could get something properly lively for very little. A Tango bar sat right in the middle of that, sharing a counter with the drink it was named after.
People in Canada go looking for it because the taste is hard to explain to anyone who did not grow up with it. You can describe orange Tango all you like. It is quicker to hand someone the bar and watch their face.
It is a single 11g bar, a few bites and gone, which is rather the point. It slips into a pocket, a lunchbox or a party bag, and a handful keeps well in a cool, dry cupboard until the next time you need one. Most people buy several, because one never seems to be enough.
It goes down well alongside other British sweets from the counter, so people often build a little mix-up of old favourites. Add a can of something fizzy and you have recreated the walk home from school, minus the homework.
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A handy shortcut to the British favourites flying out the door.
Say Tango to anyone who grew up in Britain and watch them flinch, just slightly. It is not the orange they think of first. It is the catchphrase, shouted across a playground by somebody standing far too close. This bar carries the same name and the same orange, which is all the warning anyone needs. Tango has always been a drink with a reputation, and the reputation came along when the name moved off the drinks shelf. You know what you are getting into. That was always the point.
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Born in the Rhondda, oddly
It starts with two grocers, William Thomas and William Evans, who founded Corona in response to the growing temperance movement. A soft drinks firm born out of people giving up the drink. You could not make it up. Corona's first factory was in Porth, Rhondda, South Wales, and it later grew to 87 depots and factories across Britain. Tango arrived as an orangeade in April 1958, set apart from regular Corona by the addition of real fruit and real sugar.
Sold twice, still orange
The Beecham Group bought Corona, and Tango with it, in September 1958, the same year Tango launched. 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 Tango carried on regardless. Today it is owned and manufactured by Carlsberg Britvic subsidiary Britvic, with real-fruit flavours such as orange, apple, cherry and mango, and the name has spread beyond drinks into sweets, bonbons included.
The slap heard round Britain
Then there was the advert. In 1992 an orange-painted figure slapped a man who had just drunk Tango, and the country gained a catchphrase: "You know when you've been Tango'd." The agency HHCL filmed it in 1991, and 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. Anyone who was in one of those playgrounds will not need reminding. Their cheek remembers too.
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