Galaxy Minstrels

Galaxy Minstrels are milk chocolate buttons with a hard glazed shell sold in several countries including the UK, Republic of Ireland, South Africa, Kenya, Cyprus, Malta, Canada and Spain.

Minstrels

They originally had the slogan "They melt in your mouth, not in your hands", featuring in 1980s British advertisements,[1] the same slogan used in the UK for Treets in the 1960s, and for M&M's in the UK and US up to the 1990s.[2]

In line with Mars' re-branding, Minstrels were brought under the Galaxy brand and are now sold as "Galaxy Minstrels", referring to the use of Galaxy chocolate in them.

"Sophisticated sharing" and Croker & Jory

A new British advertising campaign in July 2008 was accompanied by a new slogan: "Sophisticated sharing". One of their advertisements featured two women (played by actresses Rhona Croker and Stephanie Jory),[3] consuming Minstrels, ostensibly in an upmarket theatre, commenting knowledgeably on their seats and the theatre acoustics, only to be revealed as delighted viewers of a male strip act.[4][5]

gollark: The hard part is just working out which coordinates correspond to a particular person.
gollark: See, I can actually do that easily by taking the Cartesian product of some sets.
gollark: I'll leak *everyone's* coordinates.
gollark: I apologize proactively retroactively for the unfortunately imperfect accuracy of indoor GPS and/or mobile network location.
gollark: Here is my exact location.

See also
  • Treets another Mars-owned brand of sugar-shelled confectionery that pre-dated Minstrels
  • Smarties, a similar brand of chocolate sweets in sugar shells with different colours
  • M&M's, a Mars owned brand of sugar-shelled chocolates
  • Revels, a Mars-owned brand of chocolate that includes Minstrels

References
  1. "Minstrels - They Melt in Your Mouth (1980's) (British)". YouTube.
  2. Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable, "Advertising slogans of the 20th century". Accessed October 18, 2012.
  3. comedy cv website entry for Croker & Jory. Accessed 2 April 2012
  4. Galaxy Minstrels: "Sophisticated Silliness" advertisement on YouTube. Accessed 2 April 2012
  5. Advertisement on tellyads website. Accessed 2 April 2012
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