Twiglets

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200g Christmas 2006 Twiglets pack
200g Christmas 2006 Twiglets pack

Twiglets are a snack food shaped like small twigs and flavoured with a substance similar to Marmite.

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[edit] Manufacture and marketing

Twiglets are manufactured in Aintree by Jacob's Bakery Ltd., a subsidiary of United Biscuits. They are marketed in the United Kingdom and Australia, packaged in a 150 gram bag. They are also available in 25 and 45 gram bags and in 200g tubs. From the package: "a whole lot of crunch in a wholewheat munch", "entertain your senses!", "distinctive knobbly shape", "baked not fried".

[edit] History

Twiglets were developed by Peek Frean & Co in Bermondsey in the interwar years.

[edit] Ingredients

Contains: Milk, Gluten, Celery.
Produced on a line handling egg and in a factory handling Sesame seeds.

[edit] Nutritional Information

Average Values Per 100g Per 25g Bag
Energy (kcal) 388 97
Protein 12.8g 3.2g
Carbohydrate 56.1g 3.1g
of which Sugars 2.1g 0.5g
Fat 12.5g 3.1g
of which Saturates 5.5g 1.4g
Fibre 11.8g 3g
Sodium 0.7g 0.2

[edit] Twiglets in the Media

45g bag of Twiglets.
45g bag of Twiglets.
  • Twiglets are also known as "Sticks dipped in Marmite". In an episode of the British TV comedy series Mr Bean, Bean runs out of Twiglets and attempts to prepare his own by snapping twigs off a tree and covering them in Marmite.
  • Twiglets are often mentioned as a snack in the Whose Line is it Anyway? game "Party Quirks". Tony Slattery or Paul Merton usually instigated the Twiglet gags.
  • In the British comedy series Spaced, lead character Tim Bisley says that Twiglets make him violent. He also claims to be allergic to the treats. It may be presumed that the two states, for Tim, are related.
  • In the comedy series The Mighty Boosh, Vince tells Howard that if he ate him, it would be like eating a twiglet, whereas consuming Howard would be like a Jacobean Banquet.

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