Twiglets

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

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".

History

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

Ingredients

*Wholewheat Meal (77%)
*Flavourings
**cheese
**Vegetable extract
**Spice extract
**Niacin
**Riboflavin
*Vegetable oil
*Salt
*Dried cheese
*White Pepper

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

Nutritional Information

Twiglets in the Media

* Twiglets are also known as "Sticks dipped in Cheese". 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. Paul Merton claimed "when in doubt, go for the Twiglet gag!"
* 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.

ee also

*Marmite
*Jacob's

External links

* [http://www.awholelotofcrunch.com/ awholelotofcrunch] is a "documunchery" blog devoted to Twiglets.
* [http://flickr.com/groups/68022721@N00/pool/ Twiglets Appreciation Society] is a flickr photo group devoted to Twiglets.