My great-grandfather was apparently an inventor, of the Wallace and Gromit variety.
So, when a smallish confectionery business known as Nestle (trivia: they added the accent over the e later, as they wanted to appear sophisticated) wanted a challenging new engineering project done, somebody pointed them in the direction of this talented local inventor.

So it was that my great-grandfather designed and built the original mould for the Walnut Whip.

Seriously.
(The Ghost of Stephen Foster, Tue 25 Sep 2012, 19:59, 24 replies)

They have the accent over the é because it's Swiss and was started by a family called Nestlé
you utter fucking cock. No'fféncé liké.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 25 Sep 2012, 20:09, closed)

True.
But back in the days when even I was young and beardless Milky Bars didn't have the accent on the wrappers, and in the adverts the jingle ended with the words "Nestles Milky Bar" with Nestles sounding the word nestles, or like nessles if you prefer.
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Tue 25 Sep 2012, 20:21, closed)

Aha!
I knew I hadn't imagined it. I remember seeing an old black-and-white advert with the lack of accent in both spelling and pronunciation.

It was on some documentary or other. I'm sure they said that the adding of the accent was a marketing thing to make them sound posh.
(The Ghost of Stephen Foster, Tue 25 Sep 2012, 20:29, closed)

Having been bored and intrigued enough to look it up, Wikipedia says the pronunciation was originally nessuls and is now neslays.

( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Tue 25 Sep 2012, 20:58, closed)

I KNEW IT!!
I knew it used to go "nessles milky bar".
( browser still relating boring anecdotes into a void on, Wed 26 Sep 2012, 12:06, closed)

Did he mould it from a real dog egg, or from one of them 'novelty' ones?

( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Tue 25 Sep 2012, 20:23, closed)

A block of wood and some skilful lathe work, apparently.

(The Ghost of Stephen Foster, Tue 25 Sep 2012, 20:30, closed)

I should imagine they moulded it from the Walnut Whip of Duncan's of Edinburgh given that it was they who invented it.
You'd think people would pay a bit more attention to their own family history. This is why we lost the Empire, studge. Sad times.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 25 Sep 2012, 20:31, closed)

Just because they bought the product doesn't mean they used the same mould.
Besides, Duncan's of Edinburgh were only founded a short time before that. It's entirely possible it was them he worked for and not Nestlé. I wasn't around at the time, you see, so I only know that one fact.

It's adorable how you're furiously googling just for the sake of trying to prove me wrong. Go have another wank or something, it's more productive.
(The Ghost of Stephen Foster, Tue 25 Sep 2012, 20:37, closed)

It's probably hard for you to appreciate this
what with barely having the wit to remember a simple family story, but most people don't need to furiously do anything in order to open a wikipedia page.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 25 Sep 2012, 20:45, closed)

Actually bothering to do so at all constitutes "furious", by virtue of it being such an utterly pointless pursuit that only the most committed of arseholes could summon the mental, let alone physical, energy to so much as make the necessary motions of mouse and keyboard. I mean, what on earth brings you to such petty depths that you have to actually research the veracity of such a minor, inoffensive claim? Are you that lonely?

In any case, I misremembered nothing: I only know that he designed the thing, I just assumed that it was for Nestlé. Hadn't bothered doing the research, you see. I have better things to do.
(The Ghost of Stephen Foster, Tue 25 Sep 2012, 20:53, closed)

Clearly not.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 25 Sep 2012, 21:16, closed)

So, did they mould it from a real dog egg, or one of them 'novelty' ones Doc?

( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Tue 25 Sep 2012, 20:39, closed)

I heard they just dipped a pig's cock into the milky bar mix.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 25 Sep 2012, 20:45, closed)

Ah.
Totally going to use this for a question next time I have to set Pub Quiz.
:D
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Tue 25 Sep 2012, 20:50, closed)

You're forgetting this is the guy who wrote a 2,000 word diatribe about why he apparently knows more about autistic spectrum disorders than the medical profession.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Tue 25 Sep 2012, 21:02, closed)

But The LOVELY woodsie, I can do that in a LOT less words.
SHUT UP AUTISMS! YOU'RE MAKING IT UP TO GET ATTENTION! THE DOCTORS ONLY GO ALONG WITH IT BECAUSE IT'S EASY MONEY FOR THEM!
See?
:D
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Tue 25 Sep 2012, 21:04, closed)

Actually, I was vindicated shortly thereafter by an actual specialist who told me that the doctor I'd spoken to was an idiot. I have a formal diagnosis now, which came with a lovely long description of exactly why and how it works.

As opposed to the doctor in the story you're so glibly referring to, who said "you can't have Asperger's because you want to have a social life".

So fuck off.
(The Ghost of Stephen Foster, Tue 25 Sep 2012, 21:09, closed)

lol
You're a funny guy.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Tue 25 Sep 2012, 21:11, closed)

At least he isn't taking the internet seriously.
That would be embarrassing.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 25 Sep 2012, 21:17, closed)

But not as embarrassing AS YOUR FACE!!

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 25 Sep 2012, 21:19, closed)

OH ZING A DOODLE DANDY!

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 26 Sep 2012, 10:35, closed)

Oh look someone has
rolled out the taking the internet seriously defence.
Boy is that old chestnut tired
(andythepieman Is surfing the waves of indifference on, Wed 26 Sep 2012, 14:27, closed)

Heh yeh
Like doing internet research and arguing about the inventor of the walnut whip mould, on the internet? That sort of thing, yeh?
( Michael Ellis contributes nothing, Thu 27 Sep 2012, 11:32, closed)