Talk:Werther's Original

Merge

The reason I'm suggesting the merge is because I feel like these are actually the same product. The reason I'm not just forwarding one to the other is because I'm not entirely certain, and don't want to accidentally delete a good page because I didn't realize there was a seperate product called "Werthers". --Bachrach44 16:22, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Because I'm eminently confident they're about the same product, I merged the information and left "Werther's" (moved from "Werthers") as a redirect to this page, inasmuch as this is the proper name. When first I saw the "Werthers" article, I was altogether sure we must already have had an article on the subject, but I couldn't find it; many thanks to Bachrach for his having found the article. Joe 17:47, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

CaraMelts are actually not waxy, but more similar to a chocolate consistency with a caramel flavor. Similar to a white chocolate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.217.110.5 (talk) 18:35, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Commercials

Having seen these adverts, the grandfather depicted was of a age that the only thing he would have got form Germany when he was of the same age as his grandson was was bombs. Shouldn’t this historical/fictional/marketing inaccuracy be pointed out. --Aspro (talk) 00:07, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

I think the commercials are universal, not just in the UK. They are just translated German commercials. The same grandpa commercials aired in Poland, which got even more bombs and nobody pointed this out :P — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.40.141.149 (talk) 21:30, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

UK introduction

Does anybody have any idea when this product was first marketed in the UK? The advertising gives the impression that these were eaten by present day pensioners when they were children, but given that they would have been sheltering from V-1s while their fathers were having their goolies shot off in Normandy I would suspect that a German sweet wouldn't have been top of the shopping list. I don't remember them being around before the 1990s. Does anybody have any hard info? --Ef80 (talk) 18:46, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

This rewriting of werthers history apparently hasn’t gone unseen: Werthers Original Child Reveals Grandfather’s Dark Side Yet Storck's good fortune ended with World War II, as shortages of ingredients forced it to shut down production. The article in this respect, seems leaning towards advertorial. Any suggestions of a NPOV way to point out that that the Commercials section of this article is misleading in its economy of fact.--Aspro (talk) 20:17, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

I think Ef80 has a real point here. The advert gives the impression these were around when I was young (fiveish decades ago...) and I don't remember them at all. Therefore, the adverts are creating a history that never existed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.188.183.86 (talk) 14:48, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

Caramel or Butterscotch

So the article says "Due to the presence of dairy in both cream and butter used as ingredients, in conjunction with caramelized sugar, the candies are properly described as caramel."

Clearly they are marketed as caramels, but the Wikipedia articles for Caramel and Butterscotch indicate that butterscotch is the one with the dairy in it. --Munchkinguy (talk) 20:24, 15 December 2014 (UTC)