Galaxy Minstrels are
milk chocolate
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buttons with a hard glazed shell sold in several countries including the
UK,
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Kenya
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They originally had the slogan ''"They melt in your mouth, not in your hands"'', featuring in 1980s British advertisements, the same slogan used in the UK for
Treets in the 1960s, and for
M&M's
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in the UK and US up to the 1990s.
In line with
Mars
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' 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, 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.
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See also
* Treets another Mars-owned brand of sugar-shelled confectionery that pre-dated Minstrels
* Smarties
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, a similar brand of chocolate sweets in sugar shells with different colours
* M&M's
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, a Mars owned brand of sugar-shelled chocolates
* Revels
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, a Mars-owned brand of chocolate that includes Minstrels
References
British confectionery
Mars confectionery brands
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