I dunno if it's just my tastebuds, but I'm fed up of companies branding spin-off items using well known brand names, even if the products are not even remotely similar in taste.

For example, branding hot chocolate as "Galaxy" when it tastes NOTHING like Galaxy chocolate etc and also branding mini cake rolls as as "Penguin" when they taste NOTHING alike, infact they taste almost identical to Cadbury Mini Rolls.

What's your stance on this? I don't think you should be allowed to use well established brands to mislead and sell products that are totally different in taste.

Bah..

The only hot chocolate that says Galaxy on it is the Galaxy one.

Well.. mm.. yeah.. it's just generic hot chocolate branded as Galaxy and it tastes like they didn't even bother to formulate it to make it taste even remotely similar... that was my point.

To me misleading branding is what the supermarkets do so you think (as my mother did the other day) that you'd picked up a packet of lurpack butter, but in actual fact, you'd picked up Sainsbury's own make which looks extremely similar to the branded product.

You would be much better off developing your own brand at home. Cheaper, healthier and much less misleading than these well-known brands.

Seriously, though, I do know what you mean especially with cake alternatives of well-known confectionary. I can't think of one that doesn't disappoint. On the other hand, some brand extensions are great, for instance I love the chunky KitKat much more than the original, it's just a better ratio of chocolate to wafer.

Mmmmmmmmm chunky KitKat.

I hate it when the lable gives the impression that the new improved item now has much more (whatever) and is just the same as the old one and if the new one does have more why were they ripping us off with the old stuff?
When they put the item logo in huge print to make the item seem big, Mars bars do this, also just before the next price rise they will say on the item "same old price" to make us feel nice about the next price hike. The Radio Times are doing this.

I don't know weather they still do it, but back in the day the trick was that when a chocolate bar was going to get smaller they'd roll out the normal size bar with a 10% extra free wrapper on it for a few weeks before the bar shrunk.

I don't understand why you get kids snacks with Disney characters on the packaging, there is nothing Disney about the product inside, not even a character printed on them.
They're just stuck on the packet to encourage pester power from kids.

I think thats a very good point, it also tends to spoil the original product for me as well.

Manufacturers take note please.

Going back to the original post what about the six mini chocolate roles, sprinkle some icing on it and they become six Yuletide mini logs with a Christmas scene on the box and six dusty mini chocolate roles inside, and they fly off the shelves.

Yup.

Disney is poison.