2006-11-16 10:44:51 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
Because the last time I asked for a 69 at the ice cream van I got a slap...
Here's the real low-down: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99_Flake
2006-11-16 10:49:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
The taste of summer is surely the 99 - soft ice cream in a cone with a Flake. Many and various are the theories as to how it got this name.
The ice cream in question has gone by that name since 1930, when Cadbury's launched a shorter version of its Flake bar - called a Flake 99 - for the ice cream trade.
Which does rather seem to blow one theory - that the bar is exactly 99mm long - out of the water. The UK is only now edging towards metrification - 70-odd years ago, everything was in imperial measures.
Ditto the suggestion that back in the day they cost 99p. True in the 1990s, but in 1930, nothing cost 99p - it was pre-decimalisation, remember.
Another theory goes that the initials of ice cream are IC, which is one way to write 99 in Roman numerals. But the convention is to write it XCIX - but it's possible this was ignored or not known.
2006-11-16 10:49:18 · answer #2 · answered by Ha 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No one actually knows. I was always under the impression it had to do with the 99 vatican guards, but a quick view of wikepedia shows that this theory has since been found to be unfounded. (The possible reason it stood for so long was that the Cadbury sales manager said it was true, & most 99 flakes are made by Cadbury...)
I suggest you just check Wikepedia. It has alot of info on 99 flakes.
2006-11-16 11:01:28 · answer #3 · answered by mexican_seafooduk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi Afuzzyworls....
According to the brilliant 82ASK service (I'm totally addicted to!)... Italian ice-cream sellers were involved in product launch. In days of the monarchy in Italy, anything really special or first class was known as 99.
All the other answers in this thread are a bit flaky....
Hope that helped ;)
2006-11-16 11:34:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
because it was 99 p
2006-11-16 10:46:43 · answer #5 · answered by mintycakeyfroggy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
because on average it takes 99 licks to finish
2006-11-16 10:53:52 · answer #6 · answered by disturbedpenguinpoo 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rax is right on,my father sold these in his ice cream shop when I was a young kid, thanks for the memories I live in Canada now and they don't know **** about ice cream.
2006-11-16 15:20:03 · answer #7 · answered by glasgow girl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well Fuzzy, I believe it was the 99th product that Cadburys created but I may be wrong. I love them.
2006-11-16 10:47:28 · answer #8 · answered by mememe 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought it was called a 99er
2006-11-16 10:52:42 · answer #9 · answered by tincat 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It definately has something to do with the flake . . .
2006-11-16 10:48:45 · answer #10 · answered by iliketorideigohago 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋