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Is it true that the Toblerone bar was fashioned and inspired by the Matterhorn? Is this bar the 'go-to' energy boost  sweet that climbers still stuff into the knapsacks to this day?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toblerone

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64854720

That'll be Romney's. Failing that, Quiggin's, Wilson's or Wiper's.

No. Monsieur Toblerone was visiting his Uncle Joe who'd just opened his world famous mint ball factory in Wigan. On a break from inspecting the menthol tanks he gazed eastward through the heady fumes and glimpsed the towering pyramid of Rivington Pike. And the rest, as they say, is history.

Nope. It's pretty much non‑edible when frozen, especially due to the sharp shape.

Plus, everybody knows you can't abseil from a frozen Toblerone bar anchor. Snickers bars only for snow anchors.

Hence Kendal mint cake for Everest. Edible in sub zero temps

That's an urban myth.

The truth is, he was looking the other way.  Once you know that, it's obvious that it's Billinge Hill.

T.

It was originally modelled on the Dragon's Teeth anti tank obstacles in the Siegfried line. That is why you can break teeth on it as the originals were concrete!

OP's first/only post on the site.

I was tempted to discuss Mondelez and toblerone no.longer being the Matterhorn and all that, but I'll wait to see if OP posts or replies to any threads on climbing 

As someone who spent much of his youth by the vineyards of the Cote du Douglas I suspect Billinge Hill might be obscured by the Wigan Alps (at least until they were bulldozed)?

I don't care if he is a troll, it's worth noting that according to Wikipedia  the shape was inspired by the climax of a dance routine at the Folies Bergere.

Chocolate porn - who knew?!

Ah, but the romance of south west Lancashire's hidden peak has inspired many a poet and mountaineer.  We talked of little else in the garrets of Haydock, drunk as we were on absinthe, revolution and the fumes from the Sankey brook.

T.

I hate them.Always tasteless and too hard.