Toffee Hammer

[Badgers]

You got one?

 

[cupid_stunt]

A what?

I had a toffee apple the other day, but I ate it.

 

[Pickman's model]

Editor has a toffee ban hammer

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I used to have a toffee hammer, but haven't possessed one for donkeys years. I haven't made a tray of toffee for many years.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

I think my parents do. It's the sort of thing they'd have. Like Tupperware.

 

[Badgers]

 

[farmerbarleymow]

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In the 80s you could buy little trays of toffee from Thornton's (I think), and it came with a toffee hammer.

 

[spanglechick]

No.

 

[dessiato]

Yes.

 

[Badgers]

Has auld Sasaferrato got one by his chair?

 

[Celyn]

I think I do have one. The not-useful things come along with me, unlike useful things that always get lost when I move house.

I don't meet all that many toffs, though, and it's only a tiny wee hammer. Bigger hammer needed, possibly. (makes mental note)

 

[editor]

You got one?

Toffee Hammer sounds like a really bad rock band. From Switzerland or somewhere.

 

[Celyn]

Or something by Well-Fed Zeppelin. Toffee Hammer of the Gods.

 

[danny la rouge]

A what?

Did you not look that up when you studied the suffragettes?

 

[mx wcfc]

I thought this thread was about weird cross over Everton/West Ham fans, but my Nana had a toffee hammer, and I wish I had one now.

Never liked that hard toffee much though.

 

[Grump]

Presumably there was a toffee hammer factory, how many people lost their jobs when toffee companies stopped including them in trays of toffee.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Presumably there was a toffee hammer factory, how many people lost their jobs when toffee companies stopped including them in trays of toffee.

It was a national scandal. Thousands thrown out of work.

 

[Celyn]

I thought this thread was about weird cross over Everton/West Ham fans, but my Nana had a toffee hammer, and I wish I had one now.

Never liked that hard toffee much though.

Well, that is what toffee hammers are FOR. People give you hard toffee that you don't like, so you probably say "thank you very much, Nana. Now, will I bring you a nice cup of tea (and some EDIBLE stuff like cake or sandwiches)?"

And once the giver of the toffee is safely gone and far away, you get to express the anger caused by annoyances of life by bashing the toffee all to hell with your little toffee hammer. Then you have to bash the toffee into even smaller pieces, depending on how the annoyances are that week.

Or that day.

 

[danny la rouge]

Walkers toffee still comes with hammer.

Walker's Nonsuch Limited » England's finest toffee » Gift range

 

[Opera Buffa]

My parents have one of these in their kitchen cupboard. I never knew what it was, so cheers!

 

[Celyn]

View attachment 139755 Walkers toffee still comes with hammer.

Walker's Nonsuch Limited » England's finest toffee » Gift range

Nice, but a lot more recently, in that it was less "historically" packaged, I think there were such toffees.

I'm fairly sure Ivor Cutler did have things to say on this very subject and I am annoyed that I cannot recall them just now.

O all people, help, please?

 

[Celyn]

My parents have one of these in their kitchen cupboard. I never knew what it was, so cheers!

Such a relief, isn't it, to find that parents were not perverted beyond wildest dreams?

 

[Epona]

In the 80s you could buy little trays of toffee from Thornton's (I think), and it came with a toffee hammer.

Yes, I got a toffee hammer from Thorntons that way Like you could get nice little tins for storing loose tea from Whittards

 

[Celyn]

Epona. That is either an ironic 'Half Man Half Biscuit" thing or you are secretly a reviewer of twee tea-rooms for things like the "Sunday Post".

 

[cheesethief]

If you need a hammer to break up food, you're eating the wrong food.

 

[JimW]

I once completed the Olympic slalom course at Toffeehammer in under four minutes.

 

[Pickman's model]

I once completed the Olympic slalom course at Toffeehammer in under four minutes.

Yeh but your slowest rival came in at 3'02.83"

 

[JimW]

Yeh but your slowest rival came in at 3'02.83"

They cheated by staying on their skis not falling and sliding on their arse like me.

 

[marty21]

I was previously unaware of Toffee Hammers , so thank you OP for bringing this to my attention .

 

[Celyn]

If you need a hammer to break up food, you're eating the wrong food.

You might be missing the point here. No-one mentioned food. Just toffee. And at least the toffee-hammering people are hammering their own toffee in the privacy of their own homes. These toffee bashers are FORCED to hide in house because they fear the cheesethief.