Talk:99 Flake

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"The story about the 99 guards of the Italian monarch has been proved to be unfounded. The Wordhunt initiative in 2005 found that the myth referred to the Vatican's Swiss Guard which actually traditionally had 105 members and now has 100." I viewed the program a few minutes ago and it had no resolution to ths question of where the @99@ came from - is there any citation for the claim it came from the Vatican?

THE 99 FLAKE IS THE CADBURY CHOCOLATE BAR AND NOT THE ICE CREAM WITH THE CHOCOLATE BAR INSERTED

Not according to ice-cream vendors (who call the whole thing a "99 Flake"), Cadbury's (who call the chocolate bar a "Flake") or, in fact, anyone. Daibhid C 18:50 18 Oct 2004

Cadbury's also sell boxes of unwrapped Flakes (shorter in length than the individually wrapped bars), labelled "99 Flake", for the use in the said ice creams, so they do call the bars "99 Flakes". But Daibhid C's point is also valid - the ice cream cone/flake combo itself is nearly always refered to as a "99 Flake" too. --Zilog Jones 21:10, 13 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Actually in my experience the ice cream is known simply as a "99". You don't go up to an ice-cram van and ask for a "99 Flake", you ask for a "99". A 99 Flake is the Flake that goes in a 99.

The term 99 comes from the cone produced by Askeys cone manufacturers in the 1930s. People would ask for an Askeys 99 cone, with a Cadburys flake. This inevitably shortened to a "99 Flake".

The BBC has recently disp[roved many of the theories of the prodcuts origins as stated here and sated on the Cadbury's website.

The BBC Word Hunt and associated series "Balderdash & Piffle" has inspired another popular theory with 2 variations. The theory is that the name 99 is a play on Roman numeral notation. Ice Cream -> IC -> 99. This is contested to be based on a flawed understanding of Roman numeral notation, hence the alternative: wafer; choclate; ice cream; wafer -> XCIX -> 99. There are also a further 4 ice cream dynasties, in addition to the Portobello family, claiming to have invented the 99. These families claim either to have sold ice cream and inhabited a building numbered 99 or to have sold ice cream at a building numbered 99.IP 20:59, 16 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah I would concur that I (in Eastern England) ordered a '99 all the way through my childhood, and never once heard the term '99 flake'. If you didn't want a flake then you just asked for an ice-cream cone, whereas if you did then you asked for a '99. The flake did not have to be made by Cadbury's particularly, even if it was branded as an ACME chocolate stick or whatever, putting it into an ice-cream still produced a '99. --Zeth

On the other hand I (in Worcestershire) always called it a "99 Flake". I might well be in the minority, but I did! 86.136.250.154 (talk) 20:45, 30 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Actually...

I haven't stopped an ice cream van lately, but both the small Flakes and the ready-made 99s are now sold as Flake99, not 99 Flake. See pictures on main article.

The name

Surely it's because the flakes are 99mm long... Try it yourself and measure one.