I was at Coles in Castle Hill earlier today and they had HEAPS of M&M's for 50¢ each which is pretty neat.
Most flavours were on special if I remember correctly. Hazelnut flavour was $1.00 though. There's a lot of them so I'm guessing this will last for another 1 or maybe 2 days. I think someone else posted a similar deal but they only had it in VIC or something. Not sure about other places but NSW Castle Hill had them for 50¢.
*Edit: I said WA but I changed it to VIC
That one was in VIC tho.. this ones in NSW
Oh okay, I was under the impression that if it was the same deal but different stores than maybe it was combined, my bad if not.
coles specials are weird, i think you were right.
*Edit: I said WA but I changed it to VIC
Yet it is currently in Castle Hill NSW?
NVM misinterpreted context.
yeah would be better combined, i think it might had been allowed if it became nationwide
This deal doesn’t seem to be in QLD, so if it comes here I would love for it to be listed separately so I can’t see when it becomes available. Not lumped I’m with a deal from a few days or weeks ago. If it becomes available in QLD. I consider it a new deal, because it is a new deal!
i was talking to a manger at coles, i think most of these clearances are select stores nationwide. he said that the manager gets to decide if they want to reduce their items depending on how much stock they have to clear.
if that's available in QLD I will clear the shelf I love chocolate so much. I would like to know too
Yayyy more Chinese chocolate.
As opposed to more Chinese Tech goods? Or clothes? Oh wait….
Food safety is a massive concern in China. It is common knowledge amongst the people who live there. Dairy in particular is certainly not one of their areas of strength.
i think its the opposite, they had this dairy incident 10yrs ago, now their food safety rules should be stricter then any other counties, not all the foods but at least for the dairy it is the safest.
and btw not just China, Australia made Nestlé product got this "Melamine" too at the time of the incident, so the "common knowledge" is more like a prejudice, specially when something happened 10yrs ago.
@samelight: haha no it's certainly not the opposite. Safety is one thing, quality is another. Have you ever tried to get any decent dairy in China before?
im replying about ur "Safety" comment,
if u wanna talk about the "quality", hmm i think that depends on which brand, not where they made it， and if u want to continue with "quality" topic, plz name one company can made "decent dairy", i will check and c if they got a facory in China for u.
plz don't pick cheese brand since the chinese ar not a big fan of it.
@PSEACT:
coz u don't know any "decent dairy products".
even now u still cannot tell me the name of 1 decent dairy product.
@PinzVidz:
lol， really？！ let me ask u this way, if a chinese company come to Australia use some shitted-on material to made some shitted-on food and sell them in China, who to blame ?
its the company's responsibility to make sure the berries ar saft right? u can hardly blame the chinese gov sine this NZ company only selling this "shitted-on frozen berries" in Australia not China!
and BTW at least 2 frozen berries companies getting their material from china, only 1 is shitted-on, who to blame?
@PSEACT:
lol u telling me "fresh cream" is a brand, or chinese dont made fresh cream ?
ofcoz they do made fresh cream, just not the brand u looking for, u have to tell me a brand name sweeth.
@PSEACT:
i have no idea what u talking about…
i dont c any brand names here, so i guess u just want to back off by saying some strange things?
@PSEACT:
ya right, everyone else knows about this, typical ways to end a conversation when someone know hes wrong.
@PSEACT: Cos nothing bad comes from here in the land down under, eh?
I just turned on the news and saw some horrible overseas born politicians spouting crap… Oh wait, they were locals who had overseas heritage.
In other news, food production recalls and stuff.
http://www.foodstandards.gov.au/industry/foodrecalls/recalls…
Fake news! Lol!
@dangerdanger: you sound like one of those 50 cent army people who become irate when anyone says anything that is not positive about the beloved Homeland.
@PSEACT: Struth, calm down dude. Don't worry about it mate. Everyone else knows what I'm talking about. It's all good.
By the way, I'm Aussie born and bred. So Straylia is my homeland. I'm just not red necked. Lol
Kind of interesting though, to see the bargains you've previously posted, including Asia-centric brands like Panasonic, Sony, Hitachi. Maybe you're not that racist after all… Or in the closet. Hmmm
"common knowledge" is more like a prejudice, specially when something happened 10yrs ago
Its a country where profits are a priority above the corrupted food standards.
A place where you can buy fake eggs, gutter oil, fake rice.
If you really believe that they have stricter food safety standards nowadays, then why is the selling of baby formula here to China in 2018 still a booming business?
Don't want to believe what everyone telling you?
A quick visit to wikipedia will help (I cant google it for you cos there's too many food incidents)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_safety_incidents_in_China
@mmd:
im chinese so u can't bs me with those bs, fake eggs and fake rice ar fake news, thats why u can't c it in ur link. gutter oil ar bs too, cycle company will pay momey to get those oils, restaurants won't poll it into the "gutter", cycle company pay doing the same things in Australia too, just in a more “clean” way.
baby formula here to China in 2018 still a booming business?
once the trust is gone it took very long to recover. thats also why chinese won't buy Nestle baby formula that made in Australia, coz it got Melamine too.
Don't want to believe what everyone telling you?
A quick visit to wikipedia will help (I cant google it for you cos there's too many food incidents)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_safety_incidents_in_China
ya, so? a country with 1.3b population the number of incidents ar not high, if it got a list of food safety incidents america it would much much longer! in fact that ur wiki link have to put the incidents of single dishonest trader's case to build up the list!
im chinese so u can't bs me with those bs, fake eggs and fake rice ar fake news, thats why u can't c it in ur link.
Of course there are links, otherwise you can't source the info on Wiki.
There are way too many links cos of the many food issues.
There has been dubious food issues each year from 2003 til 2014.
cycle company pay doing the same things in Australia too, just in a more “clean” way.
Recycle companies? In australia, the oil gets reused as Biodiesel or animal feed, and is not sold to restaurants to recook food for humans.
ya, so? a country with 1.3b population the number of incidents ar not high.
That is odd thinking.
Thats the number of incidents that are known. Fake seasoning in 2017? How delicious
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/17/china-busts-50-fa…
@mmd:
Of course there are links, otherwise you can't source the info on Wiki.
There are way too many links cos of the many food issues.
There has been dubious food issues each year from 2003 til 2014.
i don't c any "fake eggs and fake rice" in the wiki link,
u could say anthing u want, but the fact is not in the wiki link.
Recycle companies? In australia, the oil gets reused as Biodiesel or animal feed, and is not sold to restaurants to recook food for humans.
i have to say that is perfectly legal to sold to restaurants to recook food for humans in both cn and aus, u just have to do it in properly.
im not sure if any aus company doing the same things, but many counties doing it in both legal and illegal ways, not just in China, the first world know illegal case is in Japan, don't know how many followers, maybe 1 in aus just haven't disclosure yet.
and btw if the restaurants don't pour used oil into the gutter, then the whole idea of gutter oil doesn't exist, the gutter oil news ar totally fake! ppl fake this "gutter" becoz they knew its perfectly legal if not getting those used oil from the gutter, and its legal all over the world, without the word "gutter" they can't make this new into the front page.
That is odd thinking.
Thats the number of incidents that are known. Fake seasoning in 2017? How delicious
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/17/china-busts-50-fa…
since when "fake branded" means "incidents"??
and u can only by those "fake branded" from some small countryside stores, its a problem but not as bad as u sounded.
You don't put those inside your body though.
Like this?
http://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2016-09-02/camperdown-dairy…
Oh wait, that's a local food producer… Cos local producers never produce bad food… Just saying…
Nice! Will pick up a couple tonight
China Chocolate No Go.
The M in M&M’s is for Melamine.
Great deal OP. Personally I prefer the quick sale reduced labels so I can see how much I saved off it :D
Malamine and manure
Aren't these M&M blocks relatively new? Discontinued already?
Made in China
Isn't everything???
Doesn't mean the deal itself is bad
$4.80 yesterday at Coles Kurri Kurri NSW and stocks were low.
Any other popular chocolate made in China and sold in Coles/Woolies that we should beware of?
don't know about u, but i didn't not found any chocolate sold in Coles/Woolies that ar not related to China, either made in China, or imported ingredients from China
Whittakers? NZ made and tastes amazing.
u c the "shitted-on frozen berries" comment above?
NZ company import shitted-on berries from China, NZ made and then sell them to aussies.
now ppl got sick, who to blame ? CHINA! hell i love donald trump.
@samelight: I would blame China.
1) China Customs for allowing shitted on berries to leave the country in the first place.
2) China Standards issuing companies for handing quality certificates like candy so you can't distinguish good suppliers from the bad.
3) China government for allowing these fake standards issuing companies to operate and not taking action against them or China Customs.
4) Chinese businessmen who don't give a shit about customers returning back and scam them the moment they get a real order. They won't f#k up the trial order and deliberately f#k up the real order with outrageous initial MOQ. Then they will apologise and offer to make it up to you in future orders and set 2-3% discount for you so you can recover your losses over the next 30 orders.
I have seen so many people get burnt in China it's outrageous.
@El Grande:
1) Customs only control import not export, thats same as anyother countries inculding AUS and NZ.
2) There is no standards or any quality certificates if u don't sell them on the chinese market! same rules apply to anyother countries inculding AUS and NZ, thats why Australia did sale Nestlé milk powders that contained "Melamine" to China be4!
3) Once again, no standards no nothing if they ar not selling them as human foods in China! thats the same as anyother countries inculding AUS and NZ, if the foods won't make it to the local market no gov in the world will check the safety.
4) i cannot belive u saying this but this is NOT the first time of this NZ company import berries from China, they doing this for yrs, what "trial order" ar u talking about ?! and there ar more then 2 companies doing the same business, why only 1 gone wrong?
Outrageous? u using double standards for those 1) 2) 3) , whos the "outrageous" here??
Bottom line, no gov no Customs in the whole world will check for the safety of any export foods, Please be reasonable！！！
1) Customs is both ways. In China, you need have good export history to not be subjected to checks for exports. But they bribe and get the paperwork.
2) Local market certification is called QS mark. But that is not enough SGS, ISOXXXX, CE and the other CE (China Export logo lol) are thrown in for good fun.
3) I don't know about the berries case you are talking about but business practices are terrible in China. They hide behind not knowing the language when they know perfectly whats going on.
4) I don't know about the berries case. I am just mentioning what I have seen first hand and during my trips to China. Like for example when the "big boss" pretends to not understand English and starts laughing when you crack a joke in English. It's all smoke and mirrors.
1) Once again, Customs only control import not export, thats why they only ask u do u have any foods or plants with u when u entry the country not exit. ya sure they will check c if u ar exporting drugs, but thats all for the exports, u only need a permit for importing foods not export. the whole world ar the same, if u don't have any knowledge on this then i have nothing more to say !
2) and once more, if something not meant to be sell on the local market then u don't need and u won't have any "Local market certification" or whatever u called.
3)its the importer's responsible for what they import. if something look suspicious, importer have the choice to not to choose that supplier! as i said be4 , there ar many companies doing the same berries business with China, only 1 gone wrong! this importer got a choice to pay more to buy berries from safer supplier like the others!
4) a trip is not the same as business agreement! they both need to sign a contract written in both english and chinese translated by officially cognized interpreters， they both need this for their own country's tax office and legal purpose! there is no way someone could say "me no english goodbye". But if the importer try to do something dodgy and didn't do the right things, thats another story! in case like this u shouldn't blame anyone else except the importor.
1) So what is EOR code that exporters need to register for in China which is issued by China Customs? I guess they just like handing out registrations for no reason.
2) Its called QS mark. Everything in China has it. Its a big Q with a S in it. I am sure you have seen it before.
3) Yes but they hardly get what they ordered. The send rubbish instead of what you bought.
4)How can importer do something dodgy? They just place orders. If I order a $16 pizza with Chicken and you send me a $5 margarita with only cheese isn't that a scam? My order says chicken pizza, the photo says chicken pizza, the box says chicken pizza but inside its a cheese pizza. So you go back to the exporter and say where are the toppings and they just point to the box and say Chicken pizza, this Chicken Pizza see C-H-I-C-K-E-N P-I-Z-Z-A. Just like you are doing my friend.
I won't reply anymore as clearly you are trolling.
I'd like some Whittakers blocks for 50c.
1)i don't know what EOR code u talking about, but with a code/pay a fee doesn't mean they will check it or its their responsible to check it! none of the country on earth will check the qualty for exports.
i won't reply to the 2)3)4), coz u ar unbelievable,
i can't belive i still have to acknowledge u with this over and over again.
if u send seeds from aus to cn , the chinese customs will detain it, if u send seeds from cn to aus the aus customs will detain it.
customs all over the world will only control the imports! how simple is that! each countries got their own import rules and standards therefore they will only check whats coming into their country! use ur common sense dude, u still try to argure with this simple fact, whos trolling here ?!
Yeah. Lots of brands to be wary of. Ice cream as well - like this one :
http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-12/ice-cream-maker-gol…
Lol - sorry, that was a local brand.
So maybe we shouldn't be so anti-foreigner?
Almond version is pretty good considering they don't sell M&M Almond in Australia
These are genuinely the most pointless blocks of chocolate ever made
Just curious but how was my title edited?? I'm guessing it was a mod but is it possible for normal users to do it to???
There are users on here who have extra privileges to edit deals to make them more transparent, they're Power Users, user "petestrash" just updated your deal within the guidelines to put the state at the front of the title, guess they just though that'd be easier to read.
Ohhh ok cool ty
… I just accidentally revoked my own vote on this post.. It won't let me put it back because "You have already voted on this deal. Your vote was subsequently revoked." :/
![[NSW] M&M's Chocolate Blocks for $0.50 @ Coles Castle Hill](https://files.ozbargain.com.au/n/48/354848.jpg?h=8cc8bd80)
Sorry OP.. but it’s a dupe.