I enjoy a good Aero bar. they don’t distribute them in Louisiana though so I only get them when I go to Canada to visit relatives.
As for the worst those horrible white chocolate things (from the other descriptions I think it’s a clark bar)
Last visit to Canada I bought a case of Aero bars for the trip home. I was somewhat disapointed in that none of my friends were impressed by them, oh well more for me.
Back atcha, Zenster! Frozen U-NO bars! Man, those are good! I pick up a U-NO every so often and freeze it, but they never taste quite as good as they did when I was a kid. But they’re still special.
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When I was about five I liked nothing more than a hot dog and a cream soda (I think it was Cragmont) at the pool at NAS Miramar. Ah, the halcyon days of youth!
::flailing his hand about wildly::
Ooo-ooo-oooo!!! I think I got the worst!
My dad, who fought in the Pacific in WWII, told me about G.I.-issue “tropical chocolate” bars. Chocolate bars that were about 50% wax, so they were less likely to melt in tropical conditions. The chocolate itself wasn’t that good to begin with. He bought me a few bars to try on a backpacking trip. It was like biting into flavored parafin. Truly criminal, what a desperate wartime government can do to chocolate…
Not exactly a bar, but I
Like- Twizzlers
Hate- Red Vines same idea, but wrong recipe.
Try to guess which is which from a cross-section photo.
Not as easy as it sounds.
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I don’t have much of a sweet tooth so I’m not very discriminating.
But when I do indulge…Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. Frozen, washed down with a tall glass of cold milk. (Not much of a milk drinker, either. Obviously I need to eat more peanut butter cups. Calcium, y’know.)
Yeah, yeah, the fancy imported stuff is grand, but I regard this as comfort food.
Veb
Best - Chocolate-covered marzipan. Anton Berg’s is the best locally.
Worst - These: http://www.bad-candy.com/
We still haven’t gotten a ruling on whether Kendall’s Mint Cake qualifies as candy, or if it’s some twisted joke of an explorer’s survival ration.
Any Brits out there who’d like to be judge in this? Anybody who’s tried the stuff? Anybody?
The absolute best is German spiced chocolate, which they only sell in Germany at Xmas time. Fortunately, my German web-friend sends me a bunch every year (thanks, Nikki!)
Domestically, I love Forever Yours/Milky Way Dark/Milky Way Midnight. Whatever you call it, the combination of vanilla nougat, carmel and dark chocolate is delicious.
I also love Zero bars, which makes me the only one.
The worst? Well, I’m no great fan of peanut butter, so the peanut butter-chocolate stuff makes me gag.
I love so many. My favorite is probably Milky Way. That caramel in it IS the best ever…it’s so thick and gooey! I also love 3 Musketeers, snickers, hershey bars, kit kat, Twix, Whatchamacallit. Most everything.
Worst: Mounds and Aero. Aero tastes like low grade junk to me, and the air bubbles just feel like a way to rip me off. Mounds is too boring, and I’m not a big coconut fan, but I enjoy Almond Joy…the nuts give it some much needed flavor.
Jman
Looks like as the OP I am going to have to step in here and make a ruling.
My original post called for the best and worst candy bar so Kendall’s Mint Cakes do not qualify for this particular topic.
That’s all dismissed. Step out please.
OK, a Brit but a bit late. Kendal Mint Cake (not “cake” as in gateau or cookie) is a chocolate covered bar, essentially made of sugar and flavoured with mint. Yes, its original excuse may have been for fast energy. Sorry, I don’t think it was made clear that it comes from Kendal in the Lake District of England, where people go in order to go up and down hills, and get very wet, and so on. (Lovely place, BTW, but avoid the most touristy bits.) It being a local product, it is sold everywhere in the Lake District - not only in hillwalkers’ shops. I’m not sure what, precisely, is meant by “candy bar” - I do think this would count, strictly speaking, but it is so localised as to be pretty academic. But then again, Aha gets to make the rules.
Right now, I can’t think of any contributions to this thread that would be recognised across the pond, so I’ll have to fetch some money and go out to do some research. Cadbury’s Rum & Raisin chocolate is good, and the previously mentioned Lindt Excellence.
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You are not alone!
I love those things. (For folks not familiar w/ some of these names, it has a malted/nougaty center w/ nuts and caramel, then coated in white chocolate.) Admittedly their weird albino coating doesn’t exactly make 'em things of beauty.
Do you have trouble finding them, Annie-Xmas? I hardly ever see them in stores around here.
Veb
I discovered Cadbury’s Crunchie when I was in London last year. Man they’re good. And, apparently only available in England, dammit.
Fenris
Best – Heath bar (or Skor), or Reece’s Peanut Butter Cup (I know, not really a candy bar, but pretty close).
Worst – I hate to say it, but Zero bar’s are truly bad. Also three musketeers always make me gag.
I can’t pick a favorite, but I can pick a least favorite. I don’t remember the name, but I bought it from a vending machine at a hotel in Niagra Falls, Canada’s side. It was only milk chocolate (or from the way it tasted some kind of substitute) with little air bubbles inside. Disgusting. If you’re Canadian maybe you can help me. What is this candy bar’s name and is it popular up there?
[nitpick] No trouble getting them in Scotland or Wales, you know[/nitpick]
No hard feelings, you ignoramus. Oops, did I say that out loud? 
I’d post you Crunchie, really, but it might arrive in little bits.
I see them in bodagas in New York City occasionally, and always pick up a few.
See diamud’s post below. I think that’s the majority opinion.
Thanks, Celyn, for the info. I never knew the story behind Kendal Mint Cake. In the States, I’ve never seen it except at REI stores (Recreational Equipment, Inc., a major supplier of outdoor gear). BTW, the stuff I got wasn’t chocolate-coated, just the mint-sugar bar itself.