18/20. I missed the Oh Henry for a Snickers and the Nestle’s Chunky for a Cadbury Fruit and Nut; 5th Avenues and Butterfingers are also tough to differentiate. However, I will vouch for 5th Ave’s awesomeness; like a Butterfinger, only more peanut buttery and less filling for your molars. I do too love me some Take 5s and Whatchamacallits. The best candy bar ever is one I have only found in Canada and very limited places in Seattle- Wunderbar. Soft peanut butter, surrounded by chewy caramel, and coated in chocolate. mmmmm…
Ditto, though by luck I managed to guess 12 right out of 20.
What did you yahoos do? You broke it. The test is “temporarily unavailable”.
10 out of 20. the hell is a skor anyway…?
Death. It is death in bar form.
I missed three. I got one of the Heath/Skor bars wrong. (Who the hell can tell those two apart?) I mistook a Nestle Chunky for a Cadbury Fruit & Nut. (I don’t think I’ve ever had a Chunky.) And I missed the Kit Kat. Something about the way they cut made it look like something else. If they’d just broken it, I would have gotten it just fine.
I’m proud to say I had no trouble distinguishing the 5th Avenue from the Butterfinger or the Oh Henry! from the Baby Ruth. I know my candy!
I got 16, but a few were lucky guesses. Some of those are really obscure. Who has ever eaten a Zagnut, for goodness sake? What is a Zagnut?
It’s been a while, but doesn’t it have coconut? Dry coconut surrounding a sort of honeycomb center. At least I think that’s what they are. Now I want one.
ETA–I like Zero bars, too–another candy bar no one else eats.
Close on the Zagnut (possibly spot-on, but when I think “honeycomb center” I think of something like the center of a Violet Crumble, which is so hard and brittle that it kind of shatters). It is indeed a peanut-butter and coconut bar, similar in flavor to the interior of a Butterfinger, but more soft/crunchy than crispy/crunchy. A fresh Zagnut could easily be eaten without having to chew, they’re so soft. Stale on the other hand become dense and pack into the teeth like Butterfinger detritus. They’re pretty good; I worked in a bulk candy store as a teenager, and we sold Zagnuts by the pound as “peanut butter bars.” A lot of people bought them, and almost none knew they were Zagnuts.
I like Zeros as well, though I find them very rich, and can barely get through a normal bar. I can only ever find King Size Zeros for sale when I want an individual bar… too much Zero for me.
20/20 - I guess all those years of my father filling vending machines added something to my education in this area.
They’re sold in the vending machines where I work, which is kind of surprising since I’m the only person I know who likes them. They taste really good if you eat them with fruit punch. There’s something about the bar that really intensifies the fruity taste.
15/20 here.
Missed on the Butterfinger/Clark question. BTW, Clark is not a “cheap knockoff” of Butterfinger–in fact, I recall seeing Clark bars as a child long before I’d ever heard of Butterfinger. Must be an East coast thing.
5th Avenue bars are a precious memory from my childhood. They were wonderful! Unfortunately, I recently had one, and they’re nowhere near as good as they used to be.
The 99c Store chain here in town sells many candies that I remember from back in “the day”, including Clark bars. But the best find there was Zagnut. For those not familiar with it, picture a Clark or Butterfinger, but instead of being enrobed in chocolate, it’s coated in toasted coconut. I know, I know–sounds icky. But there is just something about the combination that makes it absolutely irresistible! They also have Charleston Chew–I’d forgotten how good they were!
Re the “worst candy” poll–I have to agree with Swoops. Just plain nasty. However, they made a reference to their looking like “chocolate-covered Pringles”. There is a specialty candy shop here in town (forget the name) that makes up interesting assortments for gifts. In one of those, they have chocolate coated Ruffles. I tried one without knowing what it was and was pleasantly surprised.
Also agree with Idaho Spud. I had one in Utah, and it was absolutely horrible!
Not a knockoff, but unfortunately not really of the same quality anymore. NECCO owns them now (of NECCO Wafer fame), but the brand was kicked around among various owners for a while, and I haven’t had one that tasted fresh for years. NECCO’s milk chocolate (also used in their Sky Bar) is on a par with Palmer chocolate. At least NECCO doesn’t make Winter Clark-- a Clark peanut butter center enrobed in white chocolate, one of the more vile candy bars I’ve tried.
19! Though I admit some of them I guessed by knowing what it wasn’t or by what I thought the ingredients were.