# Candy bars that must be brought back **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 31, 2009, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-bars-that-must-be-brought-back/515817 "2009-10-31T04:55:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Gesturing\_Mildly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/65b543/32.png) [@Gesturing\_Mildly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gesturing_Mildly)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2009, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-bars-that-must-be-brought-back/515817/81 "2009-11-04T20:37:30Z")
> [@Max\_Torque](#): > > I also miss the chocolatiest bar of all, the **Bar None**. I believe it was chocolate-filled chocolate wafers, covered in chocolate, then tiny peanut bits, sealed in yet more chocolate. Very rich, very tasty. YES! Best chocolate bar, ever. Also, Faith No More [covering the Nestle Alpine White jingle.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfIuST1f6HA) ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2009, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-bars-that-must-be-brought-back/515817/82 "2009-11-05T00:25:59Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > Prepare to be happy. Go out and buy an Almond Snickers bar. It’s the same old Mars bar, they just changed the name. > > You’re welcome. > > . :dubious: Only Marianne Faithfull knows for sure. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2009, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-bars-that-must-be-brought-back/515817/83 "2009-11-05T01:02:28Z")
> [@Koxinga](#): > > :dubious: Only Marianne Faithfull knows for sure. I won’t go there, although I’m tempted. Well okay, I will, but just a little bit and only because you made me. The Mars Bar that Ms. Faithfull so notoriously appreciated was probably the British version, which was (and still is, as far as I know) an entirely different product from the classic American Mars Bar. . ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2009, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-bars-that-must-be-brought-back/515817/84 "2009-11-05T03:55:03Z")
> [@cstamets](#): > > [Milkshake](http://www.candywrappermuseum.com/milkshake.html) Agreed. I liked to refrigerate them for 15 minutes or so, pick off the chocolate and eat it, then eat the center. ---
**Author:** ![Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/278dde/32.png) [@Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runs_With_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2009, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-bars-that-must-be-brought-back/515817/85 "2009-11-05T04:53:41Z")
Wow. I didn’t know they still made [Whatchamacallit](http://www.hersheys.com/products/details/watchamacallit.asp). I remember the ad blitz when I was a kid. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2009, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-bars-that-must-be-brought-back/515817/86 "2009-11-05T07:33:54Z")
Wow! I managed to find pictures of the old AbbaZabba wrapper, and the display box the bars came in. I remember the wrappers, but never saw the box before. [www.candywrappermuseum.com/abbazaba.html](http://www.candywrappermuseum.com/abbazaba.html) ---
**Author:** ![Gesturing\_Mildly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/65b543/32.png) [@Gesturing\_Mildly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gesturing_Mildly)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2009, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-bars-that-must-be-brought-back/515817/87 "2009-11-05T14:18:41Z")
> [@Runs\_With\_Scissors](#): > > Wow. I didn’t know they still made [Whatchamacallit](http://www.hersheys.com/products/details/watchamacallit.asp). Yup. We’ve got some in the candy machine downstairs. Want me to get you one? ---
**Author:** ![ducati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@ducati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ducati)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2009, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-bars-that-must-be-brought-back/515817/88 "2009-11-05T16:05:37Z")
We wandered in to [It’s Sugar](http://www.itsugar.com/stores.html)while at Broadway at the Beach in Myrtle Beach earlier this year. They had so many things that I thought were extinct. I had to get some Clark and Oh Henry! bars and other things too. They may not have everything, but when’s the last time you saw [Fruit Stripe or Teaberry gum?](http://shop.itsugar.com/category_s/55.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-bars-that-must-be-brought-back/515817/89 "2009-11-12T00:16:20Z")
> [@shellofmyformerself](#): > > I buy them at the BX on base all the time, both regular size (in the 8 pack) as well as bags of minis. > > Shall I pick some up for you next time I shop? I found a display discounted 50% just last week. I hope the 50% off was hold overs from Halloween, and not because they are going the way of the dodo. But, I picked up a bag. so I am good, thanks though. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-bars-that-must-be-brought-back/515817/90 "2009-11-12T13:41:26Z")
Another vote for Seven Up. Save the Brazil nut for the end, suck the chocolate off, and spit out the nut. ---
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-bars-that-must-be-brought-back/515817/91 "2009-11-12T15:20:53Z")
I saw a big ol’ Chunky bar for sale at Cracker Barrel just a couple of weeks ago. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-bars-that-must-be-brought-back/515817/92 "2009-11-12T16:25:38Z")
Koxinga: > [@](#): > > I miss Apollo bars. Never been able to find them since the early 90s, for some reason. I’ll bet you were listening to your Geronimo Jackson album while eating it, too. 😛 I miss the Mocha version of Nestle Crunch they had for a few years in the late 1990’s-early 2000’s. I was addicted to them for a while. Also, I recall with fondness the candy called “Oompa Loompas”, which were what you get when you mate M & Ms with Reeses Pieces. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-bars-that-must-be-brought-back/515817/93 "2009-11-12T19:19:52Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > Two more: > > Caravelle. Yummy caramel, crisped rice, and chocolate. Made by Peter Paul before they got bought out by Cadbury and then Hershey. Same format as the other Peter Paul bars, Mounds and Almond Joy: two pieces in one wrapper. Seconded! It was the best candy bar ever! ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-bars-that-must-be-brought-back/515817/94 "2009-11-12T19:33:55Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Bun An old-timey store–Vidler’s in East Aurora, NY–has them. I always get one each of the vanilla, maple, and caramel. So, they might be around somewhere in Chicagoland, too. I wish they still sold Reese’s Chunky Peanut Butter Cups in the US. I realize that I can buy them just over the river in Canada, but it would be nice to be able to get one at the local market once in a while too. ---
**Author:** ![Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/278dde/32.png) [@Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runs_With_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-bars-that-must-be-brought-back/515817/95 "2009-11-13T02:25:57Z")
> [@Gesturing\_Mildly](#): > > Yup. We’ve got some in the candy machine downstairs. Want me to get you one? No, they sucked, but you have the best username I’ve ever seen here 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Gesturing\_Mildly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/65b543/32.png) [@Gesturing\_Mildly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gesturing_Mildly)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-bars-that-must-be-brought-back/515817/96 "2009-11-13T17:53:47Z")
Thank you! Yours is pretty awesome, also! ---
**Author:** ![villa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc79bd/32.png) [@villa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/villa)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-bars-that-must-be-brought-back/515817/97 "2009-11-13T18:13:15Z")
> [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](#): > > I second the [Marathon Bar](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2161/2223604332_e9b076a5b5.jpg?v=0) (not the british Snickers). That looks identical to Curly Wurlies. I bring them back for a friend every time I go back to Blighty. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2009, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-bars-that-must-be-brought-back/515817/98 "2009-11-14T01:16:49Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > Something no one else ever seems to remember: Triple decker bars. Three layers of chocolate fused together, each layer about as thick as an ordinary Hershey’s bar. The bottom layer was dark chocolate, the middle white chocolate, and the top layer milk chocolate. > [@NDP](#): > > I remember the Triple Decker Bar. They were made by Nestle sometime around 1970. I believe it was the first mass-produced candy bar to have white chocolate in it. (Not only that, I also remember the commercials for it. They were part of a series of ads pairing a boy with a stop-motion animated puppet who lived in a candy house. At the end of each commercial, the boy would break off the chimney on the candy house and eat it which, of course, really pissed the little guy off.) I’m convinced that if these were introduced today, they’d be a hit. They were too good for time period they were made in. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-bars-that-must-be-brought-back/515817/99 "2010-01-07T19:32:51Z")
THIS JUST IN - My sister in San Diego tells me that she just bought a **Mars** Bar at WalMart. Still has the same shape as a Snickers, but the “Snickers With Almond” has been replaced with “Mars.” Good. They shouldn’t have futzed with it in the first place. . ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2010, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-bars-that-must-be-brought-back/515817/100 "2010-01-09T14:55:10Z")
> [@Lanzy](#): > > My favorite of all time. Yes, sir. hh [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-bars-that-must-be-brought-back/515817.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-bars-that-must-be-brought-back/515817.md?page=6)