# 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:** 14\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2010, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-bars-that-must-be-brought-back/515817/101 "2010-01-09T15:04:55Z")
Why won’t someone bring back the Marathon Bar? Who ever does it would make a fortune. I’d also like the banana Charleston Chew back. ---
**Author:** ![bink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/439d5e/32.png) [@bink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bink)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2010, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-bars-that-must-be-brought-back/515817/102 "2010-01-09T17:46:57Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Anyone remember the foot long bubble gum sticks? I can’t recall the product name. You could get them in pink or grape. Bought them all the time in the seventies. Big Buddy! ---
**Author:** ![In\_Winnipeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a8b319/32.png) [@In\_Winnipeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Winnipeg)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2010, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-bars-that-must-be-brought-back/515817/103 "2010-01-10T02:18:28Z")
> [@cardinal\_fang](#): > > Cuban Lunch. A Canadian bar, and ah, yes, they were great. Also MIA in Canada: Coffee Ripple, Neilson’s Liquid Four Flavours, Neilson’s Treasures Neilson’s Danish CaraMac Lowney’s Nut Milk WigWag Back from oblivion: Neilson’s Burnt Almond – I had one last week for the first time in about 25 years – couldn’t believe it! Hard to find, but still out there – Lowney’s Caravan ---
**Author:** ![Uzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/91b2a8/32.png) [@Uzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uzi)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2010, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-bars-that-must-be-brought-back/515817/104 "2010-01-10T03:33:10Z")
[QUOTE=cardinal\_fang] Cuban Lunch [/QUOTE] I haven’t thought about those in years. They were good. > [@In\_Winnipeg](#): > > Back from oblivion: Neilson’s Burnt Almond – I had one last week for the first time in about 25 years – couldn’t believe it! My mom used to buy these for herself thinking us kids wouldn’t eat them. They tasted like crap to us kids, but they were still chocolate and we ate them. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2010, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-bars-that-must-be-brought-back/515817/105 "2010-01-10T03:42:24Z")
I believe Mars put out a _Snik Snak_ bar, which was a better version of Hershey’s _Kit Kat_. ---
**Author:** ![cstamets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/958977/32.png) [@cstamets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cstamets)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2010, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-bars-that-must-be-brought-back/515817/106 "2010-01-10T05:05:18Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > 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. > . I still prefer the old, old Mars almond bars, where the almonds sat on top of the nougat, and there was no caramel. I can’t find a picture anywhere, but here’s an old commercial on [YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XN5lXJ-Ml4). ---
**Author:** ![In\_Winnipeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a8b319/32.png) [@In\_Winnipeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Winnipeg)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2010, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-bars-that-must-be-brought-back/515817/107 "2010-01-10T23:27:10Z")
In Canada and the UK, there has always been a Mars bar. Someone tried to tell me once that it was the same as the US Milky Way bar, but I found that was not really the case. Our Mars bar has more caramel and nougat in it, and not so much whipped chocolate in the bottom. ---
**Author:** ![Super\_Kapowzler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@Super\_Kapowzler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Super_Kapowzler)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2010, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-bars-that-must-be-brought-back/515817/108 "2010-01-10T23:51:55Z")
Zagnut Chunky Marathon, they last a long, long time. Jungle Jollies Grape -(contacted the company in Argentina 10 yrs ago, and they discontinued grape.) Delpha (Delfa?) rolls, the ribbon-strip red likkerish. Red Nibs Black Jacks (pink/white/black anise-flavor taffy) Bubble Gum Flavor Now & Laters (discontinued, I believe) Choco-Lite PB Log Some kind of big-square-of-gum with a Smile-face on it. And Wacky Packages. JuJuBees, circa 1979. When Jolly Rancher made “Apple Stix” & “Fire Stix”, they were all good, but those were my favorites. ---
**Author:** ![ryobserver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@ryobserver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryobserver)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2010, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-bars-that-must-be-brought-back/515817/109 "2010-01-11T01:04:05Z")
I’m glad somebody else remembers the Choco-Lite. What makes their disappearance all the more puzzling is that frothy chocolate bars remain available in the UK and Canada; in addition to the already-mentioned Aero there’s a less airy but quite tasty bar from Cadbury called the Mirage, which I discovered while in Montreal last August. Why do Canadians get bubbly chocolate and Americans don’t? I’m a big fan of the mint & chocolate combination, so I’d like to see the Hershey’s Cookies & Mint return, and the mint KitKat (a limited-edition Christmas treat), preferably the dark chocolate mint KitKat. And the plain dark chocolate KitKat, for that matter. Not a bar, but I’d like to see Adams Sour Orange chewing gum again. The apple and cherry flavors briefly returned from the dead, and I was thrilled, but I still miss the original orange. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2010, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-bars-that-must-be-brought-back/515817/110 "2010-01-11T01:41:15Z")
Is the _original_ Carnation Breakfast Bar close enough to a candy bar? ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2010, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-bars-that-must-be-brought-back/515817/111 "2010-01-11T02:46:11Z")
> [@GaryM](#): > > [Bonnomo’s Turkish Taffy](http://www.oldtimecandy.com/bonomo.htm). Came in Vanilla, Strawberry, Chocolate, and Banana flavors. Place in freezer and then smack it on a hard surface to break into small pieces. I would kill for a Bonomo’s Turkish Taffy and spent ages trying to find it. Alas, the ONE company that made it, closed. That being said, according to the website you linked to, it will soon become available again (and apparently taste exactly the same). I wish it were true. Frankly I doubt both claims. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2010, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-bars-that-must-be-brought-back/515817/112 "2010-01-11T02:48:42Z")
> [@KarlGauss](#): > > I would kill for a Bonomo’s Turkish Taffy and spent ages trying to find it. Alas, the ONE company that made it, closed. That being said, according to the website you linked to, it will soon become available again (and apparently taste exactly the same). I wish it were true. Frankly I doubt both claims. French Chew Taffy is a reasonable, if not exact, substitute. [http://www.frenchchewtaffy.com/home\_page.php](http://www.frenchchewtaffy.com/home_page.php) ---
**Author:** ![marigoldilemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ba0ec/32.png) [@marigoldilemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marigoldilemma)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-bars-that-must-be-brought-back/515817/113 "2010-01-13T20:48:53Z")
The Snickers with Almonds bar is decidedly not equivalent to the Mars Bar. I remember writing to the company (Mars) and asking what happened to the Mars bar. They tried to give me the old “we just changed the name” line, but I pointed out to them that the nougat was definitely different, and the quantity of caramel to nougat was also not the same as the original Mars bar. As posted above, the true Mars Bar (at least the one I’ve been eating since the early 1980s in the USA) has been brought back after having been discontinued in 2000. I bought an entire box at Wal-Mart yesterday upon discovering them, and searched around on the internet today to see if anyone else noticed that they’re back. A few people have noticed, actually. ---
**Author:** ![cstamets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/958977/32.png) [@cstamets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cstamets)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-bars-that-must-be-brought-back/515817/114 "2010-01-13T21:14:36Z")
> [@marigoldilemma](#): > > As posted above, the true Mars Bar (at least the one I’ve been eating since the early 1980s in the USA) has been brought back after having been discontinued in 2000. I bought an entire box at Wal-Mart yesterday upon discovering them, and searched around on the internet today to see if anyone else noticed that they’re back. A few people have noticed, actually. I noticed, and actually bought one, but then I got distracted by the Cadbury Eggs. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-bars-that-must-be-brought-back/515817.md?page=5)