Holy crap that was funny! 
I’m not sure if you’re supposed to eat it like a candy bar. The only way I’ve ever heard of anybody eating these is to crumble them on top of ice cream.
I’m looking for places to order online:
So far I’ve found this:
http://www.hometownfavorites.com/shop/index.asp
Which has a Clark bar.
I agree with early posts noting that American treats taste overly done and sweet – I’m not a real fan. You might order some Duncan Heinz cake mix and try that to get a taste of things, though not as processed tasting as our Ding Dongs, Ho-Ho’s and the like.
I’ll keep looking for online sources so you can experience them – FWIW.
Nutty Buddies! Yummers! Takes me back about 30 years. And ice cream sandwiches–best thing about summer, next to s’mores.
I find British candy to be sweeter, but less rich. I also get confused as to the names of the candy bars. Heck, when I’m over there, I basically live on fish and chips and pain au chocolats, anyway…
I think it’s more of a vanilla fudge, like jjimm said, than nougat. There used to be a chocolate coated version as well, which I think was called Big Pay. I still get Paydays occasionally; I don’t think I’ve seen a Big Pay since the '60s.
For a company that is internationally renowned as a chocolate maker, Nestles coats its Baby Ruths and Butterfingers with a waxy fake chocolate made from palm and/or coconut oil instead of cocoa butter. Mars candy bars use real chocolate. My favorite is the Milky Way Midnight, formerly called the Forever Yours, which differs from the regular Milky Way in having a dark chocolate coating and vanilla nougat, as opposed to the milk chocolate and chocolate-malt flavored nougat in the original. (The Midnight is also slightly smaller. :mad: )
It’s a sort of faux masculinity thing.
It’s just a bar of milk chocolate, formed into seven or so rather substantial chunks, but it gained a reputation (through specifically being marketed/advertised that way) as being the favourite choice of truck drivers, rugby players and other red-blooded males. So it’s Seriously Chunky Chocolate. For men. Not for girls.
Of course it’s all tongue in cheek.
Dunno; they’re good for that, but on the TV adverts, they’re always shown being eaten, fellatio-style, but a nubile, scantily-clad young woman
We have something a bit like that in the UK; it’s called a Sherbet Fountain (the term ‘sherbet’ nearly always refers to a dry, fizzy acid-sweet powder here).
It’s a cardboard tube filled with sherbet, and has a hollow stick of black licorice down the middle like the wick of a candle - you’re supposed to bite off the end of the licorice and suck out the sherbet, but this invariably results in inhalation of the powder, so you start off by sucking the licorice and dipping it into the powder; when this proves too slow, you open up the end of the tube fully and tip it into your mouth; except it has caked together a bit - so you tap it and it suddenly releases a cascade of sticky powder into your mouth, down your windpipe, up your nose and all over your face and clothing.
With moist perky lips, a wide mouth, and generous cleavage…MMmmmmm…
… I want chocolate. Maybe this escort service delivers.
Moon …Pie. What a time to be alive.
That’s the stuff I had! I didn’t realize the stick was hollow to suck up the powder (probably since it seemed so similar to the Lik-a-Stix). Is it all that popular?
It just seems so odd-flavored (and an odd name for an American to read - as you may have known, sherbet over here refers to ‘frozen ice milk’[sup]*[/sup], almost always fruit-flavored).
Another odd British candy I’ve had - Wine Gums. Like Jujyfruits, but with some curious flavors (I don’t think they’re wine extracts, just mixed fruit flavors that’re supposed to taste wine-like).
[sup]*[/sup] Roughly speaking; we also have “ice milk” as a product, sherbet is more like lowfat ice cream.
So THAT’s what Hermione was talking about when she and Harry were trying to figure out how to bet past the Horntail!
THANK YOU!
Look at Vermont Country store for ones that are not as popular these days. Tehy have one called Vallo-milk that tounds really good.
I love plenty of crappy junk food, like Twinkies, but I have never been able to eat ice cream sandwiches. It’s very crappy ice cream between two DISGUSTING cookie things. I find the whole thing completely inedible.
I like me some Suzy-Qs but haven’t had one in probably 15 years.
Did you have to? I always found marhsmallow-based candy to be gross.
I’ve suggested for the past ten years that they market them as “Little Debbie: The adequate snack food” but the line has its fans.
I like Suzy-Qs but I could eat an entire box of Devil Dogs at once. Well, at least theoretically.
I love Little Debbie snack cakes. 99 cents for a whole box of Swiss Cake Rolls, who can argue with that?
My grandfather used to stock up on these chocolate blobby things called Goo-Goo Clusters; I see them sometimes at dollar stores. They had chocolate and caramel and pecans and (I think) nougat. They were pretty good, and not as super-sweet as most other candy bars.
Cluricaun, there’s a similar sounding Snickers being touted over here as Snickers Energy - it’s got peanuts and rice krispies in it or something. Sounds the same. I don’t think they’d dare add the name ‘Marathon’ though, as the outcry was so great when it changed to Snickers.
Bytegeist, thanks for fighting my ignorance on that story. My old history teacher presented the fake Mars story as an example of American business dynamism outshining British business conservatism. The son returns to conquer the father. Very Oedipal, and total crap. He will now be getting a knock on the door in the night from people in balaclavas, wielding Mars Bars. (Actually, UK Mars Bars are so solid that they make exceptionally effective weapons.)
jsgoddess, there’s no nougat in a PadDay! I should know, I buy about two dozen every time I’m stateside. The Hershey’s site calls it caramel, but it’s what I’d call fudge.