# Kit Kats are the best candy bar. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 9, 2019, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738 "2019-05-09T18:19:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738/21 "2019-05-09T21:18:36Z")
> [@Teddie](#): > > As a Brit Hershey chocolate doesn’t cut it for me. It hasn’t got the sweetness that I want from a chocolate bar. The white Hershey’s chocolate isn’t too bad but the regular stuff just tastes and smells horrible. It’s for discriminating chocolate lovers:) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738/22 "2019-05-09T21:25:56Z")
Kit Kats are good, but I’m not certain that I would rate them above Twix. On the other hand, Kit Kats have a wide variety of weird and exotic flavors that you’d have a hard time finding on any other candy bar. I don’t think I’ve ever even seen a dark Twix. So yeah, that might tip them over the top. ---
**Author:** ![Teddie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ab992/32.png) [@Teddie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teddie)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738/23 "2019-05-09T21:38:44Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > It’s for discriminating chocolate lovers:) I get ya! I just can’t begin to like the regular Hershey chocolate, the kisses are vile to me and I’m a complete chocoholic. They taste like old socks :eek: British chocolate is different to American chocolate I find, I love your American choccy but Hershey is not a taste I can acquire and believe me I’ve tried ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738/24 "2019-05-09T21:42:38Z")
I like chocolate on the continent, but I find British and Irish chocolate bars to be cloyingly sweet. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738/25 "2019-05-09T21:46:48Z")
Heath Bars, you Philistines! Or any other with toffee. ---
**Author:** ![Teddie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ab992/32.png) [@Teddie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teddie)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738/26 "2019-05-09T22:00:46Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > I like chocolate on the continent, but I find British and Irish chocolate bars to be cloyingly sweet. I think this is why us Brits find chocolate from other countries less palatable. We’re so used to the silly amount of sugar in the chocolate unless it’s British or Scandinavian it’s just not sweet enough for our taste ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738/27 "2019-05-09T22:03:39Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Heath Bars, you Philistines! Or any other with toffee. I award you a Bumping of the Fist, level 10. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738/28 "2019-05-09T22:05:04Z")
Peanut Butter O’Henrys. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738/29 "2019-05-09T22:51:23Z")
I’m a sucker for Whatchamacallits. ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738/30 "2019-05-09T22:56:49Z")
KitKats are fine if you can’t get the superior Norwegian version: [kitkat-v-kvikk-lunsj-which-four-fingered-chocolate-bar-tastes-best](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2017/may/19/kitkat-v-kvikk-lunsj-which-four-fingered-chocolate-bar-tastes-best) > [@](#): > > Nestlé has been trying to trademark KitKat’s shape – but is its taste equally distinctive? We put it and its doppelganger to the test > > […] > Verdict > Kvikk Lunsj 24, KitKat 17 > > It’s official. Not only is it not a unique, trademarkable product, KitKat isn’t even the best four-fingered chocolate bar in Europe. ---
**Author:** ![BobBitchin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ea924/32.png) [@BobBitchin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobBitchin)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738/31 "2019-05-09T22:58:04Z")
Kit Kat is a great candybar.😃 ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738/32 "2019-05-10T00:52:39Z")
Milky Way Midnight is better than anything mentioned so far. I don’t bring them into my house very often as I have no resistance. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738/33 "2019-05-10T01:32:37Z")
Kit Kat is good; Twix is the same thing with caramel added, so it’s better. But I agree that any toffee bar is superior. And the best is Canada’s Mackintosh toffee bar, which dispenses with the chocolate and gives you pure toffee euphoria. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738/34 "2019-05-10T01:39:56Z")
When I was in Japan I was able to get wasabi white chocolate Kit Kats as well as cayenne chocolate Kit Kats. I suggest that until you have had those, you are not granted passage through the kept gates of True Kit Kat Lover. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738/35 "2019-05-10T01:44:42Z")
1. Snickers 2. N/A 3. N/A 4. Twix 5. Kit Kat 6. everything else ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738/36 "2019-05-10T03:46:03Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > I will be around shortly to collect your spare Almond Joys. They came so close. They have Almond Joys with milk chocolate and almonds and Mounds with dark chocolate but no almonds. Didn’t they see that the correct combination is dark chocolate and almonds? ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738/37 "2019-05-10T04:18:27Z")
Kit kats are indeed top tier. However, being “the best” requires far more effort than I’m willing to expend. So I will just concede that they are, indeed, The Best. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738/38 "2019-05-10T04:21:40Z")
Of the typical commercial candy bars, my go-tos are: Hershey’s with almonds Milky way Mounds 100k bar I like lots of others, but those are the ones i buy. I also like some non-chocolate non-bars sold in the same venues, like m&Ms (with and without peanuts), good’n’plenty, and sweet-tarts. ---
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738/39 "2019-05-10T04:33:59Z")
> [@Teddie](#): > > As a Brit Hershey chocolate doesn’t cut it for me. It hasn’t got the sweetness that I want from a chocolate bar. The white Hershey’s chocolate isn’t too bad but the regular stuff just tastes and smells horrible. Those things are way TOO sweet for me, but I agree on the horrible taste and smell part. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738/40 "2019-05-10T05:15:14Z")
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