# 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:** 4
**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 10, 2019, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738/61 "2019-05-10T15:39:25Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Skor is Hershey, Heath is somebody else, right? I would choose the one that lacks Hershey chocolate, which sucks. Nope, they are both Hershey products (at least as of 1996). I prefer Skor of the two, but they both satisfy that chocolate and buttery almond toffee craving. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738/62 "2019-05-10T15:40:29Z")
Kit Kat’s are good, Twix are good, toffee bars covered in chocolate totally fucking rock… but I’m a little surprised at the lack of love for 3 Musketeers and Butterfingers. ---
**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 10, 2019, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738/63 "2019-05-10T15:43:24Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > I like Hershey chocolate because I like the sour milk taste. European chocolate is a bit bland. Only their milk chocolate has that sour milk flavor to it. I’ve mentioned this before, and it’s a bit odd. I had never in my life noticed the sour twang to Hershey’s milk chocolate. Then I spent something like five and a half years abroad. One day, a few months after coming back home, I had a Hershey milk chocolate and tasted this weird, acidic taste in it. I thought I had gotten a bad bar or something. It literally tasted faintly of vomit. I googled “Hershey vomit” and realized, I was not the only one who tasted this, and that it was the butyric acid from Hershey’s milk chocolate making process, which incorporates soured milk into it. I picked up on that vomit note for a few more months and, now, I can’t taste it anymore. You get acclimated to these flavors. But that was the first time I understood when folks from outside the US had very strong opinions on Hershey’s chocolate and how it tasted vile and like puke to them, they were not exaggerating. There is a component of that flavor in there. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738/64 "2019-05-10T15:52:07Z")
No love for _ **Zero** _ bars? ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738/65 "2019-05-10T16:41:47Z")
Among candy bars: 1- Milky Way 2- Twix 3- Kit Kat 4- Nestle’s Crunch 5- Butterfinger However, all of these pale in comparison to the world’s finest candy: Robin Egg Whoppers ---
**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:** [May 10, 2019, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738/66 "2019-05-10T16:54:29Z")
> [@Omar\_Little](#): > > No love for _ **Zero** _ bars? That’s funny-I just asked my workmate what the best candy bar in the world is, and she replied “A Zero bar, of course!” ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738/67 "2019-05-10T17:06:31Z")
> [@kayT](#): > > 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. Yeah, you’re right. Midnight’s even better than a Chunky. It just doesn’t last as long. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738/68 "2019-05-10T17:22:36Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Did you eat the American version or the foreign version? If the foreign version, which flavor or flavor combination. In this case it was the American Dark Chocolate version. ---
**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, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738/69 "2019-05-10T17:31:42Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Nope, they are both Hershey products (at least as of 1996). I prefer Skor of the two, but they both satisfy that chocolate and buttery almond toffee craving. Dumb question: why does Hershey produce two versions of the same product? ---
**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 10, 2019, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738/70 "2019-05-10T18:03:12Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Dumb question: why does Hershey produce two versions of the same product? I wouldn’t know. I assume they just wanted to buy out their competitor in 1996, and just left the brand name so the Skor folk would buy Skor, and the Heath folk would continue buying Heath, instead of consolidating the products (which are not exactly the same, but pretty similar), under one product. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738/71 "2019-05-10T18:24:03Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > Those sound awesome. I am not a huge KitKat fan, but i wish I had explored them when I was in Japan. When we were in Japan in December, we tried to collect one package of each different flavor of KitKat we could find. I think we ended up with around a dozen flavors, and I’m sure we could have found more if we looked harder. ---
**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 10, 2019, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738/72 "2019-05-10T20:15:52Z")
Oh, Three Musketeers is fine. Sometimes I’m not in the mood for the caramel of a Milky Way nor the peanuts of a Snickers. But there’s nothing there to put it in contention for the Best Ever. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738/73 "2019-05-10T20:29:14Z")
Kit Kat is way, way, way, way down on my list of favorite candy bars. It’s bland. Not chocolatey enough. Kind of chemical/plastic aftertaste. The chocolate coating has a weird, waxy texture My top candy bars – Milky Way Midnight, Skor, Heath, Zero, Mounds, Whatchamacallit, Three Musketeers ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738/74 "2019-05-10T21:08:51Z")
Gimme a break, Snickers is the best because it has the bestest commercial in history: [Snickers Chefs - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmgice3ieZ4) ---
**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, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738/75 "2019-05-10T21:09:07Z")
> [@suranyi](#): > > When we were in Japan in December, we tried to collect one package of each different flavor of KitKat we could find. I think we ended up with around a dozen flavors, and I’m sure we could have found more if we looked harder. Wow that’s more than I am aware of. I know about the dark chocolate/cayenne pepper, white chocolate wasabi, white chocolate green tea. What others did you find? I actually don’t like American Kit Kats because of whatever Hershey did to their chocolate recipe about 10 years ago. All Hershey chocolate tastes like sugary vaseline to me now. But whatever they’re doing in Japan is good. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738/76 "2019-05-10T21:10:33Z")
For those who don’t know, Kit Kat is produced by Nestlé globally, but by Hershey in the U.S. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738/77 "2019-05-10T21:13:38Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > Kit Kat is way, way, way, way down on my list of favorite candy bars. It’s bland. Not chocolatey enough. Kind of chemical/plastic aftertaste. The chocolate coating has a weird, waxy texture Agree. Though in high school they put some in the apple machine, so they were cold, and for some reason I liked them better that way. I wouldn’t go out of my way for a Kit Kat, though those unusual flavored ones sound cool. Are they available at all outside Japan? For commercial brands, my favorite is Snickers, but my all time favorite is See’s Awesome Bar (chocolate covered peanut brittle). I like peanuts.🙂 The spoiled milk taste of Hershey’s is awful. I won’t eat it. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738/78 "2019-05-10T21:21:30Z")
Almost forgot to mention goo goo clusters. Chocolate coated and filled with caramel and marshmallow. There’s a place in Nashville that makes them fresh by hand. (the actual factory is also in Nashville) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/liQkty5Hj8w/maxresdefault.jpg "Making Goo Goo Clusters") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liQkty5Hj8w) ---
**Author:** ![Rough\_Draft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/76d3ee/32.png) [@Rough\_Draft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rough_Draft)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738/79 "2019-05-10T21:22:03Z")
Kit Kat bars are pretty damn good. If I can’t pick Reese’s PB Cups, I might choose them. Or Hershey’s with almonds. I grew up on the sour milk taste, so I like it. Also, reading this thread made me realize that I have never had a Mars, Milky Way, or Three Musketeers bar in my life. I hope that doesn’t make me a tragic figure. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738/80 "2019-05-10T21:23:46Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Skor is Hershey, Heath is somebody else, right? I would choose the one that lacks Hershey chocolate, which sucks. actually, Hershey makes both > **[Heath bar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heath_bar)** > > The Heath bar is a candy bar made of toffee, almonds, and milk chocolate, first manufactured by the Heath Brothers Confectionery in 1928. The Heath bar has been manufactured and distributed by Hershey since its acquisition of the Leaf International North American confectionery operations late in 1996. > In 1913, school teacher L. S. Heath bought a confectionery shop in Robinson, Illinois, as a likely business opportunity for his oldest sons, Bayard Heath and Everett Heath. In 1914, the brothers op... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738.md?page=5)