# 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:** 12\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2019, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738/121 "2019-05-15T17:33:14Z")
1. M&M Bar 2. Wonka Bar 3. Lindt Sea Salt and Dark Chocolate 4. 100K Bar 5. Oh Henry Honorable Mention: Marathon/Curly Wurly ---
**Author:** ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738/122 "2019-05-16T01:05:55Z")
The OP is correct - I just wondered why it needed to be said. It’s humanly impossible to disagree. Chomp is the closest runner-up (and again - everyone already knows that). ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738/123 "2019-05-16T01:43:02Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > I’m really confused by this thread. What is it about KitKat that makes it so popular? I don’t hate it, it’s a perfectly good candy bar. But I would have placed it squarely in “boring, mediocre” as candy bars go. > > So, those of you who love KitKat, what about it do you love? I just had another one today which confirms they are the best. Hopefully that clears up any confusion. ---
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738/124 "2019-05-16T08:37:24Z")
> [@Omar\_Little](#): > > No love for _ **Zero** _ bars? Easily my favorite but it gives me acid reflux for about a week. Though to be fair, that’s true for most of the concoctions mentioned. Give me a 95% Lindt dark chocolate bar and I’m good. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738/125 "2019-05-17T00:34:46Z")
I’m willing to count Reese’s peanut butter cups as a candy bar, if I can also include: 1. Whoppers (the malted milk balls), and 2. Trader Joe’s dark chocolate sticks with the orange filling, though I still miss their chocolate raspberry sticks. I like a little bit of crunch in my candy bars, but not a hard crunch - no nuts. (Unless it’s dark chocolate, which doesn’t need that sort of boost.) And I really don’t like the gooey ones, the ones with caramel and nougat and stuff. You can keep your Snickers and Milky Way. So, in no particular order, my favorites: Heath bars Kit-Kat Whoppers Hershey’s Krackel (_release the Krackel!_ ;)) TJ’s dark chocolate orange sticks And the occasional Nestle’s Crunch. (Bought a Nestle’s Crunch chocolate rabbit at Easter. It was _great_.) Time was that Reese’s PB cups would have been in that list, but I had to cut back on them as I got older because they’re serious fat pills. And now they’ve mostly got too rich a taste for my taste buds. But every now and then, one of them just hits the spot. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738/126 "2019-05-17T01:12:52Z")
> [@Wallaby](#): > > The OP is correct - I just wondered why it needed to be said. It’s humanly impossible to disagree. > > Chomp is the closest runner-up (and again - everyone already knows that). wtf is chomp? well ok other than pac-mans dog in a cartoon ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738/127 "2019-05-17T01:14:51Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > I just had another one today which confirms they are the best. Hopefully that clears up any confusion. well, you’ve cleared up my confusion about you being delusional …:p:D ---
**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 17, 2019, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738/128 "2019-05-17T01:40:21Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > 1. Trader Joe’s dark chocolate sticks with the orange filling, though I still miss their chocolate raspberry sticks.[snip] I was at TJ yesterday and no chocolate sticks at all with any flavor filling. Sigh. I hope it was temporary but no one seemed to know. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738/129 "2019-05-17T13:38:29Z")
> [@kayT](#): > > I was at TJ yesterday and no chocolate sticks at all with any flavor filling. Sigh. I hope it was temporary but no one seemed to know. Bummer! I’d had a pretty good stockpile, but I finally finished my last bag of them a week ago. I guess I’ll find out tomorrow if the Annapolis TJ’s still has any left. ---
**Author:** ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2019, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738/130 "2019-05-18T22:36:04Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > wtf is chomp? well ok other than pac-mans dog in a cartoon Just a standard caramel/wafer/chocolate bar. They were a good size - 30gms vs most standard bars are 45-50 gms and only cost about 1/2 to 2/3rds the price. Also very long and thin, so you could make them last a long time (I’m talking about 8-year olds here). As a result were sold a lot at school tuck shops and corner stores to kids who could only find a few coins lying around. A lot of us got addicted at an early age :). I notice (doing a quick bit of googling) that they seem to only be sold in Aus and the UK. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2019, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738/131 "2019-05-18T22:40:02Z")
sounds like a cross between twix and kit-kats ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2019, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738/132 "2019-05-18T23:11:18Z")
Japan has dedicated KitKat stores … and so many fantastic sounding flavors _sigh_ While I now tend to avoid a lot of different candies/cookies/whatever thanks to the invasion of palm oil, I have fond memories of tim-tams and musk lifesavers/sticks from Down Under, Cadbury Flake and Aero bars, and for American I have this odd liking for the classic Sky Bar, I just loved the 4 different fillings, and Reeses peanut butter cups. Those I am going to have to start making for myself now they have gone to the dark side of using palm oil _sigh_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kit-kats-are-the-best-candy-bar/833738.md?page=6)