Chocolate is my life. I don’t want any with coconut, fruit, nuts, or the dreaded rice crispies. I like dark chocolate or milk. Marshmallow and chocolate is ok together. Reese cups are the bomb!
I don’t know who buys it but, Ghirardelli is pure vomit.
ETA: absolutely no mint with chocolate, there should be a law!
I grew up in the States, loving Hershey’s until I got across the pond. I’d heard there were Cadbury vending machines in London, and as soon as they opened the door of the plane…HEY! There’s one, thirty feet down the corridor (before we even got to the terminal)! And that was my first of probably thirty Cadbury Fruit & Nut Bars. Then it was on to Switzerland, and our new tradition, The Daily Milka Bar. I can still eat a domestic chocolate bar if desperate, but I now seek out local hand-crafted quality. Just got my wife some Hawaiian Sea Salt 70% Dark (from William’s Chocolates in Madison, WI), and she said it had spoiled her for “ordinary” chocolate bars.
Oh, to add to the OP… Twin Bing. A weird wrapped chocolate bar that’s two lumps. The name leads you to believe "Say, maybe it’s two dark chocolate-covered Bing cherries. But no, it’s shaped just like that, but it’s two cheapass-chocolate-covered lumps of granular “cherry cough syrup” dough.
THIS! (Bolding mine.) It’s as if you read my mind. I like actual fresh coconut and its milk (juice?). However, I detest anything with coconut in it. Donut sprinkles, Mounds/AJ, etc.
Cow Tales. I tried them once and as I was trying the chew the doughy mass I thought “what the hell?” Then I saw the first ingredient was flour. Nuff said. Their website describes them as caramel. No. They’re not.
I tried to google Pep Chews but didn’t see the garish packaging I was looking for: sorta red and white vertical stripes and ‘Pep Chew’ in green? Crazy stuff to wrestle with - you had to really clamp onto the stuff and then twist and torque it back and forth in order to finally yank off a bloody piece of the stuff.
Once that mortal combat* was over, however, it was able to make it down past made my esophagus.
Oh doctor those psychotic Thrills thingies - I believe the US has been god-awfully lucky to have never been subjected to them - they are a classic example of the Caveat-Emptor-to-be-disrgarded phenomenon, (which I think I just now made up), with their “Tastes Like Soap!” tag-line, and when we were kids, we were like, “holy crap!!! This DOES taste like soap!”, which I found alternately repulsive and addicting. You’re warned, it goes through a bunch of synapses and out some others, and before you know it, you’re scrunching up your face, in regret, while stuffing your face with more.
Don’t get me started on Sherbet Fountain…
*Zoogirl - did you, too, suffer the ignominious shame of letting a rivulet of drool or two escape during said combat?:o
And yet, if you can find the ones with the sour apple filling and they’re very fresh and soft, those are pretty damned addictive. The other flavors suck though.
Nestle had a whole line for it’s s cocoa,candy bars …it’s how I learned “Mexican” style chocolate is pretty much baking chocolate
The mercado were selling fun size bars 20 for a buck…I bought 4 or 5 bucks worth ,…yeah took me months to get through them and like dark chocolate…
For me, the difference is that I instinctively know to stay away from chocolate bunnies. But with Hershey’s I go into a store and see a thing that looks just like a chocolate bar, and it turns out to be… well, it’s clearly chocolate by the dictionary definition, and I thought it would be ludicrous for a big chocolate company to make their flagship plain chocolate bar taste bad, so I bought one, and really regretted it. If I had bought the Palmer bunny, I would have known all along what I was getting.
Then, to make things difficult, Palmer will have some of their chocolate bunnies and holiday treats made of actual real chocolate meaning you have to read the label closely to make sure you get the real thing.