Chunky.
Do they still make this piece of crud? I can’t remember seeing any in a while. Some idiot thought adding raisins to chocolate would help. Raisins, dammit. What were they thinking?
I grew up resenting the Brick Named Chunky whenever I got one in my Halloween bag, but when I had my first Cadbury Fruit & Nut, I loved it. Similar product, better chocolate.
For anyone disgusted by the pathetic attempts at candy bars in this thread, find a local chocolatier. We did, at our local farmer’s market, and we’ve since found his bars in local coffee joints.
Like my wife, you’ll be spoiled and may never go back to “Chocolate(y) Bars”. But there’s a nice side effect: you’ll eat less of it. A square inch of the good stuff will satiate your sweet tooth more than a handful of mass-produced “Fun Size” bars.
Raisinettes? Delicious.
Ignoring cheapo chocolates with paraffin or vegetable fats, I like all chocolate brands. But some are more enjoyable than others. Off the top of my head: I love any chocolate from Hershey’s–that buttermilk tang perfectly complements the bitterness of the chocolate and the sweetness of the sugar. I’m not a big fan of Cadbury’s–too milky and sweet with nothing to offset it. Lindt is good–they seem to get the melting point just right.
I helped run a blind chocolate-tasting party years ago. It’s surprising what people like and don’t like when the branding is stripped away. We bought a bunch bars, cut them up into bite-sized pieces, defaced them to remove identifying marks, and put them into anonymously labeled cups. Had everyone judge each one by sweetness, bitterness, etc. Oh, and some cheese, crackers, and champagne to cleanse the palette. Tons of fun!
I don’t get candy bars any more, since I’d rather have straight chocolate. But Butterfingers was my go-to for a long time. I love the peanut-butteriness of them. I’ve been known to spread peanut butter (unsweetened, of course) on my Hershey’s bar when I’m in that mood.
mounds, almond joy, butterfinger, twizzler, etc. are all excellent.
However york peppermint patties are terrible. They taste like a disc made of toothpaste.
OK sister, you and I will do well on a post-apocalypse team. You get all the Hershey bars, and I’ll dispose of your milk duds. You can even have all the confections with coconut in them because yaaaacckkkk
Contributions to the OP:
- Almond Joy/Mounds (sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don’t); anything with coconut in it. You can have all the snowballs as well.
- Take 5 (contrived by a scientist to tackle a bunch of different cravings with all the finesse of filling a blender with pizza, daiquiri, and chicken salad because why not mix a bunch of yummy things together?
- Butterfinger are gritty and yucky
I was remembering those Brach bulk candy racks in Grocery stores. I used to like the chocolate stars. They were unwrapped and uncovered. How trusting we were. I wouldn’t dare buy that now. Candy crave still has them.
me too! except circus peanuts
I like Zero bars. And I miss the Zagnut bar.
“Abba-Zabba, you my only friend.”
Has anyone tried the Hershey Gold? I don’t dare.
Never heard of a Cherry Blossom but my nomination is the Cherry Mash. Sickly sweet yuck. The Bing Bar is much better.
Cherry Blossom are great. I also love Eat-More. Then there is Carnaby Milk Chocolate…such crap. Its name and the colour of the wrapper are supposed to make you think of Cadbury. I just have to assume that the makers have never tasted Cadbury chocolate or any decent chocolate, at all -ever.
Hershey’s chocolate is what the bad kids are given at Hershey Park.
Three Musketeers. I just don’t like nougat that much.
25 years ago or so, my then-manager had gone on a two-week vacation to China. When he returned, he had small gifts for all of his subordinates. He gave me a Chinese chocolate candy bar (alas, I have no memory of the name of it). I took a bite of it, and…wow. The term that came to mind as I tried to describe its flavor was “barnyard.” :eek: I didn’t throw up, but I thought about it.
Of the common ones (I haven’t heard of like half of the ones in this thread), I’ll go with Three Musketeers. Even as a kid, I hated them. Just don’t like that all-nougat middle. Milky Way makes it marginally better with a caramel top, but I still don’t like Milky Way, but get all the way to a Snickers bar, and it’s perfection!
Also, Butterfingers rock!
I have. I personally really like it, but it’s not chocolate, of course. I’m not entirely sure what you find so daring about it. It’s basically just a white chocolate bar that is a bit more caramelly, so if you’re not a snob about white chocolate (some people just hate it for the fact that it’s not real chocolate and perhaps usually made overly sweet), you should enjoy it.
Whoever thinks red twizzlers are a “candy bar” is suffering from cocoa narcosis.
In the olden days, I sometimes stopped off during a car trip at a Cracker Barrel to get a Chunky bar. I haven’t seen them sold anywhere else for years.
Toblerone. I swear these are modeled after WW2 German Anti-Tank defenses, and about as yummy. And they will hurt you if you don’t eat them correctly.