Aldi has good big chocolate bars. I love Hersheys myself, but Aldi chocolate bars are more varied.
There is a chocolate shortage in the world, I believe, some issues with child labor and war in Africa and such. That’s why candy makers are coming up with cookies, peanuts, and pretzels in the ‘new’ stuff, to bulk it out, and sell it at the same price.
I didn’t look. Ugh, sorry.
In my defence, the original WAS hard to decipher, and I misunderstood the new post.
Page 3 and no one has mentioned Reece’s “Peanut butter” cups? I love my home made, 100% peanut butter, peanut butter cups. They are made with a mixture of trader joe’s, pound plus (500g), dark and milk chocolate (from Belgium) tempered then set in a silicon ice cube tray, then a blob of 100% peanuts, peanut butter, then another layer of chocolate. Reece’s Peanut butter is really peanut powder left overs, after the peanut oil has been extracted, mixed with tropical oils to make a “product” that they call peanut butter just like Skippy and Jiff “peanut butters”. Blech!
p.s. that is what Hershey does with chocolate. The coco butter (used to make white chocolate) is extracted and replaced with tropical oils. Scharffen Berger came up with the percentage of cocoa to grade chocolate, Dark chocolate is 72% cocoa and 28% sugar, milk chocolate is 42% chocolate, 2X% sugar and 2X% milk powder, for example. Turns out on that scale, Hershey milk chocolate bar is, is, 11%. Yummy!
Violet Crumble - I agree is delicious.
I like Milkyway bars but dislike Snickers. Odd right!?
p.p.s. I rate the box candy from worst to best, Hershey, Russel Stover, Whitman Sampler, Godiva, See’s Candy. I admit that I was raised on See’s so I might be biased. And I do buy a Whitman sampler from the discount shelf occasionally.
Tried one of those once. Emphatically ONCE. :eek:
I found it amusing that some of the ones in the picture have a name that in the US is a laundry stain remover. :rolleyes:
You may be right. Or it may be the novelty factor for the tourists - why else would they make gift boxes of them? :dubious:
I was originally gonna say there is no bad candy, but I think i’ll vote 3 Musketeers. It’s all nougat, which has a place, but its like going to the bar and ordering a glass of all vermouth. Too much of a meh thing.
Also, somewhere, someone thinks carob is a tasty alternative to chocolate. I hope to never meet that person.
Y’know what? Right there in the candy aisle of Trader Joe’s they have dark chocolate peanut butter cups that are A) way simpler than that and B) better than anything. Creamiest peanut butter filling ever and perfectly offset by the slightly bitter dark chocolate. My son gets bummed out when I don’t have a tub of those ready to hand when he comes over. Doin’ low carb, kid, sorry!
Oh, and all you Violet Crumble lovers are perverts, that stuff is Not Good.
Anyone who promotes carob as a healthy alternative to chocolate is inadvertently undermining his own argument. If carob is any good, it should stand on its own without any comparison to chocolate. Otherwise, it belongs in the same class as non-alcoholic beer and Christian Rock–(supposedly) non-evil but weak substitutes for the real thing.
I just had a Twin Bing, and I actually kind of liked it. Everything else by Palmer is trash.
actually most of Aldi’s store brand chocolate is imported from Europe
also somethings killing the chocolate trees/bushes which is why there trying to grow it in south America rather than Africa …
actually if you like the flavor of bit o honey its something like that but sweeter…
I will allow that there may be other better chocolates out there, but Hershey’s is good. Even Hershey doesn’t think it’s their best. They have a line of premium bars that are excellent, but I forget the name. It’s German or something similar, Sheffen-something?
But anyway, at Hersheypark and at the Hershey Museum, they have tastings and short classes about chocolate. They are fun and you get to blow bubbles in your chocolate drink (there is a purpose for that) and taste the differences in chocolates from different parts of the world (the best comes from Mexico). So don’t go thinking they don’t know what they’re doing.
Hershey had a line of premium Reese’s bars or squares that had something more like peanut butter sauce in them and omigod, they were SO good. The sauce just ran out after you bit in to it, and it was just sensational. Haven’t seen them in a long time, though.
The other magic one (to me at least) was the old KitKat Bites. They have something similar now, but these were ball shaped and were just the right balance of chocolate to crispy stuff.
The worst? Gotta be those dots on paper, right?? You had to eat 20 before flavor even registered. Bit o’Honey only exist to extract teeth unwittingly. Oh, Good n’ Plenty - my wife likes those, but they’re gross. But ohhh! Nobody eats Necco wafers on purpose, right?
Poké Bowl… upscale Alsatian restaurant… Carolina-style BBQ… all of which are imported from way outside the area (well maybe the vegetarian place isn’t, but I doubt it). I mean, I’m happy you can get something decent to eat, but is there anything with local roots? You can get sushi lots of places in Phoenix but I don’t count it as indigenous.
Absolutely my first choice for movie theatres. Also one of the few cases in which I don’t like the dark chocolate variant more than the original.