# Your favorite candy bar
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-candy-bar/502325
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [July 8, 2009, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-candy-bar/502325 "2009-07-08T13:08:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2009, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-candy-bar/502325/41 "2009-07-08T16:25:08Z")
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, no question.
But I always wonder if they can really be called candy BARS. They’re _candy_, for sure, and they go in the vending machine slots for candy bars, and I think they answer the question “what is your favorite candy bar?” … but in my mind, I am still thinking they are not truly a bar.
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### Author:  [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2009, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-candy-bar/502325/42 "2009-07-08T16:41:33Z")
No love for Baby Ruth’s here-slightly better than a Snicker’s, and, while I love Reese’s, I hate getting all the peanut butter stuck in my (face) cheeks.
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### Author:  [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2009, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-candy-bar/502325/43 "2009-07-08T16:42:00Z")
> [@This\_Just\_In\_2](#):
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> Nothing beats a box of smarties in my mind.
British not American, right? HATE American Smarties.
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### Author:  [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2009, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-candy-bar/502325/44 "2009-07-08T16:42:46Z")
Twix, straight up. Definitely Twix.
If I have cash (and room in my calorie budget), Twix is followed closely by the Vosges Bacon Chocolate bar. Yum.
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### Author:  [@Cagey\_Drifter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cagey_Drifter)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2009, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-candy-bar/502325/45 "2009-07-08T16:45:30Z")
Whatchamacallit. Totally underrated and overlooked! BUY ONE TODAY!
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### Author:  [@This\_Just\_In\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/This_Just_In_2)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2009, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-candy-bar/502325/46 "2009-07-08T16:50:02Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#):
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> British not American, right? HATE American Smarties.
I’m actually thinking of Canadian Smarties. The are still made by Nestle, but they are made in a different plant in Canada and in my opinion have a much better flavour than the UK version.
> **[Smarties](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smarties)**
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> Smarties are dragée chocolate confections marketed by Swiss company Nestlé. They were first manufactured in 1937 by British company H.I. Rowntree & Company of York. Since 2007, Smarties have been produced in Hamburg, Germany.
> Smarties are oblate spheroids with a minor axis of about 5 mm (0.2 in) and a major axis of about 12 mm (0.5 in). They come in eight colours: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, pink and brown. Blue Smarties were temporarily replaced by white ones in 2005, due to co...
For those who don’t know, they are similar to M&M’s, but so much better (in my opinion of course)
Also, I was trying to specify the candy coated chocolates when I said a ‘box of Smarties’. American Smarties (which are called Rockets in Canada) come in plastic wrappings.
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### Author:  [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2009, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-candy-bar/502325/47 "2009-07-08T16:53:26Z")
Mounds is my favorite “regular” bar–dark chocolate & coconut! (Although there is always room for M&M’s.)
Or I can get fancy with Dagoba’s [Xocolatl](http://www.dagobachocolate.com/prodinfo.asp?number=1120%2E02):
> [@](#):
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> Our interpretation of the original chocolate drink of the Aztec royalty was created to honor the original cultivators of cacao – the food of the gods. We use a unique blend of cacao to bring more fruit to the base, add rare chilies, cacao nibs, maca, nutmeg and vanilla to bring the birth of chocolate to life. Finalist for Best New Product in the 2005 NASFT best product awards.
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### Author:  [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2009, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-candy-bar/502325/48 "2009-07-08T16:54:23Z")
Vosges Oaxaca. Costs a lot ($8.50, I think), and the shipping is outrageous too. So I only get them when my sister gives me them at Christmas.
The real, British Cadbury Dairy Milk is another favorite, but I can only get it at the Brit specialty store. They cost $4 or so, so I don’t get them very often. The Hershey-made US Cadbury bars suck.
For regular candy bars, I like Chunky best, and sometimes a Milky Way Dark (called Forever Yours in previous incarnations).
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### Author:  [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2009, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-candy-bar/502325/49 "2009-07-08T16:56:29Z")
> [@This\_Just\_In\_2](#):
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> I’m actually thinking of Canadian Smarties. The are still made by Nestle, but they are made in a different plant in Canada and in my opinion have a much better flavour than the UK version.
> [Smarties - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smarties)
> For those who don’t know, they are similar to M&M’s, but so much better (in my opinion of course)
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> Also, I was trying to specify the candy coated chocolates when I said a ‘box of Smarties’. American Smarties (which are called Rockets in Canada) come in plastic wrappings.
I remember eating Smarties in long cardboard tubes but this was ages ago when I was a little Freudian Slit.
Can these be found in the United States that you know of? I love them so!
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### Author:  [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2009, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-candy-bar/502325/50 "2009-07-08T16:58:16Z")
I’m an annoying chocolate snob, but I have a weakness for Twix and $100000 bars.
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### Author:  [@CateAyo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CateAyo)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2009, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-candy-bar/502325/51 "2009-07-08T17:10:43Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#):
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> Peanut M&Ms, when I let the candy coating melt and suck off the chocolate and then eat the peanut.
I agree, both in that peanut M&Ms are the BEST and in the appropriate method by which they are consumed. Must be the academic life.
Another one that I like is the Zero bar. That may be a regional brand. That I like any particular candy is peculiar as I usually don’t care for sweets at all.
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### Author:  [@Jettboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jettboy)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2009, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-candy-bar/502325/52 "2009-07-08T17:44:54Z")
I used to love Violet Crumble bars, from Australia, but they are getting harder and harder to find anymore in the US. If I’m really jonesing for a candy bar I’ll usually grab a Skor or Heath.
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### Author:  [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2009, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-candy-bar/502325/53 "2009-07-08T18:24:39Z")
Twix is my favorite!
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### Author:  [@maladroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maladroit)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2009, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-candy-bar/502325/54 "2009-07-08T18:32:49Z")
Lindt’s Excellence Intense Orange
[http://www.lindtusa.com/product-exec/product\_id/61/category\_id//nm/Excellence\_Intense\_Orange\_Bar](http://www.lindtusa.com/product-exec/product_id/61/category_id//nm/Excellence_Intense_Orange_Bar)
dark chocolate, orange, almond
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### Author:  [@This\_Just\_In\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/This_Just_In_2)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2009, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-candy-bar/502325/55 "2009-07-08T18:59:13Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#):
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> I remember eating Smarties in long cardboard tubes but this was ages ago when I was a little Freudian Slit.
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> Can these be found in the United States that you know of? I love them so!
You can order a case of 48 boxes online for $43 USD.
[http://www.canadianfavourites.com/Nestle\_Smarties\_p/nestle008.htm](http://www.canadianfavourites.com/Nestle_Smarties_p/nestle008.htm)
I have also found the UK version in World Market Stores, but they were horribly overpriced. Something like $2 or $3 for each box.
> **[Sites-World\_Market-Site](https://www.worldmarket.com/)**
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> World Market
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### Author:  [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2009, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-candy-bar/502325/56 "2009-07-08T19:15:16Z")
> [@CateAyo](#):
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> I agree, both in that peanut M&Ms are the BEST and in the appropriate method by which they are consumed. Must be the academic life.
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> Another one that I like is the Zero bar. That may be a regional brand. That I like any particular candy is peculiar as I usually don’t care for sweets at all.
Yup! And I don’t really care for sweets either- which I think is why I like the peanut M&Ms so much- they’re mostly savory.
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### Author:  [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2009, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-candy-bar/502325/57 "2009-07-08T19:24:10Z")
> [@BiblioCat](#):
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> 7-Up Bars are pretty much the same as [Skybars](http://www.oldtimecandy.com/skybar.htm), but with four sections, not seven.
> They’re still available.
> I love Zagnuts and Zero bars.
Skybars can’t carry a Seven-ups wrapper. 😛
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### Author:  [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2009, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-candy-bar/502325/58 "2009-07-08T19:25:24Z")
I love the **Zero** bar. But I only get it when I’m at a gas station on a long trip. Can’t seem to find it in regular stores.
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### Author:  [@apollonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/apollonia)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2009, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-candy-bar/502325/59 "2009-07-08T19:35:28Z")
Coffee Crisp. I have eaten it for breakfast on occasion. What? It has “coffee” right in the NAME! Surely that makes it breakfast food.
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### Author:  [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2009, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-candy-bar/502325/60 "2009-07-08T19:49:52Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#):
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> I remember eating Smarties in long cardboard tubes but this was ages ago when I was a little Freudian Slit.
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> Can these be found in the United States that you know of? I love them so!
Our Smarties come in little cellophane rolls of maybe 10 or so. I’m a Smarties addict. I’ll eat them until my tongue gets citrus’d out.
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