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Snickers.

Caramel, chocolate, peanuts. What more could you ask for?

Cadbury's Fruit and Nut is a far superior confectionery

Texan - A man's gotta chew what a man's gotta chew!

yup.

but this is a far superior version of it:

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I'll post you a bar.

Everyone that goes to Australia raves about Cherry Ripe but I thought it was a bit 'meh'

It's not a bar but my favourite is Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. The miniatures are brilliant also.

My girlfriend got me a box containing 105 of the minis for my birthday, they didn't last very long but wasn't helped by the fact she is equally addicted to them.

Since we're going off topic, I much prefer fruity stuff like Maoam or Starburst to chocolate.

Double fucking Decker. No contest.

I am looking forward to buying a supply of creme eggs.

Bloody hell, I opened this thread with two in mind and they're covered within the first three posts.  Cadbury's Fruit and Nut is definitely top, but Texan was always my treat of choice as a kid (bought from the vending machine in Hill's Yard at the bottom of Kingshill usually).

I nearly choked when I saw this advertised since my first thought was, "who's going to tell them what that is cockney rhyming slang for?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDUh_UB6dFg

are those new?

I think so, only saw the advert a couple of weeks ago

My vote would also have been for Cadbury's Fruit and Nut had it not been for the alteration to the size of the fruit and nuts that occurred a few years back from whole hazelnuts to inferior scraps and fragments of almond (an inferior nut in all regards and lacking the counterbalancing effect of the hazelnuts wholesome crunch).

I don't buy their chocolate anymore as there has been a catastrophic deterioration in quality across the board but experiment from time to time with other brands of fruit and nut without success.

Caramac

A refrigerated mars bar

Too rich for me.

Ooh, not a bad shout.  The Mars Ice Cream used to be good too.  But a warm/room temperature Mars?  :no:

Kinder Bueno is half decent.

Not sure I've had one of those, but I do like the chocolate egg section of the Kinder Egg (I don't buy them for the toys models, honest)

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Mars ice cream is second only to Ben and Jerry's baked alaska but that's a whole different thread!

I never knew there was such a thing.  I always go straight for the cookie dough on the very rare occasion I get an ice-cream craving.  Might have to give it a try.

Cadbury's have had a massive downturn in quality since Kraft took over, has to be said (not saying that it wasn't going on before, but it has accelerated since the yanks turned up). Don't give you that chocolatey hit anymore. Dairy milk is all veg fat now, horrid. Wrote to them about the quality of one particular dairy milk bar I bought (took one bite and stopped), asking how much of it was veg fat ( i.e. palm oil) and how much was actual chocolate/dairy product, and they explained that it was now not company policy to discuss that as it might 'compromise their recipe'. Don't buy their stuff now, aside from the odd Double decker as previously stated.

Nice bit of Lidl Dark chocolate is the business for the price. Co-op's Dark stuff is bloody good too.

Love me a mars ice cream.

Twirl

Do you not find that Twirl has that harsh/acidic sensation in the back of your throat?  That and the other one that was similar but looked like a cartwheel in cross-section (I'm getting far too involved in this discussion).

Edit: Google tells me it was the Spira

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Topics are the best followed by boosts

Drifter.

Boost

a Puffin.

 Star bar. Mmmmmmmm

Not sure about all the fruit & nut love.

White chocolate is the mutt's nuts, still nothing beats a Milkybar.

Agreed about nuts and fruit.

We have a shop down here called Montezumas - a family run chocolatier. They do milk, white and dark chocolate buttons which are bigger than a £2 coin and are fabulous. They also do amazing chilli chocolate and an Eton Mess bar.

I have to agree.  We had a seemingly limitless supply of liquid nitrogen in the inorganic chemistry laboratory at university.  And over the course of my final year, we undertook a number of vitally important research projects with it...including the submerging of the complete range of commercially available chocolate bars and then carrying out a taste test.

After a rapid freezing (to -196 °C), all of the bars would shatter if dropped from a height of a few inches.  But it was the Mars bar that responded best.  Particularly the caramel layer which was brittle to start with, but would then melt as it warmed up in your mouth.

Terry's Turkish Delight

And you're an accountant now ?

What's everyone's opinion on Bounties? I always find it very depressing to open a box of Cadbury's Celebrations and find only a sea of them leftover at the bottom, as occurs regularly in our household.

I've always thought of them as kind of like the Marmite of the chocolate world.

Cadbury's Country Style.

I really miss them. The biscuit and raisin Yorkies just aren't an adequate substitute.

Funny you mention Biscuit and raisin Yorkies Lumps as these are my personal favourite. In Ireland Cadbury's do a Tiffin bar which is really good but you can't get it in England unfortunately.

Honorary mentions to Double Decker, Toffee Crisp, Caramac and Boost bars which were always my picks when I dabbled in the chocolate bar section.

Most of my year moved in to something Finance related, I think.  If we were German it would be a different story, but there were very few jobs out there in pharmaceuticals etc., and those that there were were not fantastically well paid.

This reminds me of the world's best Scottish joke.

Female patient: 'Doctor, doctor, my cha cha smells of coconut!'
Doctor: 'Aye, Bounty!'

Just brilliant.

Can anyone remember Cadbury's Old Jamaica?  It was a blend of milk and dark chocolate,  containing rum soaked raisins. That was lovely chocolate!

Galaxy
Cadbury's Creme Egg
Snickers
Cadbury's Buttons

I used to love Yorkies as a kid, but they're just not the same now, same as Wispa's.

Oh and chocolate in the fridge? You might as well put your red wine in as well you heathens!

I used to work for Pfizer and a lot of the finance guys there had Chemistry/Engineering degrees.

That Tiffin bar, which did come out here for a while but seemed to disappear inside 6 months, was pretty much what Country Style used to be, Dairy Milk with biscuit pieces and raisins. It come in gold foil in a red and white gingham sleeve, and was my childhood favourite.

Best were Fuse bars, not sure what happened to them but they were great.  Recently found a bar of dairy milk mixed with toffee popcorn which was good.

Wholeheartedly agree.

The Mrs loves nothing better than a bar straight from the fridge. Personally I think it absolutely kills the flavour.

Used to love a Yorkie, but I think they must've changed the recipe because they just don't taste the same now as they did 10 years ago.

I don't partake in a chocolate bar too often these days, but I do enjoy a Boost or some Fruit & Nut.

Am I alone in really disliking cold/refrigerated chocolate? It loses most of it's flavour! If anything, i like it slightly on the melty side...

Edit: just seen above - obviously not!!

Still making them, just really hard to find, but you can get them online

http://www.cadburygiftsdirect.co.uk/products/490-cadbury-bournville-old-jamaica-180g.aspx

Double Decker makes me feel quite manley. Temperature is crucial though, if the nougart is too cold and hard the bar is a write off

Malteaser bunnies that they bring out for Easter are immense.

Double Decker!

Ripple

Are you telling me you've never devoured a packet of mini-eggs straight from the fridge? Liars, the lot of you :toocool:

Unfilled slab, particularly dark chocolate needs a good time out of a fridge before you eat it.

Stuff like Mars bars and Snickers much less so. Most of the bar is nougat or caramel anyway, and the chocolate is much lower in cocoa solids so doesn't need the higher temperatures to melt and get edible.

These can be a bit sickly at room temperature and much nicer after refrigeration.

Now we're talking about decent quality chocolate, the Green and Blacks Milk Chocolate with Butterscotch, the Dark with Burnt Toffee, the Dark with Expresso, and the new Milk with Sea Salt are all good.

A bunch of grown men comparing notes on fucking chocolate, dear lord.

Go and check your tampons you bunch of cunts.

And for the record the answer is Wispa Gold or Kinder Eggs :)

Mint Aero.

I win.

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those are awesome. Salted corn maise covered in chocolate.

I'm not trying deliberately to question your Aero-love, but the green bit has always been a disappointment to me.  It tastes more like toothpaste than chocolate and the texture is a let down as well.  It's a green, sugary mess that I'm not sure has anything chocolatey about it at all.

And any chocolate bar whose USP is having bubbles of air (ie tiny pockets of no chocolate at all) pumped in to it gets the thumbs down from me.

Lunacy

Mint chocolate is disgusting.

anyone remember these

Scandalous

I quite like it but it's not a patch on orange chocolate.

Just for you

Doube Decker.... move on.

A rowntrees nutty bar was superb back in the 80's :nod:

Cadbury's Fruit & Nut, Double Decker and Ripples, and Cadbury's Turkish Delight.

But I loved Spira's when I was a kid.

Cadbury's Turkish Delight - I know it's a bit  :gay: but there you are.

Anyone remember Marianne Faithfull's exploits with a Mars Bar?

Curly Wurlys.
Topic.
Can you still get viscount choc mint biscuits?

Yes, but I'd rather have the orange ones.

I used to go for  a Yorkie when i was younger because they were always bigger , but now it's all about the Boost

Walnut whips deserve a mention,as do munchies and rolo's
And chocolate out of the fridge is the mutts nuts

Prefer praline myself  :)

Always used to go for the Cadbury's Fudge Bars at newsagents afterschool as they were 10p and good for a small but satisfyingly textured chocolate hit.

I haven't had an actual old style Fudge bar for years and assume now, with the general miniaturisation of confectionery enacted each year by executives trying to squeeze a little more profit out of their products to justify their bonuses, they're probably at least 15p and fit on your fingernail.

Starbar all the way baby...

Plain Bournville or you can't beat a cadburys Easter egg. Prefer my chocolate from the fridge but the kids normally beat me to any we have in the house :(

Fudge-nudger, eh!

KitKat was nice, as was Twirl

Can i also suggest Butterfingers from the USA.

Gorgeous

Curly Wurly for me all day long.

Just had a Creme Egg for the first time in ages. Heaven!

this will be the first thing I buy when I land this week

Having looked that up I'm going to have to try one, think they sell it in Asda.

I think there's an American shop in the tented market which sells American chocolate and the such (at a huge mark up probably). I'm only really a fan of the peanut butter based stuff.

As a kid I used to buy bounties, slice them in half on the narrow edge and put some strawberry jam in - sort of like a bounty jam sandwich.

Oh, and you're all cunts. The answer is obviously Crunchie.

Frys chocolate with the mint filling.

Not that keen. Bit rich. I remember the Chocolate Cream with a variety of centres though, had lime, orange, strawberry, raspberry and one other (pineapple?) fondant cream filling in the five squares. That was a bit sickly as well though

A dark vision of an irredeemable hell.

Lion bar, picnic and chomp  :)

Buying stuff from multi-nationals with a checkered history of exploitation of child labour and African farmers will always leave a bad taste in my mouth...

Whereas I find oppression and exploitation rather tasty. I like to think you can actually taste the desperation in Nestle products in particular.

You must be right at home using mobile phones which are soaked in the blood of Congolese coltan miners?

Only if I'm wearing my Primark child slave labour trousers.

Do they match your Nike child slave labour trainers?

:D