Chocolate bars

[vinteuil]

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... nice that this thread, notionally concerned with 'favourite chocolate bars', but itself brought in to being as a response to a 'vocabulary' thread, has evolved so interestingly to encompass matters of memory, pronunciation, and reflections on our musical listening skills...


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[ahinton]

... nice that this thread, notionally concerned with 'favourite chocolate bars', but itself brought in to being as a response to a 'vocabulary' thread, has evolved so interestingly to encompass matters of memory, pronunciation, and reflections on our musical listening skills...

Indeed so - and, if I may, I would perhaps add that the fact of my never having ordered a drink at a chocolate bar calls to mind that mythical "chocolate teapot"...

[Dave2002]

PPS Another example of a linguistically pointless umlaut is the name of the band, Motörhead.

Would it make some sort of sense in Swedish? Not sure - would be pronounced differently, if that would be the point.

Re chocolate teapots, we have been known to refer to some people - typically former government ministers or MPs - as chocalate teapots - but then we usually add the rider "but at least you can always eat the chocolate"!

[Joseph K]

Still sampling Christmas delights - Minstrels, Toblerone, Mint Lindt Truffles...

[Frances_iom]

The only cheap chocolate bar I enjoy is a Polish advocat creme filled bar with excellent dark chocolate that actually tastes of chocolate - Pawelek (the l is crossed but I can't get it to print here) produced by E Wedel - discovered it in my local Sainsburys

I suspect the Nestle stuff is brown coloured hydrogenated Palm oil - my father had a joke, not sure if based on any real product, that a Nestea was dropped for obvious reasons.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

...and as for Cadbury’s Dark Milk chocolate being their richest, creamiest yet, I beg to differ. It’s “rich” in that it has a strong taste. But “creamy” - I think not. It’s about as uncreamy as milk chocolate could be.

It tastes horrible to me.

[Joseph K]

I received a fruit and nut toblerone for my birthday, as well as a Terry's chocolate orange. I prefer a plain or, preferably a coconut toblerone to this one, but oh well. I also bought myself a bar of Dairy Milk Medley, which contains dark chocolate chips, biscuit and fudge pieces in a bar of standard Dairy Milk.

[Frances_iom]

.. in a bar of standard Dairy Milk.

my last tasting (post take over) gave me the impression that manufacture had gone Vegan and it was Soya milk that was used to give a foul mid Atlantic taste (ie not as truly nasty as Hershey but still bad)

[teamsaint]

I have been mostly eating Darl chocolate in recent years, mainly because I tend to eatvless of it.
Current favourites are Lindt extreme orange and extreme raspberry. Especially good ar £1.50 , which they seem to be most of the time at Sainsburys.

The Aldi range are pretty decent, but not especially cheap at around £1.30.

[Bella Kemp]

I received a fruit and nut toblerone for my birthday, as well as a Terry's chocolate orange. I prefer a plain or, preferably a coconut toblerone to this one, but oh well. I also bought myself a bar of Dairy Milk Medley, which contains dark chocolate chips, biscuit and fudge pieces in a bar of standard Dairy Milk.

Happy Birthday Joseph! I'd never heard of coconut Toblerone but now I'm sorely tempted. I just wish that the chocolate could be just a tad thinner. It must be age but now I find biting into these mountain peaks a challenge.

[Joseph K]

Happy Birthday Joseph! I'd never heard of coconut Toblerone but now I'm sorely tempted. I just wish that the chocolate could be just a tad thinner. It must be age but now I find biting into these mountain peaks a challenge.

Thank you, Bella. I share my birthday with fellow Forumista Serial Apologist... yes Toblerone is very nice, but a bit hard on one's teeth.

[french frank]

Equal Exchange orange-flavoured dark chocolate, £2.79 a bar from my local wholefood shop.

[Jonathan]

Anyone else remember Echo bars? They are no longer made by Fox's, sadly.

[Padraig]

I've nearly given up chocolate, but I'm allowed to dream and I dream of marzipan. Terrys used to do a slim Marzipan bar, but I never see it now. They took away the marzipan diamond from Black Magic. There was never a marzipan choc in Quality Street. The Danes still value it and I used to get presents from Denmark at Christmas. Thankfully Lidl get a load of large marzipan bars in for Christmas and I am on the lookout! There's life after Trump after all.

[oddoneout]

I've nearly given up chocolate, but I'm allowed to dream and I dream of marzipan. Terrys used to do a slim Marzipan bar, but I never see it now. They took away the marzipan diamond from Black Magic. There was never a marzipan choc in Quality Street. The Danes still value it and I used to get presents from Denmark at Christmas. Thankfully Lidl get a load of large marzipan bars in for Christmas and I am on the lookout! There's life after Trump after all.

I love marzipan as well. Ritter Sport do a good one - dark chocolate and really 'nutty' filling. Lidl stock the brand, but recently in my local store haven't had the marzipan version, but they are also to be found elsewhere.