Chocolate bars

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Fry's Five Boys
Cadbury's Dairy Milk
Mars bar (giant size)
Marathon (when it was called that, but Wispa instead nowadays)
Kit-Kat (the proper one made by Rowntree's and wrapped in tin-foil.

[Serial_Apologist]

Kit-Kat, surely one of the most longlasting snack products? Always a favourite: as a child I used to nibble away the skirting around each finger, saving up the real pleasure.

Anyone remember that old Larry cartoon, possibly from Private Eye, showing a couple in bed, he handing her an open box of "After Sex Mints"?

[Nick Armstrong]

Mintola

Loved those Now there was a sweet i could eat a packet at a time

Why did they survive when Aztecs didn't?

Kit-Kat, surely one of the most longlasting snack products?

Looking at the big pic (#21) it's fascinating what's survived and what hasn't.... KitKats have survived virtually unchanged, including the branding - ditto Rolos, Milky Way and one or two others... But most bit the dust. Some (Bar Six) you can see why - others...

Actually, I don't remember Aztecs at all - I see they were around 67 - 78... with a brief comeback in 2000.

I hadn't realised Wispa was killed in 2003 after 20 years - but brought back in 2008 after an internet campaign, supposedly on a temporary basis... but sold so well that Cadbury's kept it in their range.

[Beef Oven]

This is more my thing




or this

Socialists are amazing! they won't eat what we, the hoi polloi, eat

[MrGongGong]

Socialists are amazing! they won't eat what we, the hoi polloi, eat

What's a sociallist ?
Is that like a commis chef ?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

What's a sociallist ?
Is that like a commis chef ?

Doing your Peter Mandelson impersonation, MrGG?

[Thropplenoggin]

Can most of what Cadbury's sells actually be called chocolate? The British seem to accept flaccid, non-snapping, vegetable fat-laced, cloying brown matter that has, what, 40% cocoa solids at best? I know it's milk chocolate but it really is dire stuff.

The 'continentals' really do know how to do chocolate. Paris has some exquisite chocolatiers , though Chapon is by far the best I've encountered. This bar of this Venezuelan chocolate is simply divine: "Goût de fruits des bois, fruits rouges. Parfums de feuilles mortes. Tourbe". Says all you need to know about the depth of flavour possible in a bar of chocolate, even if "the perfume of dead leaves" is not your thing . And it's got that snap (the chefs know what they're talking about). Makes a perfect accompaniment to a good red wine or a single malt. If you're in Paris, you can buy it from the Grand-Epicerie near Sevres-Babylon Metro station (IIRC).

Another, perhaps more easily available knock-out chocolate producer is Valrhona: try their 'grand cru' 64% Manjari: http://en.valrhona.com/nos-chocolats...%2070G&search=

Not a huge fan of the Belgian stuff, though.

As for Nestlé, even more beurk than Cadbury's, though of course I scoffed plenty of Wispas, Spiras and Kit Kats back in the day ('Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means, Cadbury's held me green and dying...')

[MrGongGong]

Doing your Peter Mandelson impersonation, MrGG?

yummmmm

[Nick Armstrong]

Can most of what Cadbury's sells actually be called chocolate?

Yes. I know the maths but Cadbury's Milk Chocolate is good. I also like Galaxy.

Favourite foreign milk chocolate is MILKA

[Serial_Apologist]

Can most of what Cadbury's sells actually be called chocolate? The British seem to accept flaccid, non-snapping, vegetable fat-laced, cloying brown matter that has, what, 40% cocoa solids at best? I know it's milk chocolate but it really is dire stuff.

The 'continentals' really do know how to do chocolate.

Marketing surely isn't it? Plus what's pushed on the shelves, or appears more available.

It's rather like "Everyone says the tabloids aren't real newspapers, yet the Sun sells more than any other paper".

Whenever I give people plain chocolate, they tell me they prefer it...

[Thropplenoggin]

Yes. I know the maths but Cadbury's Milk Chocolate is good. I also like Galaxy.

Favourite foreign milk chocolate is MILKA

Ye gods! And I had you down as a gourmand, Calibosh! That stuff's utter swill!

It's never too late to educate the palate.

[Nick Armstrong]

Ye gods! And I had you down as a gourmand, Calibosh! That stuff's utter swill!

I suspect you meant 'gourmet' but either way, thanks

Nonetheless, I think it's fine in the same way as fish and chips and pork pies are fine - and have sometimes enjoyed 'gourmet' chocolate far less. And I've always preferred milk to plain chocolate - esp that ultra-bitter 70%+ stuff...

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Say what you like about Cadbury's milk chocolate, but I love it. One Christmas, I was given 3 of those 1 Kg. bars and scoffed the first one at one sitting. (Before you ask, I'm relatively slim.)

[Thropplenoggin]

I suspect you meant 'gourmet' but either way, thanks

Nonetheless, I think it's fine in the same way as fish and chips and pork pies are fine - and have sometimes enjoyed 'gourmet' chocolate far less. And I've always preferred milk to plain chocolate - esp that ultra-bitter 70%+ stuff...

No, I didn't. I meant 'gourmand'. 2nd definition.

[Nick Armstrong]

No, I didn't. I meant 'gourmand'. 2nd definition.

D'accord!