Vitally Important Poll - Best Candy Bar Of All

[keilj]

Which candy bar do you think is the absolute best? I'd like to restrict this poll to candy bars, and not other delicious candy like Reese's cups.

I love many of the different candy bars out there - but I just don't think you can top a Baby Ruth. Baby Ruth just seems to have it all - perfect combination of flavors and ingredients - "The symmetry is just there"

Please add a quick reason why you like your choice

[Niamh]

I'm so going with other because all those choices are practically american...

[kilted exile]

*wonders how long it will take a mod to add kit-kats to the poll*

btw the best is the brilliant toffee crisp

[keilj]

Niamh - at least list the one that you like




*wonders how long it will take a mod to add kit-kats to the poll*

btw the best is the brilliant toffee crisp


I am on the fence about Kit Kat and Twix. Both are awesome - but I'm not sure they are candy bars. Same with Chunky

[Niamh]

Wispa is probably my favourite, then probably a double decker or a Crunchie bar. Frys peppermint cream is another great one.

[kiki1982]

I don't eat any candy bars anymore, but Kit-kat is my favourite if I have to choose one. Although Snickers is on the top of my list as well, but I'd have to go for Kit-kat, nice and simple...

:)

[*Classic*Charm*]

3 Musketeers FTW!!! Chocolate mousse wrapped in chocolate? Perfection.

[keilj]

i guess I'm a chocolate freak - because you can't go wrong with any of these. Butterfinger is d*mn near perfection. I've even gotten into Heath bars lately

[papayahed]

They have that new Milky Way with caramel on the inside, that's darn tasty.

[cgrillo]

Where's Kit-Kat bars? They've always been my favorite. Although, Milky Ways are great too.

Oh, and what's a "Whatchamacallit"?

[The Comedian]

I like it that Kit-Kat didn't even make the final cut. Nice!

[JuniperWoolf]

A nice plain bar of dark chocolate.

[DanielBenoit]

Swiss dark chocolate :D

[TheFifthElement]

Well, as Niamh said, most of the choices are exclusively American 'chocolate' (I use the term loosely, whatever it is you make 'chocolate' bars with in the US resembles chocolate only in colour. Bleugh.) except, perhaps, Milky Way and Snickers both of which would be pretty near the bottom of my list. For basic milk chocolate I'd have to choose Galaxy, but to be honest it'd probably be something from Hotel Chocolat (http://www.hotelchocolat.co.uk/) as everything they produce is chocolate bliss.

Other than that, I like Cadbury's Caramel and Cadbury's Fruit & Nut, and Fry's Chocolate Cream or Peppermint Cream though, to be fair, the chocolate isn't especially good on the Fry's bars. Green and Blacks chocolate is also good, especially butterscotch. Yum :D

[Virgil]

Almond Joy is my favorite. :D

[Niamh]

I love the mayan gold G&B!

[MarkBastable]

To the European palate, American chocolate is pretty revolting, it's true. Hershey's tastes like sick, as I'm sure any right-thinking person would agree. It took three or four years for my wife - the Beloved Yank - to come to understand the unarguable superiority of cheap British chocolate.

On the the other hand, and not being that crazy about sweets of any sort, I'd go for what the English call 'plain chocolate' - that's 'dark chocolate' in the US. I like Green & Black's.

I rather like M&M's though.

[keilj]

Oh, and what's a "Whatchamacallit"?

a bar of 100% awesome

naw, it's a great bar they came up with in the early 80's. it has puffed rice and caramel covered in milk chocolate

similar to Hershey Crackle (with the rice), but 100 times better :willy_nilly:

[OrphanPip]

That is an American heavy list, snickers and butterfingers are the only ones I'm familiar with, oh and the plain Hershey chocolate of course.

I like Coffee Crisp (and not just because it's the only Canadian chocolate bar I can name) or the peanut butter Oh! Henry.

[Wilde woman]

I'm with Virgil. Almond Joy is awesome.

[Scheherazade]

Where's Kit-Kat bars?I think it was most appropriate that KitKat was not included in the poll... Obviously, the ones included in the list are not in the same league as KitKat and a comparison would be very unfair.

Oh, I don't know... Like comparing Foster's or Carling to Westmalle.

[qimissung]

I agree that kit kats are the piece de resistance, Scher. :D I don't know why you guys are going on about American chocolate. I've eaten Cadbury's. They sell them here. They are OK, but I wouldn't say they are better. :skep:

My current personal favorite it Hersey's with Almond. Pure chocolate with a little nuttiness for contrast. My mouth is watering even as I type.

But I also love Ghiradelli's dark chocolate. They should all be just a teensy little bit melted. Bliss.

[TheFifthElement]

I don't know why you guys are going on about American chocolate. I've eaten Cadbury's. They sell them here. They are OK, but I wouldn't say they are better. :skep:
Yes, you're right of course, Cadbury's is not that good. But at least when you ate it it didn't make you feel physically sick, which is how pretty much everyone in my team reacted to Hershey's when we tried it. It still gives me the shivers just thinking about it.

Mass market chocolate is generally not good. And British chocolate, with a few notable exceptions (Thorntons, which is more continental style chocolate, and Hotel Chocolat in particular), isn't great. Any right thinking Belgian person would probably rather eat poo than a British chocolate bar, and I wouldn't blame them either. I remember there was a debate in the EU a few years back as to whether British chocolate could even be classified as chocolate but eventually they caved, probably because they were sick of us moaning or, more likely, we threatened to use the veto. But the truth is we are the bugs under the feet of the Swiss and Belgian master chocolatiers and we know it.

Green & Blacks is probably the only mass market British chocolate that is good, but compared to 'quality' chocolate it's still not brilliant. It is nice though. Mayan Gold, as Niamh mentioned, is lovely. I'd forgotten that one. Otherwise you need to fork out a bit for decent chocolate, but it is worth it, primarily because you end up eating less of it (so it may actually be better value for money) because it is so delicious and satisfying.

[Virgil]

Are people confusing candy bars with fine chocolate? Candy bars are not the same as fine chocolate. We in the US have fine chocolate too. We have Ghirardelli chocolate as well as lesser known (at least lesser known to me) chocolate companies. Here:
http://www.chocolate.com/where-to-buy/US/.

Candy bars are a mish mash chocolate, nuts, carmel, coconut, and whatever thrown together into a bar for quick and cheap consumption.

[Niamh]

that would just come under the title of chocolate bar or confectionary.

Cadburys chocolate tastes so different outside of UK/Irl! The cadbury in NZ/Auz tastes so different. more like cheap chocolate. Although i liked the cadbury cherise when i was in canada, the chocolate just wasnt the same.

[TheFifthElement]

In UK Snickers and Milky Bars are chocolate bars. Candy is a lesser used term but would usually be used to refer to some kind of boiled sweet. But I'm assuming you're referring to mass market chocolate, which would be the equivalent of our Cadbury's, Fry's, Mars, Nestle type products (Dairy Milk, Galaxy, Fruit & Nut, Bounty etc). To be called a chocolate bar it must comply with EU rules around cocoa content - chocolate is a pretty big deal in Europe, do you know it took 25 years to come to an agreement over what can and can't be called chocolate? The rule is that something cannot be defined as chocolate unless it contains 25% cocoa solids (with a leaway that 5% may be substituted for cocoa butter equivalent fats) whereas in the US you only require 10% of 'cocoa liquor' (whatever that is). So in Europe Hershey's chocolate, assuming it contains no more than 10% cocoa solids, wouldn't be considered chocolate. You can read about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_of_chocolate

Oh, and it turns out that Cadbury chocolate is made by Hershey's in the US and is made differently to British Cadbury's chocolate, so unless you're trying an imported variety you're not really comparing like with like. Read here: http://www.hhhh.org/cloister/chocolate/reviews/cadbury.html

[Revolte]

I like crunch bars, mmmm the food that made me an obese 13 year old. love it.

[qimissung]

I was reading your post, Fifth and I was like "God, how doe she kow all this?", then I saw your reference to wikipedia. Thanks for the info.

I was kidding, mostly. But I eat Hershey's all the time. It's just a matter of getting used to it, I guess. I do prefer milk chocolate in a candy bar. I don't know if that's really considered chocolate in Europe. And I do seem to remember, with all this talk of superior chocolate, that England is the land that has been known to serve pork 'n beans for breakfast. Talk about the shivers. :D

But in the end, I think Virgil is right. There is a big difference in the idea of a candy bar vs.fine chocolate. Fine chocolate is expensive. I can afford Ghiradelli's and that's about it.

[TheFifthElement]

And I do seem to remember, with all this talk of superior chocolate, that England is the land that has been known to serve pork 'n beans for breakfast. Talk about the shivers.
Pork and beans? I honestly have no idea what you're talking about. It's not something I've ever had or known to be served at breakfast in Britain.

[OrphanPip]

We have pork lard and baked beans a lot with breakfast here in Quebec, feves au lard. I think it's a French thing though.

Here's how you make it, if you were wondering lol.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGUMFDw7cOc

[Niamh]

we would have pork sausages at breakfast if its a fry up... and beans are sometimes an option, but i've seen this mainly in Britain.

[qimissung]

Well, they did serve it at the bed and breakfast I stayed at. That was a number of years ago. In london.

[TheFifthElement]

Well, they did serve it at the bed and breakfast I stayed at. That was a number of years ago. In london.

A B&B huh? I sympathise. B&Bs offer a cuisine unlike any other. I remember when I was a kid we stayed at a B&B in Blackpool and it took an awful long time before I could even look at pea and ham soup without feeling nauseous. Shivering? Definitely :D But honestly, pork & beans isn't really a British thing. Breakfast tends to be toast, cereal, a bacon or sausage butty, or a full cooked English breakfast (which does include beans, and sausages, bacon, fried bread, eggs, black pudding, fried tomato, fried mushrooms and/or any variation of those) if you can stomach it. A bit heavy going for me, generally.

Of course there are elements of British cuisine which no one could blame you for getting the shivers over. Jellied eels, spam fritters, marmite (okay, I love marmite but it's really one of those things you love or you hate, and most people hate it), tripe, pot noodles, to name but a few. Bleugh. And British wine you would only ever drink out of a sense of civic duty or masochism. Vile is too kind a word :D

[Jesterhead]

Marabou is the best of all..

[RobinHood3000]

Crunch, Kit Kat, Twix, 100 Grand, Hershey's Cookies 'n' Cream - none of which are on the list.

I think my favorite has to be a Chilean candy bar I once tried, called Golpe. So delicious - like a blend of chocolate, puffed rice, and caramel.

[kasie]

'Ordinary' chocolate: Galaxy, though the Coop's own brand of Fairtrade Milk Chocolate is very acceptable, too.
Deluxe chocolate: Green and Black
Super deluxe chocolate: Hotel Chocolat (Have you tried their White Chocolate Lemon Truffles? Mmm, mmm, mmm.)
Chocolate bars: Boost - I don't usually like Cadburys but somehow I can't resist one of these when I'm paying for fuel in a petrol station - yes, yes, I know, weak-willed victim of strategic marketing displays....

Back in the 70s when I was visiting USA, I was taken on a trip round the Hershey factory. (I was a guest at the Hershey school at the time.) I was most amused by a huge sign hanging over the production line of Chocolate Kisses: it read

IMPROPERLY WRAPPED KISSES MUST BE REPROCESSED.

I used it on all subsequent boyfriends with great success......;)