Double Deckers

SPECTRUM001

Wow - just had my first one in....a very long time.

Hmmmm - it was great. And reminded me of a chocolate bar of Frosties (grrrreaaattt) !

TTony

Bit early for a summer holiday ?

WezV

They seem so small these days.   Used to love them as a kid

Jimbro66

My favourite bars! I'm eating one right now, a bit squashed because I put it in my jeans pocket and forgot about it but it tastes grrreat.

zepp76

Just ain't the same without the raisins.

CHRISB50

You knew you’d eaten a chocolate bar with the old ones. My jaw used to ache from all the chewing. 

Really want a Double Decker now! 

wibble

CHRISB50 said:

You knew you’d eaten a chocolate bar with the old ones. My jaw used to ache from all the chewing. 

Really want a Double Decker now! 

Texan bars were the ones that gave your jaw a workout!

Philly_Q

Here Comes The Double Deckers Opening Credits - YouTube

richardhomer

A much under-appreciated bar for me. Somehow always in the shadow of the Mars Bar, Snickers and even Cadbury’s Fruit & Nut....

Sad really, because if you were to present me with a selection box that contained one, I choose it over anything else in there.

thecolourbox

Philly_Q

I've always found them very variable.  Sometimes the crunchy bit isn't crunchy enough, and sometimes the soft bit is rubbery. 

Maybe it's very sensitive to temperature, or maybe you just have to get them while they're fresh.

EricTheWeary

Philly_Q said:

Here Comes The Double Deckers Opening Credits - YouTube

A young Peter Firth many years before he freaked me out in Equus. And Brinsley Forde many years before I saw him in Aswad ( which was a lot less freaky).

At some point I went off chocolate bars like that, although not chocolate  per se. I'd still murder a Crunchie.

CMW335

Love them. Anyone remember the first boost bars which were coconut based or Secret bars? Yum!!!

sev112

My wife eats them ingredient by ingredient!

Philly_Q

EricTheWeary said:

Philly_Q said:

Here Comes The Double Deckers Opening Credits - YouTube

A young Peter Firth many years before he freaked me out in Equus. And Brinsley Forde many years before I saw him in Aswad ( which was a lot less freaky).

At some point I went off chocolate bars like that, although not chocolate  per se. I'd still murder a Crunchie.

I watch Ola Englund's YouTube channel.  On Sundays he has a segment called "Ola Tasting Shit" where he and his wife Louise sample snacks and chocolate which people have sent them from around the world.

This week they had stuff from Australia, including something called a Violet Crumble which looked very much like a large Crunchie.  The Englunds seemed quite baffled by it and didn't like it at all.  So I guess they don't have Crunchie in Sweden.

Bridgehouse

The Godwin’s Law equivalent for chocolate bar threads is, of course, to mention that wagon wheels are smaller than they used to be...

Neill

I wondered how the campaign against obesity was going.

Deadman

CMW335 said:

Love them. Anyone remember the first boost bars which were coconut based or Secret bars? Yum!!!

I don't, but I remember Cabana. Coconut and cherries inside and very nice.

Double deckers aren't what they were years ago. The chewy stuff on the top now resembles something like a dumbed down Texan bar (i.e. you don't require jaw reconstruction after eating one). They used to have a more crumbly and nicer texture. Unless I imagined it.

EricTheWeary

Philly_Q said:

EricTheWeary said:

Philly_Q said:

Here Comes The Double Deckers Opening Credits - YouTube

A young Peter Firth many years before he freaked me out in Equus. And Brinsley Forde many years before I saw him in Aswad ( which was a lot less freaky).

At some point I went off chocolate bars like that, although not chocolate  per se. I'd still murder a Crunchie.

I watch Ola Englund's YouTube channel.  On Sundays he has a segment called "Ola Tasting Shit" where he and his wife Louise sample snacks and chocolate which people have sent them from around the world.

This week they had stuff from Australia, including something called a Violet Crumble which looked very much like a large Crunchie.  The Englunds seemed quite baffled by it and didn't like it at all.  So I guess they don't have Crunchie in Sweden.

The Violet Crumble sounds nice. The Australians have what is pretty much the best chocolate biscuit, the Tim Tam ( aka Penguin on acid), so I trust them with a chocolate product. 

Philly_Q

Deadman said:

I don't, but I remember Cabana. Coconut and cherries inside and very nice.

Yeah, Cabana was great, I'm surprised it's never been resurrected.  It was just a tad sickly though, it might have been even better with plain chocolate rather than milk.

The one I miss most is Nutty.  A stick of fudge, wrapped in caramel with an outer layer of unsalted peanuts:



Here's someone's attempt at a recreation:

SPECTRUM001

Of course the real reason I posted the thread is that I am "off Topic" these days...