Your favourite chocolate bar

Supportact

Star Bar. I have a feeling that the filling is just crushed up bits of other bars that they've cleaned out of the machines, covered in chocolate.  Amazing though. 

Sporky

Starbars are peanut Boosts. 

HAL9000

Any Cadbury Bar before they got taken over by whoever it was (Kraft?) that changed the recipe…

HAL9000

…otherwise Montezuma’s Sea Dog.

Dominic

strumjoughlamps said:

Don’t really have choccy bars now, ice cream is my vice. I do like those Flipz chocolate pretzels tho.

Old Jamaica back in the day, best choccy bar ever.

Yes it was ........sadly missed Rum and Raisin and a mixture of milk and Plain chocolate ;it was fantastic

Dominic

Philly_Q said:

My all time favourite was probably Nutty, which didn't contain any chocolate.  

I remeber those but was put off because even though it was peanuts they looked like the stiff turd of a Sweetcorn lover

Yorkie

Chocolate… not really my thing! 

RobDavies

Philly_Q said:

My all time favourite was probably Nutty, which didn't contain any chocolate.  

Yes.   

Have a look for an American bar called ‘Payday’ - it’s the same thing and bloody lovely

TTBZ

Starbar, something about the texture just works. Like a Snickers without the stodge. Quite like a Wispa or Wispa Gold too. 

boogieman

I’ve cut right down on chocolate since the Yanks ruined all my favourite Cadbury’s bars, Kraft you bastards. My all time favourite was a Cabana but if I do indulge now I buy the Moser Roth stuff from Aldi. 

boogieman

RobDavies said:

Philly_Q said:

My all time favourite was probably Nutty, which didn't contain any chocolate.  

Yes.   

Have a look for an American bar called ‘Payday’ - it’s the same thing and bloody lovely

And Almond Joy is basically a Bounty with an almond (who knew?) on top. American “chocolate” is mostly vile, sickly, greasy stuff, Hershey’s being the worst example, with Reece’s not far behind. 

Emp_Fab

Star Bar, Boost, Crunchie (for that pure sugar hit), Picnic, Biscuit & Raisin Yorkie, Toffee Crisp and the occasional DAIM bar.

Neil

Diagnosed with diabetes yesterday, so now can only dream of choc bars. 

Philly_Q

Sorry to hear that @Neil. It takes a while, but you get used to it, not that that will be any consolation to you now.

Stratavarious

boogieman said:

RobDavies said:

Philly_Q said:

My all time favourite was probably Nutty, which didn't contain any chocolate.  

Yes.   

Have a look for an American bar called ‘Payday’ - it’s the same thing and bloody lovely

And Almond Joy is basically a Bounty with an almond (who knew?) on top. American “chocolate” is mostly vile, sickly, greasy stuff, Hershey’s being the worst example, with Reece’s not far behind. 

Vast levels of wax in US chocolate so they don’t melt on the counters in hot southern states shops.

Philly_Q

RobDavies said:

Philly_Q said:

My all time favourite was probably Nutty, which didn't contain any chocolate.  

Yes.   

Have a look for an American bar called ‘Payday’ - it’s the same thing and bloody lovely

I've heard of PayDay - probably seen it in a Stephen King book - but never knew what it was.  It does look very similar, except it looks like the peanuts are salted(?) and on Nutty they were unsalted.  Americans have to be that bit more unhealthy...

Supportact

There used to be a good Cadbury's one (I think) called Tiffin.  I think it must only have been available in Ireland,  I used to get them when we went on family holidays there in the 80s. It was chocolate with bits of biscuit and raisin in as I remember.  Very nice. 

MrSnrub

Philly_Q said:

My all time favourite was probably Nutty, which didn't contain any chocolate.  

My dad always refers to chocolate in general as 'nutty'. I always figured it was a Cockney expression, didn't realise Nutty was an actual thing.

Philly_Q

MrSnrub said:

Philly_Q said:

My all time favourite was probably Nutty, which didn't contain any chocolate.  

My dad always refers to chocolate in general as 'nutty'. I always figured it was a Cockney expression, didn't realise Nutty was an actual thing.

I can't explain that one.  I don't think it was on the market long enough (1972 to 1980-something) to change British confectionery naming conventions...

MrSnrub

Philly_Q said:

MrSnrub said:

Philly_Q said:

My all time favourite was probably Nutty, which didn't contain any chocolate.  

My dad always refers to chocolate in general as 'nutty'. I always figured it was a Cockney expression, didn't realise Nutty was an actual thing.

I can't explain that one.  I don't think it was on the market long enough (1972 to 1980-something) to change British confectionery naming conventions...

I just Googled it and apparently it's British armed forces slang dating back to the '40s. So it's completely unrelated to the Rowntrees product. Can't find any info on the etymology though.