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nanna8 Wed 23-Feb-22 05:10:43

What is your current and past favourite?

I was really into Fry's Turkish delight once
Crunchies once as a child
Duncan's Walnut whips way back when
Those Lindt balls more recently
Now it's Aldi's milk chocolate hazelnut bars but they are very big, makes for being a total piglet.
Are you going off sweet things as you get older? Sadly, I still love them as much as I always did.

Lupin Thu 24-Feb-22 14:38:08

I forgot milk chocolate covered ginger. I don't see that anywhere now but can get it online.

Dogsmakemesmile Thu 24-Feb-22 14:37:46

Lovely story Hels001. I used to love Double Deckers...But now I admit dark chocolate is my favourite.

Lupin Thu 24-Feb-22 14:36:07

I try to avoid chocolate bars but when I wander by the sweet counters I can be tempted by Cadbury's fruit and nut, mint Aero bars, Maltesers and Turkish Delight. Bassets used to make Mint Allsorts amd my brother and I loved them and sent packets to each other when we saw them. Our grown up version of one for me and one for you. You can now get copies but they are disappointingly not like the Bassets. I wish they would bring them back.
I am going to the shops in a minute and will HAVE to have one of my favourites.

Joesoap Thu 24-Feb-22 14:16:04

Cadburys creme eggs, and Cadburys Milk chocolate everytime, also Flakes. Whispa is good too.

Nannabumble70 Thu 24-Feb-22 14:14:39

Like Big Berthal, Green and Blacks Almond milk chocolate bar. After reading this I will try Aldi's wholenut milk chocolate bar smile

jenni123 Thu 24-Feb-22 14:10:08

crisps over chocolate. Prefer Walkers. Salt and vinegar or ready salted and definitely Marmite, not keen on other flavours or other brands really. If offered a bar of chocolate or pack of crisps, the crisps would win every time. sometimes tipped into a bowl with stong cheddar cheese cut up , lovely.

Granny14 Thu 24-Feb-22 13:49:18

I loved Caramac as a child. Now my favourite is Wispa Gold. I always disliked orange chocolate, also not keen on Hotel Chocolat.

Hels001 Thu 24-Feb-22 13:46:53

My mum had a very hard and difficult life. Every day was a struggle her and the only treat she allowed herself was a frys creme bar on a Sunday afternoon that was it no money for alcohol or biscuits or anything other than basic meals. But I will always remember the pleasure she had unwrapping that bar on a Sunday afternoon which she would share with me. Now I'm older have a much better standard of living than mum ever had you will find a pack of 3 Frys creme bars in the fridge at all times! It's a homage to dear old mum. Always be my favourite.

Grantanow Thu 24-Feb-22 13:42:56

Don't like milk chocolate at all. I like an occasional 70%+ dark chocolate. It does help lift endorphins a bit.

Skye17 Thu 24-Feb-22 13:24:03

I also liked Tiffin bars, Nannina. And Caramac - I can hardly believe I did now. Also Cadbury’s.

I have lost the taste for very sweet things and like Lindt, Green & Black’s and Cocoa Loco.

grannybuy Thu 24-Feb-22 13:22:15

Green & Blacks milk chocolate and Lidl’s 46% cocoa mass Grenada milk chocolate.

annifrance Thu 24-Feb-22 13:20:05

I've just latched on to the thin bars that are around in French supermakets. Various levels of Cacoa. My favourite is Lidl's one with orange peel and almonds. I also like the salted caramel ones. None of them are too sweet for my taste.

Up until now I have loved Cote d'Or lait, very rich and one strip suffices.

And nothing can beat Hotel Chocolat. Favourites are the batons and the salted caramel drinking sachets.

Just off for a cuppa and a square.

Witzend Thu 24-Feb-22 13:18:59

Any fruit and nut bar for preference, but TBH almost anything that’s not white chocolate, which I regard as the work of Satan.

Doglessfornow Thu 24-Feb-22 13:16:15

Dark whole nut chocolate for me! Lidl and Sainburys sell it, but best of all is the Hotel Chocolat version.

Nannina Thu 24-Feb-22 13:15:27

As a child I loved Tiffin bars- bits of shortcake biscuits and raisins in chocolate. Delicious but not seem them for years

Casdon Thu 24-Feb-22 13:14:19

I like the Green and Blacks Tasting Collection packs with 25 little bars of various flavours. The chocolate is all delicious, and although they aren’t cheap at £8 per box, I can control my chocolate addiction with them, because I eat one little bar a night and so a box lasts me nearly a month. I fool myself that they are nearly all dark chocolate so they are good for me. I got two boxes half price at Morrisons after Christmas, which I’m still enjoying.

mumstheword86 Thu 24-Feb-22 13:10:16

I like dark chocolate now but a Cadbury flake is sometimes nice as-well a chocolate button so lucky to have choices aren’t we

missdeke Thu 24-Feb-22 13:07:31

Duncans walnut whip and Duncans Jamaica ginger choc bar. Oh and toblerone. Still love a toblerone but the walnut whips and ginger choc are not the same since Duncans were taken over.

JdotJ Thu 24-Feb-22 13:04:41

I absolutely adored Golden Cup chocolate bars when I was a child. Alas, no longer available

Musicgirl Thu 24-Feb-22 13:04:36

Cadbury’s Dairy Milk or Twirl for me or Galaxy milk chocolate. I like Lindt too and Green and Blacks. I don’t much like Thornton’s chocolates and definitely nothing with nuts in. None of us like Guylian or Ferrero Rocher.

1summer Thu 24-Feb-22 12:54:12

I hate hate chocolate flavour things such as chocolate cake, chocolate ice cream, chocolate pudding etc. But love any sort if chocolate, mainly Cadburys. Favourite is fruit and nut.

Bakingmad0203 Thu 24-Feb-22 12:45:35

I agree harrigran Cadbury chocolate is definitely not the same as it used to be. It gives me ‘the runs’ every time I eat it.

I am one of those people who can’t stop eating chocolate once I start and smell it.
My son buys me a box of Hotel Chocolat every Mothering Sunday and I try to ration myself but give up after the first few chocolates.

Sue450 Thu 24-Feb-22 12:43:28

Well loved them all as a child.
Now I am a grown up I love hotel chocolat.
Cadburys sold out to the USA and it’s awful
If you have ever eaten American chocolate you will know what I mean.

Bazza Thu 24-Feb-22 12:41:26

I’m surprised no one has mentioned Chocolony, a relatively newcomer, all about fair trade coco beans, and absolutely delicious. Expensive though, and not easy to break. Look out for a bright orange wrapper, salted caramel is my favourite.

Purplepixie Thu 24-Feb-22 12:40:42

Any chocolate that I can melt and spoon feed myself! It sounds drastic but I have two broken teeth that have been temporarily repaired and until they are done properly then it is melted chocolate. DH said that he wouldn’t bother if he had to melt it but it is CHOCOLATE!!!!!

At normal times I love Cadburys fruit and nut plus Lindt white chocolate with 30% cocoa. I usually try and convince myself that the latter is good for me. Haha!!!!!!!! smile