Best, best chocolate bar

I like Bounty bars. And Belgian chocolates.

Anything but Cadbury's, a disgusting confection that bears no resemblance to chocolate of the 50s and 60s.
Probably first choice would be Belgian chocolates from a Chocolatier.

Cadbury’s Dairy Milk or Fruit and Nut, wine gums, fruit jellies, Picnic, Bounty for me. Going to be giving up all sweet things for Lent though!

Does anyone remember ‘secret ‘ bars in the 80s/90s ?? They were spun chocolate (like a birds nest texture) around a walnut whip type centre. They were only around for a few years, but I loved them. Although Cadbury’s crème eggs are not what they were, I’m still fond on one (or two). Trendy chocolates are nice now and again but I like the good old fashioned ones from my childhood.

My favourites as a child were Golden Cups and Raspberry Ruffles although I only got those at Xmas from Woolworths pick & mix. Now I can have bags whenever I want, although at the moment I'm loving Orange Twirls.

White Toblerone. I have been known to eat a giant size one in a single sitting!

Partial to Fry's Turkish Delight, Snickers and Twix but my absolute fave is Green and Black's Dark (85%) chocolate

Ferrero Rocher for me but it's all about the nuts.

During rationing mum would buy one Mars bar, which was cut into four pieces, so a piece each after Sunday dinner.
As a child I liked Crunchie bars.
I loved Bourneville fruit and nut but I haven’t seen it for ages. I get large bars of dark chocolate with hazelnuts from Aldi and keep it in the fridge. A couple of squares now and then, so it lasts ages. Otherwise any plain dark chocolate.

Definitely Lindy chocolates ,the round ones for me now. But as a child maltesers, caramac and I still buy flying saucers ?

Oh my goodness maddyone, I've never come across anyone else who knows what I'm talking about when i wax lyrical over Leonidas chocolates (especially the white marons). I used to work in London as a nanny in the 80's and on my day off i would take a trip to Selfridges or Harrods and buy a small box and then proceed to demolish them. I did try to ration them out but it never worked for me, they were irresistible.

Picnic bar
Lindt hazelnut milk
Ferrero Rocher (Naff but nice. Ambassador's party anyone?)
Caramac
Twix

MiniMoon

I used to love a Reeces NutRageous bar but unfortunately I have developed gallstones. Chocolate seems to be a trigger so, no more chocolates for me.
My favourite as a child was a Fry's peppermint cream.

Try 70% cocoa high quality dark chocolate - just a couple of square to satisfy the choccy craving. I couldn’t eat ordinary milk chocolate when I developed gallstones because of the fat content, but a good dark chocolate didn’t affect me.

Ladyleftfieldlover

Someone mentioned raspberry ruffles. Amazon do the very ones that I used to buy in British Home Stores, Reading ‘pick and mix’ in the 1970s.

That was me, thank you. Going over to Amazon now to take a look. I can feel my waistline expanding as I type !!

I quite like Hotel Chocolat Batons, but my favourite is JD Gross 85% dark chocolate which I buy at Lidl.

I used to love Cadbury Boost.

Lindt Extra Creamy is my fave atm. I always have two squares after dinner with a cuppa. Also like Aldi's chocolate that comes in individual little bars so you don't over indulge. Agree Cadbury's chocolate is not as good as it used to be.

Nell8

My first employer was Cadburys in Bournville. I ended up in the quality control department where I had a chance to join tasting panels. There was an interesting occasion when some Creme Eggs had to be returned from storage in a railway siding because they'd started to burst. Wish I could remember what caused them to explode ..

I'm partial to Bendicks Bittermints. Very sweet mint fondant coated in bitter dark chocolate. I enjoy trying to nibble off the chocolate leaving the fondant untouched ... sad, I know.

I went to school in Redditch, Worcestershire. One of my school friends arranged for us to visit Cadburys on a tour they used to do. It was a big adventure as we went on our own, I think we went on the bus, we must have been about 12. I remember touring round the different lines and being given some samples as we went. We were then taken to see a film on how chocolate was made and as we left we were given a tin with some chocolate inside. When we had eaten the chocolate we used the tin to keep our school pens and pencils in. It is one of my happy memories from childhood.

Someone mentioned raspberry ruffles. Amazon do the very ones that I used to buy in British Home Stores, Reading ‘pick and mix’ in the 1970s.

I used to love a Reeces NutRageous bar but unfortunately I have developed gallstones. Chocolate seems to be a trigger so, no more chocolates for me.
My favourite as a child was a Fry's peppermint cream.

Dark chocolate Bounty, dark choc rum & raisin, Lindt dark sea salt. Always dark apart from walnut whirls ( the original ones).

This always has been, and remains, my ‘luxury’ chocolate: www.cadbury.co.uk/products/frys-chocolate-cream-11326

mrswoo

I love a plain chocolate Bounty - the one with the red wrapper - far nicer than the milk chocolate version. Sadly, they are quite hard to find in the shops. Even more upsetting is the fact that I'm meant to be on a diet and only allow myself one Cadbury Freddo bar a week.

Whenever I do an internet shop from Tesco, I get dark chocolate Bounties as it’s the only place I can ever manage to find them. I think the sweetness of the coconut is a bit cloying with milk chocolate - the dark chocolate balances it better somehow. I want one now !!

I love a plain chocolate Bounty - the one with the red wrapper - far nicer than the milk chocolate version. Sadly, they are quite hard to find in the shops. Even more upsetting is the fact that I'm meant to be on a diet and only allow myself one Cadbury Freddo bar a week.

I used go love Nutty bars. They were a stick of fudge/caramel type of thing covered in peanuts. Used to buy them on my way home from school in the 70s. None of my friends were that keen on them but I loved them.

I remember when I was about 9 or 10, our local sweet shop started selling something called Gaiety Assortment. They had previously only been available as large expensive chocolate boxes, but they started selling them by the quarter from big glass jars into paper bags. They were sublime.