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Best, best chocolate bar

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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.

Clevedon Thu 24-Feb-22 12:08:01

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

Cabbie21 Thu 24-Feb-22 12:15:08

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.

pce612 Thu 24-Feb-22 12:17:19

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

Magrithea Thu 24-Feb-22 12:22:50

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

maggic Thu 24-Feb-22 12:24:18

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

Alioop Thu 24-Feb-22 12:31:50

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.

Bignanny2 Thu 24-Feb-22 12:33:06

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.

Startingover61 Thu 24-Feb-22 12:33:15

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!

harrigran Thu 24-Feb-22 12:34:58

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.

henetha Thu 24-Feb-22 12:37:17

I like Bounty bars. And Belgian chocolates.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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