Favourite Chocolate bar

[HEyHEY]

I'm a coffee Crisp man myself

[Mistress Quickly]

1. Butterfinger

or Hershey

[Kathy in Cambridge]

2. Toblerone

followed by any Belgian Chocolate. And actually, a plain old Hersheys would be third.

[bleedingheart]

13. Yep Toblerone is the best and has unique packaging!

[kixot]

3. Umm, I don't think we get some of those here in the states

I love it when my friend in London visits because I always ask her to bring chocolates from "across the pond". The stuff she brings is always sooo good. The closest quality I can find here is cadbury. Yes, godiva sucks.

[Democrats unite]

4. Zero bar

Ain't nothing like it!

[madrchsod]

5. fannie mae

before the son of a bitches went bankrupt and closed the chicago plant.

[ironflange]

6. Many of these, I think, aren't available in the US

Whenever I'm in the States, I'm struck by the poor selection of candy bars.

[HEyHEY]

8. Like which ones?

[hlthe2b]

7. Anything chocolate would be just fine.... What's the story with the polar

bear and the dog....Not photoshopped?

[HEyHEY]

9. no photoshoppin'

Amazing as it is Polar Bears and Dogs get along. It's extremely common for them to play together.

[hlthe2b]

10. That's REALLY cool!

Have you ever seen in person?

[HEyHEY]

11. Yeah, that's my dog

Just kiddin, no I never have. Though I've seen it on TV a few times.

[tridim]

12. Lindt milk chocolate

at least as far as mid-range priced chocolate goes.

[Liberal Christian]

14. Coffee Crisp, Aero, and Mirage are not available in US

At least I don't think I know Mirage. I know I've only ever gotten Coffee Crisp and Aero in Canada.

Other favorite Canadian candy bar is the Cadbury Crunch (Crunchy?). Yum!!!!!

[kixot]

18. Actually Aero is available here in the U.S.

It's usually found in supermarkets in the "British foods" specialty section and occasionally in convenience stores. The other ones, though, no.

[fortyfeetunder]

24. Some places "south of the border" have them

Coffee Crisp...can be found in some stores in Seattle...yummm...

[jmowreader]

15. Ritter Sport!

How could you leave off Ritter Sport Halbbitters?

[x-g.o.p.er]

16. Ritter Sport Milk Chocolate!!!! n/t

[supernova]

17. Ritter Sport - Germany

Ritter Sport bars put all other bars to shame.

[Rabrrrrrr]

19. Those are all shit chocolate

and I won't touch 'em unless I'm desperate, or I'm in someone's home who doesn't have the taste/knowledge/decency/whatever to serve good-tasting chocolate.

It's true, but if I go to the chocolate shop down the street, where the chocolate is maybe $20 a pound, I can get more satisfaction out of one truffle, which is about 50 cents, then I can out of four bars of hershey crap, which are about $2.00 total.

For s'mores I'll take Hersheys just for tradition's sake, but otherwise, I'll go without american factory-made faux-chocolate altogether and go have something else. :-)

American mainstream chocolate is crap, and it's just depressing. Just like mainstream American beer, mainstream American pop music, and mainstream American TV "entertainment."

[supernova]

21. Now, Now

HeyHey asked for "favourite chocolate bar" not "favourite I-can outsnob-you chocolate" :D

For that, I can go to Chapel Hill and look at an entire wall of Chocolate from all over the world.

[Rabrrrrrr]

23. I did still vote for hersheys

:-)

In the spirit of the poll. And I rarely, if ever, will vote for other. Such a cop out.

But as long as we continue to buy and consume products that are obviously cheapened and mass-produced bastardized versions of real food, they'll continue to make them, just like TV shows, music, and other things.

So one does not have to 'adjust" to the choices at hand. Gandhi didn't.

[HEyHEY]

22. I'll agree with you ........but.....

I don't really eat chocolate. And I do prefer the imported stuff, like Milka and others. But I can't remember their names....so I posted the commoners.

[phaseolus]

20. Valrhona!

Kinda pricey, but good stuff.

On edit -- someone once pointed out that the problem with much American chocolate, especially Hershey's, is that it has a strong 'burnt milk' flavor note. It still is okay in a pinch, though. Better than Nestle's which doesn't have any flavor as far as I can tell.

When I was a kid you could get Ziegler bars in Milwaukee (as well as several local potato chip brands, which don't exist anymore, either.)

[Lostmessage]

25. Mounds and Peppermint Patties

:smoke:

[Bundbuster]

26. on a budget - Almond Joy

and does a bag of M&M's count as a candy bar? MASS quantities of M's in a sitting.

[guitar man]

27. World's Finest

As far as I know,you can't get them in the store. The only place I have ever seen them is for fun-raising for school groups etc.Anyway,they rock!