The objectively best chocolate bars
I was inspired by @TiredThinker's recent discussion about sponge candy to start a discussion about chocolate bars.
I've completed a decades-long survey and it turns out the best ones are the Daim bar from Sweden (which is or used to be called "Dime" in the UK), and the Step bar from Russia.
Obviously most of you will be boycotting Russian chocolate bars at the moment, but surely some of you have had a Daim bar.
I've completed a decades-long survey and it turns out the best ones are the Daim bar from Sweden (which is or used to be called "Dime" in the UK), and the Step bar from Russia.
Obviously most of you will be boycotting Russian chocolate bars at the moment, but surely some of you have had a Daim bar.
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The king of chocolate bars: Kit kat
And a bit of recognition of the national product.
You've been living under a rock if you're shocked and surprised by the concept of chocolate mixed with nuts! It's the classic chocolate combination. Ever heard of M&Ms?
You should be able to get a Daim bar at IKEA by the way.
Quoting Jamal
Yes, and I was in its large store in London, and their taste is like savoring the harvest. Ew!
"Savouring the harvest" to me sounds deliciously evocatively delicious.
That makes me think of my Siberian tea, which isn't really tea. It looks like somebody went in to a forest and just swept up whatever was on the ground. Leaves, needles, cones, sticks, etc. I say it's like drinking a forest, and I mean it as a good thing. I savour the forest.
Before anyone thinks I'm one of those tea people, I'm not. Coffee is my drink, but I drink tea when I have infections of the upper respiratory system, as I do now.
I can't take your whisky chat seriously, knowing that you have so little chocolate bar discernment. Mars bars indeed.
My edgy opinion is that grown-up chocolate bars, rather like single malt whisky, are a triumph of marketing over substance, and that the confectionery aimed at kids is more inventive and tasty. I won't deny that Lindt is good chocolate, but it's like eating a raw ingredient.
That's alright, while you come to terms with that, this weekend, I will nibble happily on a mars bar, et al, in between sips of the wonderful two bottles of Ileach I Just bought.
Awe! That's so nice :flower: I forgot I had a big tub of 'Celebrations,' all the mini choc bars you could ever want! Including mini mars bars! Oh, I also bought a Caol ila 12, An Ardbeg Uigeadail and a Lagavulin 16.
The other best UK chocolate bar is the humble yet perfect Chomp.
It's a bit like a 'picnic' in Scotland, but not quite.
Cant say if they would taste exactly the same as I've never tasted a payday bar.
The inside config of a picnic looks different to a payday bar but perhaps the same basic ingredients:
Similarly with a lion bar, which has not got the big nuts of the pictured payday bar!
Do you two need yer big nuts, with yer big chocolate bar?
Don't forget the cheeky wee toffee crisp!
How about a wee star bar or the old favourite Twix?
The payday bar reminds me more of the now defunct Rowntree's Nutty Bar from the 1970's, minus the covering chocolate.
Its a bad bar. Toffee Crisps are fine but not great.
Yeah, not mad on da Twixes myself, but I will indulge if that's all that's on offer!
Not If I got to it first pal!
Well, mad cow disease would be yer reward, if you manage that one. I would do ma ninja moves and avoid your attack and get to the twix. F***** if I am eating you, ah don't want mad cow disease! Or even worse, I might start Russian about.
Hah! Ya surrender monkey! Ah might gie yi a wee bit aff the end! (flipping auto correct keeps messing wi ma slang man!)
If you say so. I havent been able to go back to regular bars since trying these.
Cadbury is an English brand, if Im not mistaken. If so, I think that makes you some sort of cultural confectionery traitor. A person whos allegiances are turned on a Dime.
I think it's rather more subtle than that. What I like least about American popular sweets is that they put in too much salt and then too much extra sugar to hide it. Plus unnecessary stuff like cereal, nuts and raisins. The odd piece of hazelnut or almond is all tight, but they go three steps beyond that: they put in far too much and then surround the fillers with more sugar in the form of runny caramel or hard toffee, nougat or cookies, leaving little room for actual chocolate, which is what I like. I like cookies as cookies, nuts as nuts, nougat as nougat - but I prefer to choose how much of each and when.
True, my compatriots would hang me, if only they could catch me. But note that Im mainly Scottish, which is not a form of English.
I do like some Cadburys chocolate. The Chomp, for example.
Incidentally and in case you dont know, theres some connection between Quakers and chocolate. Cadbury and a few other English chocolate makers like Rowntree and Fry were Quakers.
Im not a caramel fan myself, but looking up the Chomp I see that Cadbury has a wide variety of treats. The stores only stock a few around here.
Interesting about the Quakers. Until now I only suspected a connection with oatmeal.
Do you remember the Cabana bar?
They had a dark choc version that I remember well and was sorry to see discontinued. Couldn't have been popular enough amongst the 'chompers.'
How about the 'Topic,' you must remember that one?
The Milky Way bar, with its whipped creamy filling, lives up to its name as being a top contender in our solar system, although its lack of a fulfilling nutty crunch leaves it wanting. It therefore cannot be fully counted on in the way the Snickers bar can.
To take this in a whole nother direction as they say back home, we can consider the Million Dollar bar, a delicacy that at one time only titans of industry could afford due to its high, but wholly justified price. The rich caramel immediately will inject the most weary with a surge of energy that has been known to resurrect the hypoglycemic from their permanent slumbers. It is used in some countries just for that purpose in fact, where the dead are re-alived, albeit it in a zombie like state, where they soon begin donning motorcycle gear and begin to lurk about in search of brains.
Many do. Technically, they're candy bars, but if manufacturers put a thin layer of chocolate on a cookie, nut, toffee or nougat bar, it can pass in the minds of consumers for a chocolate bar. Sugar and peanuts are way cheaper than chocolate and incidentally, less exploitative to acquire.
Well, we wouldn't call a club biscuit, a chocolate bar, even though it's covered in chocolate, or should we? I suppose a Kit Kat blurs them lines between chocolate biscuit and chocolate bar and I won't get into the big Jaffa cake debate! is a Jaffa cake really a biscuit or is it truly a cake? Certainly not a chocolate bar, agree?
Youve opened a can of worms.
I think pure chocolate, with no added fats or other additives, can suffer from the ubiquitous waxy problem. I've had local farm single ingredient chocolate that is waxy. It's probably an issue of crystallization of the cocoa butter. Industry additives probably improve the mouth feel.
As long as they are not worms which are covered in chocolate. Would they be called chocolate worm bars?? Good Grief! Gaps in our knowledge, everywhere! :gasp:
Just to add to the general miasma. How about this one.
We use the term 'chocolates' to refer to chocolate confection with various fillings and of various sizes and shapes, normally stored in a box formation, hence 'box of chocolates.'
As a business idea, (around 23 years ago) some of my S6 pupils, as part of a IDL (Inter-Departmental Learning) project, between the business dept and the computing dept, came up with the idea of merging a group of chosen chocolates, traditionally found in a box formation, into a bar or block style.
They proposed that their chosen chocolates would have different contents, be different sizes and shapes, but all be connected in a single bar/block style and be wrapped in the same way as a traditional 'bar' of square or rectangular sections. They soooooo struggled between calling it a bar or block or group or palette of chocolate. They ended up with naming it the zoob zoob chocolate palette. Whaddyafink? They got quite good grades for their project. But alas, I have not seen the zoob zoob chocolate palette in the shops, since I moved on to a new computing class of S6 in 2001.
That said, the pictures here look delicious. And also, of course, chocolates have that ingredient flavanol that is good for health.
Chocolates also come in pink:
I upvote this comment.
I am not a chocolate guy, but have you guys and girls had dark chocolate with salt?
It is very sexy.
I think I need some therapy!
In my head, when I viewed your response. I accused you of 'chocolate racism!' :rofl:
What does your philosophy tell you about that? Apart from any ad hominem towards me, currently manifesting in your Freudian Id. You don't like dark chocolate associated with old Jamaica and rum ....... chocolate racism :rofl:
I think I will just buy more of that chocolate to defy you. Oh wait, I still have 6 bars in my fridge!
I like dark chocolate, but Bournville is IMHO the old over-sweet sickly sticky disgusting kind of dark chocolate. Also I abhor rum.
Raisins I can handle.
:cool: Do you associate 'dark' chocolate with the Christian devil/satan? Do you think Jesus would only have ever chosen to eat white chocolate? :joke:
Quoting Jamal
Welcome back to atheism! We wondered what had happened to you. Some said you caught some kind of hanovarianism or something, is that true?
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:yum: :yum: but my type 2 diabetes screams noooooooooooo!
Quoting Jamal
I once met a beautiful girl at a party and between the two of us, we drank one bottle of 'black heart rum,' and too many bottles of Sol with a slice of lime or lemon, scrunched into the bottle.
She eventually had her wild way with me. I like rum!
Quoting Jamal
Covered in dark chocolate?