(I resisted the urge to title this thread "What candy bar are you enjoying tonight?")

After lunch, I felt the need for sugar, so I went next door to CVS and looked at their candy bar section. As I perused my options, I thought about which candy bars were my "old reliables", e.g. always have a taste for, vs those I only occasionally have a hankerin' for. Being a major sweettooth, there's not many candy bars I don't like. So, I thought this would be another way to get to know my Axiom brethren (and occasional sis ... uh, sistren ? ) better.

Here's what I came up with as far as favorites:

1. Snickers - the king of candy bars!
2. Twix - favorite road trip food.
3. M&M's (plain) - danger, easy to munch out of a big bag at work.
4. 100 Grand - don't always see this one; it needs more respect!
5. Crunch - also great in an ice cream novelty, as are 1,2.

Honorable mention: Reese's (easily my wife's favorite), Reese's pieces, all other M&M varieties, toffee bars (Heath, Skor), Caramello, Rolo, Milk Duds (I know, not a bar, but great home theater food), Nutrageous, Marathon bar (great memories in the 1970s)

Here's the ones I like least:

1. Zagnut - peanut butter and coconut, not a match made in heaven.
2. Baby Ruth - too sweet! Makes my teeth hurt.
3. 3 Musketeers - too much nougat; the "Where's the Beef" of chocolate bars.
4. Non-chocolate bars that invade the chocolate area, like Payday.
5. Zero - the white chocolate does not do it for me.

I was going to include a poll where we could select one favorite candy bar, but the list of options would seem daunting by this wikipedia list. Oh well, at least the list makes for some nice research material... *chomp

Oh yeah, I ended up getting a Snickers. Long live the King!

In no particular order, Twix, Heath, See's Toffee, 3 Musketeers, M&Ms dark, etc, etc.

I like most of 'em. And Butterfingers in small quantities.

This kind of falls into the expensive exotica category:

Zzang! bars, from Zingerman's in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and by mail order. They're something like Snickers, but 1000X tastier. Un-freakin'-believably good. And shockingly expensive. But damn, they're tasty. My favorite candy of any sort, period. Maybe my favorite food. Or substance.

My wife worked at Zingerman's for a time, and supplied us ultra-high quality chocolate for years. Now I find ordinary chocolate bars mouth-burningly sweet and typically lacking in...you know...actual chocolate.

I do like a Twix now and then (I like the cookie texture), and Reese's cups (my favorite kid-candy), and Hershey's kisses with nuts.

The weirdest candy bar I've had that still tastes good: Mo's Bacon Bar by Vosge. Also jaw-droppingly expensive. Probably not essential eating, but pretty good.

Yeah, I'm with you on the small quantities of Butterfinger. That's another that Gail likes a lot, but it doesn't rank for me.

1) Any chocolate from Great Britain
2) Snickers
3) Kit-Kat
4) $100,000 Bar (It's old name!)
5) Special Dark

I like Mr. Goodbar and Almond Joy a lot. 3 Musketeers has never appealed to me. Like JP said, too much nougat.

Peanut M&Ms rule!

I'm with Zimbo. I grew up with european chocolate and as a kid, chocolate was a special treat, not a staple. My parents didn't even consider that the stuff made here qualified as chocolate.

Godiva raspberry is near the top of my list as are dark chocolate coated brazil nuts (one of the treats my grandparents sent from Austria). Well made truffles are always good.

I did love rollos as a kid and I still like a crispy crunch now and then.

Well la-di-da, your Majesty! 'scuse me while I eat my lowbrow redneck pseudochocolate.




just kidding!

Scharfenberger for real chocolate.

Gesundheit.

ba domp psht

It's kinda sad when you have to do that for yourself.

Ah yes - The Scharffen Berger Nibby Bar. Them's good eatin'.

Try the 70% dark. Yummah.

That's what she said!

Yes, I'm a fan of about every candy mentioned so far. I always liked the cherry nibs and chocolate covered cinnamon bears too. I'm glad the $100,000 bar is still around.

One of my all time favorites that dissapeared was the Mars bar. The Almond Snickers Bar is supposed to be the new name, but it just doesn't seem quite the same to me. Maybe it's my memory however?

Snickers is numero uno for me. It used to be Krackle before it was retired. I do like Nestle's Crunch, also.

Hershey's Whatchamacallit's here. Been awhile now but I used to chow them down in years past. Snickers, Crunch bars, and Twix are hard to beat. As well as many others. Let's face it, chocolate it good. Not a big fan of anything with coconut in it though. M&M's with peanuts rock as well. Thanks guys, there goes supper.

My favorite candy bar is Almond Joy, second would be Reese's Peanut Butter Cup.

Mine is a plain old Hershey's chocolate bar.

Okay, you've sold me. I'm going to order some and have my friends try them with me.

Dang, $7 a pop! You weren't kidding. Still, I might have to give it a shot.

I'd have to go with snickers and almond joy. But definitely agree that European (ie. real) chocolate is full of win.

They do the same thing to me. Infact most chocolate seems to. I looked up why it does that because I was a bit concerned when I would eat something chocolate only to be in quite alot of pain for a minute or so and IIRC it has something to do with the low quality of the chocolate used and acids reacting... I dunno.

I like baby ruth's if they didnt kill me. Not much for candybars anymore although i do like the occasional butterfinger or big hunk.

Mounds.

JohnK has some good one-liners, I tell ya.

Charles, my one word tells you all that you really need to know on the subject. I do, however, certainly agree with Jim that Zingerman's is yet another instance where Ann Arbor reigns supreme(you might also try the cinnamon rolls).

If you'd like to check out a wider range of thoughts on candy bars and other snacks, you might try this .

Hey, thanks for the link. Cool stuff.

Yeah, cool link. I laughed out loud at the review of the Snickers Big One ("Would you recommend this to others? F*** yes!").

Skor for taste.

Reeses PB Cups to satisfy the craving created every time I see the wrapper or hear the words.

Reeses Peanuts or any kind of chocolate covered almonds for movie snacks.

The winner is.....
Any one of the above blended in with Ice Cream!!!!!

Agreed though, I can rarely find it but after having a 'real' European style chocolate, it's hard to go back.

Wow, that is a hard one, depends of the mood, but here a a few.

Toblerone
Milka
Twix
Hershey
Ritter Sport
3 Musketeer
Almond Joy

To be honest, most

Dave, I think we still have the Mars bar up here. But ours is in a black package and it doesn't have any nuts in it. Is that the one you mean?

Didn't Berkshire Hathaway buy Mars recently? Maybe we can write to Warren Buffet and request the return of the Mars bar to Utah!

<name-dropping>Mr. Buffet's sister lives in Fredericksburg, so I'll get on it.</name-dropping>

Amie, you forgot to chime in with the favorites of the Axiom HQ gang...

Wow, with that last post, I'm a quarter of the way to Axiomite! At this rate, I'll be a shareholder in 2022 or thereabouts.

Yeah, if you keep doing one line posts.

Love the new sig, Ken.

Sam for President!!!

Thanks Amie! The Mars bar found in Canada and Europe is different. The US Mars had almonds and caramel. But if you have any pull with Warren Buffet then it's definitely worth a try.

I can tell you however that I would never give up my Axioms, even for chocolate.

whats the name of that candy bar they sell in canada that chocolate coated with some kind of red tasteless gummy goop in the center? I mean real gummy like eating some kind of dr schools foot pad or something (tastes about the same as well)

I believe you are talking about a Big Turk. Big Turk

Yes, those things are like eating silicon caulking wrapped in chocolate. Been around for ever though so I guess somebody likes them.

You know what else fits that description?

Circus Peanuts.

Snickers should be using this as the basis for a CSI-style commercial .

Voice-over: "Snickers... simply irresistible"

1.Snickers
2.Hundred Grand
3.Turtles ( chocolate covered caramel and nuts)
4.Charleston Chew ( but not since i was a kid)
also many varieties of dark chocolate.
Jake

I haven't thought of Charleston Chews for a long time. We used to keep them in the freezer. A different experience than room temp, for sure.

Hahaha

Reese's, Twix, Kit-Kat, Snickers for the megas.

But the classic Almond Roca from Tacoma's Brown and Haley is awfully good. They are now making "thins" which might be even better. Peanut butter Mountain Bars are good, too.

Yep That'd be it! If you ask me they ought to take the K off the end and replace it with a D.

I some how knew someone was going to say that.

I don't know if it is considered a candy bar but I love York Pepper Mint patties.

All right, the Zzang candy bars are here. I won't try one until tomorrow evening, but at least now I know they're 3 ounces.

How about Junior Mints?! YUM!!!

Does anyone remember the Marathon Bar from the 70's? It was like braided caramel strips covered in chocolate. I loved that candy bar!

My current addiction is the Salted Nutroll. Can't beat the price either...2 for $1 at the grocery store right now.

Me too! Every two weeks I had to go to the allergist to get a shot. This was before it was common to give them at home. In the medical complex, there was a gift shop right across the hall from Dr. Bannister's office. For a long time, my ritual was to get a Marathon bar (for a quarter) after each shot. I think it was circa 1976 so I would have been 8 years old.

In 1976, I hadn't developed teeth yet.




You're old. Ha ha. (Nelson laugh)

<Grampa Simpson> "We can't bust heads like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to tell them stories that don't go anywhere. Like the time I took the fairy to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe so I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on them. Give me five bees for a quarter you'd say. Now where were we, oh ya. The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because if the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones." </Grampa Simpson>

I thought this was going to be a story about being allergic to something in the Marathon, but they were so good that you ate them anyway.

This is the allergy that never ends
It just goes on and on my friend...

I wasn't born for another 7 years..


Ha Ha.

*pop*

There goes my happy/gloating bubble.

That bar was called a wigwag uphere and I loved those.

I'm doing my best to make 40 the new 14.

and you are doing a very good job of it. You just need to ask Claire how she feels about CV to truly make it have that 14 yr old feel.

Uh-oh. Thread seepage.

That explains the awful smell.

Had chocolate covered cranberries from the overpriced health food store yesterday.

Not impressed. Good chocolate but with very little cranberry taste. Not a total loss though as I had the illusion of healthy eating while downing way too much chocolate.

Cleanup in the candy bar thread!

What aisle are we on, anyway?

Where's the DuPont Registry? That's the best part of the local supermarket.

The one near the exit, so we can skip out as soon as the sermon is over.

Mmmmmmmm... Marathon bars... Brings back memories!

I had mentioned that I liked chocolate from Great Britain... Anyone ever had a Galaxy Bar or an Aero Bar?

Would that be this Aero bar ? My 4 yr old calls it a bubbly, bubbly bar.

You are awesome I have been trying to remember what the hell those were called for like 6months. I was explaning it to my wife and daughter saying how good they were and i wonder if they made the anymore. I was just asking my brother they other day if he remembered them because they were my favorite growinng up. Didn't the back of the package have like a ruler or maybe it distance measurements it was afterall called a marathon bar. Now i can sleep again. lol Thanks

That's the one. It comes in mint flavor too.

They also had an orange flavored one for awhile, not sure if they still make it. It was very good.

(Halloween bump)

I've been hitting the Snickers again. I have to remember to leave some for the trick-or-treaters.

Peter, you'll have to tell us about your exploits at work.

I just ate a mini snickers.

Snickers after being in the freezer for a bit....

What's so funny about that?

3 Musketeers are my favorite. In Florida they have chocolate-dipped coconut patties and they are sooooooooo good.

Dr. House

That took me a second. . .

Yuck, now I have muffin stuck in my nose.

Hey, I know how to clean that out. Take a big swing of a freshly opened Pepsi and then read the joke thread.

The carbonation bubbles are like Drano and will scrub out all trace of muffin.

Trust me, I'm a doctor.

Well, looks like JP has my weekend all planned out for me.

Snickers, anything Reese's, Smarties. That is all.

Wasabi, lightly dipped in Soy Sauce. Way more effective. Gets right up into the sinus cavities.

Is that why you lurk at sushi bars and then pounce when the time is right?

Not any more. All those Youtube videos of how to defend yourself using chopsticks has taken some of the fun out of it.

Yeah, doesn't take much to turn a chopstick into a pretty nasty shiv.