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Reese's Peanut Butter cups (not sure if that counts) so if not..........Butterfingers
Mheusler at 9:51AM on 04/20/07
Needhams (from Maine), the country's best potato-based candy! I don't know if they count, needham isn't a brand name but a type of candy. Otherwise, I opt for the Idaho Spud, which I discovered at Dylan's Candy Bar.
Barbara Hanson at 9:57AM on 04/20/07
Two favorites, both from Cadbury.
One, Boost. It is SUPER CHARGED WITH GLUCOSE. It is essentially a giant, awesome Twix bar. You can find them at Dylan's.
Two, Dairy Milk With Creme Egg. Why this is not available over in the states, I have no idea, but it's a crime.
Dan Dickinson at 10:34AM on 04/20/07
I have much love for the Mars bar, although Snickers will do in a pinch.
I also love frozen Charleston Chews, but they do a number on my dental work!
Amandarama at 10:38AM on 04/20/07
Milky Way Midnight, Cadbury Crunchie, and Violet Crumble.
But really, I like all candy bars. Oh, except Reese's PB Cups, and I may be the only person on the planet who isn't crazy about them.
amyscoop at 10:52AM on 04/20/07
Coffee Crisp! I used to have to travel over the border to get them from Canada, but a few stores around here have begun carrying them. Yum!
mepolo at 10:57AM on 04/20/07
Dove milk chocolate bar. Also, not really a candy bar but MonCheri and those gold-foiled balls with hazelnuts and nutella type choco cream in them....can't think of what they are called.
ThatGirl153 at 10:58AM on 04/20/07
Zero -- though I can't seem to find them in the stores anymore.
femmebot at 11:12AM on 04/20/07
Skybar! Check out that 10-cent dark chocolate Skybar down in the corner. NECCO was way ahead of their time!
Also, I love KitKats.
K at 11:25AM on 04/20/07
Mounds. I wish they made a Mounds bar with almonds because it's the dark chocolate and coconut combination that makes a Mounds bar so good.
Ed Levine at 11:31AM on 04/20/07
Caramello, Heath bars and - ready for this? - Twix. I know, trans-fat hell.
emily20008 at 11:36AM on 04/20/07
whachamacallit and 100 grand. old school american classics baby.
Lexie at 11:42AM on 04/20/07
Whatchamacalit or payday
SkinnyFatty at 11:47AM on 04/20/07
skor bar or smarties
Lilartist at 11:56AM on 04/20/07
Mounds, Almond Joy, Baby Ruth and Nestles chocolate with almonds. Any candy you want can probably be found at Economy Candy on the Lower East Side. I also wish they made Mounds with almonds, since I really prefer dark chocolate.
Mich23 at 11:56AM on 04/20/07
Oh, yeah, 100 Grand! Forgot how much I love it! (Hard to keep my candy loves straight, let alone the candy stashes I have in my house!)
Barbara Hanson at 12:06PM on 04/20/07
Payday. Sweet & salty at its finest!
Acme Instant Food at 12:09PM on 04/20/07
Zero bars are my favourite! ILOVE THEM!
Tessa at 12:13PM on 04/20/07
Anybody remember Bobcat, Whiz, Zero, 7-Up?
1stmakearoux at 12:16PM on 04/20/07
Frozen Twix bars!!
Sarahrm at 12:18PM on 04/20/07
Frozen snickers, without question.
NSW at 12:24PM on 04/20/07
VIOLET CRUMBLE...."It's the way it shatters that matters!"
à la mode at 12:39PM on 04/20/07
snickers! recently, hershey's take 5. yum.
charm city cupcake at 12:57PM on 04/20/07
Pretty much anything with good dark chocolate and almonds.
Used to really like what I've been told was the "old" Mars bar. Then I bought a Mars bar imported from the UK, after someone told me it was still the old style, and found it to be much like a 3 Musketeers.
Anyway, the Mars bar that I remember was chocolate, almonds, and caramel.
Am I remembering that right, or am I way off track? Did the Mars bar change?
billg at 1:00PM on 04/20/07
Kinder Bueno... or Aero... soooo tasty...
pbisNOTmyname at 1:08PM on 04/20/07
Reese's Sticks are excellent but harder and harder to find. Basically peanut butter cop flavor with less goo and a little crunch.
And I agree with Ed - if they put an almond in a mounds it would be about perfect. Seems such an obvious line extension - "dark chocolate almond joy" and "milk chocolate mounds" - in this era of line extensions that it's hard to believe they haven't done it yet.
kqrbob at 1:12PM on 04/20/07
I've never met anyone else who'll admit to liking it, probably cause it's apparently not made with real chocolate, but I do love Butterfinger. Nothing's better in a Dairy Queen Blizzard! Nothing!
Lia Bulaong at 1:13PM on 04/20/07
Butterfinger is really good... Nothing tastes better at the movies...
pbisNOTmyname at 1:16PM on 04/20/07
Hershey's Special Dark Chocolate bar. I'm diabetic, so can't eat an entire one all at once, but I break off one of the little squares and let it melt in my mouth every other day or so.
BreadBox at 1:16PM on 04/20/07
Ritter Sport!
ceforrester at 1:35PM on 04/20/07
A Cadbury Crunchie (or it's Buffalo, NY/Erie, PA regional variant of sponge candy) or a Dairy Milk Fruit & Nut bar.
stefnoble at 1:55PM on 04/20/07
i can't believe more people aren't saying my favorite, KIT KAT...i also love the Cadbury Flakes
spaghetti at 2:08PM on 04/20/07
Galaxy with hazlenuts.
Or Snickers.
segalbraith at 2:09PM on 04/20/07
kinder bueno! yummmm. and snickers.
Stacy at 2:37PM on 04/20/07
whatchamacallit and 100 grand, both straight out of the freezer....
and i also love mounds.
Alm25 at 2:59PM on 04/20/07
So hard to pick one...
Twix - just the perfect flavor/texture combo
Clare K at 3:09PM on 04/20/07
Bring em all on (well, except mounds bars, yuck)! Why isn't it Halloween everyday?
josh! at 3:47PM on 04/20/07
Wow-when I read the question nothing came to mind, and now I can't decide on a favourite! I think i have it narrowed down to Coffee Crisp, Skor or Twix...regardless, I eat them very rarely. Most often my chocolate fix is via Lindt 70% cocoa dark chocolate, and only one square at a time!
psychsarah at 4:08PM on 04/20/07
Zagnut and Cadbury Creme Eggs (its makes me sad that Easter is over)
VegeGoddess at 4:51PM on 04/20/07
My head hurts...Flake, Crunchie, Kit-Kats, Twix (my fave in college)! I love you all!
Barbara Hanson at 5:37PM on 04/20/07
As a kid I liked Cherry Mash. Now I only buy dark chocolate gourmet bars like DeBrand
JEP at 7:09PM on 04/20/07
Crunchie is by far my favorite, closely followed by Peanut Butter Twix and Cadbury Top Deck
ohnofullmoon at 8:38PM on 04/20/07
Don't have just one fave. Zero, Mounds, Snickers, not necessarily in that order. Now I'm thinkin' dark chocolate, I'm thinkin' almonds...someone stop me!
baboo at 9:51PM on 04/20/07
Is almond joy not the same thing as Mounds, but WITH almonds? I think I'm missing something. Aren't both made with dark chocolate?
Kamzilla at 10:00PM on 04/20/07
Cadbury Mini Eggs, Ritter Sport with coconut, and that Milka bar that has the biscuit in it.
caley at 5:56AM on 04/21/07
Almond Joy is made with pallid milk chocolate. In order to get dark chocolate, almonds, and coconut, you have to make them yourself. They're even vegan---and my son David used to eat 'em all up. The next time I make some maybe I'll send a few to Ed Levine!
Teachertalk at 8:16AM on 04/21/07
I guess I'm a loner, but Fifth Avenue bars are to die for! If those things came in a hazelnut variety, I would do almost anything to get them. I also love raspberry filled Ghirardelli dark chocolate squares. Mmmmm. Oh, and those Terry's dark chocolate "whack and eat" oranges that I can only find at Christmas.
Calichef at 10:07AM on 04/21/07
Bonomo's Turkish Taffy and it may be making a comeback.
http://www.bonomosturkishtaffy.com/index.html
grampart at 12:50PM on 04/21/07
If I did ever get back the ability to process sugar well, I'd have Ritter Sport, white chocolate with hazelnuts; York's Peppermint Patty; Butterfinger; and a Mounds bar. Probably not in that order. I'd most likely end with the Peppermint Patty.
hereandthe at 2:14PM on 04/21/07
Alas, my favorite candy bar has not been made for YEARS... Marathon Bar. Anyone remember this? It was a long twist of caramel dipped in chocolate. I think they stopped making it sometime in the early 80's. Second favorite, was the Reggie Bar.
Brian Spangler at 5:41PM on 04/21/07
Grampart--thanks for the news about Bonomo!!! Wow, I haven't been so happy since the Rangers swept Atlanta!
Barbara Hanson at 7:07PM on 04/21/07
Just made a happy discovery! This site http://www.jackscountrystore.com/SearchResult.aspx?CategoryID=62 sells many of the hard-to-find candy bars (e.g., Zero, Violet Crumble, Spud) Serious Eaters are yearning for. It also has a huge inventory that includes some nifty kitchen gadgets and cooking accessories. Apparently they ship for a flat rate of five bucks for purchases under $250.
baboo at 9:11PM on 04/21/07
Chilled Snickers... Yum
Jerry at 11:22PM on 04/21/07
Milky salty pretzel bar from Chocolate Bar in NYC. Salty-sweet goodness. Oh, yum.
MegB at 11:53PM on 04/21/07
Heath Bar, Reese's PB Eggs, Butterfinger, Snickers, Twix, Mars with almonds, Payday, BabyRuth, Ritter Sport with Rum and Raisins, Kinder Eggs, Clark Bars, and Skor Bars, Lindt anything, Dove anything, and Malley's Pretzel Chocolate Bars. Wow do I love chocolate.
jenki at 12:41AM on 04/22/07
I can't believe this isn't anyone else's favorite, but I just love the dark chocolate Rocky Road bars... chocolate covered, peanut sprinkled marshmallowy goodness. They're hard to find, though - most stores, if they carry Rocky Road at all, carry the milk chocolate kind in the red foil. The dark chocolate comes in a superior and lovely gold foil, and for a good reason. :)
Mounds will do in a pinch. Although we should start a letter-writing campaign to Peter Paul demanding almonds in our Mounds.
prieta at 2:54AM on 04/22/07
Wait, that's not peanuts in Rocky Road bars, that's actually CASHEW bits. How could I forget? I obviously need to eat more candy. Though it's a good thing for my waistline that they're hard to find.
prieta at 2:59AM on 04/22/07
Actually, I would think that Rocky Road bars would be easier on your waistline than any candy bars with lots of chocolate and/or peanuts/peanut butter. After all, Rocky Road bars are mostly marshmallow which are nothing more than whipped egg whites, sugar syrup and gelatin. Marshmallows are fat free. Rocky Road bars don't have enough nut bits to add much in the line of fat and protien, and the chocolate is thin and mostly used to glue the marshmallows together. Empty calories, to be sure, but a lower fat choice than most other chocolate bars.
Calichef at 7:31AM on 04/22/07
Heath Bars - I love good toffee!
pageycooks at 10:42AM on 04/22/07
Reese's Fastbreak or 3 muskateers here!
zekks at 10:51AM on 04/22/07
A fresh Butterfinger that melts in my mouth
Kacey at 12:15PM on 04/22/07
Peanut M&Ms
rosielucchesini at 3:16PM on 04/22/07
Skor Bars! Cruncy, chocoatey, and caramely... good with milk.
shaofan at 8:45PM on 04/22/07
Snickers, Baby Ruth, Almond Joy. When I studied abroad in Austria in college, I developed a love of Milka chocolate bars, especially the ones with hazelnuts, and Mozartkugeln, though I don't know if that qualifies as a candy bar. I also LOVE Ferrero Rocher!
glenda at 10:14PM on 04/22/07
Frozen twix, frozen 100 grand
favorite candy (not bar): red vines, gummi bears, and twizzlers, all stale (or half frozen) so they're extra chewy!
ChristineB at 10:28PM on 04/22/07
Baboo - thank you for fabulous site you found! I just finished reading 'Candy Freak' by Steve Almond, wishing I could taste some of the bars he writes about and, and ... there they are, at reasonable prices and shipping! Even in Massachusetts it's hard to find a store to buy squirrel nut zippers. Valomilk, Abba Zabba, Coffee Crisp: there goes the diet!
Oh, and favorite candy bar? I used to love Fast Break, salt peanut butter and chocolate, but found it was hit or miss on the quality: it wasn't often that I got one from a batch that hit salty/sweet peanut butter perfection.
Pastrytroll at 8:38AM on 04/23/07
Kit Kat
NYminknit at 1:00PM on 04/23/07
cadbury flake in all of it's flavors. It is soooo good.
JerzeeTomato at 12:42AM on 04/25/07
Toblerone, Mallow Cups, Snickers with Almonds, Kit-Kat, Nestles Crunch with Toasted Coconut, Peanut M&M's, DARK chocolate(72% or higher), Mr. Goodbar, Krackle, Dove chocolate, Reese's Peanut Butter Eggs (at Easter), Symphony, Skor, Twix, Cadbury Mini Eggs, Baby Ruth, Butterfinger, Bit-O-Honey, Chick-O-Stick, Goobers, Smarties (the chocolate candy pieces in the tube from England), Hersheys with Macadamia nuts, Whatchamacallit, Zagnut.
Erinay77 at 4:58AM on 04/25/07
Skor or Peanut Butter Cups. I use to like one when I was a kid it was about 10 inches long and like a series of figures 8's coated in chocolate. Can't recall the name, but it was good cold!
tgchi at 10:44PM on 05/03/07