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If I'm standing in front of a shelf of candy bars, like in a super market?

Dove Dark 65% Cocoa Chocolate. Deeeeeeeelicious!

There's candy in the check-out lines?

Just kidding, but I don't like chocolate, not much of a sweet tooth here, but if I had to choose, it would be Snickers, cause I do like caramel and nougat and peanuts on occassion... if I could just get that pesky chocolate off somehow. :P

Snickers are the perfect candy. They always were the first to be set aside and rationed after trick-or-treating when I was a kid.

@southern_bella: I don't know if they have these where you live, but check out Pearson's salted nut rolls. All the things you love, and chocolate-free.

Personally, I love Paydays. I'm not a big chocolate fan so these are the perfect candy bar for me. We don't have Pearson's salted nut rolls where I am, but I've sampled it before. I've found that Paydays are an ample substitute.

Snickers or Milky Way=Boring even as a kid (except Milky Way Dark is okay)

As a kid: 3 Musketeers, M&Ms (the Peanut Butter, Almond, and Dark Chocolate ones still are okay), Reeces PB Cups, Reeces Pieces, and 'Chuckles.' When very young, Ring Pops, Tootsie Rolls.

What I really loved were Walnut and Maple Flavored Cream Brach's candies from the pick-a-mix.

Snickers will always win over Milky Way or 3 Musketeers. I rarely buy candy bars (especially with my temporary self-imposed embargo on all things chocolate. Bleh!) any more, but I don't have a go-to. I buy what sounds good based on my mood. I usually want a combo of some kind, so Whatchamacallits, Almond Joy and others with a chewy/crunchy/squishy factor are always at the top.

Hey AuntJone - How are you feeling these days??

Three Musketeers, love that fluffy filling.

between snickers and milky way....for sure snickers...dark preferably

but take 5 bars beat the rest...sweet and salty, chewy and crunchy...fantastic and delicious :)

Canadian Mars bars are like American Milky Way bars--no almonds. That black and red wrapper is like a beacon to me. Also Cadbury Caramilk (the dark version, preferably), Neilson Pep, Aero or Aero Caramel.

Sorry to double post, but blush's comment about Aero reminded me what a delight the Crunchy bar is. I live in the Midwest, so I get to indulge in Fairy Food when it gets cool outside, and the Crunchy is a perfect bar form of this candy. Yum!

huneybumper - what you said, I second that!

Or Reese's cups. I nibble the chocolate off the whole thing, excep the bottom, then eat the peanut butter center with just the chocolate on the bottom. Very ladylike ;)

@Butrflygirly - my friends are not allowed to visit unless they promise to bring a suitcase full of chocolate (just no fruit & nut please)...perhaps that's why nobody has visited me since 2005:-). Sure, I can always order online, and I do, occasionally...but every time I get to one of those British food sites, I end up spending an outrageous amount of money (don't ask), after which I promise myself to refrain from ordering more for a while.

Now, my absolutely favourite chocolate bar is Cadbury's Wispa. I will never ever disclose the amount of Wispa bars I could consume in one day (fortunately, my metabolism stood up to that). I was so chuffed when they decided to relaunch them last year, it was almost embarrassing. And now I will stop talking about Wispa:-).

So, if I had to choose from Snickers, Milky Way, Three Musketeers and Almond Joys right now, it would probably be Three Musketeers. I'd never even tried it before I came here (and years ago, if I had to choose one of the four, it would have been Milky Way), but I found that I favour Three Musketeers now, especially the "new" minty kind. I did have an Almond Joy phase (which is odd because I dislike coconut), but it didn't last long.

Picky eater as a kid, about all I would try at first is Hershey's Milk Chocolate - wouldn't even eat around the almonds in their Almond Bar. Paydays sort of brought me around to the real world. (Better then, softer, rounder, I an almost smell the chlorine at our city pool where I'd always eat them.)
Now, still Payday, plus Snickers, Reese's Cups, York Peppermint Patties and - oh, I could weep for the lost years - Butterfinger. Decades of passing up Butterfingers....

York Peppermint Pattie, or a kinder bueno.

I am in the 'not big on chocolate' camp myself and I will grab my favorite, a Payday bar - salty and sweet! I also like chewy candy, Tootsie Rolls and sour Starburst, it's the texture. Come to think of it, a Payday is chewy!! If I do go for chocolate, its either Butterfinger or the plain Hershey bar.

Milky Way

brooke29: I never had a Mars Bar in the UK, because I was too busy with Flyte, Crunchies, Flapjacks, ectetera. Mars Bar in the U.S.--I haven't eaten one in decades, literally, but I remember it as like a Snickers, so I wasn't that into it--I don't think you'd like it that much...

snickers win no doubt, love the peanut crunch

I used to always, always, always, get Snickers. Then one day I ate a mini-Milky Way bar, not the fun-size, the mini. It was the perfect bite.

Nowadays, these kiddie snacks are a little too sweet, so it's only around Halloween that I'll have a taste or two. I had a Butterfinger and thought it was amazing. Then I had another one and thought "why'd I do that?" The fun-sizes are good for getting a taste and moving on.

Of your list, I generally go for a milky way or a three musketeers. I'm not big on candy bars with whole peanuts in them, even though I do like peanut butter cups, reeses pieces and butterfingers. Lately my grocery store candy weakness has been m&ms. I also keep a small stash of Dagoba chocolate bars in my kitchen too.

That being said, I tend to not be too picky if somebody hands a piece of candy to me, and I'm currently sucking on a blow pop left over from the fact that NO trick or treaters came by last night.

Of the ones you listed, Snickers are the only ones I'd probably eat nowadays, although when I was a kid, I would've gone for any except the Almond Joy. Now, the Milky Way and Three Musketeers just seem to sweet, from what I recall of a previous year's leftover candy. But with the nuts, the Snickers are okay. And the nuts also make them a little more satisfying. A Snickers can stave off hunger for a while, but the others don't seem to help as much. And then the sweetness hits me, and they're just too sweet.

Then again, just about any chocolate-nut combo would be my preference over nutless chocolate. Except if there's coconut involved. Or raisins. Those are the dealbreakers.

Whatchamacallit. Hands down. Take 5 is an ok sub because it has the peanut butter, caramel, chocolate, crunchy factor, too. Dang...must go buy a whatchamacallit now...

Mmmmm, definitely Mily way or 3 muskateers. I like that the simplicity of both bars' textures dont interfere with the texture of the ripple on the bottom of the bar...that's the best part.

I need those nuts in my chocolate, so it's Snickers and Almond Joys for me.

Buttterfingers are also right up there, too.

I love my chocolate!! Snickers would be my choice but my favorite is the Reese's cup, I enjoy making dark chocolate homemade ones

Ok....freeze a snickers bar....then make a sweet batter, dip it in and deep fry it....OMgoodness....

Kit Kat!!!!!

You all got me curious and I just had my OH throw a handful of 3 Musketeers bars (leftover from Halloween, of course) into the freezer. Can't wait to taste it frozen! I wonder if Twix bars would work, too...

Snickers with almonds (I don't like peanuts in candy bars except for the Chunky Bar). Otherwise Milky Way. Three Musketeers is usually a bit bland for me, though the mint version is yummy.

Snickers, frozen or room temp. Also Hershey's Kisses w/ Almonds...... YUM!!!!!!