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Damn, British candy is good.

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mac-er

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I just had some British candy from a store that sells international candy, and British candy bars are by far the best candy I have ever had...

I am addicted to this thing called a Crunchie. And an Aero isn't bad either.

And, what the heck is a Yorkie ("It's not for girls")...I wasn't brave enough to buy something that had no description of the type of candy bar on the packaging.
 
mac-er said:
I just had some British candy from a store that sells international candy, and British candy bars are by far the best candy I have ever had...

I am addicted to this thing called a Crunchie. And an Aero isn't bad either.

And, what the heck is a Yorkie ("It's not for girls")...I wasn't brave enough to buy something that had no description of the type of candy bar on the packaging.
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We call it chocolate in these parts. But, yeah, it's good stuff. You should try some Green & Black.

Yorkies are milk chocolate bars for truckers, or so they would have us believe.
 
skunk said:
We call it chocolate in these parts. But, yeah, it's good stuff. You should try some Green & Black.

Yorkies are milk chocolate bars for truckers, or so they would have us believe.
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:D I was going to say, it's a chocolate bar, rather than candy bar.

Mmmm Yorkie bar.. Glad the chocolate over here tastes like wax, because I'd only end up eating the stuff.
 
skunk said:
We call it chocolate in these parts.
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It's not really though... our chocolate is famed for being crap, and rightly so, too much milk, fat etc... and not enough cocoa content.

That said, I used to get my ex to send me over Milka bars from Austria (until ASDA started stocking 'em) as I think they're completely yummy... and apparently they're considered to be the equivalent of Cadbury's over there. :eek:
 
iGav said:
It's not really though... our chocolate is famed for being crap, and rightly so, too much milk, fat etc... and not enough cocoa content.
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Compared to US "Candy", though, it's still pretty good. It would probably be a bit dangerous for an American to dive straight into Suchard. I favour the gradualist approach.
 
skunk said:
It would probably be a bit dangerous for an American to dive straight into Suchard.
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You do have a point... :p

Cadbury's though... *shudders* tastes like lard. *shudders*
 
mac-er said:
I am addicted to this thing called a Crunchie. And an Aero isn't bad either.
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Ah, so you've met the Cadbury's Crunchie. It's my dad's asbolute favourite and I'm rather partial to them myself. If I remember correctly they were advertised as having 'that Friday feeling'.

Love or hate Cadbury's chocolate, they make some fantastic chocolate bars with it.
 
^^^Ever have a green tea flavoured Kit Kat? Lets just say the original is better. ;)

miniConvert said:
Ah, so you've met the Cadbury's Crunchie. It's my dad's asbolute favourite and I'm rather partial to them myself. If I remember correctly they were advertised as having 'that Friday feeling'.
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Crunchie.........don't we have Crunchie bars in Canada and America? I thought we did. Anyway, they're great. :)

Love or hate Cadbury's chocolate, they make some fantastic chocolate bars with it.
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Cadbury hires/rents a massive "synchrotron" in order to observe certain things about their chocolate's structure and determine at what temperature the chocolate would melt --- something about their being an ideal temperature at which chocolate should melt.

Oh, a synchrotron is also used for things like studying physics stuff, like mesons, bosons, and high energy physics on top of all the chocolate research. ;)
 
GALAXY ALL THE WAYYYYY! :D
although i don't mind Aero Mint and Mars and Snickers and Kit Kat and Twirl and Flake and OMG the variety! Lol i used to average a couple of bars a day but then when you see what it does to your body you definitely know when to cut down... now i'm on like one bar every few weeks... if that!
Talking about sweets, what a coincidence that the Ice Cream Van just pulled up outside!

-fuzz
 
yeah the English candy/chocolate bars are much beter than their US equivalent, US chocolate has too much sugar in it (for starters).

iGav, Cadbury's is much better than Hershey's here, but i agree it's still pretty crap.

Green & Black's have just hit the stores in a big way here, i like it, which is not good, i eat a whole bar at a time usually.


my wife's a pastry chef so i do get to eat really good chocolate, she'll only use the best stuff, valrhonna (sp?) for example... mmm....time for some more home-made tiramisu i think...
 
This is my ranking:

1. European Chocolate (YUMMMMMM!!!!)
2. British Chocolate
3. Proper dark south South American chcolate
4. Aussie chocolate (could be much better but they have to put stuff in it to keep it from melting)
5. Canadian/US chcolate (it's OK, not wonderful but OK)
6. Cheap Easter Egg chocolate - that awful stuff that tastes like nothing and leaves a film around the inside of your mouth.

Oh yeah, chocky, chockies, lollies, sweets but never call it candy
 
evoluzione said:
iGav, Cadbury's is much better than Hershey's here, but i agree it's still pretty crap.
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My brother bought some Hershey chocolate back from a trip to New York... very strange taste indeed .... kind of like slightly sour milk. Being chocolate, I still eat it though lol.
 
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