Snack attack - if you could choose just one British chocolate bar....
Dec 21st, 2005 | 02:10 PM
#41
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I'm salivating for ...
Crunchie
real English Mars bars (US version can't hold a candle)
and I love the newer Cadbury milk choc bars with Crunchie bits -- definitely a triple threat!
I thought I was nostalgic for Fry's Turkish Delight till I had one on my last visit: yikes, sooooo sweet! How did I ever eat that?
And my kids would vote for Lion bars, CurlyWurlies and chocolate buttons.
Crunchie
real English Mars bars (US version can't hold a candle)
and I love the newer Cadbury milk choc bars with Crunchie bits -- definitely a triple threat!
I thought I was nostalgic for Fry's Turkish Delight till I had one on my last visit: yikes, sooooo sweet! How did I ever eat that?
And my kids would vote for Lion bars, CurlyWurlies and chocolate buttons.
Dec 22nd, 2005 | 12:25 AM
#47
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Almost all commercial chocolate that I've tried, including British chocolate, is too sweet for me, but dark chocolate bars from Green & Blacks are reasonably good, notwithstanding that complaint.
Almost everything in London is more expensive than it is for me at home, but there are at least two exceptions: Brie cheese and Green & Blacks chocolate bars.
Almost everything in London is more expensive than it is for me at home, but there are at least two exceptions: Brie cheese and Green & Blacks chocolate bars.
Dec 22nd, 2005 | 01:56 AM
#48
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Really. Tsk tsk. Thorntons is chocolate for arrivistes and nouveaux. The sort of people who have pot-pouri in the house.
Proper people know the secret of chocolate and aren’t keen to share, but, seeing as it’s Christmas, I will let you know that proper people ie PLUs (or is that PLMs in this context?) eat Bendicks chocolate.
It knocks all this two-bob chocolate into a cocked hat. If you have never experienced the delight of Bendicks Military Plain Chocolate bars, you simply are living in the chocolate dark ages.
It’s made in Winchester and one of the advantages of living there is that the employees from the factory sell their weekly allowance of chocolate in the pubs. Otherwise it’s BLOODY expensive. i.e. get a mortgage expensive.
You can get it in up-market shops in London (and I believe that the Knightsbridge poundstretchers – aka Harrods – stocks it.)
Proper people know the secret of chocolate and aren’t keen to share, but, seeing as it’s Christmas, I will let you know that proper people ie PLUs (or is that PLMs in this context?) eat Bendicks chocolate.
It knocks all this two-bob chocolate into a cocked hat. If you have never experienced the delight of Bendicks Military Plain Chocolate bars, you simply are living in the chocolate dark ages.
It’s made in Winchester and one of the advantages of living there is that the employees from the factory sell their weekly allowance of chocolate in the pubs. Otherwise it’s BLOODY expensive. i.e. get a mortgage expensive.
You can get it in up-market shops in London (and I believe that the Knightsbridge poundstretchers – aka Harrods – stocks it.)
Dec 22nd, 2005 | 02:08 AM
#49
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Green & Blacks is good. Charbonnel & Walker is great. But for truly great indulgence you have to have the 'high street' chocolate. It's not 'proper' chocolate but it's bl**dy great when you have a craving. Personal favourite is a Picnic. Used to be a coconut Boost but they stopped making them 
Dec 22nd, 2005 | 02:59 AM
#50
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I miss the coconut Boost as well.
Lindt Excellence 70% cocoa dark chocolate
Green and Black's, Divine Fair Trade bars
Lion Bars and Picnics
Galaxy if it has to be milk chocolate
Curly wurlies and Dime bars
Miniature Heroes
I could go on, but frankly if I'm desperate for a chocolate fix then ANYTHING will do, except nougat!
Lindt Excellence 70% cocoa dark chocolate
Green and Black's, Divine Fair Trade bars
Lion Bars and Picnics
Galaxy if it has to be milk chocolate
Curly wurlies and Dime bars
Miniature Heroes
I could go on, but frankly if I'm desperate for a chocolate fix then ANYTHING will do, except nougat!
Dec 22nd, 2005 | 04:11 AM
#52
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Wouldn't you know, even in discussing such an innocuous thing as chocolate we'd have snobs telling us our tastes are too pedestrian if we peons like Bounty, Mars or Cadbury. I guess that's what makes this site so special. I better not mention that I prefer Sam's Cola to Coke or Pepsi....
Dec 22nd, 2005 | 05:30 AM
#55
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Well someone has just delivered a box of Thornton's Continental Chocolates to our department at work for - and I'm not saying no! Does that make me an "arriviste", whatever one of those is 
The "Sicillian Lemon Mousse" ones are divine
The "Sicillian Lemon Mousse" ones are divine
Dec 22nd, 2005 | 05:56 AM
#57
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caroline,
You certainly can buy just cocolate bars by them - they make them for the officer's mess for the light infantry in Winchester. That's how I used to get them. You sometimes see them in shops too.
I actually have a small scar on my arm caused by a burn in the Bendicks factory. Working there was a right of passage for all Winchester boys. It was either that or the watercress beds, so the choice was freezing or being scalded with chocolate. Those were the days.....
You certainly can buy just cocolate bars by them - they make them for the officer's mess for the light infantry in Winchester. That's how I used to get them. You sometimes see them in shops too.
I actually have a small scar on my arm caused by a burn in the Bendicks factory. Working there was a right of passage for all Winchester boys. It was either that or the watercress beds, so the choice was freezing or being scalded with chocolate. Those were the days.....
