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[Suvir Saran]

Im sorry Suvir... Im not trying to rub it in...I really hope you can find them soon!

I also am thankful you have turned me on to these...again...Thx!

I am glad to have re-introduced you to them. Will try a store a few blocks further.. maybe they have them. I was only kidding.
Suvir

[stefanyb]

My all time favorite candy is Viennese Butter Crunch.  I can never go through O'hare withoout buying a bagful at one of those Aunty whatever candy shoppees. 

Commercial candy bars I avoid, but Almond Joys will get me in a pinch.

Perfect shiva candy. How come we of a certain age and background all crave the came things?

[Peter B Wolf]

Toblerone.     

"Toblerone" ??

If you got to go 'Swiss' , at least go "Lindt Halbbitter"

[akebono]

I used to like Zero candy-bars, remember those? Money metal delicious.


-akebono

[Suvir Saran]

Toblerone.      

"Toblerone" ??

If you got to go 'Swiss' , at least go "Lindt Halbbitter"

If I have to have candy, I am happy being tacky or mass market....
Toblerone is just so perfect for some of my moods... I can eat a lot of it.. A LOT.
I am sorry if I offend those that love fine chocolate by having this love of Toblerone, but I do love it. I eat it more when traveling to other parts of the world. I buy it at the airports in Europe and travel with it to farther places east.

[CathyL]

Perfect shiva candy.  How come we of a certain age and background all crave the came things?

My brother and I just had a nostalgia fest about Passover candy...Barton's chocolate caramels with almonds, sesame crunch, slightly stale macaroons from a can, fruit jellies. Yum.

Suvir, I get Toblerone cravings too (the milk chocolate, even though I'm a card-carrying bittersweet fan). There's something very satisfying about biting through one of those triangular sections.

[Suvir Saran]

Suvir, I get Toblerone cravings too (the milk chocolate, even though I'm a card-carrying bittersweet fan).  There's something very satisfying about biting through one of those triangular sections.

There certainly is something amazing about biting through those triangular sections.
My nephew got addicted to them since he was 14 months old...
He loves those and Godivas bars.... He travels a lot around the world... and so I guess in those trips, he is spoiled by the parents....
He may be the most well traveled 24 month old boy the world has.... has been traveling since the age of 6 months... and he loves every bit of it.. and also Toblerone.
I am happy to see he takes after me in something.

Good Morning Cathy!

[Wild Pegasus]

Laura Secord Buttermallow bars.

[Stephanie]

My brother and I just had a nostalgia fest about Passover candy...Barton's chocolate caramels with almonds, sesame crunch, slightly stale macaroons from a can, fruit jellies.  Yum. 

For me, the quintessential Passover candy is Kopper's Coffee Beans. Not chocolate-covered beans, but solid chocolate flavored with coffee and shaped to look like beans. When I was in high school they were a nice caffeine fix.

[maggiethecat]

Laura Secord Buttermallow bars.

OhmiGod! How could I have forgotten these wicked great candy Bars. You marry a Yank and move to the States....

[Sandra Levine]

There used to be (maybe there still is) a West Coast chocolate-covered nougaty bar called U-No. It was longer, flatter and drier than a Three Musketeers, but there was some similarity in general type. Does anyone else remember these? I used to ask people to bring them back for me.

[nightscotsman]

There used to be (maybe there still is) a West Coast chocolate-covered nougaty bar called U-No.  It was longer, flatter and drier than a Three Musketeers, but there was some similarity in general type.  Does anyone else remember these?  I used to ask people to bring them back for me.

Still available.

[rslux]

Can't get them in the USA, but... Lion bars. If I can't get them, then a Milky Way or a Nestle's Crunch will do.

[winodj]

Twizzlers. Even though it is neither chocolate nor a bar. Heck I don't even think there's anything not artificial about it. Does that make Twizzlers postmodernist candy?

[mikeczyz]

reese sticks

[cakewalk]

Twizzlers. Even though it is neither chocolate nor a bar. Heck I don't even think there's anything not artificial about it. Does that make Twizzlers postmodernist candy?

Mmmmmmmmmm. Strawberry Twizzlers.

[Aurora]

If it wasn't for cavity searches, I would have no sex life at all

S

My, my! There is such a thing as too much information.

As for candybars...
SNICKERS...because, you know, they really satisfy!

[Crystal]

School fundraiser caramel bars. yuuuuuuuuuuuuum.

[201]

Can't get them in the USA, but... Lion bars. If I can't get them, then a Milky Way or a Nestle's Crunch will do.

I'll vote for Lion bars as well, but the difference here is that I in fact CAN get them in the U.S. (or at least the NYC metro area)!

I first got hooked on them in Germany, but about a year or so ago they started selling them at the newstand outside of the Hoboken PATH station. I can always get them there and I find them in other places from time to time.

[porkpa]

Anybody ever have Coffee Crisp? Its by far my all time favorite chocolate bar. Its great either at room temperature or frozen. Its very popular in Canada where it is manufactured by Nestles(I think) or maybe by Neilson. It wassupposed to be introduced to the American market about two years ago(New York City I think), but I haven't heard whether they actually tried doing so..

[Jason Perlow]

I like Joyva's chocolate covered Halvah, which I am eating right now.

Incidentally, Joyva Halvah has new packaging, obviously meant to de-emphasize its middle eastern heritage, although the Brooklyn, NY based company is owned by Russian Jews and is a kosher product. The mustached genie wearing the turban which was always a major element of the packaging has now been relegated to a tiny graphic the width of a pencil eraser.

Joyva - company history (click)

[cakewalk]

I like Joyva's chocolate covered Halvah, which I am eating right now.

Incidentally, Joyva Halvah has new packaging, obviously meant to de-emphasize its middle eastern heritage, although the Brooklyn, NY based company is owned by Russian Jews and is a kosher product. The mustached genie wearing the turban which was always a major element of the packaging has now been relegated to a tiny graphic the width of a pencil eraser.

Joyva - company history (click)

How can anyone hope to de-emphasize the middle-eastern heritage of HALVAH, for goodness sake!!??!

Anyway, chocolate covered halvah even beats out chunkies. And that's saying something.

[maggiethecat]

Wilfred: I had a Canadian Kit Kat yesterday, and you are right. Different animal from the U.S. version. Larger, thicker biscuit. As you said, good for a tea dunk.

Porkpa: As I indicated earlier in this thread, Coffee Crisp is my all time fave. But, not only are they unavailable in the USA, they are becoming increasingly hard to get in The Great White North. I'm in Ottawa now. If I can score some Coffee Crisps I'm PM you and send them along.

Man, are they good.

[Beachfan]

jin...you steak freak!

sometimes you need chocolate but dont have any Jean Georges Flourless Vahlrona Molten Chocolate Cakes around w an Almond Tuile...then whaddya gonna do?!?  its Whatchamacallit Time!

Vahlrona Chocolater Amer bars from Traders Joes, $2.29. We buy them by the handful.

[Stephanie]

How can anyone hope to de-emphasize the middle-eastern heritage of HALVAH, for goodness sake!!??!

Anyway, chocolate covered halvah even beats out chunkies. And that's saying something. 

Ah, but Joyva pales in comparison to FRESH halvah. One of life's sinful little pleasures. Both Economy Candy and Sahadi sell several varieties in nice thick slabs (they'll slice off chunks for you); I particularly like the marble halvah covered in chocolate.

[Wild Pegasus]

Porkpa: As I indicated earlier in this thread, Coffee Crisp is my all time fave. But, not only are they unavailable in the USA, they are becoming increasingly hard to get in The Great White North.  I'm in Ottawa now.  If I can score some Coffee Crisps I'm PM you and send them along.

Coffee Crisp hard to find in Ottawa? You can find them pretty much anywhere in Ottawa that sells candy bars. You can get them by the case at Costco. There's also three different versions of them. There's regular, orange and something like an extra chocolate version available.

[vingait]

I love Heath Bars, frozen. Just makes it extra hard to eat and really chips your teeth!

[kpurvis]

I was in Canada recently and discovered the Aero, which I'd never seen. But the disappeared one I really miss is Russell Stover's cashew patty. It was flat, the chocolate had a nice snap, and since it was just nuts robed in chocolate, the cashews really stood out. It disappeared without warning about 10 years ago and I've been looking ever since.

[Kristian]

Mars bars here too... Although they get too sweet rather quickly...

[Lesley C]

I highly recommend the mint Aero as well.
I have no idea if the bubbly green filling contains any cocoa butter, but it sure beats a breath mint.