Galaxy or Dairy Milk?

[Gurke and Hare]

I'd take Minstrels over Buttons an' all (although Munchies win that genre overall).

What the fuck are you on about? Those clearly all come from different genres (buttons - small pieces of unadulterated chocolate, minstrels - chocolate in a crispy shell[nb]Smarties obviously the undisputed champions. There's nothing nastier than those fake smarties[/nb], munchies - chocolate coated stuff).

The answer to the original question is obviously Dairy Milk. There's a glass and a half in every half pound you know.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Minstrels were alright.

I miss Vice Versas, it looks like they were briefly bought back (which I missed) but were a shadow of their former self.

[JamesTC]

Mars Delight were the best.

[seepage]

I think somebody on here [buzby?] said Hershey's is rubbish because they didn't have rights to the recipe for OK choc, so had to come up with an alternative.

[Ferris]

Yeah someone at work bought some mini-hersheys back as a present to the office when they went on their honeymoon and I was amazed at how shit it was. It was worse than the shite they put in advent calendars.

As Unicornio points out, North American choc is generally pretty bad and the mini/novelty ones are genuinely inedible.

I think somebody on here [buzby?] said Hershey's is rubbish because they didn't have rights to the recipe for OK choc, so had to come up with an alternative.

Rings a bell with me as well. Ian Hershey made a recipe up in the late 19th (?) century, safe in the knowledge that nobody could afford to ship over the European alternative so he could serve up any old shite.

[El Unicornio, mang]

Something to do with it containing sour milk back in the olden days and then they stopped doing that and replaced it with butyric acid to replicate the distinctive taste of vomit that American kids go mad for

Also

American chocolate is far sweeter than chocolate in Britain, with sugar being the main ingredient.

Meanwhile, milk is often the main ingredient in British milk chocolate.

American chocolate also often contains far fewer cocoa solids than British chocolate. In Britain, a chocolate bar must contain at least 20 per cent cocoa solids to qualify as chocolate.

But in the US, that figure can be as low as 10 per cent.

[imitationleather]

Anyone tried that ruby chocolate they have now?

Now that's expensive. Good, though. But not £20 for a very small bar good.

[Ferris]

I wonder if anyone's made a "Hershey's - I like to know my chocolates pronouns!!" joke successfully, just like I didn't there.

[Gurke and Hare]

The chocolate on Reese's Peanut Cups (which Hershey make) is much nicer than the normal Hershey's chocolate, they should make bars of that.

I bought a Kit Kat in the US once, and it was only after spitting out the first bite that I saw on the back of the packet "Made under licence by Hershey's". Bastards.

[dissolute ocelot]

In the spirit of middle class superiority, "galaktos" (whence "galaxy") is Greek for milk, and therefore they're BOTH THE SAME.

Yorkie ftw.

[Kankurette]

Voted Galaxy - which is more of a 'silk', compared to Dairy Milk's 'cotton' texture.

I'm totally hooked on these : white chocolate shell filled with a buttery vanilla cream. Box of 16 for a fiver -



(Have to limit myself to just one ball per-noshing session - total Crack-Chocaine!)

There's a Lindt shop in the Arndale Centre. It does pick 'n' mix. I should be banned from there for my own safety.

[Dex Sawash]

Wife gets monthly lockdown work from home packs from her work. These are much better than you would think. The rest of the June pack was horrendous though.

[touchingcloth]

I prefer Dairy Milk, but only really because of the flavour, texture, mouthfeel and smell.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Wife gets monthly lockdown work from home packs from her work. These are much better than you would think. The rest of the June pack was horrendous though.

Looks like a less good toblerone.

[Tony Tony Tony]

Ok now that choco v choco is running out of steam, can I ask where folks stand on chocolate from the fridge?

My view is the colder the better though Mrs TTT thinks this is heresy.

[seepage]

12 degrees Centigrade, so larder or wine fridge.

[touchingcloth]

Ok now that choco v choco is running out of steam, can I ask where folks stand on chocolate from the fridge?

My view is the colder the better though Mrs TTT thinks this is heresy.

They're just different. Horses for courses, chocs for blocks. Feeling a rock hard piece crunch between your teeth and slowly start to melt is a wonderful thing, as is feeling a piece which is borderline liquid land between your lips.

Oasis/Blur, korma/vindaloo. Why not both, eh? Why not both.

[Sebastian Cobb]

My view is the colder the better though Mrs TTT thinks this is heresy.

I like to put a twix in the freezer, the caramel goes brittle and it's much better.

[thenoise]

Yorkie ftw.

Currently enjoying the biscuits and raisin variety. While dairy milk and galaxy have reduced both size and quality, Yorke remains familiar. At least, as far as I remember.

[Sebastian Cobb]

This is way off the original question, but since Yorkies have already taken it off-topic, I reckon Double Deckers are criminally underrated! They may not be my actual favourite but they're very substantial and rarely get a deserved big up.

[Replies From View]

Fuck all this shit.

Get this:

Ethics is good, chocolate tastes nice but why are they doing some kind of co-dependency marketing shit with the branding?  "Chocolonely"?  Fuck off immediately!

[Tony Tony Tony]

As we are now veering wildly off topic let's go all the Peter Kay way with a mention of a Choccy bar called Ice Breaker. This delight (as far as I remember) was akin to a block of minty twiglet. Seriously enhanced by a spell in the fridge. Without the internet giving me access to historical records I would have imagined I dreamt it.




six pence!

Nobody I know remembers the thing so maybe they trailed it in my corner of the north west and I didn't buy enough of it?

[The Dog]

White chocolate is just dark chocolate that has been SEVERELY traumatised it is NOT an ethical product.

Obviously I don't eat chocolate because I am a dog and it would kill me faster than a disgruntled vet with a plane to catch. However I do keep a small but lethal galaxy egg on my person at all times in case I am ever compromised by enemy agents or trapped in a really boring meeting or whatever.

[Replies From View]

Oasis/Blur, korma/vindaloo. Why not both, eh? Why not both.

Because Oasis is worse than being spontaneously injected with AIDS in the cinema, if you were seriously asking.

[Replies From View]

This is way off the original question, but since Yorkies have already taken it off-topic, I reckon Double Deckers are criminally underrated! They may not be my actual favourite but they're very substantial and rarely get a deserved big up.

Double Deckers seem to have some kind of fake chocolate inside.  I recall Mavericks had something similar which made them inferior to Fuse bars.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Double Deckers seem to have some kind of fake chocolate inside.  I think Mavericks had something similar which made them inferior to Fuse bars.

Double Deckers have loads inside them though, it's like a cross-section of the earth.

[Sebastian Cobb]

As we are now veering wildly off topic let's go all the Peter Kay way

chocolate wrapped in cigarrete papers, worwerthaallabout?

[Ferris]

This is way off the original question, but since Yorkies have already taken it off-topic, I reckon Double Deckers are criminally underrated! They may not be my actual favourite but they're very substantial and rarely get a deserved big up.

The boy Cobb talking sense. Used to love these chewy fuckers back in the day.

A real meal of a choco bar.

[markburgle]

Galaxy Salted Caramel is surprisingly nasty for something that should be a straight slam-dunk.

Yorkie is better than both. Happy enough with Dairy Milk but I'd never bother to buy a plain one - too bland. Need the nuts or the Daim pieces of something (or the new honeycomb-nut variety). Galaxy is good enough in itself

[Sebastian Cobb]

I always wondered why they didn't do a mars-bar dimensioned finger of fudge. Would've been a sure thing.