The Baby Ruth

If you have a store that specializes in British foods, get some of the British versions of American candy bars.  Like Kit Kats.  They use different chocolate.  It is better.

Wxdude10 - Mike said:

If you have a store that specializes in British foods, get some of the British versions of American candy bars.  Like Kit Kats.  They use different chocolate.  It is better.

Kit Kats are made by Nestle everywhere but the US who are made by Hershey. So just slip over the border and you're good to go. Grab a Coffee Crisp while you're at it.

In reply to adam525i :

Grab a box of coffee crisp and sell me half.

I'm kinda partial to dark chocolate kitkats, but they're hard to find.  Barring them, I'm a baby Ruth guy.

The real answer to this thread is Zagnut. Always will be.

mtn said:

I'm partial to a watchamacallit. But the Baby Ruth is easily among the top 5 candy bars widely available in the US.

The pool we went to as kids had watchamacallits in the freezer. Every time I would buy one. Every time I would almost break my teeth. Every. Time.

I stole a 100 Grand from one of the kids' buckets this year and really liked it.

Used to be a Heath guy... tried one of these ... I have now converted.

David S. Wallens said:

Tony Sestito said:

Another unsung hero in the Great Candy Bar Wars is the Sky Bar:

This one rules. It has something for everyone!

Is that real? If so, dang, I should get out more. 

Maybe it's just a Boston-area thing? The now-defunct Necco Wafer Company made these. They were famous for those wretched, chalky wafer things, but snuck the Skybar out the back door. When Necco went under a few years back, another local company bought the rights and machinery to keep making these awesome candy bars. You can order them online from a bunch of places, but I bet the old-style general store kind of nostalgia shops would definitely have them. 

I confess, I am a candy junky. There is a historical documentary somewhere chronicling the rise of the famous candy bars of the early 1900s and their originators. I unfortunately get tired of even the best candy bar, except for Scotcheroos. 

I bet that a lot of this stuff is regional, because there are a bunch of them here that I've never heard of. 

Woody (Forum Supportum) said:

I bet that a lot of this stuff is regional, because there are a bunch of them here that I've never heard of. 

Someone else thinks it's regional also.

Baby Ruth - Yes

Skor - Yes

Toblerone - Yes

I learned about these when we lived in Germany:

Its hard for me to resist getting one when I see them.  They also used to make a milk chocolate and yogert one that was awesome.

In reply to Aaron_King :


Those are really good. They also make one with corn flakes in it that sounds weird but is also great! 

My old favs were any candy bar you could eat in layers.  Twix is a good example.  So are Kit Kats.  Something satisfying about eating a candy bar top-down, instead of longways.  

Nowadays, though, this is the stuff:

Bonus, my co-workers won't touch it.  One of them tried to steal some one time, then asked me why I like chocolate that tastes like dirt.  To which I replied, why are you stealing my chocolate?

Not to be a troll but I'd rather eat a plain Hershey's bar than most of these (I agree with the no-nuts rule).

Sarah Young said:

Not to be a troll but I'd rather eat a plain Hershey's bar than most of these (I agree with the no-nuts rule).

To each their own, but I won't touch a plain Hershey bar.  The only real place for those is in a s'more.

And even s'mores are better with Special Dark.

The Marathon Bar was also an all-timer. I knew they had been discontinued, but I didn't realize it had been OVER 40 YEARS since they were dropped, way back in '81. They got less than a decade to showcase their chocolatey-covered caramel goodness.

Apparently there's a Cadbury version available in the UK, and via Amazon and some World Market's called the Curlywurly. Maybe they should have focus-grouped th name a little more, but Cadbury makes some good chocolate. A few of these might be worth the trip to World Market this weekend. I can get some avocado oil, too and pretend I went there for healthy food.

Everyone's candy choices suck.  Except anyone who said Reese's Cups or related peanut butter containing candy.  I'll see myself out. 

72% dark chocolate with smoked birch Icelandic Sea salt infused with Durban Poison RSO at 5mg per an oz. of chocolate. 

Captdownshift (Forum Supporter) said:

72% dark chocolate with smoked birch Icelandic Sea salt infused with Durban Poison RSO at 5mg per an oz. of chocolate. 

Sounds like fun. Is it legal?

Scotty Con Queso said:

Everyone's candy choices suck.  Except anyone who said Reese's Cups or related peanut butter containing candy.  I'll see myself out. 

If you like Reese's, bring your kids to Smithton next year, I swear they sponsored the trick or treat.

I prefer Boyers, but even 2 hours outside Altoona, they're hard to come by

914Driver said:

Woody (Forum Supportum) said:

I bet that a lot of this stuff is regional, because there are a bunch of them here that I've never heard of. 

Someone else thinks it's regional also.

I realize it was 20+ years ago, but when I worked at QT in high school and college, no one ever bought Hot Tamales. So I'm curious where that came from. 

JG Pasterjak said:

The Marathon Bar was also an all-timer. I knew they had been discontinued, but I didn't realize it had been OVER 40 YEARS since they were dropped, way back in '81. They got less than a decade to showcase their chocolatey-covered caramel goodness.

The problem was that it took most of that decade to consume a single Marathon bar.

Have we learned nothing from Quick Karl?

914Driver said:

Woody (Forum Supportum) said:

I bet that a lot of this stuff is regional, because there are a bunch of them here that I've never heard of. 

Someone else thinks it's regional also.

FL for the win!

How about Hershey's Kisses, Rasions, Nuts of your choice in a bowl? My favorite is No-Bake chocolate/oatmeal cookies.