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oh no! SUGAR COMA! oh no!

― maura (maura), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 16:28 (twenty-four years ago)

i just had some malteasers, and i bought a sleeve of plain chocolate hob nobs for, you know, emergencies. i would never do this with sleeves of oreos or kudos bars.

― maura (maura), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 16:31 (twenty-four years ago)

When I was in Victoria BC, there was this British sweets shop, and I picked up a Nestle Caramac(?), which is like a Nestle chocolate bar except it's caramel confection instead. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

In defense of our great northern bruthas, I'll just say this:

NANAIMO BARS

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 16:35 (twenty-four years ago)

Silly Donut, provide photos!

http://tolweb.org/tree/drm/recipes/pictures/nanaimo.gif

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 16:36 (twenty-four years ago)

Galaxy Liasons! Curly Wurly! Munchies! Nestle Crunch! Love Hearts! Smarties! Refreshers! Fruit Pastels! Galaxy Caramel! (just some of my faves, I have bad teeth)

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 16:38 (twenty-four years ago)

NANAIMO BAR

links:

HERE,
here,
here, and for the vegans, here.

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 16:39 (twenty-four years ago)

Silly Donut, provide photos!

Silly Raggett, I was just about to post THIS pic:

http://www.city.nanaimo.bc.ca/d_about/images/about_nbar2.gif

Enjoy. MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 16:42 (twenty-four years ago)

I'll also reiterate, the "great Northern bruthas" in this case refers to Canada, and not Great Britain.

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 16:43 (twenty-four years ago)

I like the British kind of licorice allsorts better than chewy American licorice, although the grape shoestring type is good.

Although neither can apparently hold a candle to Dutch liquorice. There was a letter to TIme Out NY that said I'm a Dutch girl with a craving for good black locorice. Not the kind out of a Twizzlers bag. That is not real black licorice. In Holland there are over 100 kinds to choose from. If you can't help me find a licorice store, I might have to open my own.

Apparently some kinds are so salty that when they give you some to taste they immediately stick out a wastebasket for you to spit in.

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 16:43 (twenty-four years ago)

locorice=licorice, obviously, or however it's spelled

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 16:45 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm addicted to hobnobs, so it's probably a good thing that I only have them twice a year. Also, canadian smarties taste better than m&m's by virtue of coming in adorable little cardboard tubes.

― lyra (lyra), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 16:47 (twenty-four years ago)

Those Nanaimo bars look alot like cakes, and therefore are excluded from the sweet category :) No E numbers or preservatives = they are not sweets.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 16:50 (twenty-four years ago)

no preservatives??!? against the wall!

my grandmother makes a mean nanaimo bar.

you bastards. i'm so hungry.

― Dave M. (rotten03), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 18:49 (twenty-four years ago)

On a side note is it true that our American neighbours can't get Cadbury bars/sweets year round? How does one live without cadbury easter eggs?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 18:59 (twenty-four years ago)

we can get the bars/sweets year-round but I only see the eggs around Easter

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 19:00 (twenty-four years ago)

American chocolate is kinda grainy and odd, I think this is something to do with it being able to not melt in high temperatures, this is a bad thing. Except when part of peanut butter cups of course.

Search Kola Kubes (with chewy centres), Kola Rolla balls (complete with tiny seed in middle), pints of lager (yes, a sweet), pear drops (same smell as certain nerve agents apparently) and rhubarb and custards, num num.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 20:16 (twenty-four years ago)

True. Cadbury's sweets are slightly harder to come by in your local big supermarket in the States.. but I still remember being able to get them as a kid; and not just those Cadbury Creme Eggs.

Actually, Cadbury's Creme Egg campaign during Stateside easters has probably worked against them in the long run. Everyone I know has vile memories of those things. I used to love them, but even I occasionally burned out on whatever-the-fuck chemical elements they used to make those things so fluorescently sweet and decadent. (Heh, not that Nanaimo bars are really that much less sweet)

I was surprised how prominent and respected Cadbury chocolates are in all market and sweets retail in Canada.

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 20:19 (twenty-four years ago)

what i want to know is why some
sweets take an age to come over here
from either europe or u.s.a. and then
why some they don't bother to market
over here at all. m+m's didn't get here
until the late 80's, and they'd been
in the states for donkey's years. how
come hershey's aren't more widespread ?
everybody i know loves peanut butter cups
and cookies bars. u can only get them
from london/ manchester and virtually
nowhere else ! what's with the lack of
milk duds overe here ? where are our
babe ruths ? is there an equivalent to these
over here that we shuold be told about ?
mmmmm those hershey's peanut butter bars
i could devour one of those right now.
the lion bar aint the same thing.

― piscesboy, Wednesday, 28 August 2002 11:51 (twenty-four years ago)

I loved buying Cadbury bars in the tube when I was in London.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Wednesday, 28 August 2002 12:41 (twenty-four years ago)

CYBERCANDY

― Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 28 August 2002 13:03 (twenty-four years ago)

what i want to know is why some
sweets take an age to come over here
from either europe or u.s.a. and then
why some they don't bother to market
over here at all.

Are you sure you want U.S. chocolate? Most people who have compared it with U.K. or European chocolate claim that the U.S. stuff is inferior. Also, you have a much easier time of finding chocolate/hazelnut combinations--in the U.S. these tend to be import or speciality items, and are priced accordingly.

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 28 August 2002 13:13 (twenty-four years ago)

I hadn't eaten chocolate for about 2 years until I started my job a few weeks ago, you spend 2 hours stacking shelves with chocolate and then you get a break and think "fuck....I'd really like some chocolate".

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 28 August 2002 13:16 (twenty-four years ago)

i am obsessed with the flying saucers, with the tingly powder inside. Also allsorts and wine gums and flakes and other kinds of choco. Brit is best.

― anthony easton (anthony), Wednesday, 28 August 2002 14:51 (twenty-four years ago)

American chocolate is in general inferior to British chocolate, but Americans aren't afraid to mix peanut butter in, so WE WIN!

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 29 August 2002 07:25 (twenty-four years ago)

I heart Cadbury chocolate, there is a little grocery near work that conveniently stocks about every type you can imagine. I don't really eat any American chocolate bars anymore aside from the occaisonal Butterfinger, the chocolate just isn't appealing enough.

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 29 August 2002 10:11 (twenty-four years ago)

five years pass...

TEXAN BAR!

― pisces, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 00:54 (nineteen years ago)

easton otm.

turkish delight
gum (not spice) drops
wine gums
swedish fish
wintergreen canada mints
flying saucers w. the beads inside
salted licorice

― remy bean, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 01:36 (nineteen years ago)

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TS: British sweets vs American sweets

NANAIMO BARS

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

NANAIMO BAR

you bastards. i'm so hungry.