Heath vs. Skor: Battle of the major American chocolate and toffee candy bars

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Poll Results

Option	Votes
Skor	16
Heath	10

― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 6 December 2012 16:21 (thirteen years ago)

i have more familiarity with heath but i think i'm gonna vote skor simply on name/iconography alone.

― bob chipeska (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 6 December 2012 16:22 (thirteen years ago)

it sounds like the name of the viking who first brought back the recipe for toffee to the norsemen.

― bob chipeska (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 6 December 2012 16:23 (thirteen years ago)

or a mid-period bergman movie about a suicidal chocolate shop owner.

― bob chipeska (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 6 December 2012 16:23 (thirteen years ago)

either of these crushed up and mixed into ice cream/milkshakes are the best thing

― slam dunk, Thursday, 6 December 2012 16:25 (thirteen years ago)

Skor forever. Heath is too sweet, Skor has that crazy burnt toffee thing down.

― Dave Whobeck? (jjjusten), Thursday, 6 December 2012 16:29 (thirteen years ago)

This is a rough poll to roll out the week that I decide to quit sugar. I vote Skor though.

― how's life, Thursday, 6 December 2012 16:30 (thirteen years ago)

the main difference i can tell is that the heath bar is a little thicker than skor

― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 6 December 2012 16:31 (thirteen years ago)

that's what she said

― beef richards (Mr. Que), Thursday, 6 December 2012 16:33 (thirteen years ago)

Breaking a Skor bar into pieces is high on my list of tactile food-related pleasures

― a funny thing happened on the way to the forum (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 6 December 2012 17:33 (thirteen years ago)

Both of these are Hershey garbage.

Almond Roca imho.

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 6 December 2012 17:39 (thirteen years ago)

Skor skor skor

― this will surprise many (Nicole), Thursday, 6 December 2012 17:47 (thirteen years ago)

I don't know what either of these things are, but Skor.

― a Christmas .gif for you from (seandalai), Thursday, 6 December 2012 17:52 (thirteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Sunday, 9 December 2012 00:01 (thirteen years ago)

strongo otm

― send Lawyers (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 9 December 2012 07:01 (thirteen years ago)

Skor one for tasteful packaging and intriguing Scandinavian-ish names, because that's what I voted for.

― Pat Finn, Sunday, 9 December 2012 07:13 (thirteen years ago)

otm:

Skor has that crazy burnt toffee thing down.

Almond Roca imho.

― i know your nuts hurt! who's laughing? (contenderizer), Sunday, 9 December 2012 07:53 (thirteen years ago)

i love that the skor wrapper looks exactly like it did 30 years ago

― turds (Hungry4Ass), Sunday, 9 December 2012 07:58 (thirteen years ago)

well, i assume it does. i dont have any 30 year old skors around to verify

― turds (Hungry4Ass), Sunday, 9 December 2012 08:00 (thirteen years ago)

Skor because it sounds more like a brand of snuff than a candy bar

― she was giving it to two friends ...Aaay! (crüt), Sunday, 9 December 2012 10:08 (thirteen years ago)

Heath. For obvious reasons.

― Jeff, Sunday, 9 December 2012 13:39 (thirteen years ago)

I always used to think that "Heath" bars were called "Health" bars and that they were like Power Bars or something.

― Pat Finn, Sunday, 9 December 2012 17:00 (thirteen years ago)

this is grandma candy

― akm, Sunday, 9 December 2012 17:20 (thirteen years ago)

I shopped for groceries about an hour ago. In the checkout line, I turned to the candy rack and searched it up and down but found neither Heath nor Skor in stock. Bummer, cause I was ready to back up my vote with a Skor purchase and put my money where my mouth was (or, more accurately, put my money into the cashier's hand and then later, at home, put a bite of the unwrapped Skor bar into my mouth).

― del griffith, Sunday, 9 December 2012 22:09 (thirteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Monday, 10 December 2012 00:01 (thirteen years ago)

Kinda interesting history, Heath dates to 1928, refused to licence it (but gave the recipe) to Swedish company Marabou in 1953, which produced the Daim bar. Hershey later bought Marabou, and so reintroduced Heath's own recipe as the American pretending to be Swede Skor in 1981.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ_wediTc60#t=375s

― Chinchilla! Chinchilla! Chinchilla! (Sanpaku), Monday, 10 December 2012 00:09 (thirteen years ago)

Opps, wrong video. Go to 6:15 for Hershey's pretending to be Swedish.

― Chinchilla! Chinchilla! Chinchilla! (Sanpaku), Monday, 10 December 2012 00:11 (thirteen years ago)

Course, "Skor" is Swedish word for shoes.

― Chinchilla! Chinchilla! Chinchilla! (Sanpaku), Monday, 10 December 2012 00:12 (thirteen years ago)

this is grandma candy

you're grandma candy

― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Monday, 10 December 2012 00:16 (thirteen years ago)

http://www.nearof.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/0309-daim-bar-02.jpg

^superior euro ripoff

any one of these varations is probably my #2 go-to chocolate bar

― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 10 December 2012 00:37 (thirteen years ago)

Would have voted Skor.

― EZ Snappin, Monday, 10 December 2012 01:18 (thirteen years ago)

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