Happy Day Before Discounted Chocolate Day

[filkertom]

What are your favorite chocolate candies (assuming you can have them)? Mine are Ghirardelli's Milk Chocolate and Caramel Squares, Hershey's Kisses (regular, Caramel, or Cherry Cordial), Junior Mints, Mounds bars, and Hershey's Kissables. And Milky Way. Oh, my god, Milky Way.

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[jannyblue.livejournal.com]

Almond Joy and any chocolate + peanut butter candy.

I also like caramel Twix.

Strangely though, I'm rather "Meh." on Peanut Butter Twix. I liked it better when it WASN'T on a chocolate cookie.


I also like the high-test stuff that STARTS at $35 a pound...

The rule generally is "If it's chocolate, I will eat it." And the better the chocolate is, the less sugar I feel it needs. (Says the coffee-addict)

If they made "cocoa nibs in a box" I'd be all over that.

[nimitzbrood.livejournal.com]

Umm...they do... (http://www.nutsonline.com/nuts/cacao/organic-nibs.html?source=gaw&kw=cam5grp52AdA&gclid=CMWZ4ufm65kCFSMgDQodpSeNQw)

[Well okay they're in a bag but they're the same thing. ;-)]

[pooh27bear.livejournal.com]

I prefer dark chocolate. Ghirardeli's Twilight, Midnight and Espresso Dark are some of my favorites. M&M dark and peanut. I also will not turn down an Almond Joy, Junior Mints, or almost any chocolate with mint.

[j-e-richards.livejournal.com]

At my neice's wedding last spring, my grandson and his cousins went to all the tables and collected Ghirardelli caramel and milk chocolate squares and "squirreled" them away with me for a feast back at the hotel. I collected my 10% fee...

[jss]

Milky Way, Mounds, and York Peppermint Patties.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

I always get a York patty whenever I go to Skyline Chili. :)

[rmeidaking.livejournal.com]

Snickers bars are #1! I will also eat Peanut M&Ms and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. I don't much like dark chocolate. Expensive chocolates are wasted on me. Things that are pure sugar (e.g. jelly beans) are also a waste of time.

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

Elaine recently discovered a candy bar called Two Buck Choc, which comes in a chocolate-peanut butter version.

Mostly anything with chocolate and peanut butter, chocolate and caramel, or, from the time I spent in England, Yorkie bars, although Nestle has ruined their recipe from when they were Rowntree-MacIntosh.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Two Buck Choc? *LOL*

(For them as are going "huh?", this is a riff on Trader Joe's Two Buck Chuck, their Charles Shaw house brand wine which, while nowhere near high-falutin' enough for expensive palates, fails to suck, especially for the price... )

I like dark, but not too dark; TJ's carries a lot of good stuff... I also like oddball stuff like Zero. More mundane things: Payday, Mounds (again with the dark chocolate :), Reese's (but I like Newman's made with dark chocolate better :9 )... and Boston Baked Beans.

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

M&M plain. 3 Musketeers and Milky Way. Ghirardelli sugar-free raspberry bites. York's. Cadbury Creme Eggs. Oh, this is bad; my blood sugar is shooting up just imagining eating these :-)

[jjfmi.livejournal.com]

The best-ever chocolate eggs came from Sidney Bogg's - the original store on Woodward between 6 and 7 Mile Roads. Those were seriously addictive...

[ladysprite.livejournal.com]

Peanut butter cups. Or almost anything with chocolate and peanut butter.

Butterfingers candy bars - these are my ultimate weakness, to the point where I need to ration myself. I only eat them every once in a blue moon, because otherwise I'd be devouring them daily.

I also have a soft spot for Cadbury Creme Eggs; they're so pathologically, sugary, cloyingly sweet, but I can't help but love them....

[saganth.livejournal.com]

I'll join the growing chorus on this - I love chocolate and peanut butter together, especially Twix PB, peanut butter M&Ms, the various holiday-theme Reese's shapes (no messy wrapper clinging to the chocolate with those), Reese's Nutrageous, Reese's Crispy Crunchy, Whatchamacallit (and it's sadly-short-lived recent cousin, the Thingamajig which was even better!), Lindt peanut butter chocolate truffles, and Newman's Own dark chocolate peanut butter cups.

A few other chocolate candies are good too even if they don't have peanut butter - York Peppermint Patty, Kit Kat, Almond Joy, Hershey's with Almond, other kinds of M&M's (except the 'crispy' kind, they are a little disappointing), other Lindt truffles, Ghiradelli 60% cocoa squares, Dove dark chocolate and various Hershey's kisses and miniatures.

Anything else is either okay but doesn't excite me much, or is either really low-quality or too fancy and hoity-toity. Godiva does not excite me, really!

Forgot to mention 2 things...

[saganth.livejournal.com]

Ack, I forgot chocolate-covered pretzels and Hershey's Take Five!

Also, at the risk of offending anyone today... Happy Zombie Jesus Day. BEWARE THE ZOMBIE JESUS.

Re: Forgot to mention 2 things...

[sunfell.livejournal.com]

*sporfle*

Zombie Jesus?

Bwahahahahahahahah!

[sunfell.livejournal.com]

Any good dark chocolate. Neidiggers (sp?) from Germany is exquisite in that it has marzipan in it. I love dark chocolate and marzipan.

[spotshouse.livejournal.com]

Aaaah, anything Lindt!

[peachtales.livejournal.com]

3 Musketeers. Yum.
Cadbury Caramel Eggs. Ont he subject of Cadbury, I *love* Crunchies, but they are expensive due to being import. No sale on those.
And yep, I forgot York Peppermint Patties. Delish.
Something also not likely to be found on clearance are Florentine cookies. They do qualify for this list due to the chocolate bottom of said delightful arrangement of nuts, dried/candied fruit and ... chocolate :D

Sure I like other chocolate, like the good stuff that grows on trees (or is just sold everywhere) in Switzerland where I grew up, but those would likely be my favorites.

[kilbia.livejournal.com]

I prefer dark chocolate, and I'm really partial to the high-quality stuff. I recently discovered Green & Black and love it, though Divine (fair trade chocolate) is also great.

On the cheaper side, I like York Peppermint Patties, Milky Way Midnight and Snickers Dark. Am not supposed to have them right now 'cause I need to minimize my intake of corn (dietary sensitivity), but every once in a while I take my lumps.

I've recently developed a taste for Heath/Skor bars and Reese's peanut butter cups because they don't have corn syrup in them.

[lemmozine.livejournal.com]

My favorite was always Flicks, from Ghirardelli. They went away to the Great Chocolate Beyond around 1980 (I had a horrible job in a convenience store, and recall taking the last of them off the shelves and putting them in the sale bin). Your question inspired me to do an internet search - apparently they're back, although I haven't seen them.

http://www.oldtimecandy.com/memories/flicks-memories.htm

Which is pretty much too late for me, since I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes last year, and while I know I can have small amounts of stuff, my problem is once I get going I generally don't stop.

The other thing I remember, from Europe in the late 70s, were the Tobler bars (I think) that had 10 sections, with a different flavor filling in each section. Mmmm!

What I go for now are the sugar-free truffles at the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory. Expensive, but worth it.

[ladysmith.livejournal.com]

We found something like the Flicks at the Ghirardelli store in Downtown Disney. I was with a friend who remembered getting them at the movies as a child. She seemed very happy with the Ghirardelli chocolate buttons we found last year.

mmmm.... chocolate....

[vik_thor]

3 Musketeers.
good quality shokolada ice cream. (and done as a float with Mt. Dew. YUM!)
Cherry chocolates.
most dark chocolate.
(not sure if Cherry Mash would count as a chocolate treat or not...)

Re: mmmm.... chocolate....

[peachtales.livejournal.com]

Yay, someone else who admits to sharing my love for 3 Musketeers :D

[shadowcat48li.livejournal.com]

sigh... being diabetic severely limits my chocolate intake for the most part... just kinda sucks

what sucks worse is one of the sites I work security at is a chocolate factory


Milky Way and Nestle Crunch are my favorites. and Reeses Pieces

[markbernstein.livejournal.com]

I'm another who favors dark chocolate. (Matter of fact, I was at Costco yesterday, and picked up a back of Ghirardelli Intense Dark squares.) For something widely available, I love the Scharffenberger Nibby Bars. I regularly buy obscure stuff like single-plantation bars at Zingerman's.

Speaking of Zingerman's, all the Zzang! bars are amazing.

On the sweeter side, I'll sometimes buy a Kit Kat, or Twix, or Heath bar.

And whatever happened to Chunky?

[huskiebear.livejournal.com]

I tried a Zzang bar for the first time a week or two ago. Nicely answered the question "How can a candy bar be worth $7?" NOM!

[sffilk.livejournal.com]

Can't do chocolate anymore, but I'm looking forward to the day after Passover when the price for all the good stuff goes on sale (like farfel stuffing mix)

[ladysmith.livejournal.com]

Dark chocolate M&Ms, especially the peanut ones.

Ghirardelli's peppermint bark

Dark chocolate covered graham crackers (either Godiva or Starbucks.)

Godiva's Blue Easter eggs - milk chocolate with almond butter.

[archiver-tim.livejournal.com]

Rite-Aid did a good job this year by having popular Easter candies at buy one, get one free, such that by last Saturday, their stock of Easter candy was down to bunny shapes, peeps and marshmellow eggs.
Kroger put their canday at 33% off by last Thursday. The stock at Tiny Kroger did not shrink much since it was put out on Feb 15th.
Looks like some stores are starting to look at real customer habits and the new economy. If 50% of the stock is around to go on sale at 50% off, they either were overcharging or ordered too much to start with. If they only get by with selling it at less than cost recovery, then profits need to come from elsewhere. Meanwhile, customers get no pre-holiday satisfaction of getting a deal and are probably peeved at seeing what they paid double for being sold after holiday for the price that makes it disappear.
But, yep, I'll be looking for bargains on Monday. Reese's Peanut Butter Eggs are on the list as one can be a satisfying desert or snack.

[thistlethorn.livejournal.com]

I *loved* your subject title. *g*

I'm pretty much fond of any chocolate that isn't the ultra-cheap waxy flavorless stuff. Hershey, Ghirardelli, Dove, dark, milk, I'm not too picky.

[deor.livejournal.com]

I have to say the Hershey's new "Bliss" line is exquisite.

[wildcard9.livejournal.com]

My diabetes says I shouldn't have any, but I never resist. Cadbury mini-eggs is my favorite this time of year, I am glad they are not around all year long. This year I got only a small bag and I am rationing them out 5-6 per night so I don't spike my blood sugar too badly. For year-round chocolates, I get the little fun-size bars of various types, so what I am having changes about once a month. Right now it is 3 Musketeers, up next is Baby Ruths.