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.

[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.

[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.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

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

[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.

[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.

[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.

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[sunfell.livejournal.com]

*sporfle*

Zombie Jesus?

Bwahahahahahahahah!

[spotshouse.livejournal.com]

Aaaah, anything Lindt!

[saganth.livejournal.com]

The only tv commercial I would ever want to be in:

Sitting on a stool, well-dressed, nibbling on the candy, focusd on just the candy and never looking up at the camera:

"When I bite into a York Peppermint Patty...I get the sensation of dark chocolate and mint.... I don't complicate anything."

[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.

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[peachtales.livejournal.com]

Very similar to my reaction too. I think I startled a cat :D

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[saganth.livejournal.com]

Don't forget your pastel-colored holiday chanisaws! :D

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[sunfell.livejournal.com]

Chainsaws are too obvious. I prefer seeding prettily decorated Alien eggs in the baskets. Talk about fun and excitement!

[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.

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[vik_thor]

HeeHeeHee!

Good thing I didn't have anything in mouth! :-)

[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.

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...)

[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