Double Deckers (chocolate bar)

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did they go away in the 90s? i remember them being around as a kid, and i see them now, but i am sure there was a period when they were gone. did someone revive them? was it maconie?

― gareth, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

they're back, and they're bigger. also they sell them in our canteen and I wuv them. The nougat stuff is a lot fluffier now and doesn't have quite the same, almost coffee taste, but by 'eck they're gorgeous.

― chris, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A staple food throughout my 1990s I think.

― Jeff W, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I could never decide whether I prefered the crispy base or the fluffy top when pulling Double Deckers into 2 parts to eat so I never knew which to have first.

― Emma, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I could never decide whether I preferred the crispy base or the fluffy top when pulling Double Deckers into 2 parts to eat so I never knew which to have first.

― Emma, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(Sorry.)

― Emma, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A crappy bar but for some reason I picked one up off the tea trolley the other day not even noticing they had been away and was charged some ridiculous price for it. At first, I just put this down the the vagaries of our trolley man's tyrannical regime but then he said that the size of the bar (I assumed it was some kind of promotion) was reflected in the 40p price tag.

― N., Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Apologising makes it worse, now it's 3 posts in a row.

I hate double deckers, they are disgusting and their wrapper looks like a rugby league jersey.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Haters. Whose word is more reliable on questions of choc bars: a) a man so thin he keeps falling down the cracks in the pavement or b) a woman who is ALWAY ALWAYS eating chocolate and has finely honed her choc loving palate over many years?

― Emma, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I never really liked double deckers - the fluffy bit mixed with GOO just didn't RING MY BELL sad to say.

― Sarah, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Also I thought Emma was making a funny DOUBLE DECKERED DUAL POST!!!

― Sarah, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Your chocolate guzzling antics do not prove your chococredentials to anyone. Surely my more discerning approach gives more weight (arf) to my opinions?

― N., Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

as someone else who eats a fuck-load of chocolate, I pronounce them NUM. They shouldn't be 40p N. in Tesco at the end of the road they are still a reasonable 34p, they aren't mega-sized like the big Mars, Twix et al. Your canteen is robbing you.

― chris, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There is discerning and then there is downright picky. I think me & Mr Cabbage are the only true chocofans on ILE.

― Emma, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

topics might be a bitch to make (sorry), but why are they so sodding small.

― Alan T, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am a fat man and have eaten my share of chocolate though have now given up, and I arbitrate that Nick is right: they are a feeble excuse for a bar, you might as well have a Topic or something. And I'm not some kind of chocolate bar populist either, I liked the Aztec 2000.

― Tom, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It has been proven by science that women are better judges of chocolate than men (owing to PMT and all that hormone stuff) so however fat or thin you may be you are all wrong. So there.

― Emma, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That is like saying alkies are better judges of booze.

― Tom, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Double Deckers have all the right things, as their name suggests they have two levels, you'll find that most great, long-lasting bars have this (Mars, Marathon (ok, snickers if you want)etc). As for the individual layers? whipped nougat, a good thing, provides gooiness and has a sweet, smooth flavour; then the base, who doesn't like chocolate and rice crispies?

As for the wrapper, it's more reminiscent of the Perth Glory Football kit than an RL one but hey, Blue and orange are good colours. The new slogan? "Big up top" mmmm, nice.

How can they not be num?

― chris, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think it was the chocolate and rice krispies that put me off, it seemed a bit cheap really. If it's something you can make yourself it shouldn't be in a bar.

― Tom, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

They're not Toffee Crisps, that's how.

Double Deckers look and taste disgusting. What is nougat exactly? My dad works for a cement company, I had to park the car there once and the car park looks like it's made of nougat.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think nougat is the key to the whole conundrum. I think it's pretty lame chocofiller. Chris seems to think it num.

― N., Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

as fillers go, I'd put it second behind peanut butter (ooh I had a reeces bar yesterday that was like a picnic but with much nicer peanuts and loads of peanut butter - nice) and narrowly ahead of caramel and truffle.

I realise this is a controversial viewpoint.

― chris, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

do you pronounce nougat the french way (noogah!) or the imperial english way (nugget)?

it's proved a bone of contention with everyone i've ever met, along with the proncunciation of yoghurt, scone and margarine.

― nickie, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My rankings would be the exact reverse of Chris's. I wonder if this somehow related to our lack of overlap in girl fancying? And if so, what is the Scarlett Johansson of chocolate bar fillings?

― N., Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I laugh in the face of English imperialism, so it's noo-gar for me. I am intrigued as to what the alternative pronunciation of 'margarine' might be. Tell me more.

― N,, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I know people who pronounce a hard g in margarine, but they are mentalists.

I say noo-gah too, but when I was wee I did say nugget.

― chris, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Surely no-one says 'nugget'? Do they? Anyway the stuff you get in choc bars isn't really proper nougat, more a sort of whipped up nougat style filling. Which is nummy.

Margarine - hard g / soft g I guess. I have heard people say mar GA rine instead of marge arine.

― Emma, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

a small majority of people i know back home say nugget. i can't understand it.

not a huge fan of the nougat, myself, so i should rejoice at the besmirching of its name, really.

N. was doubtful that anyone pronounces margarine with a hard 'g' so am glad tis proven that i am not mad.

― nickie, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have a Double Decker in my greasy paws right now and in fact the stuff is called nougatine, and contains the following ingredients: glucose syrup
sugar
hydrogenated vegetable oil
dried egg white
fat-reduced cocoa
flavourings
salt

― chris, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Err.. very num num.

― N., Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

it was very num num when I just ate it.

― chris, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I suspect, judging by that ingredients list, that nougatine was developed out post-war rationing resourcefulness.

― N., Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I suspect that if you consulted the ingredients list of most of our popular confectionary it would be reasonably similar to this.

― Emma, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You may well be right. I have a feeling most the UK's beloved chocolate bars were in fact developed by Quakers in the period of austerity so beloved by Pete and deplored by Dave Q (whither?)

[I was expecting another Emma post, identical to the first but with 'confectionery' spelling corrected. Bless her]

― N., Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

To quote Nick back at himself: SHUT UP.

― Emma, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I say nugget. So sue me...

You people are all too posh.

Double Decker, yes, excellent chocolate, far superior to Toffee Crisp, original in design and taste, with crispy bits that are too cultured to make you think you could make it yourself.

Since when is 40p unreasonable for a chocolate bar in London? How long have you people been living there? Fools.

― Ally C, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't eat chocolate much anymore. It's overrated and I'd rather a beer, or some crisps, or some cigarettes. I think I ate so much chocolate from the ages of 4-13 that I now dislike it.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You will return to chocolate when you're a bit older, Ronan. It is the natural law.

The only bad thing I can say about the Double Decker bar is that I find I eat them too quickly. I shall have to try Emma's trick, but they are not easy to divide like say a Twix is.

Apparently Mars Bars have just been relaunched with a new logo (and new formula??? or just new, lighter size poss.) Anyone tried the new bar?

― Jeff W, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I hear all Mars have done is whipped up the nuggetine filling more so it takes up the same space but there is less of it.

In order to perform my Double Decker trick you will need a full set of surgical knives I'm afraid.

― Emma, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

unless you bite offr the chocolatey bit first and get left with the nuggetine.

I used to do the same thing with mars bars to just leave the caramel, I fear the new over-whipped nuggoo (my new, quicker to type name for it) may make the Mars bar a bit of a lightweight bar for the chocolate afficionado.

― chris, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

my grandad used to carve mars bars with a hunting knife, like slicing bread

― mark s, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Alan you quoted that awful Topic advert, that pains me.

Duible Deckers ar one of those things like olives of sushi that you have to be in the mood for. Twixes were always dead easy to pull apart, but then it got harder.

― Anna, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh sod. Typo central. I don't care I have a cold.

― Anna, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

mmmm, biting the biscuit off a twix to leave the caramel, it always seemed like it was the wrong way round, but it was a far better way to eat them. (cf. pulling Bourbon biscuits apart and eating the filling)

― chris, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Now it is Creme egg season surely someone should start a How Do You Eat Yours thread? I got sent away from the lunch table once for biting off the top then sticking my finger into the fondant goo and licking it all off. I was about 17 at the time which apparently made it all the more unforgiveable. I think licking out the inside just with your tongue is gross (arf arf).

― Emma, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

filthmonger

― chris, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i say nugget most of the time. (And I said sorry, Anna. really i am) biting off all the sponge on a JAFFA CAKE leaving the smashing orangey bit = they are monkeys

― Alan Trewartha, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think you were probably at that difficult age where your parents interpreted it as a sign of sexual precocity and were therefore embarrassed. Much younger and they would have probably seen it as touching childish gaucheness and now they would probably go 'wayhay girl'.

― N., Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Incidentally, I don't like Creme Eggs much as they are too sickly, but if pushed I would probably suck them till the fondant oozed and then smear it all over my face.

― N., Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If they have airholes in the side, then sucking the fondant out through that is the best way.

How do you eat sherbert flying saucers?

― Anna, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

bite a hole in the top and snort them, doesn't everyone do that?

― chris, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't think I know how I eat Creme Eggs. My brain is messed up from writing about CRAPPY FUCKING STUART HALL AND NOAM CHOMSKY ESSAYS. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Forget the sex tourist thing, he's obviously a DRUGS tourist now.

I really fancy a creme egg. Would someone bring me one?

― Emma, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No pop off the top layer of rice paper and lick out the sherbert with your tongue.

― Anna, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh God Ronan - I feel your pain, theories of how media is consumed. Manufacturing consent and moral panics?

Yuck.

― Anna, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Curse these crazy out of order responses. I have a feeling that if I ate a creme egg in front of my mum these days, far from saying 'wahey girl' she would be even more disgusted and start muttering about how she cannot believe she sent me to Oxford (yes apparently she did the exams / interview / hard work etc.) if I was going to carry on like that.

― Emma, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes.....Bourdieu, Hall, Chomsky, Sigal. And the worst part is it's meant to be like a diary of the class all year, and I fucking hate the lecturer, she's the one that prompted me to post two threads here moaning about politics.

I completely slated her, er....in a fair way, thank god she's not correcting it herself.

If I have to watch another Chomsky video I'll go insane.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

McDonalds now has IN STOCK.... The Creme Egg McFlurry. BLIMEY I've only had a McFlurry once and I wasn't too convinced, but this time... COR.

― Sarah, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Have you had to all the bollocks about objectivity and gatekeeper theories yet?

(Our course was funny, we'd do the media academic side then go to a law lecture or a practical and have all the other lecturers start moaning aabout how academic theories hold no water IF YOU ARE A PROPER JOURNALIST AND NOT SOMEONE WHO PRATS ABOUT IN CLASSROOMS ALL DAY! Much bitterness, they'd all get drunk at Christmas parties and bicker)

sorry - chocolate.

― Anna, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I wish I could write an essay on Stuart Hall, is it about the It's a knockout years? or the later commentating on Radio5?

Anna, yes, that is the real way I eat flying saucers, but Alan at my school once did it the way I described, he cried.

― chris, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There should be an essay on the quest for a viable bar that uses white chocolate. Milky Bar has had the field to itself forever and is very unimaginative. Cadbury's Dream is a fair attempt but still a bit monotonous.

― Tom, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

How about The Quiz Night Years?

― RickyT, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Problem with white chocolate is that its taste isn't very strong and hence gets overwhelmed by anything else the bar might contain. Saying that white toblerones do seem to be quite popular but might be disqualified from the bar category due to infamous triangular prism shape.

― RickyT, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

TOP DECK YOU MENTALISTS.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like the toblerones that have dark chocolate at the bottom and white at the top, giving the impression of a snow-capped mountain.

ahhh, Quiz night, that was absolutely marvellous.

― chris, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Have none of you had the White Chocolate Chunky Kit Kat?

I admit, I haven't. IT LOOKS QUEER.

― Sarah, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Lucky my toblerones are small and humble, so I don't confuse them with mountains.

― Tom, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top Deck?

Is this some Irish chocolate thing? Like Caramellos? (Which are lovely, but don't exist in Britain)

― Anna, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

are top deck's not dairy milk with a white chocolate topping? hmmmm, odd.

Tom made joke of the day, tee hee

― chris, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top Deck SHANDY!

― Alan Trewartha, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah top decks are squares with half white and half dairy milk. not only do they look cool, they're dead nice too. FIND THEM. I hate white chocolate like Milky Bars but still

― Ronan, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The new white choc clunky kit kats are the BIZZNIZZ. I must admit I was dubious, but as soon as it went in my mouth I was in heaven. And the kitkat was nice too harhar.

― Steve.n., Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

hmmmmm, sounds a bit sickly to me, but I will try it.

― chris, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Did Top Deck shandy actually contain any beer?

― RickyT, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I eat my Creme Egg by putting it in my mouth and chewing. I'm a simple man.

― Ally C, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

All in one go? Blimey! I'm surprised you're not in the circus!

― Emma, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Do they sell monster huge big creme eggs at the Baby Sainsbury's Emma or is your mouth tiny? A creme egg isn't that big!

― Tom, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes well technically it would go in my mouth in one go but the extreme sweetness might make my face implode or something. Though now I am getting the urge to try this out.

― Emma, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am afraid I must be harbouring hidden THINGS deep down in my psyche as I bit the top off and lick the cream out from inside. NUM NUM, perhaps I shall undergo A Life Change. Ronan your Top Deck sounds sadly like what they used to do with Cappuccino Bars which sadly they haf stopped making. But not with coffee. YES keep the Jamaica Crunch (Jamaica JIZZ RAG MORE LIKE) but get rid of the NICE ONE?? Fcukers.

Emma perhaps he means the MINI Creme Eggs which are no good to mang nor WEE BEASTIE.

― Sarah, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Re: half white / half brown chocolate. What about LIAISONS?

― N., Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i haf a bad urge — inspired no doubt by three hours fact-checking an article abt le corbusier — to do a UK CHOC BARS top 100 to confound xwerxes and scare everyone else

as with crisps i am interested in the posh-middling-vulgar continuum, and haf a kneejerk enthusiasm for the despised end of the market, even when some of it taste a bit rub.

(do ppl still say rub?)

― mark s, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

White chocolate kit kats rool. The biscuit tastes even more biscuity I thought.

― Jonnie, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Is Liasons one of those made-up-by-Nick things like Nuclear Weapons Top Trumps?

― Tom, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

of course Marble bars = lovely oh mark, rub was sooo yesterday's thing.

― chris, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(do ppl still say rub?)

Oh yes, I think so. Though I have decided it is spelled 'rubb'.

― N., Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

no Tom, liaisons are quite nice, truffle based things from the Galaxy stable.

― chris, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

what was that faux posh chocate that rula lenska and terry from minder advertised?

factoid i may have contributed to ilx already: alternative names for YORKIE BARS —— technical term, a "cantiline" bar — at market research stage were QUINN BAR and ROMBO BAR...

― mark s, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

MY TROLLEY HAS LIAISONS (though now I'm not sure if they have white choc in them or not. There's definitely one newish one that does.)

Anyway, Liaisons are made by Galaxy and you can see them reviewed here, doubtas.

― N., Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But Chris you are praline hata. How come you dig Liaisons?

I think we should all decamp to the Chocola te Bar Review forum.

― N., Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nick, I am no praline or truffle hata, it's just that I prefer them in the order given above, I love all chocolate, where chocolate is concerned I am Barry White. I have an exception to this and that's coconut - yeuch, unless it's the cherry flavoured coconut in a cherry ripe, which is a lovely bar from Australia which features crystallized cherry in it's dark chocolate outer (and the easter egg has just this and is there fore the nummest easter egg)

and liaison is more truffle than praline surely?

― chris, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Egad - what new hell is this?

― N., Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

they're bloody horrible, steer clear. Nearly as nasty as mint drifters.

― chris, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

SWEET JESUS. I gave up chocolate at just the right time. What about the Champagne Crunchie though, another notorious low point, and the flagrant rip-off that was the Snickers-with-no-peanuts?

― Tom, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nadir or Apex?

― N., Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

champagne crunchie was the sweetest substance known to man and ended up being banned by the UN. plus it tasted foul. I do try to sample all these new bars, even when I know it's going to be horrible.

― chris, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I may draw the line at sodding Westlife though yeuch

― chris, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

how did the king-size yorkie) earn the soubriquet "sweet taste of football"

― mark s, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Can I just mention Charleston Chews at this point? Frozen, of course.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think it is time for celebrity pundorsment to make its way from crisps (Salt n' Lineker, Cheese n' Owen) to chocolate bars. The Westlife bar was a complete missed opportunity, as the boys could have been part of a Wildlife Bar promotion. The 'sweet taste of football' king size Yorkie is just waiting for a "Dwight Yorkie" special edition. Fruit and Kanoute!

― N., Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Charleston Chews are DA BOMB!

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Combine chocolate and a campaign aimed at Sven, Picnic-y-Butt. On second thoughts that just sounds rude.

― Jonnie, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It also sounds Welsh.

They sometimes try out new chocolate bars in Scotland first, a bit they did with the Poll Tax. In the mid 80s Cadbury's launched another bar around the same time as Wispa but it never caught on. I only ever saw it in Scotland I think. Also, Ireland had mini packs of Pringles long before we did.

― N., Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That's because leprechauns kept getting stuck in the big cans trying to get the last few out.

― Jonnie, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dan realizes my wisdom. Cast off these strange confections you speak of and embrace the Chew.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The problem is though that nobody buys Wildlife bars. Or nobody buys them once theyve realised there are only 4 animals you can get.

― Tom, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I may draw the line at sodding Westlife though yeuch

Even as we type, Westlife nervously waits for Chris to make up his mind...

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm not sure I'm remembering correctly, but is there such a thing as a Cherry Ripe? They are GORGEOUS, and Antipodean if I'm not much mistaken.

Like Cabbage, I always have to try the new & limited edition (hmm) choco bars. The mint ones are always disappointing, but I thought the white kitkat chunky was perfectly okay. Doesn't compare to its brown sibling, though, which is the peak of chocolate perfection.

― Mark C, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Remember the Original Wispa? It was v diff IIRC. But I don't actually recall HOW. I remember it went away then came back in a new form, as if it had regenerated.

― Alan Trewartha, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Westlife are safe.

I tried another Liaison last night on the way home and hmmm, nice, but advertised as Praline filling, but inside is very truffle-like, I mean if you're getting praline you want bits of nut and caramel all criushed up, not a smooth truffle, sheesh.

Yes Mark, Cherry ripes = num, also available from Cybercandy.com or the Australian shop in Covent Garden

― chris, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have just had a Creme egg and had to wait until there was no-one nearby so I could indulge in it fully. It was NUMMY. I had forgotten just how much. I may have to eat some more quite soon.....

I almost bought a Double Decker instead but the wrapper says 'BIG UP TOP!' on it and I thought oh dear it might make my breasts grow or something so went for the Creme egg option instead.

― Emma, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Old wispa's used to be not as bubbly.

― Jonnie, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mmm. I remember when Wispas came out and my grandma (who was a BIG Aero fan) said 'they taste like having a mouthful of flour' and I could see just what she meant and have hardly eaten any Wispas since. Only in emergencies.

― Emma, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Do creme eggs make for man-boobs then?

― Alan Trewartha, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Liasons and Cadbury's Marble are the best in my world. Let them eat praline.

― Anna, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Do you mean Double Deckers Alan? Creme eggs made no body part- enhancing claims so I deemed it safe to eat one. God it was nice. Why don't they sell them in our canteen?

― Emma, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yes. duh me.

― Alan Trewartha, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well in that case I dare the menfolk of ILE to go and scoff Double Deckers and see if they become 'big up top'.

― Emma, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

now I see my downfall.

― chris, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The plastic surgery industry will go down the tubes now Science has discovered that Double Deckers give you big breasts.

― Emma, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If you carry on eating double deckers you'll be the one snaring sex tourists in a short time as opposed to the other way round Chris.

― Jonnie, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

me love you long time

― chris, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Boobboosts aren't technically plastic surgery, are they?

― N., Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Cosmetic surgery then. WHATEVER. The sun is shining, stop being such a pedant.

― Emma, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't know what has brought on this latest bout. It's odd. You're right, the sun is shining. Let's dance.

― N., Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

poor windowless me. pity me, now.

― Alan Trewartha, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I would think that eating enough Double Deckers would make you big up top, down low, and all around the middle, unless you make a habit of sleeping in a centrifuge.

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My marble bar has melted whilst I was in a meeting!

― Jonnie, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Boobboosts. Mmms, Boost bars. I miss the coconut one.

― Ellie, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh, give me strength, or some form of Lindt.

Nick and Emma may boil in anger but I Am Chocolate Princess of ILX. I know this is true because whenever I eat GOOD chocolate, it makes me SNEEZE. BAD chocolate DOES NOT produce a sneeze. This is not an allergy, it is quality control, y'all.

One year I volunteered to test the holiday choc ranges for the Observer. So I called up all the chains and got them to send in (cough, BIKE OVER) the free samples. By the end of the free samples I was in the middle of a crying jag on the floor somewhere on the 4th level of the graniaud building because, apart from the Thorntons and Godiva, all were RUBBISH.

...and in America, they pronounce NOUGAT 'knew-get'. Otherwise you get a NOUGIE for being poncey.

― suzy, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I Am Chocolate Princess of ILX.

Bah! Wouldn't you rather be the Fairy Queen?

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

D'oh, Ned: any really stylin' monarch has MANY titles.

― suzy, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Fair enough. *swans off in Emperor-of-the-Universe robes*

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I know this won't get read but, anyway:

"When They're Gone, They're Gone" says the White Chunky Kit Kat slogan: its a limited edition (albeit of several million). So stock up now. Its currently the fastest selling confectionery item in our machines.

Tom said: There should be an essay on the quest for a viable bar that uses white chocolate. Milky Bar has had the field to itself forever and is very unimaginative. Have you tried the Nestlé Crunch White? Maybe too much like melted Milky Bars with Rice Krispies in for you.

― David, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ooh yes, a little oversweet but reminded me of the old crunch bar I used to have years ago, which may have been foreign nestle even, but nice.

Suzy, it's not about quality, it's about sugar and texture and the quick sweet fix, sure you can have godiva or posh 70% cocoa solids but that's just missing the point when you're sat at your desk when all you need is some thick, sweet chocolatey mush in your mouth.

― chris at home, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Cherry Ripe Rox0rs and so does Aero Bars. Who here likes Tim Tams then? Or should there be a separate choccy biccie thread?

― electric sound of jim, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

they're the ones like our Penguins aren't they? only more chocolatey I found, so yeah, they rock dude

― chris at home, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

how come none of you mentalists have mentioned the fact that since they took the raisins out of double deckers they have been RUBBIDGE!?!??

― CarsmileSteve, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

raisins? when was this?

― michael, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What raisins?

― Anna, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

exactly. he's thinking of the WRONG BAR

― michael, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No, Carsmile is, as usual, OTM. Initially, DDs had raisins (possibly sultanas, admittedly) but they were removed from the recipe at some stage. If I had to guess at the date of this removal, I would say mid to late '80s.

― Tim, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Except of course that DDs are still very fine. just not as fine as when they had the raisins.

― Tim, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yup, raisins went out of them a long time ago, they did add a little extra, but Tim is OTM.

― chris, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Obviously I am younger than you lot and not nearly 30 or anything but I don't remember raisins in my Double Decker. Presumably you are claiming they were in the crispy bit rather than the nuggetine bit?

― Emma, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

removal of raisins = the only red wedge success story

― mark s, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

they were on the side emma: they came in a little twist of blue paper

― mark s, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Emma, yes, the crispy bit, there weren't loads of them, but just enough to make it nice.

― chris, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

*spurts coffee onto PC screen* - very funny, mark

Re suzy's choc-tester experience: if by "holiday choc ranges" you mean easter, I think I read that piece (which is strange since I've nevah knowingly bought the Hobserver).

I am of course lucky in some respects: Godiva stalls all over this city. Mmmmm.

But no Double Deckers here.

― Jeff W, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I still don't believe the raisins thing. Fuses are nice aren't they? Do they still have them? Weren't they set to overtake the Kitkat as top choc bar at one point?

― Emma, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And then there was the Maverick.....

― Jonnie, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Raisins in choco bars often dud cos (a) makes biscuit go soft and/or (b) tastes moldy (cf. Club Fruit, Cadbury's Fruit+Nut). Exceptions: Buscuit and Raisin Yorkie and Fuse. I like the taste of Fuse, but it's a bugger to eat. You try and take a small bite and end up with half the bar in yr mouth.

Fuse bar success story.

― Jeff W, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i have realised that i didn't mean double deckers. i dont think so anyway. could i have meant drifters? i mean, about the disappearing and reappearing thing

― gareth, Monday, 25 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

NOW he tells us.

― N., Monday, 25 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

152 posts all about a mis-identified chocolate bar? sheesh

― chris, Monday, 25 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Gareth - I am so disapointed.

― Anna, Monday, 25 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i dont think so anyway

to quote my Mum, Gareth, "that's it, you don't think, do you????"

;-)

― chris, Monday, 25 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

did anyone ever eat dime bars?

― jel --, Monday, 25 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yes. not very often admittedly.

has anyone had a Cadbury's Brunch bar? they've started putting them in the vending machines in the Tube, but when i tried to get one they were sold out. i'm hoping that with the Cadbury's name they will be tasty and chocolatey and not just an oatey 'instead of breakfast' kind of bar

― michael, Monday, 25 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

but do they come with a canteloupe?

― mark s, Monday, 25 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

eh?

― michael, Monday, 25 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"antelope bars" would be a good name for a chocolate, it could be for people who don't like "lion bars".

I like Galaxy Liasons.

― jel --, Monday, 25 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i had a dime bar yesterday in walthamstow. it was a 2 in 1 pack. last month i had a cola dime bar.

― gareth, Monday, 25 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I haf come late to this thread and am flabbergated by all this. Double Dex0rz = VILE. VILE. Creme Eggs, mars bars, all seriously narsty & a waste ov good cocoa solids. Galaxy "Liason" & "Hazelnut Galaxy" about as near to palatable as you'll get in a newsagent. Do you londoners not have branches of Thornton's? Eat their chocolate & there is no going back to all that waxy crap!

― Norman Phay, Monday, 25 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

twelve years pass...

double deckers vs lion vs toffee crisp vs drifter vs crunchie

am I leaving anything obv out there? no nuts, must have a crispy/crunchy element

― local eire man (darraghmac), Saturday, 31 January 2015 23:19 (eleven years ago)

if it gets to this evening with no further contributiins thats held as final poll entries just sayin

― local eire man (darraghmac), Saturday, 31 January 2015 23:59 (eleven years ago)

Sack Crunchie from that list. Always too dry and mangles the inside of my mouth.

― kinder, Sunday, 1 February 2015 08:39 (eleven years ago)

The joy of cramming a whole nougat layer into your gob after completing the task of gnawing off all the biscuit might win this for the DD. Makes up for lack of caramel element.

Fuse and Maverick are sadly missed.

― kinder, Sunday, 1 February 2015 08:46 (eleven years ago)

instead you should do a poll that's a link to this thread and some kind of comprehension test for current ilx

― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Sunday, 1 February 2015 10:47 (eleven years ago)

ey kinder ive always liked you so imma let that pass but if you need a safety warning on yr crunchie wrapper that's btwn u and god

― local eire man (darraghmac), Sunday, 1 February 2015 11:37 (eleven years ago)

I like Crunchies almost as much as I like Double Deckers. If there was a poll, I think the much maligned Boost ("Slightly rippled with a flat underside") would come last.

― You are swimming in spaghetti. Without a paddle. (snoball), Sunday, 1 February 2015 14:28 (eleven years ago)

Also S (not D) Fry's Turkish Delight: full of Eastern promise and then covered in chocolate. Eating actual Turkish Delight as an adult was a real shock.

― You are swimming in spaghetti. Without a paddle. (snoball), Sunday, 1 February 2015 14:29 (eleven years ago)

...I picked one up off the tea trolley the other day not even noticing they had been away...

Does a tea trolley service still exist in UK workplaces?

― the gabhal cabal (Bob Six), Sunday, 1 February 2015 14:54 (eleven years ago)

wtf snobes clearly Turkish delight not eligible in the pantheon of crunch/chocolate greats do keep up man

― local eire man (darraghmac), Sunday, 1 February 2015 20:38 (eleven years ago)

crunchies are great but feel like they're in a diff category to the others & clearly don't belong in poll imo

― socki fan taytay (wins), Sunday, 1 February 2015 20:47 (eleven years ago)

I mean if "crunchy" is your only criterion you'd have to open it up to twix & all other biscuit-containing chocolate bars

― socki fan taytay (wins), Sunday, 1 February 2015 20:48 (eleven years ago)

I'm slightly uneasy abt crunchier u may be right but I think twix is a fair nomination I just amnt mad on twixes

― local eire man (darraghmac), Sunday, 1 February 2015 20:54 (eleven years ago)

Just tried a double decker for the first time. It was a bit of an ordeal to eat: ridiculously tough caramel base accompanied by a slightly unpleasant tasting biscuit section. The most that can be said, I feel, is that it lasts a lot longer than most other snacks.

― the gabhal cabal (Bob Six), Sunday, 1 February 2015 21:34 (eleven years ago)

1. It's not caramel
2. You were eating it upside down

― Number None, Sunday, 1 February 2015 21:38 (eleven years ago)

lol and otm also dont eat it out of the freezer

― local eire man (darraghmac), Sunday, 1 February 2015 21:42 (eleven years ago)

I think it was probably stale.

― the gabhal cabal (Bob Six), Sunday, 1 February 2015 21:46 (eleven years ago)

lol and otm also dont eat it out of the freezer

I'm not sure if I don't like Double Deckers as much as I did in the 80s or if it's just that the only place I decide to buy them now is the work sandwich van, which despite no refrigeration serves all its produce (inc. perma-green bananas) at arctic temperatures most of the year round

I was gonna say Fuse but I forgot they had nuts in and also apparently they don't exist any more

damn you I'm supposed to be on a diet but breakage via chocolate is all too possible as flatmate has left a big pile of Dairy Milk in the kitchen and also I still have a box of Thorntons in my room after I carried it all round the country as an emergency present in case any aunts/uncles I'd forgotten existed turned up to xmas festivities (PS don't feel sorry for me, I just had a Kopparberg, a couple of vodkas and a bag of prawn crackers, so the diet is already p. much dead)

― club mate martyr (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 1 February 2015 22:14 (eleven years ago)

go for it imo

― local eire man (darraghmac), Sunday, 1 February 2015 22:20 (eleven years ago)

darragh said he would mail me a double decker

― 龜, Sunday, 1 February 2015 22:21 (eleven years ago)

idnr but am certainly willing

― local eire man (darraghmac), Sunday, 1 February 2015 23:11 (eleven years ago)

one month passes...

I had a Double Decker a few days ago and was disappointed that it wasn't like I remembered it - the lack of raisins now is a real problem. It's like the bar has lost it's raisin d'être.
Also this morning I had a Cadbury's Dairy Milk with Oreo pieces. Not bad, but could have done with more Oreo and less of that (noticeably cheaper since the Kraft takeover) milk chocolate. The thing that I like about Oreos is that that they have a dark chocolate taste, and it didn't really come through so much here.

― 0xFE Shades of Grey (snoball), Sunday, 1 March 2015 20:27 (eleven years ago)

The nougat stuff is a lot fluffier now

This is also a problem - it's like the stuff in a Milky Way now.

― 0xFE Shades of Grey (snoball), Sunday, 1 March 2015 20:45 (eleven years ago)

Meanwhile on a less disappointing tip, on Saturday I had a peanut butter Chunky Kit-Kat and it was rather good.

― 0xFE Shades of Grey (snoball), Sunday, 1 March 2015 20:46 (eleven years ago)

i never look up uk candy bars on wikipedia because i like encountering the ineffable mystery of "Choctums" or w/e in threads like these, imagining the display aisle containing the assortment, etc. is "Slightly rippled with a flat underside" really a selling point?

― hammer smashed nagls (mattresslessness), Sunday, 1 March 2015 22:08 (eleven years ago)

raisins?

― local eire man (darraghmac), Sunday, 1 March 2015 22:13 (eleven years ago)

Originally the bar contained raisins within the base layer, however consumer research in the mid-1980s led to these being removed and the current formulation being introduced.

― sleepingsignal, Sunday, 1 March 2015 22:37 (eleven years ago)

ah yeah I'm not ancient

― local eire man (darraghmac), Sunday, 1 March 2015 22:42 (eleven years ago)

the gutfill sector

― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Sunday, 1 March 2015 22:52 (eleven years ago)

Cadbury's Dairy Milk with Oreo pieces

oh i love these

but i agree about DD's

― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Sunday, 1 March 2015 23:02 (eleven years ago)

Basically Double Deckers are now half Milky Way and half biscuit Boost, which is so totally not what they were about originally.

― 0xFE Shades of Grey (snoball), Monday, 2 March 2015 18:25 (eleven years ago)

is "Slightly rippled with a flat underside" really a selling point?

It makes more sense in context...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm_DkuxtmfE

― 0xFE Shades of Grey (snoball), Monday, 2 March 2015 18:26 (eleven years ago)

deckers nothing like milky way tbh

― local eire man (darraghmac), Monday, 2 March 2015 18:35 (eleven years ago)

The nougat is now.

― 0xFE Shades of Grey (snoball), Monday, 2 March 2015 18:46 (eleven years ago)

Unless they've made Milky Ways even lighter.

― 0xFE Shades of Grey (snoball), Monday, 2 March 2015 18:46 (eleven years ago)

I wouldn't know, because I'm all about that deep-fry-this-bastard type heavy chocolate, like a double chocolate Mars Bar or something.

― 0xFE Shades of Grey (snoball), Monday, 2 March 2015 18:47 (eleven years ago)

I had a Fry's Chocolate Cream this morning for the first time in years, and was disappointed that the fondant centre tasted like toothpaste.

― Hugh G. Wreckjoke (snoball), Sunday, 15 March 2015 13:41 (eleven years ago)

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