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Take 5(s) are really my popular candy wheelhouse.
I think I go Skor but they are very similar. I also always associate Skor with tobacco, I think because of Skoal???
Went through a real deep Skor phase in high school
I'd have to try them both again to be sure though....someone please bring me five of each
Whole piece
Mixed in w/ Ice Cream
What are other ways to test it? Melted onto a smore?
hard toffee center, does it melt??
"I had a bag of Skor toffee chips in the top of my pantry and it melted into one big smooshy mass"
Of course that is "chips" and not the bar.
SKOR!
Skor has more of an "international" flavor, Heath is more "american", as in "U.S.A.".
The first time I ever had a Skor bar was when I was ten at cross-country skiing camp. We had super long days of skiing in the cold during "winter break". One afternoon one of the instructors gave us our own candy bar (for energy) and for the rest of my life I will associate Skor with childhood winter sports.
I like small nibbles of Skor bar with tea (or coffee).
My favourite ice cream is "Coffee Heath Bar Crunch" but I can't remember when or why I first tried it, it's really bad for you.
No defenders of Heath bars?
I also remember a period during which we would intentionally freeze a Reese's peanut butter cup to our mitten and then take nibbles of it during particularly long runs down the mountain
pretty sick
WAIT A MINUTE. They are both made by Hershey? Is Hershey's burying the Skor ever since they bought Leaf in 1996 and have owned both bars? Did they strategically push the Heath bar over the Skor to the fine folks at Dairy Queen?
Heath is much older (1928) vs. Skor (1981)
Skor was known as Rutnam is Canada for awhile?
Skor means "shoes" in Sweedish and the crown in the Skor logo is identical to the one on the Sweedish emblem? SHOES is a weird name for a candy bar.
Why the fuck does it have to cost so much????
I thought I'd prefer Heath but really the winner was Skor. It's softer and more buttery
Isn't the major difference between the two is that Heath has little bits of almonds in it?
Also Heath comes as two bars, which I never liked because it seems like you get less candy that way. There's more space in the packaging of a Heath, whereas Skor is one big bar.
a new dance craze
Doesn't it make you want one?
I need to go for a walk, I will go to the store and see if they have any.
but it does sound hilarious to say "conSkorisy" out loud I found out right after I typed that.
I can't even think of the last time I saw a Skor. Where do you get a Skor? Can you order one online for .99 and free shipping?
I went to the store and they didn't even have Skor bars.
Only had Heath bars and also the ice cream mentioned above.
Oh well.
No nog either.
I am pretty sure we didn't have Heath bars when I was a kid. Only Skor. There were some Hershey products but not many. Not super popular. I remember Halloween bags with all the Hershey stuff left over at the bottom uneaten. Most of the candy we ate was Cadbury (Chunchie! Caramilk! Aero, in original, mint and orange flavor!) and Nestlé products (Coffee Crisp! Smarties!).
I didn't know Skor was a Hershey product until today.
When I was a kid I thought Hershey chocolate tasted like barf and one day I read that the reason why the taste seems off to some people is because they basically burn the milk when they make their milk chocolate. The European way of making milk chocolate involves using milk powder, it is added in such a way that you don't taste it as much.
Better explanation here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_of_chocolate
This seems possible, due to its shady scandinavian origins (Skor's, I mean).
This, if true, would indicate a MAJOR difference, and as such it would make sense that there would be strong advocates on one side or the other.
For example, milk chocolate makes me barf
In Australia we saw a gelato place that had the flavors "chocolate" and "american chocolate." the "chocolate" was decorated with chunks of lovely chocolate, while the "american chocolate" was decorated with Snickers wrappers
There is no dark chocolate involved with Skor. It's milk chocolate.
"SKOR Toffee Bar
With buttery toffee enrobed in milk chocolate, this bar’s a distinctively rich treat. Also, use it in your holiday recipes for really decadent baked goods."
http://www.thehersheycompany.com/brands/skor/toffee-bar.aspx#/1983
Skor and Heath are very very similar.
It's interesting that everyone prefers the product (Skor) that was created in the 80s as a direct copy of the original from the 20s (Heath).
Also, I've had a couple satisfying clandestine conversations with a few people recent where we have admitted our preference of milk chocolate over dark chocolate. IT FEELS GREAT TO BE HONEST. Dark chocolate is cool, just don't prefer it!
M&Ms
Snicker
traditional chocolate milk of American childhood (Swiss Miss!)
etc.
Dark chocolate came to me very late in life, like hummus and super spicy food
It's so weird that in my mind Skor is so different from Heath. Now I really do want to do a taste test.
I will also say that I find Skor just aesthetically more pleasing. I like the badass scandinavian black metal wrapper and font, and I like the name: SKOR
Heath seems wienery, and its graphic design is boringer
"Got a nickel? Butter Brickle....candy bar!"
I forgot to say that yesterday at the store I saw a Hershey product called "Symphony" that came in a giant size. I had never seen it before, it looked right out of the early eighties, like the kind of chocolate you'd eat at your grandmothers condo with wall to wall white carpet.
It's ok to prefer milk chocolate. Totally fine. Fudge told me he prefers milk chocolate years ago. To him it fills the role of candy, he likes Reese peanut butter cups and Mounds. He likes American treats.
I personally prefer a small chunk of dark chocolate to nibble on. I am done with the days of slamming chocolatey treats or handfuls of candy into my mouth. It never sounds good and so much sugar makes me feel sick pretty quickly.
I don't get slamming candy. How does it even taste good? It's not like you are eating it because you are hungry and need it inside you...why eat it so fast? Doesn't it gum up in your mouth and get disgusting? So much sugar makes me want to die, just thinking about it. JUDGMENTAL! SORRY!
and oh yeah, I remember Symphony bars. I feel like I remember when it first appeared! It was a big deal. I used to love a Symphony bar. What a nerdy candy bar.
Caramelo
Toblerone!
Oh Boy Almond Joy
One time my friend Marjorie found a Mounds bar in her mom's cabinet that was super old and she took a bite out of it and discovered too late that all the coconut was actually maggots. And she was called "Maggot" forevermore. She would sing "Don't call me daughter" but change it to "Don't call me Maggot"
That's the story of high school
Yes! I now remember reading that New Yorker article!
I am not European, but I distinctly associated Hershey with gagging as a kid.
Weird sweaty chocolate.
And I had forgotten about the Snickers wrappers on the ice cream. Eww. Now I totally remember. It looked like trash.
Australia and New Zealand have some pretty exotic candy bars:
Milo
Cherry Ripe
Violet Crumble (same as Crunchie)
Polly Waffle
Pinky
Peanut Slab
Jaffa (Orange candy coated chocolate balls)
In Japan I have seen KitKat in strawberry, orange, ginger ale, green tea, coffee, corn and cantaloupe flavor. More here:
http://www.weirdasianews.com/2010/03/18/japans-strangest-kit-kat-flavors/
That maggot story is so disgusting. Do you guys have Zero bars in the U.S.A.? I really liked them as a kid. They are usually kept in the fridge of convenience stores. My mom got one with maggots once.
corn kitkat is also pretty horrendous, frankly
We in America are really having a dark chocolate renaissance right now, I feel like (maybe "revolution" is the better word, since "renaissance" implies the re-birth of something that used to be there, which is not the case with American chocolate). There are so many awesome artisanal chocolatiers getting their grooves on right now. Those insane Brooklyn dudes whose bars cost 10 bucks each? And are delicious! All the Fair Trade fancypants 85% cocoa content options at the store are multiplying, I feel like every couple of months I see a new one. Total hipster chocolate revolution, an off-shoot of the "put bacon in everything" bullshit (bacon chocolate bars being now a thing as well), but in this case an off-shoot I am stoked about.
HOW DID HUMANS EVER INVENT CHOCOLATE??? I feel like it is weirder even than bread
In France I finally saw the thing 19th century novels are always referring to, where some fancy lady "takes chocolate" in her room, or has her maid "pour her more chocolate." It is a jug of incredibly thick, dark, fancy chocolate (as thick as a melted chocolate bar), served with another jug of warm cream, and you pour them together into a cup and swirl it around. NO JOKE
eat that and then don't brush your teeth for your whole life. Welcome to the 19th century!
I also remember Symphony bars coming on the scene, and their toffee and almond flavors are pretty good.
Norway has a rad candy bar that has millions of tiny air bubbles in it. Like if you carbonated the liquid chocolate and then it froze full of holes. It's so good. Their chocolate in general is AMAZING.
The Zero bar is pretty decent. It has a unique taste that I could imagine some people hating.
The very normal grocery store in Anacortes has a growing chocolate section. So many kinds, ramen noodle chocolate, obscure German fair trade bars, Theo from Seattle, design-y chocolate bar packages. Also, so many European mainstream companies with their ordinary line of products repackaged for the U.S. market to look fancier than what it truly is: gas station chocolate.
"IMPORTED."
In Switzerland I was surprised not to taste any chocolate that blew my mind.
As a teen I discovered "Ritter Sport" and got pretty obsessed with trying all the flavours (I like rum with raisins and cornflakes the best).
Now Ritter Sport is everywhere but I don't like buying chocolate that isn't guaranteed to be fair trade anymore. I pretty much stick to Green & Blacks Maya Gold and Fruit and Nut or Endangered Species "bat bar".
I like my chocolate 72% dark, and if there is stuff in it I eat more.
then I switched to just plain dark chocolate Dagoba bar
then to the Chocolove dark bar that has chilies and cherries in it!!
now I'm all about Chocolove's new salty almond dark bar. It's so good. I could use a LITTLE darker but it's still pretty epic
ugh
thank god America has discovered salty chocolate
I love lying flat on my back and just smashing as much low quality chocolate in my mouth as is physically possible (A SURPRISINGLY LARGE AMOUNT) and do two teeth gnashes (to break down the product) and then immediately swallow. I repeat this process until 6 lbs. of the sweet stuff have been consumed, then I check in on my body and see how much more I can handle.
My favorite is this stuff I get down at down at the Grocery Outlet (or Gross Out to us regulars), its called Soft Brown Corn Sticks. Good stuff! AND CHEAP! They are kinda like Kit Kats but if you replaced the wafer in Kit Kat with margarine.
Now I don't indulge like this everyday, but in the fall I probably do it every other day!
I just love to get cozy!
Hence:
my hilarious post above!
Luckily, she does not usually buy sugary things, because she knows she will eat too much of it.
It's nowhere near as hilariously extreme as what UncleShoes describes, but it's real.
I didn't mean to say that all milk-chocolate lovers are slammers, simply that the one I live with is. I nibble, he slams.
There are many styles in between but there are people in this world for whom you'll buy a treat that quickly evaporates. I will return from the store with milk-chocolate, hand it to Fudge, turn around to hang my coat and the whole thing is gone. His eyes not even having left what he was doing.
It makes it impossible to even have a nibble.
I personally struggle with chip slamming. I'll put the chips in the cupboard and often they are out again. I used to have a super sweet tooth. Now I know enough to have my desire for sweets significantly reduced.
I would call myself a chip slammer
there's no shame in slamming, it's just gross (<--joke)
Or like one time I came in from the store, like Joey describes, and I turned around to put the cereal in the cupboard, and when I turned back around Gary had the soy nog carton open and was just chugging it.
CHUGGING IT. Like it was a glass of water and he'd just been on a run.
I screamed, and he was just like "what?"
Now when I bring nog home I remind him not to chug it because other people want some
I don't think it is something a person is ashamed of, is it? It's a different style of enjoying food, and some of us can scream in horror and others of us can indulge in it