Double Deckers (chocolate bar)

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

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?

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.

I realise this is a controversial viewpoint.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

Fuse bar success story.

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

;-)

I like Galaxy Liasons.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

...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?

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

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

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

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

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.

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

lol and otm also dont eat it out of the freezer

I think it was probably stale.

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)

go for it imo

darragh said he would mail me a double decker

idnr but am certainly willing

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.

The nougat stuff is a lot fluffier now

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

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

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?

raisins?

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.

ah yeah I'm not ancient

the gutfill sector

Cadbury's Dairy Milk with Oreo pieces

oh i love these

but i agree about DD's

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

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

deckers nothing like milky way tbh

The nougat is now.

Unless they've made Milky Ways even lighter.

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.

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.