― gareth, Monday, 25 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Norman Phay, Monday, 25 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
Sack Crunchie from that list. Always too dry and mangles the inside of my mouth.
― kinder, Sunday, 1 February 2015 08:39 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
...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 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
1. It's not caramel2. You were eating it upside down
― Number None, Sunday, 1 February 2015 21:38 (nine years ago) link
lol and otm also dont eat it out of the freezer
― local eire man (darraghmac), Sunday, 1 February 2015 21:42 (nine years ago) link
I think it was probably stale.
― the gabhal cabal (Bob Six), Sunday, 1 February 2015 21:46 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
go for it imo
― local eire man (darraghmac), Sunday, 1 February 2015 22:20 (nine years ago) link
darragh said he would mail me a double decker
― 龜, Sunday, 1 February 2015 22:21 (nine years ago) link
idnr but am certainly willing
― local eire man (darraghmac), Sunday, 1 February 2015 23:11 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
raisins?
― local eire man (darraghmac), Sunday, 1 March 2015 22:13 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
ah yeah I'm not ancient
― local eire man (darraghmac), Sunday, 1 March 2015 22:42 (nine years ago) link
the gutfill sector
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Sunday, 1 March 2015 22:52 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
deckers nothing like milky way tbh
― local eire man (darraghmac), Monday, 2 March 2015 18:35 (nine years ago) link
The nougat is now.
― 0xFE Shades of Grey (snoball), Monday, 2 March 2015 18:46 (nine years ago) link
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.
― 0xFE Shades of Grey (snoball), Monday, 2 March 2015 18:47 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link