7 Candy Bars I Only Ate After Moving to America
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- Being from a country famous for its line of Cadbury products, I came to America with an unhealthy addiction to chocolate. I also came with an unhealthy bias as to what good chocolate is. That said, I recognized the importance of immersing myself into American culture, from its laws and customs to its mysterious, err, cuisine. And so, here are 7 candy bars I only ate after moving to America.
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Dove's chocolate tastes much better than their soap.
Damn, it's almost 3:00 in the morning. I'm whiling away the night because I have nowhere to be in the morning and no reason to get up before or after the sun rises due to the coronavisa. As such, here I sit reading other peoples comments about chocolate, which I don't even like that much. I do like Lawrence though as he makes me laugh...a lot. I didn't realize people take their chocolate so seriously until I started reading the comments here. Thanks for the laugh. Do you say that from experience? lol. Or, is it just a guess? I understand some parents literally forced their kids to eat soap as a punishment back in the day. Either way, I loved the comment. Very witty!
That is one taste test I would not want to replicate! 🥴
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I don't want to wash my hands with a chocolate bar either lol
@@rebeccaquartieri5509 😄😄
Anyone remember this adveristment , "sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't , Almound Joy s Got Nuts , Mounnds don't ? ".
Yes. But the difference for me is the dark chocolate as I prefer that to milk chocolate.
The only candy bar that are male and female. Ha ha
I also remember the joke that used it to describe otherwise identical dogs.
yes. My brain is a museum of 1970s and 80s television theme songs and advertising jingles.
@@mandystory4275 I saw a photo once on the internet of girl/boy infant twins dressed for Halloween: he was an Almond Joy and she was a Mounds.
If you haven't, and can find one, try a Goo Goo Cluster. They are America's first combination candy bar and are made in Nashville, Tennessee. They are mainly a regional southern thing. Marshmallow, nougat, caramel disc, covered in roasted peanuts and chocolate. There's even a peanut butter version.
They were in California too.
Lawrence have you ever considered narrating a book? Preferably an edge of your seat, thriller kind of novel? Your voice has a way of conveying a feeling of being there.. very unique imo.
I agree
Many years ago, I remember that a candy bar called Bounty was sold in America. It was a chocolate covered coconut bar, but was slightly different to a Mounds bar, I don't remember exactly how, but they were both sold here.
I believe Bounty is still sold in the UK.
Mars used to have a dark chocolate Milky Way, called Milky Way Midnight. And I have two words for you: Ghirardelli Squares.
Not "used to"; Milky Way Midnight still exists, and it's the best!
@@IceMetalPunk Yeah I was just about to come here and say that. It’s the best of the Mars chocolate bar line that there is
Every year when I travel to our offices in the UK I either bring a mixed bag of ghiradelli squares or a mixed box of See’s. I was surprised the first time I brought either one because they were both huge hits and I’d always heard Brits don’t care for American chocolate
@@IceMetalPunk Well said.
@@pjschmid2251 Milky Way Fudge is the best of the line.
Lawrence have you eaten turtles? Not the teenage mutant ninja variety, the chocolate caramel & pecan variety.
I'm English so I haven't had them but as someone who loves pecans, chocolate, and caramel they sound amazing. I have to make some.
Lawerence since you’re live Chicago, try the Fannie May version of “Turtles”. The caramel in it is delicious. Mint meltaways are pretty spectacular too.
The peanut butter GooGoo cluster is to die for
Or keeping somewhat with the theme of the channel, Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles variety.
@@violetskies14 turtles are absolutely top tier candies, highly recommend ordering some online!
I can't believe you didn't have a Snickers in the mix! My chocolate-loving heart is weeping.
They have Snickers in the U.K.
@@lshcub Well that makes sense. My bad, thanks for setting me straight!
@@heatherclawson8686 They used to be called Marathon Bars, it changed in 1990 to be consistent around the world. Took a bit of getting used to 😂
Snickers is just Mars bar with peanuts!!
@@brianmcdonald6519 BLASPHEMER! 🤣 (Actually, I've never had a Mars bar so I can't really argue it.)
Laurence has a very soothing voice and I come here to calm down every time I am in a murderous rage. He has easily saved over a hundred lives.
Best comment of the day! I love his voice and sense of humour. I wish I had his wit! ;-)
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Discovered dark chocolate Reese's cups this year. Life changing.
Wait, what? Really? oooh. stupid pandemic, keeping me from important discoveries...
Have you every had dark chocolate twix its insanely delicious.
Try a good quality dark chocolate with Smucker's Natural peanut butter. Roll your own.
I like the white chocolate ones. Not saying that I don't like the dark ones, or the milk chocolate.
Then try Justin's organic. The peanut isn't as salty as the Reese's, but it's gooood
What a year to give up chocolate. Chocolate is 90% of the reason I survived quarantine
I want a Mars bar!!! I hear they have them in Canada. I'll trade for milky ways.
Dark chocolate with a cacao percentage above 50% lowers blood pressure and has lots of healthy benefits. If you eat Hershey's "Special Select" dark, then you are just eating candy. It is only 45% cacao and has no health benefits.
Check out Ghirardelli and Lindt chocolate in the candy section, I eat 72% Ghirardelli. 1-2 squares per day.
True dark chocolate has health benefits that outweigh any negatives, as long as it is over 50%. If it doesn't say %, don't buy it.
I wish I could chip in. You're getting to be a favorite.
@@justdustino1371 I love the Lindt Chili Bar! 70% cacao dark chocolate with red chili extract.
@@jovanweismiller7114 Haven't tried that one yet, but I may buy one tomorrow. I have seen it.
I want those vanilla and strawberry Musketeers 🤤
I second the motion.
A while ago, they released a mint cream flavored 3 Musketeers. I liked those too.
I do, too! I wish they would bring them back!
@@karozans Ooohh! Those do sound good! Do you know if they're still around?
@@ravenestrella2310 Unfortunately they are discontinued as well. I've been looking for them, but I haven't seen one in many years.
@@karozans Man! That sucks! I wonder why they're discontinuing all of the good ones! It's not like we're still having a sugar shortage!
Oh my gosh, I never knew Three Musketeers originally came in strawberry and vanilla along with the chocolate! They need to bring it back now so I can try them!!
Here in our town they sold Dark Chocolate and Raspberry minis and Dark Chocolate and Mint minis. Sadly they're no longer marketed here. 😕
Did you know that chunky bars originally had cashews and Brazil nuts and not peanuts? I would love to have tried those.
The strawberry was Gods food...
I’d def go got that strawberry one!
In the 50's there was a bar called 7-Up that had 7 flavors, one small bar of each, in one larger bar. I broke off the peanut butter because of allergy, but ate the rest.
Sad that Whatchamacallits didn't make the list. LOL
My favorite chocolate bar
My fave!
Those are so good along with Take Five
I used to love those, and I don't like peanut butter, but those were good!
I've never had one. What's in it?
"Just like how Lawrenceville, PA was named after somebody who wasn't me" is genuinely the funniest line I've ever heard. Just top tier.
This guy has awesome deadpan delivery of lines. Surely he is like a British Leslie Nielson.
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Kit Kats are one of my favorites. I've read somewhere that there are hundreds of flavors of Kit Kats in Japan.
I like wafers in my chocolate tooo0.
Have you had the key lime Kit Kat?
@@thatgirl6592 wow 😮 i had no idea
If you've eaten Pamler chocolate Easter bunnies, you've eaten Yankee Candle's cousin. YUCK.
I think they may be closer relatives than cousins.
Wait...Yankee Candle actually makes chocolate bars? I thought all they made are candles! Or, are you simply saying they make candles that smell much like the food counterparts of the same name?
@@ravenestrella2310 Palmer's "chocolate" is terrible and is closer to candle wax than actual chocolate (IIRC it's not even legally chocolate). People only buy them because they're an extremely cheap way to fill a kids Easter Basket or stocking.
god it reminds me as if someone mixed perfectly good chocolate with sweet pickle brine.
Palmer chocolate, truly the worst chocolate ( if you can call it that) EVER!
im honestly shocked by your acceptance of hersheys. even i as a native born american can immediately understand why its considered something of an acquired taste outside of the states. the souring agent is unique to say the least.
I remember that there used to be a Mars bar marketed here in the US. It was in direct competition with Snickers. The Mars bar had almond pieces in it, while Snickers has peanuts.
I like Toblerone, which is from Switzerland.
I'm from Switzerland and don't like Toblerone. There is better Swiss chocolate 😂
@@Leenapanther Such as?
I like it too.
@@bigscarysteve Toblerone really is a cheap Swiss chocolate. If you want to try beautiful Swiss chocolate you’ve got to go there, especially over Christmas with the Christmas markets. However I know for your average American it’s really expensive to travel to Europe, where as us in England we can get a cheap flight for less than $100 return. And it’s only a hour & half on the plane.
I like Lindt. Isn't that also Swiss?
You've got chocolate in my peanut butter! No! You got peanut butter in my chocolate!!!🤦🏼♀️🤣🤷🏼♀️
Another twenty century classic!
@@barrydysert2974 giving away my age I guess
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I don't know what it was about that commercial - it was cheeseball even to my little girl self - but it's stuck with me all these years.
You just brought that back for me. I guess it's because now we've got the choco bunny and the Marvin Gay song
Two great tastes that tastes great together.
"Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't!"
Jingle written by and sung by Joey Levine, hitmaking voice of the Ohio Express and the 1910 Fruitgum Company in the late 60s. Appropriately!
I recall reading that he made way more money from that jingle (which was used for decades) than any hit single he had written/sung.
I was always a nut, my sister was not.
Dangit, I was literally typing that when I saw your comment.
I prefer almond joy. Why? Because "Almond Joy's got nuts."
Almond Joy's got nuts, Mound's don't!
Love the channel. My grandmother was from the Lambeth area. Survived the blitz during WW2. Came to America at 16, and married a Texan. Never lost her accent, or her British Mannerisms, her whole life, and always dressed , like a lady from the Victorian era. Never lose, your roots, and that wonderful accent. Always loved, respected, and admired my British cousins.
Lawrence...i watch your video not only because I love everything British, but more for your British humor, which is the best in the world
I agree! I wish I had his wit! He is a brilliant writer and has great comic timing.
Until this man, I always found British "humor' quite droll.
Snickers and Twix are amazing
Truth! Especially snickers crunch bars. Delight personified.
All candy bars should have a dark chocolate version
i hate the naming scheme of the almond joy/mounds. what if you want light chocolate and no almond or dark chocolate with almond? plus just call it a mounds with almond.
@@bland9876 The joke is
"Almond Joy's got nuts...Mounds don't!"
(It's a gender joke, people!)
@@bland9876 agreed!
Please I can't handle it! EVERYTHING is going dark chocolate. Give me creamy milk chocolate that is not bitter any day of the week over the dark stuff.
100% agree
I prefer a 5th ave candy bar over butterfinger, don't like the hardness and the way butterfinger sticks to my teeth like concrete. 5th ave is the perfect softer, crunchy, peanut butter lol
AGREED!
Now I must try
And harder to find!
Yeah, I’m a huge fan of peanut butter but not big on Butterfingers.
Same
I’m American and my family and I have been to Europe a lot, especially the United Kingdom. Whenever I go back I miss so many chocolates, like mint aero, and luckily I’m not missing Cadbury that much since they’ve come more to the USA
Every Easter as eggs with that goop inside?
@The Hungry Hufflepuff ~ Except The Cadbury in the USA is very different to our UK Cadbury. Sorry to say I have never enjoyed chocolate in the US, which means I can lose weight on my holidays when visiting 😂 bonus and only need to order a starter as portion sizes are so huge double win. Love the people we meet though.
@@Hydra360ci yes way too sweet 🤢
The Clark Bar is far superior to Butterfingers but is hard to find. The Clark Bar is now made by Mallow Cup in Altoona PA.
I've seen them at Cracker Barrel......
After Ferrero bought Nestle's US candy lines in 2018, they re-worked the recipe for the Butterfinger bar (not without some social media angst though). The Ferrero's current Butterfinger is worlds better than Nestle's version -- better chocolate and it actually tastes like peanut butter.
Haven't had a Clark Bar in a long time, but I can say the current Butterfinger is much closer to a 5th Avenue Bar now (a similar bar I've long considered superior to Butterfinger).
@@InvisibleAvenger Disagree. The new Butterfinger is almost inedible. It was my mother’s (age 85) favorite candy bar for decades until they messed with it. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it. Clark bars were Dad’s favorite. Haven’t tried them since they’ve been reissued.
The Clark bar was originally made in Pittsburgh. I dunno how far away from Pittsburgh it was marketed, but I definitely remember them. Since Altoona's not that far away from Pittsburgh, you'd think I'd be seeing them again, but I haven't seen one in probably thirty years.
@@InvisibleAvenger I knew something was different with Butterfingers- I hadn't had one in awhile.
But I couldn't put my Ummmm Finger on it.
My newest addiction are the dark chocolate and mint Kit Kats. Like an Andes mint with cookie wafers inside!
Shhh, have some in the cupboard I've been trying not to think about. MN for me too. Take care.
A lot of candy types were invented during prohibition because people were looking for something else to indulge in.
Makes sense
If you haven't had it yet, you should definitely try the Milky Way Midnight bar! It's like a regular American Milky Way, except the chocolate is dark chocolate, and the nougat is vanilla flavored. It's *so good* that the first time I had it, it immediately became my favorite candy bar. 10/10, would highly recommend.
My favorite candy bar of all time.
The Hershey's almond bar is my favorite. Including Reeses
Nobody tell Laurence about the American Mars bar, which is a UK Mars bar with almonds in it.
Great video, looking forward to further Vlogmas entries!!
I think we discontinued the American Mars bar didn't we? (I've not seen one in years at least) The Almond Snickers is basically the same thing.
@@captin3149 it is the same. They just renamed it.
IIRC, the American Mars bar originally didn't have almonds, then it was discontinued and replaced with Snickers Almond (same recipe, plus almonds), and then it was re-introduced in some places as "original recipe". Or something like that.
@@IceMetalPunk I always remember it with almonds. Came in a tan package like the Snickers Almond.
@@MrMackievelli yep you’re right I remember them from when I was a kid. It was essentially a three musketeers with almonds on top I don’t recall it having caramel. In any case it was nothing special so I always skipped it. The best mars candy bar is got to be Milky Way Midnight.
Skor bars are awesome, Take 5s are underrated.
I miss Skör bars. Heath bars don't even come close to tasting as good as Skör.
@Grand Mal Twerkin so funny you should comment that; just yesterday one of those caught my eye and I stood there wondering if I’ve ever had a Heath bar in my life. I don’t think I ever have!!!
They are delicious, but they aren’t crisp, there are hard. I would love them if they just aerated their toffee a little to make them more edible.
It’s the trifecta. 3 musketeers is the base nougat bar. Milky Way is a 3 musketeers + caramel. Snickers is a Milky Way + nuts.
Perfectly described
Wait, doesn't Snickers have a white nougat? Mars and Milky Ways have chocolate nougats.
I guess.. maybe? but does it really matter? Not gonna taste the difference with the Chocolate outside layer of all 3 of them.
Butterfinger used to be my favorite, at least if they were still fresh enough to be flakey and crisp. Once they started going stale they would steadily get harder and harder. Had one once I never was able to eat because it was so hard, probably could have driven a nail with it. Sad thing is ever since they started advertising their "better butterfinger" they just haven't tasted the same.
Yeah, I think they did something to the recipe...
My favorite American candy bar, which I don't think they make any more--haven't seen one in decades--was called the Seven-Up Bar. It was like seven individual chocolates that you might pick out of a chocolate box, but all fused together into one bar. One item was always a Brazil nut, chocolate covered; one was an orange jelly; and then there were, I think, a chocolate cream, a vanilla cream, a couple of caramels, and I'm blessed if I can remember what the seventh one was. We used to get these all the time in California in the 1960s.
They changed the flavours after some time, but these are the flavours used in the Seven Up Candy Bar:
Brazil nut
Buttercream
Butterscotch Caramel
Cherry cream
Coconut Caramel
Coconut
Fudge
Mint
Nougat
Orange jelly
Unfortunately they stopped producing this bar in 1979. I would have liked to try them.
The Hershey's Special Dark chocolate is the best- not too sweet like milk chocolate, and not as bitter as much of the dark chocolate (It is 45% cacao- so right in the middle of milk and dark). But my personal favorite candy bar is the "Whatchamacallit" bar- yup- it's crispy, caramel- peanut butter flavored, chocolate covered yumminess from Hersheys. Try one when you break your chocolate fast. 2020 has been too stressful to give up chocolate!
Hershey's chocolate is not as good as it used to be. Sometime during the late '90s, the recipe changed to have more sugar and scalded milk. Yuck.
Others will disagree, but Hershey's milk chocolate tastes like soap to me. Give me Cadbury's any day of the week.
Hershey's is OK I guess, but it tastes like I'm eating chocolate meant for cooking or baking
@@deegeef I have never had a Cadbury's bar, as I have NEVER seen one anywhere! They are NO WHERE near my locale.... NO WHERE! Hershey's remains the standard for chocolate in the USA!
Cadbury USA is now owned by.........(wait for it) Hersey.
@@ronclark9724 sadly, real UK Cadbury chocolate is banned in the US. Because Cadbury sells a US version that is not as good, and they don't want us to have the British kind! I see Cadbury at my local Kroger. Not sure where you live... but I'm in Texas. And have a British/American channel and do lots of chocolate reviews ;-)
Love the sweater man! TURTLE POWER!!!
Brits introduced me to LION BARS!!! If I'm really good I get some in my stocking.
I just tried the choco the other day! Like $100000 met Twix and they had a baby!
Ooh lion bars are good!!
Yes, I looooove Lion bars 😋😋😋
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I, too, prefer the dark chocolate and coconut Mounds bar. Freshest at the grocery store. You need to try Godiva chocolate macaroons. These are divine. And probably $5 if you're feeling splurgey.
Merry Christmas to you and Tara🌲
I'm American and prefer Cadbury over Hershey's. Too bad that its difficult to find here.
Cadbury is distributed by the Hershey Company in the US
Us Cadbury is different than UK.
Cadbury chocolate is gross imo. Those Cadbury eggs 🥚 are tooth rottingly sweet.
Same here. But i also like dove dark choc.
Fun Fact: By law, every third building in Hershey, Pennsylvania is required to be constructed out of chocolate (thanks a lot, Senator Wonka).
Alright, I might've made that up just now, but don't think that the idea hasn't occured to anybody.
I thought it was in the building code. Im sure i read it somewhere....
they use kit Kats as rebar
I've been up there. I do think the street lights that look like Hershey Kisses are cool!!! I'm from Glen Burnie, Maryland.
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Kitkat. Akways my favorite.
Just found your videos, really enjoying them. Thank you
Every Christmas my Stocking would have two candies inside, Peppermint Patties and Butterfingers. They would inevitably be my Christmas morning breakfast if I could get out of my mother's line of sight. Still have to indulge myself 40 years later on Christmas day with these two treats.
Mmmm. I love those mini Peppermint Patties. I don't think I've ever even had one of the full size ones outside the Christmas packaging.
Great video! I love your humor! You always make me smile!😊 Take care. Stay safe. 😷🌺🐾
Almond Joy over Mounds for me.
dude i love your dry humor. its wonderfully British
Hershey Dark, Dove, Mounds, Ghirardelli etc, if it's dark chocolate I say yes.
Milky Way Midnight?
I mostly remember the commercial for butterfinger with Bart Simpsons
Nobody’d better not lay a finger on my butterfinger
"Try saying that after 4 whiskies, it's difficult" followed by a slight side smirk 😏 😂😂😂😂 ☠ I love Lawrence!
I particularly love his facial expressions 👀🤣
Want to get extra confused? Until 2002, there was a candy bar sold in the states called a "Mars" bar that was completely different from a UK Mars bar. It's now sold as "Snickers with almonds"
Jingling your bell is the Mrs. job...🤣🤭🙈🙉🙊
Nobody lays a finger on my butterfinger.
Butterfinger out of the fridge is my favorite 😍
Yay! Love your videos!
The producers of E.T. wanted to use M&Ms, but the Mars company wouldn't agree to it because they didn't want their candy associated with a character they thought was ugly. The Hershey company didn't have such an objection, so the movie producers went with Reese's Pieces. The candy had a surge of popularity as a result. I'd like to think someone in the marketing department at Mars was fired over this.
Fast forward a few decades and Mars is producing a peanut butter M&Ms.... Resse's Pieces sold well, thanks to E.T.
@@ronclark9724 I have to say, though, PB M&Ms are much better (imho) than Reese's Pieces.
I read the book based on the screenplay and it says M&M's.....watched the movie and what??? Read about the silly reason for the switch later......
these videos really brings the Christmas spirit to my room!
Have you ever mentioned our state birds, state flowers, state songs, and how each state adopts dozens of these ...Mascots?
I'm from South Carolina, and we even have a state dance.
I used to like Milky Way (American version) bars in college... tried one recently and thought, “How’s that gone wrong?” Maybe my tastes have changed having been to Europe a few times and tasting their chocolates (Denmark’s was surprisingly good).
No, your taste didnt change, Corporations are putting crap for ingredients to make more money!
@@TheGoldbaxter I do agree, food in the EU just tastes better. Our standards need to be raised, but all these companies have congressmen and congresswomen in their pockets to stop the FDA from doing much about it.
Milky Way/Mars Bar is my absolute favorite. Spent a lot of time overseas and got to sample them all. Love peanut butter, but rarely in a candy... Except for the Reece’s Peanut Butter Cup Miniatures. That’s a great ratio.
Loved the video. I knew about Hershey but not the information on the others. Thank you for doing this, love to learn about history
Ditty etched into my memory, "Sometimes you feel like a nut. Sometimes you don't. Almond Joy's got nuts. Mounds don't." czcams.com/video/HdwVw4KZ_Bc/video.html
Doesn't everybody know that tune?
Oh. Right. Twenty century.
Where DID i park my walker?:-/
Have you ever had a Zero bar?
My favorite since I was a kid!
That was my favorite when I was little. I had one as an adult and thought it was disgusting.
Seriously, Zero bars are BOMB! I can only find them at my Dollar General store.
I love my chocolate and I love UK stuff! Perfect video! I look forward to seeing more of them! Thanks!
Fun video! My favorites are Mounds bars, Mr Goodbar and Heath.
Interesting story.. my great great grandfather had a large dairy farm in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia, 2 of his sons, (my great uncles Paul & Earl, both still living) inherited that farm from my great great grandfather and the Hershey Chocolate Company purchased that farm from them. They both became very wealthy from that sale. Both are millionaires many times over from that lol.
Milton Hershey was a Mennonite, as is almost everyone in my family including my great uncles Paul & Earl.
Wow! That’s very interesting. Thank you for sharing.
There is an antique car meet in Hershey, PA every year. My father was an avid car buff and went to every one from its inception until his death. Because of that, he became something of a devotee of Milton Hershey's biography, as well.
@Leon Yoder Here in eastern NC, there's a restaurant called Yoder's that's owned by a Mennonite family. They make a peanut butter pie that's to die for. They're always full, line of customers out the door (I don't think they take reservations). I'm going to go there someday when I can get up early enough in the morning.
@@johnnabuzby6103 I have relatives near Greensboro, North Carolina.. not sure if they own a restaurant or not but it wouldn't surprise me.. they are my 2nd and 3rd cousins and other than at occasional extended family reunions I never see them. Both my Mom & Dad each have 10 siblings so yeah lol.. I have a lot of cousins that I only know by name. :)
@@Unit285 Every Mennonite I've ever met was named Yoder. There's another Yoder's restaurant in western Maryland, and it sounds just like the one in North Carolina.
I love DOVE. Or symphony bars
Butterfinger is amazing
Dove is a soap in the UK :)
The difference in taste of a Hershey's Bar (and all Hershey's chocolate) is that Milton took advantage of all the local dairies. Using whole milk required that they "sour" the milk a bit to get it to emulsify. European chocolate uses "milk solids", and not whole milk.
In 1990 there was a Mars candy facility in Las Vegas that specialized in high-end liquor centered chocolates. Our family toured the small factory for free, but the kids could not receive a sample off of the production line. YES real liquor was in the mix or center. Not to worry; they handed out kid-appropriate goodies. There was also a nice desert garden in front of the building to view native plants and animals. Fun for all! I recommend finding it, if it is still up and running.
It is! They are called Ethel M chocolates, named after Ethel Mars. I order them every Christmas to send to my far-flung relatives.
Best chocolate DARK, best USA dark chocolate DOVE. I still prefer the German Choceur from Aldi. Any candy bar is made better by making it darker though.
AGREE
I can eat a pound of Dove, even though it makes me sneeze.
DISAGREE. To leave the milk outta chocolate is a crime!
-@@chitlitlah- Are the wrappers dusty ?
@@bigscarysteve -Dark is healthier. You should put chocolate in milk and heat it or melt dark chocolate and put it on ice cream.
ooooooooo! Do a comparison on the "penny" candies next! Root Beer Barrels, Atkinson Peanut Butter Bars, Bazooka, wax soda bottles, Atomic fire balls. Also Christmas candy!
OH GOOD IDEA!! I used to love getting pick n mixes as a kid but our sweets are completely different (wax soda bottles?!) exept atomic fire balls, they made their way over here.
@@violetskies14 Yes the wax soda bottles were filled with a flavored, sweetened syrup. Totally disgusting to most adults, lol, but sugary goodness to any small child.
@@deadlysquirrel5560 oh I would have totally loved them as a child lol.
The first Gavin and Stacey Christmas Special makes a lot more sense to me now. I would have loved the red Bounty though.
So happy I found your channel
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The things you learn about a country you lived in that you had no clue about until this video! While living in England I ate the British versions of every chocolate bar listed in this video as being marketed in England under a different name, and had no clue the entire time that I was eating the same chocolate bar made by the same company that I'd had a million times over in the States!
That's so funny! Where do you live now? I did a bunch of videos with taste tests of all of these different candy bars for my channel. It's fun to compare the different versions side by side! Tomorrow I'm filming Dove vs. Galaxy!
I know this is about bars, but the best chocolates in the country, as far as I have found, is See's...which I found out uses Ghiradelli's as their chocolate provider, so that makes sense.
See’s always has a kiosk at the malls at Christmas time and they are constantly busy.
I grew up on sees, especially around holidays. Used to be really amazing. Would always go visit their iconic stores with checkered floors. The past few years though they've gotten shitty. Prices have gone up, quality's gone downhill. No longer living local to any sees have had to order online and have it shipped and get their large easter eggs and such. The chocolate was all discolored like it was old or had been refrigerated, the filling was dry and nappy instead of fresh and creamy like it used to be. Just garbage, so sad.
I visited San Francisco once, and it seemed See's is to that city what Starbucks is to other cities - there's one on every block. Great chocolate. Their maple cashew brittle is to kill for.
Awesome Vlogmas!
I am amazed to hear Lawrenceville,PA mentioned as it's a small town of less than 2k
Dove chocolate is amazing. I love it.
Me too. Dark choc with almonds! Yum.
I love the slightly awkward, over explaining, & dry British humor.
I live about 15 minutes from Hershey, Pa. Some fun facts: The Reese's factory smells like popcorn :) We also have a Mar's factory in Elizabethtown, Pa. Hershey was originally named Derry Church. Yes, the light poles in town are Hershey Kisses. They also drop a Hershey Kiss every New Year eve.
My favorite chocolate is Lendor. especially white chocolate with the creamy center. sooooo smooth.
The only people I've ever heard talk about Dove chocolate, didn't come from America. I'd never heard of it Maybe it's a regional thing. Bounty are MUCH better! I got a taste for them when I was in the UK. My son and I went to Cadbury World and couldn't believe all the different flavors. So much better than Hershey.
Cadbury IS better than Hershey's!
Meh Hershey’s has a slight peanutty flavor that I love. Probably just nostalgia, but Hershey’s is the chocolate of my childhood. Cadbury is just too plain... chocolate for my taste.
I am American and I like the creamy smoothness of a Dove bar.
I guess it's regional? Dove bars are all over down here in Florida; I assumed they were everywhere in the US, but maybe I was wrong.
@@IceMetalPunk I grew up in New England and never saw them. I could have been blind but we often didn't have things that were common in other parts of the country.
It’s nice to see that almost 1500 people liked this video in just 2 hours.
You need to try a Terry’s chocolate orange! The dark chocolate is the best.
Interesting about the three different flavors in Three Musketeers. When I was a kid, my favorite candy bar was the "7 Up" bar. It wasn't flavored like the soda; it had seven different fillings; sort of a chain of chocolates with different centers.
It's the guy who doesn't like pb&j's.
That is un-American.
The distaste for Peanut Butter is widespread across the pond, so it seems. I've seen numerous individuals on UK channels express the complete hatred of peanut butter. I've heard the French have no clue what to do with it. Yet, they all love Nutella: which is Hazelnut Butter with chocolate.
@@Objective-Observer Very strange people.
I can't even stand the smell of peanut butter, and I was born right here in the USA.
@@brad1574 I'm putting this down to: if you don't grow up with it, your pallate doesn't care for it.
People all over the world eat things, that I would never put in my mouth, but that's what they grew up with. They sell fried bugs at movie theaters in South America, instead of popcorn. I would never eat it, but apparently they love it.
Peanut butter is not my favorite, but I don't hate it, either. I really like Nutella, but the newer formulas have MSG hiding in them and I can't eat that.
"Who doesn't like a good Mounds Bar?" Me!
Excellent video about one of my favorite things...chocolate!
I’m sitting out in my front yard knitting on a quiet Sunday afternoon with all the other neighbors outside doing stuff & thangs, so it’s getting rather embarrassing when I bust up laughing (quite loudly) all thanks to you, Laurence. 😂🤭
Whatever happened to "Forever Yours" by Mars
I love Reese's, Lindor truffles and Dove. Most everything else is just ok.
Dove dark chocolate 👍
Mmmm, Lindor truffles... if they weren't so damned expensive, I'd have a bagful every day.... so it's probably good that they're so expensive 😂
@Nicky L It comes to about $1/ounce, which isn't too bad except that because they're round and the way they're packaged, a 5oz bag isn't much chocolate at all to spend $5 on.
Lindor truffles are mostly palm oil anyway. Look at the ingredients. Many "chocolates" aren't even made with cocoa butter anymore. Legally something can not be called chocolate unless it is made with chocolate liquor or cocoa butter. Dove is one of the few that is still made with cocoa butter. Dove dark chocolate is my favorite. Junior mints are a close second. 😀
@@timeflysintheshop Lindor truffle ingredients: first listed is sugar, second listed is cocoa butter. (Or for some varieties, it's sugar, then milk, then cocoa butter.) What were you saying about it?
I want a old timey 3 musketeers!
I have seen them in different flavors in mini's around holidays.
Back in the days when I indulged in chocolate bars, there was a Mars Bar here in America. I don't know if it still exists but it was certainly different than any of the Mars products mentioned here.
try looking up a TV program called " The food that built America". It gives the history of the companys and how they got started.
Have you tried Snickers? They are fed. My fave
They used to be called Marathon bars in the UK. Then they decided to change the name, for whatever reason, and had a load of ads on TV exclaiming how "marathon" was a silly name for a chocolate bar. Yup, Snickers" is a WAY more sensible name. Honnist!
@@Skraeling1000 We used to have a Marathon bar in America in the 1970's, but it was nothing like a Snickers bar. It wasn't really a bar--it was shaped like a DNA double helix. It was chocolate-covered caramel.
Frozen! Yum 👅
Careful that candy gonna give you "diiibeetus". Don't ask me how I know....
Oh no! Not the beetis!
Wilford Brimley was an actual guest on the Craig furguson show and was a very good sport and very funny.
Very interesting I like to hear about the origin of things and history.😃
So funny 😂. But what's up with no pun for moose filling? Happy vlogmas.