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No, I'm not advocating stealing candy, but Nestle reported that twelve tons of KitKats had been stolen in Europe. Greg Corombos asked the title question in the Three Martini podcast yesterday.
I'm not a fan of most of the candy bars today - they all seem rather generic. My favorite is the Skor, a crisp, crunchy butter toffee covered in a thin layer of chocolate. I rarely see it in stores. I remember buying it at Safeway when I was in high school.
The original Twix is another favorite and also less common than it used to be. The biscuit with a layer of caramel wrapped in chocolate. Maybe I like it because it is similar to the Skor.
Finally, I have to mention the chocolates from Kazakhstan. I lived there for
eleven wonderful years and loved the little chocolate candies. There were dozens of different kinds, each with a unique center dipped in chocolate and wrapped in a foil that was folded instead of twisted closed. The chocolate in Kazakhstan has a distinctive taste that I've not found anywhere else. They were named for characters from Kazak and Russian fairy tales. Here is one called Mishutka.
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Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, but if we could take from the panoply of candies past I think I would go with the Marathon Bar.
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Good call on Skor. Used to love eating it frozen.
Skor or Heath, and Peanut Butter Cups -$6million of each.
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I remember the distinctive packaging of the Marathon bar, but I don't recall ever eating one. Seems like it would have been really good, but it was discontinued in 1981.
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"Marathon lasts a good, long time."
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...or would if there weren't so many holes in it.
It was basic caramel-in-chocolate, nothing special unless you were a ten year old mid-western kid walking down to Tom Whitcomb's drug store with a pocket full of chore money.
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