Mounds > almond joy because dark chocolate.
On a related note the favorite cookie of my household is chocolate dipped Macaroons
Mounds > almond joy because dark chocolate.
On a related note the favorite cookie of my household is chocolate dipped Macaroons
Mounds...
Mounds is only a good name for a candy bar if your only other choice was 'piles'
Almond joy is at the bottom of my list of desirable candy bars for a bittersweet reason.
When I was young, like 8 years old we were very poor. Like going to the food bank twice a month poor. There was a woman there that would always make sure she had a candy bar for every child that came in. (bless her, we need more people like this) but those candy bars were always Almond Joy.
Almond Joy will always be associated with poverty and struggle to me.
Mounds bars have coconut, which is a big turnoff for me.
In reply to AClockworkGarage :
Yeah, I get that. I have a strong aversion to powdered milk for that same reason. Also because it's gross.
Margie
TravisTheHuman said:Mounds > almond joy because dark chocolate.
I thought they were both dark chocolate? (I don't eat candy often.)
Realized my #2 of York patties are also dark-chocolate coated. I think I have a pattern...
Trick or Treat as a kid in the 70s made me discover dark chocolate. I didn't know why the Special Dark candy bars tasted so much better than the rest.
Always liked the typical candy bars (Snickers, 3 Musketeers, Milky Way) and can't go wrong with Reeses peanutbutter cups. (I used to go out T-or-T with my cousin and we would organize a big trade at the end of the night.)
My mom keeps going on about people "putting stuff in kid's candy". I stopped explaining.
And I do remember some houses back then having a big bowl of coins for us to grab a small handful. My old house, first year, I ran out of candy and grabbed my coffee can of coins. I still remember one young man yelling to his friends down the street "yo this guy is giving out MONEY!"
Today I learned that the Whatchamacallit still exists and I may need to go seek one out.
Sadly the Marathon bar is lost to time. It was a real banger.
But apparently there's a bar by Cadbury called the Curlywurly that's a fairly good recreaction.
In reply to JG Pasterjak :
Can you explain the holes in the Marathon bar? Or are they nuts? Confused.
In reply to Marjorie Suddard :
This is why I don't like Fazolis. Tastes like the great recession (kids ate free on Tuesdays). And also it's bad.
In reply to JG Pasterjak :
Similarly I recently learned that Take 5 bars still exist. They have pretzels in them! PRETZELS!
Sarah Young said:In reply to JG Pasterjak :
Can you explain the holes in the Marathon bar? Or are they nuts? Confused.
Holes. The bar is basically a braided web of caramel covered in chocolate. The holes provide pressure relief when you jam the whole thing in your gob at once.
Nicole Suddard said:In reply to Marjorie Suddard :
This is why I don't like Fazolis. Tastes like the great recession (kids ate free on Tuesdays). And also it's bad.
It was amazing in college because of all the breadsticks you could get. Of course, everything tastes better when you've been smoking.........and I'm not talking about cigarettes.
Lindt 95%. But I've never gotten it knocking on doors in costume. 
We bought about 700 pieces for tonight–figure two pieces per kid–and ran out just in the final minutes. Our neighbors checked out early and gave us the rest of their stash, so probably another 50 or so.
My math based on past years said we were good but, yes, we’ll grab more for next year.
I figured out how to be the most memorable house in the neighborhood.
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