I love chocolate
I always have
Ever since I can remember as a small child, in fact I think
it was Cadbury’s Cream Eggs palmed to me by my Grandfather, which really hooked
me on to the stuff.
Every now and then I indulge my pleasure with a swift bar,
usually a Double Decker or a Mars. I really love Bounty’s but the coconut
filling has an annoying habit of getting stuck in my back teeth and causing me
hours of distraction.
And there are some classic chocolate treats from my
childhood that bring back many happy memories
Cadbury’s Bar Six
Often a favourite for vending machines, Cadbury's Bar Six was a creamy chocolate bar with a wafer centre and hazelnut cream, they were very similar to a Chunky Kit-Kat. Bar Six had a orange wrapper and was wrapped in a soft foil.
Texan
This nougat/toffee classic covered in chocolate was most prolific in the 70s and 80s - even making a brief comeback in 2005. It had a great ‘Clint Eastwood’ catchphrase with after all, 'a man's gotta chew what a man's gotta chew'.
Aztec
A true contender to the mighty Mars, Aztec bars was a must in the 1970’s. I remember newsagents with a life-size cardboard Aztec warrior stuck outside the entrance, and a lavish TV ad filmed at a real Aztec temple in
SwissKit
This was a chocolate covered muesli bar, produced by Nestle. The TV advert for this was almost as good as the chocolate bar. A bloke skiing down a mountain and saying, “I’ll risk it for a Swiss Kit.” I still say to my kids 40 years later, if they want me to do things for them, “I would risk it for a SwissKit!”
Amazin
I kept the best till last. I was absolutely addicted to
Amazin bars. Milk and plain chocolate covered nougatine and caramel bar with
raisins. Who can forget the cockney knees-up of a TV jingle?
‘It’s amazin’ what raisins can do/ Full of goodness and it’s
all for you/ It’s got two kinds of chocolate and caramel too/ And it’s got
raisins and they’re good for you’
I believed the dream, bought the bar and enjoyed every
moment of it.
True to its word, it was
Amazin what raisins could do.
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