I got two more packs of these
I think all of these are knock offs of Trader Joe’s candy cane joejoes which have been a thing for a decade at minimum.
I don’t have a TJ nearby :\
Milky Way Dark tastes like a Charleston Chew, if it were meant to be eaten by human beings.
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Nah, I had a chocolate and a strawberry Charleston Chew a couple of months ago and they are still good!
I do enjoy a Milkyway Dark!
I don’t mean the flavor, obviously. I mean the consistency of a shoe. Though that seems to have been reformulated lately, as with Good & Plenties.
I’m not sure. They might be a little bit softer. I didn’t really register any difference!
I’m giving these Safeway/Carrs/Albertson’s generic cookies my endorsement.
I recently panned the current Peanut butter twix.
These cookies taste as good as I remember peanut butter twix, but actually a little better. A. chocolate cookie (twix have regular cookie) B. old school melty chocolate on the outside. Like old school Reese’s. And the peanut butter is legit Reese’s/candy bar style peanut butter. Not the modern B.S. I’ve experienced in the past couple of candy bars I’ve eaten.
If you get a craving for a peanut butter candy bar or cookie, give these a try.
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Yeah, it used to be arguably easier to chew and digest the wrapper than the nougat in the bar. You almost were required to freeze and shatter them to make them edible. I had one a while ago that may have been a fluke, but it almost had the consistency of marshmallow.
I feel like the Charleston Chew minis were always a bit softer. So, maybe they just made them all like that.
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What happened to Twix, anyway? They used to have two main varieties—the peanut butter and the caramel—and then occasional spin-off varieties like your cookies & creme, your chocolate fudge. These days it’s just assumed they will always be caramel unless they’re doing something specific.
And yeah, the current peanut butter ones, with the chocolate cookies inside, are awful.
I dunno but some of the classic candy bars are garbage now. I’ve recently revisited a few and they must really be pinching pennies or something. They even messed with Take5, which were like the peak of candy bars. They are still decent. But not what they used to be. Not sure if I mentioned that one, here.
The height of Twix was the “Two for me, none for you” promotion, with big foot and frankenstein.
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Oh, yeah, mockolate has become a scourge over the last ten years. The Candy Blog used to be off on one about this trend, but it’s only gotten worse. There used to be a few specific bars that Hershey put in a “protected” pile, and continued to use real chocolate, but those seem to have all been shopped out to Palm Oil city now.
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I, incidentally, used to be all over this blog until the termination of Google Reader. It… was still going until 2016?
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I have been informed that I will be receiving dark chocolate covered caramel corn, this evening.
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That sounds more ominous than it ought.
No way, this stuff is the best. You get it at candy stores and in bulk food sections at nice grocery stores. It ain’t cheap!
I agree that the corn sounds marvelous.
Which makes the ominous phrasing all the more fascinating.
Its in my hands right now
but I’m gonna save it for later, when I check out the new Christmas Carol with Guy Pearce
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I have housed several boxes of chocolate lately, to the point where I can’t meaningfully recall anything that stands out