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Re: Chocolate Around the World.
Posted By: Brunnen-G, on host 202.27.180.55
Date: Thursday, August 30, 2001, at 16:31:43
In Reply To: Re: Chocolate Around the World. posted by Wolfspirit on Wednesday, August 29, 2001, at 23:15:00:

> > CABDURY'S NEW ZEALAND (Specialty Confectionery)
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> ¤ Cherry Ripe, SnowFlake, Moro (probably Boost), Pinky, Lunas (i.e. Astros), Jaffas (by Pascall Confectionery, distributed by Cadbury), After Dinner Mints, Kiwi Royale, Milk Tray, Roses, Scorched Almonds
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> ¤ Dairy Milk, Breakaway, Black Forest, Country Fudge, Caramello Chunky, Cashew Nut, Coconut Rough, Cadbury Dream, Honey Nougat, Cadbury Peppermint, Cadbury Turkish Delight, Chocolate Afghan, Crunch, Energy, Fruit & Nut, Marble, Rocky Road.
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> I'm not even going to mention New Zealand's Cadbury's "Buzz Bar," "Chocolate Fish," "Peppy Chew," and "Mega Perky Nana"...

OK, then I will. Buzz Bars are boring thin slabs of chewy plain marshmallow stuff with chocolate coating. I don't think anybody ever actually buys them. They tend to mostly turn up shoved into the top of an ice cream sundae.

Chocolate Fish, and their amphibious brethren Chocolate Frogs, simply RULE. Soft pink marshmallow interior, chocolate coating, shaped as the name suggests. They never used to be packaged at all; you bought them for 20c out of a big sticky jar on the counter of small local shops. These days they have been commercialised and come in a wrapper. It isn't the same.

I never heard of Peppy Chew before.

Mega Perky Nana is the modern version of the Perky Nana of my childhood. It used to be a small banana-y flavoured interior, chocolate-covered, which redefined "chewy" as "one bite and you have the choice of keeping your mouth closed forever, or trying to open your mouth again and wrenching out seventeen teeth." Mega Perky Nana is the same but bigger, to match the modern concept of acceptable candy bar size.

Brunnen-"visit NZ for the world's most extensive range of candy bars which somehow involve marshmallow"G

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