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Aka Dove chocolate.

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I agree, Thorton's truffles. I have become fond of Roger's chocolates since I moved here but they have a different speciality, not truffles. Purdy's doesn't have anything to compare either.

Surprised that a lot of people seem to have not figured out that most of the stuff they're listing is available in Canada, e.g. Milky Way = 3 Musketeers. Caramel = Caramilk, etc. You can even get Fox's biscuits at Loblaw's under the President's Choice brandname.

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not strictly chocolate but get a can of spotted dick at Tesco or Asda - always goes down a storm. :thumbup:

Some snotty teenager asked me on a flight to Blighty once if this were a fictional desert - and sniggered til snot came out of her nose when I told her that it was indeed, a real bona fide pudding.

Peasant. :thumbdown:

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Ooooh Thornton's Viennese truffles , no way on earth would I give them to work colleagues , mmmmm I had a 3 tier choc wedding cake with TVT on top mmmmmm.

Last time I bought some of my closer work mates a multiple bag of curly wurlies and flakes, they went down well, ooooh and Percy Pigs, but had to wrestle them off the kids!

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Football Crazies and fish and chips :thumbup: (you can cover them in chocolate to keep them relevant)

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The difference is that in the Canadian / US choc they use a lower fat content powdered milk, whereas we all know that in the UK it is made with "a glass and a half of full cream milk".

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Dove is a very poor imitation I find.

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I've had the musketeer thing knowing it was supposed to be milky way. I'm not one of those who routinely thinks chocolate and beans are different here (not in that way:rofl:) , but I thought the filling was quite different. Chewier.

Quite a different wrapper too. That's probably half the fun for co-workers.

I know a couple mentioned caramel but I really meant Caramac.


Quite sickly. How about Pink Panther bars?

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Can buy Thornton's choccies in Ottawa!

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Stay away from Yorkie bar :eek:

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standa...rcy-killing.do

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Same stuff, technically speaking: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dove_%28chocolate%29 - in fact historically speaking, Galaxy is an imitation of Dove, however I bet you back in 1960 Dove chocolate tasted better.

I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't have as much fat in it, but I think it's unrealistic to expect stuff made in different factories to taste exactly the same, although I can't really tell any difference with a Canadian mars bar.

I find Dairy Milk here is only edible if you get one of the flavoured bars, they actually make Creme Eggs in Ontario as well and it has the same grotty chocolate. Also they appear to be smaller than the UK ones, I got a UK one and compared them side-by-side and the UK one was definitely larger.

However one thing I realized a long time ago is that the UK is a very large consumer of chocolate, I think only the Belgians and the German-speaking countries eat more per capita. Chocolate is more of a kids thing in Canada and the US I find so they don't give as much of a crap about quality. The view is if you're an adult you can afford Swiss chocolate, or a box of chocolates from a confectioners.

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I can get them here, but they're the supermarket variety Thornton's, I've never seen the truffles they sell in their own shops.

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If you want THORNTONS folks, then you'd better get it quickly because a lot of shops are going to be closed soon.............


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13939089

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Country. Dogs.

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Makes you wonder why they don't open a few shops here.

I am seriously developing a craving for some Roger's chocolates from reading this thread!

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:cry_smile:

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I agree...taste nothing like Galaxy!!!

Galaxy do counters now....just like dairy milk buttons.....they are sooooooooooooooo good!!

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However one thing I realized a long time ago is that the UK is a very large consumer of chocolate, I think only the Belgians and the German-speaking countries eat more per capita. Chocolate is more of a kids thing in Canada and the US I find so they don't give as much of a crap about quality. The view is if you're an adult you can afford Swiss chocolate, or a box of chocolates from a confectioners.

I think this is so true. I would have little or no chance to find chocolate items in the houses of the many people I know. I like chocolate but would never buy a chocolate bar, British or otherwise. It's just not on the radar of most Canadians. And before someone comes on here and tells me they know some Canadian etc, etc, there are exceptions.

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Maybe the people you know are the exceptions. :rofl::rofl:

You're probably right though. If the bars sold that well, they probably wouldn't be almost permanently reduced.

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Is British Cadbury's any good now that it is made in Poland??? :)

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I've been to the mars ice-cream factory near Strasbourg. In the offices they had a graph of all the countries that ate what they called 'sticks' (you know, dove bars, magnums or what have you). The quantity of these things consumed by brits was twice as many as the rest of europe put together. They did have a cabinet full of free ones you could take so I ate quite a few while I was there.

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I do like the Cadbury's Mr Big bars they sell here, bit like a Lion bar but easier to eat.

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:rofl::rofl: