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The article focuses on a golden age of candy bars more than a golden age of chocolate. Big difference IMO.

• timthorn 10y ago
  This being an article from a British newspaper, it wouldn't use the term "candy bars" - they're all considered "chocolate bars" in the UK
  • chrisseaton 10y ago
    Yes in the UK 'candy' means what you would call 'hard candy' (although most people would probably use the term 'boiled sweet' instead), and what you would call 'candy' we call 'sweets'. A 'chocolate bar' is any sweet enrobed in chocolate.
    • joncrocks 10y ago
      Be careful with your definition... A chocolate bar is generally something that is vaguely rectangular (longer than it is wide), has chocolate as it's outer layer, and would take multiple (often many) bites to eat. If I take a sherbet pip and dip it in chocolate, it is not a chocolate bar good sir! :-)
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  • emptybits 10y ago
    Sure, we call them chocolate bars in Canada also. The point I meant to make was, whatever we prefer to call those popular/fun/iconic products in the article, they don't represent great chocolate. Neither then nor now.
    • chrisseaton 10y ago
      'Chocolate' is short for 'chocolate bars'. The title isn't 'great chocolate', it's 'great chocolate [bars]'. To many people these are great chocolate bars, demonstrated by their longevity and continuing popularity today.