That's awesome, I love trying out obscure candies.

The game shop near me, Vintage Stock, sells Pocky. After buying it a few times, the guy behind the counter referred me to Atomik Pop.

Atomik Pop specialises in retro toys with lots of Gundam models and Kaiju figures. They also have a large selection of Asian sweets. After working through all the Pocky flavors there I began trying other things. Eventually the guy behind the counter referred me to Chang's.

Chang's is down in the middle of the Vietnamese part of town. I'm not even sure if Chang's is the real name because the sign isn't in English. There's only one guy who works there (I assume his name is Chang) and nothing there is written in English. He's been referring different snacks to me but again I am not sure what they are called because all the packaging is in Chinese. Really good stuff though. It's tough eating such delicious things and not knowing what the names of them are to tell my friends about them!

For some odd reason, Haptic didn't bother to link to the Yorkie commercial (shame on her):

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Eagles, American narration and style choices for a European chocolate. And the bars she reviewed were made by Nestle (or Cadbury... Same thing), which may explain the somewhat rancid tasting chocolate.

Retro and I have a ritual. We go to the market, do our shopping, and at the end of the shopping, we pick out a treat to eat on the way home. For a while we were tasting root beers with the occasional fancy candy bar thrown in ($4 for a 2oz candy bar = very fancy.)

Now that we have tasted all the root beers our market has to offer, we have moved onto candy. I am a candy connoisseur, having eaten a metric ton of it due to my insatiable and easily pleased sweet tooth. Mostly I stick to peach flavored gummies but we took a trip to the market today and stumbled upon the "British" section of the store.

The British section is small but seemingly well stocked. Along with candy they have things like double devon cream (this is the next treat we are getting) digestives and other biscuits, and candy.

There was flake, which we tried in the Indian market and I still do not get the appeal. You get less chocolate for the same price as a normal candy bar. Makes no sense.

Aside from the flake, there were a number of options. We chose 4. Lion, Violet Crumble, Yorkie, and Crunchy.

Lion was biscuits covered in caramel and then chocolate. Not bad but the chocolate sucked ( a complaint that was true for all the options.)

Yorkie was the misogyny driven "Man Fuel" chocolate bar. the commercial, titled "Man Fuel for Man stuff" is confusing, since it says that women can't understand the appeal of the Yorkie (it's chocolate, we understand the appeal.) and it included an eagle and American accents, paving the way for a head scratch. Anyway, Man Fuel is cheap chocolate.

Crunchy is the poor man's substitute for the violet crumble. Honeycomb covered in chocolate, definitely lives up to it's name.

And then there was Violet Crumble. Violet Crumble was my candy bar of choice back when it was ubiquitous in the US. I haven't seen it for a decade so I was thrilled to discover it. And it was every bit as good as I remembered. Better, more consistently textured honeycomb made for a tasty counterpoint to the chocolate covering.

Violet crumble was a clear winner for me.

The end.