289719 Wed Jul 03 10:26:51 -0700 2002 6 27 General Chowhounding Topics 0 1569711 I try not to eat candy too often but boy am I hooked on Milkyway Midnight bars. After about a half-hour in the freezer they are downright dreamy. I generally prefer milk chocolate, but somehow the dark chocolate, caramel, vanilla nougat combination is just perfect. I only recently discovered them (drawn, no doubt, by the romantic, mysterious name) and I had a feeling that I'd eaten them before. Well, I checked out the Milkyway website and it turns out that Milkyway Midnight was originally called Forever Yours when it was introduced in the late 1930s, was discontinued in the late 1970s and then reintroduced in the late 1980s, first as Milkyway Dark and then as Milkyway Midnight. I frankly don't remember Forever Yours from my 1960s youth and neither does my sister, who remembers everything she ever ate. She reminded me about Milkshake bars, which we used to get at the movies and which were like 3 Musketeers but bigger and better. Yum. Wed Jul 03 10:26:51 -0700 2002 0 Louise Z. 1 1569715 Keep a lookout for the new 3 musketeers flat taffy-like product. I really don't know what to call it, but it's like a batch of the inside fluffy stuff fell. It is very chocolaty and malty but thin and like taffy. I've found it once a few months ago, at a truck stop, and never since. Wed Jul 03 12:31:21 -0700 2002 1569711 0 Betty 1 1569717 Forever Yours was a much beloved candy bar that was exiled to the Island of Misfit Goodies, along with Hydrox (please don't get me started about "Droxies"; the dark chocolate wafers on original Hydrox were so much better than Oreos, but I digress..., sorry, it can't be helped when you really prefer dark chocolate!) Wed Jul 03 12:58:20 -0700 2002 1569711 0 Karl S. 2 1569736 My four brothers, my dad and I dream about Hydrox. Oreos, tried once, never again passed our lips or even through our kitchen door! Wed Jul 03 20:23:06 -0700 2002 1569717 0 Kit Williams 3 1569780 The Pledge of the Hydrox Nation: "...one nation, under (real) Hydrox...." Thu Jul 04 17:04:44 -0700 2002 1569736 0 Karl S. 2 1569749 Milk chocolate is unsatisfying, diluted. Only dark chocolate hits the spot. Sometimes I think that if they molded unsweetened chocolate into caplets and coated them, we could take them like pills, for the times when we have to have it but chocolate bars are not convenient. "Hey, just a second, I have to take my meds." Thu Jul 04 00:09:27 -0700 2002 1569717 0 ironmom 3 1569760 Milk chocolate doesn't even deserve to be included in a discussion about chocolate. Dark chocolate is the only chocolate worth eating. However--just about all mass-produced American chocolate, whether it is dark or milk, is a waste of calories (and money.) In a pinch, I'll eat Dove dark, but that's it. Scharffenberger is the best American chocolate, imho. I know some folks swear by Chocolove, but every time I've tried it it has seemed grainy and disappointing. A young colleague at work who likes dark chocolate teased me about being a snob when I declined her offer of a piece of Hershey's dark. The next day, I brought in some Leonides dark chocolate (from a yule log) and some Valhrona 70% for her to try--that was the first time she had tasted really good chocolate, and it was an epiphany for her. I'm not sure I did her a favor, as her chocolate habit is going to be a lot more expensive now. Thu Jul 04 12:53:39 -0700 2002 1569749 0 zora