[Ed: I am absolutely positive that Ben would have been SO into this lovely 'delve' into childhood chocolate passions, and their modern Craft Chocolate alternatives! This will also resonate with the Corser family history in the shadow of the Rowntree's chocolate factory, Joseph Rowntree School (where Nannie taught) and KitKats, which funded and fueled my 7 month trip round Africa in 1972...]
Cocoa Runners, the source of nearly all of my current chocolate consumption (apart from that fed in from Ukraine through various conduits!) are a wonderfully quirky organisation, who put out amusing blogs (obviously, meant to stimulate consumption of craft chocolate). Cocoa Runners have, in their latest blog, brought together the (kind of) modern alternative versions of those chocolate favourites from our childhood and young adulthood. Go here to find an alternative poison to:
CDM (the purple)
Caramac
Twix
Toblerone
Fruit and Nut
Bounty
Mars Bar
Tony's Chocolonely Milk [Ed: what???!]
Terry's Chocolate Orange
Ferrero Rocher
After Eight
[...although no KitKat!!! ... and only After Eight from Rowntree's...]
Maybe we could do a chocolate bar blow out at the reWake for 2024: I also like beer with chocolate..!! Of course, this is all very Zoe-compliant: another craze that I am sure Ben would have embraced.
¡Que haya luz! Kerenza ha yeghes da! Dad/Grandpa/Andrew x