Americans Try 12 Types of British Chocolate - Fry's, Thorntons & More!

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In this video, my wife and I dive into the world British chocolate! Join us as we compare 12 varieties of popular British chocolate for the first time! This is our largest UK chocolate taste test yet, and the quality and variety of these British chocolate bars are incredible.
Which chocolates do you think will become our favorites?
The British Chocolates we tried are:
Fry's Chocolate Cream
Fry's Peppermint Cream
Thorntons Coffee Creams
Thorntons Salted Pistachio Milk Chocolate
After Eight Mint Chocolate Sticks
After Eight Dark Chocolate Thin Mints
Daim Chocolate Bar
Terry's Chocolate Mint
Ruffles Raspberry & Coconut
M&S Golden Blonde Caramel
Choc et al Dark Chocolate Lolly Pop
Pip & Nut Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups
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[@corringhamdepot4434]

After Eight is marketed as an "After Dinner" mint. We only used to buy a box of them at Christmas. As we never had any "sophisticated" dinner parties in our family.

[@carolineskipper6976]

For my parents' silver wedding anniversary ( my sister and I were young teenagers) we bought - with our own money - a little silver cart dsigned to hold a box of After Eights. I recently found this at my mothers house, over 45 years later!

[@slytheringingerwitch]

We always make the joke that it has to be after eight before you can eat them. Hate it when people leave the empty sleeves in the box though.

[@DCheshire]

My Grandmother had one too! Very posh :)@@carolineskipper6976

[@markm-ci6rj]

@@slytheringingerwitch my hate too, not just with After Eights but other chocolates when people but wrappers back in the box/container.

[@aTiminCambodia]

Minstrels don't have any caramel in it. Just the galaxy milk chocolate. Galaxy milk chocolate has a very creamy milky smooth taste.

[@kelly6504]

Hahaha Loving how Lyndsey is keeping Steve in check with the "waffling"😂

[@digidol52]

Thank you Lyndsey!

[@reactingtomyroots]

😂

[@Aberbrothock1]

Ha ha i thought the same.

[@razor1uk610]

Wafflin' deserves some warmed/freshl waffles sometime lol👍😜🤭🤨😎

[@richt71]

What they say 'happy wife...happy life!!' ;)

[@foghornleghornish]

Anyone remember the advert for Frys Turkish Delight? Wonderful chocolate confectionery "full of Eastern promise"

[@susansmiles2242]

Fry’s Turkish Delight is one of my favourites

[@Millennial_Manc]

American adults seem to hate rose flavour Turkish delight but their kids love it (broad generalisation!)

[@hayee]

Yes!! It’s still the best chocolate bar around! Cadburys did do a good turkish delight bar but it had nothing on frys

[@joyridgway6398]

Yes, but I didn't like it.

[@BlueJay2929]

When we were young we used to sing Fry's Turkish Delight..makes you sick in the night 😅😅😅​@@susansmiles2242

[@CaseyJonesNumber1]

When US company Kraft was negotiating to buy out Cadbury's (owners of the Fry's brand name), one of the things they promised was to keep open the Fry's factory in Keynsham near Bristol. As soon as the deal was done, they promptly closed the factory, making hundreds of workers redundant, at the same time moving production to Poland. Thousands of people in the area vowed never to buy Cadbury's products again. Can't blame them really, and Cadbury's chocolate doesn't taste anything near as nice as it used to.

[@paulfri1569]

A stab in the heart 😭

[@paulfri1569]

I'm a direct descendant of Elizabeth and Joseph Fry the founders of Fry's Chocolate 🍫 I'm in Australia though and the only way to honour the great brand is by creating a new Fry's Chocolate brand with a modern twist on the old classics 😎 I'm working on it and won't let my ancestors down 💪

[@bevbarrett8537]

The galaxy minstrels are nice sucked to the shell melts and the inside is so smooth we love them in the uk

[@VickyAitch]

Agreed. Suck them and/or have a hot drink (tea 😉) and the shell will thin, and the chocolate will melt. The only way to eat them!

[@martinwebb1681]

Galaxy counters are much better in my opinion.

[@lindadutton]

Prefer Galaxy Counters without the shell.

[@carolineskipper6976]

How to really annoy fellow guests at a dinner party 101: Take an After Eight square out of its packaging, but leave the paper in the box.....thus confusing everyone as to how many chocolates are left in the box! This is a well known phenomenum!

[@duntalkin]

Heathen 😂

[@brocc0138]

From the Meaning of Liff by in incomparable Douglas Adams CANNOCK CHASE (n.) In any box of After Eight Mints, there is always a large number of empty envelopes and no more that four or five actual mints. The cannock chase is the process by which, no matter which part of the box often, you will always extract most of the empty sachets before pinning down an actual minot, or 'cannock'. The cannock chase also occurs with people who put their dead matches back in the matchbox, and then embarrass themselves at parties trying to light cigarettes with tree quarters of an inch of charcoal. The term is also used to describe futile attempts to pursue unscrupulous advertising agencies who nick your ideas to sell chocolates with.

[@reactingtomyroots]

haha yep, could see how that would be annoying!

[@LexAngel]

We used to pinch our parents' After Eights and leave the wrappers in so the could tell. Sure they did though!

[@emmsue1053]

I used wrap Ferro Rocher back up with a raw sprout inside. 🤣

[@robertcreighton4635]

Fry's is one of the 1st if not the first to release a chocolate bar back in Victorian times. I love a frys chocolate cream. It really hits the spot. It's the oldest chocolate bar in the world 🌎

[@RoyCousins]

IIRC Fry's chocolate products are now produced by Wedel in Warsaw, Poland.

[@Diamondmine212]

I still buy Fry’s chocolate bars , mainly the dark chocolate plain one. 👍

[@tonys1636]

The oldest filled bar 1866, they introduced the first solid bar in 1847. Anyone remember the Tiffin Bar that was often the only one left in the station vending machine.

[@seancraig3199]

The orange one's are the best

[@michaeljohnson4636]

I have had a frys raspberry cream ,I remember five boys one it had a different flavour in each segment

[@101steel4]

Fry's five centre was my favourite back in the day. The original is sill lovely though.

[@vallee3140]

mine too

[@ToTheTower]

Wow, I'd forgotten that one. Yeah it was really good. Do you remeber the old packaging: With the foil and paper - much more classy ;)

[@martinwebb1681]

Oh God I loved the five centres bar, so sad they discontinued it. And yet they do the mint, peppermint and the orange centres, they discontinued the best one in my opinion. Bring back Fry's five centres.

[@stuartcook8823]

Why the stopped producing the five centres still upsets me to this day.

[@raycardy4843]

Yes! I really loved that one! I guess the closest you get to it now (if you can find it) is Cadbury's Milk Tray bar..!

[@lynzp7438]

Minstrels are better if you let the shell soften up in your mouth then bite into it as choc melts a bit. Its amazing.

[@Obi-J]

Even better with a hot cup of tea, coffee or cocoa, to help speed up the melting process. Just pop a Minstrel into your mouth and then take a sip of your hot beverage.

[@CurtisArden-l7h]

To add to these points, Minstrels offer a no-shell alternative. Called “Counters”

[@deeboneham2738]

Love anything made by Galaxy

[@stuartcook8823]

Watching the puzzlement and confusion when the Fry's Cream kicks in is great. It's definitely, as chocolate goes, a sophisticated and acquired taste. Stick with it, it's worth the effort.

[@nadeansimmons226]

Cadbury has never been the same since been taken over by the American company

[@lisasmith2660]

I love how Sophia comes in and just likes everything, such a sweetheart ❤️

[@paulknox999]

I used to love raspberry ruffles as a child, havent had them for years. I have a need to find them and try them for old times sake now.

[@johnmannymoo8626]

I bought some on Amazon......hmmmm not the same😢

[@betagombar9022]

You'd probably find them in B&M or Home bargains

[@davesy6969]

Several years ago, i found an old-fashioned confectionery shop somewhere in Surrey that had raspberry ruffles and i bought an entire jar.

[@catherineturner2839]

My grandad used to give us these back in the 70;s/80's. You can get them in Poundland

[@julianaylor4351]

I've seen them in Poundstretchers, occasionally.

[@katiperry8533]

After 8s were considered 'posh' in my family when I was young 🤣 We only ever got them at Christmas (after the main meal) and, even then, only 1 each

[@jessieb7290]

Yeah that and Ferrero Rocher

[@juliarabbitts1595]

My mum kept them hidden in a drawer, not with other chocolate. They only came out after special Sunday lunches when we had visitors, to help lunch go down (mint aiding digestion), and then one each

[@Jenel_79]

After Eight's are a kind of after dinner mint, they came out in the 60's but became hugely popular and the hight of sofistication at dinner parties in the 70's. They're meant to be a palete cleanser rather than a chocolate you just eat. Also, I'm guessing you've had them in the fridge, hence the "pull", if they were room temp then they would be very soft in the middle.

[@robertcreighton4635]

As a kid I used to wonder what would happen if I ate an after eight before eight. I was a twit 😂

[@DaveStreet-v2t]

It is always after 8 on a 12 hour clock

[@nickdarke2138]

Man, I was addicted to Fry's Peppermint Cream as a child. Very fond memories of walking to the newsagent on a Sunday morning with my grandfather to pick up his newspaper and sometimes a small bar of Fry's to me too.

[@julianaylor4351]

They are now in three packs. 😋

[@SquareWheelMedia]

As a kid in the 70’s, we used to get those fry’s bars with 5 different flavours in, one flavour in each piece

[@paulfri1569]

So wonderful 😊

[@richt71]

After Eight mint chocolates were developed and made by Rowntrees in York England. Also the same factory that developed Yorkie bars and maybe more familiar to you the KitKat. Rowntrees was acquired by Nestle a few decades ago.

[@martinwebb1681]

Yes, but today after eights are made in Halifax.

[@richt71]

@@martinwebb1681 Nestle moved a lot of production away from their large original Rowntrees Haxby Road factory site to other facilities. The original site is currently been converted to apartments. They have a smaller factory on the outskirts now.

[@geoffpoole483]

Many of the original chocolate manufacturers; Cadbury's, Fry's and Rowntree were Quakers.

[@PaulineGaulton]

Ooooh! Thorntons my absolute favourite coffee creams, literally the best ever, yum! 😋

[@pixiepetal-jennie2038]

Pip & Nut make fantastic peanut butter, no palm oil just nuts and a little salt. The chocolate is ethically sourced so all good. The small family company have been going about 10 years and grown so much. Can you tell I love their products?!

[@reactingtomyroots]

We really enjoyed the pb cups!

[@Eph.6_10-20]

I’m in Scotland and have never seen Pip and Nut. I’d be interested to try it though.

[@josierose8889]

​@@Eph.6_10-20I'm in England and never heard of them...if they are a small family business, are they only available online?

[@penname5766]

I love their almond butter. It’s just amaaaaaazing

[@penname5766]

@@josierose8889 I don’t think they’re small, they’re in all the major supermarkets (Waitrose, Tesco’s Sainsbury’s). Their products are quite expensive, but that’s because the quality is so superior.

[@tanadams]

The way that Lyndsey whips her head around to look at Steve when she really likes something is just so endearing. It's like she's checking to see that he's appreciating it as much as she is 😂

[@IsobelIsobel123]

Who remembers vice versas? Do they still sell them? ❤ They are like minstrels, but some milk some white. The ones with white coating had milk centres and vice versa!

[@Janeswhitfield]

There was a bar that was similar,I can’t remember the name very nice

[@IsobelIsobel123]

@@Janeswhitfield I think I remember, too. Will have a Google later!

[@LastEvropaKiss]

I do, I always thought it made more sense to name them minstrels because of the "Black and White Minstrel Show".

[@reactingtomyroots]

That sounds good!

[@wessexdruid7598]

I remember making them - on the top floor of the Smartie plant, at York.

[@SandraBrown-h1o]

Love how Steve is prepared to suffer for his art with the "ill just give it anotherv try"😊

[@jenbo6320]

found your channel today 🤗💃 loving it 💖going through your uploads now 😀 I'm in the uk

[@thomasrae9730]

Here's a suggestion. Have a cup of tea with your chocolate it's good for clearing the mouth of any aftertaste.

[@rachelcollins5923]

Coffee works too

[@rachelcollins5923]

Bendicks bittermint knock aftereights out of the park, and clear your sinuses a treat

[@thomasrae9730]

That's true. Its just my mum and dad were tea Jenny's and so was I. Though a good latte coffee is amazing. ​@@rachelcollins5923

[@thomasrae9730]

@@rachelcollins5923 True that's cool to.

[@Jeni10]

Tempered chocolate is harder because it’s meant to crack when it breaks, and it will be harder when cold.

[@richardperks7366]

Fry's also do an orange cream bar and they used to do a 5 fruits cream bar with each individual segment having a different colour / flavour cream centre

[@VickyAitch]

OMG! I was certain I’d dreamt this because nobody else I knew could remember it 😂😂

[@emmsue1053]

Oh wow I had forgotten that!

[@martinwebb1681]

@richardperks7366 ... Yes, the flavours were Raspberry, Pineapple, Lime, Orange and Strawberry throughout the 1970s, 80s, and early nineties (production ended in 1992). before the 1970s the flavours were Raspberry, Lime, Vanilla, Coffee and Orange.

[@katydaniels508]

I think Daim (pronounced Dime) is Swedish, but really popular in the UK. It’s one of my favourites 😁 It’s butterscotch

[@jeanlongsden1696]

Armadillo

[@brigidsingleton1596]

​@@jeanlongsden1696 Armadillo ?!! That's not a flavour I've ever encountered!! Almond, maybe?!

[@jonharvey6277]

Crunchy on the outside soft on the inside ARMADILLO!

[@Obi-J]

@brigidsingleton1596. Armadillo is a reference from an old Dime bar tv commercial.

[@Obi-J]

And yes, Daim's are Almond Brittle coated in chocolate.

[@rbnhd1144]

Fry's also brought us the Crunchie, my #2 favorite. As these companies get bought out we forget the real names, for example Rowntrees was the inventor and maker of the Kit Kat Bar.

[@paulfri1569]

Yes my favourite also and addicted to it 🍫 Fry's Crunchie is a classic 😎

[@michaelcartwright1260]

"Can we just eat it?" 😂

[@UKCougar]

The kid's adorable. Steve and Lindsey are nibbling at chocolates (which _no-one_ does), she's ramming it in her face going I LIKE ALL OF THE THINGS!! 😁

[@SuzieLady]

Firstly, I can’t stand Fry’s bars at all. I’m not keen on fondant either. After Eights are great!They are fondant but really well done…From the fridge they have a great snap! Diam bars are tasty but as you said, they stick in one’s teeth! I’m not too keen on peanut chocolate bars. Galaxy minstrels are fabulous! Great video guys Suzie 😊 Ps. My aunt worked at Thornton’s. When she started they told her she could eat as much chocolate as she wanted!.. she soon got sick of chocolate lol😅

[@reactingtomyroots]

Eat as much chocolate as you want?! Man, that sounds dangerous. haha

[@jessieb7290]

They used to do these toffee cookies, then they took them off the market. They were the best cookies I’ve ever had. More like a florentine. But they called them cookies. Oh or the Thorntons champagne truffles 😋😋😋😋 good times. It’s funny looking back cause ages ago it was like they were the posh chocolate retailer before others like hotel chocolat came along.

[@rhonddalesley]

Same with me when I worked at Walkers with crisps and again when I worked at Jacobs biscuit factory in the chocolate dept! That wasn't as much fun as it sounds though because it has to be cool in there which isn't good when you're cold blooded lol. You also had to wear white cotton gloves so the chocolate doesn't melt and get your hands sticky which happened regardless so changing gloves was a regular thing.

[@che71che]

Who remembers the 80s Dime bar ad? "Armadillos there crunchy on the outside smooth on the inside ARMADILLOS!" You're a bit thick ain't you?

[@liam6345]

Yeah but it's not British, it's a Swedish chocolate bar.

[@andyjdhurley]

@@liam6345hence the question over pronunciation, and also that Ikea do a cake in the restaurant made with them.

[@monty2005]

Fry’s Peppermint Cream is possibly the finest chocolate bar on the face of the Earth❤❤❤

[@lynzp7438]

I love frys chocolate cream and they do a rasberry one which is nice too. Very addictive once you start eating them but very sticky

[@Obi-J]

Fry's still do the Orange cream as well but when I was a kid there used to be a "5 centres", one bar with 5 differently flavoured segments. The original 5 flavours were orange, coffee, vanilla, lime, and raspberry, which later changed to orange, raspberry, lime, strawberry, and pineapple. They have recently made both Coffee cream and Strawberry cream bars in limited edition runs but sadly, as yet, they've never made a single flavoured Lime, Vanilla or Pineapple(this was always my favourite flavoured segment) bar. Some people say they replaced the vanilla segment in the 5 centres with a blackcurrant one for a short time but I aren't sure if that's true or not. I had certainly never heard of such until quite recently.

[@roddavis2876]

They still make orange, strawberry, rasberry & coffee.

[@martinwebb1681]

@@Obi-J ... I used to love the Fry's five centres, and bought them all the time. I preferred the 1970s onwards bar over the earlier one. Always loved the Pineapple and Lime bits. Never known a Blackcurrant flavour and I had the bars regularly throughout the 1960s, 70s, 80s right up till they were discontinued in 1992. I think that it's just one of those rumours someone started at some point then everyone just goes on repeating it.

[@philiprowney]

My faves are Fry's Turkish delight and chocolate mint cream.

[@paulfri1569]

Mine is Fry's Crunchie 🍫

[@emmahowells8334]

Out of the Fry's chocolate, for me orange creme is the best, you can also get raspberry creme too. I also love raspberry Ruffles they are delicious and has been a fave of mine from a child and still is today as an adult in my 40s, same with the Fry's orange creme flavour too. In my family after eights tend to be bought at Christmas time to share with my family while watching a movie.

[@keza92]

I agree with Sophia the raspberry raffles are my favourite too 🙂 2nd is the Thorntons coffee creams, 3rd is the After eights, then the minstrels & the frys bars, last for me would be anything peanut butter, so opposite to your rankings lol

[@martinwebb1681]

I agree with you on the peanut butter, but the Americans have peanut butter in all of their stuff. I love all types of chocolate, but none that contain peanut butter.

[@matsand4719]

I recall a journalists article suggesting "You wont get any bold policy from that (British) politician as his idea of living dangerously is eating all After Eight mints at 7.45"

[@nicholastaylor2641]

Im addicted to your videos. Binge watching you binge chocolate 😂

[@kimarnill7648]

Thortons chocolate is my absolute favourite after Cadburys , oh I don’t know Lindt chocolate is fabulous though.😮

[@no-oneinparticular7264]

I love Monty Bojangles chocolate truffles...yum.

[@kimarnill7648]

@@no-oneinparticular7264I’ve never heard of them before, are they widely available ❤

[@beverleyringe7014]

Hate the taste of Thortons, Cadburys for me everytime.

[@johnleonard9090]

@@kimarnill7648seen them in Waitrose and possibly Sainsbury’s

[@martinwebb1681]

@@beverleyringe7014 ... I agree, you can't beat Cadburys chocolate.

[@saxon-mt5by]

Just send me your reject Fry's Chocolate Cream and the Thornton's Coffee Creams - my two favourites!

[@RitaB1628]

Snap!

[@101steel4]

Not seen raspberry ruffles in years. Used to absolutely love them.

[@martinwebb1681]

@101steel4 ..... You can buy them in most shops, they are also in TESCO, Sainsbury's, ASDA, B&Ms in the bars (5 pack) also in POUNDSTRECTER in bars (5 pack) and in bags of single wrapped sweets. Jameson raspberry ruffles also do a peppermint and coconut variety as well.

[@Scotia1990]

The aftereights are for after Christmas dinner to cleanse your mouth...it's always be seen as a posh chocolate!

[@rbnhd1144]

Back in the 60s it was posh as we didn't have so much money back then.

[@BigC1290]

After your evening dinner not just after your Christmas dinner hence the name after eight

[@steven54511]

Nice to see Sophia pop up at the end of the video... always a treat seeing her! Also, I loved the spontaneous way she said "Goodbye" - in sync with mum and dad too! Splendid.

[@michellekennedy4426]

Ya,the synced up "byeee" made me smile.

[@steven54511]

@@michellekennedy4426 She's an old soul in a young body as my grandma would say back in the day. Like you, I smile almost every time I see her, she's so sweet too!

[@heathergibson2108]

Fry's chocolate cream is my treat. Being older I remember them from way back when they were slightly different. Not so gooey in the middle. They used to do a five fruit one too which I loved..

[@reactingtomyroots]

Fruit one sounds nice!

[@BlueTexel]

I was about to ask if I was remembering correctly, a mixed flavoured bar! ❤

[@rbnhd1144]

@@BlueTexel They had a few different bars overtime, Strawberry, Pineapple, and others, at one point Coffee was on the end of that bar.

[@heathergibson2108]

@@rbnhd1144 blimey I dont remember any of those pineapple sounds good to me

[@martinwebb1681]

@@heathergibson2108 .... Pineapple was one of the flavours in the Fry's five centres bar, Raspberry, Pineapple, Lime, Strawberry and Orange were the flavours in the bar from the 1970s onward. Prior to that the flavours were Raspberry, Lime, Vanilla, Coffee and Orange. Fry's five centres bar was discontinued in 1992 because of the high production costs of the bar which was eating into the companies profits.

[@hoppahoppa-yf2pi]

We found some peanut butter in France today thats made in France , Well the After Eeights mints are considered posh or middle class. To be uber middle class you would have the Bendicks range of chocolate or chocolate from either France or Belgium at your dinner party. to end with a Irish coffee 😋 Jean-Marc

[@Janeswhitfield]

Matchstick orange and and mint are good too

[@andyjdhurley]

You mean 'Matchmakers'? Yes, way better than the soft fondant of the after eight sticks (or the supermarket brand clones) thanks to the crispy flavoured sugar crystals. I was surprised not to see those among all the minty after dinner mints here. The problem with those was that I could not resist polishing off the box.

[@Janeswhitfield]

@@andyjdhurley yes haha

[@PLuMUK54]

Lindsey looks so embarrassed when she doesn’t like something, as if she is worried she will offend. I totally agree about the Fry's. I have never understood why people like it.

[@reactingtomyroots]

It is definitely out of her comfort zone to express her dislike of things :)

[@oxfamshop]

My Gran and great aunt loved Fry's chocolate cream . When I worked at a charity shop or thrift store one Christmas I bought 6 fry's chocolate creams and 6 mint creams and shared them with customers . Most were older folk and they loved them

[@paulfri1569]

So glad my ancestors created so much joy for your family 🎉 Best gift a company can give is creating joy for it's customers and god bless you.

[@WilfChadwick]

Can you imagine what a taste sensation the Fry's chocolate was for people in the 1860's.

[@jessieb7290]

Right! Plus I wonder if it was more bitter then, like maybe they had to test on people how much sugar could be added?! 🤔

[@WilfChadwick]

@@jessieb7290 this was the time when shopkeepers kild kids with the "additives" they used to increase profits.

[@paulfri1569]

Would've been the biggest thing since sliced bread 🍞

[@Bazk01]

A bit of an overview: The DAIM bar is Swedish and is sold in IKEA as well as most supermarkets. It's a cheap and cheerful bar of toffee chocolate. The fry's bar's have gone downhill in quality since I was a kid, they come three to a pack for the same price as you used to get four. Now you get original, mint, and orange. You used to get a five bar which I loved. (Every section was a different flavour.) Thornton's is a specialty sweet shop, most of it's sweets were designed to be sold in gift assortments. Think expensive Quality Street or Milk Tray. They had a lot of financial issues in the last ten years. They were a high street shop, that's pretty much gone online to keep going. The after eight sticks are a rip off of the Mint Matchmakers. Matchmakers are sticks that come in various flavours, like Mint, Orange, Carmel, and others. They are mostly bought for after dinner parties and Christmas/New Years. The after eight thin mints - these were sold in the eighties/nineties as "after dinner" mints. You got a couple of these on a saucer next to your after the meal coffee/tea beverage. The idea was that it settled the rich food you had been eating. Mint is a new flavour for the Terry's Chocolate Orange. There are a ton of flavours to chocolate orange. They come as the Breakable orange, a bar with 5 segments melted inline or as wrapped individual segments. I've had a bag of mixed segments and I've had a advent calendar were each day with a different flavoured segment. There's was milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate, then milk/white/dark with rice crispies, milk/white/dark with bits of toffee, and milk/white/dark with popping candy. (all made with orange oil) (Popping candy is sometimes known as pop rocks or exploding candy. If is more usually sold in a foli packet and you tip it on your tongue and listen to it crackle and pop in your mouth. Cadbury uses it in their Willy Wonka Dairy Milk range as well.) Edited to add - I forgot the Minstrels -- we were always told in ad's that the minstrels was the first chocolate to melt in your mouth, not in your hand. Due to the coating. When they got rebranded Galaxy Minstrels, they brought out Galaxy counters which are the same thing, minus the shell. I was brought up thinking Minstrels were the precursor to Smarties and M&Ms.

[@martinwebb1681]

The Fry's chocolate cream is delicious. Try putting it in the refrigerator to get chilled then try it. If it gets warm it tends to get sticky, but in the fridge it stays firm. After eights are an after dinner mint, eat one after a meal, it just gives you a little piece of sweetness and freshens the breath. Your little one has good taste as the ruffles bars are lovely. The Galaxy minstrel sweets are pretty good but I prefer the Galaxy counters sweets all galaxy chocolate without the hard shell, really lovely.

[@tonys1636]

In the 70's and 80's lot of the old companies like Fry's, Mackintosh and Rowntree got bought out by the likes of Cadbury, Nestlé (formally Nestles in UK) and oddly Kraft. Cadbury and Nestlé kept most of the products going, Kraft didn't. Some have since changed owners again.

[@vinnyganzano1930]

The Frys chocolate cream was sold by my great grandfather in the early 1900s. He travelled through Scotland with a case full of them going from shop to shop.

[@vallee3140]

how wonderful,

[@DonnaPoynton.]

That’s so cool❤

[@mandysharp4571]

My favourite chocolate. 1 per day

[@reactingtomyroots]

That's pretty cool! :)

[@vinnyganzano1930]

It was great for my mum and her brothers and sisters as they all got to share a couple of bars back in the day. Personally I never liked them.

[@catharbinson]

Love your channel....I prefer to use raspberry ruffles in cheesecake-my favourite.

[@BigC1290]

Fondant icing or "frosting" as you guy's would call it is what's on wedding cakes

[@joannafisher3391]

Can’t beat an after eight always have a few boxes around the house for that little chocolate fix

[@WannabeSnowWhite]

You have to play the After Eight game, you put the After Eight on your forehead, then try and get it into your mouth by just moving your face, no hands allowed!!!

[@BRIDINC1972]

Love True original and pepermint, no one else in the family like them. We all go for After Eight, a box won't last long in our house.

[@alandunbar4244]

After Eight Square Mints, are perfect way to end a meal with a coffee. Its a palate cleanser. The rival to them are Bendtnicks After Dinner mints which are round patty like candies

[@twood7759]

Frys chocolate cream always reminds me of my godfather as it was his favourite chocolate bar. He was born in 1902 and remembers buying a frys chocolate bar when he was very young as a gift for his mother. ❤

[@paulfri1569]

God bless you ☺️

[@GavinClarke-jj7cw]

The original fry’s chocolate factory was in Keynsham just outside Bristol. When Kraft foods bought Cadburys they closed the factory despite promising to keep it open and to keep the manufacturing there and instead moved it all to Poland the site now houses a new posh old people’s home.

[@debbielough7754]

One thing that's really cool about the early big three chocolate makers in the UK (Fry's, Cadbury's, and Rowntree's) is that they were all started by Quakers. Meaning in the early days, they were all deeply ethical, and provided good wages, and decent housing for their staff. Obvs with Fry and Cadbury now belonging to Kraft and Rowntree to Nestle, the ethics are no longer there (and the product quality took a hit too, they aren't as good as they were), but at the time they were revolutionary.

[@paulfri1569]

That's right and I'm a direct descendant of Elizabeth and Joseph Fry the founders of Fry's Chocolate 🍫 Glad they have bought joy too billions all over the world 🌎🎉

[@neilprice513]

The "After Eight" chocolate mints are an after dinner chocolate as a palette cleanser after eating. Usually meant to be eaten with some Cabernet Sauvignon/red wine.

[@rbnhd1144]

Frys Chocolate Creams are still my favorite, anyone remember the 5 centre's with 5 different flavoured creams, Strawberry, Pineapple, Orange and Coffee were 4 of the flavours, all on one chocolate bar, I heard the Frys chocolate bar inspired Cadburys to make the Creme Eggs.

[@martinwebb1681]

Yes, I loved the 5 centres bar, flavours were originally Raspberry, Lime, Vanilla, Coffee and Orange. Changed in the 1970s to Raspberry, Lime, Pineapple, Strawberry and Orange. The bar was sadly discontinued in 1992.

[@rbnhd1144]

@@martinwebb1681 Thanks Martin Id wondered about lime but wasn't so sure. Its hard to beat the old Fry's chocolate.

[@paulfri1569]

​@@martinwebb1681what a true shame 😢

[@sugarplumpolly]

RAF fighter pilots used to be given a bar of Fry's chocolate cream before they went out on a sortie during WWII. Also, After Eight was known for having some of the most sexist advertising campaigns in modern times (post 1960's) - 'A woman's place is in the home, eating After Eights and looking beautiful', however, paradoxically they were the first (or one of the very first) UK companies to employ married women on a full time basis, whereas usually they were only allowed part time split-shift hours around 'family time'. Their jobs were to make the little paper wrappers.

[@tonys1636]

Fry's Chocolate Cream bar created in 1866, 19 years after they created the world's first solid chocolate bar in Bristol. The bar was the first filled bar.

[@SUSIEPIP]

I love your faces when you taste something you like!!!!!! Congratulations on reaching 60,000!

[@alandunbar4244]

Frys Chocolate Creams are a UK institution. There used to be more flavours than the Original Dark & Mint ones. Orange Cream was amazing, and there used to also be one called Frys Five Centres, where each segment was a different type. Original, Orange, Raspberry, Lemon & Lime. Unfortunately they stopped making this one due to the cost of prodution

[@paulfri1569]

Fry's Crunchie is a classic 😎 Shame they got sold out and betrayed 😢

[@cherylq709]

Fry's Raspberry chocolate bar is the best of all of them. The centre is quite sweet but it's meant to counter the bitterness of the dark chocolate.

[@martinwebb1681]

The Fry's Coffee cream is really nice as well. I have also seen the Fry's Strawberry cream but have never tried it.

[@BigC1290]

The way lindsey hurries Steve like ok next...? 😐🤣🤣😆

[@IsobelIsobel123]

I don't mind the Terry's mint, but the orange is much better imo, lol ❤

[@penname5766]

Love Pip n’ Nut products. They are extremely successful. Their nut butters are to die for.

[@tamus41]

Had to chuckle when Steve tries the peanut butter chocolate cups, the p.o.box address pops up...twice, just so you know he loves these...send more please 😂😂😂

[@maowpurrdy8443]

I love how polite you guys try and be, if you don't like something....lol

[@jessieb7290]

Literally logged in to see you guys today 🤩🤩 The pip and nut thing is a vegan company. Terrys used to make a terrys apple; it was apple flavoured and shaped or a lemon (I forget) , then they changed it to orange and never changed it back. Saw that on an old chocolate documentary. I wish some companies would bring back some old flavours. Love how excited you guys were to start 😂

[@carol.luna.stella]

When I was in high school in the early 70s the kids would eat a Frys chocolate cream bar inside a buttered bread roll for lunch. This was before deep fried Mars bars in Scotland

[@pabmusic1]

Quakers had previously been banned from owning businesses, but were 'liberated' in the 1820s. Four Quakers - Fry in Bristil, Cadbury in Birmingham, and Terry and Rowntree in York - went into chocolate. Barclay and Lloyd started banks, and Clark made shoes. Plenty more.

[@paulfri1569]

Yes I'm a direct descendant of Elizabeth and Joseph Fry. Quaker's are the unsung heroes of Great Britain and the USA. As it was the Quaker's who influenced Abraham Lincoln to end slavery..

[@nadeansimmons226]

Ruffles used to be my Mum's Sunday afternoon treat watching old black and white movies on TV

[@jamiebowden3141]

Great video. Thanks. Love the British cars and Red Arrows plane in the background. My only complaint is that i spent 5 minutes trying to get a mark off my screen before realising it was on the wall behind you 😂😂😂😂

[@vallee3140]

a lot of people, asked them to remove it, as we all thought the same thing, but its still there.

[@reactingtomyroots]

haha, sorry! Yeah, it's a chip in the paint on our wall from where we hung something. Will have to try and find some touch-up paint. :)

[@razor1uk610]

​@@reactingtomyrootslol, keep it there as a channel community joke upon newer viewers rubbing on their screens.., sorry, I am in a humourously flippant moodvthis afternoon.

[@emmachurchman1527]

As i am allergic to wheat and dairy, what chocolates i can eat are very limited, my faves are Elizebeth Shaw dark mints chocolate, the nomo chocolate brand, milky way magic stars, Tescos own brand of dairy free, wheat free chocolate and any dark chocolate brand

[@lailachopperchops9290]

Fry's Raspberry Cream Chocolate Bar is the best , bloody lovely

[@WilliamWallace42]

After Eights are legendary and the new mint Terry's chocolate is amazing

[@vernonallen3370]

I find After Eight’s are best appreciated after a meal ,with a coffee and a liqueur

[@andrewvalentine6977]

I do remember Thorntons made a cake bar that was amazing. Sadly discontinued about 5 years ago.

[@BillySugger1965]

Outstanding to pronounce Frome correctly guys, well done! I spent my teens living a few miles from Frome (or Froom) so this one’s close to my heart. Good job guys! Oh and if you like chocolate mint, you _really_ need to try Bendicks mint chocolates… 😋

[@betagombar9022]

My mum's favourite chocolate was coffee creams and the Frys white fondant centre chocolate bar. I'm a chocoholic so I'd love them all 🐷😂

[@helenwood8482]

Fry's is very strong flavoured and I think you gave to have grown up with it to enjoy it. I love it, but I would have it with a cup of tea to counter the excessive sweetness.

[@melz36uk]

frys and Mondelez are all part of Cadbury. You need to go to Bourneville to see Cadbury world. :)

[@kutluol75]

Daim is a Swedish chocolate bar, you can get them in every ikea store at the checkouts, including America 😊

[@phuckerby]

I can tell you one thing you will never see in the UK, is an After Eight "after dinner mint" half eaten and put back in it's envelope, in most houses once the box is opened they are gone, especially at Christmas. 😁

[@reactingtomyroots]

I believe it. We shared these with my Mother in Law and she loved them even more than Lindsay. They were gone that day. lol :)

[@lynnejamieson2063]

Golden chocolate is caramelised white chocolate, not chocolate with caramel added. It can be made by baking white chocolate in the oven and stirring regularly to ensure even baking. Raspberry Ruffles were my Dad’s favourite chocolate bar when I was a kid in the 80’s…likely in part to raspberries being one of his favourite fruits. Raspberries themselves aren’t an overly sweet berry as they are quite tart, I’d say that it’s the fondant cream part that’s making the chocolate bar so sweet…which would only be sweeter with strawberries instead of raspberries. I’m pretty sure Daim (pronounced Dime…which is what it used to be called in the UK) is actually a Swedish chocolate bar. The pronunciation of dime instead of daim is due to it being a Swedish word. The best Fry’s bar (in my opinion) was discontinued (I think in the 90’s) and it was Fry’s Five Centre and each segment had a different fruit flavoured fondant centre.

[@reactingtomyroots]

Ah, that explanation of golden chocolate makes much more sense. :)

[@lesleymitcheson8439]

I love raspberry ruffles, after eights and fry’s chocolate. They do that bar in four flavours, Peppermint,spearmint, orange and also raspberry

[@ElizabethMackenzie69]

I've also had coffee flavour!

[@martinwebb1681]

@@ElizabethMackenzie69 ... Yes, they sell them in Poundland. 3 bars pack. They also did a Strawberry flavour which was available at Icelands also available on Amazon, but I haven't seen it for some time so it may have been a limited edition. It's still listed on Amazon but says it's unavailable. Although it is still available on Amazon in the bulk pack 3 bars of each flavour, Peppermint, original Mint, Orange, Strawberry and Raspberry, so 5 packs 15 bars 3 of each flavour.

[@ElizabethMackenzie69]

@@martinwebb1681 I got them from B & M Bargains. I got coffee Daim and mint Twirl from there too. 🙂

[@wendywilson858]

I love all the frys chocolate creams. They do orange, raspberry and strawberry in them. Xx

[@paulfri1569]

Same and don't forget the Crunchie bar🍫

[@TheJohnboyhunter]

I've never been a massive fan of mint chocolate, but I'd happily eat a full box of After Eights.

[@Elizabethh1006]

Someone needs to send them walnut whips and revels they are so good. My favourite Ameican chocolate bars are Reese’s nutrageous bar and butterfingers

[@101steel4]

Oh god I tried a butterfinger. The worst chocolate bar I've ever had. Wall insulation coverd in sick 🤣🤣

[@Elizabethh1006]

@@101steel4 😂 it’s an acquired taste it also gets stuck in your teeth but I like it 😁

[@BlueTexel]

Love Walnut Whips 👍

[@martinwebb1681]

@@BlueTexel ... They used to be great years ago, much bigger. These days they just aren't the same.

[@kezlana6907]

The tiny bites 😂 who bites a minstel in half like that 🤦‍♀️🤣🤣 Letting the minstrel melt in your mouth and then slowly cracking away the shell is the best. These were my cinema chocolate every single time i went as a kid.

[@DrSkeff]

After 8 was a Rowntree's brand and is now a Nestle product, the original square products are produced in Halifax. The sticks are produced elsewhere.

[@kellyfairbairn9333]

Yay halifax. Where I think they should build a quality street

[@martinwebb1681]

@DrSkeff .... According to Nestle the sticks are produced in Halifax along with all the other after eight products (after eight mints, orange thins, mini eggs etc). They also make Easter Eggs and Butter Finger cups at the Halifax factory.

[@sandraboyle5722]

The galaxy minstrel were taken by me to cinema as the hard shell didn’t melt in your hand…

[@kezlana6907]

These were always my cinema snack. Minstrels are fab!