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[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

I was going to give a shout-out to Whittakers of New Zealand, makers of the world's best chocolate, but it seems they don't export to the US. Maybe you could lobby them?

https://www.whittakers.co.nz/

It is insanely good chocolate. Peanut slabs are sooooo delicious.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago

That was exactly my thought process recently when looking for a candy bar πŸ˜…

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

They are hands down the best candybar. Closely followed by pigall and kex

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

Flipped a few Snickers, Tuc and Milka in the market today, then bought a Knoppers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

Knoppers are so good. The nut wapper wrap around is the best.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks for posting this ad.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

The last couple of weeks have been advertising for European brands. It's been fine so far, organic content from actual people. But the corporations are catching on so I expect to see it ruined soon.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

It really doesn't matter if it's posted by a corporation or not. It's an ad either way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

....where did I say otherwise?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Knoppers are Europeanβ€½

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was happy to learn that the snacks I always liked the most - Knoppers, Ritter Sport, Corny bars, Milch-Schnitte (Ferrero owned) - were European (specifically German minus one), as are many mΓΌsli bars! Guess you can tell Germans like hiking, huh?

And for Sweden I also like me some Kex.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

And as a north German I like to buy Turkish Pepper which is made in Denmark

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I just looked them up!

Wunderbar!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Howd you do the panicked question mark?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

It's a specific unicode character, though most keyboards don't just type it for you.

  • On Linux I use the Cinnamon desktop with Cinnamenu, if I hit the super key and start typing β€œinterrobang” it selects the correct result for me quite quickly, I hit the enter key and it's copied to my clipboard.
  • On my smartphone I use SwiftKey which has a clipboard manager where you can pin copied text and ads a tag for it; I pinned it with the tag ib so when I type β€œib” it suggests that interrobang. This works both on Android and iOS.

Also, on macOS you could use the character picker (hit the fn key on an Apple keyboard) and search it in a similar way.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

If someone is looking for an alternative that is...

  • really delicious
  • vegan
  • ecologic
  • made in Germany / Berlin
  • manufactured by a small company

...you can have a look at the products from Kojake.

https://www.kojake.info/c/vegane-schokoriegel-shop

EdKa = Snickers

KaRi = Mars

HaRi = Ferroro Rocher / Hanuta / KΓΌsschen bar

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What does ecologic mean in this context?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

Meant to say organic. ;)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Just at triple the price per Kilo...

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Mogens halb 10 in Deutschland...

knoppers is just awesome

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Morgens halb 10 in Europa!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Aye that's what I can get behind.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Wait... Isn't Mars European?

Edit: Oh no. That's just the name for Milky Way in Europe.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What? No, Milky Way is another one, we have Mars over here :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Milky way is different between the us and everywhere else. In the us it contains caramel. If you want the taste of our milky way in the us you need to buy 3 musketeers.

What is die and milky way in the USA is sold as a Mars bar outside of the USA. The USA Mars bar has nuts which was sold as 'Nuts' over here in the Netherlands (though I think it's discontinued).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

That is wild! TIL!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, Netherlands has both!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Milky way is different between the us and everywhere else. In the us it contains caramel. If you want the taste of our milky way in the us you need to buy 3 musketeers.

What is die and milky way in the USA is sold as a Mars bar outside of the USA. The USA Mars bar has nuts which was sold as 'Nuts' over here in the Netherlands (though I think it's discontinued).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So our Milky Way, with coconut shaving, is very different from US Milky Way?

Cool to know!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

Yours have coconut???

[–] sloppychops 5 points 1 day ago

I always get my mom to bring me knoppers when she comes to visit me in Canada from the UK.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

These things are so good it should be illegal. I wouldn't even compare them to Mars or Snickers, they are in a higher class.

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[–] BedSharkPal 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I have a snickers problem that needs to be a knoppers problem. Please send the goods to Canada.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Website idea. Join together people who, for a small fee, are willing to ship parcels full of treats to the other side of the globe with people craving such treats. Example: I know guys in Japan who would kill for a box of Paluszki made by Lajkonik. Here we have Canadians craving Knoppers. Etc.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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