Macaroon bars

Monkeybonkers

I had two Macaroon bars today and was very disappointed with them. The chocolate seemed to be a different texture than I remembered and they didn't seem to be as coconutty either. Anyone else notice this or am I just remembering them with rose-tinted taste buds?

Ostrom

Spot on - waxy and tasteless

The only thing that seems to have survived the 90's intact is the cafferys big time bar

patchybaby

you got that right...i had one a wee while ago and was gutted....just so wrong.......

experiMental

It's a bit different from the one I had back in '98

It's also a bit sweeter nowadays, which is bad.

cashback

Might be rose-tinted slightly but what brand was it?

super_furry

Those 10p Macaroon bars were always waxy and tasteless. Awful, awful chocolate - even when I was 8. Same with their Mint Crisps.

I thinks it's Wilsons that made them.

cashback

super_furry wrote: »

Those 10p Macaroon bars were always waxy and tasteless. Awful, awful chocolate - even when I was 8. Same with their Mint Crisps.

I thinks it's Wilsons that made them.

Wilton Candy it is.
Yeah I know they're not the best chocolate but still loved them, the macaroon much more than the mint crisp.
They're expensive enough these days, about 40cent I think.

Ostrom

cashback wrote: »

Might be rose-tinted slightly but what brand was it?

There are other brands? Its the ones in paper that are sh*te yes?

cashback

Yep the ones in paper are the most common, I do remember one that came in a green plastic wrapper though and it was larger. Haven't seen it in years though.

Ostrom

I think I saw one that came in a box a few weeks back

jaffa20

Oh i used to love these things. Where did you get them op They are probably always behind the counter but i'm afraid to ask in case i get looked at blankly.:(

Monkeybonkers

jaffa20 wrote: »

. Where did you get them op.

I got them in a shop in Lucan, beside the motorbike shop, while I was sheltering from a particularly heavy shower of rain.

L1011

Monkeybonkers wrote: »

I got them in a shop in Lucan, beside the motorbike shop, while I was sheltering from a particularly heavy shower of rain.

Theres two newsagents up there and both are like a timewarp. A1 Cash Stores and Ballydowd Stores I think they're called. Used to spend a lot of cash there when in school in Lewkan!

vektarman

Monkeybonkers wrote: »

I got them in a shop in Lucan, beside the motorbike shop, while I was sheltering from a particularly heavy shower of rain.

I know that shop, is it true you can still buy two and two bars and 1970's raleigh Choppers there?

Monkeybonkers

There are two shops there. One is really small and pokey, real old school (i.e. a kip) and the other one is a modern convenience store kind of place. I got the macaroon bars in the latter.

Passenger

Wasn't there actual grated pieces of Coconut in the original bars too?

Lady Athame

They don't bring back that childhood feeling any more!

Lobster

Does anyone remember a bar that had clocks on the wrapper? chocolate covered caramel that required a very strong jaw and teeth to get through?

Lady Athame

I know what bar your talking about, I just can't remember the name!!! :rolleyes:

Lobster

I remember the chocolate would be all gone long before the caramel!

flanree

see second post...Caffrey's Big Time Bar.

Lobster

efla wrote: »

Spot on - waxy and tasteless

The only thing that seems to have survived the 90's intact is the cafferys big time bar

Well they were pretty tough afterall

PatB71

My Uncle runs a pub/grocery and he use to bring us out Macaroon bars as kids ..only thing was that because of the smokey environment and the paper wrapping it was like eating chocolate tobacco ....but kids will never say no to free choc.:D

vektarman

PatB71 wrote: »

My Uncle runs a pub/grocery and he use to bring us out Macaroon bars as kids ..only thing was that because of the smokey environment and the paper wrapping it was like eating chocolate tobacco ....but kids will never say no to free choc.:D

Hmmm chocolate tobacco, now how did the tobacco companies marketing departments miss that one, you could have made a fortune on the copyright for that:)

pauro 76

Ahhh remember them as a kid. Loved the mint crisp ones..

_sparkie_

these bars remind me of being a kid. i saw them in spar last week and i was scared to get one incase it wasnt as good as i remembered.

footloose jen

jf your still talking about the macaroon bars well i loved them too and i was at the chocolate factory in walkinstown a few months ago and there they where so i bought a box of them for 10 euro, they tasted the same seemed a lot smaller though could be the fact that im no longer 7yrs old lol!

nia121

anyone remember the klipso bars!!? eating one of them when i was like 8 and one of my teeth ended up stuck in it!!

Ruu_Old

The macaroon bars I remember had a white papery wrapper I think with red text and some sort of images on it. Nice bar, coconut bits and chocolate. I think it may have been Swizzle who made the bar.

Randy Shafter

I had a macaroon bar just the other day and i was sorely disappointed.
It didn't taste the same and as another reply pointed out they seem to have gotten smaller.

Elle Victorine

efla wrote: »

Spot on - waxy and tasteless

The only thing that seems to have survived the 90's intact is the cafferys big time bar

as in the one with the yellow packet and the bees on!?!?!? Toffee and chocolate?!?!? <3


MAcaroons taste the exact same as far as I can tell really. HB ice-cream has utterly changed however.

grenache

The new Macaroon bars are carp! They're much drier and tasteless compared to the old one. I don't know what Wilton Candy did to the original recipe but it would be nice to have it back.

nia121

Lobster wrote: »

Does anyone remember a bar that had clocks on the wrapper? chocolate covered caramel that required a very strong jaw and teeth to get through?

klipso god damn it!!! klipso!!! does nobody else remember losing der baby teeth to them god damn lovely 10p bars! bring bac the p's and d pounds!!!

swapple

well at least the wrappers haven't changed i don't understand why the same company makes easter eggs but they don't make macaroon or mint crisp eggs
sorry nia121, i hardly remember klipsos, my grandad always got me a macaroon
even stinger bars aren't the same anymore

footloose jen

nia121 wrote: »

klipso god damn it!!! klipso!!! does nobody else remember losing der baby teeth to them god damn lovely 10p bars! bring bac the p's and d pounds!!!

i think i remember the klipso bars where they something like the honeybee bars??????:pac:

swapple

klipsos were made by the same folk who gave us macaroons, thats all i know