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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Annalisa Barbieri

Notes on chocolate: giant bars to please everyone

The Big Daddy chocolate bar, cut open on a plate to show the layers
The Big Daddy: enough to feed a family – or just yourself! Photograph: PR IMAGE

I am in Essex. Braintree to be precise. Braintree Village to be what3words about it. I am particularly pleased because for a long time, I’ve been trying to get to a Marks & Spencer to sample two particular bars, and here there is one. I don’t have one where I live, deep in Gainsborough country. The first bar is called The Big Daddy (£5.50, 300g); the second the Whip Off the Old Block (£5/200g).

Both are in cardboard boxes with no inner plastic sleeve. I approve. Very cleverly designed, modern, but with a touch of retro. I don’t suppose either bar is aimed at children. I say bar, but these are actually behemoths. Both are highly dangerous.

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