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Ben Summer & Kit Roberts

The five best chocolate bars which are now lost to history


People have reacted with sadness after it was announced that Milky Way Crispy Rolls will discontinued.

The treat joins several other chocolatey favourites which are now consigned to history.

The news prompted disappointed reactions from people across Twitter, with one user posting: “Good morning to everyone except the person responsible for discontinuing milky way crispy rolls.”

For some peculiar reason, chocolate bars which are slightly different to the norm are usually the ones to get the UK completely overexcited, the Mirror reports.

While it might be a mammoth task to list every single chocolate bar which has been consigned to the history books over the years, here are five we think are the best.

Cadbury Snowflake

Eating a Flake often requires a lot of patience to avoid getting tiny flecks of chocolate everywhere, which will then be smeared into sofas and car seats as they melt.

Nonetheless the Snowflake put a white chocolate spin on this popular product, with a white chocolate centre surrounded by milk chocolate.

Anthea Turner and Grant Bovey even posed with the treat during a photoshoot with OK! magazine.

A spokesperson for Cadbury said that although the company had supplied the products, they had not insisted that they feature in photos.

The couple divorced in 2015.

Anthea Turner's wedding day famously featured the now-defunct Cadbury Snowflake (PA)

Mars Delight

The news about Milky Way Crispy Rolls being discontinued dredged up bad memories for a lot of 2000s kids who remembered the loss of the Mars Delight.

Mars Delight featured the normal filling of a Mars Bar wrapped a layer of wafer, with the whole thing being encased in chocolate.

The lighter, crispier version of the classic snack had some feeling nostalgic on Twitter, with one person remarking: “Feel like pure s***, just want Mars Delight back.”

Wonka Bars

These were released alongside the 2005 film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, meaning that fans could buy Wonka bars in real life.

The packaging was designed to look like those featured in the movie.

Sadly after the film they were aced due to falling demand, with the market for quirky chocolate being filled by Cadbury's Marvellous Creations bars.

There was still something magical about the idea that you were holding a real Wonka bar, even if it (probably) wasn't mixed by waterfall.

Terry’s Pyramint

On paper this one seems completely crazy. It's like a Terry's Chocolate Orange, but flavoured like an After Eight mint, but with a look like it's straight out of the Crystal Maze.

Is it a chocolate bar, or even anyone's first choice for a sweet they would bring back? Probably not, but the sheer mad-scientist lunacy this gets for even existing gives it points.

Food website Delish wrote that the Pyramint was discontinued due to a lack of demand. Admittedly it’s not hard to see why, but it at least deserves a place in snack folklore for its sheers audacity.

Taz

Is a Taz bar is just a caramel Freddo? Yes. Can you still get the same experience by buying the re-skinned frog version of this iconic chocolate? Also yes.

And yet there are few things which take you back to the late 90s and early 2000s like a Taz.

It's like sitting around getting your horrible sticky caramel-covered fingers all over the brand-new PlayStation 1 controller your older siblings got for Christmas.

The Looney Tunes character disappeared from the Cadbury chocolate seemingly without a trace – but not from our hearts.

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