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Earlier this month I went to a house party, and at around 3am during said house party a friend went on a snack run – she came back with a Bounty bar. I was outraged – I said to her: “Of all the confectionaries you could choose from, Bounty is the one you picked? I can name 50 chocolate bars right now that are better than Bounty!” and proceeded to make the list (keep in mind this is my personal list of faves).

In the week that followed I relentlessly pursued my hypothesis that Bounty was among the worst chocolate bars ever created. I queried my friends, I posted Facebook surveys, I even interviewed store clerks (for the record, they listed Snickers & Kit Kat as the most purchased chocolate bars, and Bounty & Eat More as the least popular). I wanted to perform a test with as little bias as possible.

Here at MuchMusic.com we conducted a blind chocolate bar taste testing of sorts – 40 chocolate bars, cut up into chunks and labelled in cups. Wendy and I searched high and low for the most obscure chocolate bars, and naturally included all of the basic Halloween ones. Each person had to try a piece, rate it from 0-5 and identify it from the list of chocolate bars (Dan and Neil correctly identified the most bars).

The top 3, based on scores highest to lowest:
Twix
Snickers
Crispy Crunch (I was surprised by this one!)

Following closely behind: Mars, Kit Kat, Coffee Crisp, Caramilk, Skor

The bottom 3, based on scores lowest to highest:
Look!
Payday
Eat More

Following closely behind: 100 Grand, Big Turk, Curly Wurly, Crunchie, Whatchamacallit

So yeah…apologies to my friend Jen B. for being so harsh about Bounty. It isn’t in the bottom 3. In fact, it’s not even in the bottom 10 (it’s the 13th worst). But that doesn’t mean I don’t still hate it!

What are your faves/least faves?

Posted on Monday, December 31st, 2007 at 3:09 pm by Alison and is filed under Just For Fun.

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