That was exactly my thought process recently when looking for a candy bar ๐
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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 / Kรผsschen bar
Just at triple the price per Kilo...
What does ecologic mean in this context?
Meant to say organic. ;)
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?
It is insanely good chocolate. Peanut slabs are sooooo delicious.
Thanks for posting this ad.
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.
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They are hands down the best candybar. Closely followed by pigall and kex
Knoppers are Europeanโฝ
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 mรผsli bars! Guess you can tell Germans like hiking, huh?
And for Sweden I also like me some Kex.
And as a north German I like to buy Turkish Pepper which is made in Denmark
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Yes Germany
Yeah, I just looked them up!
Wunderbar!
Howd you do the panicked question mark?
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 โinterrobangโ 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
ibso when I type โibโ 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.
Flipped a few Snickers, Tuc and Milka in the market today, then bought a Knoppers.
Knoppers are so good. The nut wapper wrap around is the best.
Mogens halb 10 in Deutschland...
knoppers is just awesome
Morgens halb 10 in Europa!
Aye that's what I can get behind.
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.
I'd go into diabetic shock for a box of knoppers
Wait... Isn't Mars European?
Edit: Oh no. That's just the name for Milky Way in Europe.
What? No, Milky Way is another one, we have Mars over here :)
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).
That is wild! TIL!
Yeah, Netherlands has both!
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).
So our Milky Way, with coconut shaving, is very different from US Milky Way?
Cool to know!
Yours have coconut???
I have a snickers problem that needs to be a knoppers problem. Please send the goods to Canada.
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I always get my mom to bring me knoppers when she comes to visit me in Canada from the UK.
Where's the replacement for 
Knoppers coconut of course
Doesn't Lidl or Aldi make copycats for most of these, including bounty? they usually come in multiples in a bag.
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Not a real replacement but Raffaello does the job.
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Oh yeah, knoppers are fucking delicious.
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