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		<title>Necco Sky Bar &#8211; an abortive review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rosa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I tried. I really, really tried to give the Necco Sky Bar a fair shake of a review. It&#8217;s a retro bar and is deliberately marketed as such, with it&#8217;s matte-looking wrapper, photos, and font. Nostalgia is about all this guy&#8217;s got going for it. The bar is billed as &#8220;4 flavors in milk chocolate.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I tried. I really, really tried to give the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Fie%3DUTF8%26x%3D0%26ref%255F%3Dnb%255Fss%255Fgro%26y%3D0%26field-keywords%3Dnecco%2520skybar%26url%3Dsearch-alias%253Daps&amp;tag=zc00-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957">Necco Sky Bar</a> a fair shake of a review. It&#8217;s a retro bar and is deliberately marketed as such, with it&#8217;s matte-looking wrapper, photos, and font. <a href="http://www.necco.com/OurBrands/Default.asp?BrandID=11">Nostalgia is about all this guy&#8217;s got going for it.</a></p>
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<p>The bar is billed as &#8220;4 flavors in milk chocolate.&#8221; It comes in four segments, each imprinted with the word &#8220;Necco.&#8221; One segment is filled with caramel, another with vanilla, another with peanut, and the final one with fudge. Wait &#8211; I take that back. Let&#8217;s try that again. One segment is filled with &#8220;caramel,&#8221; another with &#8220;vanilla,&#8221; another with &#8220;peanut,&#8221; and the final one with &#8220;fudge.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Why the quotation marks? Because the fillings vaguely tasted like rude approximations of what they were labeled as, but to call them a real caramel or vanilla or fudge or peanut butter would be a travesty. They were nasty goops, all of them. And nasty goop inside poor quality milk chocolate just makes for more nastiness.</p>
<p>I took a small bite out of each of these for the sake of candy blogging science, but I couldn&#8217;t bring myself to eat those bites slowly or thoughtfully. I just wanted the nasty swallowed and as far away from my taste buds as possible. So, readers, that is why I have no descriptions for you. All that&#8217;s in my tasting notebook is &#8220;nasty goo&#8221; and a giant scribble.</p>
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<p>Usually I give my tasting leftovers to friends. The Sky Bar I tossed, as I thought it too horrible to inflict upon others. A definite <strong>&#8211;</strong> that caused me to hover my mouse over the box that would&#8217;ve categorized this as &#8220;not candy&#8221;. If you don&#8217;t believe me, check out <a href="http://sugarsavvy.net/2008/05/02/necco-skybar/">fellow Sugar Savvy writer Sylvie&#8217;s take</a>. She didn&#8217;t hate it as much as I did, but she also found it disappointing.</p>
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		<title>Clark Bar</title>
		<link>http://zomgcandy.com/2007/11/20/clark-bar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rosa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clark bar (BUY!), where have you been all my life? I&#8217;d read about them but had never seen one until Economy Candy. I thought they were no longer being made, but fortunately, they&#8217;re still in existence. Nostalgia candy usually disappoints, but the Clark is surprisingly tasty. As the wrapper says, a Clark bar is chocolatey [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Clark bar (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Famazon.com%2Fs%3Furl%3Dsearch-alias%253Dgourmet%26field-keywords%3Dclark%2Bbar%26x%3D0%26y%3D0&amp;tag=zomgcandy-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325">BUY!</a>), where have you been all my life? I&#8217;d read about them but had never seen one until Economy Candy. I thought they were no longer being made, but fortunately, they&#8217;re still in existence. Nostalgia candy usually disappoints, but the Clark is surprisingly tasty.</p>
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<p>As the wrapper says, a Clark bar is chocolatey coated peanut butter crunch. Yes, that means that it&#8217;s covered in fake chocolate. Surprisingly enough, the Clark&#8217;s fake chocolate coating is pretty good, but I still wish it were real.</p>
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<p>The Clark reminds me of a Butterfinger with it&#8217;s flakey, toffee-like innards, only the Clark is much more crumbly and less apt to get stuck in your molars. That&#8217;s a good thing, as I avoid Butterfingers solely because I hate picking it out of my teeth later. There&#8217;s a little peanut butter taste in the flakes, but it&#8217;s fairly subtle.</p>
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<p>Overall, I thought the bar was too sweet, and I could have used a glass of milk to wash it down with. I think covering it in real dark chocolate could fix that. Despite the sweetness, I actually ate the whole thing in one sitting for breakfast (healthy, I know!) when I hadn&#8217;t intended to. Healthwise,  the Clark is actually not too bad for a candy bar. 220 calories, 8g of fat, 4 of them saturated.</p>
<p>I give it an <strong>OM</strong>. I&#8217;d eat it again, but I&#8217;d eat it again and again if it were covered in real chocolate.</p>
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