The Best Bar of Chocolate

Do you remember that chocolate bar you probably tried once or twice sometime during your childhood? Maybe you got a miniature one in your Halloween candy from some old person who just wasn’t “down with the kids” and didn’t know about all the current trendy candy they liked. You’ve probably never actually bought one yourself unless it happened to be part of a party pack, but thanks to the variety of experiences life does seem to inevitably provide, you have probably eaten a piece of one every now and then. You know, it’s the bar without any nuts, caramel, wafers, marshmallow, nougat or sprinkles of any kind. The plain one, so plain in fact that it comes in a mostly white wrapper with a simple unassuming name guaranteed not to draw attention and to nearly always be passed over for something more flashy, exotic or extreme. Have you guessed which one I’m talking about yet?

Yes it’s the Jersey Milk bar. On a hunch I bought one the other day, probably for the first time in decades. All I can say is WOW! Now that is some real quality milk chocolate. It’s a true chocolate bar, not a candy bar as they are often called these days. No need to disguise some cheap waxy chocolate flavoured imitation with other overbearing flavours. The Jersey Milk is simple yet obviously made of authentic high quality milk chocolate and is some of the best tasting, smoothest chocolate you can buy for less than a dollar.

In the olden days it came wrapped in gold foil with an outer white wrapper made of paper. Nowadays it has changed to a one piece plastic wrapper but has maintained the plain but elegant design of old. So after your kids come home Halloween night and you are sneaking through their bounty of goodies maybe pass over the Snickers, Oh Henry, Kit Kat and Wonderbars and see if you can’t find a mini Jersey Milk bar. I promise the kids won’t care or probably even notice if you help yourself to such a plainly wrapped and obviously boring bit of swag. Either that or you could just go buy one RIGHT NOW! Except those of you who don’t happen to reside in Canada of course. Yeah, unfortunately they are not available in the states. Sorry about that.