Americans Try 12 Types of British Chocolate - Fry's, Thorntons & More! 

After Eight is marketed as an "After Dinner" mint. We only used to buy a box of them at Christmas. As we never had any "sophisticated" dinner parties in our family.

Anyone remember the advert for Frys Turkish Delight? Wonderful chocolate confectionery "full of Eastern promise"

Hahaha Loving how Lyndsey is keeping Steve in check with the "waffling"😂

The galaxy minstrels are nice sucked to the shell melts and the inside is so smooth we love them in the uk

When US company Kraft was negotiating to buy out Cadbury's (owners of the Fry's brand name), one of the things they promised was to keep open the Fry's factory in Keynsham near Bristol. As soon as the deal was done, they promptly closed the factory, making hundreds of workers redundant, at the same time moving production to Poland. Thousands of people in the area vowed never to buy Cadbury's products again. Can't blame them really, and Cadbury's chocolate doesn't taste anything near as nice as it used to.

Fry's five centre was my favourite back in the day. The original is sill lovely though.

Cadbury has never been the same since been taken over by the American company

How to really annoy fellow guests at a dinner party 101: Take an After Eight square out of its packaging, but leave the paper in the box.....thus confusing everyone as to how many chocolates are left in the box! This is a well known phenomenum!

Minstrels are better if you let the shell soften up in your mouth then bite into it as choc melts a bit. Its amazing.

I love how Sophia comes in and just likes everything, such a sweetheart ❤️

After 8s were considered 'posh' in my family when I was young 🤣 We only ever got them at Christmas (after the main meal) and, even then, only 1 each

Man, I was addicted to Fry's Peppermint Cream as a child. Very fond memories of walking to the newsagent on a Sunday morning with my grandfather to pick up his newspaper and sometimes a small bar of Fry's to me too.

I used to love raspberry ruffles as a child, havent had them for years. I have a need to find them and try them for old times sake now.

After Eight's are a kind of after dinner mint, they came out in the 60's but became hugely popular and the hight of sofistication at dinner parties in the 70's. They're meant to be a palete cleanser rather than a chocolate you just eat. Also, I'm guessing you've had them in the fridge, hence the "pull", if they were room temp then they would be very soft in the middle.

Watching the puzzlement and confusion when the Fry's Cream kicks in is great. It's definitely, as chocolate goes, a sophisticated and acquired taste. Stick with it, it's worth the effort.

Who remembers the 80s Dime bar ad? "Armadillos there crunchy on the outside smooth on the inside ARMADILLOS!" You're a bit thick ain't you?

Fry's is one of the 1st if not the first to release a chocolate bar back in Victorian times. I love a frys chocolate cream. It really hits the spot. It's the oldest chocolate bar in the world 🌎

Here's a suggestion. Have a cup of tea with your chocolate it's good for clearing the mouth of any aftertaste.

After Eight mint chocolates were developed and made by Rowntrees in York England. Also the same factory that developed Yorkie bars and maybe more familiar to you the KitKat. Rowntrees was acquired by Nestle a few decades ago.

The way that Lyndsey whips her head around to look at Steve when she really likes something is just so endearing. It's like she's checking to see that he's appreciating it as much as she is 😂

Who remembers vice versas? Do they still sell them? ❤ They are like minstrels, but some milk some white. The ones with white coating had milk centres and vice versa!

Just send me your reject Fry's Chocolate Cream and the Thornton's Coffee Creams - my two favourites!

The "After Eight" chocolate mints are an after dinner chocolate as a palette cleanser after eating. Usually meant to be eaten with some Cabernet Sauvignon/red wine.

Pip & Nut make fantastic peanut butter, no palm oil just nuts and a little salt. The chocolate is ethically sourced so all good. The small family company have been going about 10 years and grown so much. Can you tell I love their products?!

Not seen raspberry ruffles in years. Used to absolutely love them.

We found some peanut butter in France today thats made in France , Well the After Eeights mints are considered posh or middle class. To be uber middle class you would have the Bendicks range of chocolate or chocolate from either France or Belgium at your dinner party. to end with a Irish coffee 😋 Jean-Marc

Thortons chocolate is my absolute favourite after Cadburys , oh I don’t know Lindt chocolate is fabulous though.😮

"Can we just eat it?" 😂

I love frys chocolate cream and they do a rasberry one which is nice too. Very addictive once you start eating them but very sticky

Firstly, I can’t stand Fry’s bars at all. I’m not keen on fondant either. After Eights are great!They are fondant but really well done…From the fridge they have a great snap! Diam bars are tasty but as you said, they stick in one’s teeth! I’m not too keen on peanut chocolate bars. Galaxy minstrels are fabulous! Great video guys Suzie 😊 Ps. My aunt worked at Thornton’s. When she started they told her she could eat as much chocolate as she wanted!.. she soon got sick of chocolate lol😅

Nice to see Sophia pop up at the end of the video... always a treat seeing her! Also, I loved the spontaneous way she said "Goodbye" - in sync with mum and dad too! Splendid.

Tempered chocolate is harder because it’s meant to crack when it breaks, and it will be harder when cold.

I agree with Sophia the raspberry raffles are my favourite too 🙂 2nd is the Thorntons coffee creams, 3rd is the After eights, then the minstrels & the frys bars, last for me would be anything peanut butter, so opposite to your rankings lol

Fry's also brought us the Crunchie, my #2 favorite. As these companies get bought out we forget the real names, for example Rowntrees was the inventor and maker of the Kit Kat Bar.

In the 70's and 80's lot of the old companies like Fry's, Mackintosh and Rowntree got bought out by the likes of Cadbury, Nestlé (formally Nestles in UK) and oddly Kraft. Cadbury and Nestlé kept most of the products going, Kraft didn't. Some have since changed owners again.

My favourite sweet these days is the British version of the Reece's peanut butter cup, so I'm super curious of that pip and nut brand. I'm so gonna order some to compare them 🙂

found your channel today 🤗💃 loving it 💖going through your uploads now 😀 I'm in the uk

One thing that's really cool about the early big three chocolate makers in the UK (Fry's, Cadbury's, and Rowntree's) is that they were all started by Quakers. Meaning in the early days, they were all deeply ethical, and provided good wages, and decent housing for their staff. Obvs with Fry and Cadbury now belonging to Kraft and Rowntree to Nestle, the ethics are no longer there (and the product quality took a hit too, they aren't as good as they were), but at the time they were revolutionary.

I think Daim (pronounced Dime) is Swedish, but really popular in the UK. It’s one of my favourites 😁 It’s butterscotch

The aftereights are for after Christmas dinner to cleanse your mouth...it's always be seen as a posh chocolate!

Lindsey looks so embarrassed when she doesn’t like something, as if she is worried she will offend. I totally agree about the Fry's. I have never understood why people like it.

Fry's also do an orange cream bar and they used to do a 5 fruits cream bar with each individual segment having a different colour / flavour cream centre

Love Pip n’ Nut products. They are extremely successful. Their nut butters are to die for.

As i am allergic to wheat and dairy, what chocolates i can eat are very limited, my faves are Elizebeth Shaw dark mints chocolate, the nomo chocolate brand, milky way magic stars, Tescos own brand of dairy free, wheat free chocolate and any dark chocolate brand

Fry’s Peppermint Cream is possibly the finest chocolate bar on the face of the Earth❤❤❤

The galaxy minstrel were taken by me to cinema as the hard shell didn’t melt in your hand…

frys and Mondelez are all part of Cadbury. You need to go to Bourneville to see Cadbury world. :)

A bit of an overview: The DAIM bar is Swedish and is sold in IKEA as well as most supermarkets. It's a cheap and cheerful bar of toffee chocolate. The fry's bar's have gone downhill in quality since I was a kid, they come three to a pack for the same price as you used to get four. Now you get original, mint, and orange. You used to get a five bar which I loved. (Every section was a different flavour.) Thornton's is a specialty sweet shop, most of it's sweets were designed to be sold in gift assortments. Think expensive Quality Street or Milk Tray. They had a lot of financial issues in the last ten years. They were a high street shop, that's pretty much gone online to keep going. The after eight sticks are a rip off of the Mint Matchmakers. Matchmakers are sticks that come in various flavours, like Mint, Orange, Carmel, and others. They are mostly bought for after dinner parties and Christmas/New Years. The after eight thin mints - these were sold in the eighties/nineties as "after dinner" mints. You got a couple of these on a saucer next to your after the meal coffee/tea beverage. The idea was that it settled the rich food you had been eating. Mint is a new flavour for the Terry's Chocolate Orange. There are a ton of flavours to chocolate orange. They come as the Breakable orange, a bar with 5 segments melted inline or as wrapped individual segments. I've had a bag of mixed segments and I've had a advent calendar were each day with a different flavoured segment. There's was milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate, then milk/white/dark with rice crispies, milk/white/dark with bits of toffee, and milk/white/dark with popping candy. (all made with orange oil) (Popping candy is sometimes known as pop rocks or exploding candy. If is more usually sold in a foli packet and you tip it on your tongue and listen to it crackle and pop in your mouth. Cadbury uses it in their Willy Wonka Dairy Milk range as well.) Edited to add - I forgot the Minstrels -- we were always told in ad's that the minstrels was the first chocolate to melt in your mouth, not in your hand. Due to the coating. When they got rebranded Galaxy Minstrels, they brought out Galaxy counters which are the same thing, minus the shell. I was brought up thinking Minstrels were the precursor to Smarties and M&Ms.

Can you imagine what a taste sensation the Fry's chocolate was for people in the 1860's.

Love how Steve is prepared to suffer for his art with the "ill just give it anotherv try"😊

Out of the Fry's chocolate, for me orange creme is the best, you can also get raspberry creme too. I also love raspberry Ruffles they are delicious and has been a fave of mine from a child and still is today as an adult in my 40s, same with the Fry's orange creme flavour too. In my family after eights tend to be bought at Christmas time to share with my family while watching a movie.

The Thorntons chocolate is a Belgium chocolate from a company called calibo i worked there for 26yrs and now they are owend by Ferrero roche 👍

Thornton chocolates are made in Derbyshire UK, and you must try the Easter eggs by Thornton.

Look up the village that was made just for the family’s who made chocolate

Matchstick orange and and mint are good too

I recall a journalists article suggesting "You wont get any bold policy from that (British) politician as his idea of living dangerously is eating all After Eight mints at 7.45"

It's too sweet:folks,it's chocolate...naturally sweet especially if milk chocolate or soft centred🎩

frys chocolate cream was one of my dad`s favourites, mint chocolate should always be with dark chocolate, not a fan myself with milk chocolate

Fry's is very strong flavoured and I think you gave to have grown up with it to enjoy it. I love it, but I would have it with a cup of tea to counter the excessive sweetness.

You have to play the After Eight game, you put the After Eight on your forehead, then try and get it into your mouth by just moving your face, no hands allowed!!!

Raspberry Ruffles are my absolute favourite but also love Daim bars and galaxy chocolate PS you are meant to suck Galaxy Minstrels so the coating softens

It amazes and bewilders me how you eat a quarter of a chocolate, make crumbs and leave the rest, so weird, just eat it in one 😂

RAF fighter pilots used to be given a bar of Fry's chocolate cream before they went out on a sortie during WWII. Also, After Eight was known for having some of the most sexist advertising campaigns in modern times (post 1960's) - 'A woman's place is in the home, eating After Eights and looking beautiful', however, paradoxically they were the first (or one of the very first) UK companies to employ married women on a full time basis, whereas usually they were only allowed part time split-shift hours around 'family time'. Their jobs were to make the little paper wrappers.

I don't mind the Terry's mint, but the orange is much better imo, lol ❤

I presume its condensation for the fridge that is making the Fry's wet. As they are not normally like that. Of course, goodness knows how these were stored and handled travelling across the pond.

To make it easier to identify the product place each one on top of their wrapping.

Outstanding to pronounce Frome correctly guys, well done! I spent my teens living a few miles from Frome (or Froom) so this one’s close to my heart. Good job guys! Oh and if you like chocolate mint, you _really_ need to try Bendicks mint chocolates… 😋

Ooooh! Thorntons my absolute favourite coffee creams, literally the best ever, yum! 😋

The after eight mints were sometimes eaten after a dinner or main meal . Possibly the mint would aid digestion

Love your channel....I prefer to use raspberry ruffles in cheesecake-my favourite.

All of those British brands are now part of the multinational Hershey's corporation?

My faves are Fry's Turkish delight and chocolate mint cream.

Ruffle bars are the business!! Love them

Steve, you used to be indecisive, but now, you just don't know. I feel your pain sampling that chocolate 😂. See if you can get Monty Bojangles chocolate truffles. Heaven on 🌍.

The Fry's chocolate cream is delicious. Try putting it in the refrigerator to get chilled then try it. If it gets warm it tends to get sticky, but in the fridge it stays firm. After eights are an after dinner mint, eat one after a meal, it just gives you a little piece of sweetness and freshens the breath. Your little one has good taste as the ruffles bars are lovely. The Galaxy minstrel sweets are pretty good but I prefer the Galaxy counters sweets all galaxy chocolate without the hard shell, really lovely.

The Frys chocolate cream was sold by my great grandfather in the early 1900s. He travelled through Scotland with a case full of them going from shop to shop.

Theres a Monty python film the meaning of life characters called mr creosote. the waiter say in mock French accent ‘waffer free mint’ then He exploded. my husband and I alway do that joke with after eights. I love fry’s cream very particular but my dad in early 80’s Would bring them Home and my mum and I would eat them with a babycham. Girls night in watching golden girls 😂

Some chocolate bars just shouldn’t be put in the fridge… its spoils the texture of the whole thing . Probably why some of them were wet …

After Eights are one of the very very few dark chocolate products I'll eat. I also love raspberry but it is so so hard to find it in milk chocolate so I rarely have it. I also hate coffee flavoured things. If I want coffee it has to be actual hot coffee lol

I love mint stuff, and even I haven't tried the mint chocolate orange

When you mentioned a couple of them being moist on the outside I’m guessing you put them in the fridge so it will be condensation. Over the years I have realised a lot of chocolate bars are really impaired by going in the fridge.

You’ll often find the dime chocolate in IKEA over here if you like them (I’m a Brit living in PA).

My favourite chocolate mint fondants by miles are Bendicks Bitter Mints. The mint is very strong and the chocolate is (as the name suggests) bitter, but the combination beats all the other chocolate mint products hands down in my opinion. And the texture is fabulous. Bendicks do a range of mint chocolates though, including much creamier ones.

15:32 Hey guys, has anyone sent over Galaxy Caramel or KitKat Chunky Peanut Butter yet? You would love those.

Fondant icing or "frosting" as you guy's would call it is what's on wedding cakes

Love True original and pepermint, no one else in the family like them. We all go for After Eight, a box won't last long in our house.

turkish delight is great, you need to try it.

My UK taste buds cannot stand peanut butter in any form. I really love decent quality dark chocolate, particularly Terry's (which used to be made in York). Their 'Black Magic' selection box is still excellent but it is made in Poland? now. Thorntons tried to be a UK nationwide slightly upmarket high street brand but the shops have closed due to higher than average prices but unable to compete with the ultra high end such as 'Godiva' etc. Nowadays, Aldi's various low priced flat bars are super quality for the money instead of Cadbury or Galaxy.

After eights are very morish and most people could easily eat the whole box..xx

The way lindsey hurries Steve like ok next...? 😐🤣🤣😆

Im addicted to your videos. Binge watching you binge chocolate 😂

My mum's favourite chocolate was coffee creams and the Frys white fondant centre chocolate bar. I'm a chocoholic so I'd love them all 🐷😂

Love drys cream bar but hate the fact kaft have taken over cabury as our chocolate is same

Hi guys , After Eight thins are for dinner parties, pop on your dining table after everyone's eaten for your guests, Pretty old fashioned now but popular to do this back in the day 😊.

Americans really be out here biting into everything with their front teeth 😆

if you don't like After Eights I don't know how you'd cope with Christmas here - After Eights are a Christmas thing - Heaven knows how many boxes are sold for Christmas here. I don't like coffee - but Thorntons Sicilian Lemon are fab - if you like lemon.... Thorntons make incredible toffee too.

That clown horn noise was brilliant! Please make it at the start of every video 😂

Thorntons Champagne truffles are the best 😊

Someone needs to send them walnut whips and revels they are so good. My favourite Ameican chocolate bars are Reese’s nutrageous bar and butterfingers

Thorntons used to be lovely,but like many chocolate brands the quality has decreased in order to keep the price point affordable, try Holdsworths, Kennedys of Cumbria and Bettys of York for really delicious choccies...