Wonka Bar
Name: Wonka Bar
Brand: Wonka (Nestle)
Place Purchased: 99 Cent Only Store (the only place I've seen them in person)
Price: $.33
Size: 1.3 oz
Calories per ounce: 138
Type: Chocolate
The first time I ever saw (or even heard of) a Wonka bar was in the movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (I read the book a few years later). In the movie Charlie wolfs down a husky bar that costs nearly nothing. While this bar might look bulky in the photo, it's the size of a standard playing card. I think it's a petite version, as I've seen others advertised for sale that are larger than 1.3 ounces. But I couldn't beat the price of 3 for a dollar at the 99 cent Only Store. Even so, it looks like a Wonka bar should - substantial and slick. I bought two and both came out of the package looking so dang edible.
The bar isn't even all chocolate. There are graham cracker bits in there and it reminds me of a poor man's version of those Le Petite Ecolier cookies that are a graham cracker cookie with a molded chocolate top (embossed with a little schoolboy) The cookies smell like graham crackers (vanilla & cinnamon) and chocolate. The graham adds a nice crunch to the bar without too much additional sweetness. Overall the bar is a little sweet, a little waxy. But cheap and satisfying. There's something really compelling about the 'nilla Wafer-like graham.
Interesting fact from package: bar was made in Brazil.
Rating - 6 out of 10
4 Comments:
I had one of these when they first came out a couple of years ago, it tasted good at first but then the artifical graham/vanilla smell kind of got to me.
I think if they made this one with a better quality chocolate it would be even yummier. Kind of like that Ritter Sport bar with the biscuit inside.
Toys R Us used to have them. Maybe they still do.
God, this is one of my favorites. I don't know why, but it is. I'd walk a mile for a Wonka Bar.
most of the wonka stuff is from brazil, those donutz things are too i think
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