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May 16, 2004 2:27 PM

Does anyone remember what the American candy bar similar to the Aero was called?

It was narrower and thicker with a flur-de-le or shell shape on each segment.

posted by milovoo to Food & Drink (33 answers total)

What is the Aero?
posted by croutonsupafreak at 2:54 PM on May 16, 2004

this is, but i can't think of what we have that matches--3 musketeers maybe? I know for sure Cadbury (UK) has something just like it tho.
posted by amberglow at 2:58 PM on May 16, 2004

No, 3 Musketeers is totally different. 3 Musketeers has chocolate nougat; Aero is solid chocolate that's aerated in the middle. I've never seen an American candy bar similar to the Aero.
posted by jjg at 3:02 PM on May 16, 2004

Response by poster: No, it was something that was discontinued. I remember it had a yellow crinkly wax paper inner wrapper and the standard outer wrapper.
posted by milovoo at 3:02 PM on May 16, 2004

There was a kind of honeycombed (but irregular, like bubbles) chocolate bar made by Necco in the late 70's/early 80's. Like most of Necco's chocolate products, it was kind of waxy and gross.

The name escapes me. The wrapper was similar to the Sky Bar, but paler yellow and showing a cross section of the bar.
posted by Mayor Curley at 3:08 PM on May 16, 2004

Best answer: Sounds like the bar in question is the Nestle Chocolite.
posted by jjg at 3:22 PM on May 16, 2004

Mirage?
posted by Jairus at 3:24 PM on May 16, 2004

I second the vote for Mirage.
posted by dobbs at 3:31 PM on May 16, 2004

Response by poster: I think it may indeed have been the Chocolite. Thanks, jjg.

I couldn't find a picture of the wrapper but the descriptions sound about right. Apparently, plenty other people miss it too.
posted by milovoo at 3:36 PM on May 16, 2004

There are plenty of Aero bars in Canada.
posted by five fresh fish at 3:44 PM on May 16, 2004

It's not that hard to find aero bars in the us, not like at gas stations, but most grocery stores seem to have them.
posted by rhyax at 3:51 PM on May 16, 2004

Response by poster: I know, in fact I just got an Aero bar here, in NYC, it's just that the other ones were better.
They had a bit of (almost) crunch to them, and better mouth feel overall.
posted by milovoo at 3:51 PM on May 16, 2004

My vote is for Cadbury's Wispa bar. It was previously available in the US. There's a wrapper pic at the bottom of this page.
posted by FreezBoy at 4:10 PM on May 16, 2004

It was the Chocolite. And they were GOOOOD.

Aero bars are relatively rare here in the Northwest. They turn up occasionally. I usually buy a bunch of them when I am in Canada.
posted by litlnemo at 4:20 PM on May 16, 2004

jjg is right,
it was the Chocolite.
posted by jessamyn at 4:43 PM on May 16, 2004

I live in Northern New Jersey (and attend school in Providence, RI) and have never (ever) seen or heard of an Aero bar until this very thread.

So it's chocolate -- with holes in it?
posted by rafter at 5:16 PM on May 16, 2004

Response by poster: Bubbles... like hardened foam chocolate.

I still would like to see a picture, if anyone happens to run across one.
posted by milovoo at 5:18 PM on May 16, 2004

Response by poster: ...pictures of a Chocolite, not an Aero, I know what that looks like.
posted by milovoo at 5:20 PM on May 16, 2004

Anybody remember the Marathon bar, back in the 70s...? Mmmm...gooey....
posted by davidmsc at 6:09 PM on May 16, 2004

Best answer: You can see photos of a Chocolite wrapper and of many other candy bars, past and present, in Todd Wilbur's Candy Bar Scrapbook. Wilbur's the Top Secret Recipes guy. Chocolite is pretty distinctive (it's visible on the page I linked to) for its fat cursive font and background of hole-y chocolate.
posted by GaelFC at 6:20 PM on May 16, 2004

There was (er, is) a "high end" bubble-bar in Canada. It's better than Aero, but the chocolate of course isn't nearly what real, good chocolate is. Completely forget the name, alas.
posted by five fresh fish at 6:56 PM on May 16, 2004

And here's another page of Chocolite wrappers.
posted by GaelFC at 7:05 PM on May 16, 2004

Response by poster: Awesome!! Now I'm sure that was it.
The wrapper is so much more 70's-style than I remember.

**sigh** now I miss them more.
posted by milovoo at 7:19 PM on May 16, 2004

Aero bars are relatively rare here in the Northwest.

Eh? I've seen them all over the place.
posted by kindall at 7:30 PM on May 16, 2004

Fans of fluffy chocolate should try Poristy, Russian "black porous" chocolate. It's divine. Russian shops in cities with large Russian communities should have it.
posted by TimeFactor at 7:50 PM on May 16, 2004

I just knew Gael would come through on this one.
posted by jjg at 7:51 PM on May 16, 2004

Response by poster: Russian "black porous" chocolate

Yes! ! ! I going to Coney Island anyway, now I have a mission!
posted by milovoo at 10:36 PM on May 16, 2004

kindall, you can find them some places but they aren't all that common. None of the grocery stores around my part of Seattle have them except one, and that's intermittent. Same with the drugstores. In Canada, Aeros are everywhere, at least in the parts of BC I have visited.

Do they still make the Aeros with the orange-flavored inside? Those are my favorites. The mint ones are OK, too.
posted by litlnemo at 12:48 AM on May 17, 2004

Writer Salman Rushdie invented the advertising catchphrase "Think Bubbles" for Aero in the 70s, when the brand was owned by UK firm RowntreeMacintosh [Nestle now owns RM].

ps: davidmsc - The Marathon bar we had till some time in the 80's, when it became 'Snickers' - a name almost universally despised in the UK
posted by dash_slot- at 3:13 AM on May 17, 2004

"I still would like to see a picture, if anyone happens to run across one"

Here's lots of them and they really do like the picture in the logo - imagine chocolate with advanced variant CJD. But nicer.
posted by Pericles at 12:24 PM on May 17, 2004

bugger - you wanted pictures of the chocolite. Oops.
posted by Pericles at 12:25 PM on May 17, 2004

Response by poster: I did just notice something called a Tex bar from nestle on one of those links.

"Two layers of crispy wafer sandwiching a layer of bubbly "Aero" milk chocolate."

hmmm!

I wonder why so many good candy ideas never make it to the US. It seems like we just get very minor variants of the existing stuff, white kit kat, dark milky-way, etc.
posted by milovoo at 1:03 PM on May 17, 2004

And they stop making all the good stuff, like crunchy Reese's cups.
posted by kindall at 1:22 PM on May 17, 2004