The Lone Star Bar

[rekstout]

As someone who spent most of their childhood years closeted away in a boarding school, could somebody explain to me exactly what a Texan Bar is?

[darth vader]

a hard toffee bar covered in chocolate, that removed teeth fillings like no other. Annoyingly, the company (Nestle i think) stopped making them (in the 80's?) so we can only reminisce. check out http://www.spaceruk.com/frameset.html?http://www.s
paceruk.com/features/sweets/texan/

[xyzzyplugh]

Soft, chewy Texan bars; 'It's a Mighty Chew!' What, do boarding schools not have tuck shops? Billy Bunter says different(ly). :-) Totally agree with Darth Vader. [now there's a first.] ;-)

[rekstout]

We had regulation school boiled sweets (two per meal) and a Mars Bar on Sundays (don't get me started on how those have shrunk!). Our "tuck" shop sold toys only, no sweets.

[darth vader]

it happens sometimes xyzzyplugh!

[brawburd]

PLEASE will you all stop going on about texan bars - I want one soooo much!! :)

[brawburd]

ps. it WAS both hard and soft! If you bit it without first sucking then yer teeth were oot! But if you let it yield for just a short time, soft n chewy were its characteristics. You could never have soft n chewy with choc, because by then it had all crumbled off! I think at the time they were made by Rowntrees.

[brawburd]

Rekstout, that wasn't a tuck shop you had, it was Hamleys!

[widowpurple]

They have started selling them again...just had one...I was most disappointed...went for a gratifying moment from my childhood and it was just not the same...and it was half the size...sigh.