What is your favorite Skybar segment?
By Suldog - 5/20/09 - 3:33 pm
Vanilla
8% (19 votes)
Peanut Butter
7% (17 votes)
Caramel
27% (65 votes)
Fudge
7% (18 votes)
They all suck
12% (29 votes)
What in hell is a Skybar?
39% (96 votes)
Total votes: 244
Comments
My mom can't find these in
My mom can't find these in CT, so I try and bring a few home for her once in awhile. It's a great candy bar- something for everyone!
You missed an option
They're all great, especially when you break up the bar and put all the pieces in your mouth at once.
Or so I've been told ...
I always thought the vanilla
I always thought the vanilla portion was more marshmellow then vanilla
agreed
more like fluff - mix with the peanut butter segment for full fluffernutter effect!
Ha! A staple of bowling
Ha! A staple of bowling alley vending machines since the world began! Every bite is a new taste sensation!
I vote to confess my ignorance
What are they, where are they sold, and do they taste good?
A standard chocolate bar
A standard chocolate bar (the choclate isnt actually that sweet, a little less so then a Herseys.) It has four compartments 1)Fudge 2)Peanut Butter 3)Vanilla/mello 4) Caramel. They are really great because its like getting to eat four candy bars in one. You get the four distinct flavors.
Its a Necco company candy, so its a local hero. An easy way to split a room is to say something about the Sky bar. Everyone will say what their favorite section is, and if they stand there looking at you funny you know they moved here in college or after and have not been around long enough to run into it.
Extra points if you know about about Moxy to either love it or hate it...
no extra points either
Shady, thanks for your dissecting description. I will be on the lookout for it!
Alas, Moxy is unknown to me as well.
I guess it's time for me to get beyond KitKats and Almond Joys...
-David
No, not Moxie!
Unless you grew up with the stuff, don't even think of it. Trust me on this one.
Do it! Do it! Do it! You
Do it! Do it! Do it!
You just have to chug it, thats the best way to do it. Dont take an initial taste, just down the whole can (it has to be the can, not the bottle.)
do you guys mean....
...this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moxie
Oh yes, there it is. Adam
Oh yes, there it is.
Adam ruined my hazing lol. Its really ugly stuff, I would drink a sip just to be able to talk about how aweful it is, and nothing more. The wiki says it tastes good with whiskey, maybe Ill try that and see what happens lol.
I have swigged Moxie
And once was more than enough.
I can't say I really like
I can't say I really like Moxie, but it's no where near as nasty as people claim. It's not Coke, and it's not supposed to be. How many people loved the first sip of beer they ever had?
Mmmmm Moxie
I just wish I could find some that has sugar in it instead of corn syrup.
My younger son and I love it. When he was two years old, he pointed to some in the fridge and chanted "moxie moxie moxie" to his astonished grandmother.
I'm not a native, but I dig it. I even named my soda-bottle material kayak after it (due to the colors).
Yes! A True Believer!
Moxie hasn't been the same since they replaced the sugar with corn syrup. Of course, either choice would be nasty to those who don't like the stuff.
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
Hoorah for Moxie!
Yes, it's an acquired taste, but who doesn't have at least one of those, eh? Love the stuff. A couple of years ago, we took a trip to Maine and visited the Moxie Museum in Lisbon Falls. The proprietor talked our ears off, but it was a lot of fun and he had a lot of great memorabilia to look over. He even gave us some Moxie ice cream.
You've Had MOXIE ICE CREAM?!?
I am seriously jealous.
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
Wasn't bad by half
Even the person in our group who hated Moxie liked the ice cream.
Squirrel Nut Zippers
Looks like NECCO bought the Squirrel Nut Zippers. Evil candy. Colleague brought a box of it to our group's area, back when there was a factory rather than housing. My research advisor cracked her tooth on one. Then I, not learning from advisor's experience, shattered my own tooth.
IIRC, the tooth was previously scheduled for a crown after graduation (no dental insurance for grad students), so one way to look at it is that Squirrel Nut Zippers saved me the cost of a crown. Much like a pack of attack squirrels who gnaw off your legs save you the cost of shoes.
Damn you, Squirrel Nut Zippers.
I was raised on Vernors and
I was raised on Vernors and birch beer. Moxie is an acquired taste, yes, but found that it goes down *really well* with a scoop or two of good vanilla ice cream.
no luck at the 7-Eleven
I'll have to continue my search for Skybars and Moxie...
You'll want a store with New England roots
Stop & Shop for the Moxie; Tedeschi for the Skybar.
Online sources
Skybar is $32/box. from http://www.neccostore.com/necco-products/6.pl?p=6
NECCO lists about 20 online retailers of their products at: http://necco.com/FAQs/Default.asp
Some have the products cheaper, like $26.20/box for SkyBar.
Moxie soda available online
http://www.google.com/products?hl=en&q=moxie%20soda&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wf
Including with cane sugar, and in single quantities. http://retro-soda.stores.yahoo.net/mocs.html
15 years in Boston...
...and I had not discovered these local faves.
I will be hunting them down. The sugar/high fructose food group needs satiating.
Though Neil, you'll have to excuse me if I'm not ready to buy by the box or case yet. :)
Shaws/Star
Shaws has Moxie too. Check near the Polar sodas.
Thank goodness for Polar seltzer
Just makes life better.
What does Moxie taste like???
Anything to compare it to?
I believe it's made with
I believe it's made with gentian root? Very bitter and medicinal tasting.
Not bitter at all to my
Not bitter at all to my taste buds. Think cough syrup. Moxie was, after all, a "tonic." Beer is much more bitter than Moxie - it's supposed to be bitter, after all. There is definitely an aftertaste that you may not like.
Moxie wasn't more popular than Coca-Cola because it tasted terrible. Think about it.
yea turpentine...
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Marinda and Pete...
...will not be in the next Moxie commercials.
I'm most thankful to Polar
I'm most thankful to Polar for Orange Dry.
Yes, by far the best Polar
Yes, by far the best Polar brand drink! For some reason the local store only carried it in 1 liter bottles for a while when I was a kid and everyone in the house loved it, so we stopped buying it because 1 liter between 5 people does not go very far. Every so often it shows up at a holiday party at my aunts house, or a family picnic and it is great for nostalgia to have a glass or two.
Pseudo-margarita
3 parts Polar raspberry lime soda
2 parts Tequila
Good stuff.
What about Collins Mix?
My only problem with it is that Polar only puts it in litre bottles and not two-litre bottles.
The kids get a hold of it and it is gone ... none left for mom and dad to mix up with vodka or rum with a lime twist and mint leaves!
The various flavors of cranberry dry rock too - and I've yet to find anything like it in other parts of the country. Unique stuff! I highly recommend a "Cape Cod Sunrise"(aka Nantucket Screwdriver): orange juice, cranberry dry, and vodka or rum with a lime squeezed in for good measure.
I have been known to mix gatorade powder into a somewhat strong syrup and cut it with tequilla and crushed ice on a hot day. It makes a pretty good substitute for margarita mix and the electrolytes nix the hangover potential.
2-liter Polar at Shaws
Do you mean the Raspberry Lime? I am not certain about that one, but Shaws (at least the one in Allston) has 2-liter Orange Dry and pretty sure a few other flavors too. I'll twitpic their aisle next time I'm there. I only buy for myself, so 1 liter is enough of a treat without filling my house with soda like I used to in the 90s.
I'm gonna have to try your Gatorita. I also need to refresh my grenadine...tequila, orange dry, and grenadine makes a great Tequila Northern Lights (like a Tequila Sunrise but at the "Polar"...).
Pseudo-Mimosa
Orange Dry + The Cheapest White Zinfandel You Can Get Your Hands On
Your not going to find them
Your not going to find them in any store started outside of Mass, aim for local stores. Old family run places are the best bet...
Really?
Then I must have hallucinated that array of necco products in that 7-11 the other day ... the one I went to in Calgary, AB to break up some paper money into loonies and toonies for the C-train fare machines.
I guess skybar gets around by air?
Necco spottings
I seem to remember Necco Wafers in Portland, OR, in the '80s.
And of course Sweethearts.
Don't recall seeing any of the other Necco products on the West Coast.
As a two year old ...
I used to con my aunt (then 15 years old) into walking me to the store for necco wafers. That would be PDX in 1969-70.
Canadians seem to have all the good Cadbury products - not to mention twenty seven different flavours of kitkat! Perhaps that's why the necco stuff was represented, too?
Cadbury is British -
Cadbury is British - Canada's part of the Commonwealth. Used to borderhop all the time to get Cadbury stuff (grew up in Buffalo). Had Necco stuff on our side, but never saw it "north of the border." (Maybe just wasn't looking.)
Remember 222s?
Necco 222
We had Necco wafers in Ontario, sure.
Last time I was asked to pick up some 222s on a trip to Montreal, the Pharmacy asked me to provide ID. I think they're on to the trade. Okay okay, so maybe that was way back in 2000.
You liked Necco wafers as a
You liked Necco wafers as a 2 year old? Ew... Hearts I can understand because, well because they are hearts but the wafers are an interesting thing.
The candy market has shifted since your childhood. At least around here the national chains are low on Necco products and Moxie. Most local super markets have them in some of their outlets in some form, but with very little exception our supermarkets are all home grown and while some may now be part of bigger conglomerates they started off as local places. I would venture to say that Walmart may not be the best stop for these items.
But, NECCO Wafers Come In Assorted Flavors!
If you find the purple clovey ones nauseating, you can instead have a pink or an orange or a green or a brown or a white. Or you can be the tough guy in the crowd and have the black licorice one.
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
I'll take the licorice ones
Don't forget you can also get a roll of NECCO Wafers that's entirely chocolate, but somehow it kinda ruins the experience for me. It's an exercise of will and patience: Oh boy! There are three chocolate ones in a row down the roll, but to get to 'em, you'll have to eat two white ones first.
No, you can't open the roll up and pick out your favorites. You have to eat them in order. This is what tests you. It is kinda lame when you've had the pink mint and your next one is an orange, though, but you learn perseverance.
So in conclusion, ladies and gentlemen, NECCO Wafers build character. I thank you for your time.
Don't forget you can also
Kind of like if Lucky Charms were all charms and no cereal.
Been there, done that,
Been there, done that, crashed from the sugar rush an hour and a half later.
Now I have to go out and buy
Now I have to go out and buy a Sky Bar and a Chunky.
great poll
I love Skybars.
(my favorite part is the caramel)
The candy box in a bar
With a tagline like that, how could it be wrong. Unfortunately, they all taste pretty much the same to me. I like the idea though. Also, I love Moxie.
SkyBar: Mmmmm! Moxie: Bleurghhh!
I liked breaking up a SkyBar and mixing up the pieces so the eating order would be a surprise.
My dad (who was diabetic) favored Diet Moxie (*shudder*) ...that's one way to keep your kids from sneaking your tonic!
But Moxie is a delicious treat compared to (*double shudder*) Spruce Beer!
Moxie mixer
At Deep Ellum in Allston, you can order a cocktail called Black Water, which is Moxie and rye whiskey.
Wow
I'm so fascinated by this, I'm going to buy some whiskey on the way home (of COURSE I have Moxie in the fridge) and try to make my own.
Always loved Sky Bars.
Sky Bars were a special treat growing up because they were a dime and regular candy bars were a nickel. My mother wouldn't always spring for the high-priced bar.
I see Sky Bars around. I could have sworn I've seen them in CVS?
Also, I heard that the Sky Bar machine is in a locked special room in the Necco factory because they don't want to let the secret out on how they're manufactured. Nice story, but I doubt it's true any more if it ever was.