That's right; the Snickers bar is officially the most popular and bestselling candy bar in the world. This bar has had a few different iterations in its life; for example it was known as the Marathon bar in the UK until 1990.
Snickers is not only best-selling candy bar in the U.S., it's also the best-selling worldwide. The Snickers bar, made by Mars Inc., was named after the Mars family's favorite horse.
Cadbury is Australia's favourite chocolate brand, Roy Morgan Research.
Hershey's Milk Chocolate
For many, this bar is the American standard. The first bar was sold in 1900 by Milton S. Hershey.
1. Lindt. Taking the gold in our ranking of 20 chocolate brands is Lindt Chocolate. The brand has been perfecting chocolate for over 170 years.
Cadbury is the nation's best-selling chocolate brand and its oldest Australian factory is located in Tasmania.
Australian chocolate is a high quality product produced with carefully controlled safe practises. This results in chocolate with optimal flavour that is among the best in the world. It takes about 5 million tonnes of cocoa to make the chocolate the world consumes each year.
Friis-Holm Chokolade (Denmark) was the most awarded with 16 prizes, including 7 silvers and 9 bronzes. Other multi-award-winners this year included: Fu Wan Chocolate (Taiwan) with 11 prizes, Kasama Chocolate (Canada) 10 prizes, Fjåk Chocolate (Norway) 10 prizes. One of the highest scores went to Mary Chocolate Co.
Mars calls Snickers the world's most popular chocolate bar, although it is third on our list of U.S. chocolate candy sales. Introduced in 1930, the bar was named after one of the Mars family's favorite horses.
However, the four most popular types of chocolate bar are: dark chocolate, milk chocolate, white chocolate and semisweet.
The Cherry Ripe Bar is Australia's oldest chocolate bar, first devised way back in 1924 Australian company MacRobertson's Steam Confectionery Works.
Cherry Ripe!
Created in 1964, Arnott's Tim Tam is Australia's most loved & most iconic chocolate biscuit. Indulge in irresistible layers of Tim Tam with a mouth-watering combination of smooth chocolate coating, crunchy biscuit and a luscious velvety centre.
The Fry's Chocolate Cream, produced by J. S. Fry & Sons since 1866, consisted of a plain fondant centre enrobed in plain chocolate. It is the first mass-produced chocolate bar and predates the invention of milk chocolate.
Snickers, again unsurprisingly, came out as the most hated chocolate with 37.5% of the vote. Milky Way received 25.4%, Twix 19.3% and Mars Bar 17.8%.
Switzerland is the country that is responsible for the most amount of chocolate consumed per capita. Even though there are certainly countries across the globe that consume more total chocolate than Switzerland, Switzerland consumes the most chocolate per person.
CADBURY Schweppes has announced its biggest sales growth in over a decade. The company has overtaken Mars for the first time to become the world's largest confectionery producer with a 9.9 per cent world market share. And the chocolate-to-drinks giant says it has benefited from the growth in new markets.
Aldi Racer - 62p for four
The Racer bars are roughly the same size as a Snickers bar with the Snickers bar being only slightly wider.
Snickers History
The Mars' began experimenting with recipes for chocolate-based candy bars and took three years to invent Snickers, releasing it in 1930.
Xicolatl Bar: The Rarest Chocolate
Crafted from the rarest chocolate in the world, discovered in wild in the Belize rain forest of Central America. With this cacao, the Olmec people invented xicolatl - drinking chocolate nearly 4,000 years ago. Be it jade, it shatters.
Switzerland has, hands down, some of the world's best chocolate. Swiss chocolate is usually high-quality milk chocolate, with a silky smooth texture. Many people credit the delicious taste of Swiss chocolate to the high-quality milk they use from local Alpine cows.
In Australia, there's understandably a huge demand for chocolate to melt at a higher temperature than it would over here in the UK. To solve this, Cadbury adds Shea Butter and Palm Oil, giving Australian chocolate a higher melting point, but also a slightly waxy aftertaste.
Milo (/ˈmaɪloʊ/ MY-loh; stylised as MILO) is a chocolate-flavoured malted powder product produced by Nestlé, typically mixed with milk, hot water, or both, to produce a beverage. It was originally developed in Australia by Thomas Mayne (1901–1995) in 1934.