Chocolate Memories

Does anyone remember the Sky Bar chocolate bar? The chocolate bar with four distinct sections (peanut butter, caramel, vanilla and fudge) put out by Necco? When I was a little girl on Long Island and my pop worked in midtown Manhattan, he used to bring them home for us kids. Because they came from New York City, and weren’t available at the local Te-Amo, I always thought them special and exotic. I loved getting to the vanilla section, sometimes trading the peanut butter section with a sibling for yet another vanilla. I loved the colors of the wrapper. And I loved that my dad brought them home for us, that he ate them when he was a kid and wanted us to try them.

All this came back vividly when I tried the Ritter Sports dark chocolate with marzipan bar. The scrumptious almond-y marzipan tasted like my favorite vanilla section of the Sky Bar. What a delight! Especially after the semi-disappointment in Go Max Go‘s chocolate bar assortment that didn’t quite hit the nostalgic nail on the head. Ritter Sports, the German chocolate company with an odd name, makes a variety of molded chocolate bars, including a milk chocolate bar packed with… Cornflakes. The dark chocolate with marzipan is one of those joyfully accidentally vegan products. Their “Fine Extra Dark Chocolate” is the only other also vegan variety as the 17 other standard-sized bars contain dairy and/or shellac. I am thankful to have my piece of the Sky Bar again. Maybe I’ll bring one home to my pop?