Do you share this chocolate sentiment?
Shall we take a deliciously nostalgic stroll past all the simple chocolate treats that used to make us happy? And that, now that we’re grown-ups drowning in fancy bars from highly responsible or downright luxurious producers (You know who you are, Tony, Herr Lindt), we can still secretly enjoy immensely? Off to the supermarket, because that homesickness can simply be bought:
These are the favorites in our chocolate nostalgia (to be fair, most of them aren’t even allowed to call themselves chocolate because they contain less than 35% cocoa, but cocoa fantasy sounds just as cozy, doesn’t it?):
Koetjesrepen
That stoic cow on a Delft blue wrapper, the pounding beats of De Jeugd’s Shenkie in the background; national heritage, as far as we’re concerned.
Pennywafels
Crispy, airy, slightly silly; that’s what that glass of milk was for, of course!
Kinder chocolate
The whole range made an appearance and the editorial team cheered with enthusiasm. From Bueno to Surprise – we’re no longer interested in that plastic toy junk, but we still want that egg more than ever.
Chonelly’s
A touch more upscale than the Pennywafel. More like what your mother kept in the house for Friday afternoon tea after school, while you simply bought those Pennywafels yourself during the break and devoured them on a bench with your friends.
Rolo
Chewy, sticky, an elephant at the zoo: hilarious happiness all around. Think carefully about what you do with your last Rolo!
Lu Scholiertjes
The luxury pick in this category: butter biscuit, thick slab of chocolate – good luck to anyone who can stop at one. Did you also try scraping the chocolate off first with your teeth?
Choclait Chips
Those curly things in a layer of chocolate that you absolutely had to have at the cinema. They went over budget just as often as a bottle of Puligny-Montrachet in an average restaurant. Washed down in the dark, back then with orange soda and now with one of those plastic bottles of rosé.
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