Frys Bars

[loulou]

I like them all too.

[smurfboy]

My mother says Fry's Chocolate Cream tastes like perfume. She says that about Turkish Delight too. Is there a secret conspiracy at the Fry's plant where Chanel No. 5 is added to every bar? Or should I be more worried abot how much perfume my mother drinks?

[paulham]

I know what she means. There is a whiff of something in there. Not lavender though.

[oldspice]

Perhaps it's vanilla - which is commonly used in perfumes?

[drterror666]

Fry's Chocolate Cream rocks!  They're one of the only choccies that taste like they did back on the day (nearly).

[Ginni]

I wonder if anyone can help me: I play at making chocolates from home, and one of my new molds is the Frys bar shape. I've made my first crack at doing a peppermint cream (eh - not bad, but not right consistency!), but when I showed the guys at work, they all INSIST that I make a 5 centers.

The question: What were they? Can anyone remember? Our current theory is Strawberry, Orange, Peppermint, Original plain and Lime? (in random fashion, of course!)

Anyone got any clues? I'm happy to make up my own Ginni's 5 Centers, (though actually, the mold has 6 chunks, so it should be Ginni's 6 Center, really. I was just going to randomly repeat a flavour.), but it would be good if I knew what clearly worked for decades before profit took over the world in place of reputational excellence.

edited to add: According to the website (Cadbury's website, that is - which bizarrely didn't come up on a google search) it's "raspberry, lime, vanilla, coffee and orange" Really? Can anyone confirm? Particularly since the wrapper image has pictures of a strawberry, orange, raspberry, lime (lemon?) and a pineapple. Not a coffee bean in sight, and I wouldn't really classify coffee as a fruit flavour. Most bizarre.

[drterror666]

Coffee?  I don't ever remember coffee.  Or vanilla for that matter!

[JadeD]

turkish delight is flavoured using rosewater which is why it tastes perfumey!

[drterror666]

Is that right?  Er, cheers for that...

[netbuddy]

As far as I can remember, 5 centers was made up of citrus flavours.

[JadeD]

Yep, sounds horrific doesn't it - if you try real turkish delight with icing sugar coating instead of chocolate they are REALLY perfumey, you can actually taste the rose *Newbie wisdom imparted*

[drterror666]

Turkish delight comes in many flavours, including lemon, mint and just about anything else (a bit like ice cream).  The gloopy stuff itself is the Turkish delight, you can flavour it as you want, although rose or lemon appears to be the norm.

[paulham]

As is pistachio for some reason.

[loulou]

Turkish delight is best when chocolate coated.

[drterror666]

I second that!