Well I do like all the posh Lindt, Cote D'Or and Maison De Chocolat stuff we get here, but I'm still a sucker for Galaxy. Or Ripple, or Minstrels. And for some reason it's hard to get hold of in Limousin.
When I first left home at 18 I lived in a shared house in Britwell, Slough. It was about 500 yards from the Mars factory and about a mile from the Cippenham Sewerage Works. On days when the wind was in exactly the right (i.e. wrong) direction, a kind of shitty chocolate melange would swirl its way to our garden. Nice.
Didn't put me off Galaxy though. I love it.
Back then, nearly everyone in Slough knew, or was related to, a Mars shift-worker. The factory used to give the staff free boxes of very slightly faulty or damaged chocolate bars - as a perk of the job but probably to discourage pilfering off the production line. And funnily enough there are now about 8 separate dentist clinics in Slough.
