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  <id>11954</id>
  <title>More Fake Diet Chocolate</title>
  <published_at>Fri Nov 06 14:54:00 -0800 2009</published_at>
  <link>http://www.chow.com/stories/11954</link>
  <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:54:00 GMT</pubDate>
  <short_description>An aerated candy bar</short_description>
  <long_description>This week's mission: an aerated candy bar.</long_description>
  <img>http://www.chow.com/assets/2009/11/supertaster_bubblechocolate_inline.jpg</img>
  <author>James Norton</author>
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    <name>Supertaster</name>
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      <page_number>1</page_number>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Candy bars very similar to the new Bubble Chocolate were launched here twice before, and failed in both instances. The first time was in the ’70s, with a bar called <a target="blank" href="http://www.retroland.com/pages/retropedia/food/item/5376/">Choco-Lite</a>, and the second was in the 1980s, when it was called <a target="blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aero_%28chocolate%29">Aero</a>. (The Aero bar is big in the UK and Australia, though.) So what is this bar anyway, and why don&#8217;t Americans like it?</p>


	<p>Bubble Chocolate is aerated, which means it&#8217;s in light, flaky layers (sort of like a chocolate croissant) that collapse into powdery dust on your tongue. I would guess that the bar failed in the past because, stateside, there&#8217;s a perception that weight equals value. Americans like big, meaty portions, and this thing is featherweight.</p>


	<p>Nevertheless, it&#8217;s not a bad candy car. As the chocolate melts, it seems to coat your mouth, and the pronounced chocolate flavor asserts itself, so the product seems more substantial than it is.</p>


	<p>This time around, Bubble Chocolate is trying to do what <a href="http://www.chow.com/stories/11026">Mars did for 3 Musketeers</a>: turn its Achilles heel (the candy bar tastes light and insubstantial) into a selling point for dieters (this light chocolate bar has fewer calories per bite!). Arguably a diet food, a large bar is 2.82 ounces and about 400 calories. But at least unlike the previously reviewed <a href="/stories/11728">huffable chocolate</a>, it&#8217;s meant to be eaten.</p>]]>
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