Every childhood is always surrounded with lots and lots of chocolate. When growing up in Sri Lanka, after tasting and spitting out many oily chocolates, we come across a few, fine, great quality chocolate delights. Not being able to afford all the high-end brands, which would leave a hole in your pocket is certainly something we all had to feel sorry for ourselves for! Thank god for the affordable local goods that we could settle for that were quite awesome! Here are our top picks of the local chocolate types!! Feel free to contact us if we left out your favourite!
Chit Chat
You should know that this isn’t the local version of kitkat but a lighter version. It’s a locally produced wafer sandwiched with chocolate cream and dipped in milk chocolate. It’s sold at almost every school canteen and the small boutique shops on the sides of the road. Chit chat being priced at Rs. 5 and Rs. 10 was affordable to every school kid.
The 5 rupee chocolate
These chocolates had the most interesting wrapper designs of all time. Starting off with animal cartoons and now having Tin Tin cartoons, these chocolates have managed to catch the eye of many kids. This little delight was produced by Kandos and was so thin in terms of Thickness that it easily melted in your mouth.
Chocolate fingers
This treats are finger-like milk biscuits, dipped in chocolate and come in packs of 6, 20 and 40. Each pack has a yellow wrapping and features a piece of Ceylon history which was quite useful in our childhood studies. This famous type of chocolate it produced by Ritzbury and melts in your fingers in the hot school afternoons.
The famous Nutcracker
A thick rectangular bar of milk chocolate filled with peanuts. This bar was a tad bit expensive for our childhood pocket money allowance but we did treat ourselves once in a while when visiting the super-market with our parents. The nutcracker range also had many flavours such as mint, cashew and milk and white chocolate.
Pop it
This treat looks exactly like round beads. They are tiny crispy balls covered with a coat of milk chocolate. They come in red packets which costs 10 rupees and pencil type boxes which cost 30 rupees. This treat was introduced around 2007 and still remains in the market and the hearts of children.
Pebbles
The local version of the popular smarties. These are tiny disc- shaped milk chocolates coated with sugar shells and sprayed in vivid colors. Similar to pop-it, they come in 10 rupee packets and pencil shaped plastic boxes. These colorful pebbles were always used at toppings and decorations for ice creams and baked goods.
These are a few favorite chocolates we grew up with. Please do let us know if we missed any favorite chocolate of yours.
