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Jackie: For this week's podcastsinenglish.com we're looking back on our favourite chocolate bars we ate as children. Richard, I know that you like chocolate and I'm sure you ate a lot of chocolate bars [Richard laughs] when you were a child. What was your favourite?
Richard: Ooh. I did eat lots of chocolate. I think my favourites… I had two. I liked Mars bars…
Jackie: Right
Richard: …and I also liked Twix, Twix bars.
Jackie: Now there's a difference between the two, isn't there?
Richard: Of course, yes. Um… Mars bar, it's actually a very large bar I think compared to a lot of the sweets.
Jackie: That's the reason I didn't like it, it was too big for me [Richard laughs]
and I remember when I ate a Mars bar as a child I felt sick afterwards.
Richard: Mmm, very rich. They've both got caramel in them, which I really like, but the Mars bar is caramel and nougat and the Twix is caramel and biscuit and they're both covered in chocolate.
Jackie: Yes. And as we said, the Mars bar is a big bar um… and the Twix…
Richard: Two, two er… long bars.
Jackie: Separate
Richard: Separate bars and I have to say I liked the Twix because I used to eat the caramel off the biscuit first, so I used to eat the caramel first and then I used to eat the biscuit afterwards.
Jackie: You didn't!
Richard: Yes, [Jackie laughs] very nice.
Jackie: So it took a long time to eat it.
Richard: Mmm. But the Mars, I just used to eat it all in one go.
Jackie: Urgh
Richard: What about you then, Jackie?
Jackie: Oh well, I love, love, love coconut so my favourite er… chocolate bar as a child was Bounty.
Richard: I didn't really like the Bounty. That was also um… two bars as well, wasn't it?
Jackie: Yes but two small bars so you see I could eat one bar in the morning and one bar in the afternoon. So I could make it last a long time.
Richard: [laughs] Right. So the Bounty, any others you liked?
Jackie: Well, there's another chocolate bar which I really liked which is now called Snickers but when I was, well, when we were children, it was called Marathon and like Mars bar it has nougat and caramel in it but it also has peanuts.
Richard: Yes. Very similar to the Mars bar.
Jackie: But it's a smaller bar.
Richard: Slightly smaller, yes.
Jackie: But of course, Richard, we’re adults now and we still eat chocolate, don't we?
Richard: Yes
Jackie: But I think the one that we like to eat the most now is KitKat, isn't it?
Richard: Yes. It's a biscuit. A wafer biscuit covered in chocolate like all the others.
Jackie: It's very plain really.
Richard: Four bars but they're all joined together, aren't they?
Jackie: Four… four long bars joined together but that's nice because we can then have two each.
Richard: And we can share it, yes.
Jackie: So what about you the listeners? What's your favourite chocolate bar now or when you were a child? Why don't you write in and tell us? We'd love to hear from you.
Richard: So that's the podcast. So now time for a break.
Together: Have a break, have a KitKat!
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