Chocolate: most people love it, some people are addicted to it - but what is the best bar to satisfy your hunger?

The well-known icon of 20th-Century life, with a good mixture of high quality chocolate, caramel and nougat - but I'd like to see a 50/50 balance between the last two mediums.

Spin-offs:

The Mars Ice Cream: Even better than the actual bar - brilliant creamy texture. Gorgeous!
Mars Drink: Not a favourite - tastes like a cheap milkshake.
Mini Mars Bars: Nice, and you can get at least two in your mouth at once, but they taste a bit different.

The most yummy chocolate bar - no that's stereotyping - the most yummy, er, yummy ever in the entire world ever since history began! I like it.

Spin-offs:

Galaxy Caramel: Absolutely wonderful - miles better than Cadbury's Caramel, and it's got a nice wrapper, too.
Galaxy Hazlenut: I don't like nuts. But the chocolate's still nice. Very nice, in fact.
Galaxy Truffle Eggs: A bit disappointing, but the chocolate is still creamy silk smooth.
Magnum: Nice big gun that. But the choc-ice has a luxuriously thick chocolate layer, with very nice ice-cream. I don't care if it's cold out - go buy one now!

Brown sawdust in a wrapper. For people who like really disgustingly bad chocolate only. Why even bother when there's Galaxy?

Spin-offs:

Dairy Milk Buttons: All the left over sawdust scraped off the floor and pressed in a mold. But they do have the advantage of coming with a free nursery ryhme on the back.
Taz Bars: All the bits that get squeezed out of the press when they make the Buttons.
Fruit and Nut: Floor scrapings with extra grit in it.

Light, crispy and chewy. I absolutely adore them - especially the Fun-size ones, which are just about mouth-sized.
Freedom for Crispy Bits!

In a word: Naff. Sludgy goo in a naff-choc shell. No self-respecting member of the human race should buy these whilst in a sober state, and even if such an unfortunate event occur then they should deny all knowledge in order to save some semblance of dignity for their friends and family. Avoid.

Spin-offs:

Milky Way Stars: In another word (actually the same word): naff. Read the above again, but inject a sense of even less street-cred into it.

Nice caramel, shame about the chocolate. Can't compete with Galaxy Caramel. Oh, and that rabbit in the advert is tosh.

Spin-offs:

Caramel Eggs: They're all right - better than creme eggs.

Light, crispy, very nice for a quick snack. The chocolate could do with being a bit thicker, as it tends to melt with the slightest touch of a finger.
My dog certainly likes them (she gets a four-finger bar every Friday!), and you have the option of eating them in a disgusting manner - i.e. picking the chocolate off with your teeth.

Galaxy: 16 million cocoa beans

Toffee Crisp: 1 million cocoa beans

Mars Bar: 2,000 cocoa beans

Kit-Kat: 1,500 cocoa beans

Caramel: 100 cocoa beans

Dairy Milk: -1,000 cocoa beans

Milky Way: -20 million cocoa beans

Well, that's my view on the subject. But why not find out for yourself?
All these chocolates are available from your local newsagents/confectioners.

For those of you in other countries where there are different brands, why not write in to PsychaDaily with your own favourite items? They may get published in next issue's in review (if there is one).

The two nicest Science Fiction things on TV at the moment are "The X-files" and "Star Trek: Voyager".

"The X-files" is just sooo cool, especially the alien-based episodes. It has such a wonderful concept that it is really suprising that is wasn't thought of before.
(actually, it almost was - there was a series called "Kolchak" which was about a sort of private eye who investigated wierd stuff)
I really like "The X-files", and find it impossible to believe that some people could watch ITV's "Cracker" instead (or the Princess Di interview, for that matter.)

So watch it, and watch out for the Mulder's friends the weird Conspiracy Theorists.

"Voyager" is a very good idea, and I feel that it is more in the line of Original Trek, in the exploration/find our way home sense.
At the moment the characters are a bit undeveloped, which is natural for a new series, and I feel that the inclusion of a Vulcan is a very good idea (and I don't care if he's just like Spock!)

I've only just seen one of the latest episodes: Projections (I live in England - we get things a little slowly here), which is all about the old "what is life?" question but looked at through a Holodeck. Is the Doctor a real person trapped in a holo-sim of the Voyager, and the entire series is just a delusion, or is he what he thinks he is - a holographic Doctor on a far-from-home Starship? An important question, and one which is not immeadiately resolved.

Altogether, it's a great series with a lovely ship and plenty of room for improvement.

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