We'll Give You One Sentence, You Tell Us Which British Candy!

By: Zoe Samuel
Estimated Completion Time
4 min
We'll Give You One Sentence, You Tell Us Which British Candy!
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About This Quiz

One thing the British do very well is making chocolatey treats. This is partly because the farm subsidy system means high fructose corn syrup doesn't get used in place of sugar, and partly just because they've been doing it a long time. It is indeed an irony that British chocolate is so good, considering that cocoa itself hails from the Mayan civilization, who pioneered the very first cup of hot chocolate. That's why a thorough knowledge of British confectionery is a solid life skill to possess.

Of course, simply discussing British confectionery is complicated if you're not from the UK because you have to know what to call things. In the U.S., just about every sweet sugared snack, whether chocolatey, gummy, nougat-based or other, is labeled a candy bar. However, in Britain, they call all chocolatey snacks a "chocolate bar." Meanwhile, a British biscuit means a hard cookie, a British cookie means a soft cookie, and "candy" refers specifically to a sweet, bite-sized treat like a humbug, a toffee or possibly a gummy bear (if you really want to stretch the definition.)

Thus, if we're going to test your knowledge of British confectionery, we're going to use the British names. That means if we mean something like a bar of Dairy Milk, watch out for a chocolate bar. If we mean something gummy, it'll probably just be called a gummy. As for a sugary bar like a Twinkie, that isn't a "chocolate" bar, but wouldn't count as a "candy" in the British sense; there really is no agreed word for this.

Are you ready to identify the leading chocolate bars, candies, gummies and more from a single-sentence description? Let's find out!

Party rings
mattbuck via WikiCommons
This biscuit has a hole in the middle and a layer of hard icing. Can you identify it?
Chocolate Finger
Penguin
Jammie Dodger
Party ring
Galaxy Minstrels
Alice via WikiCommons
This snack is like a big fancy M&M, but all of them are the same color. What are they?
Twirl
Chocolate Finger
Galaxy Minstrels
Jammie Dodger
Jammie Dodger
Suzy Hazelwood via WikiCommons
It's two layers of shortbread with a jam filling. What's it called?
Jaffa Cakes
Jammie Dodger
Chocolate Buttons
Pink Wafer

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Creme Egg
Evan-Amos via WikiCommons
A splendid chocolate oval with a white fondant center with a splash of yellow goes by what name?
Crunchie
Creme Egg
Wham!
Chomp
Wine Gums
Evan-Amos via WikiCommons
These are definitely straight-up candies, or "pastilles." They're flavored, they're jellies, and they're slightly squishier than a Gummy Bear. Do you recognize them?
Lion
Wine Gums
Time Out
French Fancies
Lion
Evan-Amos via WikiCommons
This bar is puffed rice and wafer in caramel with a chocolate coating. What animal is it named for?
Galaxy Bar
Bournville
Freddo
Lion

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Time Out
Evan-Amos via WikiCommons
What is this chocolate bar that is like a Flake between two wafers?
Roundie
Crunchy Melts
Time Out
Big Flake
Flake
Evan-Amos via WikiCommons
What is this chocolate bar from Cadbury's formed of thinly-folded milk chocolate?
Flake
Chomp
Freddo
Roses
Picnic
Sonia via WikiCommons
This bar has it all - puffed rice, chewy nougat, biscuit, caramel and a chocolate coating. What is it called?
Wine Gums
Kendal Mint Cake
Picnic
Digestive biscuits

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Chocolate Buttons
Evan-Amos via WikiCommons
What name is given to these excellent chocolate pellets?
Maltesers
Dream
Twix
Chocolate Buttons
Wham
JunkFoodTasterDotCom via YouTube
Do you recognize this nougat bar with fizzy candy in it?
Party Ring
Twix
Wagon Wheel
Wham!
Yorkie
Evan-Amos via WikiCommons
This solid chocolate bar once had a weirdly sexist ad campaign. What is its name?
Wispa
Double Decker
Galaxy Minstrels
Yorkie

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Boost
Edward Hart via WikiCommons
This chocolate bar has a caramel and biscuit filling. What is its name?
Bournville
Roses
Curly Wurly
Boost
Twix
Scott Ehardt via WikiCommons
Two long thin biscuits with a toffee layer and chocolate coating make up what Nestle product in the UK?
Spira
Curly Wurly
Twix
Roses
French Fancies
Ben Sutherland via WikiCommons
These classy little pink confections have a sponge interior with a blob of fondant, all wrapped in icing like a tiny birthday cake. What are they?
Double Decker
Lion
Twirl
French Fancies

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Spira
Joanne Hadland via YouTube
What is this confection that came in the form of two twisted Dairy Milk bars?
Pink Wafer
Penguin
Spira
Yorkie
Aero
Evan-Amos via WikiCommons
It's a bubbly aerated chocolate bar and it comes in mint, orange or plain. What is it called?
Galaxy Bar
Aero
Maltesers
Starbar
Hobnobs
Sargant via WikiCommons
What are these little tiny hard cookies with chocolate chips in them?
French Fancies
Flake
Hob Nobs
Wagon Wheel

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Freddo
Dan arndt via WikiCommons
Who is this little frog with a chocolate outside and caramel center?
Freddo
Chomp
Wine Gums
Wham!
Liquorice Allsorts
David Edgar via WikiCommons
These soft fondant candies have a mysterious black chewy streak in them! What is going on here?
Twix
Chocolate Finger
Twirl
Liquorice Allsorts
Crunchie
Evan-Amos via WikiCommons
This chocolate bar as a honeycomb toffee sugar center. What is it called?
Crunchie
Digestive biscuits
Galaxy Minstrels
Spira

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Dolly Mixture
Howdoyouturnthison via WikiCommons
What are these little fondant sweets with some sugared jellies in the mix?
Dolly Mixture
Jammie Dodger
Wispa
Creme Egg
Munchies
Evan-Amos via WikiCommons
Who are these little chocolate guys with a caramel and biscuit center?
Jaffa Cakes
Chocolate Buttons
Quality Street
Munchies
Dream
Taste Motto via YouTube
White chocolate isn't technically chocolate, so this chocolate bar is something else. What is its name?
Dream
Roses
Time Out
Yorkie

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Marble
Lewis Pringle via YouTube
If you like swirled white and milk chocolate, you will love this. What is it called?
Roundie
Curly Wurly
Maltesers
Marble
Roses
DigitaliseMe via YouTube
These are the chocolates with miscellaneous fondant centers that Brits give someone to show they like them (but don't have a huge amount of money). What is their name?
Chocolate Finger
Liquorice Allsorts
Pink Wafer
Roses
Blue Riband
CandyAisle via YouTube
Alternating layers of wafer and chocolate make up what Nestle chocolate bar in Britain?
Blue Riband
Freddo
Quality Street
Munchies

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Penguin
unwrapping by mimi koteng via YouTube
Perhaps you've heard of this duo of biscuits with a chocolate cream filling and chocolate coating. What are they called?
Wham!
Penguin
Jelly Babies
Galaxy Minstrels
Mars Bar
Evan-Amos via WikiCommons
Thick nougat layer, thin caramel layer, chocolate coating. It's a classic. What is it called?
Kendal Mint Cake
Wham!
Mars Bar
Jelly Babies
Kendal Mint Cake
Cnbrb via WikiCommons
By what name is this splendidly traditional minty slab known?
Crunchy Melts
Kendal Mint Cake
Party ring
Lion

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Jaffa Cakes
Dr. British12 via WikiCommons
What is this popular snack consisting of a Genoise sponge base, a layer of orange jam (yes really) and a chocolate coating?
Dolly Mixture
Wine Gums
Jaffa Cakes
Hob Nobs
Twirl
Evan-Amos via WikiCommons
It's a Flake in a chocolate coating. What is this gilded lilly of a chocolate bar?
Crunchy Melts
Twirl
Disgestive biscuits
Double Decker
Curly Wurly
Evan-Amos via WikiCommons
This bar has a criss-cross structure rather like a girder, made of slim toffee with a chocolate coating. Can you name it?
Curly Wurly
Roses
Creme Egg
Wispa

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Wagon Wheel
Sealman via WikiCommons
This treat consists of a biscuit-and-marshmallow sandwich in a chocolate coating. Do you know what it is called?
Roundie
Spira
Chocolate Buttons
Wagon Wheel
Chocolate Finger
Cadbury via YouTube
What is this long thin biscuit in a rounded chocolate coating?
Munchies
Chocolate Finger
Dolly Mixture
Hob Nobs
Pink Wafers
Monkey Business Images / Monkey Business / Getty Images Plus / Getty Images
This treat consisting of a flamingo-colored wafer and a creme filling is as sweet as it is pink. Can you remember its name?
Kendal Mint Cake
Yorkie
Jaffa Cakes
Pink Wafer

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Chomp
Evan-Amos via WikiCommons
This chocolate-and-caramel chocolate bar enjoys an onomatopoeic name. What is it?
Chomp
Party ring
Jaffa Cakes
Munchies
Jelly Babies
Sam Greenhalgh via WikiCommons
These soft squishy treats look like little people. What is their rather weird name?
Jelly Babies
Liquorice Allsorts
Wine Gums
Penguin
Galaxy Bar
HowToNotBasic via YouTube
The Mars Corporation brings you this smooth chocolate with a stellar name. What is it?
Crunchie
Bournville
Time Out
Galaxy Bar

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Disgestive biscuits
Josef Mohyla / E+ / Getty Images
Can you identify these semi-sweet biscuits with a chocolate coating on one side?
Digestive biscuits
Jelly Babies
Wagon Wheel
Dream