secret clever name ([info]3jane) wrote,
@ 2008-05-30 15:22:00
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Alas for Cuban Lunch bars. The most delicious of candies, gone from this earth, at least in their commercial form. (It turns out they manufactured in Winnipeg, by a company called Paulin's that doesn't exist anymore.)

I wish I had one now.

ETA: There's a very tiny picture of a Cuban Lunch here.

A very tiny Facebook group (I make five members) is devoted to bringing 'em back.

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[info]cherokee1
2008-05-30 09:44 pm UTC (link)
Description please?
Never heard of these delicacies.
C

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[info]3jane
2008-05-30 10:58 pm UTC (link)
A little, rectangular (maybe 3"x4") bar of chocolate and peanuts, quite solid and filling, somewhat darker chocolate than you usually find in check-out line candy, and I think better quality, more cocoa in it. They came wrapped in clear plastic, with a brown wax paper bottom like the kind you find on peanut butter cups. They were a little less expensive than a regular candy bar, and not so popular, but my mom used to bring them home for me, and I liked them.

The recipes I saw online for a similarly-named homemade treat aren't quite the same thing, I think. Too many ingredients. This was just chocolate, crunchy chocolate, with some peanuts in it.

This appears to have been very much a local treat, like puffed wheat cake (established by LJ poll to be a strictly western Canadian thing) or Old Dutch potato chips in the cardboard box (still the best chips).

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[info]spike21
2008-05-31 05:14 am UTC (link)
It was, in 1987, the single most popular chocolate bar all over South America. I haven't had one since I came back.

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[info]revelininsanity
2008-06-22 04:52 am UTC (link)
Hi, um, I hate to be, like, stalkerish, but, did you present this year at the Winnipeg Writers Collective awards dinner-type thingy?

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[info]3jane
2008-06-22 03:36 pm UTC (link)
Yes, that was me. Hi!

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[info]revelininsanity
2008-06-22 03:39 pm UTC (link)
Hi! I received 2nd prize in the adult short story division and then proceeded to dork out at you for, like, a million years!

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[info]3jane
2008-06-22 04:21 pm UTC (link)
I totally remember you. You were awesome!

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[info]revelininsanity
2008-06-22 04:27 pm UTC (link)
Thanks! Really? I thought I cam across as really dorky that night. But in a good way, maybe? *laughs* I friended your journal, like, basically right after, and I wasn't sure it was you(I'm weird that way. Weird and uncertain of my memory), so then I thought, "Well, either I introduce myself and I'm wrong, or I introduce myself and I'm right, so, either way, there's nothing to lose."

So, I introduced myself.

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Just wanted to say
(Anonymous)
2008-08-03 04:49 am UTC (link)
Thanks !

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