Heath vs. Skor

In two days time we're going to look at some chocolate covered English toffees in time for the "National English Toffee Day" on January 8th.  But today we're going to look at two readily available check out line "toffee" candy bars here in the USA.  We're calling this our "Heath vs. Skor" match and if the response is good, maybe we'll do more of these comparisons in the future, Sisters and Brothers, so leave a comment and let us know what you think.

I saw Heath more often when I was growing up.  Externally the bar is covered with milk chocolate with movement drips along the top.   The bar measures 5 X 1.25 X 0.25 inches.  Inside it is a light hard center with pieces of almonds visible.  It has cocoa butter and chocolate both but also dairy, added oils, soy, and of course tree nuts.  One bar has 200 calories the bulk of which are sugars (23g) and saturated fats (7g).  This is very crunchy and the almond flavor is quite strong, easily overpowering the milk chocolate with the buttery tang the secondary flavor.  From a chocolate perspective, very disappointing.

The Skor bar is the same in terms of looks and even dimensions.  The inside is darker in color and there are no visible nuts even though the nuts are listed.  This bar has a stronger chocolate scent.  It has the same basic ingredients minus the palm oil.   This has 10 more calories, twice as much cholesterol but 5mg less sodium and 1g more sugars than the Heath; otherwise they are pretty much identical nutritionally speaking.  Biting into it reveals a few almond piece and a burst of much more buttery flavor.  The chocolate is a bit stronger in terms of tastes but still sinks into the background.

Both bars are made by Hershey so why do they need two bars?  One, the Heath, calls itself a "English Toffee Bar" while the Skor called itself the "Crisp Butter Toffee" even though it has a crown on the wrapper.  Both were 1.4oz when I bought them and the same price even.  Result is that both aren't particularly good in terms of chocolate.  The Skor is more for butter lovers, the Heath more for almond and tangyness.  So pretty much what the wrappers say minus the strong chocolate that being first in their descriptions implies.