Making Wafers Great

I truly have mixed feelings about wafer bars. Some of my favourite candy bars and cookies are wafer based bar, but some of my least favourite candy bars and cookies are also wafer based. It really is an ingredient that can go either direction. The weird thing is I'm not really sure what makes for a great wafer based bar, I just know a good one when I eat it. Fortunately the folks at Manner make a good bar, and that's what I have to eat today. While it's not as good as their regular bar, it's still pretty tasty.

Check out my latest wafer bar review.

So Many Wafers

 

I think wafers might be the most popular cookie that's put into candy bars. There are just so many of them out there, with some doing really well, and others... well. It's weird because some of my least favourite candy bars use wafers and some of my favourite bars also use wafers. It seems like such a simple ingredient to use, so it makes me wonder what makes for a good wafer based candy bar and what makes for a horrible wafer based bar. My guess is it's not just one thing, it's probably a lot of factors that go into making a great wafer bar.

Check out my latest review that features one of those great wafer based bars.

Manner Store In Vienna

If you're unfamiliar with Manner, it's an Austrian candy company most well known for a chocolate wafer bar.  While you may have never tried a Manner wafer bar, the company has one very famous devoted fan, Arnold Schwarzenegger.  He apparently loves these treats so much that he tries to include them in his movies, you can see this if you check out some of the candy shelves in the Terminator movies.

While not hugely popular all over the world, in Austria they're a really big deal.  In fact Manner has stores all over the city of Vienna, and I imagine they have more throughout all of Austria.  The stores are clad in pink, and sell all kinds of treats.  The wafer bar is the main treat available, in about as many sizes and quantities as you could imagine, but they also have other sweet delicacies available.  I'm not sure if all of the other treats are made by Manner, but all of them appear to be made in Austria.

They also have a whole bunch of merchandise for those of you who either love the bar, or fall in love with the bar.   They had everything from pink jackets, nail clippers, pins, and my personal favorite these pink golf balls.

Best of all, if you go out to the main square (near the store I visited), one of the many horse drawn carts ready to tour tourists around the city is painted up with the Manner logo and Manner colours.  Man these Austrians really like these pink clad wafer bars.

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