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chocolate bar
DCHP-2 (Sep 2014)
n. — Food
a bar of sweetened chocolate.
Type: 5. Frequency — Chocolate bar refers to an oblong strip of sweetened chocolate, sometimes containing other ingredients such as nuts or caramel. The term is often contrasted with "candy bar", the more popular variant in the US. In that country, trade names such as "Mars bar", "Snickers" or "Hershey's bar", which are also used in Canada, appear to be most popular. Boberg (2005: 48) notes that chocolate bar is one of the strongest lexical variables in his study of the linguistic border between Canada and the US; he also notes that the variant is a Canadianism not found in British English and not found very frequently in the US. While Chart 1 confirms Boberg's assessment of the term in the US, it also shows that in the UK the term may be quite widespread. In Newfoundland, the primary variant is simply "bar" (Boberg 2005: 37), which may also be found in parts of PEI and Nova Scotia, though not in New Brunswick (Boberg 2008: 69-70).
(see COD-2, s.v. "candy bar")
Quotations
1891
Who that ever was a small boy or a bad little girl does not remember the wild, heartfelt wish for the calm of the immediately previous time, when a stone went crashing through a neighbor's window and the door opened and the neighbor came out and said "he'd tell your pa"? Who will ever forget the good resolution that followed -- the consequent temptation, the ignominious yielding and the pocket-money that by a stern decree was not squandered as it was wont to be on two-for-a-cent marshmallows and chocolate bars and taffy?
1911
The boys on this side of the Atlantic, and doubtless the girls, have all purchased gum, chocolate bar [sic], or peanuts, by slipping a nickel into a slot machine. On the continent of Europe this contrivance is extensively employed as a quick-lunch device in catering to street boys and laborers.
1924
Rockwood's Nut Bar has a larger sale in New York than any other chocolate Bar. If you have not tried it you have missed a good thing.
1946
If you wish a hot dessert, cut cake into individual servings, set a marshmallow or a small piece of chocolate bar on top of each serving letting it melt in the hot oven and you have a lovely topping.
1954
Husband of Hilda May Wright (nee French) of French's Cove, is employed with the famous chocolate bar and candy people, Ganong's, in Toronto and vicinity. Mrs. Wright and husband R. H. visited Bay Roberts, Conception Bay, recently.
1963
Having disturbed a number of my right-wing friends by inventing a number of right-wing games, I must make amends by publishing some left-wing games. [...] No one is allowed to play until he has collected 150 Welch's chocolate bar wrappers.
1978
Toronto school board trustees who banned junk foods in high school cafeterias should look inside their own refrigerator. Yesterday, the refrigerator in the trustees' lounge was packed with 30 bottles of pop, two small tins of tomato juice and four cartons of milk. Upstairs at the entrance to their cafeteria is a pop machine and a chocolate bar machine.
1986
Kids will like these stories the way they sometimes enjoy Smarties instead of a chocolate bar; like Smarties, they are all pretty much the same and easy to pop. Each story has the integrity of a Smartie (or maybe a Cheerio), and about as much nourishment.
1996
Just in case there wasn't enough chocolatey goodness in the original or peanut butter ones, Oh Henry! has just introduced another bar called Oh Henry! Chocolate Fudge. It's described as having a powerful hit of chocolate in every bite. Oh Henry! was recently ranked the No.-1 selling chocolate bar brand in Canada, according to A.C. Nielsen audit service.
2003
If eating at a fast food restaurant, "there are healthier options," such as salads, soups, vegetable juices and low-fat chicken sandwiches. Felesky-Hunt says a lot of students experience a slump in mid-afternoon "and that's when many will choose a muffin, a coffee or chocolate bar to pick them up."
References
- COD-2
- Boberg (2005)
- Boberg (2008)
Images
Chart 1: Internet Domain Search, 21 Dec. 2015
