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Most people have been failing the “bar” exam.
A social media chef blew candy lovers’ collective minds after revealing the correct way to eat the pyramidal Swiss chocolate bar, as shown in a TikTok video with nearly 50 million views.
“Do you know Toblerone should be pushed together to break?” Chef Koudy wrote in the caption to the clip.
The Czech Republic-based epicure frequently posts humorous snack hacks on everything from eating toffee to cutting eggs for his 2 million followers on the Chinese-owned platform.
In his latest tutorial, Koudy taught chocoholics how to correctly eat a Toblerone bar, the yellow-wrapped Swiss confection that’s a staple of hotel minibars and airport duty-free stores.
Contrary to popular belief, the de facto way to consume one of these cocoa prisms is not to yank it outward as with a Kit Kat bar — a method that “ruins it,” per the clip.
Rather, the gourmand explains, the “right way” is, somewhat counterintuitively, to push the bookending triangles inward toward the others in the middle to break them off.
Koudy doesn’t explain why this is the correct way to Toblerone — perhaps it comes from some “Wing Chun”-esque philosophy of directing an object’s energy back toward it.
Although, after The Post tried this method ourselves, we can safely say that the latter method seems to accomplish the desired task with a lot less exertion (not to mention a lot less chocolate on the fingers).
The Post recently asked Mondelez International, which owns Toblerone, about the correct method of eating the confection — but has yet to hear back.
Either way, the sweet-fragmenting technique received mixed reviews online. Many commenters pointed out that the more popular segmentation method is better because he didn’t touch the neighboring segment when doing so.
“Second is better because you’re not touching the piece next to it,” snarked one viewer of the chocolate pyramid scheme. Another wrote, “Second one is better, at least he did not touch the other bar with his fingers.”
Of course, people can replicate Koudy’s method sans contamination by pushing the peripheral pieces with their fingers so as not to touch any others. Meanwhile, some critics claimed that they simply liked to bite the cudgel-shaped confection without breaking any pieces off.
Koudy isn’t the first to tout this method of eating Toblerone. In a 2016 snack instructional on YouTube, an armchair epicurean demonstrated a similar technique for eating the sawtoothed sweet.
In fact, queries on correct methodology have sparked wild responses on Reddit, with one wit joking that the right way to eat the bar is with a “fork and knife.”
“Cram it all in your mouth at once. Swallow. Don’t chew,” prescribed one commenter, while another advised “melting it down and forging it into a sword to kill your enemies.”
“Break each flavor pyramid off and eat them one by one until you are left there crying on the floor in a shame puddle and covered in honey and chocolate,” quipped another jokester.
The debate resembled disagreements over how to eat string cheese, with some dairy aficionados claiming that people should peel the food like a banana, and others that biting into it whole is OK.
This isn’t the first culinary technique we’ve allegedly been doing all wrong.
In a similarly revelatory clip last month, a TikTok chef reveals the alleged correct way to use a colander — which apparently involves putting the porous vessel onto noodles rather than the other way around.
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