Archive for June, 2007

Bounty Dark

Here in the UK, one of the weirder side effect of the expansion of the EU and the strong pound is that we get a lot of imported products in the shops - even when there are British-made versions available.
Case in point: This Bounty Bar, which I found in my local Post Office, appears to [...]

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Posted by Dom on 20 Jun 2007 at 05:06 PM in Reviews | Comments (1)

Nestlé Toffee Crisp

If you ever made chocolate rice crispie cakes with your mum as a child, Toffee Crisp will be quite familiar. It’s amazing how just biting into a bar of chocolate can bring all sorts of happy memories flooding back

This bar is made with puffed rice (rice crispies!) in chocolate and a thin layer of toffee, [...]

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Posted by Dom on 19 Jun 2007 at 05:06 PM in Reviews | Comments (4)

Basini Chocolate Coated Almonds

Here’s another find from LIDL.

I came across these around the same time I found the J. D. Gross bars a couple of months ago and have been munching my way through them ever since. There are a variety of flavours (including cinnamon) available, but I have only tried the ‘pure’ chocolate version so far.

As you [...]

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Posted by Simon on 18 Jun 2007 at 01:06 PM in Reviews | Comments (1)

Cadbury Dairy Milk Fruit & Nut

Every time I think of Fruit & Nut, this is what comes to mind:

That was over 30 years ago and I still know all the words.

These days of course, Fruit & Nut is part of the Dairy Milk ’superbrand’, and as with a lot of the products in the range, it’s lost some of its [...]

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Posted by Dom on 15 Jun 2007 at 04:06 PM in Reviews | Comments (1)

Feodora Grand’or Maracuja

You may have read my glowing review of this bar’s sister, Limette.

Well it is my sad duty to report that while the chocolate component of this bar is identical to the Limette bar, the chocolate aroma has been all but annihilated by an over-zealous maracuja oil putter-inner. This bar smells like it’s been sat in [...]

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Posted by Simon on 13 Jun 2007 at 08:06 PM in Reviews | Comments (4)