I noticed this little box of chocs on display prominently in my local Thorntons so decided to give them a try. They had rather a lot of them on the shelf right at the front of the store, so they were either promoting them heavily, or it was simply a matter of nobody wanting to [...]

I have not enjoyed the past three Cadbury Desserts flavours I’ve tried – Lemon Cheesecake, Fudge Brownie or Boysenberry Shortcake but somehow the idea of Crème Brulee inside a thick coating of Dairy Milk was shouting out my name from the chocolate shelves as a possible source of comfort during a particularly powerful PMS-y week.

The [...]

I had hoped to visit a chocolate shop while I was in Slovenia but the May Day bank holidays put paid to that idea as most of Ljubljana was closed on the day we were there. I had to settle for one of a range of bars on offer at a less specialized shop, and [...]

Here we have another South African offering. According to the wrapper, it’s “Rich creamy Nestlé milk chocolate with Aero® centre and filled biscuit wafers.”

That’s a fairly lengthy description for a simple bar of chocolate, but once you bite into it, it becomes quite clear what this really is - an outright copy of Cadbury Time [...]

My daughter and I were perusing the plethora of Mothers’ Day chocolates on sale at our local K-Mart the other day when this rather attractive Chinese-style box caught our eye. It had been marked down from $20 to $5 and yet was nowhere near its use-by-date.

Now, the Chinese manufacturing industry (toys in particular) hasn’t [...]