Cadbury Flake Moments
This attractive bright yellow box on the shelf of my local Budgens caught my attention, so I thought I’d give it a go.
Inside the box are two layers of eleven bite-sized pieces of Cadbury Flake in six different varieties.
Nice enough to look at, but certainly not spectacular. In fact, the first thing I noticed was how dull the chocolate looked. I’m guessing that’s partly down to the fact that this box was fast approaching its Best Before date, and partly because that’s just the nature of Flake.
Each of the different varieties is given an evocative name… “Escape”, “Dream”, “Delight”, “Charm”, “Indulge” and “Classic”. Unfortunately, the chocolates don’t quite live up to their names. In fact, they all taste exactly the same – like Cadbury Flake.
There is some dark and white chocolate in here, but they have a major impact on the texture or flavour with the result that it quickly becomes a very boring box of chocolates. I ploughed my way through one of each variety, but simply couldn’t face any more than that. It’s just too sugary, dry and dull.
There may be hardcore Flake fans (and people with an affinity for yellow boxes) out there that will love this, but I can’t recommend it for anyone else.
Posted by Dom on 14 Apr 2009 at 08:04 PM
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Filed in Reviews under assortment, cadbury, flake, UK
April 15, 2009 : 11:29am
Never understood the popularity of the flake myself when there’s so much choice available. They are nice in a sundae though :)
April 15, 2009 : 12:44pm
I couldn’t agree more when it comes to the taste of these: all of them are pretty much the same. They’re almost sickly sweet and very, very boring. Good gift for a kid, not so good for true chocolate lover.
April 15, 2009 : 4:38pm
I’ve never been much of a Flake fan and definitely not wanting one in my Mr Whippy either, chocolate is not meant to be rock hard!
I’m sure flakes were only popular cos the blokes perved over the girls in the ads :)
April 16, 2009 : 3:59pm
I believe I had a box of these last year and deemed them too boring to review. I think the kids got them.
April 16, 2009 : 4:15pm
Nothing is too boring for me!