Fry’s Chocolate Cream
After discovering Fry’s Turkish Delight‘s fall from grace, I picked up the 4-pack of Chocolate Cream’s with some reservation. Was this to be another nostalgic return only to be dashed by the bitter reality that things always taste better when you’re a small child? Was I better off leaving them enshrined in memory as the best bitter confectionary in the world?
Well, I’m glad I didn’t.
The Fry’s Chocolate Cream was the first chocolate confectionery ever to be made on a factory scale, so as such is the granddaddy of all chocolate bars. The tagline is “dark chocolate with fondant centre”, which to be honest, I’ve always considered to be fairly poor and unenticing description. Not that I could tell you a better one.
On unwrapping, you are confronted with a long D shaped bar of dark chocolate, about 12½cm long, 3½cm wide and just under 1cm at the thickest part of the D. The word FRY appears at intervals separated with an indented line on the surface, implying you could break it into chunks, but in practice is just decorative – far better just to chomp straight into it.
Biting into the bar, you get a decent mouthful of rich and bitter chocolate. The fondant centre is moist and I swear that it’s a mint taste, not an overpowering one, but mint all the same… yet according to the ingredients and the product description there is no mint. Perhaps a trick played on the mind with the contrasts of bitter and sweet?
All in all, this is still my favourite bitter chocolate by far; I wasn’t disappointed. One bar is enough though, it’s rich and leaves you feeling like you had a decent chocofix. The second bar does leave you feeling a bit sick (well, I had to try in the interests of a proper review after all). This is a classic chocolate bar that still holds its own well in a saturated market.
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- Contains dark chocolate.
- Filed under dark chocolate, fondant, frys, uk.
If the 5 fruits was discontinued in 1992 when do Cadbury claim the machine broke? Because when I was at uni our little campus sweet shop sold a version of the 5 fruits that was cocktail based – strawberry daiquiri etc. It was gorgeous!! That would have been 1999-2002. So the machine must have been working then as each bar had 5 different flavours in it.
And to the person who asked about poppets, yes I remember them too. They were another childhood favourite of mine! You can still get them but again the most interesting flavour is mint. Honestly, who decides these things!? Bring back the fruit flavours!
Have you seen the newest flavour – Strawberry Milkshake? its very nice! they also have the cookie one but im not fussed with that one lol
Ooh no I haven’t seen the strawberry milkshake one but it sounds lovely. I’ll have to keep my eyes peeled in the local newsagents and off licenses!
They are very nice, its nice to see the Poppets brand being rejuvenated.. it had kinda been neglected for years, despite refreshed packaging, no new flavours other than the old four: mint, orange, toffee and raisin. Its nice to see a few new flavours, I have a an old 1960′s dummy box for Poppets (its huge, the size of a Maltesers box!) and the flavours then were fruit & nut, ginger, brazil, nut and assorted. I assume brazil and nut were one but they are all in separate cuircles on the box lol.
I spotted these strawberry milkshake poppets in my local coner shop so your prob on the right track shop wise :)
@Lindsay – I know the ones you mean, not through eating them but by seeing the ‘cocktail’ Fry’s Chocolate Cream wrappers online lol. I think they would have been a brief limited edition type of thing probably, I’ve never seen them make anything like it since, and were probably not all that successful. I don’t think they were really ‘related’ to the original Five Centres, but i see your point in the fact that they could still make them! :)
Frys Chocolate Cream are the best ever made. How dare someone say they are disgusting you have no taste. You can get them at the Hahndorf Sweets in South Australia. Please start making them again in Australia.
I tried frys dark chocolate yesterday having seen it i’n local shop having tried bar when small remember enjoing soft centre i was so disappointed were was it look at packaging shows big soft centre it’s rubbish. Everything you make has changed including price you shouldn’t keep name cadburys you should change to contrys were not stupid your just to busy filling pockets of share holders and fat cats just do us all a favour stop telling us your craft but rearly all you do is shaft .
The centres are still soft, Its partly the temperature theyre stored at, when theyre cold the centre solidifies somewhat. The orange centre tends to be softer for some reason though. I wouldnt say it was ruibbish though, I think youre exagerating somewhat lol
I absolutely love the Frys Chocolate cream and to my horror have just lost a £10 bet. My friend said you could now buy this bar orange flavour and I said there is no way I would have known. Do you know what he delivered me a bar today. it was delicious (even though it cost me £10). Does anyone know where and if the four flavour bar is available please?
The orange flavour has been around for many decades, theres also a peppermint one aswell which too has been around many decades.. im, amazed youve not come across them before, although you see them less than the original flavour to be fair.. The other bar you refer too was the Five Centres, unfortunately it was discontinued in 1992, but you can get a similar bar (sadly you’ll have to get it all the way from Australia) called Cadbury Snack (not to be confused with our own Cadbury Snack!). Their version has sx blocks of Dairy Milk each with a different filling and the relevant pattern etched onto each segment. They include, caramel, coconut ice, turkish delight, ornage and pineapple. Well worth seeking out!