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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Posted by Pewari on 15 Sep 2006 at 12:09 PM
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March 8, 2007 : 6:50am
I cannot express enough, how much I really miss the
fry’s chocs. Especially the five fruits. I am on a mission to hunt them down. So far, I’ve only been able to find the orange, peppermint and original. Sadly, and with deep regret can not for the life of me find the five flavours.
November 15, 2007 : 1:58pm
BRING BACK FRYS 5 FRUIT CENTRE OR TELL ME WHERE I CAN GET IT
November 27, 2007 : 3:30pm
I too am at a loss as to why the Fry’s five fruits are no longer available. I travelled to the UK from Australia as part of a culinary excursion on a “Best of UK” foodie trip. We have thus far managed to track down deep-fried pizza, pork scratchings and then like but I am inconsolable at the dearth of Fry’s Five Fruits. I’ve heard many and varied stories about these, fondly nicknamed Triple F’s, and was promised something bordering on a religious experience upon their milky chocolate coat giving way to a deliciously smooth fruity centre. I’ve sought counselling to try to get over this whole in my life which I doubt will ever be filled with any fruity fabulousness let alone five. Someone get me some!
December 4, 2007 : 5:16pm
I, also, would love to know where I can get Fry’s Five Fruits.
I am in Adelaide. I used to buy then by the carton from my corner shop at North Adelaide; then hide them in the pantry.
I visited a Fry’s exhibition, at The Castle,on a visit to York a few years ago - inundated with free chocolates! Heaven.
Other than our wonderful Haigh’s chocs, the 5 Fruits are/were the BEST!
Is there anywhere in the world that still has them???
December 4, 2007 : 5:17pm
BRING BACK THE FIVE FRUITS!!!!!
December 4, 2007 : 5:19pm
They were covered in DARK chocolate, not milk chocolate.
December 14, 2007 : 9:54pm
I know it is sad but think what about the dental bills?
So be good!
I miss them too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
December 14, 2007 : 9:55pm
I know it is sad but think what about the dental bills?
So be good!
I miss them too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
it is worth it though
December 14, 2007 : 9:56pm
why not go to covent garden and cybercandy at 3 garrick street and have a feast!!!!!!!!!!!
you can even buy tootsie roll..
rememeber the superman comics with that advertised?
February 4, 2008 : 8:21pm
what is the history of fry’s coconut from late 1950’s early 1960’s no-one else seems to remenber
March 14, 2008 : 12:29am
I have just finished eating my chocolate fix, frys cream it has to be simply the best chocolate in the world, there is nothing to compare with it. Many years ago I worked with a lady who used to squash a bar of frys cream on her roll(ugh. just been reading the comments and yes what happened to the frys five centre bar, I had forgotton about that one.
March 26, 2008 : 4:18pm
The five centre was just mentioned on our local radio station which brought back happy memories and all of a sudden i want one now
May 14, 2008 : 4:48pm
ok ok ok we all know there was a five flavour fry’s chocolate bar, but what were the 5 flavours in it ?
May 28, 2008 : 10:35pm
Andy,
I can’t have you out there in cyberspace wondering “what WERE the five flavours”. I’ve had sleepless nights myself and I don’t want to leave any other living soul in something which I can only compare to purgatory. From what I’ve heard. So I’m here to put you out of your unquestionable misery.
The five flavours were: orange (the colour of Valencia’s national fruit, mmmm juicy), lemon (like the morning sun, peeking over dewy mountains), lime (fresh cut grass, smells soooo good), strawberry (pale pink, sweet goopiness) and raspberry (the most exciting flavour of all).
Now back to work!
May 29, 2008 : 10:31pm
yes indeed bring back this bar it was chocolate heaven. they dont make them like this any more. i would love to see this back out they dont make them like this any more please bring this back out out. lol but u no they wont cadbury will say its the future now we have to make modern bars but i like to be stuck in a timewarp when chocolate was chocolate please bring this back cadbury.
July 14, 2008 : 1:07pm
I have just learned that my dear sister (who i lost last Monday) had the same favourite taste in chocolate as me - the wonderful Fry’s Five Centre - yummy. As children, we also loved the Orange, Peppermint & Cream but not as much as the milk chocolate five flavours (lemon, Lime, Orange, Strawberry & Raspberry x 2). Lets get a petition up to Cadbury for the return of this much loved chocolate bar - I will write to them immediately…….
July 14, 2008 : 6:44pm
i love the orange cream:)
August 11, 2008 : 4:11pm
I remember the 5 centre bar with a drooling desire…nothing quite makes the grade, so delicious, so lovely - why oh why can’t cadbury’s see the light and BRING BACK THE FRUITY CHOCOLATEY GORGEOUSNESS!!!!!!!!!!