Revels
There are certain chocolates I loved when I was a kid that I still love now, but feel slightly awkward buying — simply because I’m not 10 any more.
Luckily, now I have an excuse. I’m a chocolate reviewer! I have to buy them! It’s the law!
Amongst my childhood favourites were Milky Way, Curly Wurly and these – Revels. I’m not entirely sure why I like them. I think it’s because you never quite know what you’re going to get in a packet of Revels.
For those of you that have never had them, Revels are a small bag of assorted milk chocolates with different centres. You get a random mix of orange cream, coffee cream, caramel, chocolate raisins, chocolate buttons and Maltesers.
But the catch is that it’s very difficult to tell exactly what you’re eating until you bite into it.
As a kid, one of my favourite games was to make a friend who couldn’t stand coffee eat Revels. A one-in-six chance of making a friend horribly ill is an incredibly satisfying game for a ten year old. And a thirty six year old, come to that.
The current UK TV ads for Revels play on this, featuring two guys engaged in a rather surreal game of Revels Russian Roulette. It’s exactly how I remember it.
Personally though, I like them all. My only complaint is that there aren’t enough orange ones. I want more orange Revels! Do you hear me!?
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I can’t believe it has come to this. The strawberry Revels are awful. Vote for coffee here: http://www.here.org.uk/2008/10/strawberry-revels-replace-coffee-revels-the-world-has-gone-mad-vote-for-your-favourite-here.html
i’m confused i had a pack of revels and could figure out what the new flavour was it was soft but not orange, i thought it was vanilla or fudge. but as a friend was eating her packet she had a strange taste and said it the new one was fudge. then to her shock she bit in to another soft one and it was STRAWBERRY whats going on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Could any one tell me all six flavors of revels
Thanks
Evie
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Waaagh! I want one! :(
We had a packet today and i remember you could get a full bag of the counter shaped choc ones.We can’t remenber what they were called it was in the 1970′s.Does anyone know ? We thought they might have been called Chocolate counters? can anyone help???
I’ve always thought of the flat chocolates as Minstrels without the crisp shell around the outside. I checked the wikipedia site and that is exactly what they are but it says they were called galaxy counters (which I had never heard of).
Yeah Cheryl you’re right. Everyone on here keeps saying there’s chocolate buttons in Revels. They look like buttons, but they’re not chocolate buttons, they’re actually, here in England (for those of you who aren’t), they’re Galaxy Minstrels without the shell. Coz that’s what Minstrells used to be like, like the buttons in Revels are now, but without the shell. It was about 20yrs ago (just a guess, it was when I was in about 2nd year high school-ish!), they added the shell, and the slogan, melts in ya mouth not in your hand (that’s for Minstrels). They’re both made by the Mars Company, Revels & Minstrels, so are Maltesers that are in Revels as well. I wouldn’t be surprised that they made them years ago as a one bag mix of there chocolates that were in bags, i.e – Maltesers, Minstrels, and just added the creams and the toffee ones to have more choice in there. I mean just having maltesers and minstrels would be a bit boring wouldn’t it? And I wouldn’t be surprised if they never added the shell to the Minstrels in Revels coz it’d look odd with one chocolate in there having a shell. And Nicola above said they got Buttons in NZ, did you mean Cadbury’s Buttons coz they aren’t the same? coz they never had Minstrels in NZ 5yrs ago when I lived there. Another thing you never used to get in NZ Nicola if you see them as well, an English bar which is lush, is a Drifter! also a Topic is nice, which was virtually the same as the Hazelnut Mars they had in NZ years ago. Also a Toffee Crisp you never got in NZ as well, look out for them, mmmm.
The strawberry creams they added as a mystery sweet a while back in Revels were lush as well. They should have those in there permanently.
Oh and yeah, I agree, the raisin ones are not too good, they should be replaced with the strawberry cream.
Don’t add liquorice, noooo way. Not sure about Turkish Delight either, they’d make the bag stink as the raisins do, but definitley a biscuit one and a fudge one would be great. A peanut butter one would be pretty nice I reckon as well, now that would be wicked assorment. And get rid of the raisins and bring back the chocolate coated peanuts. They should have maybe 2 kinds as well, one with the chocolate peanuts and one without for those who are allergic. Still the same weight/amount in each bag obviously, snd I’m with Amanda, the Coffee ones are the best.
Does anyone remember the Crispy Caramel Bar in the 90′s? Terry’s who make the Chocolate Orange made it I think, around the same time as the Secret was around. Lovely. Used to be my favourite, they only lasted a year or 2 though.
I like revels and still buy them, But they messed it all up by replacing the chocolate covered peanuts with raisons.
yes i remember crispy caramels,they were lovely,but sadly did not last long,i think they came in a orange wrapper by terrys
You’re the first person I’ve spoke to anywhere, here or in real life that has remembered Crispy Caramels Paddy. Why do they always stop nice things, like Nestle Lucky Charms, he! he!
Yeah think yer right Paddy, they were indeed lovely! Why do they stop producing the nicest things? like the cereal Lucky Charms, beautiful! and Golden Grahams!
Ive just had a packet of revels and i didnt find a new flavour so wots all this about a new flavour and the orange ones are the best. They should make a packet of revels with just one flavour but they could only do coffee and orange which would be great! So that would suit everyone if they just felt like they wanted one flavour.
What it was Emma, they stopped doing it now, but there was amystery sweet in Revels about a year ago. A strawberry or raspberry cream think one of them was. Lovely!
Back when one of the Revels had peanuts in them – it literally was like Russian Roulette if you had an alergy to nuts!
Lmao! very funny Purpose. I guess it would have traces of nut in anyway mind! on the other sweets like lol!