Sometimes I start off with the best of intentions, but when it comes to the crunch (or the chew), my actions don’t quite live up to my own ideals.
For instance, this lonely looking little bar of chocolate was once part of a 10-pack. I bought it with the intention of photographing a nice big pile of bars in an arty pose, but alas, this is all that I have left. I honestly have no idea where the other nine went.
No, really. I can’t have eaten them all, I would have noticed!
As you may have noticed already, this is a Milky Way clone (that’s a UK Milky Way, not an American one). It’s basically a light, ‘fluffy’ whipped nougat with a thin layer of milk chocolate.
It tastes similar to a Milky Way, although it’s possibly a tad sweeter and a tiny bit less fluffy than the real thing. It’s not quite “the real thing”, but once you’ve eaten 5 or 6 of them, you don’t really care. If you like Milky Way, you’ll like this.
Nutritionally, of course this has no value at all. The small bar size (26g) is effectively cancelled out by the urge to eat all 10 bars in one go.
So there you have it. It’s a copy of someone else’s product, has no nutritional value and will make you incredibly fat. Which is probably why love it. Yum.
When I bought this, I actually thought it was hot chocolate. It wasn’t until I got home that I saw the teapot on the front. And I thought I had examined it fairly carefully. At least I was right about the chocolate part.
So this tea turns out to be a World Market exclusive, as well as a limited edition. The box explains that its made based on the Mayan approach to their drinking chocolate, with mint added to the mix. Hence, the “spice.” The ingedients list black tea, peppermint, cinnamon, cardamom, chicory, cacao kernels, ginger, and coconut. Coconut? I guess it must have a purpose, random as it seems to me.
The fifty natural, unbleached tea bags give off a wonderful minty smell set in a black darkness. When my companions unanimously decided that this seemed like a tea to add sugar to, I added some to half my tea, purely for reviewing’s sake. Because, truthfully, I usually think sugar tastes bad in tea. I always drink it plain, so that’s just an odd flavor to me. Sure enough, the sugar in Cup A was a little too off base around the mint and the deepness of the various spices. Cup B, naturally, suited me much better, allowing simply the flavors of the tea itself to come out. The cinnamon and peppermint hit you first. The chocolate seems to be in there mostly as an aftertaste. But I really don’t think I would recognize it at all if it wasn’t in the name. Then, I was also expecting from that something more “spicy,” what with the story about the Mayans and all. There are nice, warm spices, but nothing spicy.
That said, it’s a perfect cozy, curl-up-in-a-blanket kind of tea, even if a little misleading. Just not something to get if it’s a “chocolate tea” you’re wanting to try.
Meet Margot. Margot comes from Slovenia, and to look at her you’d think she was a chocolate bar, but Margot has a little secret. Margot is actually a soya bar with coconut ‘coated with dark compound’. Not so appetising now, is she?
The taste of this bar is actually quite strange. It has a sweet, almost fermented taste to it. Not quite ‘year old pot of jam’ fermented, but a definite hint of that alcohol-like flavour. Probably something to do with the way the soya is processed to produce the finished product.
I suppose if you were someone with food allergies or an aversion to real chocolate (and a love of sugar) then this might be the bar for you, but it doesn’t make much sense to me to sell this alongside ‘proper’ chocolate products. It’s, well, odd.
Odd, sweet and something I shall avoid in future.
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