You’ll never believe it.
Wonka Chocolate are having a very special competition. A once in a lifetime opportunity!
Apparently, they’ve hidden five golden tickets inside their chocolate bars! And the winners get to go on the trip of a lifetime!
…stop me if you’ve heard this before…
Unfortunately, that “trip of a lifetime” is to the live final of American Idol. So it could be argued that the winning bars are the ones without the tickets.
Still, if you fancy seeing a load of Oompa Loompas sing and dance, you’ve got nothing to lose.
Luckily for me, the competition is only open to U.S. residents. I’m Oompaloompaphobic.
Aussie Chocablogger MillyMoo takes a look at another delicacy from down under…
This is a real rarity for me – being lost for words (generally) and during the task of describing a classic chocolate bar (even worse) that’s been around for at least four decades. We have enjoyed the Polly Waffle here in Australia for at least my entire lifetime (38 in human years; 380 in chocolate ones).
This is a difficult delicacy to describe – kind of the chocolate version of our iconic deep fried chico-roll and about as old (in origin, not manufacture or use-by date). It is a long tube of marshmallow encased in an ice-cream-cone crunchy waffle which is then dipped in a generously thick layer of chocolate.
Where the ‘Polly’ part of the name comes from is steeped mystery – I’ve spent hours wondering about it – no, not really, just the second or two it takes me to rip open the end of the wrapped and and stuff PW into my mouth to crack through the coating and into the hidden white pillowy depths inside. Maybe Polly was the chocolate-maker’s daughter or wife, or dog; or it just sounded kind of quirky in front of ‘waffle’. Anyhow, the phrase ‘polly waffle’ has been used in tacky Aussie Rules Football commentating circles to describe time wasting by players. “He’s busy polly-waffling with the ball because none of his team mates are able to lead out in front….”
At 50grams in weight it is slightly on the bigger side of the standard chocolate bar and is considerably longer than average due to the lightness of its main ingredient, the mallow from the marshes (on a side note, it reminds me of the infamous nude fight scene in ‘Borat’- this bar is the size of Borat’s optimistically censored out – errmmm -‘Love Truncheon’).
Putting Borat completely out of our minds now and back to the original subject: I have tried to use the Polly Waffle has been used to fool myself psychologically. For example if I am truly ravenous, am dying to eat chocolate yet still want to be able to view my own belly button I go for a ‘big bad boy’ like this in an attempt to convince my stomach and eyes that they have imbibed the equivalent of a tree trunk. Size does matter in the case of Polly Waffle
If that doesn’t work, I just inhale another. After all, it is mostly marshmallow and they’ve got less fat in them than the average chocolate bar…
Our sister blog, Endiet, has an great post about chocolate by Yuliana Hendarto, with all sorts of interesting facts. But for me, the best part is the ‘Chocolate IQ‘ quiz link at the end.
I scored 8 out of 10. Not bad, but definitely room for improvement. I obviously need to sample some more chocolates….
What’s your Chocolate IQ?
You Americans are so funny. You have a word for everything.
“Patties”, for instance. That’s not really a word we use here in the UK, and for some reason it just makes me laugh when I read it. If these were marketed in the UK, they’d simply be “Dark Chocolate Peppermints”… or maybe “After Dinner Mints”.
I’m told Sanders Candy is quite well known in the US, but it’s not something we get in the UK (except when the postman turns up on your doorstep with a big box of it!). I didn’t really know what to expect from these, but as it turns out, I was pleasantly surprised.
We’ve reviewed a few ‘dark chocolate with mint fondant filling’ products on Chocablog before (Mint Munchies, Fry’s Chocolate Cream, After Eight), but this is my personal favourite so far.
The chocolate is smooth and rich – the box doesn’t give the cocoa content, but it has a nice, bittersweet taste. It’s also nice and thick. As after dinner mints go, these are quite substantial.
The filling is probably the nicest peppermint fondant I’ve tasted recently. It has just the right consistency. Not to thick, not runny. Very similar to a Creme Egg. And the taste is refreshing and minty without being overpowering.
The overall effect is just right. Thick, sweet and refreshing, with none of that weird aftertaste that’s so common with chocolate mints. These are definitely made for sharing out after a dinner party. They look sophisticated without being pretentious, they’re substantial enough that your guests won’t feel short-changed, and most importantly of all, they won’t think you’re stuck in the 70s.
Now all I need to do is get myself invited to a dinner party… anyone?
