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PLANET CHOCOLATE
FOREIGN **Delights (or not) from around the world!**
The chocolate from overseas can present some of the most exciting challenges for testing, and also some of the most disgusting taste experiences. The all-round loser "Reisen", and one of the most foul bars ever, "Crackle", from Bombay sit among these ranks.
COMMENTS:
SPIKE: a hazelnutty type bar, nuts bulging through the chocolate and packed with class.
GYROFRETA PATHILITHIS: Wafer overload, with a hint of chocolate. Seems to be the fairly established obsession for boring wafer that seems to be the order of the day in hot countries; not much to melt, and if you want sweet, have a Baklava instead...
CADBURY PERK: Hot country syndrome again, token wafer bar, then get on with the gulubjaums...
NESTLE BAR ONE: More horrible wafer, but actually dead good if you can't find any food in Dehra Dun...
CADBURY CRACKLE: The most inedible bar EVER!!! The wrapper's fantastic, and not a bit of wafer, but its absolutely *GROSS*; the only chocolate bar that's spicey and sruffed with herbs! This is a wonderful adaptation for the Indian market by Cadbury, and best avoided! Stick to the gulubjauns. Two testers failed to complete their allocations!
REESES' PEANUT BUTTER CUPS: Not strictly a bar, and very peanut buttery, they come in one big packet as six individually wrapped cakelets.
REISEN: The most absolutely vile (alleged) chocolate E V E R...this stuff is *G R O S S* bitter tasting, dark and poisonous, even the dog is too good for this stuff. It comes as loads of dollups in a nasty bag.
RITTER SPORT WHOLE HAZELNUT: Only really let down by having the ambiguity of the word "sport" in the title...trying the Kendal Mint Cake market, perhaps. Generally a rather good bar.
HERSHEY'S COOKIES AND CREAM: Far better than it sounds, and could have been much worse. A bit over-sweet, could do with Nestle's Milkybar contributing to the choc action. Cookies are little crispy bits, a good touch.