Wow I was supposed
to blog about these weeks ago, I've noticed a lot of blogs slowing down
recently so I suppose the madness that's Christmas has taken over everyone!
First up was Maynards Sour Tricks.
Apologies for the
slightly blurry stolen from Google images picture but I completely forgot I had
said I would blog about these and by the time I remembered, they were gone.
Oops.
This is a seasonal
Halloween bag from Maynards so unless any shops have some leftover I don't
think you'll be able to get this again until next year. I'll probably buy these
again it was nice to have a fizzy sour version, normally I buy the plain jellies
but these were good. There's no point going into too much detail as they're off
the shelves now… Must try harder!
Rating 6/10
Rowntree's Randoms
sweet n sour.
The packet says new,
are they new? I don't know how new by my late standards but I do know I haven't
tried them before.
The packet has some
nice pastel coloured, sugar coated squishy sweets. I can work out a snowman, a
rocket, an icecream, milk shakes, a lock and possibly a tortoise? So far so
random.
It also contains
some typical fizzy jelly sweets. I can't lie I didn't really try too hard to
work out what these are, I think there are some crowns, roller skates, a car
and chess pieces in there though.
There isn't too much
to say on this bag, it's an enjoyable bag of Rowntrees who usually manage to do
sweets well and this is no different. I had a feeling I wouldn't get round to
blogging about these straight away and so I usually make notes on my phone about
something I plan to review. All these say is good - yellow ones not sour but
too tart for me. I do remember that being the only sweet I wasn't keen on but
the rest of the bag gets a thumbs up from me.
Rating 6/10
Lidl Deluxe Butter Fudge
I loooove fudge. Any
kind of fudge - chocolate covered fudge, harder chewy fudge, soft smooth fudge
and the crumbly grainy fudge.
I think you can tell
from the photo this is a lovely crumbly, melt in the mouth, grainy fudge. It's
very buttery without being too rich. The texture and flavour are spot on and
being from Lidl is a bargain too. I will be buying this again.
Rating 8/10
Waitrose Christmas
Cracker Selection
I'm a sucker for
gimmicks and when I saw this miniature 100g box of chocolates I wouldn't
normally bother, however give me the same miniature chocolates in a box that
looks and opens like a cracker and I'll buy it in a heartbeat!
The box was supposed
to contain 9 chocolates - I got lucky and had 10 and my extra was milk
chocolate fudge, not that I got to eat it as someone else in this house is
rather partial or fudge too!
Dark chocolate
orange crème
Milk chocolate
strawberry crème
Milk chocolate
coffee truffle
Milk chocolate
caramel barrel
Milk chocolate
biscuit in caramel
Milk chocolate
Hazlenut in caramel
I didn't bother with
pictures of the plain chocolate, or the toffee or fudge, they look the same in
all boxes (I did notice the toffee is the same as the big 200g bags of toffee
they sell) but as you can see from the pictures they are all nicely packed out chocolates
with a good ratio of filling to shell. The flavours are good and I did enjoy
this little box, the caramel is deliciously gooey and unlike the next product the coffee chocolate was the one that really stood out. It has a lovely strong coffee taste and smell and is easily my favourite in this box, however once Id noticed that the toffee included is the same
as the cheaper,larger bags they sell in store (and that I already have sitting
in my cupboard!) I was a little disappointed. I thought they'd at least put
some special christmas chocolates in. Anyway they still tasted good.
Rating 7/10
Rittersport Kaffee +
Nuss
My bar came back
with a friend from Germany so I don't have any English info available but I
think the name is pretty easy to work out.
I love rittersport
bars. The milk chocolate is always of a good quality, they're nice and thick
and the fillings are normally tasty and substantial.
I enjoyed the
chewiness the nuts bring to the bar, but the coffee flavour was just
underwhelming for me. I do however drink my coffee black and always put an
extra scoop in the machine when it's just for me so other people may well find
the coffee perfectly strong enough. It was just more of an aftertaste to me and
being that it's the first word in the name of the bar I thought it would have
more of a presence. I'm really dissapointed as I was so looking forward to
this. It is another nice bar from rittersport though, it just didn't meet my
coffee expectations sadly.
Rating 6/10
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