Cheetos Crunchy - Cheese

Last year the UK got all excited as it was announced a pop culture favourite, Cheetos, were going to be sold properly again. I actually reviewed them at the time but I got the crap versions - the ones that are like Wotsits. 

My local Tesco finally managed to sell the untold boxes of Oreos from the international aisle (seriously, who's buying those?! you can get them in the biscuit aisle for 1/4 of the price!!) and filled the empty space with two flavours of Cheetos Crunchy; Cheese and Cheddar Jalapeño. I decided rather than buy a 6 pack of the UK ones I'd treat myself to an expensive but large, single bag shipped over from the good old U.S of A 

It was looking like money well spent, for one thing the Americans aren't going to stand for crisp bags only filled a third of the way so this bag was packed out. 

Everyone knows the reputation snacks from the US have for using unnatural flavourings and colourings and so I was disappointed and confused that there was no crazy cheese smell, just a plainish corn based snack like scent 

I tipped the bag out to get a better look and the smell strengthened slightly but it wasn't an improvement. It now had a slightly stale/cheesey feet whiff. Not very appealing but never mind!

The colour came as no shock and the photo doesn't do it justice. Absolutely neon, in fact I'm sure if I'd switched the light off they'd have glowed in the dark! 

Crazy colours and strange smells aside, these aren't bad. They are like crunchy Wotsits, in a good way - not like when they go a bit stale - but not quite as crunchy as a Nik Nak despite looking like one. They have a quite mild but perfectly pleasant cheese flavour, they certainly aren't as strong as the colour implies and a world away from what I expected. It's weird though, while they aren't as cheesey as I'd like and have a corn taste to them, the weird mismatch was disgustingly addictive. I couldn't get them down me quick enough! 

Stange. In a good way, but they didn't live up to the hype.  

7/10 

Jolly Rancher Chews

A while ago the lovely Lucy (@R4Rreviews & her blog) sent me the most amazing package, it was filled with a lot of my favourite things - fudge, chocolate, 4 of my long searched for Triple Chocolate Otis Spunkmeyer muffins, a couple of her favourite flapjacks and this box of Jolly Rancher Chews - she knows me so well! 

The box contained five flavours; Blue Raspberry (apparently a standard flavour in the US, it's been included in near enough every mixed flavoured bag of sweets I've had), Cherry, Green Apple and Watermelon. 

The box was all sealed up and I had to physically tear it to get it open so I was a bit suprised to find the chews all individually wrapped - surely if the box is sealed and airtight it shouldn't need it? The chews were quite sticky and so it was a pain in the backside getting the wrappers off, half still had a bit left on but eating a sweet wrapper has never killed anyone before.. 

The sweets have quite a hard chew, harder than a Chewit or Starburst but they do soften up. It's a strange type of chew actually, my mouth was seriously watering while I was eating them but they left me feeling like I needed a glass of water as well. 

Blue Raspberry had quite a strong raspberry flavour at times, it was pretty artificial tasting but weirdly at times tasted like Bubblegum too. I worked out the reason for that after I'd tried them all though.. 

Cherry was very subtle by American standards. At times it was quite plain tasting but had random bursts of a clear and quite strong cherry. 

Green Apple was the saviour of the box. Juicy, strong and delicious - it doesn't taste like you're eating an actual apple by any means but there's no mistaking it. 

I was looking forward to Watermelon after trying it in the Lemonheads Redrific last week - it was near enough a perfect watermelon flavoured sweet so I hoped this would be the same. It wasn't. It tasted like watermelon sure, but it was clearly made with a bunch of chemicals rather than real flavourings. I haven't looked at the ingredients, I didn't need to - I could taste it. Strong but not nice at all. 

Apart from Green Apple I wasn't keen on the flavours in the Jolly Ranchers Chews. All of them ended up tasting like bubblegum or chewing gum. I thought that was what I tasted initially in the Blue Raspberry, but I realised that they all taste like flavoured gum when the flavour has worn off. 

5/10 

And it's only a 5 because I liked the Green Apple

Sorry Bakey! 

Chewy Lemonhead Redrific & Skor - Taffy Mail

Chewy Lemonhead Redrific 

How do they come up with these names? Next out of the Taffy Mail box were these Lemonhead Redrific sweets, chewy sweets with four flavours: Raspberry-Lemon, Watermelon, Wild Cherry and Strawberry. 

The sweets are chewy but not necessarily a good type of chew - the kind where you're picking bits out of your teeth for a while after. 

Wild Cherry was amazing. Very strong like eating 100 Sour Cherry Haribos at once without the sourness. I don't know if anyone else had the ridiculously cherry smelling cherry lipgloss when they were younger, but the flavour was how I imagined they would have tasted! The strongest (and probably nicest) cherry flavour sweet I've had. 

I didn't realise that I ate the strawberry until I'd had the other flavours. It had a nice, but quite dull flavour and was surprisingly weak for American standards. 

Watermelon was ridiculous. I actually "wow"ed out loud when I ate it - it tasted like I was eating actual watermelon. Delicious. 

Raspberry-lemon was the black sheep of the box. Initially all I could taste was the lemon, there was a slight raspberry aftertaste but I could have missed it had I not been waiting for it. A nice flavour but not really a 'red' one. 

8/10 

Skor 

Skor is a milk chocolate bar with crisp butter toffee. 

I liked the sound of this bar as I thought it sounded like Riesen and I have a slight addiction to those little chewy, chocolatey toffee cubes! 

The bar already earned bonus points in my eyes for actually smelling like chocolate. And not only that but it smelt good too! 

It's long and thin and I got a sharp knife to cut it in half expecting a hard job like with the 100 Grand Bar. 

I didn't need to though as this was another very brittle bar. I literally touched the knife to the surface and it snapped clean in half. I should have realised then but I took a big bite expecting soft chewy toffee and bit through to my tounge and ended up with a mouthful of blood! 

It's a very crisp, hard toffee and there are little almond pieces dotted about that I could both taste and feel, so that made it nice and crunchy too. It has almost a burnt toffee taste and was very nice actually - buttery and rich to compliment the crisp and crunchy texture. 

I once had a bag of mini Halloween chocolates that I just threw in the fridge and there were Crunchies in there, I don't know if you've ever tried a refrigerated Crunchie but that's the closest thing I can compare the texture to - albeit a thicker, buttery toffee version! 

I thought I'd like this as I like Riesen but you can't compare the two, they're completely different. I liked this quite a bit - it is on the sweet side but the chocolate is pretty good (looking at the ingredients they used non fat milk then added milk fat... Why!?) and the toffee has a delicious buttery rich flavour. The crunchy almonds are the icing on the cake! 

7/10

Sour Patch Kids & Big Hunk - Taffy Mail

Sour Patch Kids 

My Taffy Mail box also included a box of Sour Patch Kids. 

As you probably well know we have Sour Patch Kids here in the UK but they're made and sold by Maynards. These are the original Mondelēz sweets made for the US and Canada by the looks of it. Maynards are a decent company and I usually enjoy their sweets so I thought they'd surely be on par with these. 

One way to tell if you're eating American sweets - there's always a bright neon blue one! I think that the colouring and flavouring (Blue 1 apparently) is banned in the UK. I can't think of many sweets over here that are this bright blue - or as bright as any of the colours for that matter! Not only were they super bright but they smelt super strong too. They felt softer than I remember our Sour Patch Kids being but still firm enough to have a little chew. 

Basically these are our Sour Patch Kids on steroids. Stronger smelling and tasting, more sour and then even sweeter. I don't know what the US version flavours are supposed to be and to be truthful I didn't give it a second thought while I was eating them (hence the lack of my usual long winded descriptions!) as they were that good. 

These have ruined our version for me. Britain might have the US beat on chocolate and biscuits (#teambourbon) but American sweets, sour ones especially are far superior. 

8/10 

Big Hunk 

I was winding Mr.1T up with this bar, telling him I couldn't wait to get home for my big hunk as I'd never had one before.. I love the name! 

In my hastiness to get my Taffy Mail box open the brown wrapper led me to believe this was chocolate but a commenter on that post informed me that this is a nougat with peanuts. 

It was HUGE! The packaging says " place bar firmly in one hand, then SMACK! your BIG HUNK on a hard surface, happily eat your bite-sized pieces!" Or " for a softer chew - place your BIG HUNK in the microwave, heat for approximately 5-10 seconds, carefully eat your SUPER SOFT CHEWY SNACK!" Well I like a harder chew and I wanted to use my tiny toffee hammer again so I SMACKED! it with that.. 

I shouldn't have done that. It's a lot more brittle than you'd think and so peanuts and nougat went flying everywhere. I found some in the blinds and behind the microwave. At least this gave me a chance to try the peanuts alone, they were fine; quite large and crunchy but they were unsalted which isn't how I like my peanuts but probably suits the nougat better. 

The bar smelt lovely and sweet, not sugary sweet but more like honey and is mega sticky. I wasn't about to microwave my nougat like some kind of wimp so I dove straight in! 

I have never had anything as chewy as the Big Hunk in my life before. I was, and still am undecided on the flavour, some parts had quite a sweet honey taste but a good three quarters of the bar tasted plain. If the honey was more consistent it would have been much better but as it was I have to say I prefer Barratt Nougat! 

Surprisingly, especially considering how many there were, I couldn't really feel or taste the peanuts. They just seemed to disappear behind the thick chewy nougat. 

If you have read my blog you'll know the chewier something is usually the higher I rate it, I love a good chew. So when I say this is ridiculous please don't underestimate how chewy it really is! 15 minutes of solid chewing later and I was debating giving in and chucking it in the microwave. I stuck it out though and I'm sure I burnt more calories chewing this than I got from eating it. 

Lacking in flavour, serious jaw ache and it became a bit of a chore eating it. 

5/10 

Annabelle's Rocky Road S'mores & Sour Apple Laffy Taffy - Taffy Mail

Handmade milk chocolate coated marshmallow with real Graham Cracker and cashews. 

First out of my Taffy Mail box and the one I was looking most forward to was the Annabelle's Rocky Road S'mores. A s'more is "a traditional nighttime campfire treat popular in the USA and Canada consisting of a roasted marshmallow and a layer of chocolate sandwiched between two pieces of graham cracker" and a graham cracker from what I can see online is like a thinner slightly sweet digestive biscuit. 

It's a big old bar that smelt delicious, a sweet mixture of marshmallow and chocolate and it had a real handmade authentic look to it. 

The marshmallow had a lovely sweet flavour and is soft, fluffy and gooey - stretching between the two halves when I snapped it. It isn't like chewing a proper marshmallow though, it's much lighter than that but it is thicker and chewier than marshmallow fluff. 

The chocolate isn't so much of an aftertaste, it has a stronger flavour than that but I couldn't really taste it until the marshmallow had melted in my mouth. It's not bad chocolate actually - one of the better American chocolates I've tried though it's still mega sweet! 

One of the three ingredients in S'mores are the Graham Crackers so I expected them to be more prominent here and I probably would have noticed it more had there been two layers, both on the top and bottom of the bar rather than just the top. 

Once I got a mouthful with sufficient marshmallow, chocolate and biscuit/cracker though, it was amazing. Sweet, chewy, chocolatey, crunchy goodness! The marshmallow stood out the most which I expected as it takes up easily three quarters of the bar. I forgot until writing this review that there were supposed to be cashews, I'm guessing they are what gives the bar it's nobbly appearance and what made some parts a lot crunchier than others but they weren't very noticable and I didn't really taste anything nutty. However I'll let that slide as they're all handmade apparently so the consistency of the cashews can be forgiven! 

The marshmallow itself is very tasty, the chocolate and crackers are nice enough but all three together were pretty damn good. If you aren't a bit of a sugar fiend like me though be warned, this is a very sweet treat but one I recommend! 

7/10 

Next was another from my Amazon wish list - Sour Apple Laffy Taffy Rope. Apologies for the terrible photo, this was so long it was impossible to photo the whole thing. I'll hand it over to Wikipedia to explain what Taffy is. 

Taffy, or chews, are a type of candy similar to toffee. Taffy is often sold alongside bubblegum and hard candy. Taffy is made by stretching or pulling a sticky mass of boiled sugar, butter or vegetable oil, flavorings, and coloring until it becomes aerated (meaning that tiny air bubbles are produced, resulting in a light, fluffy and chewy candy.

Laffy Taffy get their name from the fact jokes are printed on the wrapper, I won't bother telling you what they are - they're worse than the Penguin wrapper jokes! 

The photo doesn't so justice to how neon green this was and if smellovision existed, I have no doubt I'd still be able to smell the super strong apple even now hours later - I know I can from the wrapper in the bin!! 

Wikipedia may claim it's similar to toffee but I've never had such a soft toffee in my life, not that it's a bad thing - I really liked the texture. It was extremely sticky, smooth and soft but was still nice and chewy. Once I'd chewed a section (seriously it's longer than my placemats) it seemed to melt away in my mouth. 

The apple flavour is intense; very strong and although it wasn't scrunch my face up sour, still sour enough to be called sour apple. I dread to think what crazy E numbers are used but this is what a proper sour sweet should taste like. The banana flavour is already in my shopping basket. 

8/10 

Taffy Mail - American Goodies!

Taffy Mail are a company I've been in contact with on Twitter recently ( @TaffyMail ), they are basically a subscription service; sign up and once a month you'll receive a box filled with American goodies! There are three plans available, the cheapest being the Lite which will get you a taster sized box, the Classic box includes 10-12 American sweets and a can of soda, or the Extra box which has up to 20 American sweets, at least one can of American soda and at least one premium item. 

On the Taffy Mail website, www.taffymail.co.uk   you can actually look back at previous boxes and the premium items have been full sized tubes of American flavoured Pringles, full packages (the American sized ones, not our puny packs) of Oreos, boxes of Twinkies and last months was a whole box of French Toast crunch cereal - I'm gutted I just missed that one! 

Considering the prices supermarkets charge for imported American sweets and snacks (especially the Oreos and Twinkies) and the fact we're pretty limited in the same flavours over and over again (peanut butter Oreos, s'mores Poptarts etc etc) these boxes seem like a great idea to me. It also helps I love a suprise, Mr.1T wasn't impressed at my squealing every time I pulled something else out of the box! 

Taffy Mail very kindly sent me one of their Classic boxes to review, I didn't know what I'd get in the box but I am very happy now I've opened it - the Annabelle Rocky Road S'mores is in my Amazon wishlist but I didn't feel like paying double the price of the chocolate just for delivery! 

I have a feeling these won't last too long! My Classic Box includes; 

Fanta Pineapple - Mr.1T has claimed this one! 

A load of small hard sweet type things called Dads Root Beer Float, I've not tried root beer so this should be interesting! 

A Blue Raspberry Blow Pop, a lolly pop and one I'd heard of before thanks to TV but I don't think I've even seen the actual brand sold in this country. 

Two packets of Warheads Sour Chewy Cubes, I think I've seen Warheads sold before but not the sour chewy cubes. They sound like something I'm going to enjoy! 

Another I've been debating about buying on Amazon but the prices and postage are ridiculous - Sour Apple Laffy Taffy, I've definitely heard of it before but I wasn't sure what it was.

A packet of Chewy Lemonheads Redriffic - these seem like they'll fit in nicely with my current jelly bean phase! 

A full sized box (and note in America they're called theatre sized, to enjoy with a film I'm guessing not the ridiculous Sharing like over here!) of Sour Patch Kids - I've got an inkling these will taste different to our Sour Patch Kids - E numbers galore!! 

A (huge) bar of Big Hunk chocolate, that name really makes me laugh and is very appropriate, it's got some weight to it! 

A Hershey's Cookies'n'Creme bar and funnily enough I mentioned in my Hershey's candy Cane review last week that this is the only Hershey's bar I find edible! 

A Skor Toffee Bar - I think this is similar to Reisen as whenever I've shopped for it online that's been a suggested replacement. 

The aforementioned Annabelle's Rocky Road S'mores - I cannot wait to try this one, I've been after it for ages! 

And finally a 100 Grand Bar - does grand have the same meaning in the US? I can't see how it relates to the crispy pieces inside but it sounds good to me! 

Considering this is a Classic Box I think there's more than a fair amount in there! 

Keep your eyes peeled for the reviews of all of the above (except The Hershey's, I think I've reviews it before) in the near future.

Taffy Mail have also very kindly offered any readers of the blog 15% Discount off of your first box, just go to 

www.Taffymail.co.uk 

and use the code 

TREAT15 

Thank you very much to Taffy Mail for all the goodies, one very happy bunny here!  

Hershey's Candy Cane

Last weeks Wednesday review was a dissapointing chocolate from Duty Free in the good old U.S.A, I thought I'd stick with America and seeing as all my reviews lately have had a seasonal theme to them, go with one of theirs. 

This is Hershey's Candy Cane.

I incorrectly assumed, as the packaging is very similar, that this would be Hershey's cookie & cream bar with some candy cane pieces but it's actually a mint candy with candy bits. 

The bar is in the same long, wide, very thin shape as all the single serving Hershey's I've tried are and it looks like a white chocolate bar with chicken pox, yum! I'll try to not be too biased in this review but it's going to be hard - I don't particularly like Hershey's and I don't really like mint chocolate. In fact I don't even know why I let my husband talk me into buying these.. 

If there was any confusion before as to what the candy (not chocolate) was, the smell of mint smacked me in the face before I'd even properly opened the wrapper. It smelt nice and fresh but it was all I could smell, no hint of the sickly sweet base Hershey's use. 

My first few squares were awful. There's no other way to put it. Ridiculously minty which once I'd finally swallowed each mouthful was followed by a strange sweet creamy flavour. It didn't have the weird flavour I remember some Hershey's to have but it could well have been there, the mint would have overpowered it though. The best way to describe it would be like brushing your teeth then having a big bite of a Milky Bar chocolate before you've rinsed or spat. 

Thankfully the mint dulled down a little in the rest of the bar but then I had the opposite problem - taking a bite of Milky Bar and starting to brush your teeth before you've eaten it. 

The candy pieces added some nice crunch to the bar but no flavour, they are sugar sprinkles basically so probably were what caused this to be overly sweet (I ended up with the dreaded throat burn afterwards) but again the mint was so powerful. 

It got better the further into the bar I ate, purely because it wasn't as minty and the creamy candy became the first flavour but really its only because the first bites were so bad.   

Overly sweet, far too minty and not great quality chocolate (candy). 

I've got a feeling Mr.1T will like it because he loves sickly sweet white chocolate and likes mint chocolate, but there's a good chance it will be too much even for him. 

3/10 

Sweet Journey Chocolates Bittersweet Chocolate

Today's World Food review is Sweet Journey Chocolates Bittersweet Chocolate (Dark Chocolate Tablet). This was a gift from a friend of a friend, going by the packaging and from what I can remember being said when it was given to me, I'm fairly sure this came from Duty Free in the USA. However it's a product of Isreal (?!) and distributed from Irvine, California. The ingredients list is pretty small for an American chocolate; sugar (first ingredient in a dark bar?), chocolate liquor, cocoa butter, soy/rapeseed lecithin and emulsifiers, Vanillin (artificial flavour). 

The chocolate is foil wrapped under the paper packaging which kept it nice and fresh on its travels. 

I don't really know why but the bar was covered in pictures of cows. 

It smelt very sweet, even for milk chocolate let alone a dark, bittersweet bar, it didn't taste as sweet as it smelt though. It lacked the richness I like in dark chocolate and tasted more like a plain chocolate though I could really taste the Vanillin (which turns out is the primary component of the extract of the vanilla bean) in the bar - I googled it to double check what it was as it had a real vanilla taste to it. None of this is too bad in itself, to be honest I've come to expect sweetness in dark chocolate from the USA but what I didn't expect was the awful, bitter aftertaste in each mouthful. It's like whoever made this thought bittersweet, dark chocolate is just milk with a nasty bitter flavour chucked in at the end. 

The texture and consistency weren't quite right either. It had a thick, nice enough bite and quite a gritty mouthfeel but it had no melt to it whatsoever. Whereas in the Rausch chocolates I didn't mind that and it was just slightly odd, the poorer quality of chocolate used here just made it feel like plastic. Not only did it not melt in the mouth at all but usually when I eat a darker bar I end up with almost black chocolatey smears all over my hands, but nothing here - again it was like holding little blocks of plastic. 

It's edible, the vanilla flavoured, might as well be milk chocolate is addictive in a guilty, I know this is crap I'm eating way if you can ignore the horrible aftertaste and the feeling you're eating chocolate coloured and shaped Lego. 

5/10 

Klik Party Mix

Today's world food Wednesday review is a strange one. It's a Kosher product made by Unilever Isreal in Isreal but distributed by an American company from Brooklyn, New York. All the packaging and labels are in English with no other languages at all so make of that what you will. 

Klik are a brand I've noticed before in Asda, I'd seen a couple of bags mainly a Malteaser like chocolate and I think a fudge too. This is party mix 'a mix of Klik vanilla & fudge, cookie and Kariot ("pillows"). 

I was a bit confused by the description as to wether one was vanilla and fudge or if there were seperate vanilla balls and fudge balls. There were four different types in my bag. 

I started with the small round milk chocolate balls. Although the description says vanilla and fudge, cookies and Kariot the ingredients have only two different types listed: Kariot and biscuit snacks. I'm not sure if these were supposed to have a fudge flavour but there wasn't any. The milk chocolate was Ok - not bad, nothing great but I didn't really enjoy the biscuit centre. The texture was crunchy but it had more of a stale crunch feel rather than a crispy biscuit. 

The little white balls were noticeably sweeter than the milk chocolate ones. I'm guessing these were supposed to be the vanilla but again I didn't really notice any. The chocolate coating was quite thin so as before the stale feeling biscuit was the main thing I noticed with these. 

With both the milk and the white  balls the centres seemed a lot more like cereal or wafer than biscuit, I can see cereal listed but they seem to be for the other one. I think this may be a case of lost in translation! Both eaten together are an improvement on individually, there is more of a chocolate flavour which is very sweet but still quite milky and ended up being very enjoyable. 

The larger rounder chocolates had the biscuit centre I was waiting for, so I'm guessing these are cookie. It's quite soft more like a shortbread and I think it must be as it has a lovely buttery flavour too. I think I tasted a hint of vanilla but it wasn't strong enough to notice too much. 

The biggest square ones were definitely the Kariot or nougat filled pillows. They had the same stale wafer/cereal texture (but cereal is listed as an ingredient for these) but instead of making up the whole centre there was a quite thick layer just underneath the chocolate surrounding the nougat. The nougat tastes mainly of chocolate but does have a slight nutty aftertaste. 

Overall (despite how it sounds) I quite liked these. For a bag that only weighed 75g, it had loads in it -  easily over 50 pieces. Eaten individually none are that great but they do make a decent mix all together. The two larger chocolates are the tastiest by far with the shortbread slightly beating the nougat but I would like to see a more varied mix of flavours in a 'Party Mix' 

Still they were tasty enough! 

7/10 

American M&M's Part 2

Part one of my American M&M review can be found here, where I tried Birthday Cake and Peanut Butter flavour M&Ms and M&M cookies. 

Today is the turn of Mint Chocolate, Dark Chocolate and Pretzel flavours. 

Mint

Not only are they mint flavoured but the chocolate inside is also a dark chocolate. Nowhere on either the mint or dark chocolate packs can I find any information on how dark a chocolate is used, but I'm guessing not very. 

In keeping with the mint theme, there isn't a mix of colours but different shades of green. Again they seem a little bit bigger than usual and I was wondering if American M&M's are just bigger than ours in general. 

I could smell the mint straight away, still lingering in the empty bag and through the candy shell. 

To say these are strong would be an understatement. They are ridiculously minty! To the point when I ate one alone it was like eating a polo, pure mint with a faint chocolate aftertaste. The chocolate does taste stronger when you eat a few at a time but then so does the mint. The chocolate itself didn't taste noticable darker. 

They are moreish and although I didn't particularly enjoy them I did finish the bag. One for the mint/mint chocolate lovers definitely, they were just too minty for me. 

Rating 5/10 

Dark Chocolate 

Next up was dark chocolate, which I was very much looking forward to even though the chocolate hadn't impressed me too much in the mint. Again it doesn't state how dark the chocolate is or give much description at all, but the first ingredient in both is semisweet chocolate. 

These seemed more like the size I'm used to. 

They did smell like normal chocolate which at first left me a little disappointed but I realised it smelt more like our normal chocolate rather than sugary candy. 

Trying them they did taste slightly darker, by no means were they dark dark or bitter but definitely less sweet than ususal. The chocolate was quite nice actually and I preferred it. You still have the sugary sweetness in the candy shell but rather than a sugary chocolate centre which can be overpowering, the chocolate was the main flavour. 

Another addictive bag! 

Rating 8/10 

Pretzel 

Next up was Pretzel, it's slightly different from the other bags, rather than being flavoured it's actually the candy shell and milk chocolate wrapped around pretzel pieces instead of a solid chocolate centre. 

Firstly these don't even look like M&Ms, they're more of a circle than a disc and they're absolutely huge! 

That's a Mega M&M next to it - not an ordinary one! 

I tried one and straight away I was unsure. It's a bit strange to be honest. For starters it's a lot less chocolatey. 

One lost a part of the shell in the bag so you can see it's a very thin layer of chocolate inside. 

They are even more crunchy than usual but it seemed like the wrong kind of  

crunchy to me.  They felt stale to be perfectly honest- not stale tasting at all but the crunch just felt like when something that's supposed to be crispy goes a bit soft but you still get that crunch. I hope that makes sense! 

Some of the larger ones were slightly salty but overall I found these a bit boring and I wasn't a fan of the texture. 

Rating 5/10 

Mega

I wasn't going to review the Mega M&Ms, having reviewed the UK version here a couple of weeks ago. But I thought it might be interesting to compare the two, seeing as its in the very recent memory! 

They looked just the same as our ones but that's were the similarities ended. As I wasn't planning on doing a proper review I shovelled a couple in my mouth and couldn't believe I noticed the difference straight away. Whereas in our Mega M&Ms everything seemed a lot more chocolatey, these were much like the end of the Birthday Cake flavour. They were sickly sweet - but immediately. The chocolate was not nice at all. I mentioned during the week I reviewed American snacks and chocolate I hadn't come across a chocolate that had the sicky flavour to it - well I jinxed myself because I found it here. 

I actually googled the UK version to find an ingredient list, which I found on the Asda website, and compared to the back of the packet from the U.S.A and suprise suprise - there are quite a few differences! 

The texture and feel are the same but I did not enjoy the flavour of these one bit. 

Rating 5/10