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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I bet you thought that was it for new ice cream from Ben & Jerry's? I know I did, but stuffed behind the Magnums in Tesco I found a whole shelf full of individual Chocolate Fudge Brownie ice cream sandwiches! I did notice a chocolate 'Wich on the press release Ben & Jerry's sent out but I hadn't seen or heard anything other than that darker looking 'Wich in the background of a photo. It makes sense though, in the UK especially, I know if you asked most of my friends and family to name 2 Ben & Jerry's flavours, they'd say Cookie Dough and Chocolate Fudge Brownie - they're the classics. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The wrapper is a bit busted, the Chocolate Fudge Brownie 'Wich is sold individually rather than in the boxes of 3 or 8 like the Cookie Dough, this is probably so it's put in the smaller ice cream cases but my local Tesco saw fit to dump as many as they could in the big</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">freezers, hence why it isn't as pretty looking as its Cookie Dough bro.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Its the same size as the larger Cookie Dough 'Wich and just as sturdy, if a little melted with a chocolate brownie scent rather than outright chocolate. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I stored it in the same freezer at home as the Cookie Dough 'Wich but the Chocolate Fudge Brownie was a lot softer to begin with and had a much faster melt, this could be due to the ice cream itself but it's much more likely my Tesco were up to their old tricks of leaving the frozen products sitting in the aisles for a few hours before actually shelving them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Taking a bite the consistency was again the first thing I noticed, due to the fact it had already half melted it was a lot softer to eat - the Cookie Dough was soft too but still had a firmness to it whereas this felt a lot more like melted ice cream. Still I think I'm blaming Tesco for that. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Despite my first mouthful including the cookie and the ice cream the first thing I both felt and</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> tasted were the large brownie chunks inside the ice cream. Full of flavour with a soft, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">chewy</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">texture just like in the tubs and despite Tesco's best efforts no freezer burn whatsoever. But we all know Ben & Jerry's have good quality control! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The ice cream is very much the same story, typical Ben & Jerry's chocolate ice cream. Thick and creamy with a lovely chocolate taste although it isn't quite as strong as in the pints. Interestingly according to Ben & Jerry's website it does have a different recipe to the tubs but that isn't necessarily a bad thing, as it is it's chocolate on chocolate on chocolate so an ice cream with the same strength of flavour as the tubs might well end up overdoing it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The cookies were very different, for starters as you can see they're chocolate based. Initially I was a little disappointed (I never thought I'd say that in a B&J review!) as based on the colour I expected a strong cocoa flavour like a bourbon biscuit (or an Oreo if you must).</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Once I thought about it though, they aren't biscuits like a Bourbon or Oreo - they're a double chocolate chip cookie - the flavour was fine. Hopefully you understand what I mean when I say they're chocolate flavoured not cocoa, as strange as that sounds. It's a very nice chocolate flavour with chocolate chips scattered about, not too many but enough to provide smaller and stronger bursts of chocolate flavour - as if you didn't already have enough! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As I mentioned previously in this review and in the Cookie Dough, despite efforts otherwise, they had no sogginess or freezer burn but they are completely different in texture, softer than in the Cookie Dough 'Wich and most shop bought Cookies. If this was because of the way Tesco had stored them, then I can't thank Tesco enough and recommend you leave yours out for a while before freezing - they ended up with a consistency a lot more like a brownie than a cookie and as it fits in with the theme of the 'Wich, it was much more appropriate than a harder cookie. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Another very tasty 'Wich from Ben & Jerrys, of the two I think the Cookie Dough has the edge just slightly as there is a greater contrast between ice cream, cookie dough chunks and actual cookies where in the Chocolate Fudge Brownie it's a little more blurred. That's by no means a criticism on the Chocolate Fudge - a big chocolatey, chewy gooey mess but that's just how I like it! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Oh no!! Very sadly (for me) it's the final four chocolates from the Leonidas Dark Chocolate Assortment Box. Part <a href="http://1treat.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/leonidas-dark-chocolate-assortment.html" target="_blank">One</a>, <a href="http://1treat.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/leonidas-dark-chocolate-assortment-part.html" target="_blank">Two</a> and <a href="http://1treat.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/leonidas-dark-chocolate-assortment-part_11.html" target="_blank">Three</a> have to be some of the tastiest chocolates I've eaten and this is certainly the best box of chocolates I've had in a very long time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I know my normal modus operandi is to eat worst to best but I couldn't help myself with the chocolates in part three so I was left with four that while I knew they'd be good, if I <i style="font-weight: bold;">had</i> to share some, would probably have been the four I'd give up. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Awww, I love you too Leonidas! I'm not sure what lemon, a normally quite sharp and bitter taste has to do with love but what do I know? If you're up to date with my Leonidas posts you'll know citrus flavours aren't usually my cup of tea but Leonidas aren't playing by my rules so far.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It seems I might not have left the worst, in fact this could be one of the best! I did not expect to taste a delicious sweet lemon, I'd assumed a sharp tart flavour but it wasn't at all. The sweet fruity flavour was the perfect accompaniment to the rich dark chocolate. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As well as citrus flavours, I usually eat around the alcoholic ones too. Way back in part one there was a rum filled chocolate which I loved although there have been a few since then with the familiar harsh alcohol flavour I'm not too keen on. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The chocolate casing seemed thicker than of late and was just as good as ever, a nice strong flavour until the Brandy kicked in. Wow, it's strong although maybe a little too authentic for me. It's very tasty and it's not that I disliked it, its just so... 'real' tasting that I think it'd need a proper Brandy fan to truly appreciate it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Cranberry is a fruit I shy away from, not because of a dislike but because it makes me think of things that do not need to be written about on a food blog thank you very much! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The crispy praline is wonderful, a soft thick filling with crisp crunchy pieces dotted throughout. The flavours were good too, it tasted a lot sweeter overall than the vast majority of the other chocolates. One negative (or positive depending on where you stand) is that the flavour all came from the sweetened praline, not due to any cranberry. To tell you the truth I couldn't see, let alone taste any cranberry pieces but regardless it was good. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I usually prefer my cherry to be of the sour variety, covered in sugar and in gummy form but I'll eat it in chocolate, if I <i>have</i> to... The attention to detail in the whole box has been lovely, from chocolates shaped like coffee beans to Greek characters embossed on top, they've thought of it all and the very last is the cherry on top...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">The runny, sweet juices came from the whole Morello Cherry sitting nicely inside. Its large, juicy, a little chewy and sweet with the most vibrant cherry flavour. The liqueur cream left a very boozey aftertaste behind, but the good kind and I'll admit - I literally licked the plate clean afterwards. Incredible. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What a box of chocolates! There were lots of flavours I assumed I'd hate and some I thought I'd love. Some I was on the money and others surprised me but what I can say about every single chocolate is that what really shines through is the quality of the ingredients. Even if it was a flavour I normally hate, there was no denying the stuff's good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> It's my birthday in a few months Mr.1T - I'll try the milk next time please!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I like white chocolate buttons, I like milk chocolate buttons. I like Milkybar buttons, I like Cadbury buttons. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But which is better? There's only one way to find out...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You wait forever for a bag of mixed buttons and two come along at once! First up -</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A mix of giant white chocolate buttons and giant chocolate milkshake flavour buttons. </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I was pleased to find a fair mix of both flavours in the bag and wasn't too surprised at the overwhelming sweetness that I could smell, after all they might not be exclusively Milkybar buttons but there's still enough of them in there. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The white chocolate buttons are standard Milkybar; creamy, very sweet with the typical and familiar Milkybar flavour. Not really what I'd want to eat all the time but I have a soft spot for it all the same. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The "chocolate milkshake" buttons are a little weird. Note that they aren't actually chocolate but rather chocolate milkshake flavoured... Visibly they aren't milk chocolate with a lighter almost creamier colour. They don't taste like milk chocolate and they don't taste like white chocolate but they don't really taste like a milkshake either! I don't know, but they aren't something I think I'd want to eat a whole bag of. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A mouthful of both doesn't improve on the milkshake aspect, both can be tasted but the strong Milkybar buttons are the greater flavour and just stopped short of being all I could taste. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They're O.K. The chocolate milkshake was a bit of a fail, I'd have preferred Nestle to have just used an actual chocolate button - it probably would have created more of a milkshake flavour paired with the Milkybar. That said, there's something about Milkybar buttons, I never particularly crave them and sure, they burn my throat but they're super nostalgic and they make me happy while I'm eating them! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I know I've been swearing off Cadbury and going back on that <i>a lot</i> lately but I can say I've never properly slagged off my beloved Cadbury Buttons. They might not be up to much in the flavour stakes as of late but that's my childhood right there! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thanks to the new Dairy Milk Mixed Buttons bag, never again will I have to buy individual bags of each and mix them together. Lazy me is very pleased! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Normally Cadbury Buttons in a sharing sized bag are the Giant Buttons but as there doesn't seem to be such thing as a Cadbury White Chocolate Giant Button, they've used the baby ones in the mixed bag. On the one hand you have to shove more in at once to get the same chocolate hit, but on the other judging by Dairy Milk lately you might be better off with not as much chocolate flavour! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I didn't realise until I'd opened the Cadbury bag just how light coloured the chocolate milkshake buttons are - they make Cadbury Dairy Milk look like a dark chocolate! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There too was a decent, near enough perfectly even mix of the two buttons but unlike the Milkybar bag this smelt mainly of milk chocolate with just a touch of something sweeter coming from the white buttons. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Dairy Milk buttons are far superior (even with the new recipe!) to the Nestle Chocolate Milkshake buttons. For starters it has a lot more of a chocolate flavour but even then its still kind of... blander or weaker than a standard Dairy Milk bar. As I said, I think this is due to the size of the buttons and while you might assume less chocolate is a bad thing, that's not necessarily the case. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Dairy Milk buttons don't compare to old school Dairy Milk buttons but they're much nicer than the sorry excuse we're sold today - yes there is a milder chocolate flavour than the bars and less of a milky flavour than before but this also means there's much less of the sickly sweetness the new bars seem to have. I think if I had a bar of 90's buttons and this bag side by side, I'd be disappointed but as it stands they're not bad and I'd eat them over any other Cadbury product right now. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The white chocolate buttons are more of the same. I mean very, very few white chocolates have a proper chocolatey cocoa flavour but the Cadbury buttons are milder than the Milkybar with less of a creamy taste. Again this means less of the overwhelming sweetness too so it's swings and roundabouts - it all evens out. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Together they're pretty good actually, a much better blend of the two buttons than previously where it was mainly about the white chocolate. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well done if you read all of that! If you skimmed over the pictures and ended up down here I don't blame you at all.. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Anyway, if I had my way I'd take the Milkybar buttons (in moderation) and the Cadbury Dairy Milk buttons please. Failing that, as an all round bag the winner is shockingly Cadbury! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last year Nestle released the <a href="http://1treat.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/aero-mousse.html" target="_blank">Aero Mousse</a>, I think I was alone in my enjoyment of it but I did say at the time a flavoured mousse would be nice - maybe mint, orange or hazelnut. Nestle have taken the safe route with caramel but I'm not complaining! </span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Smooth milk chocolate filled with bubbly milk chocolate and a layer of aerated caramel flavour chocolate mousse. </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is no visible difference between the plain Aero Mousse and the Caramel but the latter had a delicious caramel scent from the off. Both bars contain the same amount of mousse filling but unlike in the plain it's clear as day in the Caramel. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The fact I'd snapped it all apart affected the taste a little. I noticed the 2 squares on either end had less mousse inside, for some reason I ate these first (blame the OCD) and the unmistakable taste of Aero chocolate was nearly all I could taste. I could certainly feel the creamy mousse - the textures at play are lovely in this bar regardless of the flavours: the thick snap of the chocolate casing, the light and almost melting aerated chocolate inside and a thick creamier mousse, lovely! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The middle four squares had more mousse and the change in flavour was immediate. The Aero chocolate was more of an after taste and the caramel was stronger. It's very nice, quite sweet but it has a strong caramel flavour. It was actually a bit strange eating it without feeling the gooey stickiness of usual caramel! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I do think one litte change could make an improvement though, the whole time I was waiting for a saltiness that never came. I know, I normally moan everything is salted caramel flavour and I'm asking for it here! Maybe I've just got too used to it - Mr.1T looked at me like I was mad when I said it to him so that's a disagreement from him - I also just realised I wanted salt in yesterdays review too, maybe I'm deficient! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Very nice, improvement on the original. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There's a new chocolate bar on the block! Galaxy have added Toffee & Popcorn to its <a href="http://1treat.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/duet" target="_blank">Duet line</a>. You won't find many Galaxy chocolate reviews on my blog, I was, until recent years, a Cadbury girl but Cadbury are sadly pants now and I'm a sucker for new and 'strange' flavours. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The bar itself looked the same, same shape as the other Duet bars and the same distinctive sheen of Galaxy chocolate. Things didn't start off well as it smelt sickeningly sweet - even by my standards - paired with a not too pleasant toffee scent. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The toffee is actually a toffee flavoured caramel filling, so no lovely chewiness but that thick gooey caramel isn't a bad consolation! The bars are on the narrow side anyway, sectioned in to two separate fingers make things even smaller but they'd managed to pack a fair amount of each in. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The 'toffee' side which smelt a lot like toffee but looked a lot like caramel thankfully was bang in the middle of both. A lovely toffee flavour that was nowhere near as sickeningly sweet as it smelt with the thick luxury feel of a caramel. Pleasingly the toffee is still strong enough to distinguish from caramel though - it doesn't taste like the other Galaxy caramel flavours at least! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The popcorn side wasn't quite as good. I enjoyed the crunchy texture as I knew I would but there was nothing really 'popcorn' about it - it could well have been crisped rice or bland nuts for all I could tell, I didn't notice any popcorn flavour at the time anyway. Some pieces did have a softer chewier bite like proper popcorn but the majority were crunchy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I wish I could say that both flavours eaten together improved, any slight popcorn flavour that might have been there was overwhelmed by the strong toffee until half way through I realised I wasn't getting much popcorn at all... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">... Thanks for that Galaxy! It did return eventually but to tell you the truth the gooey sticky caramel and the thick smooth chocolate really diluted what crunch there was. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's O.K. The toffee flavour was nice but I think the popcorn side would benefit from being in a larger bar to squeeze in some bigger pieces. I said I didn't taste the popcorn alone and that didn't change throughout but I am left with a slight saltiness in my mouth afterwards, a bit more of that and they could well be on to a winner! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you follow my Instagram or Twitter you might have noticed I'm a bit of a Pick'n'Mix fiend, personally I'm still mourning the loss of Woolworths but Candy King do the job quite nicely. Nestle have saved me a trip to Wilkos by taking a few favourites, Smarties, Rolos, Aero Bubbles and Toffee Crisp Bite Size and put them in a sharing sized bag named Pick & Mix. Whenever I choose my own Pick'n'Mix, Smarties and Chocolate Fudge Crunch (basically the 'cheap' version of a Toffee Crisp) are the first in my tub so I'm happy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's all well and good, perfectly tasty but Nestle have missed a trick. They own Rowntree's. Now I like chocolate but Pick & Mix is just that - a mix. Where are the sweets? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What're the bets that in a few months a bigger, more expensive bag is released with the Rowntree's Pick & Mix (Tooty Fruitys, Fruit Pastilles and Fruit Gums) mixed in? Actually.. I might buy a bag and do that myself - it'll be a lot cheaper than Candy King anyway! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">These were one of the many goodies I picked up in M&S recently. Caramels are a perfect Saturday night treat, they're so easy to mindlessly shove in my mouth in front the telly and that is exactly how this Saturday night went down - which explains my fabulous Liquorice Allsort spare duvet cover providing the backdrop. As I've preached to everyone, don't bother with throws and blankets just get a cheap duvet and use it just for on the sofa, it is so cosy and comfortable! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The M&S Soft Caramels aren't new but they do have a new recipe. Not that I'd tried the old recipe, if I've said it once, I've said it a million times - I'd spend a hell of a lot more money in Markses if they put their products on the website, I can never be bothered to wander round on the off chance there might be something I want to buy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Underneath the bright pink wrappers the chocolates are up to Marks & Spencer's usual standards. I barely looked at the actual chocolate after I'd unwrapped them and it would have been easy to just stick a lump of chocolate with some caramel inside but they looked as nice as they would have had they been displayed in a box of chocolates rather than hidden inside some foil. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Initially I could only smell chocolate. Again M&S high standards play a role, in other bags of wrapped caramels it's not unusual to find a couple of broken chocolates where the caramel has oozed out but as always these were in perfect condition and the thick chocolate shells had sealed the caramel and any scents away. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The caramels only contain 30% caramel centres to a decent 70% milk chocolate shell and with those sorts of ratios I'd expect to taste even a hint of chocolate but that was not the case at all. It might not take up even a third of the overall product but 99% of the taste was the caramel. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's thick, runny and gooey - I went to brush my teeth after eating these and my chin was covered in caramel - I'm not usually that messy of an eater! A perfect consistency for soft caramel in my opinion but the flavour let it down somewhat. It's a very tasty caramel flavour but it's soon overpowered by a burning, sickly sweetness. I hadn't even finished one mouthful when I said to Mr.1T "wow these are sweet aren't they?" and in fact the word sickly came from him, not me - and that's saying something! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The caramel was thick enough to be scooped out, Creme Egg style, so I got a good taste of the unadulterated chocolate too. I've had a few M&S milk chocolates recently and continue to be surprised at the quality. Even when used in flavoured bars or bags where the chocolate isn't a predominant flavour they don't fob you off with the cheap stuff. It's milky yet still has a proper chocolate flavour and is really quite good quality stuff. There was still a lingering sugary sweetness though and due to the overpowering nature of the caramel I'm unsure if this was a left over from that or the chocolate was on the sweet side too. I think I'll give M&S the benefit of the doubt, none of the other milk chocolates have had that problem, and blame it on the caramel. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The chocolate shell was very crisp with a decent snap and the same rich dark chocolate flavour I'd enjoyed in every other chocolate. The caramel inside was gorgeous; thick and almost gritty with a wonderful caramel flavour, it was extremely sweet - especially compared to the deeper darker flavours of the rest of the assortment but balanced beautifully against the outer chocolate. A caramel well done! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Last week I reviewed the delicious <a href="http://1treat.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/carte-dor-sweet-strawberry-sorbet.html" target="_blank">Sweet Strawberry Sorbet from Carte D'or</a>. I also grabbed the Sicilian Lemon Sorbet at the time and I was quite looking forward to it, figuring the quality previously meant surely this had to be as good. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's not as yellow as other lemon sorbets, more of a pale lemonade colour with bright yellow patches dotted about. The Sweet Strawberry had large real strawberry pieces and I didn't think they'd do the same with lemon - I mean I don't know too many people who sit and eat actual lemons. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm telling you, I've sucked lemons (post Tequila, naturally) that have less of a lemon flavour than this sorbet. It's ridiculously strong, tart to the point of actually being bitter, much more towards the sour end of the scale than sweet and isn't very pleasant at all. And that's just the sorbet! The small, hard pieces of lemon add no pleasurable texture - just yet more lemon flavour. OK, I thought, maybe it's just me? I'm not a great fan of lemon anyway and so I thought 4 would be a fair rating. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sticking to my "waste not, want not" rule I tried to ride it out, halfway through though I'd had enough and declared it inedible, to which Mr.1T - self proclaimed lemon sorbet lover - replied "Thank God you said it first, it's disgusting". I don't always force him to clear his plate...Honestly! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So the Trio is back! I'm afraid I'm not as excited as everyone else because I know I've not eaten one before. This is because I was probably the most boring person ever when it came to food. I've mentioned it quite a lot but I've made a helpful tool for future reference:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And that pretty much sums up my childhood! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now I don't have any previous experience to compare the Trio's much awaited return to but I'm hearing good things online. It seems like McVities are one of a few companies who aren't compromising quality over costs and have in fact stated that although there have been a few modifications to allow for modern manufacturing processes, the ratio and tastes should be exactly the same, and, rather than shrinking the size like so many other companies, the Trio is actually 15% bigger than it used to be! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well I'd have hated to see how small they were before! Short and quite fat, they're larger than a two finger Kit Kat but nothing like a proper chocolate bar. To be fair the Trio is more of a chocolate biscuit but you know what I mean! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Halle-freaking-lujah! After a loooong search I finally found the Ben & Jerry's Cookie Dough 'Wich. I mentioned a while ago that the my blog evolved from an idea to try every single flavour and product from Ben & Jerry's. I first saw a Ben & Jerry's ice cream sandwich about 4 years ago in a shop on one of my jobs, I don't have the type of job where I can stop for an ice cream so I decided to go back on the way home from work. It was gone. And I've never seen it again until now! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I wrote in my Ambrosia Frozen Custard review "more fool you if you pay full price for Ben & Jerry's".. Well I'm a mug because I paid a (disgusting) £4 for THREE small-ish ice cream sandwiches. Ouch, I kind of hoped they would be awful so I wouldn't be tempted to buy any more! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I say small-ish but that's greed, they're fairly sized, maybe not £4 fairly sized but pretty filling and big enough for a cookie and ice cream hit. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I was fairly surprised at the amount of ice cream as it's a decent blob sitting in between the cookies. My cookies weren't swirled as is on the front of the box but half and half and pleasingly the two were on opposite sides so I got an even mouthful of each. It smelt a lot like Cookie Dough Ice Cream and that's nothing to scoff at - it might be an oldie but its definitely a goodie! B&J know better than to mess with the classics. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As you may be aware, I don't rate Oreos so I've never had the Oreo Ice Cream Sandwich and I can't remember eating any before so I wasn't sure what to expect with the cookies themselves. Happily they were pretty much perfect. Not only were they absolutely delicious but they had a normal cookie texture - no frozen feel and no defrosted sogginess. The only acceptable time for a soggy biscuit is after dunking! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The ice cream is as good as ever, B&J's usual quality with a wonderful vanilla flavour and large chewy cookie dough chunks - the same, I'm guessing, that are used in the Cookie Dough Ice Cream. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One slight difference on the tubs is the consistency of the ice cream. I don't think I'd be able to physically chew the normal stuff straight out of the freezer but it was soft enough to in the 'Wich, it was just right actually, firm enough to stay nice and sturdy in the cookies right down to the last bite and no melting mess everywhere. I shouldn't be surprised really, Ben & Jerry's normally think everything through! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Very, very nice. Sadly as there isn't too much ice cream Mr.1T and his lactose intolerance managed it just fine and he's fighting me over the last one! I really hope they go on offer somewhere in the very near future. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was difficult choosing which ones to have, I knew from experience that about 7 would be my limit before they became too rich and the menu provided has literally every single product Leonidas sell, not only what is included in the box in front of me. Donning my tin foil hat, I'm telling you it's a conspiracy, now I can see what else they sell I just know that I'll be </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">buying some more before this box is polished off!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This chocolate was nearly identical to the Noir De Noir from last weeks review, right down to the Leonidas moulded in the chocolate. The only difference is the slightly curved edges of the Floranger so a word of advice to anyone with a mixed assortment like this - look very carefully, especially if you have allergies or are avoiding particular ingredients. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now this is more my type of chocolate, one of the very few in the box containing any colour other than almost black. I had to Google Sao Tomé, apparently it's an African island country </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">who were once a leading cocoa producer. There aren't any details on this particular chocolate but I'll go out on a limb and guess this is where the chocolate used comes from. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When I first glanced over the menu I thought this would be a sort of roulette mystery chocolate but it's not.. Leonidas are far too grown up for that! It was the only chocolate </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">so far where the picture on the menu didn't match up to real life, but the reality was much more what I'd expect from the description. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Once again a fresh butter cream is used but it is mixed in with a praliné so it wasn't quite the same as the Mystere filling. It's still heavenly though, in fact I've decided if I'm ever on death row my last meal request is bowls and bowls of fresh butter cream. Sadly this was the first chocolate that I was somewhat disappointed by, it's not that it wasn't good - trust me, it was - it's just that after having a coffee flavoured chocolate that not only met my ridiculously high expectations previously but exceeded them, this was a bit of a damp squib. The coffee flavour just wasn't strong enough for my liking. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The humble Digestive, in a list of great British inventions it has to be in the top 5 surely. Especially chocolate Digestives! McVities have released something I never realised I wanted but as soon as I saw it I knew I had to buy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And buy I did, three versions - Milk Chocolate, Caramel Chocolate and Dark Chocolate. There's a Double Chocolate flavour available as well and I assure you, I'd have bought that too if Asda had had it in stock! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I figured I'd review the most basic flavour, basic it might be but there are times when the boring Milk Chocolate Digestive reigns supreme - I know lots of people swear by the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Nibbles are basically just balls of Digestive Biscuit coated in chocolate, exactly the same as the standard Digestives just in small circular form and sold in a sharing bag so you don't feel quite as guilty eating the lot as you would an entire packet.. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In terms of ingredients the milk chocolate makes up 54% of the finished product so in theory</span> should be the most noticeable. There was a strong chocolate scent but not in the same way as say, a packet of chocolate buttons smell. They smelt slightly more chocolatey than standard Chocolate Digestives but only just - they still smelt like Digestives to me anyway. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Considering there's supposedly 54% of the stuff, the chocolate layer is quite thin and nowhere near as thick as it is on the bottom (yes, the bottom! We've all been eating them upside down!) of a chocolate Digestive. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In taste, the chocolate flavour is nice. I've just had a quick look over the ingredients for both these and the biscuits and the chocolate is actually different: The Nibbles chocolate uses more cocoa mass and a little less milk and the biscuits use skimmed milk instead of whole and have butter oil, vegetable fats and palm oil. It seems like the Nibbles bag are marketed as more of a chocolate than a biscuit and so use a better quality chocolate, but honestly, I didn't really notice a difference. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The biscuit is identical in taste and ingredients with the exception of skimmed milk and </span>glazing agents used in the Nibbles but they are the very least used ingredients and I certainly didn't notice them in flavour.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Imagine Chocolate Digestives in tiny ball shapes - this is what they taste like. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They are even more addictive and moreish than in biscuit form though and I had no issues munching my way through the bag though there was something that kept niggling me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They look like, and begin to taste like, Maltesers except you're waiting for the familiar hard, malt flavoured crunch of a Malteser that never comes. It wasn't a problem for me but some people might find it off-putting. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This was another discovery made while looking for those bloody Ben & Jerry's 'Wich ice cream sandwiches! I was a lot more excited about these than the F<a href="http://1treat.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/ambrosia-frozen-custard-vanilla-with.html" target="_blank">rozen Custard</a> though. I reckon during strawberry season I eat about four punnets a week (see I'm not completely unhealthy), I also like to freeze them - more on that later - and I'm always partial to a sorbet or two! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The tubs a funny one, it's a standard 500ml pint but rather than put it in the usual shaped container every other company uses, Carte D'or have made a medium sized version of the really tiny one portion and bigger family sized tubs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's delicious. The sorbet is thick and creamy feeling, not quite like ice cream but not icy at all and nothing like the other sorbets I've tried from the supermarkets. Compared to this, those taste like Slush Puppies or flavoured ice - this has a real luxurious texture. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I would say it'd be perfect to make a strawberry daiquiri with but I think that would be a waste of good sorbet! Mr.1T enjoyed the flavour, but he said it was too much strawberry.. I'm not sure what he's on about - you can never have too much strawberry - and I don't know what else he expected from a strawberry sorbet but he is usually a lemon man anyway. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Lady Luck is firmly on my side recently! Not only did I finally find the Covent Garden Mulitgrain Risotto I've been after completely by accident, but on Saturday the lovely<a href="http://nibblesnscribbles.com/" target="_blank"> Nibs</a> tweeted that Ambrosia were releasing a frozen custard, initially in Morrisons and on Ocado. My interest was certainly piqued but my Morrisons may as well be Hell on Earth and I wasn't planning on an Ocado order any time soon. I was rummaging the freezer in Sainsbury's for the Ben & Jerry's Cookie Dough 'Wich when what should I find but the frozen custards! Funny how things work out.. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I got to Googling, as from what I remember the recipe for ice cream is basically a custard but it seems there are a few differences. According to U.S FDA Guidelines (I'm assuming a similar sort of standard goes for the U.K), for a frozen dessert to be considered a frozen custard it has to have a higher (1.4%) percentage of egg yolk solids - a smaller percentage means it's ice cream. Wikipedia informs me "true" frozen custard is a lot denser than ice cream, up to 100% overrun - half of the finished product can be air in soft serve ice cream but in frozen custard it is around 15-30%, similar to gelato. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I couldn't really care about the minor specifics as long as it tastes good and I love me some Ambrosia custard! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Things had started well even buying the things - </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">- look at the size of these bad boys! 850ml compared to a standard 500ml Ben & Jerry's and quite a bit cheaper at £3.25. Though if you're still paying full price for B&J more fool you, seeing as they're always on offer somewhere! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I got carried away and bought myself both flavours, Vanilla and Vanilla with Chunky Fudge but I decided to kick things off with the latter. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So, after all that its not even technically a pure frozen custard and it shows in the consistency. It couldn't have been any softer straight from the freezer without being a melted mess! It was a lot closer to soft scoop ice cream than any other big brand ice cream being sold in the supermarkets with the exception of Walls Big Bite - if you've tried that, this is how soft it is, although to be fair it does have a much thicker and fuller mouth feel. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> The flavour is vanilla, still I expected some kind of similarity to custard but the yellow was about as far as that went. There was no distinctive custard taste and not too much vanilla if I'm honest. There tend to be two types of vanilla: proper, delicious vanilla bean style flavour and the vanilla which is more of a plain base flavour, which sadly this is. It's OK but a bit boring. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The bottom two thirds had a lot less fudge chunks but a whole lot more sauce and thankfully, its delicious. The flavour alternates between fudge and caramel though I find them to be quite similar anyway, and it's lovely and strong. It's sweet and rich yet was perfectly manageable amongst the duller vanilla and fudge chunks. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So this was another gift card purchase from the M&S Easter aisle, I'm still on the hunt for Cadbury replacements and I convinced myself that was reason enough to buy them - I'm sure I would have anyway, I always give in and buy things when I can see them through those damn clear packets! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My bag contained three different colours and they mostly had an egg shape, some were a bit squashed but they were eggy enough. The speckles finish it off nicely and they really do look like tiny coloured real eggs, I reckon if they were a bluey colour you could pass them off as Quails eggs but there is never any question to Marks & Spencer's attention to detail. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I find whenever I've had Cadbury Mini Eggs (recently anyway) that they do smell of chocolate but it's more of a sugary 'candy' chocolate but the Chicky Choccy Speckled Eggs smelt as if I'd just opened a bar of proper chocolate. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My favourite thing about this M&S product, and any I've tried actually is that they never scrimp on the quality. Say you go into Tesco and buy a packet of own brand Mini Eggs, the chocolate they use isn't the standard own brand stuff sold on the shelves, it's the everyday value stuff or at least a poorer/cheaper version. M&S have used the exact same 30% cocoa solids chocolate inside the Chicky Choccy Mini Eggs that they're selling in the milk chocolate bars and boy, does it make a difference! They are delicious, very milky with a proper chocolate flavour - no sugary crap and certainly no throat burn. Of course the shell is pretty sweet but the thickness of it and the pure amount of chocolate compared means its a pleasant sweetness that compliments, not overwhelms, the chocolate. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I need more right now. They are a grown up tasting Mini Egg, far too tasty to be given to kids who won't appreciate them. They aren't a replacement for the Cadbury Mini Egg, they just can't be compared. This will be the first of many bags of these I get through this Easter! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">How is it that I've been blogging for about three years now and I've not posted about these yet. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A Belgian chocolate company that are over 100 years old, have 1250 shops world wide, are actually Belgium's (which is surely the chocolate capital of the world) most popular chocolate and were recently named as official supplier to the court by King Phillipe of Belgium. The company use quality ingredients including fresh butter and cream and my dark chocolate box is made using 100% cocoa butter. Impressive stuff!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A Valentines present from my lovely husband, who himself received his traditional present of a packet of Haribo and a big bottle of Lucozade - started years ago thanks to a particularly </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">nasty hangover! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's a tiny golden Tardis - roughly the same size as a small box of Ferrero Roche but weighed a whacking 550g! Inside was a random variety of all dark gorgeous smelling and looking creams, truffles, pralines and more. There are so many that these will take a while to get through so bear with me! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I don't think the chocolate is supposed to have that kind of off look to it, though out of the whole box there were two of these and they were both the only ones that had a slight bloom to them</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The dark chocolate shell was delicious, a very rich dark chocolate flavour. The praliné centre was thick and smooth and the puffed rice were wickedly crunchy. Like a grown up Double Decker</span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">, amazing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The chocolate shell was slightly thicker and it resulted in a darker, deeper chocolate flavour. The ganache centre only intensifies this as its slightly sweeter yet still has a darker chocolate flavour. The ganache has a thick soft mousse like texture that felt like velvet against the firmer chocolate wrapped around it. Lovely. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The chocolate was quite thin and so the sweetness from the cream praline centre was slightly more noticeable. There was still a dark chocolate flavour but combined with the sweetness it tasted far more like a mass produced British Dark Chocolate (albeit a higher end one, like Hotel Chocolat) than the unique flavour of the rest of the box. It's still nice enough that it would have warranted a 9/10 on its own though! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Another praliné, Belgian praliné is slightly different to European praline. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praline#Belgian_soft-centre_pralines" target="_blank">Wikipedia has a bit more info on that</a>, but these are fresh cream based pralinés. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They may seem near enough identical to the seashell shaped praliné but the ratios are slightly different. The praliné is as sweet and tasty as before but where the chocolate is much thicker on the Buche it retains the rich dark flavours much better. Delicious! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Blah blah blah, Cadbury boycott, yadda yadda yadda.... I was tempted, I'm sorry!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Cadbury have released 6 "new" chocolates, 5 of which are Milka clones and the last is just a bag of mixed milk and white chocolate Buttons (yeah, I bought those too - I've been waiting 20 years for them!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Three of the new bars are Big Taste Bars: one had Oreo inside - why when there's already a Dairy Milk bar with Oreo, I don't know - one with toffee and hazelnut - don't hold your breath for a review on that one, I reviewed <a href="http://1treat.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/milka-toffee-ganznuss.html" target="_blank">the Milka version</a> and there is no way this is much different or nicer - and finally the bar I have today, Triple Choc Sensation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The bars really are huge, three times the size of a standard bar and is sectioned into 7 x 2 blocks of 2 triangles. This was slightly annoying for my OCD as it made it a lot harder to separate into 3 (fair) portions - 2 for me and 1 for him! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The wrapper and the name meant I was under the impression this would be a predominantly Dairy Milk chocolate bar if not at least an even amount of Dairy Milk compared to everything else. However the ingredients say each bar has 42% white chocolate, 25% dark chocolate and so the maximum amount of </span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dairy Milk can only be 33% and thats discounting any </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">sugar, fat and who knows what else they want to stick in. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The way the blocks are meant I could nibble the dark chocolate triangle off from the top. It's definitely not Bournville, I could tell from taste alone but Google informs me Cadbury Bournville has a minimum of 36% cocoa solids whereas the dark chocolate used here has a more respectable minimum of 45%. It's actually a lot less sweet than I expected, tasting far more like a plain chocolate yet considering it had more cocoa it was somehow blander. It's as if Cadbury </span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">haven't tried to make a dark chocolate but a plain chocolate - literally - it had</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">barely any flavour at all. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The bottom 2 layers proved impossible to separate, this could be a good thing going by Dairy Milks track record recently but what I did taste was unexpected. The milk chocolate is noticeable but the white chocolate is stronger, its not bad white chocolate - sugary and not really chocolate tasting at all - but its nostalgic in a way I suppose. I personally wouldn't want to eat a whole bar of it but Mr.1T would happily! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Taking a bite of the three chocolates together completely changed the flavour. It no longer had the tastes of the bland dark chocolate, fake Dairy Milk or even the slightly overpowering white chocolate. The plain chocolate finally found its place, kind of dulling some of the sugariness from the milk and white and it began to taste just like an old school original Cadbury Easter Egg!!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now I'm not going to pretend it's good chocolate, if you want a mix of all 3 in a bar using </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">good quality chocolate</span><a href="http://1treat.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/marks-spencer-chocolates.html" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;" target="_blank"> M&S have got you covered</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">, this though, this is what I've been searching for in my Cadbury replacement hunt. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's cheap and sweet chocolate but it kind of tastes like my childhood and I really liked it... Woops!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes you read that correctly and no it's not fish fingers or chicken dippers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Birds Eye are venturing into frozen breakfast convenience food. It's about time we got some new breakfast options, although pancakes and waffles are an American creation and I'd take a filthy greasy fry up over stodgy sweet desserts I'm open to experimenting. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Come to think of it apart from going to the hassle of cooking a fry up, breakfast in the U.K is usually pretty boring. Cereal, toast, Mr.1T is partial to a Pop Tart (of which we have a very limited number of U.K standard flavours, why hasn't anybody made an own brand version?) or my everyday choice eggs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Birds Eye have come to save the day with a range of microwave frozen products which include the aforementioned Choc Chip Pancakes, Plain Waffles and Cinnamon Waffles. I'm having a slight freezer storage issue at the moment or the waffles would have been straight in too. As I said I do love eggs in the morning so I'm eating my Choc Chip Pancakes now, in my mid afternoon slump. But that's the beauty with these, no faffing around mixing flour and eggs and flipping. Just pop in the toaster (or microwave - ew) for 2 and 1/2 - 3 minutes on the lowest setting and voila! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hmm. I don't know what I expected my toaster pancake to look like, and it might look O.K to you but I promise you this looked exactly the same before I toasted it! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They come in two plastic packets of three which keep the pancakes free from freezer burn and I was slightly unnerved to find they not only looked and smelt the same both pre and post toasting but they felt it too. O.K they were slightly crisper afterwards but they felt soft and squidgy before, nothing like I'd expect something of this type to feel frozen. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I worked my way inwards to the chocolate chips and wasn't impressed by the pancake itself. I don't normally eat pancakes as such, much preferring a thinner crepe and the thickness just exaggerates how boring and plain pancakes themselves taste. In the interest of reviewing I kept mine plain but Mr.1T added maple syrup to his and hasn't stopped raving about it since - I've lost the rest of the box I think. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Its obvious and common sense, but the pancakes are clearly all machine made. I know that sounds stupid but it was a bit strange that all 6 of the pancakes had the same chocolate chip pattern throughout - I don't think I've ever had that in a product before.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The chocolate vastly improved things. Because they were inside the pancakes rather than sprinkled on top as I'm used to I was disappointed at first at the lack of melted chocolate. Cutting the pancake open soon changed things and the sweet scent of milky chocolate and runny gooey goodness appeared. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Considering Birds Eye mainly make "real food" I was pleasantly surprised at the chocolate used.It melted beautifully and added a sweet, quite rich chocolate flavour to the thick kind of stodgy pancake. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Honestly. and I'm not just saying this, mine are better, though as I said, I do prefer a thinner pancake with more chocolate. <b>However</b>,<b> </b>when I make pancakes I end up having enough batter to make about 10 when I only want 1 <b><i>and</i> </b>they certainly don't take me 2 and 1/2 minutes from craving to munching. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For flavour I'll stick to my own but for pure convenience these are pretty damn good! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I decided to try some of the cheaper bags of Easter goodies and the Nestlé mini eggs were 2 for £2. I chose the Smarties Mini Eggs and Mr.1T chose Milky Bar, of course. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They look a bit 'off'. I didn't actually see the Milky Bar eggs but the Smarties aren't quite the proper egg shape - well I've never seen an egg with a completely flat bottom anyway! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They were in the usual mix of Smarties colours but I only got one blue one sadly. Am I the only person who feels naughty eating blue sweets after all the hooha a few years back? I know they're all above board now but whatever!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Round one goes to the properly egg shaped Cadbury Mini Eggs!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The ordinary Smarties ratio seems to be a bit more sugar candy shell to a smaller amount of chocolate, whereas the eggs are the other way round. It's definitely a different recipe as good old Google informs me the nutritional information is different - one sure fire way of knowing if there has been a change! Although its just a small difference, it made a big change in the taste, they don't really taste like Smarties. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Of course there is still the sugary sweet crunchy shell but the increase in chocolate throws the flavours off. The actual chocolate is a bit pants to be honest, I'm unsure if it's the same chocolate used - it probably is or there'd be uproar, Cadbury style - but I've never realised just how.. bland? Nestlé chocolate is. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There is more chocolate to taste than in normal Smarties but it has less of a chocolate flavour. They're less sweet than Cadbury Mini Eggs, by a long shot actually, but (and I can't </span>believe I'm saying this) Cadbury have a much nicer, more intense chocolate flavour - even with the new recipe. Round two goes to Cadbury again! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mini Eggs come in a many different shapes, sizes and fillings, you have your standard sugar candy shell with chocolate centre, chocolate shelled with various fillings - Creme Egg style fondant or various flavoured creams and the slightly more luxurious truffle filled centres.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Jelly Mini Eggs are one of a few non-traditional mini eggs Waitrose are selling, I'll be going back for the others (Marzipan/Ginger Truffle/Marc De Champagne & Amaretto/Cream Truffle) but at £3.50 for 100g/125g depending, they'll have to wait a while! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The eggs look delightful, they're all egg shaped (a bug bear of mine after a certain other brand of Mini Egg but that's another review!) and all had the speckled egg markings. There aren't a huge variety of colours - only four, but the smaller variety meant I had a sufficient amount of each. There is no way they could get more than a minimum of three of each flavour in each packet if there were any more due to the sheer size of the eggs - they are humongous!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The eggs are just plain weird. They have a hard shell, harder than the outside of a normal jelly bean and I had to give it a good solid bite to get in - and yes they're that big that I could eat each one in two bits. The inside of the egg was nothing like I expected, it's not like a jelly bean at all. It's not really firm but nowhere near as soft as a jelly bean and has a gritty kind of chew, but it's not chewy either. Am I confusing you yet? Because these sure confused me while I was eating them, I think you'd need to try them to truly understand how they feel, they're nothing like anything I've eaten before! That's definitely not a bad thing though.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The orange eggs were undoubtedly <b>Orange </b>flavoured, nothing new or exciting but very nice nonetheless. The white eggs threw me, I'm not going to lie, I'm so used to white jelly beans being marshmallow or coconut flavoured I initially convinced myself that white tasted a bit like marshmallow. Working through the other flavours and the ingredients list has left me to believe its actually <b>Apricot </b>flavoured though. Truth be told its not a flavour I'm very familiar with but either way marshmallow/apricot it was pretty damn tasty! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Pink is usually some kind of berry in any sweet and here was no different. I tried one before I read the ingredients and I thought maybe strawberry, the ingredients say otherwise with <b>Raspberry</b> and once I'd read it, I could taste it. Very juicy and a definite fail safe. I'd kind of given up by the yellow, my brain and my tastebuds weren't connecting and I had to cheat and refer to the ingredients which inform me its probably <b>Pineapple. </b>I'm going to plead ignorance in that it's not a flavour used to often but I wish it was, it was very nice! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Last but not least was green, usually the apple flavoured sweet but Waitrose have bucked the trend and gone for <b>Pear. </b>I think I've mentioned before I like the flavour of pear just not the texture and this sweet has just reinforced that. My god, sweet makers of Britain - forget about apple, its all about pear! Absolutely delicious and much to my surprise the best in the box. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I can't believe its February already, but one good thing comes out of the months flying past so fast and that's a new Soup Of The Month from New Covent Garden Soup Co. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This month is Thai Style Broccoli & Ginger, a bit of a strange mix you might think but apparently it's been carefully selected with Valentines Day in mind. OK I'm a week late on that one, but soup isn't my idea of a fun valentines, plus it was a Sunday - pizza day, obviously! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Before opening the carton I thought broccoli didn't really have a smell but sure enough something smelt broccoli-ish. That didn't last long though and it soon began to smell exactly as it would taste. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The spices chosen were perfect, mixed with the coconut it had a flavour extremely reminiscent of a Thai Curry and a slight spicy kick to it. I'd always assumed the Thai fish sauce or stock was what gave Thai Curry that unique flavour that I love but after eating this soup, with its complete absence of anything fishy, I'm guessing it's actually the coconut. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I think the coconut is what gives it the thick creamy texture as well, as there's nothing remotely creamy listed either but this really felt and tasted like I was eating a slightly watery, not too spicy Thai Curry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I didn't actually taste the various veg; broccoli, onion, cauliflower, kale or even the rice. They weren't very large but I didn't mind as this soup isn't about the textures or the flavours of those. It's all about the spices and they are spot on. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I can't say the soup made me particularly horny so it would have failed if I'd been using it as an aphrodisiac but it was tasty enough I'll let that slide! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Last Friday I mentioned during my <a href="http://1treat.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/casa-adelitan-gourmet-dulce-tradicional.html" target="_blank">Tequila Candy </a>review that I'd also received a bar of chocolate containing Tequila. That bar comes all the way from Mexico from a company named <a href="http://www.villavainilla.mx/" target="_blank">Villa Vainilla</a>, who seem primarily to sell vanilla extract though they do sell various other goodies in Duty Free at the airport. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Rather than a description of any sort of the chocolate on the packet, there is a full on essay on the origins of chocolate. I'm sure you can Google it if you have any interest. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The ingredients list is without a doubt the shortest I've ever seen on any chocolate bar: Cacoa, sugar, agave syrup and lecithin. Note the absence of tequila in any shape or form. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Some snooping on the company website informs me that Maria Tepoztlán Xocolatl is different to other chocolates because it contains more than 70% cacoa and 25% sugar. Yes those Mexicans sure love their sugar! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The bar hadn't travelled very well and had a slight bloom and was quite scuffed. It weighed 200g but was no longer than a standard 120g bar of Cadbury, it was ridiculously thick though and was sectioned into 6 squares with the company logo etched into a larger one in the centre, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It wasn't as dark as I expected considering what it's made from but it was darker than a standard milk chocolate. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you Google Maria Tepoztlán Xocolatl Chocolate you will read page upon page of negative comments - "waxy tasting" "the worst chocolate I've ever tried in my life" "disgusting, I threw it away" - now most of these comments either a) come from Americans (before you jump down my throat, most Americans who will be buying chocolate from Duty Free in Cancun are going to be used to Hersheys High Fructose Corn Syrup style stuff) b) are from quite a while back or c) are the standard plain bar. If you specifically Google the Tequila flavour or find the newer posts, the comments are a lot more positive. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I told you it was thick! It was literally impossible to break any off apart from along the indentations. So what you're looking at is 100g of hefty chocolate! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It smelt amazing, incredibly rich smelling with a strong cocoa scent but strangely nothing like a British bar of 'dark' chocolate. One of the most tempting chocolate bars I've smelt for a long while. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One thing I can agree on with the negative reviews, though I disagree with it being a bad thing, is that the chocolate has a strange gritty texture. In fact, you can even see the grittiness in the photos, Apparently it's due to the cacoa being stone ground, I have no clue if that is true but I like to think it is, it adds a touch of authenticity! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I expected a dark, bitter tasting chocolate as the packet goes into great detail about how the word chocolate comes from Xocolatl which means bitter water, but there was no bitterness whatsoever. I actually really enjoyed the chocolate, it had a sweet vanilla flavour which I can't for the life of me work out where it came from, its certainly not listed in the ingredients. It has a lovely, rich cocoa flavour too but unsurprisingly as it has at least 25% sugar (so a good 50g of the 200g bar) it was very sweet. Mexicans are renowned for their use of 'real' sugar though and it shows - none of the artificial sickliness and burning sweetness just a good old fashioned addictive sugar hit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The whole time I was waiting for the Tequila flavour to kick in like in the Candies but it was nowhere to be found. Nothing, zilch, nada, jack.. I have absolutely no clue why it's even on the packet, maybe to lure gullible spring break tourists in to buy it, but I didn't miss it anyway. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There is almost nothing in the world that can't be improved with Marmite.. I can think of one thing. Years ago when it was fashionable to buy bread makers we used to set it in the evening to have warm, fresh bread for breakfast the next day. Until one fateful evening, where my dad had the bright idea to replace the yeast in the recipe with Marmite - his reasoning being Marmite is yeast extract and it would save us spreading it on top right? Wrong. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was the most disgusting thing any of us have ever eaten in our lives. It spawned the family anthem "Marmite Breads Gone" (sung to the tune of Don't Stop by Fleetwood Mac) and marked the last time my parents<b> ever </b>made bread in our bread machine. It didn't put me off Marmite though! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Bread, cheese and Marmite. The holy trinity of foodstuffs. Normally I have to go to the extreme effort of putting cheese and Marmite on my crackers but Unilever have heard my lazy girl prayers and created Marmite Flatbreads. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Crispy Flatbreads thoughtfully baked with lots of lovely Marmite. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And cheese! Which I didn't realise till I cracked open the box and got a whiff of the cheddary goodness. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There were lots of long thin flatbreads with what would be a burnt look in any other craker like product. There's only supposed to be 12% Cheddar cheese and I don't know if I got lucky but there seemed to be a lot more very generously spread about on top. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Seriously, so much cheese!! Maybe too much cheese, although thats strictly only as a Marmite lover. I couldn't really smell the black stuff at all. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The flatbreads themselves are good, a very crisp crunchy texture with a nice satisfying bite. As the scent and look led me to expect, they tasted predominantly of cheese, thankfully it's a pretty damn tasty cheese and I kind of forgot about the Marmite! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I soon began to taste it, initially as more of an after taste but as you can see in the photos, the darker areas had a much stronger Marmite flavour. The combination of pleasing texture and delicious cheese and Marmite flavours made for a very moreish mix and although they are quite dry overall I was soon kicking myself that I'd agreed to share them with Mr.1T. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Rating: </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">9/10 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Extra Marmite improves everything. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Breadstick Bites </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The bag weighs 30g so roughly the same as a small packet of crisps but there are half the amount of breadsticks than in even the most air filled packet of Walkers. They are teeny tiny so don't expect to eat a bag and feel satisfied afterwards unless you're a mouse or a toddler but for a Marmite fix they're reasonable enough. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They were a lot darker than the anaemic breadsticks that are sold in most supermarkets and were covered in a Marmite brown powder. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Uhoh. They smell like Marmite Crisps. Not the original (and superior) <a href="http://1treat.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/walkers-marmite-crisps.html" target="_blank">Walkers Marmite Crisps</a> but the ones that came in a black packet. I hated those, they smelt like Marmite but the flavour was pathetic. I know I'm not alone in that opinion as they stopped making those and bought back the Walkers version. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The size of the breadsticks lets them down slightly, they're perfectly easy to chuck in in one go but I was trying to be civilised and eat them nicely. They're quite brittle and so whenever I tried to take a bite they shattered, the small size meant I ended up with little shards rather than two halves so I gave up and in to my greediness. There's not much else that can be said on the texture, nice and crunchy just as a good breadstick should be - no complaints here. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thankfully the smell might have been of the black crisps but the taste was nothing like. Strong enough for me, which is saying something - I'm not exaggerating when I say I eat Marmite off a spoon. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They're ridiculously addictive which usually is a good thing but they come in such a tiny bag, I just know I'm going to end up buying 5 bags and chucking them all into a bowl! I was impressed with the Breadstick Bites, so much so that I can only think of two ways they can be improved: 1) make the breadsticks cheese flavoured - see above and 2) dunked in marmite. More Marmite is always good. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Rice Cakes aren't a product I'd usually buy considering I'm on an anti-diet, but I've never turned down Marmite flavoured anything (I did try the black Marmite crisps a few times!) and I'm not about to start now. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Typically I paid over the odds for these in the canteen again and the day after I saw them in Sainsburys for half the price! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They didn't have as strong a Marmite scent as the bread sticks but it was there mixed in with the usual rice cake smell. It is reasonably strong actually, I think I've just been spoilt with the crisps and breadsticks recently. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I was pretty impressed with the amount of rice cakes, OK they're small but considering the bag only contains 91 calories it took me a lot longer to eat these than the crisp equivalent. A few were a bit smashed but that's my fault for putting them in the bottom of my bag, most were sturdy enough to survive being lugged around for the day. They had varying levels of brownness (which showed in the flavour) but they seemed to have a decent amount of Marmite flavouring coated on top. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I had tried a Marmite rice cake before, though they were the bigger ones and I didn't buy them again for a couple of reasons. The main being the consistency of the rice cake, no-one I know eats rice cakes because they enjoy them but they were extremely chewy and cardboard like. These mini cakes were a lot better, they had more of a crunchy crisp texture and felt like I was actually eating real food! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As expected, the darker cakes had much more Marmite flavour. I quite enjoyed them actually they are strong enough to satisfy most people (though they are much improved with a thick layer of Marmite on top!) and salty enough to give them that addictive edge. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Better than I thought they'd be, if you're on a diet they're great but I'll stick with crackers and lashings of the real stuff for now. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I wont bother with a full review - <a href="http://1treat.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/marmite-easter-egg.html" target="_blank">I did that last year </a>- and its much of the same this year, average chocolate with an addictive salty umami hit. A must have for any Marmite fan. <b>However </b>I'm not happy with Unilever at all. As it stands they haven't altered the Marmite recipe, although who knows if that'll be the case next Easter, but they've obviously seen how successfully Mondelez have shrunk the contents of an Easter Egg (seriously Cadbury, <b>ONE</b> Creme Egg??) and taken out the entire package of Marmite Cashews that were included in the (identically priced) Marmite Egg last year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You can't use the increasing costs of cocoa as an excuse here Unilever! </span></div>
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