Trio Bar

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:

How To Know Whether One Treat Ate Something

Chocolate

Was it plain milk chocolate? If the answer is no, the answer is no. If the answer is yes, the answer is maybe. 

Sweets

Were they Dolly Mixtures? If the answer is yes then the answer is yes. If the answer is no then the answer is no. 

And that pretty much sums up my childhood! 

Using my very helpful questionnaire we can immediately deduce that the Trio was a big no-no.

Milk Chocolate with an irresistible toffee flavour cream and a crunchy biscuit

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! 

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! 

I have to wonder if McVities and Nestlé are in some way affiliated. Google claims not but the Trio really smelt like Nestlé milk chocolate, in taste it tasted more like the chocolate used in McVities Chocolate Digestives though. 

The biscuit comes through next, it is a biscuit and claims to be irresistibly crunchy but mine had a softer crunch - almost like a wafer. Mr.1T says its like a Kit Kat with a toffee cream and I can see what he means, there's a lot more of the biscuit but it does have a similar crunch, though again, how much of that familiarity comes from the Nestlé Kit Kat like chocolate, I'm not sure. 

Finally the thick toffee cream. Once I'd munched through the chocolate and biscuit I was left with a mouth full of a thick smooth cream. It's very tasty actually, quite sweet with a lovely toffee flavour and was the flavour left lingering on my lips long after the rest of the bar was gone. 

Rating:

I feel a bit scared to say anything bad about the Trio to be honest, what with an army of mega fans over the moon that it's returned. It's very tasty don't get me wrong but I'm not sure I'd have spent the last 13 years begging for its comeback... Who knows maybe you had to be there the first time round?

7/10  

McVities Digestive Nibbles - Milk Chocolate

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.

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! 

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

 Caramel Digestives but the last time I bought them they all melted on to each other and the caramel stuck solid rendering them inedible so I tend to stick to the milk or dark nowadays. 

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.. 

In terms of ingredients the milk chocolate makes up 54% of the finished product so in theory 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. 

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. 

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. 

The biscuit is identical in taste and ingredients with the exception of skimmed milk and glazing agents used in the Nibbles but they are the very least used ingredients and I certainly didn't notice them in flavour.

Rating:

To sum it all up, I could have written this review in one sentence:

Imagine Chocolate Digestives in tiny ball shapes - this is what they taste like. 

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. 

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. 

7/10

McVities Deli Choc

More new biscuits today, while I still need to put weight on so I'm not complaining there, all this sugar can't be good for my insides... I'll have to keep my eyes open for limited edition vegetables or fruit.. 

McVities have released the 'Deli Choc The Big Crunch' biscuit. There are three varieties, all with Belgian chocolate. This is the dark chocolate, milk and white are also available (White is in my fridge at the moment actually but I'm not supposed to eat any because white is his favourite and he doesn't like dark chocolate.. We'll see)

I mistakenly thought this would be more like a chocolate bar with a bit of biscuit, I'm not sure how clear it is in the picture but it's definitly a chocolate topped biscuit very much like a chocolate digestive. This actually reminded me a lot of a chocolate digestive but maybe even a little better. Although the pack says BELGIAN - in capitals to make sure you don't miss it - chocolate, the chocolate tastes very very similar to that of a dark chocolate digestive. The biscuit is better though, it is a sweet crunchy biscuit whereas the digestive is chewier I find. This is a good new product from McVities and I imagine the white chocolate version is the best as to my knowledge there hasn't been a white chocolate digestive and so there's nothing really to compare it to. I'll have to pinch one and try that. 

Rating 7/10