This is another British bar, and I’m really not sure if there’s anything else quite like it. I’m starting to get somewhat bitter eating all these imported products; it’s giving me a bunch of new candy bars to crave, most of which are almost impossible to find. Oh well; such is the life of a candy blogger, I suppose.
At first glance Drifter looks kind of like Twix – two smaller bars sitting side-by-side. But it tastes almost nothing like Twix, with each bar consisting of a piece of wafer covered in chewy caramel and enrobed in milk chocolate.
Sometimes the caramel in a candy bar has the problem of being sweet without having much of a flavour at all. Drifter doesn’t particularly have that problem, with caramel that is sweet without being too sweet, with an appealing almost Golden Syrup-like flavour. It’s really chewy and slightly grainy. The wafer is crispy and has a particularly pronounced wheaty/wafery taste, which works quite well with the chewy caramel.
So basically, Drifter is definitely another addition to the “candy bars I like but can’t really buy” list.
Manufactured by: Nestle
Calories (2 bars, 52 g): 264
Looks an awful lot like a Cadbury Time Out, down to the style of the packaging.
You’re right — I can’t believe I didn’t notice that! The packaging (with the red text on a blue background) is almost identical. They taste pretty different though, despite the presence of wafers in both.