Hershey sure loves to cram things into a Reese product, or cram Reese products into things. I’ve already reviewed Reese Outrageous! Stuffed with Pieces and Reese’s Stuffed with Crunchy Cookie, and now here’s a Hershey chocolate bar stuffed with Reese’s Pieces.
Hershey’s chocolate has a pretty unmistakable flavour. It’s quite sweet, and it has a mild but distinctive sour tang that may or not share chemical properties with vomit (no, really). It’s certainly not my favourite, but if it’s the only chocolate around, yeah, sure, I’ll eat it.
The problem here is the addition of Reese’s Pieces. That sounds delightful (Reese’s Pieces are delicious, after all), but in practice it’s a bit much. Hershey chocolate is very, very sweet; so are Reese’s Pieces. Combine the two with nothing to balance them out (the tiny peanut bits are barely even noticeable and definitely do not perform this function) and you’ve got a recipe for sweetness overload.
The texture wasn’t great either. I don’t know if it was the addition of the chunks or if Hershey chocolate is always like that (it’s been a while), but the chocolate wasn’t particularly creamy. It’s actually pretty grainy.
Manufactured by: Hershey
Nutritional info (1 bar, 43 g): 220 calories, 12 g of fat (8 g of saturated fat, 0 g of trans fat), 5 mg of cholesterol, 55 mg of sodium, 27 g of carbohydrates, 1 g of fibre, 25 g of sugar, 3 g of protein.
Ingredients: Milk chocolate (sugar, cocoa butter, chocolate, skim milk, milk fat, lecithin (soy), salt, natural flavor), sugar, peanuts, partially defatted peanuts, hydrogenated vegetable oil (palm kernel oil, soybean oil), contains 2% or less of corn syrup solids, dextrose, palm kernel oil, corn syrup, artificial color (yellow 6 lake, yellow 5 lake, red 40 lake, blue 1 lake), cornstarch, salt; confectioner’s glaze, lecithin (soy), modified cornstarch, carnauba wax, vanillin, artificial flavor.
