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May 10, 2020January 10, 2021 Michael

Kit Kat Orange – It’s Just as Tasty as You’d Hope

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I’m not gonna lie; this one kinda blew me away. It has been a while since I’ve had a classic Kit Kat, so maybe I just forgot how good it is, but I enjoyed the hell out of this.

As you’d probably exect, Kit Kat Orange is basically a standard Kit Kat, but with an orange flavour. I know the chocolate/orange combo isn’t for everyone, but I’m a fan.

Kit Kats are great, chocolate and orange is great — so I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that this is great, too.

It’s exactly what you’re hoping it’s going to be. I’m fairly confident that I don’t need to explain the appeal of a Kit Kat to you; you’ve eaten it, and you like it. You’re not a monster, after all.

This is that, but with a satisfying amount of orangey flavour added into the mix. It’s creamy, it’s crispy, it’s chocolatey, it’s orangey; it’s delicious.

It’s quite sweet, but the sweetness is perfectly tempered by the wheaty/toasty wafers. And the orange flavour is very nicely tuned — it complements the milk chocolate flavour without overwhelming it. It reminded me a lot of a Terry’s Chocolate Orange. It’s delightful.

Manufactured by: Nestle
Nutritional info (2 fingers, 21 grams): 110 calories, 5 grams of fat (3 grams of saturated fat, 0.1 grams of trans fat), 5 mg cholesterol, 20 mg sodium, 13 grams of carbohydrates, 11 grams of sugar, 1 gram of fibre.
Ingredients: Sugar, modified milk ingredients, wheat flour, cocoa mass, cocoa butter, palm, palm kernel, coconut and vegetable oils, sunflower and soy lecithin, yeast, sodium bicarbonate, salt, natural flavours.

May 3, 2020January 10, 2021 Michael

Reese Outrageous! Stuffed with Pieces – Sweetness Overload

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I’ll admit that Reese Nutrageous isn’t one of my favourite candy bars. Reese’s Pieces, on the other hand, is one of my favourites. So what do you get when you cram a great candy into a mediocre one?

Uh… nothing great, that’s for sure.

Reese Outrageous (sorry, Reese Outrageous!) is basically a Nutrageous, but with the peanuts replaced with Reese’s Pieces.

The problem here is that it’s just way, way too sweet. With a standard Reese Peanut Butter cup you get a very strong peanut butter flavour along with a nice hit of salt to balance things out. There’s no such balance here; just an in-your-face level of chewy sweetness that’s a bit exhausting to eat.

There’s a tiny bit of peanut butter in the middle of this thing, but it’s completely overwhelmed by the dense caramel and the generous layer of very sweet milk chocolate. The Reese’s Pieces add some nice crunch and more peanut butter flavour, but those candies are basically perfect on their own; they’re very sweet, but the sweetness feels finely tuned. Once you add on caramel and chocolate, it throws things off. It’s too much.

Manufactured by: Hershey
Nutritional info (41 g bar): 200 calories, 10 g of fat (6 g of saturated fat, 0.1 g of trans fat), 5 mg of cholesterol, 60 mg of sodium, 28 g of carbohydrates, 1 g of fibre, 24 g of sugar, 3 g of protein.
Ingredients: Milk chocolate (sugar, cocoa butter, milk ingredients, unsweetened chocolate, lactose, lecithin (soy), polyglycerol polyricinoleate), sugar, peanuts, partially defatted peanuts, hydrogenated palm kernel oil and hydrogenated soybean oil, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup solids, dextrose, sorbitol, modified palm kernel oil, modified milk ingredients, salt, colour, corn starch, high maltose corn syrup, corn syrup, artificial flavour, carnauba wax, mono and diclycerides, TBHQ, citric acid.

April 26, 2020January 10, 2021 Michael

Buccaneer – An Overpriced Mars Bar without the Caramel

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Buccaneer is a bit of an odd one. It’s ostensibly a premium candy bar; I bought it at Whole Foods for over three bucks, and the wrapper proudly proclaims that it contains “nothing artificial.”

But the wrapper also uses the word “chocolatey” not once, but twice. Chocolatey is absolutely, positively not a word you want to see on a chocolate bar wrapper (or on the packaging for anything, really). It’s the word companies use when they can’t legally use the word chocolate, because the thing in their product that purports to be chocolate is not actually chocolate.

So that’s not great.

That being said, the “chocolatey coating” here is actually not bad. It’s not great, mind you, but it has very little of the waxy greasiness you associate with mockolate. Eaten with the rest of the bar, it could pass for middling dark chocolate.

As for the bar itself, it’s basically a Mars bar, but without the caramel (it’s also quite 3 Musketeers-esque, though the nougat here is a bit more dense, which makes me think of a Mars bar).

It’s fine, I guess? Its sweetness is a bit more restrained than its inspiration, which is nice, but there’s also nothing about it that particularly stands out. It basically tastes like one of those cheap imitation candy bars you can find at Dollarama, only it costs like triple the real deal, for some reason?

Manufactured by: Go Max Go Foods
Nutritional info (57 g bar): 230 calories, 7 grams of fat (6 grams of saturated fat), 75 mg of sodium, 43 g of carbohydrates, 1 g of fibre, 33 grams of sugar, 1 gram of protein.
Ingredients: Cane sugar, organic rice syrup, organic dehydrated cane juice, palm kernel oil, cocoa powder, palm oil, enzyme modified soy protein, salt, natural flavors, sunflower lecithin, guar gum.

November 20, 2011January 10, 2021 Michael

Reese Fudge – Sweeter and Softer Peanut Butter Cups

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I don’t think I’ve ever had a variety of Reese Peanut Butter Cups that I’ve outright disliked. And there have definitely been a lot of them. There’s something about that oddly crumbly peanut butter combined with chocolate that I just can’t resist.

Which is to say that I definitely enjoyed Reese Fudge, but at the same time, it’s one of the weaker Reese varieties that I’ve had.

The first thing that I noticed is that these cups are even greasier than standard Reese Peanut Butter Cups, which are already fairly greasy. After I photographed these, they actually left a grease stain on the piece of paper I had them on (!), which has never happened before, and which is a little bit disturbing, quite frankly.

The chocolate fudge coating, which is softer than usual, definitely has that distinctively sweet taste that you associate with fudge, with a muted chocolately flavour. The peanut butter is just good ol’ Reese peanut butter, so no surprises there.

Basically, this is just a sweeter, softer, slightly less chocolately version of standard Reese Peanut Butter Cups. It’s not bad (because, like I said, it’s hard to go wrong with the Reese formula), but I really don’t see any situation in which I’d want to eat these instead of the original version.

If you’ve ever thought to yourself, “I like Reese Peanut Butter Cups – but couldn’t they be sweeter?” then these might just be the candy for you.

Manufactured by: Hershey
Calories (3 cups, 51 g): 260

November 7, 2011January 10, 2021 Michael

Maltesers – Crispy, Bite-Sized Goodness

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Maltesers have always been a favourite of mine. There’s something about those chocolately, malty little balls that I find kind of irresistible.

Odds are, you’re probably more familiar with Whoppers than with Maltesers – as far as I’m aware, Maltesers are hard to come by in the States, while Whoppers are quite prevalent. That’s a shame, as I feel like Maltesers are clearly the superior product, though I’d have to do a side-by-side comparison to be sure.

Basically, Maltesers are crunchy, malt-flavoured balls (the package describes them as “Honeycombed centres”), covered in a relatively thin layer of milk chocolate.

They’re lightly crunchy, with a fairly complex malted taste – there’s a hint of bitterness, but not in a bad way. They’re sweet, but not intensely so, with a vaguely honey-like aftertaste. The milk chocolate coating complements the centre really well. They’re quite good; if you’re only familiar with Whoppers, I’d definitely recommend that you seek these out.

Manufactured by: Mars
Calories (37 g package): 180