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October 14, 2020January 10, 2021 Michael

Butterfinger – Nobody Better Lay a Finger…

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Butterfinger, along with Crunch, was recently bought out by Ferrero, who took it off the shelves to reformulate it. In the case of Crunch, this resulted in a noticeably inferior product. So how about Butterfinger?

I’m not sure. I’ll admit that it’s been years since I’ve had a Butterfinger, so it’s hard to say. I think it’s inferior? Maybe?

(This review is going really well so far, obviously.)

The bar is pretty simple — it’s just crispy, toffee-like peanut butter coated in mockolate (and the mockolate predates the Ferrero acquisition, so you can’t blame that one on them).

The peanut butter taste is surprisingly subtle, which is partially what makes me suspect that the bar has gone downhill. I remember it having a really satisfying peanutty flavour, but that isn’t the case here. It’s very sweet, with a somewhat bitter, burnt toffee flavour. The mild bitterness is actually kinda interesting, and helps to cut the sweetness of the bar a bit. But in the absence of peanut butteriness, something is missing.

As for the mockolate, it’s inoffensive enough. The bar is so crispy and sweet that you can barely even tell it’s there.

Manufactured by: Ferrero
Nutritional info (1 bar, 53.8 grams): 250 calories, 10 grams of fat (5 grams of saturated fat, 0 grams of trans fat), 0 mg cholesterol, 160 mg sodium, 36 grams of carbohydrates, 21 grams of sugar, 1 gram of fibre, 5 grams of protein.
Ingredients: Corn syrup, sugar, peanuts, vegetable oil (palm kernel and palm oil), peanut flour, nonfat milk, less than 2% of cocoa, milk, salt, soy lecithin, natural flavor, annatto color.

October 11, 2020January 10, 2021 Michael

Reese Peanut Butter Oh Henry! – The Most Substantial Candy Bar on the Market?

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Reese Peanut Butter Oh Henry! is not kidding around. Despite appearing to be about the same size as your average candy bar (if not slightly smaller), one bar weighs in at a whopping 85 grams and contains 440 calories, which means it’s about twice as heavy as the norm.

Suffice it to say, that old slogan of “Oh Hungry? Oh Henry!” definitely applies here. If you’re hungry, this bar will take care of that.

The wrapper describes the bar as “crunchy peanuts, peanut butter, creamy caramel, covered in a chocolaty coating.” It’s basically identical to a standard Oh Henry!, but with the chewy fudge in the middle replaced with peanut butter.

It’s predictably tasty. I mean, the original Oh Henry! is delicious and peanut butter is delicious, so obviously. Why wouldn’t this be good?

The peanut butter has a decent amount of saltiness, which helps to round out the very sweet bar, which is chewy, crunchy, and creamy. I wish the chocolate were real instead of mockolate (the dreaded “chocolaty” coating), but with so much else going on, it doesn’t make a huge difference.

Manufactured by: Hershey
Nutritional info (1 bar, 85 grams): 440 calories, 28 grams of fat (9 grams of saturated fat, 0.1 grams of trans fat), 0 mg of cholesterol, 170 mg of sodium, 44 grams of carbohydrates, 4 grams of fibre, 36 grams of sugar, 9 gram of protein.
Ingredients: Peanuts, sugar, modified palm oil and modified vegetable oil (shea, sunflower and/or safflower), modified palm kernel oil, high fructose corn syrup, unsweetened chocolate, modified milk ingredients, dextrose, sorbitol, salt, corn syrup, lecithin (soy), artificial flavour, TBHQ, mono and diglycerides.

August 30, 2020January 10, 2021 Michael

Andes Crème de Menthe Snap Bar – Minty and Refreshing

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Mint and chocolate is one of those combos that seems like it shouldn’t work, but absolutely does; it’s sweet, refreshing, and delicious.

But the odd thing about Andes Snap bar is that despite ostensibly being a mint/chocolate bar, the packaging doesn’t once use the word “chocolate,” and cocoa butter is nowhere to be found in the ingredients — only palm oil.

The even odder thing? It doesn’t really matter. You definitely get a nice chocolatey flavour that compliments the strong mint quite well, and though the texture is softer and less creamy than actual chocolate, it works. It’s satisfying.

I will say that eating it in bar form is probably unnecessary. Andes mints are typically sold as individually wrapped, bite-sized pieces, which is really all you need. The chocolate flavour mellows out the mint a bit, but the mint is clearly the star of the show. It’s tasty and refreshing, but eating a whole bar’s worth of it is overkill. It’s a bit much.

Manufactured by: Tootsie Roll Industries
Nutritional info (1 bar, 43 grams): 230 calories, 15 grams of fat (13 grams of saturated fat, 0 grams of trans fat), 0 mg of cholesterol, 20 mg of sodium, 25 grams of carbohydrates, 1 gram of fibre, 23 grams of sugar, 2 grams of protein.
Ingredients: Sugars (sugar, lactose), palm kernel and palm oils, cocoa, skim milk powder, modified milk ingredients, soy lecithin, natural and artificial flavours, peppermint oil, tartrazine, brilliant blue FCF.

August 23, 2020January 10, 2021 Michael

Kit Kat Matcha Green Tea – Nails the Green Tea Flavour

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I’m probably not the best person to review this particular Kit Kat variety. I’m not sure why I even bought it; I’m just not a fan of green tea, either in beverage or dessert form. It’s a super popular flavour, and I keep waiting for something to come along to sell me on it. But this Kit Kat isn’t it.

It’s fine? I guess? There’s something about the bitter, vaguely swampy flavour of green tea that just never clicks with me, but if you like that then I’m sure you’ll like this. The matcha flavour is surprisingly pronounced, and the sweetness is relatively restrained.

It is what it is — it’s a Kit Kat that tastes like green tea instead of like chocolate. If that sounds good to you, then this is exactly what you’re hoping it’ll be.

The only real issue here, outside of my personal distaste for matcha, is that the stuff on its exterior has no relation to chocolate — the bar contains palm and vegetable oils and zero cocoa butter, so it’s not the white chocolate with green tea that you’d expect. But it’s creamy enough, with very little of the waxiness you’ll find in most mockolate. If I hadn’t known, I don’t think I would have realized.

Manufactured by: Nestle
Nutritional info (1 bar, 35 grams): 190 calories, 11 grams of fat (8 grams of saturated fat, 0.1 grams of trans fat), 5 mg of cholesterol, 35 mg of sodium, 20 grams of carbohydrates, 0 grams of fibre, 14 grams of sugar, 2 grams of protein.
Ingredients: palm kernel, palm and vegetable oils, modified milk ingredients, sugar, wheat flour, maltodextrin, green tea powder, glucose syrup, soy lecithin, green tea leaves, salt, polyglycerol polyricinoleate, baking soda, calcium carbonate, protease, xylanase, natural flavours.

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.