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The ChocolateMission Omnibus:
The high standards of the week before continued this week with most products scoring the upper 7.0s and lower 8.0s.
Starting the week off to a flier the Zentis Belnuga racked up a simply brilliant 8.8 out of 10 and was worth every point with cracking it's integration of a hazelnut praline centre into its tasty marzipan. This bar especially seemed to catch the eye of readers Lu, Lottie and Deano who e-mailed me asking where he could lay he hands on one (Dean-German-Grocery!).
My look at Taste of Nature's Cookie Dough Bites range also continued this week with me reviewing both the Fudge Brownie and Dark Chocolate variants. General consensus about these is that although they don't appear to be of the highest quality at least they are a lot more interesting than the cinema snacks we get here in the UK ... cheaper as well!
By far and away the most popular review this week was my look at the Nutella&GO snack. This review brought all the Nutella fans out the woods with Heidi, Claudia, Mark, Chris and endless others expressing their love for the nutty toast topper. The Twitter feed especially got a lot of feedback about this one ... if you want to 'follow' me on Twitter click HERE.
News from the Chocolate Market:
* Scientists in Switzerland have created a low calorie chocolate with 90% less calories than a standard chocolate bar ... looks like I am going to have to review this one. This article was submitted by my own Mother :) See HERE
* Mars have lost a court case over the trademarking of the aesthetic look of the Bounty bar. See HERE
* Thorntons' have just announced their Q4 results which have come in at -2.7% ... they have blamed the hot weather. See HERE
* Nestle have ditched the 'designer' style look for their Black Magic range and have reverted back to their traditional packaging. See HERE
* Ethical food supplier Brand Strand have revamped their own packaging by adding a slogan 'chocolate saves trees'. See HERE
Posts from other Blogs I enjoyed this week:
* GiGi Reviews - GiGi looked at another flavour from the Haagen-Dazs FIVE range - this time Ginger. Milk, Cream, Ginger, Sugar and Eggs .. simply made, and simply delicious according to GiGi. See HERE
* Foodstufffinds - Continues to seek out the newest products hitting out Supermarkets and this week got to grips with McVities' Penguin Bakes. See HERE
*CandyBlog - Cybele reviewed the latest Snickers Limited Edition - Fudge ... this is one I would certainly love to try myself. See HERE
* Chocolate&PeanutButter Blog - has some photos of some utterly delicious looking cupcakes ... I suggest you take a look for yourself. See HERE
Question of the week:
'What is your favourite recipe that includes chocolate?'
Sunday, 19 July 2009
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9 comments:
Hey Jim
Wow, Nestle have finally realised that no one liked those new Black Magics! lol it's taken them lonmg enough! will these old boxes be back for good though I wonder or will they somehow sneak in another new version to disatisfy customers?! lol
I love sticking chocolate in my porridge in the morning :>
Alan is right Nestle will only replace it with something equally as pants. They have a nack for making their products look unappetising
-Mark
The best recipe for 'cooking' with chocolate doesen't need any cooking at all. All you need is some ice cream, milk, chocolate and a blender .... chocolate milkshake :) perfect for the summer
xLux
Alan & Mark
Indeed it will be interesting to see what Nestle come up with to replace the current packaging.As you guys say it will no doubt be just as bad. They say they are returning to the old style packaging? I can't remember it myself?
Emma
Good tip, I used to do that as well!
Lu
That sounds like a pretty nice thing to do during summer! Would certainly be welcome during the hot days!
Thanks
Jim
Has to be cake, muffins, brownies, you name it... Anything baked is better with chocolate!
Also very nice: make bread dough, roll out flat, spread with Nutella, roll up and bake. Lovely still warm with a glass of cold milk!
lol well the 'old style packaging' described 'with a red bow' sounds suspiciously like one of the early boxes:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/castlekay/2678319672/in/set-72157617777446015/
but we'll have to wait and see i guess! To be honest I didn't see anything wrong with the boxes before their 'revamp', or even the revamped box, it was just the new chocs inside that were horrible! lol
Susanne
That Nutella bread sounds pretty damn nice to me! I will let you know if I attempt to make it one day. If you got any pictures of any of your creations do share!
Alan
Packaging from 1939? Now that will be old skool!
Like you say though - the packaging matters very little when the chocolate is as bad as it is! I have been actively avoiding that range as so many people say how awful it is!
Thanks everyone
Jim
I'm glad the chocs are changing back, hopefully theyll be ok.. i cant undertstand how the quality went out the window - the black magic choc was alwasy very glossy and luscious looking but the new ones were awful flavourless waxy and yuk lol
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