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Cadbury Dark Burnt Almond
Kcal 240 Fat 14.0g Fat(sats) 7.0g Carbs 24.0g'Dark chocolate with roasted almond nuts'.
This bar came in a 42.0g size that I consumed over the course of a single sitting. The outer packaging looked none to dissimilar to the style we used to get here in the UK, and I liked the brightness of the foil wrapper which I think gave the bar decent stand out.
With expectations set by the really dark, almost black colouring of the chocolate it was nice that the aromas had similar impact, and the mixture of cocoa and nut hints certainly made for a promising prospect. Cutting to the chase, the chocolate wasn't perhaps as strongly flavoured as I would have liked, though I guess I expected this due to this being very much a common consistency across most mass produced dark chocolates. The chocolate solus would perhaps of been a little bland and boring but luckily the almonds added an extra dimension to both taste and texture, bringing elements of savoury nuttiness and hints of butter with their crisp, crunchy feel in the mouth. I wouldn't have this bar down as a 'must try', but if you are a dark chocolate amateur looking to ease yourself in to 'the dark side' this is a nice option for you.
7.6 out of 10
Cadbury Cerises
Kcal 200 Fat 8.0g Fat(sats) 4.5g Carbs 32.0g'Milk chocolate with a Maraschino filling'
This Cerises bar came in a 45.0g format that contained four splendid looking large thimble shaped chocolates. Despite failing to register any aromas of great interest, when cross-sectioned the pieces looked very unique, with the glace cherries glistening nicely within the Maraschino liqueur - my intrigue was certainly raised.
The chocolate held no surprises with it's sweet, milk led taste - standard Cadbury fair really. Due to the thickness of the outer shell the chocolate was allowed to express itself to a decent level, but this all changed as soon as the inner constituents were breached. Despite it's liqueur billing, the Maraschino taste lacked an alcoholic edge, though personally I can't say I missed it and I still got some pleasure from the syrupy red fruit flavours. I'm no fan of glace cherries, but the variation brought by the unique chewy textures were a decent enhancement to the overall experience, making their presence worthwhile for this reason alone. This wasn't a product that was much suited to my own tastes, but I would recommend it to people who like their cherry flavoured chocolates.
7.4 out of 10
Cadbury Chomp (RSA)
Kcal ??? Fat ??? Fat(sats) ??? Carbs ???'Wafer biscuit and caramel covered in a chocolate flavoured coating'.
As you can see above this wasn't product notable for it's presentation, however it had a friendly charm about it, and the random addition of the hippo figures were more to my liking than the bastard Freddo or Magical Elve characters that cover our kiddie offerings here in the UK.
Fast forwarding to the all important taste test, this South African Chomp suffered from many of the UK Chomp's problems - the most obvious one of course being it's small, unfulfilling size. What was more surprising however, was the sub-standard milk chocolate this bar had to offer. Unlike the majority of Cadbury products, the chocolate had a lazy, waxy melt and it disappointingly created a very mild and sugary based taste. Luckily this bar was somewhat passable due to the relative tastiness of the caramel and wafer layers which combined created a satisfactory amount of toffee and malt flavours. Unfortunately it can't be ignored that the outer 'chocolate' coating was horrendously poor, which is something I wouldn't ever expect to say about a Cadbury product. This was by no means the worst product I have ever tasted, but I certainly wouldn't recommend it.
6.2 out of 10
Cadbury Jaffas
Kcal 123 Fat 5.0g Fat(sats) 3.0g Carbs 18.8g'Orange coated, chocolate filled balls'.
These Jaffas came in a 50.0g box that contained around 25 pieces, which were about the size of Cadbury Tasters. To my immediate surprise (and concern) I saw that the pieces were red coloured, despite being billed as orange flavoured!? I should have probably taken this as a sign of what was to soon follow!
Time to describe the taste ... well this wont take long :D These tasted of nothing more and nothing less than pure sugar. The outer shells completely dominated the experience and offered a set of cheap, artificial chemically flavours. The taste was simply one dimensional, boring and utterly joyless - the chocolate needn't be mentioned as it just had no say in matters whatsoever. After 3 pieces I knew the rest were destined for the bin. I didn't even bother offering them to any of my co-workers, I'm not that cruel :D I would honestly avoid these like the plague - just check out the score.
3.6 out of 10
If any of you have any views on the products featured today please be sure to drop me a comment with your thoughts.
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Lol how many reviews do we get tomorrow then? You started the week giving us three and we get four today .... got to be only the five tomorrow then yeah?
I'm not sure where to start today lol? I have never seen or heard of most of these but a few of them do look like they are worth trying. The dark chocolate with almond looks cool, as does the chomp one.
The cherry one doesn't interest me at all, I can't stand cherries yuck.
Cadbury Jaffas sound so bad :) I really like the look of those cherry chocolates though they sound gorgeous.
How come they only make them in Canada you think? That is a tad random is it not? I never knew that Cadburys was such a global thing. I always just thought we made it in this country and shipped it out.
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Jim dont you find it amazing how all these different chocolates come from different corners of the globe? With South Africa, New Zealand and South Africa you are clocking up a load of air miles getting your chocolate lol. Most of us are just happy popping to the local shop for one.
Excellent reviews again.
I can't believe you have featured the Cadbury Jaffas, they remind me of home.
They are mostly for little children btw. That is who they are supposed to be sold to. I'm not surprised at all you didn't like them. I never did.
Some of those look so bad. It's obvious that every sort of region they operate in has its poor products as well as it's good ones.
I would be interested in trying that almond bar, it looks the most interesting one out of them all if you ask me. I see what you mean about it looking really dark in colour, it almost looks like an 80% chocolate or something.
Well theres something I never thought I would see from you!!! Below a 7 for a cadburys chocolate that is. The jaffas sound ridiculously crappy what on earth must have they been thinking?
Lol the Canadians are like ten years behind us when it comes to their chocolate bar wrappers aren't they. When I saw them both at first I thought your reviews were going to be like five years old or something.
They must prefer the classical look or something. I think our ones look far better now IMO.
The jaffas sound disgusting but I bet that chomp is a nice little snack. The hippo on the wrapper is cutesie :-) :-)
Man that cherry flavoured thing sounds awesome. What a shame we have never had anything like that, I would be the first in line to buy it if we did. Is that a proper cherry sitting in the middle? If so that is insane.
Sorry to ask again but on future reviews can you include like a coin next to the chocolate so we can get a sense of the size. Cheers for the reviews.
Four in one Jim calm down lad I can't keep up lol :)
I would bother giving the almond a try but I'm not not sure at all about the others. Cherries aren't really my thing, and well the other two just don't look very nice lol.
This wasn't the bits and bob post I was expecting but its very cool Jim thanks.
I find it amazing how all these are so different to anything we get from cadburys in the UK. You would have thought that across the rest of the world they would have just got a more limited selection to what we get. Interesting.
The cadbury cerises sounds so lush I have to try it. One thing you haven't mentioned on the reviews is where you got them from? Did you buy them or did all these different countries send you them to try?
I wish Canada would send me a Cerises to try :-) If I ask nicely do you think they will?
Dx
Cadburys Jaffa FTL, what a crappy sounding product. They look a bit like the cadbury astros we used to get OLD SCHOOL.
You are very lucky getting to try all these different chocolates, I very much doubt I will ever seen any of these myself. If I ever did come across any of them I think I would bother trying the almond chocolate but probably not any of the others as I don't fancy them much.
Was there any reason why we get four reviews today and not just the one? I'm not complaining I'm just a little curious.
The cerises cherry one sounds gorgeous. I would love to try that some day. Thanks for more brilliant reviews!
If we are honest with ourselves it doesn't look like we are missing out on anything from these other countries. I reckon our line up of cadbury bars is going to likely be one of the strongest compared to any other countries.
Crikey you must spend loads of postage costs if you buy these from all over the world. Looking at the scores you have given out it doesn't seem all that worth it either lol. Honestly I don't want to try any of these, I am more than happy stick with our plain dairy milk for the time being thank you very much ;)
The jaffa things remind me of an idea I had the smarties should have tried a long time ago. Don't you think it would be ultra cool if they did whole tubes of the orange flavoured ones?
IT makes sense I think because everyones favourites are always the orange ones if you ask people. A whole tube of them would be so cool.
Thanks for the reviews Jim. You should stop posting so many at one time though cause it's hard keeping up with you lol. I fear the day you give us a five in one hotel chocolate review and I fancy buying everything. I can hear my wallet weeping at the thought of such a thing. Lol thanks again for the reviews.
After looking through all of these I don't feel like we are missing out on anything. Put it this way I felt well annoyed seeing yesterdays reviews cause I fancied a few of those milka chocolates yet I knew I was never going to be able to try them. Today I don't feel anything like that at all. I can do without any of these ones.
I thought Kraft took over cadburys and not this blog ;) This is the 7th kraft chocolate to be reviewed in 2 days lol.
Hi there. I'm currently writing a report on Cadbury and I was hoping you could help me out with a very basic question.
When talking about Cadbury(s) in the first person, should you write/say "Cadbury" or "Cadburys". Whenever I look at different sources I see it is spelt in entirely different ways.
Any help you can prodive me on this would be most welcome.
@Shaun I swear they did that for a time being once. What I miss are the giant smarties they used to make. They were so much better than the normal sized ones cause you used to get more chocolate.
@Golden that is exactly what I thought at first. I thought Jim was reviewing some really old UK bars or something. I thinks they need an update.
No offence to your reviews but what a crappy collection of chocolate bars. I don't fancy a single one of these to be honest, hand me a plain ol' cadburys dairy milk any day thank you very much.
None of these interest me very much but the cherry one loks very cool, I've not seenanything like that before atall!!
@Shaun/David - back in the glory days of the 90's they did indeed release a limited edition tube of just orange smarties - in thsoe days they'd bring out alot of different limited editions - anyone rememeber the blue smarties that had faces on?? i lost count of the different limited versions they did, along with versions of drifters and toffee crisps etc.
Cadbury did aswell, notably with Frys Chocolate Cream (alocoholic flavours like irish cream etc!)which had very cool modern looking wrappers and Crunchie - mint, tango orange, champagne... mad days! lol by the early 2000's it seemed to stop :(
@anon - I think your best off just using 'Cadbury' - since they dropped the 's' about ten years ago everyone just says Cadbury (although I always preferred the 's' - i never got why they dropped the s so I stil call them Cadbury's lol)
Amazing group of reviews today Jim that was so interesting to read.
How did you manage to come about them all? It's an awfully random collection of products to get hold of?
Cool review but I don't think I necessarilly fancy trying any of these chocolates. Like some of the other guys have said I'm not left with any sort of feeling that we are missing out on anything in particular. I found the reviews interesting anyway, its always nice seeing what products they get in other countries vs our own.
Wow, another bits and bobs :) You're really spoiling us lately Jim.
I don't really like the sound of any of these, the one that would have caught my interest the most would have been the jaffas, until I read what you had to say. The Chomp sounds nasty - I can't stand artificial chocolate coating. I'd expect better from Cadbury. Mind you some products they make in other countries are known for being quite poor, particularly South Africa.
@Shaun - sometimes at Christmas they do large tubes of orange Smarties. They used to do anyway.
Thanks for another fun to read Band B review, Jim! But as is the case for many others here, none of these chocolates really appeal to me. The only one that would hold a slight interest for me would be the almond one. But I think the money would be much better spend on something similar from Lindt. :-)
Chocolates with cherries and alcohol are mighty popular in Germany and quite a few companies make them. You have actually also reviewed the Mon Cherie from Ferrero and scored them poorer than these cherry things from Cadbury. While I am no lover of Mon Cherie and only eat them when I am desperate and nothing else is around (ie. when they are the last thing left over from the Ferrero collection box...) I seriously would think that they are better than this Cadbury stuff featured here. But then again, I never had the chance to compare. ;-)
Yowzer it looks like the quality of Cadbury can really take a nose dive if you eat it outside of the UK. What is going on? I will have to make sure I avoid anything ever made from them in New Zeland or South Africa, those jaffas sound especially atrocious.
Cadbury's Jaffas always used to be quite good but I can't say I've had them in a long time. They're mostly sold at movie theatres. In the old theatres with sloped floors there'd always be somebody who'd drop their bag during the feature and they'd bounce down the to bottom.
Sadly, the quality of Jaffas was probably crushed when Cadbury sharply cut their products' quality late last year.
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Hi Everyone,
I thought this would be a post a lot of you would enjoy. As someone has mentioned I've gone far and wider gathering these products together :D You don't get further away from each other than Canada, South Africa and Canada - its quite the assortment. As I did yesterday I will answer your comments based on topic areas.
David / Simon / Kim / Steven - RE: 4 in 1
Haha no you wont be getting five in one tomorrow :D I believe it is just the single product review coming up.
Rachel / Nigel - RE: Why do they only make them in Canada
I have no idea to be honest. I think Cadbury operate differently to the likes or Ritter Sport and Milka etc as they have production factories in more countries than just their homeland. This allows them to tailor their products to the local markets I guess.
Justin - RE: Air Miles
The carbon footprint for this review must be pretty big your're right :D
Marshall - RE: Cadbury Jaffas for Kids
That doesn't surprise me in the slightest. Mind you I wouldn't feed them to my own.
Alex - RE: 'Below 7 for Cadbury'
I don't get what you mean by that? There have been plenty of instances in the past where I have rated Cadbury below 7.0 out of 10.
Golden / Alan - RE: Old Style wrappers
Part of me thinks they are cool looking, whilst the other part of me is glad we have the new style we have on the UK ones now. I think if I was pushed to choose out of the two I would say I prefer the new style.
Colin - RE: 'Is that a proper cherry in the middle?'
Yes it is. It made a real impact both texture and flavour wise. I was perhaps to harsh on the Cerises, I would have it again.
Daisy / Richard / Sid - RE: 'Where did you get all these from?'
A combination of people sending them to me and purchasing over the internet. I can't specifically remember for each one to be honest. Cadbury seldom contact me ... only if they want their new products featured haha! Don't worry Richard I'm not one for splashing out over the odds for postage :D
Mark - RE: 'Our line up of Cadbury is stronger compared to other countries'
Well you would hope so wouldn't you considering that we are the country of origin for Cadbury.
Shaun / Phil / Alan - Re: Orange flavoured only Smarties
I've not ever seen that done before but I trust Phil/Alan wont be making that up. I do recall white chocolate smarties being made previously. I never thought they were any good.
Mysterio - RE: 'Kraft taking over this blog'
Blimey chap you can't half be random sometimes. Kraft haven't brainwashed me yet don't worry.
Anon / Alan - RE: 'Cadbury or Cadburys'
Alan is correct they dropped the 's' a while back. As you will see by the tag for all the Cadbury posts (which says Cadburys!!) this is something that used to confuse me aswell.
Alan: RE - Limited edition smarties
I do remember the blue ones with faces on. Do you remember the whole 'all the blue smarties have been stolen' marketing campaign? It was very clever wasn't it! I remember going through tubes and tubes of them trying to hunt down an elusive blue smartie.
Phil - RE: Bits n Bobs Posts
I'm glad you enjoy reading them because there are far more already written and in the pipeline. There is even another one due up this week. It's an effective way of being able to review smaller products that don't quite justify a full review, but are still interesting to look at I think. Thanks for the feedback - much appreciated.
Phil / Joel - RE: Quality of Cadbury outside of the UK
I would say it is broadly consistent to be honest, but yeah there have been circumstances where I have found it isn't up to scratch. It's odd how it varies in South Africa as I have tried some bars that have been very little different to what we get in the UK.
Thanks again for the comments everyone. Answering the comments in this format sure is easier for me. I hope you see there is less waffle :D
JIM
Really interesting review Jim. The cherry chocolate bar sounds like it has some potential though I would never think we would see anything like it in England. It would be something totally different, like nothing we have at present.
You really are spoiling us this week Jim with so many products reviewed already! The dark almond and Cherise bars take my interest, both are like nothing Cadbury have to offer here. Think I might avoid the Jaffas, they don't sound very appealing. As for the Chomp, interesting that it's a different composition to our's but it's a shame to hear that it's still as piddley small! Hope it's not just me that feels that a bar named "Chomp" should be a considerable size.
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