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Oreo Chocolate Bar Caramel Coffee
Kcal 173 Fat 9.5g Carbs 19.5gDespite not being the the most aesthetically pleasing bar on the eye, when cross-sectioned it was nice seeing the fragments of Oreo biscuits generously dispersed throughout it's entirety. Taking a whiff from inside the foil wrapper the bar was pretty forthcoming in it's aromas, with the strong biscuity smells enhanced pleasantly by some nice cappuccino like scents.
If you have taken the time to study my photograph you will probably know the criticism I'm going to throw in the direction of the chocolate - yes indeed it was a little lacklustre in presence. The sweet mild cocoa flavours it did develop were enough to register a chocolate hit for each mouthful, but I would have liked the chocolate to have had a little more say in the taste. Speaking more positively, the centre mish-mash of Oreo biscuit and caramel, coffee flavoured icing was terrific, with the sweetness of the toffee element nicely playing off the saltiness of the cookie bits. The suggestion of coffee to the taste was ... well ... exactly that! It was more just a mild suggestion, but it was there nonetheless, and gave the bar a nicely progressive taste and sweet coffee end note.
Overall this wasn't exactly a groundbreaking chocolate bar by any means but it was nice, and one that I would have again if it was readily accessible. I'm a little bemused why they couldn't just be done with it and have fully coated the the thing in chocolate, but that aside it was a tasty little coffee number. I still dream of the day that some coffee creme double stuffed Oreos make it to market, come on Nabisco you know you want to :D
8.0 out of 10
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Oreo Chocolate Bar Dark Bitter
Kcal 216 Fat 13.4g Carbs 20.9gSave the best until last??? ... Well no ... I haven't today :D haha I must have chaught someone out with that. This Dark Bitter variant was slightly different in composition to the bar above and other crazier flavours in the range, in that it was a simpler proposition ('dark chocolate with Oreo cookie pieces') and ever so slightly larger in term of size (38.0g vs 32.0g').
On the eye the bar wasn't as visually striking as some of the other Orero Chocolate Bar alternatives, though when it came to the taste I felt it more than held it's own. As you probably could have guessed, this wasn't the grandioso dark chocolate experience of a Galler or Hotel Chocolat dark chocolate, but rather more the case of a less sugary focused chocolate creating a mass consumer friendly dark chocolate experience. With the attention drawn away from the underlying sweetness of the chocolate base, the saltyness and vanilla creme influences from the cookie pieces became more accentuated, making for a taste that had increased emphasis on it's Oreo cookie influence.
Overall this wasn't the most exciting flavour variation I have tried in this Oreo Chocolate Bar range, but it was more satisfying than some of the other options given it's larger size. Those looking for a rich dark chocolate will in all likelyhood be disappointed by it, though I doubt very much that your average person would be looking for that sort of experience from a bar such as this to begin with. If you come across it don't be put off by the dark chocolate billing.
7.5 out of 10
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Lol have I missed an announcement or something? is it caramel week?
Sorry to turn a chocolate review all serious but If anyone from jlist is reading this best wishes, we are all praying for your country at the minute.
Oreo chocolate bars can't be that far off coming out over here I dont think. Kraft keep on coming up with new releases for oreos over here. I can't imagine it will be that long before they start playing the chocolate bar part of the market aswell.
I do love this post today :) Im obsessed with oreos at the mo, I just can't seem to get enough of them lol.
A friend of mine told me that they are planning to start selling double stuff oreos soon but she didn't know when thye were coming out. I thought double stuff was only for the fat americans lol.
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I don't know why all you Brits are complaining. We don't even get these in America. I think they must all be produced Japan because I've not ever seen them before.
Great post love I think it would be great if they could come out with something similar for us over here. Everyone I know loves oreos. I dont see a reason why Kraft should treat us any differently to the other countries :(
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You are going all out with the caramel flavoured things this week aren't you Jim? I know its one of your favourite flavours so I will let you off for the time being :P Now I come to think of it aren't coffee and caramel your two favourite things? Thinking of that now I would have had the caramel coffee bar down for a score bigger than just 8.
The orange wrapper one does look ten times more interesting than the other, but im not sure im down with the whole coffee thing. If the coffee bit is mild like you say I might be able to just ignore it.
I thought Wednesday was the day you posted the bits and bobs reivews? We better not get cheated out of it this week :P
Im liking all over the caramel flavoured reviewed this week Jim. Lol just ignore the haters keep em comin.
Hey J
Good result for Man U last night considering you had so many of your defence missing. You must have been worried when all those players started coming off injured. It will have been a busy night at the hospital in Manchester.
Good reviews todays chap. As enjoyable as normal if a little frustrating that they aren't anything I have a hope of trying anytime soon. Oh well, I know people on here aren't that hopeful but stranger things of happened, they could turn up here one day.
Cheers
N
Jim do you know if Jlist are even operating at the moment? Lots of Japanese companies have been forced to close their businesses because of the earthquake last week.
I still find it extremelly hard to comprehend how a country like japan gets prioritised for these products whilst the UK get nowt.
As far as I know oreos have to be just as popular in this country as they are in japan and the like. If anything I would have expected us to have got these bars before they do.
It would be great to see more things like this coming through from oreo.
I remember seeing a similar oreo type chocolate bar in one of my local pound stores a while back but I think that had originated from a european country and wasn't made in England or anything.
We always seems to be lightyears behind all the other countries when it comes to anything from Kraft.
Yummmy oreos. They are the best cookies around.
Sorry to people already know this but last week I saw them selling the white choc covered oreos in my local asda.
I thought they only did them at Christmas but they were in with all the rest of them when I checked the other day. They were still mega expensive.
By the looks of things Jim hasn't even scratched the surface of the flavours. There are still macadamia, white chocolate, apple, english tea and strawberry milk ones that he hasn't reviewed.
These oreo ones are always good to see mate. You should request the request the rest off 'your mate peter' lol.
Oh yes I do like oreos. I would love it if we got some of these chocolate bars. You never know peeps we might get lucky if Kraft start sort themselves out.
Nice to see you have enough time trying to sell us food from japan but can't find the decency to even aknowledge that the country you are writing about it in crisis. Some people are so thoughtless.
Are these oreo bars the new kit kats or something? I keep seeing more and more new flavours of them appearing online all the time.
How can you make an oreo chocolate bar without having the oreo cream in there? Thats not cool man. I would have thought that was one of the must have features. No buys.
Im a bit disappointed cause when you said there was an oreo post coming up I got excited that there was going to be a new flavour of the cookies released over here :( :(
Oh well I will survive lol. IT would be nice if they could do us some limited editions or something though.
Never mind Oreos we need to get with the scene and Chips Ahoy over to this country. Chips ahoy are ten times nicer than Oreo. If you can get your hands on some of the soft baked chocolate chip ones Jim you will be seriosuly in business. I would challenge you to find a better cookie (shop bought) than them.
btw. American cookies > British Cookies
I just tried the new hob nob cookies. Man they are bad.
The dark chocolate one seems a bit pointless but the caramel coffee has a bit of potential by the looks of it. I just saw the green tea one you reviewed lol I don't know how you managed to eat it. The green innards just look well grosss. I dont think I could have put such a thing anywhere near my mouth lol.
Before anyone complains that all we get is dark chocolate themed 'new' products at the moment I think you should consider that its not only us that are being dealt this hand.
Jim I've just noticed over the last few Japanese posts you have done that there are increasing amounts of dark chocolate themed ones coming out in the far east at the moment. Your last Kit Kat review you did was dark chocolate and we haven't seen any other new flavours since. It must be the trend they have going.
If my random observations are annoying I apologise =)
You can get double stuff oreos now. As Tony the Tiger would say THHHHHHHHEY'RE GREAT
Give yourself a pat on the back from me squire this was another thoroughly good read. Nice one.
Best wishes to everyone at jlist if you are reading. I hope you are all ok.
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If you think these are good jim you could give the macadamia flavour a review. It was out sometime last year but isn't seen as regularly now. I think most places are sold out of them but I could try find one for you and send over when the postal system gets sorted. I reside in tokyo btw.
Since when has Japan been the 'go-to' place to buy oreo stuffs? These both look nice to me.
Reading your review I would now choose differently if I was allowed to try just one. I thought the caramel would be best at first cause it looked funkier but now I've read what you said about the bitter one I think I fancy it the more out of the two.
Lol it does sorta help a little that you say its the bigger one also. Size does matter.
God its about time we got double stuff oreos. Where abouts are they selling them? Anyone know?
Are Kraft just punishing us or something? Not only do they never give us anything like these chocolate bars but then they go and close down factories and turf people out of jobs. You would have thought it was in there best interests to do the exact opposite considering that most people were hostile towards the cadburys takeover in the first place.
God I wouldn't know where to start with the chocolate bars in japan if I moved there. Ive seen so many tasty looking ones I would find it impossible to choose.
Fascinating reviews Jim thanks.
Perhaps I should get over it but I do find the whole oreo and kit kats in Japan thing a tad odd.
Why are these two the most popular Western brands out of the rest we have? You never seen anything made by cadburys either. Its like they dont even feature over there.
BOOOOOOOO hmph where is bits and bobs? I know we got two reviews but normally we get like four today :(
Great post, I never even realised oreo had started doing chocolate bars, they look like they would have quite a satisfying bite to them though. Yum.
Jim do you know if they are going to bring the green tea one back out anytime or was it just a limited edition that they did? I've only just managed to catch up on your review of it and its back dated to some time last year :( If it was only a LE that sucks.
I honestly can't keep up with all these Japanese chocolates. Every week I see your posts I think to myself 'oooh I fancy that one' but then I think I will hold off ordering anything just incase I see something the next week that looks even better. I see only two possible solutions to this problem 1. I buy everything lol 2. You quit writing so many reviews lol. :) One resolution sounds far more likely than the other.
Errr Jim have you checked in with JLIST yet to see if they are all ok since all the earthquakes. I have a friend travelling in Tokyo at the moment and she says its like the whole country has been ground to a halt. They also said that alot of companies aren't back at work because they are limited in the amount of electricity they can use a day because all the power is down.
An update on if business is running as usual would be good. Cheers mate.
Come on you guys, I think you are all in dream land if you think that we will ever even get a sniff of these in the UK. I think we have more chance of Cadbury overthrowing Kraft and send them packing back to yankee land than we have ever seeing these Oreo bars. If Brian is telling the truth saying they dont even have them in America then I feel its highly unlikely they will be with us UK folk anytime in near future. Jlist is our only hope.
Jim this is totally unrelated to everything but I just had to share this news with everyone. They are making a new flavour of the cult icon biscuit jammy dodgers LMAO!!!!!!!! http://www.talkingretail.com/products/product-news/burtons-relaunch-jammie-dodgers Toffee ones sounds great. Excuse the randomness.
I think these choc bars both look nice enough but I would be keener trying some of the flavours that got mentioned by George. The white chocoalte and apple flavours are the one that grab my attention. The white chocoalte cause I love white chocolate and the apple cause there are hardly any apple chocolate bars that exist.
Oh Alex do us a favour I thought you were long gone from your trolling here. Jim aknowledged what happened in Japan at the weekend if you bothered looking properly. Just go away again please.
You can buy double stuff in Asda for 80p http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/asda-compare-prices/Biscuits/Oreo_Double_Stuff_Chocolate_Cookies_185g.html
They are actually cheaper than the normal ones :S hmmm
You can never have too much caramel in my book Jim so great review! ;) Like lots of other JCMheads I luuuurve Oreos so c'mon Kraft - give us all the other yummy varieties that there are! ;) x
Hi All,
Thanks for the wealth of comments, Oreo posts always seems to stir up quite a bit of chit chat amongst you all.
I hadn't intended for this week to be 'caramel week' at all but I see how some of you have come to that conclusion given the content of both posts so far :D I don't even know what I am posting on Friday yet so I may or may not comply with the current theme I have accidently set this week :D
In regards to the people asking about J-List. Peter and co seem to all be fine. I have had a few twitter msgs to and from and he seems to be running the business as normal. I will try find out this evening what is happening in regards to postage etc. I would like to point out that I did send my best wishes on Saturday and had not ignored the situation whatsoever.
Alot of you are also talking about whether or not we will ever see these Oreo chocolate bars on UK/US shores!? Well if I knew that I would be able to predict the future :D but I wouldn't be surprised to see them in some form or other down the road. I doubt we would ever see the amount of flavours/variants they get in Japan though. I think they will forever be the champions when it comes to that.
People asking where 'Bits n Bobs' is .... its only Wednesday guys and girls. Who knows what Friday will bring eh :D
Regarding the be double stuff Oreos. I would love to review them for you guys but I unfortunately don't live anywhere in close proximity of an Asda. Its a shame as I would love the chance to review them. Everyone loves double stuff :D
Are 'dark chocolate' flavours/variants the fashion in Japan at the moment? ..... I don't know if it is quite as strong as some of the other ones we have seen, but yes dark chocolate does seem to be a popular flavour variation at the moment. Lets keep a watchful eye on it to see if it develops.
Why are random brands like Oreo/Kit Kat so popular with the Japanese and some others not? .... I wish I knew the answer to this guys/girls. To be honest with you I don't have a clue why some brands are more suited to the Japanese market. It seems to be totally random to me, one reocurring attribute though is that the core offering has to be easy to adapt, i.e. changing the chocolate and flavours of the Kit Kats and Oreos is easy which allows for a lot of opportunity with flavour variations. You couldn't really say the same for something like Cadbury Dairy Milk.
I hope I have covered off the broader issues you guys have raised.
In answer to some more of the specific questions/comments ...
Nigel - Yes very happy with the result last night. I just hope we can get enough of the defence fit for Bolton on Saturday.
George - Even I wasn't aware there were that many flavours knocking about. I will see what I can do in regards to trying a few more of them.
Alex - I did send my best wishes to the Japanese people on my weekend post. I've only let your post appear as it makes you look like such an idiot. Welcome back :D
Mysterio - I agree it would have been cool to have an additional layer of traditional Oreo Creme running through the bar. That would have added interest both texturally and taste wise I bet.
Mysterio - My review of the hobnob cookies will be up soon.
Duncan - I believe they still do sell it out in Japan. Let me check with Peter to see if he plans to get it back in stock.
Julie - Haha that was very random. Jammie dodgers have never been my biscuit of choice so they weren't something that had made it on my radar.
Thanks for the feedback everyone. Apologies if I have missed anything out. As I always say, just shout at me again if I haven't answered anything you were questioning me about.
JIM
Has anyone else noticed that the amount of milka products coming over from Germany and Europe are getting less and less frequent. About a year or so ago I swear the amount of milka chocolates we were getting expanded loads in a short space of time.
I don't know if its just me but it sorta feels like they are backtracking on that all now. Sorry if this seems random and using milka as an example but its just that people mentioning kraft reminded me of it.
It seems even jlist are useless for us. They look like they have sold out of the caramel coffee one :(
Good to know JList is still up and running. It's hard to read a post about JList right now cause it brings into contrast how until so recently the Japanese angle was so lighthearted. I've never ordered from them yet cause of the postage costs, but this might just be a good time to invest in some zany Japanese chocolate :)
btw it is cool that CM allows open criticism, keeping the site fairly balanced. That said imho flaming belongs in a different category, it's usually against forum conventions so I for one wouldn't mind if it stopped being hosted on CM too :)
Jim I well want to see you review those new green tea kit kats they have up on jlist now. I think they are different to the ones you reviewed before, your thoughts on them would be most welcome before I splash out mate.
Thanks so much for the information @Richard. I think a visit to asda for some double stuff is in order tonight.
Dx
Theres nothing better than a few Oreos + a chilled glass of ice cold milk. Mmmmmm I bet these choccie bars are just as nice when dipped in the milk. Yum yum.
When are we ever going to get a chocolate competition again? It has been ages since you last gave away prizes. You used to do it all the time :( Now you are being mega stingey these days. Sort it out Jim.
Quality review Jim thanks for the heads up on these.
Like the other guys have mentioned I would love seeing these crop up in the uk for us. I cant see it happening though, we are so far behind when it comes to the american branded foods arent we. Its always nice seeing these things though mate. Keep up the gd work.
Come on Jim where are the pocky reviews you keep promising us? You said the next Japenese themed review you did would have them in.
My kids would love these. Do you have any idea if they are nut free?
If they are I will have to buy them some because they love their oreos. I think im better off choosing the milk chocolate ones for them as they prefer sweeter chocs. Thanks for the review Jim.
God bless Japan. It's weird hearing about these products considering what's going on there at the moment, let's just hope they recover from this tragedy.
@Dazz - I don't think its changed much to be honest. We certainly haven't had any new Milka varieties, but then the British public aren't very adventurous so it's no surprise. I wonder if the cookies and cream and popping candy bars are still around, does anyone know? I last saw them in Wilkinsons but haven't been in ages.
I hope everyone is ok at Jlist. Much love to you guys, you're are great.
Im genuinely desperate to try one of these oreo chocolate bars Im going to have to order some now.
Boy I should really learn not to look at this site. I swear I just spend up spending more and more money each time I come on. I always manage to find at least one thing I want to buy each visit.
Vhari - Keep an eye on J-List they update their stock daily.
Thea - Indeed it is hard to focus on anything other than the disaster stuff happening in Japan, but like they say - life goes on and the best way for us all to help them is by keeping peoples businesses ticking over etc.
Lee - All in good time chap. They are on the radar (and in my mouth haha!)
Anon - See the site this weekend.
Tricky - Thanks for the nice words.
Anon - I do have some Pocky reviews coming up in the next few weeks! Patience please.
Linda - I can't confirm whether they were nut free I'm afraid. The wrapper was in Japanese :D
Phil - Nice words chap. I've not seen those Milka bars for a very long time. In fact I don't think I ever saw them on sale here in the UK.
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