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Last week I reviewed one of Ritter Sport's latest creations their reader devised Cookies & Cream bar (See HERE). Within that review I gave all you ChocolateMission readers the opportunity of trying the bar for yourselves with the launch of a Twitter based competition to guess which of the three consumer designed wrappers I thought was best.
Well one week on I can reveal that the winner is @Ste_Collins who correctly guessed that I thought wrapper number 1 (pictured below) was my favourite. I have to say it was a close run thing between that one and number 3 (the chequered chef one!), but in the end I preferred the less busy, simple design of the first.
Thanks ever so much for all the entries - keep an eye on the Twitter feed (HERE) for future competitions.
On to the review today ....
Kcal 563 Fat 38.0g Carbs 47.0g (per 100.0g)The review today will be short and succinct what with the announcement of the competition winner. Another reason for this being relatively brief is because there isn't much to say :D This Ritter Sport Thank You chocolate is a recently released offering that has snuck in the back door whilst the Summer 2011 and Cookies & Cream bars have taken centre stage.
This 'Thank You' chocolate is the newest addition to Ritter's 250.0g range and has been designed for the occasions where 'you want to say thank you to a loved one' .... awwww isn't that cute :D The milk chocolate came packaged in a rather gaudy looking multi-coloured wrapper that I personally didn't think looked all that great (sorry I prefer the plainer designs - boring Jim!!). So what was supposed to be so special about this chocolate? Well it was 40.0% milk chocolate that had been 'enriched with Trinatiro cocoa' of course haha!! Laugh I may, however it was actually very nice and like their 35.0% milk chocolate I reviewed a year or so ago, a noticeable improvement from their rather more generic standard milk chocolate. No doubt aided by it's thicker melting texture, the cocoa flavours were just more forthcoming and tasted deeper layered with rich milk and honey notes all coming to the fore.
Overall this was a better than average milk chocolate, and would be a bar I would gratefully receive or gift in the instance where a good old 'Thank You' is in order for someone with plainer tastes. It wont light your world on fire, nor does it look as special as a box of chocolates from someone like Thorntons or Hotel Chocolat. As a standalone milk chocolate though it's a decent offering from Ritter Sport.
8.0 out of 10
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Noooooooooooooo
I've lost again. This is a fix I tell you! A fix!!!!!!
Just kidding Jimbo :P Thanks for the opportunity of the competition. I just hope my luck is better next time.
Jim are you ever going to start using your twitter as more than just a way of telling people what reviews are on? Do you have a personal account? I don't want to sound like a creepy stalker but you really intrigue me. I want to know what you do in your everyday life, like your job and daily life? What sort of person creates a chocolate made site like this one.
Oh bugger I chose number 2 :( I'm going to be sulking all day now. Cookies and cream would of been amazing to try.
Woah woah woah! Why have you drawn the winner early I didn't even get a chance to enter. I demand this be redrawn.
I still think you should have created an option D) which meant that you didn't like any of them LOL. Honestly I found it so hard picking a winner out of the three that Ritter chose. I would of thought they would have got much better entries than the ones they picked out.
Whats up with you not liking the wrapper on that milk chocolate Jim? I think it looks pretty. Its so much more interesting than the boring ones they usually have, its nice to see them doing something different.
Well done to @steven, I'm uber uber jealous. I would have done anything for that damn cookies and cream one. I will just have to wait until they bring it out here in the UK. I have a feeling that I might be waiting around forever lol.
Dx
I wasn't expecting to hear who won this competition so soon :( I was planning on signing on to your feed closer to the weekend because I thought it might give me a better chance. Serves me right for waiting, next time I will just enter as soon as.
I see Ritter are slowly making their way up the %s on their milk chocolates :) LOL last year it was 35%, this year it's 40% ..... you got to be thinking that 45% is on the way next year.
Sorry I've been slow with this one. That was such a cool competition that ritter did in the first place. Being about to create your own flavour is such a cool idea, lol knowing the British GP we would make something lame like milk and dark chocolate or something equally as dull.
It must be so cool being the person who gets credited with that bar. Getting your very own chocolate bar made must be the best.
Thanks for the competition. Shame I didn't win :(
@midgley14
Hey J
Looks like United are going to be sold Nasri does it. I don't think Arsenal can afford to sell him as it leaves them with such a hole to fill. What do you think Utd are going to do now. You guys well need to bring in a new midfielder lol.
Nice one for the competition btw. I didn't enter cause I hate white chocolate but by the looks of all the people that are disappointed they didn't win you seem to have got lots of people onboard.
Cheers
N
Heres a competition question you can use ....
'Whats harder to win? The EuroMillions or a competition on Jim's Chocolate Mission?'
Don't worry you don't have to pay me for that one. I must have entered about ten of your competitions now, its ridiculous.
At least Ritter are still making their big chocs in a 250g size and aren't cheating people like some chocolate makers are doing now.
I still can't believe the cheek of cadburys reducing the size of their 250g to 230g. It wasn't the fact it was particularly noticeable, it was more the moral behind doing under the radar which hurt the most.
Have you still reviewed every single Ritter chocolate out there then mate? That is an amazing achievement if thats true.
Lol no one is ever going to be able to accuse you of not being thorough with your reviewing now are they.
Jim did you ask your Ritter Sport people whether they plan on doing more things in the UK? It was something I asked about on the cookies and cream review last week.
How do you pick the winners of this competition? Do you have an external adjudicator to make sure there is no foul play going on ;) I'm envisaging a national lottery type set up here. All of our names being thrown into ball machine camelot and the winner being picked out that way. Thats the level of techinal accuracy I want to hear about you going to hun.
Rxxx
I didn't think you were picking a winner until the weekend? Why did you bring the closure date forward?
DOHHHHHHH!
I was hoping I would win this time around. That cookies and cream is the best sounding flavour they have come up with for a good while. Do you know if it is one that is being made as a limited editions or in limited batches at all?
Hopefully it will prove to be really popular so they keep it as part of their main ones. That way I at least have some tiny hope of being able to get one myself at later date. Thanks for the comp .... just make sure I win next time lol.
Ste = Steven?? Well done anyway to you winning. You and Jim must share the same taste in chocolate bar wrappers, well either that or you are good at guessing.
Let us know how it tastes, I'm interested to hear the 2nd opinion on it.
I saw one of those massive ritter bars at the weekend in waitrose. It was called biscuits and nuts. I nearly bought it but I didn't have enough change on me at the time + I hadn't seen a CM review of it. Have you done it before? I don't see it linked anywhere.
Well done @Ste_Collins
Enjoy the chocolate, let us know what you think of it. Your probably going to be the 2nd person in GB to try it behind Jim lol. I can't imagine there are too many other people in this country getting first dibs on ritter sport new flavours. I could be wrong :)
Looking at the wrapper of that new milk chocolate Ritter might want to consider letting their fans design all their wrappers lol. It looks terrible I can't imagine what they were thinking when they gave that the go-ahead. Great reviews Jim and thank you for running the compeition again.
Is this THANK YOU chocolate going to be the first of a line of new bars from Ritter?
It would be a cool idea if they did ones for HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CONGRATULATIONS etc. Lol I'm probably dreaming this all up in my head. Stuff that I think of never happens lol.
You chose number 1? I declare shennanegains its rubbish.
It's about bloody time ritter tried to do something with their milk chocolate.
I've never thought it was bad or anything but it's always been the obvious area that they could improve on if you ask me. If they could just highten the quality of their milk chocolate across the rest of their bars and keep the same consistent awesome filings people would blatantly think a lot more about their produce. Do you know know if they have plans to do this.
I love your competitions but please can we have something different for the pries next time. I'm not all that familiar with Ritter chocolate. I would much rather you gave like Milka or Cadburys away. Sorry, I know that makes me sound so ungrateful.
God help the person whos won if they chime in and say the didn't like it. I don't think I've ever wanted to try a chocolate as much as this one. Now I know I haven't won I'm going to order some direct from Germany. I just need to find a reliable place to buy it from.
It's my ambition now to try every single flavour or Ritter like you have Jim :)
I see that it's only taken you the three years to do lol. I'm going to aim to do it in a year and I'm going to include all the limited editions that they come out with in the mean time. Ritter Sport FTW!
Drat. Denied my ritter sport fix yet again. I never win these things.
You picked that one as the best??????
Seriously dude what were you thinking. It's so plain and boring compared to the other two. It looks like the person put half the effort into than the other two. I can't believe you picked that one the winner, is the one I ruled out right away.
Well done to the person that won - make sure you tell us what it was like. You better appreciate it.
I guessed the wrong wrapper so I wouldn't have been in the draw anyway. We obviously differ in our taste of art Jim :-P the one with the chef on the front was blatantly the best.
I think Ritter have sorta shot themselves in the foot there making that new milk chocolate bar.
It doesn't reflect well on them saying 'hey we have this super duper new milk chocolate recipe' ..... but we aren't going to give it to you on the rest of our bars.
I wouldn't of thought most people will notice, but the real fans of ritter will wont they.
Why is that you are always giving away Ritter Sport when you do competitions nowadays? I just looked under all the ones you have done in the last few months and almost all of them have had Ritter Sport prizes involved?
Do you know someone that works there? Do you work there yourself? Come on Jim let the rabbit out the hat.
I agreed with your choice of wrapper but I didn't enter the comp because I don't like white chocolate. I didn't want to take away the opportunity for someone else more appreciative to be able to try it. Believe you me, the next ritter competition you run I'm going to be all over, don,t you worry about that dude.
I'm never going to win any of these competitions am I :( I spent so much time last week making sure I RT'd all of your reviews.
It took ages for me to do that grrrrrrr
Ahhhh no way I got the wrong one to begin with :(
I think you need to make the method entry different next time Jim. Make it something based on effort rather than pure luck. I mean we only had a 33% chance of even being entered in the prize draw itself, thats not even factoring in all the other people entered. Lol now I think about it the odds of winning were tiny, I got my hopes up and everything.
Jim I see there are loads of disappointed people today. Why don't you ask your mates at Ritter if they will send you more to run a bigger comp? Its worth a try isn't it? The worst thing they can say is no.
Jim what do you think the chaces are of them sticking that milk chocolate in the rest of their flavours in the future?
I would love to see it happen as it sounds so much better than the current stuff. Realistically thinking though I can't see them doing it. Cocoa prices are always going up so I think its more likely they decrease the amount rather than increasing. Sad but true don't you think.
Ignore the whiney moaners Jim you blatantly chose the best out of the three :)
I didn't win but its cool I picked the right one. Us true chocoholics have the best taste don't we love x
They should make a plain white chocolate bar not a milk one. I think their white chocolate is among the best I've ever tasted.
It's so much better than the likes of crappy milkybar and cadbury dream. They are just sickly and yuck now, I used to like them but either my tastebus changed or they made them worse. I'm still undecided which to blame it on.
Ritter sport are blatantly a well cool company. They seem to put their german fans at the heart of everything they do. I wish they did the same for their UK ones, I'm not having a go at them btw. I think its more down to the size of their company rather than them being sinisters towards us.
Ritter are cheating with the new varieties now :) this one shouldn't count!!! Just changing the cocoa content by 5% does warrant being a whole new flavour. How many are they up to now? Do you genuinely think you would have noticed the difference if they hadn't of told you on the pack? I wouild expect that even a seasoned chocoholic vet like you might of had a bit of difficulty with that Jimbo.
I say keep the competition structures as they are if it means they aren't much hassle for you. I wouldn't like you to start running less of them because you are thinking people want more complex competitions that are going to take you a load of time to setup and manage. Lol just keep the chocolate coming our way, no one is in a position to complain considering you do it off your own back.
Chalk up another failure for me. I'm never going to win.
Win lose or draw you should always be gracious. Well done to the winner, I'm insanely, insanely jealous of you :-P :-P
Any plans for another competition Jim. Lol I think the demand is there matey.
It's very unlike Ritter just to make a plain chocolate bar. Normally they feel the need to put some sort of filling in there.
We wait ages for a Ritter review and then two come along at once :) I was wondering the other day what this one was all about but I could translate the german well enough to figure out what it was.
At first I thought it was a bit boring just being plain milk chocolate but now I'm kinda bought into wanting to try it because it sounds a lot better than the usual stuff which I've never thought was all that bad itself.
Yowzers 250 grams is a heck of a lot of Ritter Sport. Do you know if they make a 250 bar of Yogurt flavoured? I think I can honestly eat that all in one. It has to be one of the best chocolates ever in my humble opinion.
I've been meaning to ask you (jim) and the forum a question for a while now but it's been slipping my mind everytime.
Why do Ritter Sport not have a caramel flavour? It's like the most glaring miss given that it's such a popular and comonlly made flavour. It just seems so stupid that they don't make it when they have such a massive range already. You would of thought it would have been one of the first they would have made.
I'm appreciative when I get given any chocs but if I got given this big bar of Ritter I don't think i would be able to help feeling a little bit disappointed. Ritter have have so many wacky flavours it would feel a bit of a let down just getting one mahooooosive bar of milk chocolate from them.
I still need to try and find somewhere that is selling their dark chocolate peppermint. Thats my idea of chocolate heaven, I have had way too many of them in my time though my Tesco stopped selling it a few months back. I think I'm down to my last one in my current stock
I've come up with a flavour that Ritter haven't done yet!!! We haven't seen them play around with pistachios at all! They could do something like a white chocolate with pistachio cream. They could even wait until next year and lump it on with their ice cream themed chocolates and make a pistachio ice cream flavour. If I see this crop up now I will really believe they read what we say =)
I wouldn't hold your breath if you think that ritter are going to put this milk chocolate across the rest of their milk chocolate bars. Theres no need for them to do it + it will just reduce their profit margins if they use more expensive ingredients.
Its a shame we aren't getting their best chocolate but all these chocolate companies are at it now. Take cadburys for instance, its pretty rare they use Dairy Milk in anything but the Dairy Milk bars nowadays.
I cannot believe that the score was dragged down by the packaging - I think this is probably the best Ritter wrapper I've ever seen. I love the squares & flowers idea. Still, it must mean this is a really nice milk chocolate bar if it got 8.5 for everything else.
@Andy: This is the review for that Ritter Sport Biscuits & Nuts bar
Doh! I was truly going to enter the comp (with no. 1 as my answer) but work's been so hectic metric that I haven't had a chance to breathe! :O
Oh well, nice to be able to read your review today!
I always want to try the yummy looking Ritter chocs you review but can't find em in any shops near me! Did Ritter say anything after your last Ritter review re plans to start selling in Tesco/Sainsbury's? Ta for an ace review Jim! x
Hi All,
Boy I sure have got it in the ear from some of you today :D The comments you see here are the ones I have dared publish ... you should see the ones that I thought best not to allow up! Some of them were a tad harsh to say the least.
Sorry to you all who didn't win. Don't you worry the next competition is always just around the corner on this site. I will endeavour to try and make the next one a little more engaging and interesting.
ANON - I do tweet about other stuff sometimes. To be honest I don't have that much to say :D I wouldn't want to bore you people to death with my daily musings.
KIM - I don't know why I don't like it. I think it's just a bit random. I like the traditional wrappers that Ritter have.
STEVEN - You could be right there. They will have to miss out 50.0% because they have already done it :D
NIGEL - Indeed we have missed out on Nasri. I just hope and pray we can bag Sneijder before the summer ends.
WES - Yes I have reviewed every Ritter bar that is currently available. It's scary to think huh!? That is a lot of Ritter chocolate.
RACHEL - Haha, unfortunately it's not that sophisticated. I put all the names of people in a spreadsheet and use a random number generator to pick a winner.
ANON - The draw came forward because I had to get it done before the weekend as I am away with friends. Sorry to all the people that didn't get a chance to enter.
RYAN - I believe it's just a limited edition so yes there will only be limited amounts made. Unfortunately it's not even showing up on their website anymore.
LUKE - I haven't the foggiest idea to be honest with you. I would imagine that might create a number of different wrappers and will just put the same chocolate in there.
TIM/CHRIS - I don't think they will be replacing the milk chocolate on the rest of their bars with this. It's a shame but like you both say there are obvious reasons for them not doing so.
LEO - Ritter are so generous when it comes to the samples they send I always have leftovers. Seriosuly you should see the size of the packages they send over.
DAVID - Asking for even more from them would be a little rich. I have given a lot of these bars away to my friends and family aswell.
DUNCAN - I doubt I would be able to tell the difference being totally honest with you. If you are in the mindset of looking for differences in the taste though they are easily perceivable.
SAKURA - I like your way of thinking! A ritter bar with pistachios in would be most welcome. I might even go as far as pitching the idea to them :D
GRAEME - What you say is correct and I don't blame them whatsoever for taking such decisions. It must be hard as a smaller company surviving in these business conditions.
Right chaps & gals. Thanks so much for the feedback ... even you nasty people that haven't passed the language filter. Any feedback is good feedback I suppose.
Thanks
JIM
Yay I picked the right one. It was blatantly the best looking one out of the three. I thought the other two were just weird. That cartoon one was especially pants if you ask me, it didn't even make sense there was nothing about it at all that linked it to cookies and cream.
Fair play to the winner I didn't even get as far as picking the correct design. Now I look at all three again I can see why you would like that one over the others Jim. The other two aren't very ritter sport if you get what I mean. That milk choc sounds nice btw. I never thought they would get such a high mark for a plain chocolate. Good on them.
I hope the people complaining about how the competition has been run are joking. Its not as if anyone was forced to enter or like you had to pay. You should show more respect that that.
Is it me or are all these companies suddenly coming out with these 'gesture' chocolates.
Both Thorntons and Hotel Chocolat have made similar things recently. Do you remember that Kraft have also made those 'Thank You' cadbury choc truffles. I don't think you've reviewed them yet have you Jim.
If you do get sent more from ritter why don't you run the same competition they did with the wrappers and see what we can come up with? I would love to see what sort of designs other JCM readers could come up with. Make it happen J.
If you do get sent more from ritter why don't you run the same competition they did with the wrappers and see what we can come up with? I would love to see what sort of designs other JCM readers could come up with. Make it happen J.
Sorry mate but IMO you picked the worst looking wrapper of the lot.
How can you like that one over the other two? It looks so boring and simplistic compared to the others. I think even I could have drawn that. I would be interested to know the age of the person that drew it.
Oh well I didn't win but its not all that bad. At least I have you on my twitter now so I get a nice reminder when theres a new review posted. Cheers for the review aswell mate, Like some people have said it's unusual seeing Ritter being so reserved.
ANA - Thanks for linking Andy through to that much appreciated.
ROXY - Don't worry there will be another review coming soon enough :D I haven't actually been able to pin the Ritter guys down lately. I think they are so busy, I will be sure to ask them about it when I can.
PATRICK - Good spot there. I think they have just all realised the potential that people like giving chocolate as a way of expression. It words for cards so why not chocolate!?
CARL - That sounds like a competition I could run in the future yeah!
JIM
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