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Kcal 233 Fat 9.0g Fat(sats) 4.6g Carbs 30.3g
Before I kick off the review today I have to give a big shout out to ChocolateMission reader Alan who's beady eyes found this Mars Triple Choc bar selling in his local store before Mars could even get their press release out (See HERE). Indeed Alan contacted me last week informing me of the launch of this new limited edition Mars Triple Choc bar. When I first heard the news I was pretty pleased considering we hadn't had any sort of 'new news' for our UK Mars bar for a very, very long time. The only real marketing adapatations we had seen in the last couple of years were the limited time 'England' wrappers which were made available during last years ill-fated world cup campaign :D I still believe they are trying to flog some of them off now haha!
This new Triple Choc variety comes in a 52.0g form that weighs just a little less than your average original Mars bar (58.0g). I have to admit the size difference was totally unnoticeable for me and I only realised there was a discrepancy when I started doing this write up. Suffice to say it is typical Mars though to pull a bit of a sneaky one making their limited editions smaller than the normal bars - they have been doing this for years on their Snickers brand. Aesthetically everything looked in order, with the sensibly coloured with a tri-brown colour scheme. The bar itself looked appeared very little different from usual, however the caramel was a noticeably darker in shade.
On the wrapper the bar came described as 'Tasty chocolate nougat and delicious chocolate caramel covered in thick milk chocolate'. Do you know what!? That's exactly what we got :D Getting straight to the point this bar differed very little aside from it's contribution of flavour from the chocolate caramel layer. The sweet milky Mars chocolate that coated the bar was it's all too familiar self and melted at a nice pace revealing the dual layer of nougat and caramel below. Just as consistently, the nougat at the base of the bar was dense in texture and established a nice pleasant malty chocolate flavour base for every mouthful. Portioned just the same as the usual caramel (27%), the chocolate caramel nicely moistened the potentially dry nougat and yielded with the same soft chew. In terms of flavours the layer was differentiated from the norm and had brought about more of a sweet syrupy taste rather than a toasted buttery salt licked focus. In terms of hunger fulfilment this Triple Choc offering did the same job as the standard bar, though I did find consuming the whole thing an experience that was verging on being a little sickly.
Overall this was bar that I enjoyed reviewing and I'm glad that Mars UK have made efforts to bring a little interest bar to one of their core bars. As you can see from the final score it didn't turn out to be a bar that I ultimately preferred over the original, however It was still more than pleasant and I would happily have one as a very close alternative if the standard bar were not available for any reason. My own personal preference for the original was driven out of the desire for the buttery saltness of the normal caramel. As a pairing with the sweet chocolate and nougat I think the standard golden caramel really takes some beating, and the sweeter tasting chocolate caramel here was just a little less to my liking. If you are a fan of the original Mars then this one well worth a try. I can't promise you will prefer it but it's always nice to give something new a go once and awhile.
8.7 out of 10
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Trust you to be all over this Jim. No wonder none of us can keep pace with your reviews. Lol it sounds like you have special choccie agents on the look out for all these new ones when you don't get them yourself. Knowing all the shops round near me it's going to be months and months before these come in.
Yummy I've been looking forward to this review. I will be getting one of these asap so I can tell you what I think about it. My first thoughts from your post is that I don't think I'm going to like the chocolate caramel as much as the original caramel. You never know until you try these things mind.
This isn't a bashing of your photo but it just doesn't look as nice as a regular mars.
I would have given it more like 7.5. Its nice but the chocolate sauce stuff isn't a patch on the caramel.
If this Alan person ever feels like sending me some chocolate I would appreciate it muchly ;) You must feel very important if you have people doing that for you Jim. I think that shows you how much some people value your opinion as a connisseur of chocolate. Did you ever think you would be called that?
Rxxx
I can't believe you haven't been able to buy one yourself Jim. These are on sale all over the place now. I must have seen at least five shops this weekend that were selling them.
I think I need to get myself a Mars bar today lol I used to eat them all the time but then I discovered I didn't mind nuts so my usual went from being a mars to a snickers.
BTW I like the wrapper. It looks like the one they had when they made the Mars almond.
My sister bought a ton of these thinking they were going to be really rare. I didn't have the heart to tell her that they had millions in the supermarket when I went in yesterday. LOL I think she will feel just a little silly when she realises. i don't mind though :) all the more for me yipee.
You replaced our Hotel CHocolate with this sad thing!! Sort it out Jim lad.
Great review J. The photo angle is spot on. You can see how it looks like a syrupy filling rather than a caramelly one.
I think this new bar is great. I bought another 3 after my 1st one =}
Enjoy the football yesterday Mr Jim? I thought you might lol
I hope mars do have people reading sites like this so they can see what they are doing wrong. This isn't the worst case of their poor innovations but its not exactly perfect is it. I say if you are going to make some new, make it 100% NEW. it would have been nice to have seen something thats never been done before. Not just a rehash of something we've seen b4.
Mars didn't push the boat out here did they. I wish they had at least done something to the nougat or changed up the chocolate.
Has this ever been sold in a different country or are we the first to do it? It would be interesting hearing what other countries made of it.
Hats off to you Jimbob. Another cracker of a post boyo.
What a total joke. This sounded like it was going to be so much better than its turned out.
It's just the Mars bar with cheap chocolate syrup in it by the sounds of it. Triple chocolate implied that that it was going to have three different kinds of chocolate, not three different parts all flavoured the same FAIL.
I really like the sound of this one. I'm going to have a look for it today in tesco when I go in.
Jesus mars what were you thinking? They could of changed anything else in the mars bar and I would of thought that was coo. The fact they chose to take out the caramel is just so stupid. Its like they are intentionally being dumb just annoy us all. Change the chocolate if you are changing anything for christs sake.
These so called limited editions are made with just one purpose in mind and thats to get more money out of people. Without doubt this will cost us all more than a avg mars. What people wont realise is that these are 99 times out of 100 going to be cheaper to make on top of that.
Isn't Jim a Man u supporter? Lol I bet hes still delerious after all those goals yesterday.
I cringed a bit when I saw this was the post today.
My brothers being going on about how brilliant these are all weekend. Hes just been showing off that hes tried it and I haven't. Its been sooooo annoying.
People are forgetting that we did get a mars limited edition last year. Do you all not remember the Mars dark!!!!!
Jim did a review but finding it is proving to be almost impossible. It would be interesting compareing how that perfomed v this one.
If there was one thing that they didn't need to tamper with in the Mars bar it was the caramel. Lol I would happily see them change the chocolate or the nougat but the caramel for me is the thing they should of just left alone.
This aint no criticism but the review turned out 100% like I expected it. I didn't think this ever stood a chance of being better than the norm but I thought it was never going to be anything bad. Looking at what it is, its probably fair to say they might of been able to do something a little better. Ive always though a mint flavoured mars would be great.
None of the supermarket websites make any mention that they are starting to sell these :(
I got a feeling its going to be some time before I get my hands on one.
1. Great photo of the bar, exactly what I wanted to see.
2. Fab review. I get the sense it taste like chocolate syrup that you might put on top of ice cream? Treat chocolate syrup. Would that be a good thing to like it to?
Excuse me being disgusting but a coating of drool is not lieing on top of my keyboard =)
Theres nothing more epic than a photo of a chocolate bar with a caramel filling thats all whipped up.
I got so ripped off when I bought one of these. I got one from my martin's newsagent round the corner and it cost me 80p for one. Whats worse is I had to buy one for my brother aswell cause he wanted one. For 1.60 you could nearly buy a big bar of dairy milk. Talk about expensive.
This is not what I had in mind when I heard a bar called triple chocolate was coming out. This is the most boring thing they could possibly have done with it.
I said this last week but it annoys me so much when all these people come on here and come really negatively about something they haven't even tried.
Its fine having an opinion but it should rooted from some sort of knowledge, not just a random assumption that something is bad when it isnt. Rant over
Have i been living on a seperate planet to the rest of you? I didn't even know this existed until I saw this today. Slowpoke Daisy :P
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If Mars are reading this then PLEASSSSSSSSE can you make a white chocolate Mars bar! There must have been people asking for this for years and you've not ever done it. If you truley want to give people what they want then you will make this happen for us.
The caramel is normally my favourite part so I'm not entirely sure this is going to be impressing me all that much. Like someone else has already said though there is only one true way to find out. Hopefully I will do tomorrow when the shops are back open :)
Hey J
You must have been loving the football yesterday. Watching as a neutral it was one hell of a game. So many goals it was hard keeping up half the time. We all have to look forward to the close of the transfer period now. It should be well exciting on Wednesday, I think there are still a lot of deals to be done still. I guess we just have to watch that space.
Lol I always go footie 1st chocolate 2nd don't I :) I never buy Mars bars cause I find them boring now. There are so many other chocolates out there now theres either something new to try or something else being sold amazingly cheap. Just so I can keep up with you lot I will see if I can get hold of one.
Cheers
N
Thank you Jim (and alan for getting it for him). This is exactly the review I expected from this one. I knew you were never going to say it was better than the classic bit to see you say that it was half decent is good enough to convince me I should try one. Congrats on another classic masterpiece Jim.
Wow is this really a case of Mars UK doing something out of the ordinary? These is genuinely something we haven't seen before, all their other new products as of late have all just been rehashes of things we've seen before, or older products they have randomly chosen to bring back in. Hats off to them for finally getting down to something new.
its about bloody time they gave the Mars bar some sort different flavour. Its just been the same since I can remember which is hard to take when you see the stuff they do in the likes of America.
I said I wouldn't post if we lost the football but I get the feeling you would have mentioned it whenever I reappeared anyway so I just thought I would get it out of the way. Yes you did demolish us I admit it, yes it embarassing and demoralising :( Can we just leave it at that please.
I thought I would just add to top it all off I don't like Mars bars lol. You thrash me in the football stakes then take away my Hotel Chocolat Monday. Worst bank holiday ever.
Two questions for @Alan
1 - where did you buy it?
2 - how much did you pay for it?
Go on that approved food website and you will see they are even trying to sell of those england wrapper mars bars now lol.
You got to presume that as soon as England went out (disgracefully!!!!!!) they just stopped. Mars probably thought they were going to do better than they did.
All very predictable. I think it was always going to be the case that it wasn't going to live up to fanfair of the normal one. I appreciate the review still.
@Goldentouch - you are such a know it all :p you are always correcting peoples knowledge you must be a real choco addict :p
Looks good to me. The chocolate caramel isn't looking as copious as you normally get but it could just be your photo. Anyone know how long are they going to be around for?
In the space of a 2 min read I went from desperately wanting one of these to desperately being unfussed lol. It sounds very boring to me. Just like a normal mars but without the decent bit in it.
Now ive seen this im a lot less excited about trying this. I thought when it said triple chocolate that it was going to have milk, dark and white chocolate all in the same one. This just looks uber boring compared to that idea. I suppose I will see what I think when I get around to trying it.
Sorry if im looking at this too logically but how can you rate a bar without caramel (3 musketeers) loads higher than one that does have it (this one!). You can't be serious.
Glad you enjoyed them Jim :) I actually prefer this to a normal Mars, my sister and I found it more chocolately and less sweet than a normal one.
@Robert I bought them in my local independant corner shop (not a chain of any sort) and believe it or not it only cost me only 49p each - yes 49p each lol.
@Ryan - how much! :O that is extortionate! thats nearly double what i paid but then it is a chain newsagent and not a small independant one.
Its nota chocolate syrup either that everyone seems to be thinking it is a chocolate caramel and the nougat is darker than on a normal mars so I think thats also a bit more chocolately too :)
Interesting.
I'm not a hugen fan of chocolate junk-bars but this one looks like it's worth trying! Triple chocolate, oh my.
You couldn't have done better with that picture there. Nom nom nom I want one now so much.
I wonder if we'll get these in Canada? Hope so. I'm a fan of all our varieties of Mars--Regular, Dark, and Mars Caramel.
Hi All,
Thanks for all the feedback on the review today, there have been some really nice comments about the review and photos so thanks for them they are much appreciated.
This is just a quick note from me tonight as I want to wring out the last dregs of my bank holiday weekend :D
This bar seems to have really got a mixed reaction from you guys, though reading through them all I get the sense that there is a positive sentiment rather than a negative one. As I said on the review I thought this was a worthy limited edition and although I will concede it wasn't groundbreaking in terms of innovation, it's definitely a lot better than some of the other limited edition / new products Mars has brought to us lately (remember the 'More Nuts' for the Snickers anyone!?)
RACHEL - I wont ever consider myself a chocolate connoisseur. You lot probably know a heck of a lot more than I do :D
GOLDEN - Haha someone's put it perfectly already you big know it all :D I had totally forgotten about that dark bar. I do remember now that it didn't hang around for long.
ANTHONY - RE: Chocolate sauce. Yes it was like that, just a bit more chewy and viscous.
NIGEL / CHRIS - Guys I like your football banter don't worry :D .... it's hardly like there is limited space to comment. You guys can talk about what you want .... well within the boundaries of this being a family site of course :D Re: the football. I wouldn't know where to start summarising the 8-2 result up. I think it's best just left at saying Arsenal were awful, United were amazing ... mix that together and it was never going to be pretty. What I like about it all so much is that it's all being done with young players who are just so keen. It's going to be a great fooball season I think.
JASONQ - Although they are made by the same company the Mars bar and the 3Musketeer are totally different entities.
ALAN - You are a true legend. Thanks so much again for sending these along to me. I hope you enjoyed your shout out :D I think I just have a deep rooted love of caramel you know :D
MARTI - Welcome to the site. Stick around you might find out you have a love for chocolate after all :D
Thanks for the comments so far everyone. I've completely changed the review line up this week so there are a few surprises on the way.
JIM
The Co-op have packs of 4 for £1. Pretty good deal :) I bought a multipack on Saturday and I think your review is spot-on. I thought it was much more chocolately and satisfying than the normal bar, but yeah a bit sickly towards the end.
People moaning - the caramel hasn't been replaced with choc sauce! It's chocolate caramel! Personally I liked the normal caramel better, BUT the chocolate nougat was much better than the regular stuff!
Does it say on the wrapper where the trip choc bar is made? A lot of the time mars source their Snickers limited editions from places like Poland and other European countries. If they are made by Mars Uk then I see they didn't miss the trick of their european equivalents making it smaller than normal.
I thought this was even better than the normal one me. I still think you need to try the American Milkyway though J, then you can say you've tried all of them out there and not just the english ones.
If they try flog this at a premiuim to the normal one there is no way im paying for it. Im all for seeing companies makenew products and the like but they have to understand that they cant take advantage of us like that. We don't know if they cost more to make or anything like that but they already made them smaller so you would think that would compensate anything like that. Its just corporate greed if they are more than normal.
I can't believe you gave them such a positive review here Jim. If Nestle made something like a triple chocolate Kit Kat and just made the wafer chocolate flavoured you would blatantly throw your toys out the pram and bitch and moan. It's undeniable you treat different manufactures differently on here. It wouldn't be so annoying if you just admitted it.
I think Lisa is on to something!! Why haven't they ever made a white chocolate Mars bar? Like someone pointed out earlier they made the dark chocolate one for dark choc fans last time. It's like they have forgotton white chocolate even exists.
Its sad to say but the more I find out about this one the less bothered I am about trying it. There are hardly many positive things being said about it.
Mars must think we have the plainest tastes ever.
I thought it was ok but I think it could have been a load better. All they needed to do was make it taste a little different from the other chocolate bits and it would have been tons tons better. Making it taste roughly the same was an error in my book.
Its a shame people only ever use this site to complain now. It used to be a place where we had good discussions about why we liked chocolates. Now people just seem happy to just talk about why they don't like something.
Out of all the different flavours they could have done they just reverted to doing a plain chocolate bar.
God throw us a bone here Mars. At least try and make things interesting for christs sake.
Here is my idea for a limited time mars bar. How would you guys think a fudge one would do? I think it would be awesome if they got some decent proper stuff in there.
The best way I think you can eat a Mars bar is by cutting it up and then putting it in the fridge for a few hours. If you do that the nougat gets really thick and takes ages to chew on. Trust me its so so good.
@ Ben I dont think thats true atall.. if Nestle brought out a triple Choc KitKat and it tasted good then Jim would be just as positive about it. Theyre completely different bars and manufacturers, you cant really make that comparison.
Finally got round to trying this. I bought it about a month ago, but it's been lying in the bottom of a sweet box since then.
It has nothing on the original. The change in the caramel just doesn't work, it makes it has become far too sickly, and I didn't get the same strength of flavour in the nougart.
I'm glad they tried to bring something new out, but I would have preferred if they made a more significant (and improving) change.
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