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Sparkly new Kaffre journal. Plus Kaffre talks Candy #3
11 years ago
Hi everyone!
Sorry for leaving that depressing old journal up for almost a month, but I couldn't really bring myself to post a new one until I had something suitably interesting with which to replace it. To that end, I'd like to remind you all that kitty has a birthday coming up in just nine days! Unfortunately, I'll be a busy kitty this next week as I've got a playtest to write and some babyfur pictures to finish so I'm afraid I won't be able to remind you nearer to the date...
Anyway, we had the memorial on October 2 and are all doing quite well (I think we did most of our mourning during her lengthy illness). Thanks again to all who sent their condolences, they were much appreciated,
And now, on a lighter note - the 3rd installment of Kaffre talks Candy.
Name: Bounty
Manufacturer: Mars
Size: 57 grams in two bars
Where Purchased: Dollarama
Description: Bounty consists of two smaller bars bundled together in a single wrapper - unlike Twirl, Twix, or Bueno, however, the bars are arranged end on end rather than side by side. The individual bars are short, but fairly thick and consist of shredded coconut coated in a layer of chocolate.
Opinion: I've not tried a Bounty is many years and had, in fact, nearly forgotten what they taste like when I bought one for the purposes of this review. Fortunately, the answer is that it tastes quite good with a tasty coconut centre that is neither too chewy nor dry and acts as a counterpoint to the chocolate's sweetness. I think I'll probably buy this again.
Name: Crispy Crunch
Manufacturer: Cadbury
Size: 48 gram bar
Where Purchased: Loblaws
Description: Crispy Crunch consists of a broad flat bar with a sort of flaky, peanut butter candy enrobed in a layer of sweet-tasting milk chocolate. The bar's surface lacks the smoothe finish and segmentation of the Fry's X Creme bars, but the general structure is very similar.
Opinion: Crispy Crunch is a bar I enjoyed quite frequently in my youth, but hadn't eaten in a few years mainly due to them being harder to find in the last few years and not being stocked at either of my usual candy stores for some reason. The bar is fairly crunchy and manages a nice peanut buttery taste without the messiness of actual peanut butter. In short, I found Crispy Crunch to be just as good as I remember and will continue buying it.
Name: Curly Wurly
Manufacturer: Cadbury
Size: 26 gram bar.
Where Purchased: Bulk Barn
Description: Curly Wurly consists of individual strands of caramel arranged in a sort of loose braid and then covered in a layer of sweet chocolate.
Opinion: Normally, I'm not especially fond of caramel, but I rather liked this product. The sweetness of the chocolate provided a nice contrast to the caramel and while the bar was quite chewy, the thin strands and chocolate coating allowed me to bite off appropriate sized pieces making it more manageable. Overall, I found this candy to be fairly tasty, but I'm not really sure whether I'd buy it again mostly due to my indifference toward caramel.
Name: Dubble Bubble Assorted Flavour Tab Chewing Gum
Manufacturer: Dubble Bubble
Size: 127 gram bag
Where Purchased: No Frills
Description: This product consists of small multi-coloured tablets of chicle style gum about 1/8 the size of a Chiclet. Each colour represents a different flavour (as with gumballs or chiclets, but are individually mellower possibly as a result of the relatively small size of the tablets.
Opinion: This product is one I've found myself purchasing a lot since I first tried it about a year ago. The pieces taste a bit like gumball, but due to their small size more can fit in your mouth giving a more intense flavour though it is rather nondescript unless you're lucky enought to get a palmful of the same colour pieces. The product is a good one if you enjoy the taste and texture of chicle gums and I will continue to purchase it for the foreseeable future.
Name: Fry's Peppermint Cream
Manufacturer: Cadbury
Size: 49 gram bar
Where Purchased: Bulk Barn
Description: Fry's Peppermint Cream consists of a dark chocolate shell with a creamy, mint-flavoured fondant centre. The shape of the bar is fairly flat with a simple, but sleek appearance. There are some grooves suggesting that the bar is meant to be broken into segments, but they don't work well for this purpose.
Opinion: As with the other Fry's bars I've reviewed, the fondant proved the dominant flavour lending this product a taste reminiscent of a Junior Mint or Peppermint Patty. The bitter aftertase of the dark chocolate was barely noticeable which may be a plus or minus depending on your opinion of the stuff, but I found the product to be easily my favourite of the three Fry's bars and while I'm not sure I'll ever buy one again, I am glad I tried it once.
Name: Hershey's Cookies n' Creme
Manufacturer: Hershey
Size: 43 gram bar
Where Purchased: Dollarama
Description: Cookies n' Creme consists of a flattish bar of white chocolate embedded with many small fragments of 'cookie' (to a cursory inspection, they do resemble Oreo crumbs. The bar is divided into twelve segments (three columns of four) allowing it to be readily broken up into bite-sized pieces.
Opinion: A bar I've not had in some time, but used to quite enjoy, Cookies n' Creme is about the same as I remember. I personally enjoy white chocolate, but find that it gives me a stomach ache much more easily than actual chocolate and I believe that the presence of cookie bits helps to ameliorate this. A decent bar that I shall continue to buy.
Name: Milkybar
Manufacturer: Nestle
Size: 25 gram bar
Where Purchased: Bulk Barn
Description: Milkybar consists of a slim, but deceptively sturdy bar of white chocolate (actually a vaguely yellowish hue). The bar is quite flat, but features a raised illustration of what appears to be a little boy in cowboy garb snaring a hobby horse (or perhaps a dragon) with his trusty lasso.
Opinion: This is another bar I'd never tried before, but decided to try on a whim. The white chocolate was smooth, sweet, and very tasty without having the unusual aftertaste I normally associate with white chocolate. Ultimately I liked this bar and will probably try it again, but its rarity and small size will prevent if from being one of my regular buys.
Name: Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
Manufacturer: Hershey
Size: 46 grams in three cups
Where Purchased: Dollarama
Description: Reese's Peanut Butter Cups consists of three roughly disc-shaped chocolate shells filled with peanut butter. The top of the cups feature a scalloped edge and have a diameter that is noticeably greater than it is at the base. The cups I bought had melted slightly, but were still easily recognizeable.
Opinion: While I've tried Peanbut Butter Cups before and liked them, they're an item I've largely avoided the last few years after getting a bunch of stale ones in a row. Fortunately, the pack I bought for this review was fresh. While the combination of peanut-butter and chocolate is justifiably celebrated, I couldn't help noticing that both flavours seemed rather subdued. Nevertheless, the item is quite tasty and will probably be purchased again.
Name: Skor
Manufacturer: Hershey
Size: 39 gram bar
Where Purchased: Dollarama
Description: Skor consists of a slim piece of crunchy toffee covered in a thin layer of milk chocolate. The bar itself is slim and decptively delicate-looking, but actuallly required a fair amount of force to snap in half to inspect the bar's crosssection. Interestingly, the chocolate seemed to want to peel away from the toffee as I ate.
Opinion: Skor is another bar I'd often seen, but never tried before. The taste was vaguely reminiscent of Crunchie, but the toffee is harder and has a smoother, less intense flavour. I rather liked this product, but so far as toffee filled candy bars go, I'll probably be sticking to Crunchie for the time being...
Name: Twix
Manufacturer: Mars
Size: 50 grams in two bars
Where Purchased: Dollarama
Description: Twix consists of two small bars bundled together in the same wrapper. The individual bars are comprised of a crunchie cookie-biscuit topped with a small quantity of caramel and then enrobed in a layer of chocolate.
Opinion: This is another bar I've eaten quite frequently, but not in the last little while. The twin bars were melted slightly, but were nevertheless nicely crunchy and tasty and just enough caramel to give some flavour and chewiness without becoming too sticky. Very enjoyable and a bar I'll likely buy again in the future.
Sorry for leaving that depressing old journal up for almost a month, but I couldn't really bring myself to post a new one until I had something suitably interesting with which to replace it. To that end, I'd like to remind you all that kitty has a birthday coming up in just nine days! Unfortunately, I'll be a busy kitty this next week as I've got a playtest to write and some babyfur pictures to finish so I'm afraid I won't be able to remind you nearer to the date...
Anyway, we had the memorial on October 2 and are all doing quite well (I think we did most of our mourning during her lengthy illness). Thanks again to all who sent their condolences, they were much appreciated,
And now, on a lighter note - the 3rd installment of Kaffre talks Candy.
Name: Bounty
Manufacturer: Mars
Size: 57 grams in two bars
Where Purchased: Dollarama
Description: Bounty consists of two smaller bars bundled together in a single wrapper - unlike Twirl, Twix, or Bueno, however, the bars are arranged end on end rather than side by side. The individual bars are short, but fairly thick and consist of shredded coconut coated in a layer of chocolate.
Opinion: I've not tried a Bounty is many years and had, in fact, nearly forgotten what they taste like when I bought one for the purposes of this review. Fortunately, the answer is that it tastes quite good with a tasty coconut centre that is neither too chewy nor dry and acts as a counterpoint to the chocolate's sweetness. I think I'll probably buy this again.
Name: Crispy Crunch
Manufacturer: Cadbury
Size: 48 gram bar
Where Purchased: Loblaws
Description: Crispy Crunch consists of a broad flat bar with a sort of flaky, peanut butter candy enrobed in a layer of sweet-tasting milk chocolate. The bar's surface lacks the smoothe finish and segmentation of the Fry's X Creme bars, but the general structure is very similar.
Opinion: Crispy Crunch is a bar I enjoyed quite frequently in my youth, but hadn't eaten in a few years mainly due to them being harder to find in the last few years and not being stocked at either of my usual candy stores for some reason. The bar is fairly crunchy and manages a nice peanut buttery taste without the messiness of actual peanut butter. In short, I found Crispy Crunch to be just as good as I remember and will continue buying it.
Name: Curly Wurly
Manufacturer: Cadbury
Size: 26 gram bar.
Where Purchased: Bulk Barn
Description: Curly Wurly consists of individual strands of caramel arranged in a sort of loose braid and then covered in a layer of sweet chocolate.
Opinion: Normally, I'm not especially fond of caramel, but I rather liked this product. The sweetness of the chocolate provided a nice contrast to the caramel and while the bar was quite chewy, the thin strands and chocolate coating allowed me to bite off appropriate sized pieces making it more manageable. Overall, I found this candy to be fairly tasty, but I'm not really sure whether I'd buy it again mostly due to my indifference toward caramel.
Name: Dubble Bubble Assorted Flavour Tab Chewing Gum
Manufacturer: Dubble Bubble
Size: 127 gram bag
Where Purchased: No Frills
Description: This product consists of small multi-coloured tablets of chicle style gum about 1/8 the size of a Chiclet. Each colour represents a different flavour (as with gumballs or chiclets, but are individually mellower possibly as a result of the relatively small size of the tablets.
Opinion: This product is one I've found myself purchasing a lot since I first tried it about a year ago. The pieces taste a bit like gumball, but due to their small size more can fit in your mouth giving a more intense flavour though it is rather nondescript unless you're lucky enought to get a palmful of the same colour pieces. The product is a good one if you enjoy the taste and texture of chicle gums and I will continue to purchase it for the foreseeable future.
Name: Fry's Peppermint Cream
Manufacturer: Cadbury
Size: 49 gram bar
Where Purchased: Bulk Barn
Description: Fry's Peppermint Cream consists of a dark chocolate shell with a creamy, mint-flavoured fondant centre. The shape of the bar is fairly flat with a simple, but sleek appearance. There are some grooves suggesting that the bar is meant to be broken into segments, but they don't work well for this purpose.
Opinion: As with the other Fry's bars I've reviewed, the fondant proved the dominant flavour lending this product a taste reminiscent of a Junior Mint or Peppermint Patty. The bitter aftertase of the dark chocolate was barely noticeable which may be a plus or minus depending on your opinion of the stuff, but I found the product to be easily my favourite of the three Fry's bars and while I'm not sure I'll ever buy one again, I am glad I tried it once.
Name: Hershey's Cookies n' Creme
Manufacturer: Hershey
Size: 43 gram bar
Where Purchased: Dollarama
Description: Cookies n' Creme consists of a flattish bar of white chocolate embedded with many small fragments of 'cookie' (to a cursory inspection, they do resemble Oreo crumbs. The bar is divided into twelve segments (three columns of four) allowing it to be readily broken up into bite-sized pieces.
Opinion: A bar I've not had in some time, but used to quite enjoy, Cookies n' Creme is about the same as I remember. I personally enjoy white chocolate, but find that it gives me a stomach ache much more easily than actual chocolate and I believe that the presence of cookie bits helps to ameliorate this. A decent bar that I shall continue to buy.
Name: Milkybar
Manufacturer: Nestle
Size: 25 gram bar
Where Purchased: Bulk Barn
Description: Milkybar consists of a slim, but deceptively sturdy bar of white chocolate (actually a vaguely yellowish hue). The bar is quite flat, but features a raised illustration of what appears to be a little boy in cowboy garb snaring a hobby horse (or perhaps a dragon) with his trusty lasso.
Opinion: This is another bar I'd never tried before, but decided to try on a whim. The white chocolate was smooth, sweet, and very tasty without having the unusual aftertaste I normally associate with white chocolate. Ultimately I liked this bar and will probably try it again, but its rarity and small size will prevent if from being one of my regular buys.
Name: Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
Manufacturer: Hershey
Size: 46 grams in three cups
Where Purchased: Dollarama
Description: Reese's Peanut Butter Cups consists of three roughly disc-shaped chocolate shells filled with peanut butter. The top of the cups feature a scalloped edge and have a diameter that is noticeably greater than it is at the base. The cups I bought had melted slightly, but were still easily recognizeable.
Opinion: While I've tried Peanbut Butter Cups before and liked them, they're an item I've largely avoided the last few years after getting a bunch of stale ones in a row. Fortunately, the pack I bought for this review was fresh. While the combination of peanut-butter and chocolate is justifiably celebrated, I couldn't help noticing that both flavours seemed rather subdued. Nevertheless, the item is quite tasty and will probably be purchased again.
Name: Skor
Manufacturer: Hershey
Size: 39 gram bar
Where Purchased: Dollarama
Description: Skor consists of a slim piece of crunchy toffee covered in a thin layer of milk chocolate. The bar itself is slim and decptively delicate-looking, but actuallly required a fair amount of force to snap in half to inspect the bar's crosssection. Interestingly, the chocolate seemed to want to peel away from the toffee as I ate.
Opinion: Skor is another bar I'd often seen, but never tried before. The taste was vaguely reminiscent of Crunchie, but the toffee is harder and has a smoother, less intense flavour. I rather liked this product, but so far as toffee filled candy bars go, I'll probably be sticking to Crunchie for the time being...
Name: Twix
Manufacturer: Mars
Size: 50 grams in two bars
Where Purchased: Dollarama
Description: Twix consists of two small bars bundled together in the same wrapper. The individual bars are comprised of a crunchie cookie-biscuit topped with a small quantity of caramel and then enrobed in a layer of chocolate.
Opinion: This is another bar I've eaten quite frequently, but not in the last little while. The twin bars were melted slightly, but were nevertheless nicely crunchy and tasty and just enough caramel to give some flavour and chewiness without becoming too sticky. Very enjoyable and a bar I'll likely buy again in the future.
Also, Bounty is quite tasty. Actually, I think coconut may be the only nut I do like in my chocolate...