Since I
haven't been up to wrestling with words lately, I decided to attack
some wrappings. These two are fairly new, so here goes:
The
wrappings are colourful with cute/funny images and texts. They let
you expect something playful rather than quality chocolate. The
chocolate comes in nice thick pieces, which somehow suits the milk
chocolate.
The
waffle: I wrestled with this wrapping in high hopes, being 1) a big
fan of caramel and 2) having developed a liking to the
sweet-and-salty combination that some chocolates with a bit of salt
offer. The chocolate is very sweet and has no particular character.
There are slivers of waffle everywhere in it. If you like waffle,
you'll probably enjoy this, too. The association works: eating this
chocolate made me think of ice-cream! However, I generally like my
chocolate as chocolate – some additions are fine but I prefer them
not to take the centre stage as the waffle bits do here. On the other
hand, the crunchy caramel bits are lovely – I just wish there were
more of them! And the salt? It can surprise you, for it isn't present
in every bite, but where it is, it is nicely intense and an
interesting contrast to the otherwise very sweet chocolate.
The mint:
The mint chocolate has tiny dark spots in it and on the other side
you can see some white little pearl-like thingies (rice puffs,
presumably). The chocolate is very sweet (probably exactly the same
as the other one). The mint flavour isn't too strong, yet it is
clearly there, present in tiny pieces of hard, sticky mint brittle.
The rice puffs are, as expected, crispy. The chocolate / additive
ratio seemed a little more balanced with this one; still, I had a
feeling that the rice puffs almost overwhelmed the chocolate. The
texture is crispy but the flavour is smooth, which makes an
interesting combination.
The
additives make both chocolates crispy and crunchy. They're perfect for those
moments when you want to chew and munch on chocolate rather than let
it melt in your mouth.
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