Consolidation of Chocolate (Wales)

First up, Topic. I'm not even sure which parent company makes this (o - apparently it's mars), but essentially, it's whole hazelnuts (yum!), nougat, and caramel wrapped in milk chocolate. it's quite sweet, but not altogether unseemly.


i don't honestly remember what the drifter (nestle) tastes like - which probably means that a) i should have written this post as i ate it, and/or b) this isn't a terribly memorable chocolate bar. apparently there was some kind of a debacle (past-tense, thank god) about the use of transfats in the drifters. but here - crisp wafer, chewy caramel, milk chocolate cover. kind of like twix, since the wafer was especially thin/crispy. unremarkable, but not detestable:


i have a weakness for peanut butter and hazelnuts, so it seems. chocolate and peanut butter is a heavenly combination, but this particular version of kit kat is best (as i discovered) when you let it melt a little. unmelted, it's a rather unwieldy thing...:

this was quite delightful. caramel cream, chocolate cream, milk chocolate, and "crispy rippled wafer". what doesn't work so well for chocolate (in my opinion, anyway) works pretty well for wafers - the wafer in this thing was thin, and was done up sort of like the wispa or whatever other cadbury thing that involved stale-tasting chocolate-y ribbons. the ribbons seem to accentuate the crispy-ness of the sugary wafer. it's quite sweet, but not excessively large, so i thought it was rather nice.



this was purchased at the market in brecon, where elaine/jessica/ and i spent an inordinate and disproportionate amount of time consuming sweets (see elaine's somewhere photos of before and after dessert carnage. it's intense and disturbing, but you should all be used that degree of indulgence/excess by now).

this chocolate is made by chocolate house, which is a welsh chocolate house. i'm not entirely certain what it's called, but it seems to be a bar form of this dark cherry and kirsch (fruit/cherry brandy) in dark chocolate. i really, really enjoyed the bar. it was a perfect combination of dark chocolate and creamy fondant/cherry flavour - and of course, the slight bite of the trace alcohol didn't hurt either. i think i see a trend...:


also, i tried asda's version of nutella.

not even remotely legit.

it was mostly just sugary - the cocoa taste was there, but faint, and it was missing the most important aspect of nutella - the hazelnuts. so it was just ella, in effect.

and not to be misogynist or anything, but that really just sounds like pussy to me (thank you, lil wayne).