Nestlé Blue Riband and Cadbury Giant Buttons (also In Which Elaine Makes British Friends)

I made a couple British friends in my maths classes this past week and today they shared some chocolate with me. Superbly nice of them!

Nestlé Blue Riband: This is actually not a chocolate candy but since we've reviewed Kinder Buenos, this is totally fair game. It's in the same class as the Bueno -- light biscuit cookie-like thing covered in chocolate (actually, very similar to Kit Kats). The Blue Riband is essentially a milk chocolate-covered wafer cookie. This is a decent lower-cost and lower-calorie substitute for the Kinder Bueno: the chocolate covering is not superthick that it steals the show from the delicate wafer (like in the American Kit Kats, which are different from the British ones. More on this in coming weeks) nor is the chocolate creme within the wafer super sweet (not as sweet as Nutella, which is a good thing sometimes). Overall, quite pleased with the Blue Riband. I may buy some for myself in the future.

Cadbury Giant Buttons: Cadbury milk chocolate strikes again! These are effectively chocolate nonpareils, without the sprinkles, and with milk chocolate instead of dark chocolate. The buttons are fairly thin (if I had to hazard a guess, probably 2 mm), about the size of a 10p coin, and harder than the milk chocolate in the Cadbury Dairy Milk bars I've had so far. Thus, these Giant Buttons are fairly crunchy, and not for the weak of teeth. Taste-wise, it is the same Cadbury milk chocolate, though less creamy but the crunchiness might have something to do with it.