Bisc & Sugar (Bisc & Mars)

Member Name: chrisandmark

Product:	Bisc & Mars
Date:	20/10/05 (628 review reads)
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Advantages: Tastes good, a less lard enducing calorie content than a usual Mars bar

Disadvantages: Too sweet, a bit too dry for my liking

I always find Mars bars a bit strange. It's a 'blokey' bar of chocolate like a Snickers or a Yorkie, but the taste is quite nice if you see what I mean - I can manage a funsize Mars bar and enjoy it but how the hell do people eat a King Size one??? wow, if you can do that I take my hat off to you.

So I arrive at a new (to me anyway) version on the Mars bar - Bisc & Mars. Described on the packet as 'a unique snack experience combining the goodness of crunchy, crumbly biscuit and the famous taste of Mars.' This is a description made for me - the taste of Mars in a biscuit. I bought some.

Opening the striking gold wrapper I'm confronted with a strange looking biscuit. The first thing I notice is how thin it is - it's the supermodel of chocolate biscuits! It's got a layer of milk chocolate on the top and the whole thing just looks horribly dry. The top of the biccie is a fair copy of what the top of a Mars bar looks like, with all the ridges and knobbles on the chocolate. The bar just looks uniformly dull brown - dark brown chocolate and a slightly lighter brown biscuit base.

OK, what you've basically got is a biscuit base topped with a thin layer of Mars bar. The biscuit is lovely and crunchy and tastes really malty. There's a slight synthetic chocolate taste to the biscuit, but I only picked this up when I nibbled a bit of biccie from the end. If you eat the whole biscuit as you're supposed to (ie. just bite the thing instead of trying to capture all the different flavours by nibbling at bits separately) you can still taste the biscuit but it tastes more naturally chocolatey.

The Mars bar topping is what really makes it for me. You've got a very thin layer of milk chocolate and caramel on top of the biscuit and it's lovely. It tastes exactly how I imagined it would. The Mars bar flavour is there but because the layers are so thin, it isn't overpowering. It's still incredibly sweet (think ever so slightly less sweet than a normal size Mars bar) but this is complimented really well by the blandness of the biscuit base. The chocolate on the Bisc & Mars is very sweet too and layered quite thickly compared to the caramel.

All in all, the biscuit is still a bit too 'Mars bar like' for me - the taste is too sugary and cloyingly sweet. I suppose it'll do for a quick choccie fix, and I DO quite like the taste, but my loathing of Mars bars comes through too strongly and all I can imagine is the nasty (in my eyes) sensation in my teeth when I eat 10 tablespoons of pure sugar that is marketed as a Mars bar!

I paid 99p for this multipack of 6 Bisc & Mars from Asda (although I’ve since spotted them in Tesco and Londis) but you can also buy them in snack sized packs containing 2 biscuits for around 45p. The other varieties available are Bisc & Twix, Bisc & M&M's and Bisc & Bounty. I think I'd probably like the others more as the chocolate bars they're modelled are more to my taste.

Summary: All the taste of a Mars bar in a biscuit