BOUNTY HUNTER (Mars Bounty)

Member Name: benlepensive

Product:	Mars Bounty
Date:	25/10/09 (29 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: great taste

Disadvantages: a liittle dear

Let's face it, Mars Bars are dull and suitable only for school children on buses and running types. Flakes are for women in overflowing baths, Yorkies are for builders and After Eights are for women called Margaret, in gowns who host elaborate dinner parties. So we need a chocolate bar with a twist, something to thrill the middle man who does not fall into any of the above categories.

I used to hate them, because I never liked coconut. Then one day I liked it, as if by night the taste grabbed me and demanded I sit up and appreciate it. The Bounty bar is built around a delicious coconut flavour and this is the selling point.

The packaging looks vaguely tropical. Certainly one of the more enticing wrappers on the shelves thanks to the sleeve. When you open it you will be greeted by a bog standard looking tube of chcocolate with a textured but not overly rippled surface. Nothing fancy so far.

The chocolate has that smooth milky taste which gently tantilises the tongue leaving behind a delicate sugaryness without being overbearing. The layer underneath is quite succulent, you meet a section of coconut which seems to be infused with some sort of nougat kind of thing, though it tastes pretty much of ground coconut mixed with emulsifiers of some sort. The coconut is tropical, magical, sensual and transports you for a few seconds to Bondi Beach, before you finish the bar and return to the humdrum normality of your life.

A single bar will cost anything between sixty and seventy pence. You can buy multipacks too and the Bounty Bars are ideal for cake decorating or drizzling over ice cream as a delicious topping. I am a convert and I recommend you have one. Yes, have one now!

Summary: mmm