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Burtons Original Wagon Wheels |
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01.04.08 (123 review reads) |
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Advantages: Big, round, squidgy, squodgy, a bigger bite can't be found.
Disadvantages: Where they thicker or am I just bigger?
"They're kinda big and kinda round with real milk chocolate and biscuit to be found. under that chocolatey stuff. And they're really squidgy yeah really squodgy you'll be sorry if you don't get enough, you got to eat one bit at a time, but they're so big nobody would mind, if theres a bigger bite it cant be found".
Damn, I am getting old. My kids have no idea what I am singing about (and those of you reading this who don't are too young too!). Burton's Wagon Wheels must be older than I am, I certainly cannot remember a time when they were not on a shops shelves. That makes them at least 29! Anyhow, before I get even more bogged down in rambling nostalgia what on earth are Wagon Wheels? Perhaps, most importantly, what do they taste like?
Well, they are kinda big and kinda round. There is just no other way to describe them. They are certainly a lot bigger than the majority of chocolate biscuits out there. About as big as my hand I suppose. They are essentially a chocolate covered biscuit with jam and marshmallow inside. The jam and marshmallow is to be found sandwiched between two crunchy halves of biscuit.
Taste-wise they are no exactly what you would expect. The chocolate is very thin and gives way to your teeth very easily so they sink into the crunchy biscuit. Through this you bite into the marshmallow closely followed by the jam. The chocolate is very basic and has very little taste if I am honest. It is not at all rich or creamy and seems to be nothing more than a coating to hold the biscuit together. It neither detracts or adds to the overall taste of the biscuit. The crunchy chocolate biscuit has a lot more taste however, carrying a rich and sugary chocolate taste that feels substantial in your mouth. Onto the marshmallow you get what can only be described as a sweet taste with a peppery after-taste. You do not expect to taste pepper in a chocolate biscuit yet somehow this is not unpleasant. If anything, it sets the Wagon Wheel apart from it's more traditional competition. Finally, you get to the strawberry jam which is just that. A nice fruit jam with just the right taste of sweet strawberry and softness to strip away the taste of pepper from your palette.
As a combination the melting chocolate, crunchy biscuit, soft mallow and liquid strawberry centre are a perfect combination of tastes and textures. Could it be better? Well, I seem to remember the chocolate being thicker when I was younger and maybe there was more jam? Then again, it is probably just as likely that my hands and mouth have got bigger.
Coming in a pack of six, Wagon Wheels are the type of biscuit that belongs in the Jaffa Cake "is it a cake, is it a biscuit" family. As such, they are quiet filling and their size means that one is often enough. Of course, no discerning Wagon Wheel connoisseur would eat their Wagon Wheel in the dull way I describe above. Much like a jaffa cake, the joy is to be found in dismantling it by nibbling the chocolate off, then the biscuit and peeling off the marshmallow. Anyhow, once again I am rambling and getting carried away like a kid in a sweet shop.
Needless to say Wagon Wheels taste good but are in no way good for you. I refuse to quote the nutritional info and if you think a chocolate covered biscuit the size of your fist is ever going to be healthy then your an idiot. Will not stop this idiot eating them that's for sure!
Summary: Still a classic
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