Mini wheels, not wagon wheels (Burtons Original Wagon Wheels)

Member Name: hypno06

Product:	Burtons Original Wagon Wheels
Date:	02/06/09 (67 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Ok for lunchboxes

Disadvantages: small, poor quality

I'm not one for buying packets of biscuits and the like as a matter of course, because I would be prone to eating them before they ever got as far as a lunch box.......

But in half term, my children were at a ski camp, and I wanted them to have something extra in their lunch box for a bit more energy and a bit of a treat. Wagon wheels were on offer - 50% extra free, and so it cost me £1 for 9 wagon wheels.....not bad!

Of course, they didn't all make it into the lunchboxes - in fact, only a couple of them got that far. But I am sure the children were grateful for the one each that they DID have!

Anyway, moving away from my inability to say "NO" to anything remotely chocolate like, and back to the review of the product, one of the reasons I bought these was because they are individually wrapped. Although I dislike the amount of packaging that is used unnecessarily in this day and age, and which is destined for landfill, when you are dealing with the lunch boxes of 13 and 14 year olds, anything that is not wrapped is likely to be squashed beyond all recognition, with the contents mingled in with schoolbooks, clothes, makeup, and in this case, ski wax and gloves......nice!

Having to do a quality control test on these before I subjected my children to them, I opened the packet to see the wagon wheel I remembered from my childhood.....a circular biscuit base, with a layer of mallow, and red jam, all coated in milk chocolate.

Except, these couldn't be the same wagon wheels that I remembered. Surely I had bought.....Wagon Wheel Minis.......? The package definitely didn't mention a Mini version of the biscuits.....perhaps the mini-bics had been put in the wrong packaging......perhaps I had been conned......

The wagon wheels I remember from old were significant in size - both in diameter and in depth......the ones I had last week were definitely much smaller, a weak and feeble cousin of the biscuits I had expected. They were thin, and weedy, and the layer of chocolate was incredibly thin too. Very disappointing.

I'll admit that they tasted fine - sweet and sticky, with the jam and mallow doing what I expected it to, but there just wasn't enough of anything. When I took each bite, the thin layer of chocolate just flaked away and whatever came into contact with my fingers just melted.....no quality there at all.

After eating my mini wagon wheel, I was left craving more - not because they were so delicious I couldn't get enough, but because I simply said "humph, is that it?", so proceeded to scoff another one.......or two.

So, if you have a small child who wants a biscuit occasionally in their lunch box, then a wagon wheel would fill a small hole.....but for anyone wanting a decent sized snack, you will have to pack two.....or look for something else.

All in all, for 11p each, I suppose they weren't too bad in price but I wouldn't rush to buy them again, especially at the "normal" pack size of 6.

Summary: I'm sure I've been conned!