Click here to avoid a spotty tongue! (Cadbury Shots)

Member Name: i_am_joy

Product:	Cadbury Shots
Date:	01/07/09 (50 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: ----------

Disadvantages: The chocolate tastes cheap, an awfully hard sugar shell, left sore spots on my tongue

Last night my twelve year old granddaughter popped in on her way back from the cinema with friends, fishing I think for a lift home to avoid the twenty minute walk in the June heat which was still absolutely baking at 8pm. Needless to say she got her lift and in the car on the way home she shared with me a bag of Cadbury's Shots that she'd bought in the cinema and failed to eat.

The best way to describe these is to say they are very slightly smaller than Maltesers but have the look and feel of a Minstrel. The balls of Cadbury's milk chocolate are covered in a crisp chocolate flavoured sugar shell, they looked and smelled delicious when my granddaughter opened the bag with the rich and sweet aroma of chocolate drifting out of the bag.

I ate around ten of the Shots and must say I wasn't terribly impressed. The sugar shell is much too hard to comfortably break through, I love the feel of splitting the shell of a Minstrel but these actually hurt my gums as I bit through the too tough shell. Once inside I couldn't tell that this was the usually excellent Cadbury's chocolate as although it's sweet enough it lacks the creaminess that this brand is particularly known for, in fact the chocolate inside these Shots tastes decidedly cheap in comparison to the Dairy Milk that I had assumed these chocolates were made from.

Another thing which really irritated me was the fact that as I munched the sugar shell it mingled in with the chocolate so that any illusion of smoothness was completely spoiled by shards of the shell. It was almost like eating an egg when you've inadvertently left a little of the shell on while peeling it which isn't exactly a pleasant sensation.

Now, I literally dropped my granddaughter off at the door and went straight back home after she'd left me a few Shots to nibble on so it had to be these that caused the problem I am now going to tell you about. By the time I'd eaten my last one my tongue was beginning to feel a little sore and when I got home I could feel a few tiny spots towards the tip of my tongue which were getting rather painful, checking in the mirror this morning I can actually see them and they are very sore and irritating indeed! I am guessing that it's the rather harsh tasting sugar shell coating that has caused this reaction.

I'll never eat these again, even my granddaughter said how tasteless they are and she is a girl who will eat chocolate in any form. I know Shots have been available for some years now, but even the packaging is so dull that I've never really been tempted to buy a packet even though I am the type of person who likes to try the different confectioneries on the market, especially those from Cadbury's.

Summary: I'll never buy these again, even my chocoholic granddaughter wasn't keen!