Shot in the Dark (Cadbury Shots)

Member Name: Ophelia

Product:	Cadbury Shots
Date:	29/07/03 (548 review reads)
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Advantages: Chocolate

Disadvantages: Not original

It was 9.45 pm and the chocolate cravings had started. I turned to the long-suffering Mr Ophelia and started to drop rather unsubtle hints about the need for chocolate. In case these oral clues were not sufficient I also started to sketch drawings of various chocolate confectionary items alongside the crossword I was completing. To wipe out all doubt these were accompanied by a doodle of Mr Ophelia driving a little (admittedly rather malformed) car and approaching a broadly smiling Lowryesque man at the local petrol station.

10 minutes later I had my chocolate!

THE PACKAGING

The bag containing the Cadbury?s Shots is coloured the traditional Cadbury dark purple. There is a white band across the middle upon which the words Shots is inscribed, with the letter O being formed by a portrayal of one of the choccies contained within. Beneath this is a deep looking pool of melted chocolate.

To be honest the packaging is utterly boring and uninspiring but it gets one message across loud and clear: this is a Cadbury?s product.

THE SHOTS

The bag contains numerous perfectly spherical balls of chocolate. Each ball is coated with a hard layer of chocolate sugar coating. These are the Shots.

To be honest these are very similar to Minstrels but a different shape! The chocolate, however, is lighter tasting and has that distinct Cadbury?s Dairy Milk flavour.

It is extremely hard to suck these as your teeth feel an overwhelming urge to start crunching their way through the outer layer to access the soft smooth chocolate within. The mixture of textures of the silky chocolate and crunchy casing works well and your mouth is left thoroughly coated in the delicious melted chocolate.

When I did try to suck the Shots I discovered that the sugar coating was completely tasteless. No taste of chocolate, nothing. All I found was sugar, sweetness and the promise of dissolved tooth enamel and cavities in y
ears to come.

OTHER INFORMATION

A bag of 200g of Shots can be bought for £1.49. The calorific content of one bag is 980 calories. This seems perfectly acceptable to me. As a general rule of thumb a large bag of sweets should only contain a rough approximation of half your daily calorie intake in case you get carried away and scoff the lot.

To be honest though, there?s not much danger of that here.

HE SHOOTS, HE MISSES

The coating makes the choccies extremely sweet. For those of you with an extremely sweet tooth this may well be an added bonus but for those trying to obtain a chocolate fix the coating just acts as a painful barrier to the real treat beneath!

The chocolate is ideal. There can be no complaints; it is Cadbury?s at its finest. The sugar coating, however, just seemed to be the perfect way to ruin a fine chocolate fest!

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