Bugger orf, you ain't having one! (Ferrero Rocher)

Member Name: idodoyou

Product:	Ferrero Rocher
Date:	16/01/02 (1503 review reads)
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[I dunno .... suggest a cat and get beaten to it!!]

If you wanna know the way to my heart, or for that matter, any other part of my anatomy ... hey, hey, hey, I meant an arm or a leg right ... buy me chocolate!
Not any old chocolate though, and, well, only buy me chocolate if diamonds and fast cars are outta your budget. Although, to be honest, if a shiny red fast thing or a girls best friend are outta your budget, well I ain't playing so I don't care what you buy me!! : )]
Y?see, I'm not a huge lover of cocoa solids. Gasps of shock and horror are heard all around .. A woman without the love for chocolate! Is she normal? How many heads does she have?
Yes .... I am normal. And just the one ... Head that is.
It's just that I'd rather sink my teeth into a family size pack of Dorito's, or Walkers Cheese & Onion, or well, just about anything that's been labelled crisp or savoury snack. I ain't a sweet toothed kinda gal.

However, denials of being a cocoa bean addicted zombie would fall on deaf ears if anybody were to witness me 'going at it' when Ferrero Rocher are within my grasp. I'm an animal I tell you! Oh, ok then .... Almost an animal.
Or rather I would be if they weren't so damned expensive. Oh to be rich when I could have my own mountain of these golden covered globules of gorgeousness scattered around the house. Oh to have friends rich enough to have parties where there would be mountains of these golden covered globules of gorgeousness scattered around the house. I don't want mountains of the things to eat in one go. Oh no, I want them there whenever I get the craving. And the friends mountains .... well I want them there so I can grab handfuls when I go round ;)

Way back in 1940 an Italian man had a dream. Well, I guess a lot of men, Italian or otherwise had dreams, but I'm talking about one man imparticular. The man was Pietro Ferrero and the dream was
to deliver fine chocolates to the world. At a time when cakes and pastries, chocolate and other types of confectionery were reserved for special occasions, Pietro, a gifted confectioner, set about making his dream a reality.
Armed with three key ingredients for success Pietro and his brother mixed high quality materials with ultramodern manufacturing facilities and added a distribution system that would only allow fresh product on shelves. Their recipe for success along with their recipes for their chocolates ran smoothly and grew from strength to strength,
Today, Ferrero Rocher products are delivered to chocolate lovers all over the world, all from state-of-the-art facilities throughout North and South America, Europe and Australia.
Ferrero is now the world's third largest confectionery company, and is the best selling chocolate in Italy.

[Boring bits over ... lets face it, who cares how they got here hey? The fact that they are here and they are here to stay [don?t take them, no ...I need them!!] is all that matters yeah?]

Made with hazelnuts, milk chocolate and nut croquante these 12.5 gram balls of deliciousness are to die for. They really are. The love affair, or rather my love affair, starts from the moment the chocolates are purchased. There ain't no run of the mill boring old cardboard boxes with these little guys y'know. Oh no .. We have style and we have elegance. Coming in a range of packaging from the basic 3 pack packet, a 16 piece plastic box, a 24 piece tray or my particular favourite [well, there's more in them y'see] a clear plastic pyramid containing 25 [that extra one makes all the difference y'know!] of these little treasures. They are almost as pleasing to the eye as they are to the palate. Encased in golden foil and nestled in their own little paper baskets these chocolates start to excite as you unwrap them.

As I write, I have one in front of me, and I have to say, I feel like a
greyhound!
The chocolate is the hare and I, the greyhound want to get at it as fast as I can.
In fact, I feel like a greyhound in the middle of the Sahara Desert, and the chocolate is a hare carrying a glass of water. It's not only that I want to get to it as soon as possible, but the fact that I NEED to get to it as soon as possible.
I'm being tormented and only in the name of research and dooyoo!!

However, willpower has never been one of my strong points and instead of measuring the circumference of the golden globe, and providing you with a whole wealth of details and information pertaining to the size and dimension of the chocolate in question, I'm going straight in for the kill. It's there to be devoured. And it's there to be enjoyed.
If you want sizes, dimensions and nuts per square inch .... buy them yourself, and then try to find out the answers to your questions as you grapple with your desire to rip off the wrapper before the rule is even out of the drawer!! Try it, you'll fail.

With trembling hands I pluck the gold encased chocolate from its home of the brown paper basket. I quickly un peel the sticker that adorns the top of the foil ball and well, stick it to any flat surface [don't ask me why .. I don't know? Just that I do it every time. Bedside cabinets, book covers, remote controls and now my mouse have all fallen foul to the 'sticker monster' I really have no idea why I do that? I only have to go round the house the following day peeling them off again!] and then try to, ever so slowly unwrap the packaging and give the chocolate the time and consideration that it deserves. It's hard, and my willpower is stretched to the limit as I peer down at this nut encrusted ball of chocolate all in the name of research.
Almost perfectly formed this miniature planet looking shape nestles in the silver foil and I can hear its cries of plea .... 'eat me ... eat me!' The chi
pped hazelnuts set in the chocolate are plentiful and sometimes break the surface. They are there, teasing me ...

It's no good, and I can hold on no longer as my right hand snakes it way down onto the desk and plucks this treasure from its foil trove.
I bite into it and immediately feel the chocolate sweetness hit my taste buds. Only half mind you, I've got a small mouth [yes I have ....!!] and it's not ladylike to dribble is it?
The chocolate is multi~layered. There are 4 parts, 4 ways of tantalising the taste buds, and 4 different textures to savour. Firstly we let the outside layer of chocolate melt so we are left with hazelnut chippings and then we hit the wafer, Letting it melt a touch too we finally crunch it along with the chippings. During all the melting and crunching and as layers 1 and 2 slide down to their cavernous home [my belly!!!], we suck off the nut [oi .. don't be sooo rude!] croquante layer number 3 until we are left with only the remains of nut and the taste of the chocolate. [Heaven is near .. why wait till tomorrow, I'm almost in love tonight ...]

I know, I know, I said 4 layers and I've only described 3. I did it on purpose. I never eat the centred hazelnut on the first bite. Oh no, its still in the remaining half of the chocolate. Leaving the nut is like a bonus, or maybe a farewell gesture. Why, on the second bite I'll be saying goodbye to the chocolate altogether won't I?!?

And so, without further ado, my hand swiftly moves downwards and grabs at the remaining chocolate, and the pleasure of devouring this cocoa solid filled morsel is played through all over again. Only this time the experience ends with a whole hazelnut sitting precariously upon my tongue, waiting for the final moment when I crunch into it with a resounding crack.

There, 4.37 seconds later and it's all over. The gold wrapper has been balled up and thrown towards the bin. And the floor is
littered with golden balls of foil where I have missed the bin!! And I am left waiting, wanting more.

Now, I have two major Chocoholics in the family, and it is with widening eyes of amazement that I have sat and watched my sister eat 7 Cadburys Snowflakes one after another .... And then started on 4 Cadburys Crème Eggs!! Of course, she was pregnant at the time so cravings might have been the culprit, although I think it might have been a handy excuse!! : )
And my Mum can devour a Chocolate Orange in next to no time ... I think she sticks in the whole thing and then just taps the side of her cheek to break the segments up!! And so, with a quite obvious chocolate addiction gene running through the family, it amazes me why I can't polish off a box of these little beauties in one sitting. However, I admit, all animal behaviour leaves my person after the first two .... or three. I'm like a junkie that needed a fix. I've had me nuts and now I'm ok!!
It isn't because they are too sickly, they're not. And I know that if I were to leave an open box in the vicinity of either sister or mother ..... well, it would make like Osama Bin Laden and disappear ... pretty damn sharpish too! That's why they are hidden, and eaten at my leisure. Why, I still have 8 left from my Chrimbo Pyramid, soon to be 7 as I sit unwrapping ...
Although, I must be honest, I have actually had a reasonable sized tub of miniature Heroes sitting on my shelf too so .... but as I said, I'm really not that great a chocolate lover!!!

They aren't sickly. The different layers all counteract perfectly working together to create the ideal chocolate. The different textures take their turns to work your tongue into a chocolate fuelled frenzy of crunch and smooth. There is, in that gob sized ball enough pleasure inducing ingredients to whip any chocolate lover in to a form of human hysteria.

I defy anybody that likes nuts and chocolate no
t to like these. In fact, the only people that shouldn't like these are people who don't like nuts or chocolate. And actually in fact, the only people who shouldn't be eating these are people with nut intolerance's, wheat intolerance [the flour y'see] small children, and those that don't like nuts or chocolate. The rest of you, well, you should have least tried one of these. You should have at least experienced the smell, the taste, the texture, the feeling of shoving one in ya gob and crunchy all that oozing loveliness into a ball of brown sweet goo and then regaling in the feeling as the sweetness coats ya gob and descends to your stomach. You should y'know? If you haven't, well you don't know what you're missing ...

Right, a bit more of the boring stuff to satisfy the nit pickers and the perfectionists among you .... scroll down if you want to ...

Ingredients:
Milk Chocolate [30%]
Hazelnuts [28%] ~ no scrimping with the nuts there then!
Sugar,
Wheat Flour,
Whey powder,
Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder ~ hey fat reduced, means we can eat more!
Emulsifier [Soy Lectithin]
Skimmed Milk Powder ~ all these low fat ingredients, why they could be diet food?!?
Raising Agents [Sodium Carbonates, Ammonium Carbonates]
Salt,
Flavourings.

Got a problem with the choccies .. [and I wouldn't have thought that 'running out' constitutes a problem in the eyes of the big cheeses?]

Ferrero U.K. Ltd, Awberry Court, Watford, WD1 8JY.

Or

Ferrero S.p.A Alba, Italy.

Or

www.rocherusa.com

If I were to be marooned upon a desert island and was given a choice of chocolate before I jumped overboard, these would be jumping with me. If I was heading into space with the crew of the shuttle to do important experimentation or just to mess around with the gravity thing [a girl can dream can't she?!] and I was given a ch
oice of chocolate before I blasted off, these would be blasting with me.
However, if was given a choice of chocolate to share amongst my friends and family these wouldn't even get a look in, cos basically I ain't sharing these with anybody. They're mine I tell you, all mine. I don't even think a certain Mr Gibson would get offered any y'know ..??

Prices are approx. cos I ain't never actually bought any of these myself ...
Santa's always been kind and so has Mummy [love Mummy :)]

3 Pieced Packet ~ anything from 80p upwards I reckon
16 Pieced Box ~ Oh, around the 3 squids mark, and the box can be used for all kindsa trinkets when finished with
24 Pieced Tray ~ Now, I think we are talking about a fiver for one of these, and like the box, the tray can come in mighty handy when the chocs have gone.
25 Pieced Pyramid ~ Same amount as the tray, about a fiver I reckon, but might have to pay a touch more for the packaging? Anybody know what I can do with a clear plastic pyramid ...

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