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Fry's Chocolate Cream |
| Date: |
23/10/03 (1699 review reads) |
| Rating: |
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Advantages: Not TOO high in calories, Tastes delicious
Disadvantages: The chocolate isn't the best quality in the world, May contain nut traces - a biiiig disadvantage for people allergic to nuts!
Hmmmm, I've been on my diet for a week now and decided today that a treat's in order. Not wanting to go too over the top (I really wanted a king size Twix!), I thought I'd go and browse the choc bar shelf and choose something tasty but lower calories than a standard size chocolate bar. After looking at the calories in various Cadbury's bars and deciding against bombarding my body with over a ton of sugar, I spotted a wrapper that I've not seen for a long time..... A peppermint flavour Fry's Chocolate Cream. Ohhhhhh, I wanted to buy 2 soooooo badly but will power kicked in (amazing considering I haven't got any!) and I, saint-like, picked up just one.
I had a quick blimp at the Fry's website (which you can access via www.cadburys.co.uk) and was surprised when I saw that Fry's first introduced the Chocolate Cream range in 1853 and they've remained virtually unchanged since 1875! I had no idea it was such an old product, I was imagining it to have been around 30 years old NOT over 150!!!
**Do you remember the 'other' Chocolate Cream? You know the original one (blue wrapper), orange and peppermint, but Fry's actually made a fourth version of this bar which was more or less the same as the others, but each segment had a different colour fondant - you had a pink, orange, yellow, green and another colour and they all had different flavours. I vaguely remember my mum liking these when I was small, but since I got old enough to choose my own chocolate they'd been discontinued.**
oOoOo THE WRAPPER oOoOo
The bar comes in a foil wrapper which is a pretty mint green. Fry's is written in gold above the word Peppermint Cream. You're then informed that you've opted for 'Dark chocolate with fondant centre.' There's a picture of two segments of the chocolate you can expect to find in this wrapper and fresh mint leaves. Below this, Fry's make the boast that this bar
is 'sealed for freshness' - a bit late for that boast, Fry's, EVERYTHING is sealed these days. ;o)
Turn the bar around and you're given contact details, ingredients, nutritional info (215 cals & 7.7g fat per bar) and the Cabury's guarantee that if you're not satisfied send it back and get a refund. You've also got that irritating royal seal that means if the Queen likes it then surely us paupers should!
Unfortunately, this bar may contain nut traces so steer well clear if you've an allergy.
oOoOo THE BAR oOoOo
Join me on a voyage of discovery. As I said earlier, it's been years since I've had one of these so although I know what to expect I can't really remember what this dark bar of yumminess is going to do for my tastebuds.... give them an orgasm hopefully after a week with no chocolate! :o)
The wrapper opens just the way it should and a strong peppermint smell wafts out. It's sitting about a two feet away from me now and I can still smell the peppermint. It smells like those mint creams you can get around Christmas in the posh hexagon boxes. The bar is marked into seven segments ( I could make this bar last for a week if I just had one segment a day! lol Yeah, right), each stamped with the word 'FRY'. Why do they have to do that??? You can't eat a choccie bar these days without being assaulted by the name of the company with each bite. Don't their highly paid marketing people realise how irritating that is?
Breaking a segment off causes a right mess, tiny splinters of chocolate go everywhere. This done, I see the chocolate is more of a shell than anything. The chocolate is very thin and inside you have the fondant which is white and quite solid looking. I pop it into my mouth and it's lovely. The mint isn't too strong, although you can't mistake the minty taste for anything else, and the chocolate is a lovely sweet contrast. The mint t
aste's nothing like the 'favourite' mint bar, Aero Mint, as it's not as strong.When you first put it in your mouth you can't taste the chocolate at all because of the mint, but afterwards the dark chocolate taste really comes through. Now for a bit of disappointment. I've just picked off a small chunk of the chocolate to taste on its own and it's not wonderful. It's quite bitter, not a nice dark chocolate like Bournville and to be honest reminds me a bit of that chocolate flavour topping you get on cakes. Mind you, the taste of the mint overpowers the chocolate anyway so unless you sit there and pick the chocolate off to eat separate (like I just did!) you won't notice anything.
The fondant is nice and creamy and despite being minty, it manages to retain a lot of sweetness. Unlike the Aero Mint which I find is way too minty and with a slightly bitter aftertaste, this peppermint cream has a lovely chocolatey aftertaste similar to the aftertaste you get with an After Eight. If you've never tried a Peppermint Cream imagine an overgrown After Eight because they taste exactly the same! Really, I can guarantee if you like After Eights you'll definitely like this and if you don't....... well, you won't!
But you know something wierd? At the same time as I brought this Peppermint Cream, I got a couple of Cadbury's Cream Eggs for the kids and was surprised to see the middle bit of these is called fondant too. Why was I surprised? Because I don't see how two totally different things can be called fondant. The fondant in the Cream Egg is runny, sticky and gooey but in this bar it's solid, not gooey at all and creamy - aren't there laws against calling something something it's not? And what makes it really bizarre is that Cadbury's swallowed the Fry's company years ago so don't they realise they're contradicting themselves by advertising Cream Eggs AND Peppermint Creams as
fondant?
oOoOo WHAT ELSE? oOoOo
This is a 50g bar and cost 40p from Londis. Also available are orange and original varieties and you can buy each bar in a multipack of 5 for around £1.39.
Hey, how about starting a 'bring back the multi-coloured bar' campaign? We could collect a zillion signatures on a partition and deliver them personally to the Fry's headquarters. No? OK then, just a thought. ;oP
Thanks for reading. :o)
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