There's More Excitment In The Queen's Knickers (Galaxy Chocolate)

Member Name: MattRoberts

Product:	Galaxy Chocolate
Date:	09/08/03 (589 review reads)
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Advantages: creamy and tasty!

Disadvantages: boring wrapper

When I was little, and still today, I am looked at as a weird little boy by my family. Not because I want to be an axe murderer or anything, but because if I have a choice between Galaxy and Cadbury’s, Galaxy would win, no doubt about it!

Yes, I’m one of those people, and I’m proud to admit it! Galaxy came after Cadbury, but Cadbury is old news by now. He’s had his millennium or so, at the top, it’s time to get him down from his throne, and to give Mr Galaxy the praise he rightly deserves!

Galaxy has never really been one of the most popular chocolates in my book. Even though I’m a big fan, I know if I gave someone the choice to pick between Galaxy and Cadbury, they’d be scoffing a Cadbury bar before I knew it!

I think the biggest problem is that Galaxy has very little range. They have Galaxy Caramel and they have Galaxy Ripple. What does Cadbury have? Well, they have Smarties, Crunchie, the dairy milk range, and hundreds more.

So, Mr Galaxy, even though you have rather large competition, I still love you! And I’m going to praise you to the hills here on dooyoo, and let everyone now what a God you really are!


The Taste?

Galaxy and Cadbury are very, very different chocolates. They have very different tastes. Cadbury is less sweet, and also less milky, whilst Galaxy is extremely sweet and very milky!

Galaxy has a very addictive taste. You can easily eat a whole bar, and feel nothing, well until about an hour later when your heads down the loo, and you wish, you just wish, you hadn’t have taken that last bite!

It’s an extremely sweet tasting chocolate. It may be one of the sweetest about, and it probably tastes more like this, as it has no filling. Most chocolates – except Dairy Milk – has fillings. Crunchie and other chocolates, and the chocolate and the sweetness can be taken away and rarely be tasted, but Galaxy, having
no filling, is very pacific.

Galaxy isn’t classed as a very rich chocolate either, and although I agree with people who say that, it has been classed wrong. It’s not boring and dull, and some pile of cow shit, it’s very tasty, and just because Ma’am wouldn’t eat it, it’s classed shit!

If you like milky chocolate, yet very sweet chocolate, you’ll probably love and adore Galaxy. But if you just like to suck something (watch it…) chocolaty, with not very much sweetness, look elsewhere.

The packaging?

Well, I fell the packaging is very important in any review. It’s your time to criticise the company for their selling skills, or alternatively praise them, and treat them like royalty!

Well Galaxy has never been that eye-catching, in my opinion. I mean, it only has browns and golds on the packaging, and there’s no colours of the rainbow in sight, it still manages to a good ‘en!

GALAXY is written in the centre of the wrapper and around there is a mixture of gold and dark brown swirling around each other. It is a rather interesting wrapper, and if you look at it properly it’s pretty cool, but sadly, if we’re buying a choccy bar, we aren’t going to stare deeply into the wrapper before we buy it.

I would say that Cadbury have better packaging than Galaxy, but I think Galaxy tried to create a richer look for the wrapper and a less content feel, but one where you feel you’re treating yourself when you’re buying it. Well, I’m afraid it hasn’t really worked that well!

The price?

What is odd about Galaxy is it comes in a very big bar most of the time. I always find that the small bar is never there, but the big one is. You get what you pay for, though, but you end up eating them all in one night.

You can buy a medium bar for around £1,40 to £,160, depending on where you go. At Kwiks S
ave at the moment, there’s a special 2 for 1 offer on, so run now, and you might be able to catch it!

The price is a fair one, and you do get a fair amount of chocolate in the medium sized one (150g), and it will keep you coming back for more and more. But, sometimes that’s the problem!

My opinion.

Galaxy is a very small company, and they’ve never really tried to advertise that much either. They’ve had a big competition, but instead of changing the boring adverts to exciting ones, they seem to stick to the 20 something girl sitting down, watching a film, and eating a bar. Exciting? Well, as much excitement as is going on in the Queen’s knickers!

Galaxy has very different chocolate to the other kind on the market, and it would be very much loved by all if they managed to be heard. But, the sad thing is, hardly anyone knows about them!

I really enjoy the chocolate, every time I buy it, and I do come back for more and more each week! The Ripple range is absolutely superb, and can be bough for around 30-40p, and is the best out all three.

The caramel is nice, but it’s anything but original, and the packaging for that is one of the worst on the market. That can be bought for the same as the ripple, but isn’t as nice.

All in all…

A lovely chocolate bar, that is extremely different, and absolutely satisfying. A shame they don’t get themselves heard more, innit?

Written by: Matt Roberts.

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