Sweet nothing. (Hershey's Cookies n Chocolate Bar)

Member Name: magenta23

Product:	Hershey's Cookies n Chocolate Bar
Date:	29/09/09 (60 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Erm...

Disadvantages: Poor quailty and not enough authentic chocolate flavour

I had a vague memory of trying Hershey's on a holiday in the states many years ago and remember being not over struck with it. For those unfamiliar with Hershey's, they are a huge American brand of chocolate, think Cadbury- popular. (In fact Hershey distribute Cadbury's products in the US) It's unusual to find many Hershey products over here, the 'Reeces' items being the most common, but whilst in a rather upmarket corner shop today, I spotted Hershey's 'Cookie 'n' Chocolate bar, and thought I'd give the brand another go.

The 40g bar is rectangular and very thin, not like our chunky chocolate, more milky bar thickness. The wrapper is brown with the iconic Hershey's logo boldly on the front. Much like an original Hershey bar but with the addition of 'Cookies 'n' Chocolate' fairly discretely underneath, reminded me very much of how Galaxy have only slightly changed their design for their new cookie flavour. Whilst being a good thing and remaining true to the brand 'look', would anyone notice this was different from an original Hershey bar without looking very closely? Not sure. I guess in the UK seeing a Hershey bar of any description is going the stand out from the rest as they aren't stocked very widely.

Breaking some off, I notice the chocolate is a lot softer than that of say Cadbury's, and wasn't easy to break along the ridges into individual chunks, it just kind of broke where it felt like! The taste was sweet, a little chocolatey, but honestly not very and a little buttery with a very artificial after taste. The crunch of the little pieces of biscuit broke the richness up and the biscuit was actually very tasty. The chocolate itself I don't rate. Looking at the pack I can see it only contains 13% cocoa which explains the lack of chocolate flavour.

I know that the bars we eat are not considered true chocolate by the experts due to the high amount of milk, fat and sugar against actual cocoa content. However at least most of them have a chocolate flavour, even if they are essentially candy. With Hershey's I can barely taste the chocolate through the sweet creamy butteryness. I suppose at least the Americans call them 'Candy' bars - they're not pretending they're anything else!

I guess if you have a craving for something sweet, this bar would satisfy it but if you are a true choccie lover, this will disappoint.

There is no calorie information on the packaging so I cannot comment on exactly what effect this will have on your waistline in comparison to other bars, but needless to say these things aren't good for you.

As far as price goes I think I paid around 60p for this, you will pay extra for the rarity factor, but really it's not worth it.

Summary: There's a reason you don't see it much over here - we have better.