It shouldn't happen to a lady (Lindt Chocolate in general)

Member Name: kimking

Product:	Lindt Chocolate in general
Date:	25/08/03 (450 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: none

Disadvantages: its horrible

No trip to Sainsburys or any other shop come to that, is complete with out the pleasant stroll down the sweetie isle. Well the other day I walking down it, trying to pretend I wasn?t looking, when my eye spotted something different. I stopped for a proper look to find they had added something new. Oooo

Right in front of me was a bar, about 3 ¼ inches by about 7-½ inches. The wrapper had a pure white back ground with pale blue on it. Written across the bar, in dark blue was the word ?STRACCIATELLA? (I?m so glad I?m writing this, I?d never be able to pronounce it). Underneath the long funny word it had a little picture, which looked like two scoops of vanilla flavoured chocolate chip ice cream, a large square of white chocolate chip chocolate and a few chocolate curls around it, Wow!

My eyes were quickly drawn to the top of the wrapper. There in giant gold letters were those sacred words, ?LINDT? and ?EXCELLENCE?. If that wasn?t enough, near the bottom was written ?WHITE-BLANC? I just love white chocolate and Lindt is one my favourites, oooh at this point, all I could hear was that little voice in my head repeating the words, ?Must have it! Must have it!? over and over again.
I shoved the bar in my trolloy and carried on my way. mmmmm

At the checkout, it cost £1.19. About the average price for a bar of that brand.

When I got home, I quickly put my shopping away. Made myself a nice cup of tea and sat down to enjoy it in peace with my lovely new discovery. I fully intended to scoff the whole lot my self (I don?t care what you think, it?s mine!).

The ingredients: -

Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Whole Milk Powder, Chocolate chips (6%), Skimmed Milk Powder, Rice-Wheat Crispies (3%) Emulsifier (Soya Lecithin) Flavouring.
It also says it may contain peanuts, hazelnuts and Almonds.

I slowly removed the fresh, delicious looking wrapper to reveal the inner silver paper; (Such a fine chocolate should be cased in si
lver). Slowly I peeled off the silver and there it was a masterpiece.

The chocolate inside looked as different as it looked delicious. It was of course white chocolate, divided into ten squares and you could see just under the surface of the chocolate were loads of brown blotches, these were the chocolate chips. The back of the bar had little beige lumps in it. I found that these were tiny little bits of crunchy biscuit. mmmm

I held bar to my nose and took along deep whiff, mmmm it smelt nice and creamy, not quite as sweet as thought it would, very creamy.

I held my chocolate bar in both hands and snapped off the top two squares, then I snapped them in half. By this time I was almost drooling. Taking my one lovely looking and creamy smelling chunk, I stuffed it in my gob, and began to savour the taste. UUGGGH! EOOO! It tasted like candle wax. It was horrible, disgusting and tasteless. I was gutted!

How could they? ? LINDT?, produce a bar like this, compared with their other products, it?s disgusting.

There was hardly any taste to it at all; it smelt a lot better than it tasted. It had a mouth feel like grease. There were little crunchy bits, and these were crunchy, but no taste.

After tasting it, or rather not tasting it, I decided I would share it with the family after all. They all agreed that it was not anything like the ?LINDT? standard we all know and trust at all.

Even the dog wouldn?t eat it; he just gave my his ?You know where you can stick that look? and walked off with his nose and tail in the air.

So would I recommend this product? Only if you like eating candle wax, because that was what it reminded me of.

I personally will never buy that, what ever they call it bar again, as much as I love LINDT. All in all it tasted as odd as it sounds. The experience has left me, on the whole feeling quite traumatised and feeling sorry for my self.

Thanks for listening. It ha
s helped.

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