Lindt Not-All-That-Excellent Natural Orange (Lindt Excellence Natural Orange)

Member Name: GuruOnAMountain

Product:	Lindt Excellence Natural Orange
Date:	12/11/04 (163 review reads)
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Advantages: Nice packaging., Nice enough chocolate.

Disadvantages: Nothing mind-blowing., Fairly expensive.

My friend and I were going to the cinema, and being a stingy Scottish person I decided to pop into Sainsbury's to get my sweeties and save myself from being ripped off at the pictures.

I carefully walked down the sweetie aisle but didn't feel like the usual Malteasers or Minstrels, and then my eye fell on this bar of chocolate. Well, I'm sure you'll all have seen a Lindt bar whilst on your travels. They always are perfectly wrapped with nice gold lettering spelling out Lindt at the top. This bar had a tempting picture of some oranges and a little bit of chocolate underneath.

Well, tie me down and call me Andy if I can resist a nice bit of milk chocolate. It was £1.17 for a 100g bar, and I reckoned that was an alright price for some Lindt, so I hurriedly shuffled off to the cashier to pay for it.

I was well aware of Lindt's excellent reputation, and even the bar itself had the word 'excellence' written on it, so I was really setting myself up for a treat as I settled down into my cinema seat. I felt slightly guilty as I opened the bar, and picked out the little piece of cardboard that is no doubt meant to preserve the bar from snapping somewhat.

I tore open the silver foil and examined the chocolate. The pieces were big and relatively thin, and I snapped one off. They melted quite easily in my fingers, so I popped it into my mouth before I could look too much of a mucky, chocolate covered scary person.

Well, it tastes of orangey chocolate, there's no doubt of that. The chocolate is nice and creamy and the pieces are a nice size, but I couldn't help but think that it tasted extremely similar to Terry's Chocolate Orange. Now, I really do like Terry's Chocolate Orange, but I was expecting some superior form of chocolate from Lindt and was ultimately a tad disappointed.

I kept the wrapper in my bag reckoning that I would write a review on it sometime, and after thoroughly searching the wrapper, I can state that there is no nutritional information on it whatsoever. So there you have it. Now I just KNOW that that is a bad sign and I'm going to wake up tomorrow with a butt the size of Outer Mongolia because each square probably contained enough calories to sustain a small boy until he is grown to manhood. However, there is ingredients which are:

sugar, cocoa butter, whole milk powder, cocoa mass, butterfat, lactose, skimmed milk powder, malt extract, emulsifier: soya lecithin, natural flavour: orange, flavouring.

It also states that the product may contain traces of peanut, almond and hazelnut and that it contains 30% minimum of cocoa solids and 20% minimum of milk solids.

Would I recommend this? Well, I suppose the chocolate is nice, but if there's a Terry's Chocolate Orange on the shelf nearby for cheaper, you'd probably be better off just grabbing it instead.

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