Not all Truffles are Round (Lindt Lindor Chocolate Truffles)

Member Name: mattygroves10

Product:	Lindt Lindor Chocolate Truffles
Date:	17/10/05 (1679 review reads)
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Advantages: Chocolate. Real, honest chocolate.

Disadvantages: It'snot cheap; quite sweet so not for excessive consumption . A real bummer to get back in the box

Here I sit with an unopened, untried bar of LINDT LINDOR - truffles in a bar...(BUT SEE BELOW - APPEARANCES CAN BE DECEIVING!) According to the labelling, they are indeed Lindt Lindor truffles...just apparently, packaged in a completely different way.

Now, I don't usually buy myself such extravagant and sweet looking treats. However, this particular bar was given to me by my sister-in-law's husband's mother (got that?).

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Appearance - the Packaging
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This 100g bar of 'Milk Chocolate with a soft filling' (or 'Chocolat au lait fourré d'un supreme fondant' if you prefer) is in a red, chocolate bar shaped box. The Lindt word and logo are in gold, surrounded by a gold oval. Under the word Lindt is Lindor.

Turning the box over, I get the boring stuff - the ingredients in eight languages (including English), the contact details for the eight countries and so forth. In addition, it tells me who the company is, that the quality is guaranteed (actually, it says 'garantie de qualité' - I don't speak French, but even I can work out what that probably means), and where it's made (France - surprisingly, for Swiss chocolate).

Whilst I won't repeat the ingredients (in any of the eight languages) here, I will note that it contains 30% cocoa solids (minimum) and 20% milk solids (minimum) - remember this is milk chocolate. It also tells us that it 'may contain traces of peanuts, hazelnuts and almonds' - so not suitable for nut allergy sufferers.

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Appearance - Inside the Packaging
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OK - now it's time to break into the box. Inside (remember, I'm seeing this all for the first time as I write) there is a thick bar of classy-looking silver foil wrapped...something. On the wrap is embossed 'Lindt Chocolats Fins'. Guess I'd better open the silver and find out what is inside...

Carefully removing the foil (as I don't think I can eat 100g of 'milk chocolate with a soft filling')...I find, I WAS WRONG! Despite appearances on the outside, this ISN'T a bar. Boy, it sure looked like one from the outside. Instead, I have on my desk a cardboard tray with three rows of six little squarish (well, rounded square) milk chocolate...well...squares. Each one has the Lindt dragon (at least I think it's a dragon) stamped on the top. Mmm...they look nice.

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The Important Bit - The TASTE
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Right - so much for my neat rows - I pick one up, sniff it (it smells lightly of chocolate) open mouth, pop choccie in...and...

YUMMM! The milk chocolate shell is fairly thin - it crumbles easily on the chew, and melts after a few minutes on the suck. Inside is...well...a heavenly soft filling. It's creamy, and tastes mostly of chocolate - but imagine the creamiest, meltiest, most chocolately milk chocolate you've ever tried. Now multiply that by a few million. There you go.

You need more description? OK - in goes square number three (yes, I snuck one in whilst you weren't looking)...the initial suck gives me a mild milk chocolate flavour. So I bite...the blast of soft filling fills my mouth with the creamiest milk chocolate flavour - really more like cream than like milk. Wow. Exceeding expectations.

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The Verdict
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Oh yes, I like this. I'm only sorry I can't tell you what they cost - as I said, they were a gift (and until very, very recently - four paragraphs ago, I thought I'd been given a bar of chocolate), and, by the look of it, it may well not have been purchased here in the UK. I suspect they are, however, not cheap - I would even venture to guess that they are considerably dearer than your average Cadbury's or Mars confection. And they ARE rich - in both senses of the term.

I have to admit that I went into this not expecting all that much. Yes, it's Swiss chocolate (well...made in France...). Yes, it's Lindt. These days, however, I'm a dark chocolate fan - I find milk chocolate to be too sweet. And these little squares are indeed sweet- but the overwhelming taste is chocolate, not sugar.

Having said that, I've now eaten three, and that will do for now. They are rich - filling and, after the third...sweet (does anyone know a synonym for 'sweet'?), a tad cloying. The other disadvantage is they were a lot easier to open and remove from the packaging than they are to close and replace in the packaging - the foil tears, and the neatly stacked squares move. Ah well, the price we pay for indulgence.

Summary: Lindt's classic truffle in a bar - still Lindt, still Lindor. Just in a bar.