Premium priced rival to the Kit Kat turns out to be an undelightful surprise (Mars Delight)

Member Name: iamasadlittleboy

Product:	Mars Delight
Date:	19/07/09 (37 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: ...erm....you can half of it away

Disadvantages: Taste, Blandness, Price, Feeling it's a poor Kit Kat Klone

Without going into too much detail about this products history or origins, lets just make one thing totally obvious, Mars needs to shoot the person who created these, then dump their body off the edge of the world so we couldn't possibly have any more of these totally appalling ideas the person is obviously capable of having.

As you can already tell, the product is nothing special, in fact it's rather terrible and dire, effectively it sees Mars try to copy a Nestle signature snack and improve on it, but sadly comes away as nothing more than an over-priced poor quality chocolate bar with a name that could well be deemed false advertising. The bar is slightly longer than a fudge, but sadly lacks the fudges charm that we're all too familiar with, the soft sweet treat our grans used to give us that holds memory of innocent childhoods. For some silly reason I bought it thinking it was a Kit Kat variation, and to be fair from the description this was understandable, "wafer covered in chocolate" type of bar. Sadly the bar seems to be a "cheap week old wafer covered in Mars chocolate".

The (un)Delight(ful) comes in 2-bits (one for you, and one for some poor tasteless fool, happy to accept a bit) each is about 2 inches long by about ¾ of an inch tall and wide with a "wave" shaped top. The chocolate cover is really quite attractive (one of the only delightful things about the bar) a nice rich smooth brown that seemed to glitter under the office lights and make it look genuinely like it was going to be nice. Alas the chocolate lies, the tales it made me want to believe were nothing more than a simple wish and on further inspection, it reveals it's actually a good cover to a poor bar. It's what's under the chocolate that causes the bars first problems, 2 types of creams (a caramel one and a chocolate one) covering a wafer. You'd have thought that was going to be nice, alas you'd have thought wrong, so very wrong.
With so much in the bar you'd have at least expected a little bit of raw flavour, a little something to taste feast your taste buds on right?...Wrong your taste buds feel like the proverbial third wheel, the bit missing out between your teeth and your stomach as the bar gives not even a hint of flavour. The best word to describe would be bland, a more accurate term would be relatively "tasteless". You get the taste of the chocolate but you'd expect that of any of the 4 big chocolate companies (Cadbury, Mars, Nestle and Galaxy) but even the flavour of that seems to have been "blanderised" (new word for you all there) but the odd cream fillings.

So onto the texture, of course the chocolate is smooth, it's Mars it has to be smooth, but that's where the expectations end. The wafer which you'd expect would be there to rival the likes of Kit Kat comes across as being very cheap and nasty, to say B class would doing a dis-service to B class, it could possible scrape a D if your generous. No real snap to it, or crunch just soft nothingness, perhaps it's the creams fault that the bar feels soft and misses the point of having a wafer, or maybe it's that idiot from the start of the review who decided "We are Mars, we can do whatever we want". Whatever the reason is doesn't matter, it's just not worth actually finding out.

However what is far worse than the bar being a substandard Kit Kat rip off is the fact Mars decided it's a "luxury" chocolate bar, you know the ones, like Kinder Bueno's, Double Deckers, the ones that are priced a good bit more than the typical Mars, Dairy Milk or Crunchie. For 50p, Mars have some how come to the conclusion that this is the right price for this relatively tasteless, small and unenjoyable chocolate bar. Sadly Mars who should now be issuing apologies and refunds to those of us who have actually stomached one, had better be re-thinking both the product and their pricing strategy.

Delight? Well there's irony if I ever saw it, unless of course, your perfect night is spent watching re-runs of The Bill whilst drinking bottled water and eating paper before bed at 9:00 PM. Yes the bar really is that unexciting and boring.

Summary: Delight fails to live upto it's name, in a rather undelightful way