Absolutely Devine (Mars Galaxy Caramel)

Member Name: flodombey

Product:	Mars Galaxy Caramel
Date:	25/08/09 (105 review reads)
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Advantages: Tasty, luxurious, indulgent, devine

Disadvantages: High in calories and fat

On first glance at this king of confectionary products, you might assume that it is simply a cadburys caramel in a different packet, but you would be so wrong. It is so much more than that. This is the kind of chocolate that you invariably stray towards and veer away from, knowing that to open it is to devour the whole thing in a matter of seconds of pure, unadulterated, sinful bliss.

You can buy one of these bars of chocolate for around 50p in most newsagents, supermarkets, petrol stations and the like. Once you have tried one they seem to spring up in your periphery vision and tease you unrelentingly until you have to just stop looking at the chocolate counter full stop because to see one is to covet it completely.

I know I am being slightly dramatic here but believe me I am not like this about any old chocolate bar, a confectionary tart I am not. It is the sheer silky, sweet, rich and luxurious taste and texture of this particular bar which does funny things to my mind and makes me slightly obsessive.

On opening the packet (which has a nice, expensive looking sheen to it which feels lovely to tear open) you will find that the bar comes in two fingers of 3 chunks - similar to the notion of the (inferior) cadburys version, but these two fingers are long with the chunks joined together to form a long finger each. I think they do this to con you into thinking that you could eat one finger of 3 and leave the other for later. If you can do this then you are a better woman than I.

I think that the reason this bar is so absolutely devine to me is that the chocolate is galaxy, undeniably silky, smooth and rich tasting and the caramel is so rich and sticky and sweet like amber nectar that between them they taste so good as to make you stop thinking about anything else in your life - and that level of escapism is priceless.

The caramel seems much runnier than the cadburys version and will trail like melted mozzerella from one piece to the next if you pull it apart, personally I like this about it. The caramel is not chewy like in a cadburys bar and it just feels much nicer in your mouth, like liquid gold.

Like any chocolate bar this is not particularly diet friendly and a standard bar contains 232 calories and 11.6g of fat, 8g of which is saturated so it is 6 weight watchers points for the bar. Pretty high but oh my goodness it does taste like a real treat.

If for some insane reason you have not tried one of these then indulge yourself, you deserve it. The only thing I will warn you though is that once it has you in its grip you will never look at chocolate in the same way ever again!

Summary: The best chocolate bar on the market (in my opinion)