Russian Roulette of Chocolate thats best not to be played (Mars Revels)

Member Name: iamasadlittleboy

Product:	Mars Revels
Date:	20/10/09 (29 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Maltesers and the Toffee ones

Disadvantages: The rest

Although far from a fan of Mars chocolate, I'm happy to try some early in the morning to help me wake up, a pre-breakfast snack if you would, for the sugar, the caffeine and the heck of it to be totally honest. So when I found a 35g packet of Revels lying around in my bedroom I just couldn't help myself but to have these for a snack early in the morning.

Coming in a mainly orange packet with different shades of orange vertical strips down the packet the sweets don't look anything exceptional, in fact if it wasn't for the images of chocolate balls on the front it would be rather easy to admit having no idea of what these are. The front of the packet offers no explanation and it's only in fine writing on the back that you'll find a description "Milk Chocolate with assorted centres" is the only help you get as the customer regarding what a revel is. Hopefully for those who haven't had them before, this review will shine much more light on the matter of what exactly a revel is.

A bag of revels contains an array of chocolate based sweets with different forms of centres, the first one I picked up was an orange flavoured one which just tastes wrong, orange chocolate in general tastes wrong though. It has a twangy taste that really doesn't suit the sweetness of chocolate in general. The second one I picked up was a Malteser which is identical to the regular Mars Malteser's that have been popular for years and are one of the very best Mars chocolates available. The third was a coffee flavoured one, which is just a bit rank to be perfectly honest, much like orange chocolate is disgusting so too chocolate flavoured like coffee. The problem is you don't quite know what you're going to get as most of them look identical to each other. The next one I got was a chewy one, presumably a toffee centred one, but the toffee felt like it'd dried out and crumbled with the chocolate rather than putting up a real fight like toffee should do (then again I got two really chewy ones straight after I wrote that so maybe I just managed to get a duff one first time round).
The only ones that stand out entirely are the disk shaped ones which seem like a poor man's Minstrels (the Galaxy branded Mars product).
The major problem is that it's pot luck as to which ones you get and your unable to tell the difference between the Maltesers and the toffee ones (the best 2) and the Coffee and Orange ones (the worst ones).

Nutritional Information (per 35g)
168 Calories
1.8g Protein
23.6g Carbohydrate
7.4g Fat

Product contains:
Milk, Soya and 11 separate E numbers including 3 Raising Agents, an Emulsifier, an Acid (E330), and Acidity regulator and 6 colours.

Overall the sweets are very hit and miss and sadly as you inevitably get more of the misses than the hits the actually packet becomes a bit of a pointless procession of face pulling after biting into one of the more revolting sweets hoping they were a Malteser. This sort of says it all though, the Maltesers can obviously be bought in a bag of there own pretty much taking the chocolate roulette system out of the equation so you can happily enjoy the nicer options in the bag. Revels there fore seem a bit pointless in the grand scheme of things as they do little to try to value themselves and what they do do is put people off with rather disgusting sweets.

Avoid the Russian Roulette of chocolate and just grab a bag of Maltesers instead.

Summary: Avoid, grab a bag of Maltesers instead