Let the Squirrel have it......... (Snickers Bar)

Member Name: HS28

Product:	Snickers Bar
Date:	01/11/09 (125 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Quite filling and a range of flavours all in one bite

Disadvantages: Stray peanuts that escape from the bite and stick to your teeth

Snickers

Snickers are not my favourite chocolate bar but occasionally I do like a nibble. Tesco have been doing an offer on Mars fun size packs and buy 2 for £3 so we have acquired some Milky Way bars, mars bars and snicker bars. Snickers do come in fun size, snack size, standard size and an extra large size called duo which is two bars in one. To buy a snickers standard bar will knock you back up to 60p but in a multipack of 5 you can pay around £2 or less if on offer. You can buy it in corner shops and supermarkets all over the UK and globally.


**Running on Nuts**

Surprisingly the Snicker bar is seen to be one of the best selling global chocolate bars. It is surprising to me as I am a Cadbury girl at heart like most of the UK but I guess globally Cadbury haven't stamped their mark as much as Mars have. Mr T seems to have had a comeback lately and is currently helping advertising the bar with ''get some nuts' which seems to end up in some quite whacky TV advertising for the snicker bar. Not quite sure what is going on here with the marketing but I don't find it amusing. I think it seems to be targeting a male audience in it' humour.

It is made by master foods who part of mars and introduced over 80 years ago as snickers though in the UK and Ireland we affectionately know it as Marathon. In 1990 the name changed to Snickers to be inline with its global name though I sense this is also to save money as these days they put many languages so that it can be wrapped and sold in many countries.

**The Bar**

The bar is a brown colour and snickers is written in blue writing on white with a red box line around it. There is a picture of nuts on it and the calorie contents in an oval shape on the mini size bar. In the fun size pack you are told that this little chocolate snacky contains just 91 kcals. (Though two bites and it's gone and that's a bit of a workout to do in return).

A Snickers bar contains peanut butter and nougat topped with roasted peanuts and caramel. It is then covered in milk chocolate. Obviously this is then not recommended for people with nut allergies! I won't go into exact details of the ingredients but it has 14% milk chocolate with soft nougat, 27% caramel centre and 24% roasted peanuts.

On the back of the multipack it has the GDA information in 100g sis and the bar size which is 18g. This is only an 18g bar and has 91 calories, 1.7g protein, 10g carbohydrates and 4.9g fat. Interestingly to compare the mini snicker bars to twix, malteasers, milkyways etc there is not much difference. As they varies between 70kcl in a milky way to 98kcal in a pack of malteasers though the gram size varies slightly.


**The taste**

The bar is coated in mars milk chocolate which is pretty similar to the mars bar and milk way bar. When you bite into the bar you immediately get a mixture of all the ingredients in the bite. The combination is nice and tasty and the caramel gives the peanuts a nice taste. The caramel helps smooth out the peanuts and make it easy to swallow. Although I do have to swing my tongue round my mouth after eating it to ensure no stray peanut bits have been left out and got stuck in my teeth! I don't find the chocolate as nice as Cadburys as it isn't as silky or tasty.

Iit is a surprisingly moresih bar although it does fill you up quickly. With the fun size bars one is definitely not enough and you can end up eating two or three at least. I have eaten these from room temperature where they taste better and softer as they are a little too hard in the fridge and can crack your teeth if you freeze them!


**Recommend**

I would not put this at the top of my chocolate charts as there are many other brands and bars I prefer over the snickers bar. However it is a filling chocolate snack and I think the treat size bars are good if you mix them with the other Mars fun size packs. Put it this way I wouldn't fight back if a Squirrel squeaked and nabbed this off me. I would buy it were it on a multipack offer though.

**Rate**


Overall I give it 3 stars as it is a tasty enough average size bar though I wish it were still called a marathon bar.

Summary: A average chocolate bar if you fancy a change