Scrumptious! (Terry's All Gold)

Member Name: GuruOnAMountain

Product:	Terry's All Gold
Date:	12/12/05 (566 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Relatively cheap and tasty

Disadvantages: Can be quite sickly

Being a bit of a chocoholic and a bit excited kid who can't wait to open their Christmas presents, I'm sitting with a box of Terry's All Gold in front of me right now that a friend gave me.

To be honest, the box has taken me aback a bit...I can't remember it ever looking like this, but it is gold with a vine like design all over it...not that that really matters much 'cause I'm just wanting to scoff the chocs!

So what about the chocs?

Well smack bang in the middle is the Terry's Hallmark. This is just plain chocolate and isn't very exciting. The Terry's chocolate isn't all that nice on its own, either, but still, its chocolate just the same.

The next choc I try is the Honeycomb Jewel with is surprising. It is like a chocolate truffle with little bits of honeycomb within the filling and is very sweet and tasty, but slightly sickly...I feel like I need to take a drink of water once I've downed it!

Hazlenut in Gold comes next...a familiar format of a cube of milk choc with smooth caramel and a hazlenut inside. This was nicer than other makes of chocolate. The chocolate made a nice, snappy sound when I bit into it and it wasn't too sweet.

The next one I popped into my big greedy gob is the Vanilla Flourish which is shaped and patterned like a leaf. I wasn't too keen on this. In texture it felt like the centre was caramel and although I usually like vanilla, the flavour was way too strong for my tastes...I'm still screwing my face up a few minutes after I've eat that one and the taste is lingering.

Caramel Nectar comes next and this is much like the Hazlenut in Gold but without the nut. It is actually much sweeter without the nut to dull the taste a bit and is a bit too sweet for me, but has the same satisfying crack when you bite down on the chocolate.

The Praline Starlet came next. I wasn't expecting to find a nut in the middle, but it was a nice addition!

The Truffle Intrigue comes next, which is a bit too sickly for me, but is much the same as you'd expect to find in any of these sorts of boxes of chocolates.

The Amber Toffee was a huge disappointment. I'd expected a hard toffee, but it was a soft filling, more like a fudge than a toffee and it got stuck to my teeth. Not a very enjoyable one.

The Burnished Nut Brulee is nice. It is praline with little pieces of chopped up nuts covered in chocolate and was very nutty...just the way I like my chocs!

The Orange Blossom and Strawberry Bloom I gave a wideberth as these aren't chocolates that I'm ever very fond of...I always find them too sickly, but I expect they taste much like similar chocs you find in any boxes of chocolates.

The Roasted Nut Harvest was another disappointment. It is the only white chocolate in the box and I will admit I'm not a big white chocolate fan, but I do like nuts so gave it a go. The filling was quite similar to the Burnished Nut Brulee, but without the chopped nuts, but the white chocolate made it far too sickly in my opinion!

However, 100g of these will set you back quite a few calories. The nutritional info. is as follows:
Energy 2195kJ/525Kcal
Protein 4.8g
Carbohydrates 58g
of which sugars 54g
Fat 30.5g
of which saturates 16.5g
Fibre 1.5g
Sodium 0.1g

They are manufactured by Kraft and comes in Milk or Plain selections (the one I've reviewed is the Milk) and are usually available for a few quid.

Personally, I prefer these to other brands of chocolates such as Milk Tray, although a few of the chocs are unpleasantly sickly.

Summary: Boxed Chocolates