Tesco Value After Dinner Mints

Tesco Value After Dinner Mints Think After Eights but Nicer...!!!! I love chocolate. But even more than that, I love minty chocolate. When I was pregnant I went completely off chocolate, but after I had my little girl, the rush for chocolate came back with a vengeance. I was lucky enough to receive a couple of boxes of After Eights as presents and soon wolfed my way through them. Now After Eights are pretty damn expensive if you ask me, so this is where the value aspect comes in. During a recent online shopping spree at Tesco.com I found, in the virtual sweet isle, this delightful box of choccies, and could not believe the price. 75p. ...

Tesco After Dinner Mints are based on 'After Eight Mints' . It has to be said at the start they are nowhere near as refined a product as the originals. The chocolate on these smells sweet and slightly greasy and the peppermint flavoured filling has not even been anywhere near peppermint oil. These sweets are thicker than the originals and completely devoid of peppermint flavouring. The box is rectangular and white coloured with blue at the ends and Tesco Value plastered all over it. So, if you were intending to go posh and serve these 'after dinner' you would need to remove them from the box and put them on a plate, or tray. When you ...

I find that with Tesco value products you never know what you will get, some Tesco value stuff is very good and some of it is awful. With these Tesco value after dinner mints you get something somewhere in between. They are based on the design of the world famous after eight mint but can't come anywhere near being as good as them, the chocolate is much thicker and the mint fondant centre of the after eight seems to have been replaced by a runny liquid mint that isn't really all that nice. The minty taste and the chocolate are still a nice combination but these are much more sickly than after eights and just don't have the same elegance either. I ...