If you recall (you don't), I once filed a report on a Canada. Now that my blog is getting bigger and more powerful, I am expanding overseas. In this case, across the pond!
My buddy John made a trip home to England for a family event and was gracious enough to grab me a bag of snacks while over there. Before we get into the snack itself let's take a look at the wrapper. The front of the wrapper seems normal enough right? Bright colors, big letters, company logo displayed prominently. All good so far.
Alright so that's basically what we use over here too. Even those weird round-edged rectangles I've been seeing more of the past few years. Did the USA steal that from England, or did England steal that from the USA? I guess we'll never know.
Look at that nutrition info! kJ? kcal? What the hell is that! It's Calories with a capital C or nothing. Sure, Cal and kcal are the exact same thing. But I don't need to spend that extra second remembering that when I should be eating my snack. And kJ I just have no clue about. I studied nutrition and science in college but I'm old now so I don't remember any of that. Also- fibre? And using salt instead of sodium? Those aren't mutually exclusive. NH4NO3 is a salt. But you don't get a sodium problem from excess nitrogen.* Maybe that's what causes one of these two countries to have a crippling obesity problem.
On to the snack itself. That's a promising candy bar so far. The wrapper says it's honey encased in milk chocolate. I've never even considered that as a possibility.
Whoa. This is delicious. Is honey always this good? Or did Cadbury work some Harry Potter sorcery with their chocolate? I need more of this one. It's crunchy (journalism 101), it's sweet, it's airy. Is this what they were going for with Butterfingers and Mounds? Because they pale in comparison. The only problem I have with this bar is that there wasn't enough of it. Somebody get Cadbury on the phone and tell them start importing this bad boy ASAP. 10/10.
BREAKING NEWS: You can buy these for disturbingly cheap off Amazon. I have bought them.
* I am not a doctor.
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