| name: meiji egg chocolate | |
| origin: japan | micro_user: lektrogirl |
| description: little balls of white chocolate and yellow chocolate centre | |
| comments: a nice package maybe made this the first selected item up for taste testing. the eggs were also dissected by covox and lektrogirl to ensure that the graphic description of the chocolate on the box was indeed a reality | |
4.125
| name: marabou schweizer nüt | |
| origin: sweden | micro_user: covox |
| description: chocolate with hazelnuts | |
| comments:
carl has problems to open the chocolate
despite the wrapper being labelled carefully with instructions. lo-bat says "tastes like belgian chocolate." gwem remarks "a perfectly reasonable chocolate" |
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7.05
BRONZE
| name: droste extra creamy milk pastiles | |
| origin: netherlands | micro_user: poke |
| description: chocolate 'buttons' packaged as a xmas pipe bomb | |
| comments: covox with distain "tastes like airplaine chocolate" | |
5
| name: minor | |
| origin: switzerland | micro_user: carl |
| description: a really soft chocolate slice with nuts | |
| comments:
there was much talk - was it nougat?
was it praline? is it really chocolate? general opinion was "don't
know if it is chocolate, but i like it" finally disqualified because no-one could acertain it's true confectionary family |
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disqualified
| name: cadbury's dairy milk chocolate | |
| origin: uk | micro_user: gwem |
| description: a glass and a half of full cream dairy milk [i'm not joking check the diagram! that's science!] | |
| comments:
wanga particularly liked the packaging
which included purple foil. after the initial taste test, we wanted
to disqualify the english chocolate rather than the minor bar on grounds
that it tasted too bad. carl said "it tastes like it has gone rotten or got damp." discussion follows between gwem and covox about how bad this chocolate is and covox points out from the list of ingredients "the english cant even get the taste of chocolate right - look here - it says CHOCOLATE FLAVOURING" |
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3
| name: lindt weihnachts chocolade / chocolat de nöel | |
| origin: switzerland | micro_user: carl |
| description: a creamy chocolate flavoured with cinnamon & coriander | |
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comments:
a mixed reaction to the flavouring.
a lot of cinnamon and not much coriander. covox said "the wrapper
looks like really cheap turkish chocolate with all the gold and
stars." |
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5.5
| name: cadbury's bournville | |
| origin: uk | micro_user: gwem |
| description: the only real dark chocolate | |
| comments: despite being the favourite chocolate type of wanga, even he gave it the score of 2. the first chocolate to receive zeros from any micro_user. | |
2.8
| name: lindt cresta duo | |
| origin: switzerland | micro_user: carl |
| description: crunchy nougat in soft filling | |
| comments: we were all starting to feel a bit sick by now so no-one said anything noteworthy. firestarter was hungering for some real food so discussion had started to turn to french fries and mayo and how french fries were actually a belgian invention. | |
6.142
| name: plopp | |
| origin: sweden | micro_user: covox |
| description: runny caramel in milk chocolate | |
| comments: a lot of the taste testers found this too sweet. but of course the greatest gag about this item is that a "plop" means a "turd" or "poo" in english | |
4.25
| name: name not noted in scramble to taste the apple | |
| origin: japan | micro_user: lektrogirl |
| description: ten individually wrapped chocolates with assorted flavours | |
| comments: a difficult chocolate to assess as the flavours were different. firestARTer, covox, poke and lektrogirl lept onto the apple flavour immediatly and began cutting test portions. once unwrapped manou said "wow it smells like apple shampoo." manou wanted to try the little nut man chocolate - however she was not to impressed. the strawberry chocolate was white with a little jelly flavouring inside. however depite hard marks from manou, carl and gwem [who said "i can't believe you are all taken in by the fancy wrapper"] this selection came out the over all winner - and it was the apple flavour that was most popular. | |
8.5
GOLD
| name: ovomaltine | |
| origin: switzerland | micro_user: carl |
| description: swiss milk chocolate with ovomaltine | |
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comments:
covox wanted to make it clear that he hated the wrapper and disected
the design and finishing off with a cutting "it is just a clip
art wrapper" |
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7.875
SILVER
| name: lindt noix baumnuss | |
| origin: switzerland | micro_user: carl |
| description: chocolate with walnuts & toffee | |
| comments: manou said "mmmmmmmmmm...." and the chocolate scored quite well all round but the final score was low due to hard marking from lektrogirl on the grounds it contained much detested walnuts and also a low mark from gwem | |
6.75
| name: meiji strawberry chocolate | |
| origin: japan | micro_user: lektrogirl |
| description: a milk chocolate with strawberry filling | |
| comments:
a.k.a. 'softberry' for it's smooth flavour. after discussion about
the real strawberry seeds in the pink soft filling, covox reads that
the product contains red malted rice and so all are suspicious of
the strawberry seed content. [but on behalf of meiji, i feel i must point out that after re-reading the contents, the red malted rice is in the chocolate ingredients. the strawberry cream contains 'dehydrated strawberry'] |
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6.375
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| name: marabou mjölk chocolad | |
| origin: sweden | micro_user: covox |
| description: milk chocolate | |
| comments: lektrogirl was secretly glad that covox had pointed out the opening instructions on the earlier marabou bar fumbled by carl, so she did not make the same faux pas. the brand name marabou was discussed with the conclusion it was a nice name. the dicussion between covox and gwem continued about chocolate and covox was happy to point out that this brand was the chocolate approved for the swedish royal family [but lektrogirl had to point out that it was the same for the cadbury's chocolate and the royal family in the uk] | |
5.875