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Brace yourself, for what I'm about to reveal will boggle your mind. Ready for it? Ok - these Fruity Smarties actually contain no chocolate!! In fact, they've morphed into Skittles. Yep, chewy fruity candy that only bears resemblance to Smarties from its box and bright colors. Totally unsuspecting when I popped a few in my mouth, I thought it would be chocolate with fruit candy coating. I had to

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Last Friday I had a few minutes before my movie started, so I headed to a Dollarama next to the theatre. Lo-and-behold there was a stock of these OhHenry! Pro bars in the candy aisle. I was totally oblivious to the existence of these! Doing a little comparison with the original OhHenry! and OhHenry! PeanutButter, I wanted to see if indeed this bar lives up to its suggestive name. Original Oh!

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Terry's Chocolate Orange has always been a Christmas-time thing. It's the gift you can "whack and unwrap". Who would guess breaking chocolate can be such an enjoyable experience - except when you don't manage to break all the slices apart. Which with my whacking abilities has never happened before... Anyway I realize I haven't had a Terry's Chocolate Orange in years. These individual packs of the

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Deja-vu Don't worry I'm not having memory lapses, I remember already reviewing Cadbury's Picnic. There are a few differences between the earlier, and this one now. Apart from the apparent different wrappers, the earlier is made by Cadbury UK and this by Cadbury Australia. The UK version contains rice crisps, peanuts, caramel, and raisins. This Aussi one has wafers, peanuts, and caramel. This

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I'm ecstatic to have just finished my first Gimme Your Stuff swap. And a chocolate-only swap at that, how lovely. Despite the 30degree weather here this week, the chocolates arrived relatively intact. Thanks to Jean from England, I now have a nice selection of UK chocolate bars. Hope she'll enjoy the ones from Canada Mmm the Creme Egg Bars I hoped for are even included, yay!

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I'm excited to finally get to try the Temptations line of KitKats from Australia. Thanks to my mom who went on vacation there, and brought back a KitKat Temptations Hazelnut Praline! Instead of the infamous wafer fingers, each Temptations is sectioned into 5 tablets. And each piece filled with a thin layer of wafer and one of the 3 Tempations flavors: Coconut Eclair, Hazelnut Praline, and Caramel

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My previous two marzipan bars were fantastic, soo this 3rd time around should be a charm. I'm curious for this Schluckwerder Edelmarzipan Rumtruffel from Germany. Edelmarzipan mit Rumtrauben gefullt mit Rumtruffel in Milchschokolade, or in other words, Chocolate filled with fine marzipan and rum raisins and rum truffle. A+ in German 101! Just kidding, there's English translation on the back Why

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Well now I don't know what to expect from Cadbury's Cherry Ripe. It's a popular bar hailing from the down under. I'm not a fan of chocolate covered cherries, or the Bounty bar - and the Cherry Ripe is an infusion of both, should be fun Opening the wrapper, right away the smell reminds me of dark chocolate covered cherries. A rippley dark chocolate shell enrobes cherry flavored coconut filling.

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Since I came back from Europe, one of the things I miss most is the deliciously thick cioccolato in Venice. Cioccolato is simply an extremely rich and gooey hot chocolate. Heck, there's probably no milk in it, it's a cup of liquified chocolate! Starbucks had a similar drink called the Chantico a few years back, which I didn't try because the concept was too far-out. And at 390cal for a 6floz

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I never knew the popularity of marzipan! This Anthon Berg Marcipan Brod (no that is not a typo, I'm safe to assume marcipan is danish for marzipan) is made in Denmark. According to the wrapper this company has been around since 1884, I'd never guess marzipan was around back then A stylish reflective pink wrapper covers the 40g bar. The bar itself looks like a giganto fat Cadbury Finger. The hard

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Similar to Pop'ables from the US, these are bite sized versions of popular Hershey chocolate in Canada. Coming in 70g-80g handy packs, they're available in Reese, OhHenry!, York, and KitKat flavors. They are so easy to eat that before you know it, you've finished the whole pack and eaten more than a regular-sized chocolate bar! By far the Reese Bites is my favorite, and even better than the

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Have my taste buds become more sophisticated, gaining a liking for these fine chocolate bars? I admit it's nice deterring from the same-ol' Snickers, and I'll be sad when my stock of these shiny-wrapped chocolates run out. I'll enjoy it while it lasts I'm not crazy for peanut brittle, because they're super sweet and stick to my teeth, and then I wait for the saliva in my mouth to do its job and

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Not only do these fine chocolate bars have pretty shiny wrappers, what's more impressive is their out-there flavors. Continuing with the same line of fine chocolates, my next consumption is this Darrell Lea Dark Chocolate Coated Ginger. Description on the wrapper reads Rich fudge blended with succulent pieces of ginger smothered in dark chocolate. I think this is the first time I've seen "

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My mom recently returned from a vacation in Australia, and you know what that means... Mary now has a nice stock of foreign candy bars Within the bunch, there are a few from the Darrell Lea Fine Chocolates company. The lucky first to be chosen for sample is the Dark Chocolate Coated Marzipan bar. Inside its reflective gold and marroon wrapper dawned a delicate tab of fine chocolate. Texture of

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Until recently I never knew South Africa made chocolate. Well ok, I never really took time to ponder all the chocolate factories of the world. Description on the bar reads Milk chocolate with milky mounds. Now I know what you're thinking, 'cause I was thinking the same thing - mounds of peanuts?? mounds of coconuts?? Why no! Quite the opposite in fact - "mounds", as it turns out, is pure silky

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Wrapper of the Heath bar is quite boring, it's description of milk chocolate English toffee bar isn't much fun either. I would have passed it up for one of the many brightly wrapped KitKat versions - had I not kept seeing it in episodes of "Unwrapped" and wanted a try. Made by Hershey USA, the Heath bar is reminiscent of the Skor bar in Canada. Unwrapping it unveiled a flat bar looking identical

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Of the top 200 things that bring joy to my life, one is coming across a candy bar not usually found on your grocer's shelf. Such was the event when I found these MilkyWay Pop'ables at a local Dollar store (after some Googling I learned the Pop'ables line have been discontinued - good 'ol Dollar stores and their crazy stocks ). For those unaware - Milky Way is the name used in the US, and Mars in

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This isn't actually a bar per se. Buut it is Hershey, and it is super chocolatey. At a local 7-11 today, I found these along-side the usual Milk2Go in the fridge aisle. Foregoing the slurpee machines, I picked up a bottle of Hershey Double Chocolate Milkshake - there was also a Cookies 'n Creme variety. And wow what an extremely thick consistency this drink had. Sweet and rich, but not thirst

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Wrapper of this bar screamed for me to buy it. It's Not For Girls is the slogan labeled on Nestle UK's Yorkie. Big, bold letters, with a no-female symbol in place of the O. forbidden fruit.. now I can't NOT try it. First things first, getting to the bottom of the mind boggling slogan. After extensive research (aka Googling it), I find the story behind this bar. When it was produced, the Yorkie

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Tastes like strawberry pocky! This KitKat White Strawberry&Yogurt from Germany (or Austria? I forgot) is unlike other KitKat's I've had. I'm not sure whether the coating is white chocolate or yogurt, as the name suggests. If I had to guess, I would say yogurt, because it doesn't taste like white chocolate. Definately it does have the essence of strawberry and yogurt. Imagine eating just the

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Heehee, so I found these pics of StarWars Episode III M&M's on my computer. I remember sneaking these into the movie for the whole StarWars experience (sshh don't laugh ). There was a dark chocolate version (the dark side), and a peanut version (light side). It was a whole "choose your side" thing. I got both, but secretly I woulda chose the dark side The dark chocolate m&m's were really good,

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I had to do a double take when I saw the Nestle Chocolate Log in an Italian import store. At first, I wasn't sure if it was a chocolate bar, until I saw the Nestle logo. Reading back of the wrapper, I was ecstatic to find my first bar from South Africa!! Description reads Creamy Marshmallow on Crisp Wafer Covered in Milk Chocolate. After opening the wrapper, I discover a rather squished bar (

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I received these in the mail the other day as part of a candy swap from Swap-Bot. I tried the Nestle Tollhouse Brownie bar once before. Inside the wrapper were two (slightly squished) chocolate covered brownie bars with caramel and morsels (aka chocolate chips!). The brownie base, not very chewy as the wrapper describes, had a taste and texture comparable to chocolate protien bars. Despite the

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I was about to list this as a Nestle bar, but stopped when I notice the back of the label reads Hershey. I guess in the US, KitKats are made by Hershey! Gosh I might have to go back to change some of my old posts. Back to the KitKat White Chocolate at hand. Well.. it's a KitKat with white chocolate in place of the regular milk chocolate. The white chocolate taste is quite strong. I taste white

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Despite not being a big fan of dark chocolate, I really enjoyed my KitKat Fine Dark from Germany. It contains 52% cocoa (52% of something... I can't read German but that's my good guess). It's really easy to eat, just the right (not-too) sweetness that doesn't leave a bitter taste, as many bad quality dark chocolate does. The wafer and (milk chocolate) creme was fresh and complimented the dark

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