Product test & review

[azurelunatic]

Picked up an M&Ms M-Azing bar last night, in hopes that it would resemble the Smarties bar that wibbble kindly shipped us.

Sadly, I didn't read the label closely enough, so I was surprised at the crunchy. Decent, but Krackle's still better.

Sent feedback:

No chocolate-in-chocolate?

I picked up an M-Azing bar at the store because my friend once shipped me a Nestle Smarties bar from Scotland and I absolutely loved it, and I thought this would be similar.

Nice try, but I don't think I'll go for M-Azing until you have an M-Azing bar with plain chocolate mini M&Ms inside. I can't stand peanut butter, period, and "crunchy" leaves something to be desired.

The outer chocolate is all right but nothing to write home about, typical bland pale brown grease that passes as chocolate in the States. The M&Ms inside are typical crunchy M&Ms in content, though in the flying-saucer shape rather than the avacado shape, and about 3/4 the size of normal flying-saucer shaped M&Ms. The outer layer of candy coating is thin, and the inner layer of chocolate is very thin.

If you like crunchy chocolate bars and crunchy M&Ms, you'll probably enjoy this. If you like crunchy chocolate bars but are ambivalent to disdainful of crunchy M&Ms, you still may enjoy this. If crunchy chocolate bars are not your thing, don't even bother. If you don't live in the States, this is probably irrelevant, and feel free to ignore.

Comments

[dawn-again.livejournal.com]

Sounds cheaply done.

*Note to self: Nag BF to send good chocolate from north of the border*

[azurelunatic]

Probably, but no more so than any other bignamebrand candybar you'd find in stores. Hershey milk chocolate bars are decent. This is the typical "Whee, I have ALL CHOCOLATE WITH BITS OF STUFF IN IT" chocolate bar chocolate, rather than the absolute shite you find on the outside of a Snickers or Milky Way or whathaveyou, not Hershey-quality but not utter utter shite.

[sithjawa.livejournal.com]

That stuff isn't actually chocolate, it's chocolate-flavored hard coating.

What that means is that there is 0 cocoa butter in it, all milk solids and flavorings. You use it for coating stuff because it's shiny and chocolate colored, but it isn't really anything like chocolate. It's the same as the UFO chocolate coating chips you can buy to make chocolate covered fruit/truffles/etc at home, only usually worse quality.

[azurelunatic]

CALLING IT CHOCOLATE IS ILLEGAL! I GO TO J41LZ0R!!!!!!!

[sithjawa.livejournal.com]

Since in my view the only point of M&Ms is to make the outside of vaguely chocolatey stuff snackably less melty (and I *hate* the chocolate they use in M&Ms) a bar of them seems to me quite pointless.

But this is just me.

[azurelunatic]

I like them well enough.

[sithjawa.livejournal.com]

To me, they taste like chalk.

But since I love Reece's pieces, we will probably not come to a consensus on small saucer shaped candy :P

[azurelunatic]

Given my feelings about peanutbutter? Likely indeed.