I'm Obsessed With Kit Kat Bars

Every so often I think that I should stop posting any more reviews about Kit Kat bars, or in the case of this week's reviews (more to come later) copycat Kit Kat bars. It's odd that a bar that has been my favourite candy bar for many years, is also a bar that produces so many varieties, as well as so many copycats. I've said to myself before, this is the last Kit Kat bar that I'll review, then something is presented to me and I can't stop myself. 

Check out the Kit Kat clone bar that I reviewed, and stay tuned for more Kit Kat clones all this week.

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Milk Chocolate By Definition

I find that the definition of milk chocolate is a little complicated to nail down. Many dark chocolates contain milk, white chocolate also often contains milk. One might even argue that some white chocolates contain more milk than milk chocolates. Some milk chocolates are very cocoa forward, in fact I would argue that most milk chocolates, should be called chocolate with milk. This Milka bar that I reviewed this week is probably one of the best examples of a chocolate bar that really celebrates the milk part of milk chocolate. 

Check out the full review right here.

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Classic Candies I Haven’t Reviewed And Why

Mounds - Mounds is a classic American candy bar. It’s often associated with another classic American candy bar, the Almond Joy. The difference between these two bars is very simple, almonds. The mounds bar is a coconut bar covered in chocolate; the Almond Joy is exactly the same bar only with a couple of whole almonds on top. The reason I’ve only reviewed the Almond Joy, and not the mounds, is that I really don’t like coconut that much, but I’m pretty fond of almonds. Every time I’m in the USA and I see a Mounds bar, I always see something else better that I’d rather eat, something that isn’t just two lumps of sickly-sweet coconut with a thin layer of chocolate.



Jolly Ranchers - Jolly Ranchers are a fairly well known American hard candy that comes in several flavours. The flavours are very powerful, and the candy is a little sticky. There are several flavours of Jolly Rancher, but two of them stick to my mind, watermelon and cherry. Cherry sticks to my mind because I really like it, I’d go so far as to say that cherry Jolly Ranchers are my favourite cherry candy that I can think of. Watermelon comes to mind because I can hold it up as an example of why watermelon candies are the worst.  The reason I’ve never reviewed them is a geographical problem. Jolly Ranchers are fairly rare outside of the USA, they’re even hard to find in Canada. When I go to America, I often can’t find Jolly Ranchers in one particular flavour either, most notably I never find just cherry. I don’t want to review watermelon Jolly Ranchers before I review the cherry ones, that would seem just wrong. So, I’m waiting for the day when the stars align and I can get a bag of cherry only Jolly Ranchers.



Classic Juicy Fruit - Juicy Fruit is a classic gum that’s been around as long as I know. A while back they changed the format of their gum from a long chewy stick to something that resembles a Chicklet. When this new format came out, I decided that I would do a review, and it did okay, but it wasn’t spectacular. It tasted fine, but as was the same with the classic stick format, the flavour didn’t last very long. I mentioned this fact and then got an email from someone at Wrigley’s, they were not happy. In fact, they were downright mean to me. Since then I’ve seen that they’ve brought back the chewy stick format of the gum (a format that I actually prefer), but I still haven’t reviewed it. Every time I see it on the shelf, I think about that person telling me off, and I think that I don’t really want to go through that again. Sure, that person may not even work at Wrigley’s any more, but who knows.



Milka - Of all of the candies on this list, this is the one that's a little harder to explain why I haven’t done the review. Milka is a brand of milk chocolate bars from Europe, I'm not really sure where they originated from, but you can find them in many countries all over Europe. As the name would suggest, the chocolate is generally milk chocolate, and it seems to have a dairy theme. In fact, I've seen many an airport display of Milka chocolate bars displayed on giant purple cows (I can't explain why they're purple). To say that I've never tried any Milka bar is also not true, the thing is I have yet to review their classic milk chocolate, with nothing added. Of all of the other candy mentioned in this article, this is the only one that I can't even say that I've ever tried it. I've tasted it in combination with other ingredients, and used to flavour other things (like cream cheese), but I can't say that I've ever actually eaten a plain milk chocolate Milka bar. I'm not really sure why this is, likely because when the interesting variations present themselves, I become distracted. I guess I might eventually give this bar a try, but it's completely possible that it never happens.

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Thursday's Candy Links

There is a great deal of science going into replacing gelatin in gummy treats, the latest is "acid-modified corn starch".

According to the Summer Fancy Food Show, chocolate and crispy cookies are the latest trend.  So if you're manufacturing chocolate crispy cookies, you are super trendy.

Kraft is expanding Milka in Europe, one hopes they expand it to North America soon because it's pretty fantastic.

Rocket Pops are officially back, they apparently debuted at Dylan's Candy Bar.

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Viennese Update Number 3

Well it seems I'm kind of ripping you guys off with my regular Viennese updates.  Or maybe I'm ripping of the Austrian people instead.  The first treat in the Viennese review-a-thon was made in England but had the word "Viennese in the name.  This particular treat was probably made in Germany or Switzerland, but I bought it on my recent trip to Vienna.  That's why it's qualifying, in my book, to be in this weeks Viennese review-a-thon.

Click here to read this latest addition.

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Kraft... You're Doing Too Much

So as we all know, Kraft bought Cadbury.  That's fine, I can accept that.  Did you also know that Kraft owns Milka?  Well they do, and since they want to focus on Cadbury, they've decided to ramp back on Milka.  If you've never tried Milka before than I have to say you're missing out, it's spectacular stuff.  So why can't Kraft push both, the world need more variety, not less.  I love Milka, I love Cadbury, and I even love Kraft, so why can't I have them all?

Click here to read more about Krafts plans.

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Milky Cow

I love this display for Milka Chocolate that I saw in an airport a little while back.  For some reason I don't find it at all disgusting to buy my chocolate from inside a cow.

The best part about this display is the head, it's actually fuzzy. So when you pet him you get the feeling that your petting a real purple cow filled with chocolate.

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