Really… I was drooling over it for almost a month. The box doesn’t say how many are inside. The price is fifty-nine dollars. Ok… Normal size peanut butter cups are pictured on the box. The box feels heavy enough. Maybe four or five cup in there… I hope.
I open it up and got a major disappointment. There were about six mini cups in there. There was also some “wood like” packing material inside too that added weight. For me it is too sweet. I prefer the larger size cups, more peanut butter, less chocolate.
I had the misfortune to try some of these at one of Presley’s secret soirees a few weeks ago. For all the chest beating Americans do about their “superior” chocolate, I have to ask what the fuss is all about.
I heard the Americans use sour milk to make their chocolate? I remember going on a Herseys Chocolate tour, all the Americans loved it, I thought it tasted rubbish but, then I once bought a bar of chocolate for £10. Just a small bar 50g. Was made from one type of cocoa bean, from only once place in the world and yes it was worth every penny. Sorry I shall be quiet now.
When i visited the Chandon Champagne maker in Napa they told me that since Champagne makes its final finish in the bottle, the size of the bottle affects the taste and that in their opinion the “two bottle” size (i forget what they call it) has the best mean (average) taste and the tiny bottle of 200cc or whatever is the worst representation.
Reese peanut butter cup minis are that way… MORE blah then usual (I say this because I dislike them in the first place).
I hear you with the Hershey’s. It really DOES taste like the milk is sour in that stuff. Cannot stomach it. Had some of those Reese’s peanut butter things too, just a week or two ago, and they were brought back from Yanquiville. Godawful crap. Really just a bad quality product. Horrid!
Yeah, well, if you were on the 'Wan back in the day when all the chocolate you could get was a rip-off brand packaged in the same color wrapper as Hershey, same typeface, but different letters, tasted like brown crayon wax – you’d appreciate it. (Otherwise, not so much. )
I was in Taiwan “back in the day” and the American chocolate was bad then, too. We never needed to eat it, though. We knew the sources for the real stuff.
It’s only 60 NT. I’ll live.
This package was created for “foreigners” meaning Taiwanese. That’s bad press for Hershey or Reases. It’s very deceptive and won’t win over converts to the product. 1. It doesn’t say how many are on the box. 2. The cups pictured are full size, or minis viewed through a magnifying glass. 3. There is some needless paper filler in size that adds weight.
I buy small portions because I just can’t control myself… I know I could load up at Costco if I’d like.
As far as quality… I think you are right. But, nothing beats Hershey’s Pure Coco. I wonder why the Hershey Bar was considered the “Greatest Chocolate Bar in the world” at one time. Either it was crap all along or they sold out and cheapened the recipe. Watch any WWII movie or even look at old National Geographics from that time. You will see troops passing out Candy Bars and Coke winning coverts to the American cause.
Now, if the chocolate tasted as bad to the Europeans and Asian as that 1NT soccer ball shaped Taiwanese candy tastes to me, the newly liberated peoples of the world should have thrown back the candy bars and joined the Axis. Maybe that’s why America can’t win friends now. Our products have become crap.
It’s been years since I had one. I bet my pallet has been cleaned so thoroughly that I won’t be able to tolerate it.
French, German and Swiss Chocolate are the best IMHO.
But it must list the food weight?!? I do agree that not listing the number of pieces in the package is deceptive, but then consider those big bags of potato chips (most brands) that tend to be at least half-filled with nothing but air…Lesson learned, I suppose.
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This stuff wasn’t American. I’m talking early 1980s. Kaiser was the brand name. It seems to be local. And frighteningly, still available: upstartkitchen.wordpress.com/201 … he-kaiser/
I don’t know about the mini ones, but I love the normal sized Reeses cups, but they were expensive in NZ (cheapest I found was around $NT 40 for a 2 pack) so it was more of an occasional treat for myself. Saying that, I LOVE any peanut butter/chocolate combo, so when I make home made chocolates, I often use peanut butter filling.
Got given a small box of Hershey’s chocolates a few years ago, and still not sure what the fuss was all about. Tasted pretty plain, even the almond ones weren’t that great. For that price, I could get a large block of Whittaker’s chocolate instead which taste better
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