M&S Milk Chocolate Fudge
I found this in M&S Simply Food in Marylebone station while grabbing a sandwich to eat on the train. Luckily I managed to refrain from eating it until I got home. That’s how restrained I am.
Marks & Spencer do quite a wide range of chocolate now and so far my experience of their offerings has been mixed. M&S may be known for good quality food, but the chocs I’ve had so far have been adequate, but not fantastic.
As you can see, this is a single bar of milk chocolate. It looks quite boring on the outside with no distinguishing features. (For some reason I’m now wondering how the police will identify the body after I’ve finished with it. My mind is obviously broken.)
The one feature it does have is a rather pleasant smell that hits you the moment you open the wrapper. A traditional old fashioned fudge smell that makes you want to stuff the whole thing into your mouth in one go.
But once again, restraint got the better of me…
Inside the thin coating of fairly average milk chocolate is a generous helping of light, fluffy fudge. The consistency is similar to that of a (British) Milky Way, so it’s very light for fudge.
A quick glance at the ingredients reveals that this really is proper fudge. Amongst other things, this bar contains sweetened condensed milk, clotted cream, dried whole milk, cocoa butter, cocoa mass and dried free range egg white.
And it tastes like proper fudge too. It’s very sweet, but very, very nice. Fudge is always quite sweet and while I love it, I can’t eat a lot in one go. Even this small 45g bar was a little too much for me, and I’d prefer to have seen it divided into two. Not that I had anyone to share with and would have ended up eating it all in one go anyway, but it’s the thought that counts, right?
If you’re a fudge fan, I’d recommend picking one of these up. It’s like a slightly more sophisticated, grown up version of Cadbury Fudge. And while it’s just as sweet as the Cadbury offering, you can taste that this is made with quality ingredients.
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So,
are all your reviewers paid by commission,
or are you on retainers to the ‘big chocolate’ companies
for this online marketing exercise?
And if you’re not, then…
where are all the pages of information about the politics of chocolate,
and the economics of chocolate?
And where are the reviews of all the fair trade chocolate companies’ chocolates?
Do none of you have children?
Does the thought of slavery not make each morsel of chocolate stick in your throats?
Julian.
I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt this once (and yes, I’ve seen your comment on my personal blog).
1. We are absolutely not paid by choc companies for the reviews we do. They are always impartial, personal opinions.
2. We are (currently) 3 people who write bout chocolate because we love chocolate. None of us work in the chocolate industry or are connected with chocolate companies. We sometimes get sent review samples, and when we do, we make that clear in our reviews.
3. We write about chocolate because it’s *fun*, so try to stay out of politics as much as possible.
4. There are plenty of fair trade and organic chocs reviewed on chocablog. If you can’t see them, you’re not looking very hard.
5. Yes, 2/3 of us have children. I don’t see that that’s any of your concern though.
6. Now you’re just being silly.
If you’d like to have a serious discussion, that’s fine. But if you just want to cause trouble, I will have to remove your comments.
Julian
Get a grip mate
Regards,
Chocolate enjoyer