Day Twenty Eight: Baby Ruth

Only two more posts to go! Yay! I can't wait to start writing about something more worthwhile.
Baby Ruth
Bursting with Peanuts, Rich Caramel and Chewy Nougat Savour the Good StuffDid you know:

• There is speculation to who this chocolate bar was named after: Babe Ruth or President Grover Cleavland's daughter Ruth
• This bar carries lots of pop culture references including Caddyshack, Goonies, That 70's Show, Hellboy, Friends and Hairspray
• The advertising and marketing for this bar have had a heavy baseball-oriented theme and during the summer and post-season of the 2007 season, a TV ad for the candy bar showed an entire stadium filled with people munching Baby Ruths, and thus having to "hum" rather than singing along with "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" during the seventh-inning stretch.

Grand Slam! Ha ha well it wasn't THAT amazing, but this was pretty good. There was less focus on the chocolate and more on the nougat and caramel. Very yummy indeed.

This bar had caramel on the bottom nestled under some tasty (yes, i'm getting attached to it) nougat, which was coated in peanuts and then dipped in chocolate! There was definitely a lot of tastes going on here which was great. It was flavourful and there was lots of 'good stuff'. Wikipedia was right: the nougat tastes more like fudge in this bar.

This one gets a 'recommended' (for those of you who like nougat) from me.

Rating:
Milk Factor: 1
Smiles: 2
Calories it was worth: 230 out of 280

Day Twenty Seven: Pay Day

Woo hoo only a few days left...I'm sure no one is reading anymore :)
PayDay
Peanut Caramel Bar

Did you know:

• PAYDAY Peanut Caramel Bar was first introduced in 1932 by Frank Martoccio, founder of the F.A. Martoccio Macaroni Company
• In 2003, Hershey introduced the PAYDAY Honey Roasted Limited Edition Bar.

Ok so technically this shouldn't count as a chocolate bar, cause there is NO chocolate in it!!
It is mighty delicious though! Basically just a chewy caramel bar coated in amazingly salted peanuts!

A Honey Roasted version? I want one now! For anyone who loves peanuts (not likes, loves) then this is definitely the treat for you! This satisfies both a salty and sweet craving and I have never tasted anything quite like it. I can't stop eating it... :)

I highly recommend this one!

Rating:
Milk Factor: 0
Smiles: 3
Calories it was worth: 220 out of 240

Day Twenty Two: Aero Caramel

Hey folks,

Well day twenty-two here. I must say that I am pretty eager for March to end, and to never HAVE to eat a chocolate bar again! It gets quite exhausting. Especially when I think about all of the (unnecessary) calories that I am consuming! Anyway, Bex I couldn't find a Mint at the grocery store, so here's today's pick:Aero Caramel
Have you felt the bubbles melt?

This was different from your regular Aero bar. It was a lot narrower, and thicker. I was confused as to how it was going to be caramel-y...whether it would just 'taste' like caramel or actually have caramel inside (I think the mint, but cannot confirm this, tastes like mint)

Upon first bite I was surprised to find that the bar contained actual Caramel. Not unlike the Caramilk bar! I'm happy to report that Aero did not lose the bubbly inside (this was under the caramel). The bubbles didn't melt quite the same as they do in the regular Aero bar, as there was caramel in the way.

This bar was rich, and very sweet, therefore difficult to enjoy the whole thing! To be honest, I'd rather eat a Caramilk bar.

NEWSFLASH: I just took the last two bites of my chocolate bar, and ALAS there was no more caramel!!! It ended early! How does this happen?

Rating:
Milk Factor: 1
Smiles: 1 and 1 frown (when the caramel disappeared)
Calories it was worth: 100 out of 200

Day Fourteen: Wunderbar

Bar number two today:


Wunderbar
A peanut butter caramel experience!

Did you know:

• Not really a Wunderbar at all, this product is sold only in Canada and Germany under the name 'Wunderbar' - makes sense...
  
• Otherwise known as Starbar?

Really? What a horrible name!

Wow, this was full of peanut butter and caramel. The two tastes melded so well together that it almost tasted as if it was peanut butter-flavoured caramel. There was just enough of rice cereal crunch in it to take away from the overpowering peanut butter and caramel. This was a very rich, but tasty bar and you really couldn't taste the chocolate coating in comparison to all of the other flavours!

I wouldn't recommend this if you do not like peanut butter. I have heard tons about the Wunderbar (obviously only from Canadians) and had no idea that it didn't quite exist in other parts of the world aside from Germany. I find it really interesting how chocolate bars go by different names in different markets. So what I once thought was a really popular chocolate bar, I am comforted to know that this one will stay close to home :)

Rating:
Milk Factor: 3
Smiles: 2
Calories it was worth: 260 out of 310

Day Thirteen: Drifter

Ok so it's been a couple of days, but I will catch up. I promise! I found a great candy store on Yonge Street with a wide selection of chocolate bars that I have never tried (or even heard of before...) so here it goes:
Drifter
Crispy wafer dipped in chewy caramel and covered in chocolate

This one's from the UK :). I was intrigued by the fact that I had never heard of it before!

Did you know:

• It has been referred to as "the chewy chocolate bar that you really have to get your teeth into."
• As of 2008, the bar is increasingly hard to find in most parts of the United Kingdom, due to 'a fault in the manufacturing process' according to Nestle.
  
• It is said that Nestle are redesigning the Drifter due to its high content of 'transfats'.
• It is also supported by the slogans: 'Too much chew for one bar ' and 'Chewier than the average chocolate bar'.
  
• This bar takes, on average, one hour to make a Drifter bar from start to finish

Well I feel special, that I was able to get a chocolate bar in Canada that is hard to find in the UK!

Upon first bite, my first thoughts were 'yummy caramel'. This chocolate bar is great! It has tons of sweet caramel that engulfs crunchy wafer all while being complimented by milky chocolate. The chocolate on the outside melted a little in my hands, but that just means you need to eat it faster! It certainly was chewy due to the great caramel and was very enjoyable.

This was definitely one of my favourites so far! Check out this commercial from 1992.

Rating:
Milk Factor: 2
Smiles: 3
Calories it was worth: 230 out of 264

Day Five: Mars Caramel

To be honest, I'm getting tired of eating chocolate bars...

This morning I was not feeling well, so I chose something that should be easy on my stomach:

Mars Caramel
Did you know:

• Since the summer of 2006, all Mars Bars produced in Canada are peanut-free. Mars is one of the few chocolate bars in North America for which no size of the product has any trace of peanuts.
• In February 2008, Mars Canada introduced a new variety of Mars bar called "Mars Caramel" to compete with the Cadbury Caramilk and Nestle Aero Caramel bars.

Ok, so I was a little skeptical of this chocolate bar in the first place, considering it is obviously just a ploy to get a larger share of the market (like every 'new' chocolate bar is). But holey!!! This was like a GIANT Caramilk bar! Move over Cadbury! I don't care how you get the caramel into the chocolate anymore - I no longer have to break you into individual pieces to eat you. The Mars Caramel offers the opportunity to get ALL of your caramel cravings in at once. I don't think it needs to be said that I am not one to 'save' parts of or even whole chocolate bars. I once even tried buying them in bulk at Wal-Mart and putting them in the freezer, but this just resulted in me figuring out that I really like frozen chocolate and left me with a giant tummy ache.

Once you start eating a Mars Caramel, there are no 'savesies' for later, which is just fine by me!

I did find it odd that there was no slogan on the packaging of this chocolate bar. There was also very little advertising (accesible via the internet) or web hits for this, I assume that's because it is a Canada only launch? I aslo checked out www.mars.com Grab your pillow guys, cause it's a BORING site. It seems to only link to their coporate site, for the life of me I cannot find anything exciting on Mars bars....

until i found this: Deep-fried Mars Bar. Now this is for a regular Mars bar, but I'm going with the assumption that you could deep fry a Mars Caramel just as well!

I would recommend this chocolate bar to anyone who is bored of their old Caramilk bar. I would not recommend this to someone who doesn't like eating a whole chocolate bar all at once, cause once this baby's open it's gotta get eaten.

Rating:
Milk Factor:1
Smiles: 3
Calories it was worth: 200 out of 210 (throw in a couple of peanuts and it'd be worth 210, but then of course it would be more calories)