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[Toliver]

Hey Toliver.  I know they were not Flicks.  I think they were called "Eatmores" but I'm not sure.

Eat Mores are now a Hershey Canada product so it's no wonder I haven't heard of them before.
It's odd that the web site says they are the only Hershey Canada candy bar not coated in chocolate. Doesn't sound like what you ate...
And from this page (see the third post) it sounds like they were a "garbage" candy...made from factory leftovers. Again...doesn't sound like your description.
The mystery deepens...

[Sonia]

Hey Toliver.  I know they were not Flicks.  I think they were called "Eatmores" but I'm not sure.

Eat Mores are now a Hershey Canada product so it's no wonder I haven't heard of them before.
It's odd that the web site says they are the only Hershey Canada candy bar not coated in chocolate. Doesn't sound like what you ate...
And from this page (see the third post) it sounds like they were a "garbage" candy...made from factory leftovers. Again...doesn't sound like your description.
The mystery deepens...

I lived deep in the heart of East Texas at the time so I can't imagine they were a Canadian product. The tube was dark brown - like the Hershey Bar .. so .. maybe we'll never know.

[natasha1270]

Recently tasted:

Ltd Ed Key Lime Almond Joy - White Chocolate coating, Key Lime flavored coconut, almond. Verdict: Ok.

Ltd Ed Passionfruit Almond Joy - Milk Chocolate coating, Passionfruit flavored coconut, almond. Verdict: Never Again.

I have a small bag of the Mega M&Ms waiting at home. I hope they are like the Shrek M&Ms of last year which were definitely not the same as the dark chocolate ones. The dark chocolate had a very burnt taste and the Shrek was milk chocolate.

N.

[Toliver]

I have a small bag of the Mega M&Ms waiting at home. I hope they are like the Shrek M&Ms of last year which were definitely not the same as the dark chocolate ones. The dark chocolate had a very burnt taste and the Shrek was milk chocolate.

I like them so much, I've been buying up every bag of Dark Chocolate peanut M&M's I can find. That's getting easier to do since the to-do over the film and its companion ad campaign have quietly subsided and they're being marked down every where.

[jhlurie]

Spotted this week (but not purchased) "Mega M&Ms".

M&M Minis were already kind of rip-off so I didn't indulge. But one of you lovely folks in welcome to go nuts and let us know if they taste any different.

I also noticed that there are approximately 9,251 different varieties of Hershey's kisses now. It's hard to even FIND a bag of the original.

EDIT - Duh. Natasha already spotted the Megas. Oh well. We eagerly await a report and if she can manage a shot of the packaging.

I like them so much, I've been buying up every bag of Dark Chocolate peanut M&M's I can find. That's getting easier to do since the to-do over the film and its companion ad campaign have quietly subsided and they're being marked down every where.

Toliver, personally I'm getting desperate for Dark Choco M&Ms. I'm having to go further and futher afield to even find them. My guess is that we might be treated to a return of them at some point, but they are waiting for another movie to tie them into somehow.

Edited by jhlurie, 02 August 2005 - 11:49 AM.

[Toliver]

Anyone with nut allergies can just skip this post.

Reese's Big Cup with Nuts - Limited Edition

This was good. It's a big ol' fat Reese's Peanut Butter Cup with chunks of peanuts. What's not to like?
The only drawback is it's sold as a single cup. These monsters should be sold in the twin pack. Obviously, it's going to be marketed as an impulse item by the cash register at the late night convenience store nearest you.

Hershey's Nut Lovers - Limited Edition

Hershey's chocolate bar along with almonds, cashews, peanut and pecan pieces. Ignore the picture of whole nuts on the wrapper that is meant to mislead you.
As for taste, imagine a Mr. Goodbar but kicked up a notch. It's nutty in every bite.
The drawback is, as the label points out, it's pieces of nuts. It'd be great if you could get a better taste of the individual nut flavors but you don't because it's just pieces. However, I think the "nutty-in-every-bite" tilts this candy bar towards a "thumbs up" from me.
Another caveat is that it is a smaller bar than the regular Hershey Chocolate Bar. Where the regular Hershey bar has 4 columns of three rectangles, this bar is 3 columns of three rectangles. I suppose because it does contain a lot of nuts that they could justify the smaller bar for the "regular" price.

[jerobi]

Hey Toliver.  I know they were not Flicks.  I think they were called "Eatmores" but I'm not sure.

Eat Mores are now a Hershey Canada product so it's no wonder I haven't heard of them before.
It's odd that the web site says they are the only Hershey Canada candy bar not coated in chocolate. Doesn't sound like what you ate...
And from this page (see the third post) it sounds like they were a "garbage" candy...made from factory leftovers. Again...doesn't sound like your description.
The mystery deepens...

I can verify the "garbage" aspect. I worked at Hershey briefly and heard stories of the EatMore bar, made from mixed up bits of other candy that didn't form correctly. There was a guy who would ladel cherry syrup into each batch, tasting it until it was "right."

[natasha1270]

A little late but I finally tried the mega m&ms. They're decent. I don't know why I keep trying the cheap chocolate thinking it will be better...that must be the novelty candy fiend part. The chocolate thing with these m&ms is hard for me to tell. They are labeled milk chocolate but they don't taste like the milk chocolate from the regular ones to me. They don't taste as burnt as the dark chocolate ones either. I'd say they are a hybrid.

N.

[Sonia]

Hey Toliver.  I know they were not Flicks.  I think they were called "Eatmores" but I'm not sure.

Eat Mores are now a Hershey Canada product so it's no wonder I haven't heard of them before.
It's odd that the web site says they are the only Hershey Canada candy bar not coated in chocolate. Doesn't sound like what you ate...
And from this page (see the third post) it sounds like they were a "garbage" candy...made from factory leftovers. Again...doesn't sound like your description.
The mystery deepens...

I can verify the "garbage" aspect. I worked at Hershey briefly and heard stories of the EatMore bar, made from mixed up bits of other candy that didn't form correctly. There was a guy who would ladel cherry syrup into each batch, tasting it until it was "right."

Oh Great ! Well, it was East Texas and probably as good as it was going to get. Why didn't I prefer a Hershey Bar? I think it was because I got a lot more candy in that tube and I was a prudent shopper.

[Toliver]

New to my area...
Kit Kat Limited Edition Milkshake Flavor

Very different...there's a definite malted taste to the candy bar (hence, the "Milkshake" name) but it's not as intense as, say, a Whopper Malted Milk ball tastes. Overall, I would give it a thumbs up.

Also new to my area...
Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Limited Edition Double Chocolate

I had high hopes for this version. What could be better than chocolate wrapped inside chocolate? But reading the smaller print on the label, inside the chocolate cup is "Chocolate Flavored Peanut Butter". Uhm...isn't that redundant when speaking of Reese's Peanut Butter cups? They already are peanut butter & chocolate.
So this version is chocolate covered chocolate flavored peanut butter. The big problem is that the chocolate flavored peanut butter still tastes just like peanut butter. The chocolate flavoring isn't different enough from the chocolate flavor in the cup to make much of a taste difference. It did taste a little less salty than a regular Reese's Peanut Butter Cup but that's a minor quibble. I'd pass on this edition of the peanut butter cup.

[Linda Grishman]

oh! Peanut Butter Pigouts..... you'll think you've died and gone to hog heaven.



http://www.vermontch...peanbutpig.html


and the packaging is adorable. Plus they're made fresh for each order. Who can top that?


Linda

[Jason Perlow]

While I'm not sure I would call them a "novelty" confection, the new Hershey's Extra Dark line of chocolate bars is a big step up in quality from their regular milk chocolate bar:

http://www.hersheys....adark/index.asp

I was able to get these 2 for $3 at Wallgreens last week. Definitely worth the money, I especially like the 60 percent with Macadamias and Cranberry. Eating a half a bar of these totally eliminates any chocolate craving you might have, and its definitely formulated for a much more adult palette than the kids stuff Hershey's normally makes.

[Toliver]

Hershey's Limited Edition Cookies 'n' Chocolate

This gets a thumbs up from me. Take the nice textural crunch you get from either a Nestle's Crunch Bar or a Hershey's Krackle Bar and add the subtle taste of chocolate cookie crumbs. It's a win-win combination, provided you like Hershey's chocolate in the first place.

Limited Edition Triple Chocolate Extra Crunchy Kit Kat Bar

Yes, this does taste different than the regular Kit Kat bar. Even a skosh better, perhaps. I think the chocolate wafer/cream (hard to tell where the taste of the chocolate wafer leaves off and the taste of the "chocolate cream" takes over) does make a difference.
And yes, it IS extra crispy so there is truth in advertising. The extra crispiness comes from the taller stack of crispy wafers. As pictured on the wrapper, it's one large bar instead of the standard 4 thin bars that you break apart.
Thumbs up.

[pansophia]

Hubby and I tried the Reeses with caramel (http://www.hersheys....sp?name=caramel) and really didn't like them. The texture combo was wierd and it was too sweet, even for us.

Add one to the Kit Kat list...we found a Tiramisu Kit Kat in the UK right before Easter. Sadly, I didn't get to try it as he gave it to a friend at work. We're going to get his folks to send over some more.

[natasha1270]

New white chocolate m&m's




Not bad.

enjoy!
N.

[Toliver]

New white chocolate m&m's

Natasha, thanks for posting about these. I'm not a big fan of white chocolate but I'll have to keep an eye out for them.
Arrrrr, matey!
The skull combined with the "M" on some of the candy is inventive.

[docbrite]

Much earlier in the thread (like, 4 years ago), somebody mentioned the delightful Valomilk as being hard to find outside the Kansas City area. I have found that they are sold in all the convenience stores in Port Fourchon, Louisiana, very near Grand Isle. I've never found them elsewhere in Louisiana and I wonder how and why this happened. Though they are a K.C. treat, I will always associate them with driving up and down the Fourchon highway looking for Roseate Spoonbills.

You can also order Valomilk and other old-fashioned candies from Old Time Candy.

Edited by docbrite, 29 May 2006 - 10:28 PM.

[jenc]

Have we covered Pocky yet? I buy every kind I've never tried. Though my current favs are Maple and Butter (This one is from Pretz, actually), Pocky G (both regular and stawberry, less easily found these days), Black Sesame, Almond Crush and the new Strawberry one with bits of freeze-dried strawberry in it.

Mmm.. Pocky.

[natasha1270]

Hershey's has a new ltd ed kiss filled with coconut creme (sorry, no pic). Thinking they might be similar to mounds or almond joy, I picked up a bag for my candy bowl at work. Unfortunately at some point the bag must have melted a bit and smooshed, leaving me with a bowlful of oddly shaped weirdly gritty chocolate/coconut candies. But this is work and people will eat anything you leave out... They ate the cough syrup tasting cherry cordial kisses and I'll bet these will be gone by Monday, too...

http://www.hersheys....kisses/home.asp

N.

ps. the drugstore (cvs) also had the dark chocolate almond kisses. I think I should've picked those up instead.

[Toliver]

Limited Edition Hershey's Mocha Almond

What a great combination...chocolate and coffee flavor.
That is, it sounds like a good combination until you take your first bite of this candy bar.
The mocha flavor is artificial and while it does taste a little like coffee, it's more along the lines of a "fake" coffee as opposed to the real thing. It's very strong in the first bite.
But as you eat the candy bar that very present flavor subsides and then it begins to taste okay. The almond bits are good but I kept wishing for whole almonds like in an Almond Joy.
As I previously commented on another Hershey Bar, the picture on the wrapper is a complete lie. Whole almonds and coffee beans are shown on the front of the wrapper and there are no whole almonds or coffee beans (or coffee for that matter) in this candy bar.
And what was very odd was after I finished the candy bar, there was no lingering chocolate or coffee after-taste in my mouth. It was a completely transitory experience, leaving only the wrapper as proof that I'd even had a mocha almond chocolate candy bar. Weird.

[nomistone]

Hershey's has a new ltd ed kiss filled with coconut creme.  Unfortunately at some point the bag must have melted a bit and smooshed, leaving me with a bowlful of oddly shaped weirdly gritty chocolate/coconut candies.

Even if they're not melted, they're weirdly gritty. I picked them up a couple of weeks ago and both Hubby and I were disconcerted by the mouthfeel. So we stuck them in the freezer to see if that would help. Not really. They're still sitting there.

[apronstrings]

Anyone still eat Goldenberg's Peanut Chews? In the blessed dark of a movie theater, no one can see how many you consume.

[Toliver]

Limited Edition Coffee Kit Kat

This was a little better than the Mocha Almond bar from Hershey but not by much. Kit Kat is made by the H.B. Reese Candy Co. which is owned by Hershey.
The wrapper states that it's "Crisp Wafers in Artificially Flavored Coffee Milk Chocolate". Sounds yummy, doesn't it?
The biggest difference is olfactory. You really smell the (fake) coffee in the chocolate coating. In fact, that's where the coffee flavor stays...in your sense of smell. When you taste this Kit Kat, it tastes mostly like a regular Kit Kat bar with just a small wisp of coffee flavor. But while you're eating it, you're mostly smelling the coffee flavor emanating from the candy bar itself. It was quite odd. As I scanned it for this post, I noticed the wrapper still had a lingering fake coffee aroma to it.
I don't recommend this version...stick with the original.

[natasha1270]

Even if they're not melted, they're weirdly gritty. I picked them up a couple of weeks ago and both Hubby and I were disconcerted by the mouthfeel. So we stuck them in the freezer to see if that would help. Not really.  They're still sitting there.

Good thing no-one took me up on that bet! As of this afternoon, my candy bowl was still more than half full...definitely a new record. Not sure what to do with that other bag sitting in my desk drawer...

Spotted last night: white chocolate twix. Unfortunately, I had to pass these up but I am going try to pick one up soon. Has anyone already tried these yet?

Toliver - Sorry your recent novelty finds have been so disappointing! Thanks for the warning, I'll have to watch out for (and avoid) those coffee/mocha treats.

N.

[spaghetttti]

I apologize if this one has been menitoned before, I tried searching but couldn't find it.



Has anyone tried this before?

[StephMac]

Reese's is on a marshmellow kick now - I tried a Reese's peanut butter cup with marshmellow yesterday. I really like good marshmellow in candies (especially with carmel, yum!), but this disappointed... as someone said earlier about the Reese's caramel-peanut butter cups, the flavor was gone and the candy was almost too sweet. The marshmellow was a very thin layer, so I all I got was kind of a squishy texture before the peanut butter totally overwhelmed any marshmellow flavor. Very disappointing It needs a thicker-textured marshmellow (kind of like what's in the S'mores bars) to make this better, I think.

However, I have a Take 5 bar with marshmellow sitting in the cabinet for tonight's experiment. I'm hoping that will be more interesting!

[pamjsa]

Much earlier in the thread (like, 4 years ago), somebody mentioned the delightful Valomilk as being hard to find outside the Kansas City area. I have found that they are sold in all the convenience stores in Port Fourchon, Louisiana, very near Grand Isle. I've never found them elsewhere in Louisiana and I wonder how and why this happened. Though they are a K.C. treat, I will always associate them with driving up and down the Fourchon highway looking for Roseate Spoonbills.

You can also order Valomilk and other old-fashioned candies from Old Time Candy.

Valomilk is also available at many Cracker Barrel restaurants (in the cheesy gift shop portion, of course) and at Cost Plus/World Market. They're only available in locations where they can be transported by truck, since shipment by air makes them explode--I live in south Texas, but apparently that's driving distance from Kansas City. I buy Valomilk every time I see them. Love that milky, marshmallowy goodness . . .

[Pam R]

Has anybody tried the Elite milk chocolate bars with popping candy in them? It's amazing.. .you need to let the chocolate melt slowly in your mouth, and the pop-rocks like candy starts to pop and sizzle. I wish I had a picture for you.

They're like the best childhood treats smashed together.

[Jason Perlow]

Are these from Israel? I'll have to look for them in the Israeli grocery stroes around here. What are they called?

Edited by Jason Perlow, 10 July 2006 - 07:36 PM.

[Pam R]

Are these from Israel? I'll have to look for them in the Israeli grocery stroes around here.

Yep. My supplier sent me a box of 'mixed' chocolate bars - and there were only 2 of them in there. Needless to say, they never saw the chocolate shelf - but were demolished by my family and a couple of lucky customers. Next order I got a box. There were also a couple of the orange-filled bars - which were the freshest I have ever had (nice and gooey inside). And another new one is like a white-aero bar with a milk chocolate layer on top.


eta: I think they're just Milk chocolate with popping candy - but I'll check a bar at work tomorrow.