Short & Sweet: Caramello / Mega M&Ms / Orange Kisses
Some folks have written or commented that I try other candies and ask why some haven't been covered here. With only a few exceptions this blog contains candies that are new to me. But I recognize that not only is the world a finite place but that I'm also excluding a lot of fine candies that you may not be familiar with on the blog.
So, I'll try to catch up with some tried and true candies or just new iterations of old favorites with this new feature: Short & Sweet. Just a brief on the candy and my rating and hopefully a photo.
Name: Caramello
Brand: Cadbury
Place Purchased: 7-11
Price: $.85
Size: 1.6 ounce
Calories per ounce: 131
Type: Chocolate/Caramel
After the recent introduction of the Nestle Crunch with Caramel and the Hershey's with Caramel, someone suggested this bar. I hadn't had one in years, so it was back to the store. The bar is a European style milk chocolate with four creamy caramel filled sections. The chocolate is very sweet and milky and the caramel has a good burn sugar/salty taste to it. Not a true chewy caramel, it's a good balance for the sweet chocolate.
Rating - 7 out of 10
Name: Mega M&Ms
Brand: Mars
Place Purchased: 7-11
Price: $1.25
Size: 2.87 ounce
Calories per ounce: 139
Type: Chocolate
Just a larger sized morsel of chocolate, the Mega M&M also sports a different range of colored shells. The oddest part about these candies is that the colors reminded me of 1986. I don't know why, I'm not sure that they were fashionable colors then or not, but they remind me of college. My college colors (they were Green & Gold) aren't even among these, so it doesn't even make sense.
Aside from that they're just big M&Ms. Imagine a Peanut M&M without the peanut and you'll have a mega. The thing I miss in these megas is the ability to cleave the shell off with my eye teeth. Maybe I just need more practice.
Rating - 8 out of 10
Name: Orange Cream Kisses
Brand: Hershey's
Place Purchased: found them on my desk
Price: unknown, but probably the same price as other Kisses
Type: White Chocolate
These are quite the little cuties and fill a niche that I've not really seen before in mass-consumer candies. You know, flavored white chocolate. The only other flavored white chocolate candy I can think of are those pastel misty mints. They smell a bit like aspergum (I'm sorry, I compare a lot of orange flavored things to aspergum, I blame my mother for giving me the dastardly stuff when I was a kid), but have a good approximation of a creamsicle - creamy white chocolate with a hint of orange essence.
I think they'd be fun to eat with cookies or within a mix of other Kisses, but I can't imagine eating a whole bag of them.
Rating - 6 out of 10
8 Comments:
The M&Ms probably remind you of college because that's closer to the original color mix -- the tans, browns, and yellow, anyway. And for some reason I remember there being an aquamarine back when I was a kid (Oh wow, the 90's. Sooo long ago *eyeroll*)
And, Sarris! http://www.sarrischocolates.com/
It's nice when the address is on the candy bars.
Try some! Try some! Try some!
(Might I suggest the milk chocolate anything, though their dark is also delectable. :)
Caramello is one of my favorite "standard" candy bars. I always get a king size before going to a movie and sneak it in my purse.
I love the juicy caramel -- I let it melt on my tongue until all the caramel melts out.
xflickerflyx
So Cadbury produces both Caramello *and* Caramilk? Aside from shape they seem to be the same bar. I wonder if there is a discernable difference between the two?
If there's one candy that I've been DYING to find it's the Mega M&Ms. They've been out for months and I have yet to see them anywhere here. Well at least I did find the Mint Kit Kat today at 7-11.
fanTASTic roundup. dallas must be on a good roll lately w/ the special-edition junk - we have not just mega M&Ms but also the mega M&M peanuts. the choc-to-nut ratio did not seem any different from regular M&M peanuts; which made me wonder if they were using bigger peanuts (like those virginia ones or whatever) for the mega version? in any case, you are right, the mega-peanut Ms were more fun than the mega-regulars (but aren't they always?)
i hadn't bothered to try the orange&white kisses - so glad you are there to do the "dirty work"
tindy - I put in my zip on the sarris website to find the closest retailer and it came up with West Virginia! (I'm in California.) I'll wait until the weather cools off before ordering something - cool link, thanks!
xflickerflyx - nice to hear from you again! I agree, caramello is a good bar for snacking on. I think it'd go great with a soft pretzel while we're at it.
Anon - I have no idea what the difference between a caramello and caramilk is ... sigh, now I'm curious ... back to the store for me!
Marvo - 7-11 ... that seems to do the trick for me. It's weird, I was in that same 7-11 about 10 days earlier and found NOTHING new, and then suddenly BOOM, new stuff from all the big manufacturers. But I'd say a second option is Target if you have one. But HOO! You found Mint KitKats, I'd be excited about that.
TG - I'll probably pick up the peanut megas, just to give them a try. I'm still not sure if I can get over the color shift.
Wow, I've never even HEARD of mega M&Ms. But I'm totally excited to see tan M&Ms once again. They were surreptitiously replaced by blue M&Ms way back when - as if we wouldn't notice! - and I've missed them.
Back when I was in high school (early 80s), we used to play a vaguely-racist "War"-like game with bags of M&Ms. Each player would pull out an M&M, and the person with the more powerful color would get both. Unlike the card game War, we would eat the winnings right away, so there was only ever 1 round. And yes, green M&Ms (the ones rumored to make you 'horny') were the most powerful!
But to the present, I've seen Megas but not tried them, you've inspired me to do so. I did buy a bag of "Dark" M&Ms the other day (on sale at Target). "Come over to the Darth Side!" one of the Ms intones on the package. I gave some to my 8yo and he said "light purple isn't a dark color!" Can't argue with that. Anyway, I can't taste the difference in the chocolate, I guess I should do a side-by-side: Dark vs Mega vs Plain.
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