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Tuesday, September 06, 2005
Galaxy and BournvilleName: Galaxy
Brand: Mars Place Purchased: India Sweets & Spices (Los Feliz) Price: $1.49 Size: 47 grams Calories: 543 calories /100 grams Type: Chocolate (Milk)
 Much like the Cadbury bar, this is a pure milk chocolate bar. It’s hefty and the little bite size chunks that break off are the perfect size for your mouth. The color is pretty and the smell is mostly of vanilla. It’s very sweet, that’s the first thing I notice. However, the creamy melt is very smooth though a little sticky. The thing that I rejoiced in, though, is that there is no “powdered milk” flavor, which I associate with Cadbury chocolates. It’s too sweet for me, as the sugary notes overwhelm the milk and chocolate flavors, I found it to be very pleasant. It was pretty good with my coffee this morning.
Name: Bournville
 As a solid dark chocolate bar, I was hoping for more chocolate. I didn’t read the package ahead of time so I was surprised to see now that the first ingredient on the label is sugar. Called “The Original Plain Chocolate” on the label, it is rather plain. Since it’s so sweet, the chocolate notes don’t really come out readily. I was about four chunks into it before I started tasting the notes. It’s a very consistent cocoa flavor, hardly any trace of bitterness but some slight smoky, woodsy notes. The package says 39% cocoa mass, which probably explains my disappointment. I’m not saying it should be 70%, I’m just thinking that a little more cocoa butter and less sugar might make for a smoother bar with more flavor. As a mass market consumer bar it’s on par with the American Hershey’s Special Dark. Nothing fantastic but probably very dependable. Too bad it’s not even vegan, the ingredients list butterfat. You might wonder why the bar is called Bournville - it’s where Cadbury put their first large production facility in the 1870s.
Ratings - Galaxy - 6 out of 10
POSTED BY Cybele AT 8:38 am 6-Tempting • 5-Pleasant • Mars • Cadbury • Chocolate • United Kingdom • Candy • Review • 
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Another bar to add to my list of ones you’ve introduced me to.
Thanks!
Bournville is more than the village where Cadbury put their first factory - Cadbury actually built Bournville specifically to house the army of people who were going to work at the factory.
I knew someone whose husband headed up the Galaxy chocolate division around 10 years ago. I remember her saying that the reason Galaxy was so “creamy” was because they milled the cocoa finer than most other manufacturers.
I like Galaxy, but it is a very sweet chocolate. Galaxy combined with caramel is almost unbearable - it’s so sweet it sets your teeth on edge.
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