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Wednesday, June 03, 2009
Hershey’s York Pieces
The new Hershey’s Pieces line takes classic candy bars and makes them into little lentils covered in a candy shell. The description from the press release was a little vague: Peppermint Flavored Dark Chocolate Candy in a Crunchy Shell, so I wasn’t sure what they would be like until I got my hands on these sales samples direct from Hershey’s. Would they have the classic fondant center? It begs the question, what is the essence of a York Peppermint Pattie?
It turns out, to my disappointment, that they are exactly as described above. Mint flavored dark chocolate with a candy shell. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but where’s the fondant? The Pieces come in two colors in this assortment: royal blue and white. The grey package with blue accents and the yellow logo was easily identifiable as York Peppermint. The shell is pleasant & crunchy, the chocolate inside is quite smooth and has a nice peppermint pop to it. The cocoa flavors come out really well, and is very close to the chocolate flavor profile of the York chocolate coating. While M&Ms have their holiday Mint version, this year round dark chocolate mint lentil will definitely have a unique selling position. I prefer the naturally less sweet dark chocolate of the York Pieces to the very sweet but a touch salty Mint Chocolate M&Ms. (Though they end up with the same rating.)
I got to thinking about whether or not it’d be possible to make a fondant centered lentil and then I remembered that the York Mints (and Dutch Mints or Holland Mints) were just that. So I picked up some York Mints just to compare them. (Luckily I found them at the 99 Cent Only Store ... which means that they’re only three months from their expiry and who knows what conditions they were stored under.)
The point though is that a lentil version is possible, at least in my eyes, but for some reason (perhaps the fact that they sell 1.35 ounces for more than $2.00) they decided to go with a much easier to produce product: the York Pieces. That said, I think I prefer the York Pieces anyway. They’re certainly different from most other minty lentils, which are usually mockolate or milk chocolate. Candy Addict also previewed these last week and found them to be nice. These won’t be hitting shelves until December 2009. (I didn’t have nutrition info on them either and there was no Kosher status on the package but it did mention that it was processed on equipment that handles peanuts, tree nuts, egg & wheat ... plus they contain milk & soy.) Related Candies
POSTED BY Cybele AT 12:37 pm
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I’m just guessing here, but a fondant center may not be feasible with candies this small.
I’m extremely disappointed about the fondant thing. In fact, I’m not even going to get them now (fine, in December!). Boo.
Dammit I wan’t to try these so bad! Some of the innovation that has come up at the Expo has looked amazing!
I’m pretty excited about these, actually.
I love york mints, but if I eat too many, I feel sick afterwords
I love your blog (and York Patties!), but wanted to make an unrelated comment: I’ve noticed you use the phrase “begs the question” a few times on the site when you mean to say “raises the question.”
Please don’t think I’m a language snob or a grammatical prescriptivist when I point that out, but a lot of people don’t know that “begging the question” doesn’t simply mean to raise a question—it’s actually a technical philosophical term for a logical fallacy in which an argument is meant to be true with no proof other than the argument itself. (Like saying: “I’m popular—you can ask all my friends!” or “She’s beautiful because she’s so good-looking.”)
It’s a small quirk of language, but I think it’s a linguistic distinction worth preserving! For more information about “begging the question,” check out: http://begthequestion.info/
And pass it on!
Kat - I defer to your authority on this matter. But I wonder if it does not qualify, though I may have formed it poorly. (I could not find another instance where I have used the phrase, properly or improperly.)
York Pieces are like York Peppermint Patties because they’re made by Hershey’s, have dark chocolate and peppermint flavor along with a blue and white theme. But my point is that they lack an essential element of York Peppermint Patties, which are included in other York candies, the fondant.
Ultimately, we have no control over what Hershey’s wants to call things so logic is kind of out the window. They could make it raspberry and because it’s their brand.
But upon more reading, perhaps I have really pointed out York’s “fallacy of definition.”
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