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Tuesday, December 05, 2006
Palmer Milk Chocolate Balls
But taking a risk this season was a little easier, as I found that Walgreen’s carries these little single-serving bags (two ounces) of the foil covered Premium Milk Chocolate Balls. It said premium, maybe they were good! The ingredients looked promising:
Real vanilla, they took this premium thing seriously.
They smelled sweet and slightly milky. I didn’t detect any real vanilla complexity though. I popped one in my mouth and immediately got a hit of sugar. As the grainy chocolate melted it was very sweet with a vague dairy taste and pleasant vanilla aroma. But very little chocolate. Though it melted, it felt a bit chalky and waxy instead of smooth and buttery. The texture is cool on the tongue and I don’t actually mind a bit of sugary grain to my chocolate, but without much of a chocolate flavor I was underwhelmed. They’re pretty, I’ll give them that.
POSTED BY Cybele AT 10:51 am 
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i do like palmer chocolates, but usually the ones that have peanut butter or other stuff in them… like the typical flat pumpkins on halloween
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I love your blog. It is fantastic - and thank you for doing a write-up on this one, as I almost picked some up at Walgreen’s a few minutes ago, though I practiced some self-restraint. I’m pretty sure I was attracted to the wrapping.
I agree 100%. Palmer’s isn’t very good. The “peanut buddy” coins aren’t terrible, but they’re probably PB flavored mocklate mixed with chocolate now that I think about it.
One question: when did mocklate come along? I only ever remember figuring out that something was mocklate after finding the taste of Sixlets horrifying in 6th grade, 1989. I don’t ever remember thinking before that “this chocolate sucks so bad that it must not be chocolate,” but that’s what Sixlets did to me. It didn’t take long for me to secure that information from the package...not chocolate, but chocolate flavored. That was around the time that trans fats replaced the (much healthier) coconut oil in everything.
I remember going to a Weight Watcher’s meeting once around Halloween-time, and the leader said, “Please people, if you’re going to eat chocolate, don’t pick that Palmer crap.” She was so right.
I don’t like Palmer chocolate by itself, but I used to love the Palmer’s Minty Bells. However, either they’ve changed them over the decades or my palate has been refined, because they don’t knock my socks off any more.
Yeah, their “Bunny Money” is not great.
I’ve always hated Palmer, too! As a child I would hide the Palmer chocolates my mother gave me at the bottom of the garbage so she would not discover that I had thrown them out. I will never subject my children to such garbage.
I was wondering if anyone knew how many calories
are in palmer chocolate?
thanks!
Emily - there are 140 calories per ounce of Palmer chocolate.
i love Palmer, i waited every easter just to get one of those hollow milk chocolate bunnies! But it is on the cheap side, and i’m sure there are better chocolates, but i still love it, its the candy i grew up on! well , everyone has there own opinion!
I worked at Palmer Chocolates as a summer job when I was in college. It was all-you-can-eat while on the floor, but the mockolate is pretty gross. They also molded some Dove chocolate there, that was OK. The job paid well, anyway.
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