Hershey’s Milk Duds
These are billed as ‘Chocolatey Covered Caramels, pretty plain sounding, no? Well, that’s not the only thing plain about these.
Annoyingly I can’t compare these to anything else around, because there is nothing else around like these. I suppose the Morinaga Milk Caramel was the closest thing, but it was just caramel, without the chocolate coating. So, Hershey’s have a niche market here.
From what I hear, these are commonly eaten as a cinema snack, and can be hard to find outside of cinemas/theatres. I thought these were really plain tasting. The caramel is alright I guess, pretty standard, sticky fare. The chocolate though is poor, it just sort of flakes off, and doesn’t taste nice AT ALL. Or maybe it’s the caramel that has the poor aftertaste, either way it’s no good.
The ingredients make for disturbing reading too: Corn Syrup; Sugar; Palm Oil, etc. Nearly halfway down the list is chocolate, I guess that’s why these are ‘ChocolateY’ covered caramels, as opposed to just chocolate covered caramels.
Each serving size is 13 Milk Duds, with there being about 3.5 servings per box. Each serving has 180 calories, 1g of Protein, 28g of Carbs (19g of which sugars) and 7g of Fat (3.5g of which saturates).
Interesting to note also, that they mention that these have 33% less fat ‘Than the Average of the leading Chocolate Candy Brands’, anyone got any specific information on this? Who are they comparing these to? Anyway these taste cheap and bad and I don’t recommend them. Get some popcorn instead.
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June 27th, 2007 at 6:28 am
ooo Milkduds! You’re right these are classic theatre candy. But they’ve been popping up on store shelves. A bit like Junior Caramels, which also are a theatre candy and come in a similar box.
Maybe the description means 33% less fat than other chocolate bars?
June 27th, 2007 at 4:14 pm
thornton’s toffi-chocs sound similar and are VERY yummy!
June 27th, 2007 at 11:37 pm
yeah… they aren’t spectacular by any means. i think they’re okay. at the local theatres they sell milk dud’s here
June 28th, 2007 at 2:51 am
Mary - Perhaps that’s what it means, but they don’t specify what the other chocolates are. I guess maybe on average…but that doesn’t really help.
Alice - I’ll have to try those out when I get the chance, no doubt Thornton’s will be much, much better.
Alyssa - I guess nowadays I look for more than just okay, especially when I’m importing stuff.
June 28th, 2007 at 2:20 pm
I love them, I think the palm oil makes them taste better and now they are trans free
June 28th, 2007 at 9:24 pm
I wanted to like these, but they are so chewy I feel like I’m either going to get lock jaw or have my teeth cemented together when I eat them. O__o
June 28th, 2007 at 10:49 pm
Ed - I’ll have to say that’s a slightly odd post, I don’t know how palm oil makes these taste better, but seeing as your email address referred to a palm oil site then…
Sera - I couldn’t stop laughing at the thought of getting lockjaw from these, and I hate it when I get the feeling that I should like something, but just don’t….I’m always afraid I’ll get a hate mob on here when I give something a bad review!
June 29th, 2007 at 9:11 pm
Ha, glad I gave you a laugh.
No worries about any angry mobs…(smart) people realize that reviews are opinion based. ~_^
June 30th, 2007 at 1:00 am
That’s true, though I have had to remove a few nasty comments. Some people take it very personally when I don’t like their favourite stuff. Very strange…
September 30th, 2007 at 3:34 am
I personally don’t well favour Milk Duds. I remember when I was younger, my mother used to purchase them often. I would eat them then, and remember being very annoyed by the way they stuck to the teeth! I haven’t eaten them in ages, and would probably not be as annoyed by them now. I should try them again.