Cadbury’s Mighty Perky Nana
I’ve had this bar before but didn’t review it, but now I shall. Made in New Zealand and sold there and in Australia, this is a banana flavoured chew bar covered with Dairy Milk milk chocolate.
Yep, Cadbury’s using their same old chocolate again, not that I’m surprised, but there we are. So the wrapper is obviously yellow, though what “Perky Nana” means, I have absolutely no clue, anyone wanna inform me?
So the chew bar is banana flavoured nougat, which is also coloured yellow. The milk chocolate coating is quite thin and cracks all over the place when bitten, which I usually take as a cause of bad quality.
Overall, it’s ok. The banana tastes artificial but not necessarily bad, the chocolate is relatively mediocre, and that’s about it really. I liked it, but I wouldn’t go out of my way to get it again.
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June 23rd, 2008 at 7:37 pm
perky nana?? that is just too, too crude. Nearly as bad as the ‘winkie’ sausages in morrisons.
June 23rd, 2008 at 10:06 pm
I second that Lottie. I used to call my grandmother Nana. I’m now completely disturbed. It’s bad enough that’s it’s banana chocolate again, but making lewd claims about my granny? I’m suing you Cadbury.
June 24th, 2008 at 4:14 am
It’s a weird thing. The people in Australia think that it’s a ‘nana not a banana. They like their ‘nanas to be nice and firm and perky, not mooshy. Hence, Perky Nana! God bless Australia. Oh wait… It’s a Godforsaken hell hole filled with spiders, snakes, and AUSTRALIANS!
*shudder*
June 24th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
I was considerin trying this myself…I dont think I will bother now…just dosent sound like its worth bothering about
June 25th, 2008 at 11:54 am
Lottie – Winkie sausages? Two years working there and I never noticed them. How strange.
Ellie – Are you saying your Nana isn’t perky? Could have fooled me and…I’ve just lost a reader.
Bagnew – Whoa there! At least you explained this bar, thanks. As for why it’s mighty…who knows?
James – That’s it. Unless you wanna try everything out there for the sake of reviewing, pass this up, not a snowball’s chance in hell of this making your top 10 list.
June 26th, 2008 at 5:53 am
They make small novelty sized ones, and they were the only ones you could get for ages, and now to make it more appealing to those thuggish neaderthalic Australians, they made it big. And whilst trying to find a word that the Australians would understand, and find funny in their sense of humour, which involves crude references, the must have chosen ‘Mighty Perky Nana”
I’ll stop typing now, before I dig myself into a bigger hole…
June 27th, 2008 at 9:49 am
Bagnew – Whoa. /Neo
November 13th, 2008 at 10:55 am
Bagnew – My comment to you, as a “thuggish neaderthalic Australian” is that you can stick your opinion of us where it fits! This is supposed to be a site to review chocolate, not degrade other nations. I think perky nanas are DELICIOUS and anyone who has a chance to try them should do so.
November 15th, 2008 at 6:19 am
I don’t actually think of Australians as Thuggish and Neanderthalic, as many of my friends are Australians, I was just trying to get the stereotype that many kiwis believe, and I’m sorry that I offended you. I also enjoy perky nanas, but I don’t often get the chance to eat them, as no-one else in my family can stand them. Right shame that is, They don’t know what they’re missing out on, oh well, more for those of us who like them.
April 15th, 2010 at 4:30 am
I’m Australian and I’ve never even seen that bar here in my 20+ years. I was under the impression it was mostly a NZ item.
June 28th, 2010 at 11:09 pm
SOUNDS COOL! HAHA
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October 15th, 2010 at 6:40 am
Perk Nana does not refer to anybody’s grandmother…’Nana’, is slang for Banana….
June 26th, 2011 at 12:10 pm
I have never seen this chocolate bar here in Australia, and by the sounds of it NZ can keep the darn things over there.
July 14th, 2011 at 6:12 am
Having tried a Perky Nana while on NZ hols recently, I was chuffed to see them for sale at Target, Knox City (Vic) last weekend. Not many left in the box…perhaps the Kiwis got to them first. Oh, and for the record, I love them!
November 24th, 2011 at 2:49 am
LOVE the perky nana – but have only seen them in Christmas Confectionery Packs in Australia – anyone know where we can buy the bars? (And yes – it’s pronounced like ba..nana – not Nanna! LOL)
December 30th, 2011 at 4:25 am
i,ve only seen them here in oz in the confectionary stockings also i load up after christmas when they’re half price. oh and for the record guys my wrapper states made in australia so why the hell are they so hard to come by here?