The PayDay from Hershey is one of those American bars that I’ve always wanted to try but never really got around to, as the price almost always put me off. I finally sucked it up though and got a few of the bars I’d been wanting to try, and here we are.

Described as a “peanut caramel bar”, the PayDay feels heavy, and at 52g I guess it is. There’s no mention of chocolate here, and for good reason, considering it has none, though a limited edition milk chocolate coated PayDay (the PayDay Chocolatey Avalanche) was released in 2007.

So what we do have is possibly the stickiest bar ever. It wouldn’t come out of the wrapper for me, which I had to peel off like some sort of second skin. One peanut fell off in the wrapper removal which I then ate, and winced at just how salty it was. Hershey don’t specify what kind of peanuts they use, but they’re quite heavily salted at any rate.

When I did finally get it out, it reminded me of a peanut brittle bar, only a lot thicker, and with caramel, in other words nothing like a peanut brittle bar. Now the caramel is there to hold together the peanuts and to also combat the saltiness of them, it only fulfils one of its tasks.

And that was to hold them together, this bar is just so salty. Sweetness hits every so often when the caramel touches your tongue, but for the most part I found it to be slightly odd. The caramel, unsurprisingly, has very little flavour, this is all peanut, and I’m not a big peanut fan.

Overall, I’m fairly sure this bar is pretty institutionalised in America, so nothing I say will put you off. I didn’t really enjoy it though, it tasted ok, but no better than that, maybe the chocolate version is better, but I’ve not been tempted enough here to go searching for it.

Each bar has 250 calories (120 from fat), 6g Protein, 28g Carbohydrates (21g of which sugars) and 13g Fat (2.5g of which saturates).