“Candy coated mini kisses” from Hershey, how lovely sounding. This little 42g silver foil packet comes full of miniature versions of the Hershey’s Kisses, the difference being that instead of being chocolate and then filled with something, these are now just chocolate and coated in a candy shell.

Sound familiar? Yeah, just like M&M’s and Smarties, right? A sign of things to come I assure you. The pack looks quite nice, relatively plain but I like silver so it gets bonus points there. The Kisses brand seems to be pretty huge and I’ve barely scratched the surface, there are plenty of others I’d rather try first but beggars can’t be choosers.

So I poured these out and there’s our result, a few handfuls of these cute, little things. They look nice enough, lots of pretty colours (and colourings – Yellow 5, Red 40, Blue 2, Blue 1 and Yellow 6), in fact, let’s not look at the rest of the ingredients because it’s just not good reading.

As for the taste, oh yeah, M&M’s and Smarties. I think in a blind test if I were to have these and the others (and they weren’t kiss shaped, duh) I could probably still taste the difference, as these had just the slightest hint of that infamous Hershey’s chocolate and vomit aftertaste. It wasn’t bad, but it was there, most definitely.

Overall, I see these as being both the weak link in the candy coated chocolate market, and the Kisses market, they’re not bad, but they’re boring, unless these are on a good offer, I don’t really recommend them over their rivals. Each bag has 200 calories (90 from fat), 1g Protein, 30g Carbohydrates (28g of which sugars) and 10g Fat (6g of which saturates).