Suchard Turron Dark
300g of chocolate for 99p? Something can’t be right, or at least that’s what I thought when I saw this titan in my local 99p store.
The bar appears to be Spanish, and it seems Suchard are owned by Kraft Foods. Everything on the wrapper is in Spanish except for a little sticker about the UK distribution, which is where I got the bar’s title from. The wrapper is quite sparkly, but it doesn’t quite work too well with the mud brown colour. There’s also a little picture of Father Christmas on the front, so I suppose this is a limited edition. On the back of the wrapper are pictures of 5 more bars in this series – Clasico, Almendras Enteras, Avellanas Enteras, Galleta and Blanco. Shame I could only find this.
Anywho, you’re probably wondering what this bar actually is. Well basically it’s plain chocolate with puffed rice. Inside the wrapper is a little plastic tray which the bar sits in. The back of the bar, like most with nuts or pieces of whatever inside, is absolutely riddled with the puffed rice. The topside is plain with ‘Suchard’ etched into it throughout. The bar is about 2 or 3 centimetres thick at least, so there’s a lot of chocolate here.
Personally, I’ve never really ‘got’ puffed rice. It goes well with chocolate, sure, but it has no taste, and that’s the case with this bar. It’s not bad in anyway, but the chocolate is of an ok quality, and the puffed rice just has nothing to it at all. The chocolate isn’t very dark, it’s definitely more plain, and so I could eat the stuff like milk chocolate only without any sort of creamy taste to it.
Overall, it wasn’t bad, but it’s definitely a very average chocolate bar. It’s perhaps more to do with the puffed rice than the quality of the chocolate, but this really did nothing for me. 300g IS a lot though, and you certainly get your moneys worth at 99p. I can’t complain about the price, but I wouldn’t buy it again.
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May 25th, 2009 at 6:48 am
Looks delicious just by looking at the packaging
June 2nd, 2009 at 1:42 pm
I don’t actually like the packaging here, to me it does slightly look cheap.
To me it looks quite like they attempted a Christmas theme but failed a bit though. Cool review nonetheless.
June 5th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
I actually came across some of this at a market stall (that does some incredibly good offers – £7 for a box of Hotel Chocolat chocolates that usually retails at £17) for a £1 a bar. I have to say it’s not too bad. I like the fact it’s ‘darker’ than your usual run of the mill milk chocolate – for those days when anything with 70% cocoa solids is just too much. It’s not a bad everyday eating chocolate and it does well my Cadbury gobbling colleagues
June 29th, 2009 at 2:34 am
Wow, are they even allowed to use the word negro anymore?
Puffed rice? Rice krispies?
July 29th, 2009 at 4:15 am
This blog is awesome! Im a compleate chocolate addict so this is the website for me!
July 31st, 2009 at 6:33 pm
“Turron” is the key word ,It’s a Christmas candy in Spain . And eating turron outside Christmas is as strange as Jesuschrist with a couple of guns. They wouldn’t sell it in Spain so it’s sold in the uk at a very cheap price. (4€ in December)
August 12th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
I bought one of these at 99p store b/c it was vegan, and I love it!
August 12th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
and i love puffed rice
September 22nd, 2009 at 11:54 pm
I haven’t tasted this yet but I’m not gonna lets it pass my taste bud. I love chocolates and I can’t think about life without these sweets.
November 17th, 2009 at 8:32 am
…Inside the wrapper is a little plastic tray which the bar sits in….
it’s to warm it up! on ur heater, e.g. this chocolate melts very easily, that’s why it has a plastic tray. people in Spain eat it with a spoon, quite liquid. and it’s delicious!