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.