I’ve often wondered where the name
Haribo came from. My usual information source (Wikipedia) told me that Haribo
was established in 1920 by Hans Riegel Senior in Bonn, Germany. Haribo is an
acronym for Hans Riegel, Bonn… So now we all know! The company is well known for believing
that everyone, kids and adults alike, love Haribo, and with almost a hundred
years of high quality sweet production under their (slightly groaning paunch)
belt, who can blame them? So when I saw these new Haribo Milkshakes on the
local supermarket shelf I was naturally excited to buy them and tuck in.
There were three flavours of traditional
style milkshake glass and straw shaped gums to choose from. The first flavour
was an off-white coloured vanilla. The gum tasted creamy and sweet and was
reminiscent of vanilla. The gum’s flavour had been carefully prepared to give
no shock vanilla kick, just a very mild, sweet and creamy texture. Next up was
the yellow banana gum. Now I was fully expecting a banana kick here, as banana
can be such an overpowering flavour. Yet no kick came, just a very mild and
creamy banana flavour, which was certainly not unpleasant, but didn’t stand up
and shout “BANANA!!”, as many banana flavoured products usually do, such as
Banana flavoured beer, banana cakes, and banana flavoured smoothies. Last of
all was the pink strawberry flavoured Milkshake gum. I thought this gum was
possibly the creamiest of the three flavours; there was a very gentle
strawberry flavour, but no real sweetness and again no kick in the face
flavour. Checking on the back of the 150g bag I noticed that each 40g serving
was 139 calories, with 27.1g sugar and 0.1g fat. With that much sugar per
serving, you’d think that these gums would be a little sweeter! Although there
were no artificial colours in the ingredients I also noticed there were also no
vanilla, no banana and no strawberry. This slightly confused me. All these
Milkshakes are a little muted in flavour, Haribo seem to have concentrated solely
on making them as creamy as possible. If this was their goal then they have
exceeded it, but sadly at the expense of the actual flavour of the intended
milkshakes. Shame, but I think I’ll stick to their sours, as their flavour can
make your head explode! ;-D
By Spectre
1 comment:
These have been out for a while now, I think the vanilla ones are my favourite :)
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