Pringles Mamma Mia: Rosemary & Olive Oil Crisps [Tesco] [By @Cinabar]

Recently I mentioned that I stocked up on a few Pringles’ flavours that I was yet to try, and this tube is part of those reviews. This is from the Mamma Mia range, and as such is part of the Italian flavours they are currently running.
Rosemary and Olive Oil does sound more like the ingredients of a fab salad dressing than a flavour for crisps, but I felt the flavour could work there too. Each one of the Pringles has a little sprinkling of herbs decorating the edges of it which does look nice. The flavour is good and strong and the Rosemary really shines through, giving these crisps and authentic Italian feel. The herb is quite defined, but as it has onion tones it works well on the crisps. There is a milder olive taste too, just giving a nice bit of depth to the flavour and working in harmony with the Rosemary. The two flavours do complement each other well.
They have all the moreish characteristics of regular Pringles, and a good summer feel and taste. These were a simple idea, well executed making a fresh tasting tube of crisps that it would be difficult to dislike.

By Cinabar

Cadbury's Caramel Nibbles Corner Dessert [Limited Edition] (Sainsbury’s) [By @Cinabar]

It seems like it has been quite a while since the last Limited Edition Cadbury’s dessert, so I was rather pleased to see these in the shops. They combines one my current favourite chocolate products, Caramel Nibbles with one of my favourite, straight from the fridge, puddings.
Caramel Nibbles are like a chocolate button, with a thin layer of caramel sitting in the middle. Each one neatly has the Cadbury logo moulded into its base too, so you know it the real thing.
Cadbury corner desserts consist of a pot of milky sweet chocolate, in a consistency of that similar to a thick sauce, and then there is always a pot of something nice to mix in. When I pulled back the lid my first thought was that I would have preferred a few more Nibbles in the pot, as there didn’t seem to be that many. The picture shows the actual amount (5 or 6), and I thought it looked like there was space for a few more in there.
When I mixed them in with the sauce, I have to say I liked the mix of textures. The caramel from the Nibbles still shone through in the flavour and made for a really enjoyable dessert. Well worth trying if you spot them, they are full of chocolaty goodness. They are sweet easy, to eat, and taste like a proper treat. It may be greed, but I’d still prefer a few more Nibbles in the pot to mix in though!
By Cinabar

Tiger Tiger – Easy Snacks Pad Thai Noodles [By @SpectreUK]

Takeouts in American movies and sitcoms, like Becker, always seem to come in small cardboard containers, which appear to me to be good for the environment, but worry me that they could leak sauce all over my lap. The same concern hit me when I saw this Tiger Tiger Easy Snax Pad Thai Noodles carton on the shelf in the local supermarket. Overwhelmed with curiosity I decided to give it a try, whilst blanking out the old saying regarding cats, death and curiosity. Let’s hope the cat’s dinner doesn’t leak all over his meatballs whilst he’s trying to watch a movie!
On picking an appropriate takeout movie, I decided on an old John Wayne classic, Rio Lobo. I packed Cinabar off to the shops and wondered over to the microwave oven. As you’ll see from the box’s contents in the second photograph; there was a packet of tagliatelle style noodles, a silver packet of Pad Thai sauce and a dodgy fork inside. I say dodgy because it just wouldn’t fit together and kept falling apart. Unless I was having a dippy moment the fork was dodgy! I decided to file the fork under recycling (exactly where the cardboard container would be going after eating its contents) and use a metal fork instead. I snipped open the noodles first, taking care with the scissors due to being a big kid and having no adults present, and flopped the slippery looking fellows into the carton. I opened the silver sauce packet next dumping the brown goo all over the noodles. Just less than two minutes in the microwave oven and the Pad Thai Easy Snax was ready to serve.
I enjoyed the first half of the old western with a sweet juicy Pad Thai sauce mixed in with the slim line slippery noodles. The Easy Snax cooled to an eating temperature nice and quickly, so there was negligible slurping at the start of the film. The sauce has a caramel sweetness to it with a hint of onion and spice from chilli, paprika and garlic. There was plenty of sauce to go around, which didn’t dry out during eating whilst watching Big John strut his stuff. There is a danger with a meal like this that you can get sick of the sauce before finishing. I was glad to enjoy the snack until the carton was empty. There was no pool of liquid at the bottom of the container and no leakage during the movie, asides some of my own when Big John took a slug in the leg towards the end. Rio Lobo was excellent and the Easy Snax was an enjoyable treat I will no doubt revisit. I’ll have to look for Tiger Tiger’s other flavours, which include Sweet and Sour, Green Curry, Satay Sauce and Penang Curry, and watch some other classic westerns just as soon as I can kick Cinabar out to the shops again!

By Spectre

Milka Toffee Whole Nuts (Sweden) [@choccieman] [By @Cinabar]

I am not ashamed of my sweet tooth, and I am most certainly not ashamed of favouring Milka as a favourite brand of chocolate. It is sweet, creamy and has a lovely nutty edge. Warning: This review may contain bias, but that is because Milka is fab!
Anyway Choccieman knows I’m a Milka-holic, and very kindly treated me to this bar while on his travels. You should check out his amazing website with a huge choccie database too: http://www.chocolatereview.co.uk
When I unwrapped the bar I could see that each cube of chocolate had a button of Milka chocolate on top of it, to allow for the space of the hazelnut in the mix. I tried the chocolate and wow, it really is sweet. There is loads of rich toffee flavour cream, sweet burnt sugar liquid toffee and a woody hazelnut taste too. If that wasn’t enough the Milka chocolate is also there, and adds its touch to the flavours. This bar is a sweetness overload, but in the very best way possible way and is absolutely fantastic.
It’s not subtle, it’s all the sweetest tastes together, I’ve never seen both liquid toffee and mousse combined before! The hazelnut and Milka join the party, all taking us back to the days before we cared about chocolate percentages and back to when it was okay to enjoy the sweetest of tastes. This is a sugar high like no other, and I am proud to say I can still appreciate it for what it is, Milka at its very best!
Thanks so much Choccieman for getting this for me – you rock ;-)

By Cinabar (A self confessed Milkafangirl)

Toy Story Strawberry Cereal Bars (Tesco) [By @Cinabar]

These bars are a tie in with the Toy Story movies, and they are part of a selection of products in Tesco with the branding. I also picked up some bags of mini cheese flavoured Tortilla crisps, which I’ll write about in the future.
These bars consist of a mix of oats and strawberry pieces. They are firm, slightly chewy but thankfully still a long way off being hard.
The flavour is deliberately non offensive as it is aimed at the younger lunch box market. The strawberry is sweet, fruity but rather mild. It does taste natural, so no complaints there, it just doesn’t have any zingy fruit tones. The oat flavours where pleasant and wholesome and did work well with the strawberry. The combination was good, and there was nothing inherently wrong with these bars at all, I’ll happily finish the box, I’m just not sure I’d buy them again for myself. As I have an adult set of taste buds, I was just a bit disappointed with these. I wanted stronger tastes, particularly from the strawberry.
However if you are packing the lunch box for a fussy kid, I suspect the flavour balance will be just right for them. The cute packaging is winner whatever; each bar also has a character on the inner wrapper so they look good even individually and everyone likes Toy Story. These do meet a market requirement, and I think there target audience will love them.

By Cinabar