A return and some Revels
I know, it’s been a while. Everything sort of exploded and a few things had to be put on hold to ensure my general sanity and well being, and blogging was one of them. Everything’s good, it just got a little busy there.
So. I return with the very exciting news that Revels have temporarily got rid of the coffee ones, and have introduced a new mystery sweet. I have a packet here with me now and I’m blogging as I eat them.
If you’re not familiar with Revels, they’re a sort of mini selection of chocolates. There are chocolate covered raisins, toffees, maltesers, chocolate discs, orange cremes and coffee cremes. It’s fairly obvious which are the raisins and chocolate discs, and the malteser ones are slightly bigger than the rest, but you should pretend that you don’t know what you’re getting each time.
I may be an anomoly, but I like the coffee revels. We used to have a rule that if you were sharing a pack, at the cinema for example, if someone took a sweet and got a coffee one they could take another one too. This worked out very well for me.
Before I start I would like to state for the record that I have not been researching this matter, and I have no prior knowledge of the new sweet, but I’m guessing that it’s a strawberry creme.
Anyway, onwards:
First sweet… raisin. I played it safe. Mmmm.
Sip of coffee.
Second sweet… orange. Oh yum.
Sip of coffee.
Third sweet. Going for one of creme ones again… Ewwww! Ewwww! I was right, it’s strawberry. Oh yuk, that’s really nasty. Sweet and artificial tasting. Eww ewww eww. Quick! raisin one again.
Lesson learned. No more Revels until this stupid experiment of theirs is over.
i like artificial strawberry wrapped in chocolate, off to find some revels!
04 Dec 2008 at 2:03 pm
Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor chocolates??? ;o)
04 Dec 2008 at 2:34 pm
D. brought home parma violets last night — one of those candies you hear about in books but never eat (okay, *I* have never eaten them). I’ll have to let you know how that goes. Generally I love coffee candy, too. Yum.
04 Dec 2008 at 3:56 pm
‘Mistress of the Revels’
04 Dec 2008 at 6:23 pm
It’s like the box of chocolates when you’ve lost the selection guide, a bit of guesswork and risk taking. Of course, as kids we’d stick a finger in the bottom of it to catch a glimpse of what it might be before committing to it! Something fun on a cold, dreary night!
05 Dec 2008 at 12:52 am
I agree…artificial strawberry CAN be nasty!
05 Dec 2008 at 2:00 pm
nice to see you back. hope you are well. strawberry flavors always sound good in theory…
06 Dec 2008 at 6:12 am
Coffee sweets? You need the ever popular Coffee Crisp, a chocolate bar that used to be available only in Canada, until some Americans started a petition demanding that they should be able to buy them too! :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_Crisp
Send me your address, I’ll post you a couple to try out! :)
-glenda
11 Dec 2008 at 6:41 pm
ps: Welcome back! :)
11 Dec 2008 at 6:41 pm