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August 17, 2004
Nestle Overload Candy
King Size equals three peanut butter cups
package detail: three different types
This is new for me. I've never seen it before, though my girlfriend says she's seen it for a while. My mom picked it up for me. Moms are nice like that. The candies are peanut butter cups. But they're not Reese's Peanut Butter cups, so I knew they woulf be different from that all time favorite of mine. The first Type featured "Nestle Candies." These were basically M&M's...but since its not the M&M/Mars company its not M$M's (or Reese's). The next one was Butterfinger which sounded interesting, because Butterfinger is already a peanut butter and chocolate candy, seems they would seek something different to go on a peanut butter cup. Last was topped with Buncha-Crunch. Which is interesting because its double-brand leveraging. Why isn't it just topped with Crunch Bar? Buncha-Crunch is just small clusters of crunchy material (nuts?) covered in chocolate, with the "Cruch" brand leveraged from the bar featuring clusters of crunchy material immersed in a milk chocolate bar. So they then leverage "Buncha-Crunch" for this item instead of just "Crunch." Interesting.
package detail: hmmmmmm, assorted
Because the it said "Assorted" I wondered if there might be not always the three pictured on the front, and sometimes more than one of one type and none of another. I doubted this is the case though. Only one way to find out. Another thing I was how the peanut butter used in the cups is candied, if at all. What I mean is in a Reese's they don't use just plain peanut butter, its a special type for the candy. What would Nestle do?
good, one of each, I was hoping to try them all
the Buncha-Crunch
idividually wrapped just like a Reese's, though Reese's doesn't have the fancy tray in the ealier picture
I bit into this one. Ah, plain peanut butter was used. I guess they didn't want to make it any sweeter because of the candy on top. I found this kinda blah, and the "Buncha-Crunch" to just be, well, crunchy and a contrasting sweeter chocolate than the chocolate used in the peanut butter cup. Not especially good.
next up, "Nestle Candies" topped
Whoa! Can I get a little quality control?
First of all, Click on the picture above to examine it closer in full size (as you can do with all my pictures in this journal), and you'll see some "Buncha-Crunch" got on the "Nestle Candies" cup. Poor process leads to poor control, they obviously make the cups and top them in the container next to each other instead of making and topping in seperate batches before putting them in.
Second, though its not pictured, they double wrapped this one. Not a Huge deal...but just the facts.
Now the taste here was good. The chocolate inside these candies I find to be just right to accent the peanut butter cup's chocolate. Tastes sweet, but nothing special.
The Butterfinger
This is interesting, because they've used nuggets of the Butterfinger filling without any of the chocolate. As anyone who's had a Butterfinger before knows, the filling is very hard and crunchy. The flavor was good, but the nuggets contrasted with the real peanut butter in the cups poorly and wasn't very tasty.
Overall, I find this offering from Nestle dissapointing and lack-luster. They didn't try hard on this one, and were only going for novelty, not quality.
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