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So You're Dating a Brit- Limited Edition Olympic Candy Bars

One of the coolest treats that Dan brought home from England were three limited edition Cadbury bars that were created for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

We taste tested all three and were in agreement of how they ranked. It would have been a nice symmetry if they had ranked in the same order as the real Olympic Medals, but it wasn't to be.

In a very distant third place, we have the SIlvery Creme bar. At first, we thought that the filling might be similar to the whites of a Cadbury Creme egg, only more firm than creamy. Then, it tasted like the British MIlky Bar. Not terrible, but I would be hard pressed to recommend it after tasting the other two bars.

Second place goes to Nuts for Goid, Cadbury chocolate with lots of finely chopped nuts. Classic and delicious.

Our clear first place  favorite was the Bronzed Creme Crunch. If this was available in America, it would easily supplant Snickers as my favorite candy bar. I'm not even exactly how to  describe it. Dan thinks that it had bits of honeycomb finely crushed as the base. I think the middle layer is a bit like a heath bar. so good!

I feel like at this point in the blog, I should write something about the games. I've never been a fan. Nope, not at all. I always groan as my regular television programming is put on hold as the country is wrapped up in a patriotic obsession with our medal count. I've never been an athlete and have little interest in any sport, save a fleeting interest in MMA and Pro Wrestling (both of which I watched with guys that I was dating, but actually found myself enjoying). Now that I have sampled my candy bars, I am officially done with my interest in the 2012 Summer Olympics. My interest in the 2014 Winter Olympics is entirely dependent on a Russian company producing a cool candy bar!

tags: Cadbury Nuts for gold, Cadbury Silverycreme, Cadbury, 2012 Olympics, Cadbury Bonzedcremecrunch
categories: So You're Dating a Brit, Eat
Saturday 08.04.12
Posted by Karen Lea Germain
 

So You're Dating a Brit- Buttons and Milky

Today, I sampled two very different chocolate treats. First up is Nestle's Milky.

When Dan brought this home from England, I was very excited to try it, because I love another candy with the same name...

I LOVE the Milky candy from Japan. Once, I ate three whole bags in one sitting and got sick from it. Totally worth it. The UK Milky is completely different. It doesn't really taste of milk (like the Japanese chewy candy) it's more of a white chocolate candy bar. It was good, but not something that I would pick over other candy bars. Side note- Milky is not available in the US, but the American headquarters are in my hometown- Glendale, CA! My neighbor used to work for Nestle and we got all kinds of free chocolate, a lot not available in stores. Very cool.

Here is in inside of Milky.

On the other side of the chocolate spectrum, I also sampled Cadbury's Buttons. Buttons has the cutest packaging.

individually packaged, still so cute!

I love all of the animals,especially the owl.

Great things come in small packages. Chocolate just seems to taste better in small pieces! Dan took this great shot of contents of a package of buttons.

yummmmmmm....

tags: so you're dating a brit, milkybar, milkybar review, cadbury buttons, cadbury buttons review, british candy, english candy
categories: So You're Dating a Brit, Eat
Sunday 07.22.12
Posted by Karen Lea Germain
 

So You're Dating a Brit - Crumpets vs. English Muffins

I'm going to be in hot water for this post. I'm never going to hear the end of it from Dan and he may even be compelled to create his own WordPress account so that he can chime in. I am proceeding with reckless abandon with the topic of Crumpets and English Muffins. This morning, Dan made me a Warburton's Crumpet with melted butter for breakfast.

Warm, buttery and delicious. I immediately compared it to an English Muffin and Dan informed me that it was NOTHING like an English Muffin. ( As I am writing this post, I have the feeling that I will be sleeping on the couch tonight!). I'm not sure if all crumpets are like the Warburtons brand, but what I ate was definitely a first cousin to the Thomas English Muffin. Sure, it was thicker and more doughy, but it had the yummy nooks and crannies where the butter pools. Had I not been told I was eating a crumpet, I would have called it an English Muffin. The similarities trump the differences. These two are related!!!

I am told that our very popular Thomas' English Muffins are not available in England. However, I looked up the company and the founder and creator of the muffins, Samuel Bath Thomas, emigrated from England to the US and started his company. So maybe his English Muffins are his version of a Crumpet and his version just took off in popularity in America? Also, maybe since Thomas' are so popular, in American culture we are appropriated the term English Muffin to mean anything similar. Like we say Xerox, when we mean photocopy or Kleenex, when we mean tissue.

Bottom line- Crumpets and English Muffins are both delicious, so it seems to be a silly debate!

tags: Samuel Bath Thomas, Thomas English Muffin, Crumpet, English Muffin, Warburtons Crumpet
categories: So You're Dating a Brit, Eat
Thursday 07.19.12
Posted by Karen Lea Germain
 
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