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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 - Eating a Finger

Today, I decided to pick a treat that I know 007 Dan likes, because he got excited when he saw it at Cost Plus ( a trip prior to the secret shopping trip for this blog segment). I am stuffed to the gills from eating too much crap today, so I stuck with sampling just one thing.

Anything called "Finger" is automatically a bit suspect in my book, but I still thought that I would give it a try. It's good, but not in an obviously way. I didn't immediately love it, I thought it was okay and then I looked down and noticed that I had gone through half of the package. Oops. It's like a potato chip, (or as Dan calls it, a crisp) you can't have just one.

It's made by Cadbury and I learned something about Cadbury chocolate...My favorite seasonal candy are Cadbury Creme Eggs. Here is the US, they are only available for Easter, but in England they're available year round. I think the American way is better, because if I could just buy them whenever I wanted, I would be two hundred pounds! When Dan's dad was visiting from England, he brought over a bunch of creme eggs for me, months before Easter. It felt like winning the candy lottery. I was giddy.

Other than having them out of season, the other reason why these eggs were special, is because they taste different. The US versions of the eggs have wax to keep the chocolate from melting. This makes the chocolate in the English version creamier. Heavenly. I had no clue that I had been missing out of having the optimum creme egg experience all of these years. A tip, creme eggs pair great with champagne.

As I ate my Finger ( it drives me nuts that it's called finger and not fingers), I watched the fourth episode of Downton Abbey. I was gleeful to discover that season two has just been added to HuluPlus, I won't run out after seven episodes!!! Score!!!

tags: So You're Dating a Brit, Cadbury Finger, Cadbury, Downton Abbey, Cadbury Creme Eggs, Cost Plus World Market
categories: So You're Dating a Brit, Eat
Sunday 07.08.12
Posted by Karen Lea Germain
 

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