World of Snacks is on a mission to locate the very best snacks found anywhere in the world. Our goal is to be the largest international snack store. Each month in 2014 we will expand our snack shop to include a new country and their best cookies, cakes, chocolate, sweets, and gummies. Right now we offer the best British Snacks and American Snacks. Next month, we will add German snacks to our inventory. We haven’t decide what will come after that so we are utilizing our snack blog as a way to document out search for future countries and inventory. Today our snack blog is off to the Philippines! So far we have reviewed a handful of snacks form the Philippines and all have been enjoyable. Our favorite Filipino snack thus far is he Puto Seko Coconut Angel Cookies. The snack under review today is LA2PU Dried Papaya. Will this fruit snacks from the Philippines surpass our recently found appreciation for the Angel Cookies? Let’s take a closer look and find out. Generally we start out with a little information about the manufacture or snack company that produces the foreign snack under review. Something that we have noticed in previous Philippine snack reviews is the lack of information about their companies. LA2PU has no information about them online, so we will skip past that and take a look at the packaging. The presentation of the snack is pretty straightforward. Their logo looks is basic and the package reads “LA2PU Dried Papaya.” In the corner it reads “ Export Quality.” There is a picture of a papaya and a clear window showing the dried fruit contained with in. That’s about it, so let’s see how this snack tastes.
Will World of Snacks offer LA2PU Dried Papaya when our international snack store includes Philippine snacks? The answer is a 100% no way, unless we find that this batch was tainted. Even then, we will not offer snacks that do not offer the same level of quality we expect from our brands here in the USA. We will continue our search for delicious Filipino snacks but until then check out the current offerings in our international snack store. If you’d like to be notified as new countries are added to our inventory be sure to leave your details to the right. Keep on snacking world!
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Our goal is to be the biggest supplier of international snacks in the world, hence the name World of Snacks! So far our international snack store only offers two countries; we have British Snacks and American Snacks. Each month this year we are expanding our inventory to include an additional country. Next month we are considering German Snacks, but are not 100% sure. If you have international snack you’d like to see offered, vote now! The purpose of our global snack blog is to review items offered for sale and explored snacks we are thinking about including. Today our blog is taking a look at a new snack that has just arrived in our online British Snack Store. Our review today is of Walkers Worcester Sauce Crisps. Our store currently offers 4 other delicious flavors of the British Walker Crisps and when we realized we neglected to stock the British Worcester Sauce flavor we called our supplier and told them to get this snack to us as fast as possible! Why? Because we love all the other flavors so much we knew we had to have them! Our last review of this tasty snack was for the Walkers Cheese & Onion Crisps. Our best seller, the Walkers Prawn Cocktail flavor. Enough back story, let’s take a closer look at these British Worcester Sauce Chips. Our pack comes from a variety bag and is a fun purple color. Or course the top features the very American Lay’s inspired Walkers logo and the words “Worcester Sauce” just below. The small print reads “potato crisps exclusively made with 100% British Potatoes.” Very patriotic! We couldn’t wait to rip a bag open so we did just that prior to adding them to our inventory. Let’s see how they taste! As can be expected, we love British Worcester Sauce Crisps! They taste like they sound, like crispy potatoes douched in Worcester sauce. It must be noted though, we are not fans of Worcester sauce to begin with, but as a snack this British treat really comes together. We took a few bags to our friends and family to see if they love them like we do. Well, to a wide age group of American snackers the reviews are mixed, but what do they know? Generally we end our blog with a determination if we will or will not offer the reviewed snack in our international snack store. However, this review is different. Right this second you can buy Walkers Worcester Sauce Crisps online (and other flavors). Our supply is limited though so if you are interested be sure to get some today! If you’d like to be notified as our inventory expands and to receive special deals be sure to leave your details to the right. Keep on snacking world! We created World of Snacks and our International Snack blog over a year ago. Our goal for developing this business was to be able to sample snacks from our diverse childhoods, explore unique flavors and treats, and make them available for purchase all across the world. One of the treats that inspired us to go into the snack business was the Kinder Surprise, from what we though was from Germany. So this week our international snack blog is in Germany? The reason we ended the previous statement with a question mark is Kinder, although German for children, is not from Germany. Today the Italian luxury snack group, Ferrero, owns Kinder. So we are actually reviewing an Italian snack! Why did we mention we sought out the Kinder Surprise? Because this tasty childhood treat we desire is actually banned form the USA! Something about putting small toys inside a chocolate candy is a little dangerous, well according to the FDA anyway. So trying to fill the void that the Kinder Surprise Egg has left with us we have been sampling anything we can get our hands on with a Kinder logo. Late last year we took a look at Kinder Friends. Today, the Kinder Happy Hippo Biscuits are going under review.
So before we give our review of this Kinder cookie, let’s recap a little of what we have sampled over the last 13 months. We will keep it short. We have sampled many, many, many snacks from a total of 30 countries. We wanted to start our review of the Kinder Happy Hippo Biscuits with a little bit of our background so the next statement is taken seriously. The Kinder Happy Hippo Biscuits are by far, the best snack we have tasted from anywhere in the world! We enjoyed this treat so much that all testers involved were actually smiling will consuming the biscuit. The crispy wafer biscuit taste like a sugar cone that would generally hold soft serve ice cream. It provides a firm, hollow crunch that is very pleasant. Inside, two of the finest tasting cream fillings we have encountered. One is milk and the other cocoa. The meringue undercoating adds a subtle flavor and holds the additional fragments of chocolate on the exterior. All the independent ingredients come together to create a snack that is truly special. Will World of Snacks offer Kinder Happy Hippo Biscuits for sale online in our international snack store? Yes! We can’t wait until our inventory is expanded to include all legal Kinder products. When we will sell snacks from Italy or Germany? Help us decide now by voting for your favorite. Also, currently we offer both British Snacks and American Snacks for sale. Each month this year we will expand to include a new country. We’d love to know what snacks you think we should carry. Leave your details to the right and we will keep you up to date. Keep on snacking world! World of Snacks is on a mission to locate the best snacks in the world and offer them for sale internationally. This month we opened our international snack store with British Snacks. Each month this year we will expand our offerings by one new country a month. In February we will start selling the best American Snacks online and ship them to England, Australia, and the rest of the world! Typically our blog has been dedicated to foreign and exotic snacks. Well, in some countries our American snacks are considered foreign! So let’s take a look at a much loved American snack, the Kellogg’s Pop Tarts. Kellogg’s Pop Tarts are an American breakfast snack that is a pre-baked toaster pastry. Made of two thin layers of pastry crust, filled with a sugary flavoring, and then frosted, this snack is Kellogg’s best seller. Being Pop Tarts are pre-cooked and sealed in a foil pack, they do not require refrigeration and are easy to store and transport. In addition to being ready to eat, they are often heated in a toaster to crisp the pastry and warm up the sweet filling. Kellogg’s offers a large selection of Pop Tarts and features the “normal” frosted flavors, unfrosted, limited editions, and printed versions. Although we are more excited to review some of the unique and unusual flavors we have decided with a basic staple. Let’s take a look at the American Strawberry Pop Tarts by Kellogg’s.
Our taste test took place in the morning, at breakfast. This snack is enjoyed at all hours, but most often American Pop Tarts are a replacement or a compliment to cereal. All of the testers involved have previously sampled one of the many flavors produced by Kellogg’s. Oddly enough, two of the three testers have never had a toasted Pop Tarts. I personally believe this is the best way to enjoy them. We sampled the American Strawberry Pop Tarts after toasting them. Everyone enjoyed this breakfast treat. The two testers who have previously only consumed them directly from the package both agreed that toasting them does improve the flavor. It adds a crunch, makes the center warm and gooey, and it heightens the intensity of all the flavors. The top coat of frosting is sweet and tasty, the center again is sweet, but alludes to a strawberry jam flavor. Overall we were all very pleased and truly enjoyed the American Strawberry Pop Tarts. In just a few days we will announce that our selection of American Snacks for sale online is officially open for business. Guess what? We have started to offer these exportable American Snacks a few days early! You can now buy American Strawberry Pop Tarts and Brown Sugar Pop Tarts. We hope to expand our selection in the near future. If you have your eye on a particular flavor let us know. Take a look at our complete selection of American Snacks or if you are looking for British Snacks you can view those too. Interested in additional international snacks? Be sure to leave your details to the right and we will keep you up to date! World of Snacks is back in Canada for a third time this month! Our international snack blog is traveling around the world to find the very best snacks and offer them for sale on our website. Earlier this month we launched our international snack store and now offer the best British snacks for sale online. Each month this year we will add a new country and their best candy, cakes, cookies, chocolates, chips, and sweets to our inventory. Starting February 1st we will start offering American Snacks for Export. So when we will add Canada’s best snacks to our store? As soon as we determine what the best snacks in Canada are! Let’s see if this snack from the Canadian L.B. Maple Treat Company will be included. For the dedicated snack enthusiasts who follow us, you’ll notice we have reviewed two other snacks offered from this Canadian snack company. We’ve previously looked at Maple Sugar Candies and Maple Butter. On our first review we were not impressed by the particular snack we sampled from the L.B. Maple Treat Company. They got word and sent us a giant package from Canada with snacks that they said we’d love. The first we sampled from their gift was their Maple Butter, and we did indeed love it! Today we are reviewing Maple Cream Fudge by L.B. Maple Treat. Will we love this snack too? Let’s take a look and find out. Our snack under review today comes in a cardboard package that matches the other products we have reviewed. The most noticeable image is the autumn looking maple trees and of course, the image of the snack. The package reads in English and what we assume is French. Of course their logo is on top, and underneath it reads “Maple Cream Fudge” followed by “Sucre a la crème au sirop d’erable.” Across the bottom, “A Canadian Tradition.” Inside the box, 200 grams of individual wrapped fudge pieces. Overall we think it looks classy, but let’s see how Canadian Maple Cream Fudge by L.B. Maple Treat taste!
Will World of Snacks offer Maple Cream Fudge by L.B. Maple Treat for sale online. We are not sure. We imagine we may include some of their items in the future but intend to launch the Canadian section of our international store with more traditional treats that expats may be searching for. Do you want some unique snacks of your own to try with your family? Shop our British Snacks section now or leave your details to the right and we’ll let you know as we add other countries. We will also offer you special exclusive deals. Keep on snacking world! We are on a quest to locate the very best snacks in the world. Our international snack blog is just over a year old and we have reviewed the best cookies, cakes, sweets, chocolates, and candies from 30 different countries. Just about a year ago we first encountered the Gamesa brand from Mexico. Today our snack blog is again back in Mexico and looking at a sweet treat from South of the Border. Last time we took a trip to Mexico we did a review of Emperador Combinado Cookies. Today we are again looking at a Mexican cookie, we are reviewing the Gamesa Arcoiris Marshmallow Cookies. Gamesa is currently owned by the snack conglomerate Pepsico, but has maintained the Gamesa name as a stand-alone Mexican brand. Let’s take a closer look at this snack under review. Our Mexican cookie pack comes in a mostly white sleeve with a little bit of blue trim, it’s a similar presentation as the last Gamesa snack we previously reviewed so we are assuming this is their general approach. This snack has the Gamesa logo in the corner and the words “Arcoiris Galletas con Malvaviso” on the package. Is also reads “6 Gelletas” followed by the English translation. In addition a picture of three cookies, two with silly expression and the third, an exact image of the snack it contains. On to the taste test of Gamesa Arcoiris Marshmallow Cookies!
Arcoiris Marshmallow Cookies are a true treat! After reviewing so many snacks from all around the world it is getting harder for us to find a unique take on a snack. This is absolutely original, and delicious. The cookie base is similar to the other Gamesa cookies we have sampled, except this version has small strawberry flavor crystals. On top of the cookie, four marshmallows, two pink and two white. As if that wasn’t enough, the marshmallows are covered in coconut flakes. It’s sweet, flavorful, and all comes together to “wow” our testers. We agree with the girl who prompted the trade, this is our favorite Mexican snack so far. Will World of Snacks offer Gamesa Arcoiris Marshmallow Cookies for sale online when our international snack store is expanded to include Mexican snacks? We are 100% sure these Mexican cookies will be included in our normal inventory. Can’t wait to sample some foreign snacks? Currently we are offering British Snacks for sale online and each month this year we will add a new country to our inventory. We invite you to leave your details to the right and we will keep you up-to-date with our progress. Keep on snacking world! 3/25/2014 UPDATE: You can now buy Gamesa Arcoiris Marshmallow Cookies online! World of Snacks was created to explore cultures through food. As a child traveling throughout Europe and North American I personally encountered unique treats (and experiences) that I now want to share with my family. In addition to the snacks I previously discovered, our company now seeks out all of the best cookies, cakes, chocolates, chips, gums, and all types of snack foods from around the world. Since we began our exploration of snacks just over a year ago no country has intrigued us more than Japan, and no other snack items has us more excited than Japanese Kit Kats. Our international snack blog has reviewed some very delicious Kit Kats out of Japan with my personal favorites being the Blueberry Cheesecake Kit Kat and the Vanilla Ice Cream Kit Kat. Today the snack under review is the Hazelnut Kit Kat, not to be confused with British Hazelnut Cream Kit Kat. Let’s take a closer look. The Japanese Hazelnut Kit Kat Comes in a brownish red package with a gold trim. The images hosted on the wrapper are a wireframe globe, some melted and milky chocolate, and two small hazelnuts. The classic Nestle Kit Kat logo is in the center. For our American followers, Nestle produced the Kit Kat to the rest of the world; we are the only country to have a Hershey Kit Kat. Of course the wrapper also has some Japanese Charters and the world Hazelnut across the bottom. Now on to the taste test of the Hazelnut Kit Kat from Japan! Our sample group today consisted of 6 adults, one female and five males all aged between 25-35. Unanimously all testers truly enjoyed this snack. So what does it taste like? Well, simply put it tastes like an improved version on the classic Kit Kat. The hazelnut is very subtle, almost hard to distinguish, but that is OK. It compliments the snack nicely and gives the Kit Kat a rich and creamy presentation. None of the tasters were particularly fond of hazelnut flavoring but all loved the Hazelnut Kit Kat from Japan and asked for more! Will World of Snacks offer the Japanese Hazelnut Kit Kat in our international snack store? For sure! We are excited to offer all the foreign flavors of Kit Kats we can get our hands on. Later this year we will expand our offerings to include snacks from Japan. Each month this year we will add a new country to our store. Being we are still in the first month, we currently only have British Snacks for sale online. Follow along as we grow and leave your details to the right to stay updated on our progress. Keep on snacking world! Our international snack blog is on a quest to locate the very best snacks in the world. Why are we hunting sweet and salty treats from across the globe? Our first thought was to connect with diverse cultures through their most loved foods. So far we have learned a ton about 30 different countries and what most people generally like to eat. The second reason for our adventure is to offer these discovered treats in the world biggest and best international snack store. Earlier this year we launched our snack shop with British Snacks, including their best chocolate, crisps, and biscuits. Each month this year we will add a new country to our inventory. So enough about why we are bother to spend countless hours eating delicious food, let’s get on with our review!
Although we have been reviewing a variety of exotic snacks for over a year, this is our first experience with a butter. This definitely qualifies as a snack, but butter is not the first item that comes to mind for us. So when it arrived, we were ecstatic to be trying something completely new. Our taste panel was small today, the World of Snacks co-owner and myself. We do intend to share with others later today, but our morning review panel is limited. We decided to try the butter by itself to start, although we imagine it’s rarely consumed this way. Instantly we realized L.B. Maple Treat was right, they did send us an item we “absolutely love.” Of course, we needed to get this Canadian butter onto a piece of toast to be sure. On toast, the L.B. Maple Butter is among the best things we have ever spread. The only other item that even comes close is Dulce De Leche, a Peruvian treat I enjoyed as a kid. The Maple butter is rich, sweet, and creamy. For being derived of only maple, the flavor was just right, not overpowering. With just a thin layer it transforms everyday bread into something truly magical. We paired it with a cappuccino and had an amazing breakfast! They did send us a note and said to try and blend the Maple butter with peanut butter, this will most likely be our breakfast tomorrow. If you wonder how it tastes leave a comment below and we will respond. Will World of Snacks offer Maple Butter by L.B. Maple Treat when our international snack store expands to Canadian products? It’s a definite maybe. We are still feeling out what is in high-demand across the globe from Canada. We enjoy this treat, and hope to eventually include it. If you want to try some unique treats in person you can visit our Online British Snack Store or leave your details to the right and we will let you know when new countries are added and send you special offers. Keep on snacking world! World of Snacks was created so our family and friends could explore the world through it’s sweet and salty treats. Over the last year we have spent time analyzing snacks from 30 different countries. At the first of this year we opened our international snack store to the world. We now offer the best British Snacks for sale in the United States with shipping around the world. Each month following we will add a new country and their snacks to our inventory. The focus of our international snack blog is to find inventory for our store. Today, we are back in Ireland reviewing some gourmet chocolates that we are very excited to be sampling. These special Irish chocolates that we are examining are produced by Lily O’Brien. The company was initially founded in 1992 in the O’Brien’s kitchen with only a wooden spoon and a passion for chocolate. Today the company is one of Ireland’s most recognized global brands and has export sales that make up 75% of their volume. Although they are famous at home, Lily O’Brien also sells products throughout the UK, USA, Australia, Sweden and more. Although to be honest, here in the USA this is our first experience of this Irish Snack. Although they offer a variety of chocolaty options we are examining the Lily O’Brien’s Gourmet Irish Chocolate Gifts. They have a range of keepsake, personalized, and wedding gifts. Our sample is a massive Christmas Keepsake gift package. It comes with their whole lineup of chocolates in a variety of individually wrapped gift packages. The idea is to buy the keepsake box, open it up, give out gifts of gourmet Irish chocolate to everyone your have ever met, and keep the massive container for yourself. Well, that is our take on it. Although the box offers a wide size of gift options, we dove into the biggest and divided it up for our review panel. Our box contained three trays of 30 chocolates, for those who don’t feel like doing math, that’s 90 chocolates! In this massive sub-box of our giant larger keepsake gift box there were 10 different flavors of the Irish chocolate. To prevent the need to create our first international snack novel, we are going to examine each with just a very quick summary. So for your snack research pleasure, here is our nearly tweet friendly review of Lily O’Brien’s Gourmet Irish Chocolate Gifts. First up was the Double Chocolate Truffle. Filled with a velvet smooth 55% dark chocolate and encased in a hard shell 68% dark chocolate this dark on dark combination created a well blended creamy treat that for some reason has a hint of orange. Simply Chocolate was just as the name implies. This Irish snack was a blend of both white and dark chocolate and was a firm and a little hard. Very enjoyable, but the most solid version offered by Lily O’Brien. Le Crunch Chocolat tastes a lot like an American crunch bar that has been re-engineered into a gourmet Irish chocolate. The crunch comes from a French biscuit. Not the USA version of a biscuit though, the cookie kind. My personal favorite was the Lemon Meringue Pie. WOW! This tastes like a fresh lemon meringue pie coated in outrageously delicious Irish milk chocolate. Praline Perfection offered a perfectly presented white chocolate cup outer shell with a praline and smooth chocolate center. The nut was a little small, but the treat had big flavor. Caramel Mocchiato caught us off guard. Generally coffee and chocolate candy can come off a little weak. The coffee in Lily O’Brien’s chocolate was perfect, with a nearly fresh ground taste. In addition to being snack lovers, we are very serious coffee and consumers and to be wowed by a snack version is rare. We are not new to orange chocolate; in fact this is our third review featuring this combination. However, out of the three this snack, the Zesty Orange Chocolate was our least favorite rendition. The orange was a strange firm jelly and there were rind pieces on top? Not our favorite Irish gourmet chocolate for sure. Hazelnut O’Brien was our female tasters favorite, minus the nut. I personally enjoyed the nut, so I ate hers too! The mouse like filling is divine and the white chocolate layer on top rounds this snack out well. Their classic Sticky Toffee gave me an instant sugar rush, in fact we are 30 minutes post review and I am still high on sugar. The toffee is the best I have ever tasted. Our female taster was not a fan but all other truly enjoyed this chocolate snack. Last but not least, Death by Chocolate. This one left us wanting more. The bold name oversold the item. Or maybe it was because we just consumed 9 other delicious treats. The taste took awhile to come together and it was enjoyable but lacked wow factor. There you have it. This is our longest snack review to date! Will World of Snacks offer Lily O’Brien’s Gourmet Irish Chocolate Gifts for sale online? Not at the moment. They have a decent export set up and offer the sale of their snacks right on their website. We may be interested in gift items in the future and if we extend our international snack store to include items like this we will revisit with this Irish snack brand. Hungry for snacks? Head over and buy British Chocolates online now or leave your details to the right to be notified as we expand our inventory. Earlier this year we official launched our international snacks store and we now sell a variety of British Snacks Online. Yesterday we expanded our inventory of snacks from England to include a selection of British Biscuits with half of the selection being produced by Cadbury. Why does World of Snacks only have British Snacks for sale? Well each month this year we are expanding our snacks store to include the best cookies, cakes, chips, chocolate, and sweets from a different country. Next month we will begin selling and shipping American Snacks all around the world. Until then, let’s look at our selection of Cadbury Chocolate Biscuits and compare them. Unless you are from England or elsewhere in the United Kingdom deciding which Cadbury Biscuit (or cookie) is best for your tea time or snack craving, can be just a tad confusing. All three of our offerings of Cadbury Biscuits from England look very similar. The all come in a 300-gram tube that is mostly Cadbury purple, feature a large Cadbury logo, and pair images of the biscuit. On all the packages you can see a picture of the cookie contained within. One side is clearly silkily Cadbury chocolate, the other a slightly different looking biscuit. So now that we know what these British Biscuits look like, let’s being our review and see how they taste. Cadbury Oat and Choc Chip Biscuits We will start with our favorite, which was a surprise to all testers involved. There are very little oat cookies in the US. There are American Oatmeal Cookies, but they taste completely different. Our group of testers all encountered an oat biscuit for the first time on this taste test, and no one was really excited to be eating a biscuit made of oats, chocolate yes, oats not so much. Cadbury Oat and Choc Chip Biscuits are extraordinary! They are lightweight, and you feel like it’s OK to be eating them. You get a powerful crunch, and just enough chocolate chips and chocolate to make them truly a treat. The oats seem to be filled with air, which dunking in milk or tea would be ideal. Every one of our testers rated this their favorite Cadbury Biscuit. Cadbury Shortcake Biscuits Surprisingly enough our rankings actually match the order they were presented. Maybe the Oat and Chocolate Chip cookie set the bar to high? The Cadbury Shortcake Biscuits are delicious as well. They are teatime shortcake biscuits with one layer covered again in Cadbury chocolate. These British Biscuits were sweeter then both of the others and seemed more dessert like. Cadbury Digestive Cookies Out of the three, the Cadbury Digestive Cookies are the only I personally recall having as a child living in England. These are the workhorse of the three and remind me of what a typical British Cookie should taste like. They are denser than the Oat and Choc Chip as well as the Shortcake. They are sweeter than the oat biscuits but not as sweet as the shortcake. Overall they seem middle of the row, and nearly all our testers agreed, this was their least favorite, but still a tasty and enjoyable snack.
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