World of Snacks has traveled the globe in search of the best snacks in the world. We have searched high and low in hopes to locate inventory for our international snack store. Guess what? We have found some amazing snacks! Starting January 1st you will be able to purchase our favorite snacks from England and each month following a new country and their treats will be added to our store. Leading up to the launch of our US based online store we will be reviewing a different British Snack everyday. Today we review our first cake from Britain. A company called McVitie’s produces our British cake under review. McVitie’s initially got their start in the biscuit (cookie) business way back in 1830. At first McVitie’s was a Scottish snack company until they merged with MacFarlane Lang and became the English controlled company known as United Biscuits. For usability purposes when we add Scottish Snacks to our international snack shop we will also include McVitie’s products in that category. Today McVitie’s produces a variety of snack items that are mostly biscuits and cookies. Our snack under review is the Original Jaffa Cakes by McVitie's. Unfortunately in 1927 when McVitie’s developed the Original Jaffa Cakes they did not trademark the name and now there are a variety of companies in the UK and elsewhere producing a similar snack known as Jaffa Cakes. We are reviewing the true original, which come in a blue box with orange writing that reads “McVitie’s The Original Jaffa Cakes.” Inside there is a clear orange colored tube for freshness and 12 cookie sized cakes. Enough of the history and appearance, let’s sample these mini cakes from the UK! For our taste test of the Original Jaffa Cakes by McVitie’s we did no research prior to our sampling and were not familiar with this cake at all. Upon first impression we thought we’d be testing a cookie, after opening the box, still we thought we’d be sampling a cookie. It wasn’t until our first bite that we realizes this British Snack is indeed a cake. A Jaffa Cake is a light sponge cake that is coated with a crackly chocolate and a tad bit of what tastes like orange jam. The first impact of the very orangey flavor awoke our taste buds! It’s so zesty and powerful that the chocolate smooths the taste out and the cake returns your taste buds back to normal. We really enjoy the Original Jaffa Cakes by McVitie’s! We have yet to try another foreign snack that is similar and the fluffy texture of this treat makes it’s truly enjoyable and unique. In just a few weeks you will be able to by McVitie’s Jaffa Cakes in USA and have them shipped to you anywhere in the world. If you are reading this review and are interested in trying snacks from other countries we encourage your to vote for your favorites so we can be sure to add them to our international snack shop. If you have not done so already be sure to leave your details to right to stay up-to-date with our progress and to be notified of any promotions. 01/01/2014 UPDATE: The Original Jaffa Cakes are now available for purchase online in our international store.
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In only 20 days our online international snack store will open for business. For the past year our team of snack experts have sampled cookies, chips, cakes, and sweets from 27 different countries. Starting January 1st we will offer the best British Snacks for sale online in the US and shipped around the world. Each month after we will add a new country to our inventory. Leading up to the launch of our store we are sampling a British Snack that we will offer every day. Todays snack is chocolate bar made by Nestle. Nestle is a mega snack company that if ranked by revenue is the biggest producer of food and beverages in the world! Nestle is based out of Vevey, Switzerland and is technically not a British Snacks Brand. However Nestle is a major player in England and this British Chocolate Bar was initially produced by a company that was based in England. In fact, that is where the name of this candy comes from. It was manufactured in York! Previously we took a look at the Nestle Lion Bar; today we are reviewing the Nestle Yorkie Original Chocolate Bar.
Since this British Candy Bar has a history of being sexist we wanted to make sure we included a girl on the taste test panel. The Nestle Yorkie Original is absolutely for girls! Out of all the testers the one who enjoyed this snack from England the most was the only female on the panel. That being said we all enjoyed the candy bar. So much so that we contacted our supplier and ordered the Yorkie Biscuits to sample. This milk chocolate bar is indeed chunky. It comes in 5 large pieces. The chocolate is smooth, rich, and creamy. Although it's sweet, unlike some of the other British chocolate bars we have recently reviewed it is not overly sweet. For some reason I personally felt the need to compare it the Hershey Chocolate Bar. The Yorkie Original Chocolate Bar is far superior! Never had a Hershey Bar? Not to worry American Snacks will be added to our snack store starting February 1st. We are excited to find the Yorkie Original Chocolate Bar and can’t wait to offer for sale in the US and shipped worldwide. A future segment we will include on World of Snacks is going to be a short video series of recipes that include candy. We know the Yorkie Original Chocolate Bar will be one of our most included ingredients. We invite your to leave your details to the right to keep in touch and be updated on new features and receive promotional offers. Keep snacking! This British snack review of the Yorkie Bar by Nestle is authored by Richard Olivarez. Contact for article suggestions.
Walkers is one of the leading manufactures of crisps (chips) in England with a 47% marketing share. Their plant in Leicester is one of the largest crisps production facilities in the world and they produce 11 million bags of crisps per day! Although Walkers is owned by parent company PepsiCo who also owns Lays, this brand is distinctly British. Their ingredients come from the UK and they us British Potatoes, to be precise, 800 tons of potatoes a day. Walkers of England produces many varieties of crisps flavors. Today we are reviewing Cheese & Onion Crisps by Walkers. Our sample comes in a blue bag and reads “Unmistakably Cheese & Onion with Cheddar from Somerset.” Above the text a there are a few crisps with a potato shaped to look like the Union Jack (British Flag) with the words “Home Grown” stamped into the potato. Of course, the bag also has the distinct red and yellow Walkers logo. Now on to the review!
World of Snacks will offer Cheese & Onion Crisps by Walkers for sale in the US and shipped globally starting January 1st. If you’d like to be notified of the launch of our store and be included on special offers be sure to leave your details to the right. Also if their are snacks you are searching for other than British Snacks, vote for them here and we will do our best to stock them. Check back tomorrow as we continue our culinary journey through England. 01/01/2014 UPDATE: Walkers Cheese & Onion are now available to purchase online in our international store. Leading up to January 1st, when you will be able to buy British Snacks Online, our international snack blog is reviewing a treat from England every single day this month. Being this is World of Snacks, every month in 2014 we will add a new country and their best cookies, chips, candies, chocolates, and cakes to our inventory. Today's British Snacks review is roaring and ready to go! We are reviewing the Nestle Lion Bar! Previously made by Rowntree and known as the Big Cat until the late 1990s, this British Candy Bar was initially developed by well-known experimental confectioner Alan Norman. The current Nestle Lion Bar consists of wafer, caramel, crisp cereal, and milk chocolate. When first developed, the crisp cereal was actually Kellogg’s Special K! For snack industry insiders, you may know that Nestle is a Swiss based company. That being said, the Nestle Lion Bar’s heritage and demographic are leading us to categorize this as a British Snack. Now we know a little about this “big cat” let’s take a look at the packaging.
In just a few weeks you will be able to buy the Nestle Lion bar online in our international snack store. In addition we’ve also received a handful of the rare Nestle White Lion Bar. We will ship both Nestle Lion Bars in the US and all around the world. If you’d like inventory notices and special offers be sure to leave your details to the right. See you tomorrow! 01/01/2014 UPDATE: The Nestle Lion is now available for purchase online in our international store. Today is the start of our 2nd week in our month-long marathon of British snack reviews. Yesterday we published our first blind taste test. Our article took a look at British Kit Kat vs American Kit Kat. We had so much fun that we are already planning another snack duel for the end of this week. Today we are looking at the Cadbury Fudge, yet another British Snack that you can buy online starting January 1st when our international snack store launches. Cadbury produces many of the delicious snacks from England we have reviewed this past week. For those of you who have just discovered our international snack blog we will give you a little background about this British Snack Brand. Initially started in 1824 in Birmingham, UK by John Cadbury, this company got it’ start selling coffee, tea, and drinking chocolate. For many years they reigned as one of the top British Confectionery producers until Kraft purchased the company in 2010. Kraft has since changed its name to Mondelez International and is the second largest producers of snack behind Mars. So enough about Cadbury, let’s take a look at the Fudge Bar. This candy bar is fairly small and is often referred to as a finger of chocolate. I am pretty tall with fairly large hands and I have to say this is big for a finger, but small for a chocolate bar. The wrapping is mostly orange with “Cadbury purple” ends. The Fudge text is a bubbly blue and this version is marked 20p. Unfortunately with the logistics of importing Cadbury Fudge our price will not be quite as low. Now we know what the Cadbury Fudge looks like we can give it a try! Upon opening our snack we were surprised when we broke the bar up to share with our testers that the fudge looked oddly like nougat. Our testers agreed and we all expected a dark chocolate colored fudge. After tasting the bar the surprise continued. Maybe fudge in the UK is different than the US. For a candy bar that is called the Cadbury Fudge there wasn’t much “fudge” about it. With that being said, it’s a rather enjoyable treat. Of course, the Cadbury chocolate outside is milky and pleasant. The “fudge” center is extremely sweet and mildly creamy. The Cadbury Fudge will be one of the many British Snacks online that will be included in our store when we launch at the 1st of the year. In addition World of Snacks ships everywhere, so now you can have your candy no matter where you live. If you’d like to be the first to know about new snacks and be included on special promotions be sure to leave your details to the write. Be sure to check back tomorrow as we continue our journey through England’s best snacks! 01/01/2014 UPDATE: The Cadbury Fudge is now available to purchase online in our international store. Today marks the 7th day of our 31 days of British Snack Reviews. So far we have reviewed a range of chocolates and crisps from England including some new found favorites, all of which will be included in our international snack store set to launch January 1st. To celebrate our 1 week anniversary we are going to try our very first blind taste test. We are going to decide if which is better, the British Kit Kat or the American Kit Kat. Before we dive into our review and blind taste test let’s take a look at the history of Kit Kat. This delicious wafer covered chocolate bar is almost always believed to be an American snack here in the US. Well guess what, it’s really an old English snack. Kit Kat was initially developed by the English Brand Rowntree back in 1935. It instantly became a hit and stayed under the Rowntree’s brand name until the company was purchased by Nestle in 1988. Prior to be sold to Nestle, Rowntree licensed Kit Kat to Hershey. Today license is valid until/if Hershey is sold and is one of the top 5 brands they currently hold. Now we understand why there is a difference between the British Kit Kat and the American Kit Kat. Let’s get on to our blind taste test and see which of the two sweet treats will be declared the winner! Our taste test panel for our comparison of the British Kit Kat vs American Kit Kat is comprised of 11 American adult males that range in age from 25-35. In the US this is the second most snack purchasing demographic, only surpassed by younger adult males. Several of the subjects have traveled internationally but none of the subjects have previously tried the British version of this chocolate bar. All of the subjects are familiar with the US Kit Kat. Prior to the test we removed the bars from their wrappers and broken them into bite size pieces. Upon removal we noticed the very difference in chocolate color but none of the subjects could determine which was which from its appearance. The only other noticeable difference was the logo treatment stamped into the bar. Now onto the results of our comparison.
Now that we have settled one of the great international snack debates you need to try this for yourself at home. Starting January 1st we will sell the British Kit Kat with shipping to anywhere in the world. Starting February 1st we will do the same with the American Kit Kat. If you leave your details to the right we will offer our newsletter subscribers an exclusive package for sale with both these snacks and others to compare for yourself. This Snack review of the British Kit Kat and American Kit Kat is authored by Richard Olivarez. Contact for article suggestions. 01/01/2014 UPDATE: The British Kit Kat is now available for purchase online in our international store. We are having a ton of fun this month at World of Snacks as we review 31 British Snacks leading up to the launch of our international candy store. We are nearly 1 week in and so far we have sampled some really delicious candies and crisps from England. Our snack under review today is the first that didn’t surpass our expectations. Let’s take a look at the Cadbury Curly Wurly Bar and see why. The candy bar under review today is long and narrow. It comes in a white foil wrapper that is end capped with a purple that matches the Cadbury logo. There are some multicolor letters that appear to be shaking down the length of the bar. Overall it’s a simple but effective presentation. So now we know what the Cadbury Curly Wurly Bar looks like, let’s see how it tastes. Our review panel consists of two taste testers today and both immediately came to the same conclusion. The Cadbury Curly Wurly Bar is actually hard to eat. The bar is a “ladder” of caramel wrapped in delightful Cadbury milk chocolate. The problem, the caramel is so chewy that you need to really make an effort to finish this British Chocolate Bar. In addition the chocolate falls apart in your hand as you attempt the nearly impossible feat of eating it. Overall the flavor of the caramel is rather tasty and combined with the milk chocolate this snack should “wow” us like our previous reviews from England. It just falls a little short. This being said there is an American caramel snack that is nearly impossible eat that I personally enjoy, it’s called a Sugar Daddy. That helps me understand why there is such a following for the Cadbury Curly Wurly Bar and I appreciate what it is. If you are one of the faithful snack enthusiasts who enjoy the Cadbury Curly Wurly Bar you will be able buy this chocolate bar and other British Snacks in the US in our international snack store starting January 1st. Each month following we will introduce a new country and their top snacks into our inventory with hopes to eventually offer all the best snacks in the world online. To receive special deals and updates be sure to leave your details to the right. Don’t forget to check back tomorrow as we look at another snack from England. 01/01/2014 UPDATE: The Cadbury Curly Wurly is now available for purchase online in our international store. We are 5 days into our 31 days of British Snack reviews! All of the snacks featured this month on our international snack blog will be offered for sale when our online store launches on January 1st! Each month following we will add a new country and their unique snacks to our inventory and re-stock and grow our selection of snacks already on our website. Today's featured British Snack is Walkers Quavers Cheese Flavor. Walkers dominates the crisps (or chips) market in England and makes up for about 48% of all crisps sold in the UK. Their parent company also owns FritoLay, so combined this is one of the greatest manufactures of chips in the world! World of Snacks will offer a variety of Walker Crisps in the US and shipped around the world. Out of all their offerings, the Walkers Quavers are the chip we were most excited to sample. Our UK snack under review comes in a shinny yellow bag that reads: “Quavers Light Curly Potato Snack Cheese Flavour.” Don't worry the word "Flavour" is not misspelled, that's how it's spelt in proper English. In addition there is a Walkers logo and a few scattered Quavers. Up top it also boasts there are only 88 calories, and that is quite a feat for a cheese-flavored chip. Enough with how it looks; how does the Walkers Quavers Cheese Flavor taste?
Want to buy Walkers Quavers Cheese Flavor? Don’t worry at the end of the month you will be able to! Tomorrow we continue our month long journey through British Snacks, be sure to check back and see what we will be reviewing. Also if you want to stay informed on our progress and as we add other countries be sure to leave your details to the right. 01/01/2014 UPDATE: Walkers Quavers are now available for purchase online in our international store. We are 4 days into our 31 consecutive British Snack reviews. For the entire month of December World of Snacks will be reviewing one treat from England every single day. Starting in January, you will be able to buy all of the British Snacks we are reviewing this month and have them shipped to you in the United States or anywhere in the world! Each month following we will add a new country and their treats to our online snack store. So let’s take a look at Fry’s Turkish Delight. Our British Snack that we are reviewing today comes in a small, slightly heavy, rectangle bar shape wrapped in a shinny light purple wrapper. It appears the brand is “Fry’s” if you rely solely on the first impression. We know from our previous look at Fry’s Peppermint Cream that Cadbury owns the brand and has so for quite sometime. Fry’s lengthy history and name recognition is probably the reason Cadbury decided to stick with the Fry’s distinction. Now that we know what this snack looks like, lets move onto the taste test.
If you’ve followed our progress over the past year you know this is where we conclude and decide if we will stock the snack in question as a part of our normal inventory. This month however, all snacks we are reviewing will be included in our inventory. In just a few weeks you will be able to buy Fry’s Turkish Delight online and have it shipped to you, no matter where you live. Since this is World of Snacks, we will be adding additional countries each month. If you’d like to see a particular country’s snacks included in our store be sure to vote here or send us a message. Also, leave your details to the right and we will keep you updated on our progress. 01/01/2014 UPDATE: The Turkish Delight is now available for purchase online in our international store. We are snacking our way all through England all month long. Every day in December we are reviewing a British Snack that you will be able to buy from our international snack store that is launching on January 1st. We are starting with England and each month following we will add a new country and their foreign snacks to our inventory. The British Snacks under review today is one I am personally fond of since I loved this English Crips flavor as a child when I lived in the UK. Let’s take a look at Mega Monster Munch Pickled Onion.
Upon first whiff this British Snack took me back. This unique flavor scent is powerful and I am not sure what Pickled Onions smells like, but Mega Monster Munch must be close. The chip texture is similar to a thick American Funyuns. If you have never sampled this American Snack don’t worry, it will be included in our US inventory starting on February 1st. The initial burst of flavor from Pickled Onion Monster Munch is overwhelming. It is strong and you almost only taste the pickle. Then the chip transforms into a smoother onion after taste. A few of our taste testers were apprehensive to try this UK snack but ultimately it won them all over. One thing is for certain, we have not encountered any snack from anywhere in the world that is similar to Mega Monster Munch Pickled Onion. We are looking forward to offering Mega Monster Munch Pickled Onion Crisps available to buy online in just a few weeks. We will stock three flavors of Mega Monster Munch in our US based snack warehouse and offering shipping all around the world. If you’d like to stay up-to-date and receive announcements when a new country is added to our inventory be sure to leave your details to the right. 01/01/2014 UPDATE: Monsters Munch Pickled Onion is now available to purchase online in our international store. |
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