World of Snacks is on a mission to locate the very best snacks on the planet!  We’ve explored culinary specialties from 34 separate countries. Earlier this year we opened our international snack store and each month this year we are expanding out inventory by one country.  Next month, snacks from Japan!  Until then, we are continuing our search for future counties and to expand our current offering of foreign snacks.  Today we are reviewing an American owned snack that is made for the European market only.  It appears this version of the most sold candy in the world is from France specifically.  We are reviewing M&M Crispy!

Have you heard of M&M Crispy?  If you live in the US and have a decent memory chances are you have.  Originally released in 1999, this version of loved M&M’s was discontinued in 2005. What Americans may not realize is M&M Crispy was never discontinued in Europe, South East Asia, and Australia. That means our foreign friends have been enjoying this candy treat for nearly a decade since they were pulled from shelves in the US.

Why did they stop selling M&M Crispy in the US?  Chances are they didn’t perform as hoped.  So do Americans not care for this chocolate candy?  We think it may be because of competition.  There are so many other chocolate candies in the United States to compete with.  But we want to know what Americans think of this candy and because we don’t have a time machine (yet) we are going to do a taste test with several adults and a few kids, all American, most unfamiliar with M&M Crispy.

So how did our testers like the M&M Crispy from Europe? Pretty unanimously they all enjoyed them, some loved them, and others liked them. Only one tester recalled that the snack was offered in the US, he mentioned he ate them in high school, which is the exact time frame they were offered.  So now that we are a majority of the way though out review of the M&M Crispy, maybe we should tell you exactly what they are.  Well, in theory they are crispy rice balls covered in M&M’s chocolate with their much loved crunchy shell.  However, the chocolate is different than the US market M&M’s as well as the coloring of the shell.  The colors seemed to be dialed down, and with some research I learned that they do not use some of the artificial coloring that is used in the States.  In fact, some of the coloring is banned from Europe! They chocolate is sweeter, and seemingly less milky.  The crunch shell although is not as vibrant, seems to taste better.  One tester mentioned they’d prefer it if it was the American chocolate around the European center.  Overall though, we think this candy is perfect the way it is.

Will World of Snacks offer M&M’s Crispy for sale in the US? Eventually we do think we will include this European snack in our inventory.  We want to include as many American snacks with international flavors as possible.  So until then, why don’t you check out our selection of Japanese Kit Kats for sale.  Although out full inventory is not yet posted, we are 100% sure you will be excited about these flavors.  As always, keep snacking world!

World of Snacks is on a mission to locate the best snacks in the world.  So far we have reviewed cookies, cakes, chips, chocolates, and candies from 34 different countries.  At the beginning of this year we started selling snacks from England quickly followed by American, German, and Mexican Snacks.  Each month this year we are going to expand ourinternational snack store to include a new country and their best items.  For our review today we are comparing two of the best chocolate chips cookies in the world, well at least two of the best sellers.

All Americans should be familiar with Nabisco Chips Ahoy.  Released in 1963, this much loved snack is the bestselling chocolate chip cookie in the country.  In fact only one cookie sells more than Chips Ahoy, and that is the king of American cookies, Oreo.  Just like Oreo, there are a wide range of version in and outside of the United States.  The chocolate chips cookie we are using in our taste test is the classic, original Chips Ahoy.

The competitor for our early claim to the world’s best chocolate chip cookie title is the Mexican Chokis by Gamesa.  Gamesa, like Nabisco, is a long established brand.  In fact, the original Gamesa brand is much older and was started in 1921.   Just like the American Chips Ahoy Cookie, Gamesa Chokis is the bestselling chocolate chip cookie in its home country of Mexico.  So although we love home-made and a variety of other chocolate chip cookies, these are the most purchased in North America. 

For our comparison of American Chips Ahoy VS Mexican Chokis we did a non-blind taste test with 7 US adult males aged 25-35.  Several of the testers have been involved in other comparisons taste tests including our article on Whoppers VS Maltesers.  Being I am familiar with the preferences of most of the tasters I thought I had a decent idea on how the results would turn out.  I was wrong!  We’ve been at this for about a year and a half and not once have we had a 100% unanimous result on a comparison (until now).  All of our testers hands down preferred the Mexican Chokis over the American Chips Ahoy.

So why are Mexican Chokis the best tasting, bestselling chocolate chip cookie in North America?  Multiple reviewers claimed that the Chokis tasted more like a home-made chocolate chip cookie. They were crunchier, sweeter, and seemed to be fresher.  The main complaint with Chips Ahoy chocolate chip cookie was they tasted too processed, something that we hear often with American snacks.

Do we dare claim the Gamesa Chokis to be the best chocolate chip cookie in the world? Not yet, so far we are confident that it’s the best massively produced chocolate chip cookie in either Mexico or the United States. We have yet to review any chocolate chip cookies from Canada, so we are not sure if it’s really even the best in North America just yet.  We aim to find out though! If there is a chocolate chip cookie in North American that you prefer, be sure to comment below. If you’d like to compare American Chips Ahoy VS Mexican Chokis on your own, we do offer both for sale here in the US with international shipping.  As always, keep on snacking world!

Our international snack blog is whizzing around the world seeking out the best chocolate, cookies, cakes, candies, and chips from across the globe.  Earlier this year we launched our international snack store and we now host the best snacks from four countries with a fifth coming next month.  Our first country that we featured was England, and now we currently sell many of the best British Snacks online here in the US with international shipping available.   Tonight we are reviewing one of our favorites, the British Cadbury Dairy Milk Fruit and Nut.

Now serious chocolate lovers will know that you can indeed find Cadbury Chocolate here in the US.  What they may not know is that the US Cadbury is just a licensing agreement and is not the same as the authentic British Cadbury.  Different ingredients and a completely different taste!  They don't even look the same! We may come back and do a blind taste test to see which is preferred in the US but being we just did a taste test of the American vs German Haribo Happy Cola Gummi Candy, so we decided we will just do a straight forward review.  So let’s take a look at the Cadbury Dairy Milk Fruit & Nut.

Our sample for our snack review weighs in at 49 grams.  It comes is a pretty luxurious matte purple wrapper.  The right hand corner state this is a new shape, and although it’s been awhile since we’ve had this British Chocolate bar in a different shape we will just have to believe them.  Cadbury logo is on the right, and the Dairy Milk text stretches across the width of the bar.  The bottom portion of the wrapper is maroon and states “Fruit & Nut.”  Lastly the package features a single piece of chocolate with a nut and piece of fruit to the left.  Now onto the taste test!

Several months ago we did a review of the Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate Bar and we loved it.  Prior to that it had been many years since I personally sampled Cadbury Dairy Milk.  That review brought back a long lost love and since then I have been smuggling both the classic version and the Cadbury Dairy Milk Fruit & Nut out of our inventory.  So to give an in impartial review I had to bring in a few taste testers to see if they too will fall in love with this British Chocolate Bar.  Guess what?  They agree with me.  The British Cadbury Dairy Milk Fruit and Nut Chocolate Bar is awesome!  The chocolate is very sweet but pleasant, so smooth and creamy, and accents the fruit and nut portion very well.  The fruit and nut translates to raisins and almonds and that are well distributed throughout the Cadbury Chocolate.

If you are one of World of Snacks blog followers than you’ll know this is where we tend to decide if we will stock the snack under review in our international snack store.  Well this snack is already in stock.  You can buy the British Cadbury Dairy Milk Fruit & Nut Bar online right now.  No need to wait!  You can also check out our full selection of British Chocolate Bars.  If you’d like to be updated when we add new products and receive special discounts be sure to leave your details to the right.  As always, keep on snacking world!

At World of Snacks we are trekking across the globe to locate the very best snacks in the world. Why are we searching out the best international cookies, cakes, chips, candies, and gummis? Our family comes from a mix of nationalities and many of these snacks have special meanings to us.  We wanted to share these snacks with our American born son and learn about other countries at the same time.  Although we initially started out as just a blog, this year we expanded to include aninternational snack store.  We launched with British Snacks, the country I was born in.  Each month this year we will expand to include a new country and their best snacks.  Last month we added German Snacks. 

Connecting with others from my childhood I was eager to share some of the snacks we encountered with others that grew up in similar regions of the world that are now located here in the US.  Something we ran into is some of the authentic snacks we import have American counterparts.  Although at times they may seem similar, they are in fact different. We thought it would be fun to compare the counterparts and we did so earlier this year with our review of the American KitKat vs British KitKat.  They were very different, and the results of our blind taste test were interesting.

Today we are conducting another blind taste test.  We are comparing the Haribo Happy Original Cola from Germany and the Haribo Happy Cola Gummi Candy made for the American market. Both appear similar, and at first glance may even seem identical.  However, many of our faithful snack enthusiast fans know they are two completely different snacks.  To set the premise of our test, our panel consist of 6 adult US males aged 25-35 and 3 US children aged 5-11.  Now you know the details, let’s compare German Happy Cola vs American Happy Cola!

Let’s get right to it.  Our panel strongly preferred the American Hairbo Happy Cola Gummi Candy over the German Happy Cola Gummis.  Two adults and one child preferred the German Happy Cola, the rest preferred the other.  Notes from our reviewers state the texture, color, and flavor are superior in the gummis made for the US market.  This was a big surprise for me.  I absolutely preferred the original German version, but I did grow up eating European snacks.  So why is there a difference?  After spending sometime translating the ingredients, we found they are very similar and only one major ingredient change.  Corn syrup in the US version and glucose syrup in the German!  Without getting into too much of the particulars, corn syrup is a glucose syrup but glucose syrup is not necessarily corn syrup.  European glucose syrup is much thicker, making the German Haribo Happy Cola gummies noticeably chewier, too chewy for some.  The other noticeable ingredient change is the American gummis contain coconut oil, rounding out the cola flavor and making it sweeter. 

Although my testers leaned toward the American Happy Cola Gummi Candy, I still know in my heart the original is better.  I imagine people who knew the original first may agree.  We actually sell both version in our selection of German Candy Online.  We’d love to hear from you which you prefer!  If you are interested in keeping up with our additions to our candy store and be notified of special offers be sure to leave your details to the right.  Keep on snacking world! 

World of Snacks has spent the last 15 months searching for the best snacks in the world.  So far we’ve reviewed candy, cookies, and chips from 33 different countries.  One country we have yet to visit is Peru.  So today we are going to sample a Peruvian Snack that is produced in San Francisco. 

Typically we strive to highlight imported foreign snacks or much loved American snacks.  Recently we’ve been contacted by a handful of start-up companies looking to get word out about their products.  Being we are still in the early years of our snack empire, we feel taking a look at these unique items is definitely worthwhile.  We also love testing new flavors with our panel.  So when Nazqiz sent us a few of their Qancha Air Roasted Peruvian Corn Snacks we were so excited we moved them to the top of our review list.

Our sample from Nazqiz arrived quickly and included all three of their current flavors- Original, Chimichurri, and Picante.  The packaging is fresh, modern, and very fitting for the product.  This Peruvian snack comes in a resalable black bag, with a small amount of the product pictured in the center.  Centered along the top is the Nazqiz logo, to the left of the logo it reads “Tasty Latin Crunch” and to right “Made in California”.  The packages also mentions that this snack is gluten-free, contains no trans-fats, and is made of all natural ingredients.  On each of the Qancha flavors there is a colored bar along the bottom that mentions the flavor and has a fun line drawing.  Our favorite is the Picante Latin Spice, the drawing is of a spider and it reads “Wild and Wicked like The Spider.”  Enough of how these look, let’s get on with our taste test of this brand new snack!

Being Nazqiz took the time to reach out to us and provide the items under review we decided to utilize a large taste test groups of 7 adult US males aged 25-35.  All except myself are US born and are from the South Eastern portion of the country. We sampled each flavor individually.   

Our last sampling was the Qancha Original Lightly Salted Corn Snack.  Maybe we should have started with this version.  Being we went with the more exciting flavors first, the original was just mildly appetizing.  This version alludes to a slightly un-popped pop corn kernel. Everyone enjoyed the lightly salted flavor, but none of our testers ranked this version above the other flavors.

Will World of Snacks offer Qancha Air Roasted Peruvian Corn Snacks in our international snack store?  Not at the moment.  Right now we are focusing on carrying classic snacks from a handful of countries.  So where can you buy Nazqiz Qancha?  If you live in California there is a list of locations on their site.  If you are looking to buy this snack online their homepage also includes details for that.  If you are looking for other unique snacks we encourage to check out our featured country this month and take a look at our German Snacks.  Each month this year we are adding a new country and their best cookies, cakes, candy, and chips to our store.  If you would like to be notified as we expand be sure to like us on facebook or leave your details to the right.  Keep on snacking world!

World of Snacks is located in the United States and is actively seeking out the best snacks in the world.  Over the past 14 months or so we have reviewed unique treats from 31 different countries, including the US.  At the beginning of this year we launched our International Snack Store and began selling candies, cookies, cakes, and chips from England.  We followed in February with American Snacks for export and in March we will begin selling German Snacks online.  Each month this year we will extend our inventory to include a new country and their best snacks.

Although we currently offer American snacks in our online store, we started off with just the basics.  As the requests come in we plan to expand our inventory of US snacks.  The first request was for Kellogg’s Pop Tarts, and you can now buy those online in our store. Since then we’ve had request for several other items including these new Chips Ahoy! Ice Cream Creations.  Being they are a brand new snack in our home country we decided to give them a try. We picked up two different versions, the Root Beer Float Cookies and the Dolce De Leche Cookies.

Today we are reviewing the Chips Ahoy! Root Beer Float Cookies and plan to review the other versions in the near future.  Our full-time taste testers are big fans of Chips Ahoy! Cookies and we currently offer the classic version in our store.  There are many varieties of Chips Ahoy! and personally I prefer the non-chewy version.  I like to pair my cookies with milk and the chewy cookies simply do not work well when dipped.  That being said, I definitely understand why many people, including our other testers, prefer the chewy chocolate chips.  As you may have picked up, the Root Beer Float cookies are in fact a rendition of the chewy Chips Ahoy! Lineup.  So, now you have a little back-story, let’s get on with our snack review!

Will World of Snacks include Chips Ahoy! Root Beer Float Cookies in our international snack store?  Not just yet, but hopefully in the near future.  So far our American snack sales have been a little sluggish and with our British Snacks sales through the roof, we may focus on that aspect of the business a little more.  We are also getting ready to add our full line-up of German Snacks, so we also have our hands full!  However, if you’d like to sample these cookies and live outside the US, contact us now and we can arrange a sale and have them shipped to you.  If you’d like to stay up-to-date with our progress and receive special offers, be sure to leave your details to the right.  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 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.  

Our international snack blog has visited a total of 30 countries over the past year.  We are on a search for the best snacks in the world!  Why are we looking for delicious chocolates, cookies, chips, cakes, and sweets?  Our goal is to be the all-inclusive one-stop shop for international snacks.  We launched our store at the first of this year with British Snacks.  Each month this year we will expand our offering to include a new country.  Who’s up for February?  USA!  Over a third of our followers live abroad and we intent to supply the best American Snacks to them.  So onto our review of the 3 Musketeer Candy Bar.

The 3 Musketeers chocolate bar is a big hit in both the US and Canada.  Originally released by the Mars Candy Company way back in 1932 the car initially came in three pieces, hence the name.  Interestingly enough, each bar was a different flavor.  For just 5 cents you got chocolate, strawberry, and vanilla 3 Musketeers bars.  Currently chocolate is the only flavor offered, although they have dabbled in others at times. We really wish we could get our hands on a Vanilla of Cherry 3 Musketeers bar though!  Let’s take a closer look at the flavor we can locate.

Our 3 Musketeers Candy Bar comes in a silver-ish foil like wrapper.  The name of the bar is boldly placed in red across the front and the text below reads “Whipped Up, Fluffy Chocolate-on-Chocolate Taste.”  Oddly enough, the Mars Logo is very small and placed on the back.  In the early days this American Candy Bar was touted as one of the biggest.  Now, it seems to be just average size.  Enough of how it looks, onto the taste-test of the 3 Musketeers Bar.

At least two-thirds of our followers already know how this American candy bar tastes. That being said, how many of you have really tried to put what a 3 Musketeers Candy Bar tastes like in words?  How does it taste? Exactly like it should!  We are all familiar with this chocolate bar.  What about our international followers who do not know what it tastes like?  That’s why we are even bothering to review American snacks to being with!  The center of the bar of the bar is a whipped chocolate, as you may have guessed from the packaging.  However the texture is not what I personally image whipped chocolate to be like.  The inside of a three Musketeers Bar has a light marshmallow consistency.  It’s fluffy, and a little sticky. The outer shell is a chocolate that crackles when you bite into the bar.

Will World of Snacks stock the 3 Musketeers Candy Bar and offer if for sale with international shipping?  Yes!  Starting February 1st you will be able to buy this candy bar and have it exported to you, no matter where you live.  We will also offer the 3 Musketeers Candy Bar wholesale in larger quantities.  So which country will fall the US?  We haven’t decided yet.  Why don’t you tell us what international snacks we should stock?  Also, leave your details to the right for special offers and announcements.  Keep on snacking world!