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Today's post is about Milka’s Choco & Popcorn Bar, yes you read that
correctly! The latest Milka chocolate bar to make its way into our local
Israeli supermarket is Milka’s Choco & Popcorn. It’s a bar of popcorn, covered in milk-chocolate.
The salty/sweet combo trend always intrigues me,
even more so when it’s coming from someone like Milka; a company that has proven to be one
of the better mass-produced chocolate manufactures whose products are available here. I have
reviewed and enjoyed a number of chocolates and cookies from Milka in the past.
So knowing this is a Milka product made me think it would be a winner. And
although it only comes in a big 200 gram bar, I was willing to “take the chance”
and buy it, even though I would have preferred to try a small bar first, just
to be sure I liked it before I get such a large amount.
I understand why it comes in this big 200 gram size. It’s so chock full 'o popcorn, which takes up so much space, you need to have such a big bar to fit it all in:)
If you like other Milka milk-chocolate bars you
will like the milk-chocolate in this bar just as much. I think it’s the same chocolate
they use in most of their milk-chocolate bars, so let’s get on to the interesting part in this bar; the
popcorn.
The popcorn itself was more like caramel popcorn.
It had a slight coating that was mainly sweet with just a small little touch of
salt. Really just enough to pick up on its taste. For the most part, I thought
the main purpose of the salt was to make the chocolate and caramel coating that
much sweeter. As we know a touch of salt helps bring out the sweetness in many
dishes. That’s what I felt the salt did here. I know chocolate and caramel popcorn
are sweet enough on their own and don’t need salt to make them sweeter, but
somehow the added touch of salt helped add another layer of flavor and made it
an interesting and enjoyable chocolate bar. In short it just seemed to work!
I also liked that the popcorn was soft but did
have a drop of crunch from the caramel coating. Still, it wasn’t a hard
contrast to the soft creamy milk chocolate bar. It added a nice texture without
going too far. All the textures and flavors worked really well together and made
for an interesting and unique treat.
Bottom Line: I think Milka did a great job on
this Choco & Popcorn Bar. Although it sounds like an odd combination everything
about it seemed to work well together. The end result is a wonderfully unique,
creamy chocolate bar with just a hint of salt and the perfect amount of crunchy
texture. I will surely be buying this chocolate bar again.
200 gram bar- 17 NIS (I got it on sale at Shufersal for 11 NIS)
200 gram bar- 17 NIS (I got it on sale at Shufersal for 11 NIS)
Disclaimer: All items were purchased by me. No one is paying me for this review. All opinions are mine
I like milka's regular choclates so when I saw this new one I took one. later I saw three other people take one, so either its very popular, or people are excited to taste this combination. The flavors were ok but its nothing like fresh popcorn, which is also the problem with the popcorn snack you featured. I know you cant get that taste. So it was ok, Im not sure Ill get it again over others. Im guessing they had to do 200g because of the popcorn size, and 100g would look more like a bar and not a tablet, and you wouldnt pay 7-8 if it looked like a bar.
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