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Thursday, September 22, 2011
Black Cow Chocolate CaramelWhen the classic Slo Poke Caramel was revived earlier this year, its chocolatey partner Black Cow was also on the slate for reboot by the Classic Caramel Company.
Originally released back in the 1920s by Holloway, makers of Milk Duds, the Black Cow was just a chocolate covered Slo Poke (not that dissimilar from the Sugar Mama which was a chocolate covered Sugar Daddy.) In this new version the Black Cow becomes an actual chocolate infused caramel. The candy now comes in two formats, a large bar (in this case mine is 20% larger at 1.6 ounces instead of the standard 1.5 ounce) and the little individually wrapped pieces.
Unlike Tootsie Rolls which only have cocoa in them, Black Cow uses whole chocolate (cocoa liquor which includes cocoa butter) in their recipe. The chew is quite soft. Though you can whack it to make bite sized pieces, I found I had to refrigerate mine. (And once I had broken it into pieces, they reformed into the bar after they came back to room temperature.)
For a really satisfying, very chocolatey caramel, you really can’t beat the Storck Chocolate Riesen, which is an actual real chocolate covered chocolate caramel. However, these are far and away better than a Tootsie Roll, which never ceases to bring chewable cardboard to my mind unless encased in hard candy and on a stick. Trivia: back its heyday the Holloway Black Cow came in a lot of other flavors, including Purple Cow, Pink Cow and Orange Cow, plus the tantalizing Banana Cow. Related Candies
POSTED BY Cybele AT 2:36 pm
 
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At our local Dollar Tree (which is the only place I’ve seen these so far), the Black Cow sold much faster than the Slo-Poke. Both sold out rather fast, but the Black Cow were gone almost immediately. For a cheaper candy, I thought it had a really nice chew and flavor, but i also like Tootsie Rolls and Goldenberg’s Peanut Chews, so I’m obviously a fan of chewy chocolate flavored candies.
and thank you for the confirmation of the Purple Cow. I had a vague memory of these being available for a short time when I was a kid, but nobody I’ve ever talked to about older candy has ever remembered them. They all seem to remember the short-lived Magic Cow cereal (probably because the commercials inundated TV at the time), but nobody remembered a candy called Purple Cow. I’m sure that they weren’t very good, but I remember always getting one when I’d find the random store that had them available.
Just had one of the new black cow but this is on true black cow. A true black cow is a slo-poke dipped in chocolate. Now that is good. not this remake. it’s a fake.
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