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Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Choeur Choco Dragees
In Europe things are a little different. There are M&Ms, though fewer varieties, and their main competitor, Nestle Smarties. And then there are all the other lentils. I picked up a few of them in Germany, today I present the Choceur Choco Dragees. For those who are familiar with Aldi, you’ll recognize the name Choceur as one of their house-brands of chocolate confections.
The package says (in German), multicolored full milk chocolate pieces with natural colors. I picked up the smallest bag I could find, which is 400 grams (14.11 ounces). I liked the package, it’s pretty compact and features a gusseted bottom so it stands up.
The shells were crunchy and shiny. The chocolate inside, well, it’s very German tasting. There’s a strong milk taste to it, a little tangy but not spoiled like Hershey’s. It’s smooth and rather sweet as well, but has a discernible caramel note to it as well. They’re very different from M&Ms. The crunch of the shell is more pronounced and there’s no faint bitterness from any artificial flavors like I get from brown or red M&Ms. They’re sweet, but in a more muted, perhaps honey flavored way. I’ve never seen these at Aldi in the United States, though they might have them in the seasonal stuff for holidays and I missed it. They’re worth picking up if you do see them and if I lived in Germany, I’d probably get these quite often. Related Candies
POSTED BY Cybele AT 5:27 pm
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Commenting is not available in this channel entry.Do they contain gluten?
I miss Smarties (can’t have them anymore thanks to the gluten) and I don’t like M&Ms;, so this looks like a nice option if it’s gluten free.
Lillea - the package doesn’t say it’s gluten free. Also, in Europe the glucose syrup is usually made from wheat (instead of corn here in North America), so my guess is that there are traces of gluten in it.
Thanks Cybele! I’ll play it safe and not try it, but it looks great.
I am so wanting to try these! Has anyone seen these in the States?
Re:Hershey’s Pieces (not to be confused with Reese’s Pieces) - on not having chocolate, as you and I know there are, or were, Hershey-ets, which were like M&M’s but each with a letter in Hershey (which itself has two “e”‘s and if the “s” at the end after the “’” were included, two “s”‘s..I wonder if double the amount of pieces with S and E were included in Hershey-Ets as a result..
..THEIR chocolate was the distinct Hershey taste.)
Yet another US knock off of M&M’s I’ve only found in candy store counters and been about 10 years or so since I last found, I’ve been familiar with these for 50 years, almost as long as I’ve been around and have NO idea who made them since no store version exists—-Pokies. Maybe the popularity of Gumby and Pokey inspired the name?> (Pokey, btw, is my Blogger name..) and you can visit YOUR P:ONY PAL POKEY too (hopefully after my own Candy based blog, linked to above)
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