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Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Nestle Milk Chocolate
I thought, “What am I missing here?” Well, first of all, plain old Nestle Milk Chocolate bars aren’t that easy to find. But with a bit of persistence I did find this fresh 5 ounce “great to share” size bar. First, I looked at the wrapper pretty carefully. Though Nestle is a Swiss company, this bar was made in Brazil. The ingredients don’t make it sound great, but I try to keep an open mind: sugar, chocolate, cocoa butter, nonfat milk, lactose, soy lecithin, PGPR & vanillin. So in this case the milk was much lower on the list than other milk chocolates (M&Ms and Hershey’s Milk Chocolate), so maybe it’s a darker tasting milk chocolate. The Nestle website reveals this little tidbit about the Nestle Milk Chocolate bar’s past:
Okay, at least I’m not crazy, because I don’t remember plain Nestle chocolate bars being around when I was a kid. There was another strange line on both Nestle’s corporate page and their chocolate classics website, NESTL? Milk Chocolate tastes the way you expect great chocolate should taste, offering a milk chocolate alternative that the entire family can enjoy any time. So what the blazes is a milk chocolate alternative? Or is it the any time part I should be clued into, is that some sort of code that means that this is a morning chocolate bar?
It does look a bit darker than many mass-marketed milk chocolate bars. It was even and glossy and has a pleasant powdered milk and chocolate scent. The bar has a rather soft snap but look well tempered. The melt on the tongue is fudgy, not slick or silky smooth, it’s still pleasant. I got a slight aftertaste, kind of like that from powdered milk. The taste isn’t very chocolatey. It’s not overly sweet and has a lot of milk taste to it, but really lacks much else. It would go well with inclusions like crisped rice or nuts but as a bar where this is all I had to go on, it really didn’t satisfy at all. I’m not one to be disrespectful towards other people’s preferences (ya like whatcha like!) and this bar was certainly inexpensive, but I wouldn’t rank it higher in quality than Hershey’s Milk Chocolate or M&Ms Milk Chocolate. In fact, I think I throw it a notch below Hershey’s, just because I didn’t enjoy the flavor. (That doesn’t make it a bad bar, before you go thinking I’m a hater, I just didn’t like it.) Now, just so you know, Nestle does make other true Swiss chocolate and I have tried that and found it quite tasty, just not American (North or South, as the case may be) and also costs four times as much. Thank goodness the wrapper tells me it’s great to share, otherwise I wouldn’t know what to do with it. Related Candies
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I have a coworker who swears these bars are the best chocolate out there
but we don’t get them in our area so maybe them not being easy to attain makes them so alluring to him
I don’t believe I have seen these in stores. I will have to keep my eye out for it.
Note: I definitely remember Nestle’s Plain (and Almond) Milk chocolate bars from the 1960’s in NY. The bars came in red/white wrapping and the bar itself had NESTLE’S in raised embossed chocolate, a raised “frame” of choc on around the edge, and horizontal lines running inside the frame. This was different than the Almond bar that was Blue/white wrapped, and had NESTLE’S reversed embossed on a thicker bar. I would venture to say these bars were far more delightful than the plain HERSHEY bars of the day.
My father would visit my uncle in “West Germany” in the mid 1980’s and bring back Nestle White Chocolate bars as treats.
I just stumbled across a photo I took around June 1987 of a box of ***White Chocolate Nestle Crunch*** bars from that era.
Happy white chocolate nostalgia - http://dcsutherland.smugmug.com/gallery/7873133_85xsn#510373533_Cpz7T-A-LB
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I love candy so much! Im insane for it!! ahhbhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
I can attest to the fact that the Nestle plain milk chocolate bar differs depending on its country of origin.
The American version tastes more like what we North Americans refer to as milk chocolate. In fact, I preferred the Nestle milk chocolate to the Hershey’s version, even when Hershey’s was still milk chocolate and not “mockolate”.
However, having tried the Brazilian version of the Nestle Milk Chocolate Bar, I can say it’s rather bad compared to the American version. It tastes like Palmer Chocolate, which is the cheap junk you get at Easter as the main component to low-priced chocolate bunnies. It’s gritty, sugary, and overly-sweet. There’s very little “milk” feel or flavor to it, and the chocolate is odd-tasting.
I’ve come to the conclusion that the Brazilian version is not a very good representative of Nestle quality when it comes to milk chocolate. I’m not sure what they do differently, but before you judge a plain Nestle chocolate bar in the red wrapper, take a look at its country of origin.
If it’s Brazilian, then I’d say skip it unless you’re a fan of Palmer chocolate.
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