So last Friday I found myself battling a bit of afternoon weakness. After a long day in the office on very little sleep, I found myself violating my cold turkey 'no sweets' rule (self-enforced after my recent food-heavy vacation) by heading down to the canteen for whatever would be left at that time - likely some run-of-the-mill Snickers or Kit Kat. I hid my head in shame as I bemoaned my incredible lack of willpower.
But wait! As I approached the shelves with the candy bars on them, I noticed a bar I HAVEN’T SEEN BEFORE. I am redeemed! This has suddenly transformed into a research mission!
The mystery bar is the Dubble Bar, which appears to be a special Fairtrade bar to support Comic Relief (which also means it's about double the price of the other bars - a source for its name, perhaps?). From the insignia on the back, it looks like it’s made by Divine (a fairly decent purveyor of chocolate bars - real ones - and advent calendars), so it can’t suck that much, right? The promise of 'milk chocolate crispy crunch' bodes well – I love crispy bars.
The bar is pretty simple - a thin layer of crispy rice encased in milk chocolate, topped with a double layer of fairly dense milk chocolate.
YUM. It’s like a slab of milk chocolate pasted to the top of a Crunch bar. And the chocolate is GOOD. This is no cheapo, oranguntan-killing, palm-oil padded candy bar chocolate. This is actual chocolate, which doesn’t disintegrate in your mouth like so many other cheap bars.. And it might be the early-winter-cold-induced fatigue and general Friday malaise, but I can’t get enough of it. And thanks to the work canteen, it is also refrigerated – which I absolutely love.
Delicious AND benefiting a good cause (although PS, this donation seems pretty paltry!). Nevertheless, this is a big win.
Bar-o-Meter
