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Monday, October 15, 2012
Toblerone Crunchy Salted Almond
As a kid, a Toblerone bar was a special treat reserved for holidays, partly because they were expensive and partly because they were difficult to find year round. The bar was different from anything else on the market from the shape of the box and the exotic name to the interesting combination of flavors and textures.
The Toblerone company was bought from Jacob Suchard in 1990 by Kraft and is still made in Bern, Switzerland. The bars are much easier to find now, and easily located any time of the year. Their newest bar released in the United States is the Toblerone Crunchy Salted Almond and features Swiss milk chocolate with salted caramelized almonds and honey and almond nougat.
Rosa at ZOMG Candy gave the bar pretty high marks, so I was eager to find one in the wild. I spotted them at Walgreen's over the weekend, though not on sale. It's $2.99 for the 100 gram (3.5 ounce) bar, which is what I'd expect to pay for something from Kraft that's in their Green & Black's range of ethically sourced and all natural chocolate.
The serving size is 1/3 of the bar, and it would be nice if they just said how many peaks that is (there are 12 in the bar, so 4 is a serving). But I did like the packaging. The snug triangular box protects the bar, even though it's just in a thin foil wrapper inside. I liked the color and the bold, simple design. The nutrition panel, otherwise, is really easy to read.
The look of the bar is the same as the classic milk chocolate bar. Inside I expected to see more almonds, as they're both in the nougat bits and included as the salted pieces as well. The bar smells milky and sweet. The bite is soft and has a lot more crispy bits in it than I was accustomed to. The chocolate is fudgy and has a lot of milky flavors to it, mostly it holds together the inclusions. The nougat pieces are crispy ... unless they're a little bigger which may mean that they're a little tacky if chewed. The almonds are a little larger and have a nice, fresh crunch to them. As for the salt promised, I didn't really taste it. There's only 55 mg per serving, so it's not a liberal dose. Though I can't say that I perceived it, I will say that this bar seemed less sweet than the standard Toblerone. I actually prefer this to the Classic.
Kraft and Toblerone have scant information on the sourcing of their ingredients except to say that the chocolate is not Fair Trade on their website in the FAQ section and the the cocoa is sourced from around the world (well, at least it's Earth chocolate). The bars contain milk, soy, almonds and eggs plus are manufactured on shared equipment with other tree nuts.
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Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Cadbury Wispa
Aerated chocolate bars are quite popular in Europe. The Nestle Aero holds the top seat but there are others worthy of sampling.
The Cadbury Wispa was introduced in 1981 in the United Kingdom. The Wispa was later reformulated and rebranded as the Cadbury Dairy Milk Bubbly Bar in 2003 (2005 review). Fans of the classic bar clamored for the original, which returned as a regular item in 2008.
The ingredients have nothing special in them that mentions the carbonation (extra nitrogen). It's just the same ingredients as any Cadbury Dairy Milk bar in the UK: milk, sugar, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, dried skimmed milk, vegetable fat, emulsifer (E442), flavouring. It's the vegetable fat that sets it apart in the UK from Australia or the US.
Hershey's recently introduced Air Delight (review) to the US, and wasn't the first to bring aerated chocolate to the masses. It just doesn't go over here in the States. I notice a consistent comment from consumers (even if it is from a minority) is that they think that the candy companies are making cheaper candy by putting air in it. The odd thing is that I don't hear the same thing about marshmallows being filled with air, it's just part of the texture of the product.
The Wispa bar is milky and a tad malty, slightly salty. It's not as sweet or sticky as a traditional Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate slab. The aeration helps it melt quickly, but also gives it a drier feeling on the tongue. Often I find Cadbury to be a very soft bar, but this was more crumbly and less fudgy. The bubbles are smaller and denser than the Nestle Aero and many other bubbled chocolates that I've tried. It's no better or worse as far as texture goes, just a slight difference.
The bar contains dairy and soy. No mention of gluten or any nuts. Some of Cadbury's items are being ethically sourced, including their most popular Dairy Milk Bar in the UK, but the Wispa is not on that list yet. I'm not certain about what kind of vegetable fat is used in the bar, as UK standards don't require listing it specifically, so there's no word on its sustainability.
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Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Milka Bars, Milka Drops and some Li'l Milka
Milka is an old German chocolate candy brand that dates back to 1901. The Milka brand fell under Suchard, a popular chocolate bar maker which also made powdered cocoa. The bar was their milk chocolate and named by combining the German words milch (milk) and kakao (cocoa). The earliest chocolate bars sported the lavender wrapper that is still one of the distinguishing marks of their branding.
Milka is now owned by multinational conglomerate Kraft, which also makes Toblerone, Marabou, Cadbury, Cote d'Or, Freia and here in the United States, Baker's Chocolate. Milka bars are known for their high milk content, soft and sweet melt and favoring of hazelnuts.
They're far more available in the United States in the past 5 years than I think any other time in history. I've been seeing Milka products reliably at discounters like Target. This particular Milka Chopped Hazelnut bar was purchased at the 99 Cent Only Store. For only a buck, for a 3.5 ounce bar. Not a bad deal.
Now I must state that Milka is not chocolate by current American definitions, because it contains additional dairy whey. But the coolest additive they use is hazelnut paste, which more than makes up for it.
The bar is soft and extremely sweet. The only thing that moderates that sweetness are the crushed hazelnuts. They're well distributed though I'd probably want more of them (but I understand that this is a bargain bar). The nuts are fresh and crunchy. The dairy flavors are on the toffee and toasted sugar side, instead of tasting like powdered milk Cadbury sometimes can.
Overall, this is one of the more satisfying bars I've had from Milka. I prefer the use of palpable nuts in addition to the hazelnut paste and of course the price can't be beat. Though Kraft and Milka may have sustainability and ethical sourcing plans, they're not noted on the package or their website.
The Milka White Chocolate Confection was equally cheap, also a 99 Cent Only Store find.
I'm a fan of good quality white chocolate. I like cocoa butter a lot and this bar does use the real thing. Again, the only reason it's not considered true white chocolate in the United States is the use of additional dairy whey.
The bar is nicely sized and the little domed pieces are easy to break off.
In the world of white chocolate, this is probably the best deal you're going to find for a dollar that doesn't include other fats besides cocoa butter and milk products. The use of whey doesn't actually bother me that much. I understand it's a filler but it allows things like chocolate to maintain their texture without becoming overly fatty or too sweet.Of course I would only endorse it for "candy" type applications, not fine chocolates.
It's a sweet bar, but not very complex. It's a bit grainy and fudgy, not a lot of vanilla flavors and the even the fresh dairy taste isn't that distinctive. I found this wasn't very interesting eaten plain, but went well with other candy. It's best with a good chocolate cookie (like an Oreo) or a salty item like nuts or pretzels. (Even tortilla chips.)
While in Germany last December I also picked up a few other Milka items, because of their novelty. One of them was this box of Milka Schoko Drops. I know I'll probably never see these again, which is too bad because they're certainly a distinctive product. I think they were about one Euro but the little box only has 25 grams (.88 ounces). It's a rather different price point for a brand that's usually dirt cheap.
The pieces are large, almost the size of a quarter in diameter and a beautiful purple or pearly white.
The center is Milka's hazelnut milk chocolate, the outer layer is white chocolate and then a crunchy shell. The box didn't hold much, but I didn't need much. I liked them quite a bit. They're not better than M&Ms, just different. BTW - why doesn't Mars make Hazelnut M&Ms?
My favorite of the European Milka Bars was this one I picked up at a Kaufland grocery store (on a big sale display that I think was .59 Euro, or about 80 cents American) in Schmalkalden, Germany. It's the Milka und Oreo which is a natural combination, since Kraft owns both brands.
If there was a disappointment with this bar, it was the use of that cream in the center instead of just more Oreo Cookies. The cream was okay, more on the yogurt side, though less sweet than the actual filling of Oreos. But without the filling, I suppose there's nothing to distinguish it from regular Chocolate & Cookies bars.
I would buy this again, though I'm not sure if they're sold in the United States.
I was pretty excited to see these Milka L'il Stars bags at the 99 Cent Only Store on a more recent visit. The reignited my interest in Milka, and spurred me to dig out these photos from earlier this year and finish this write up.
Again, for only a dollar, it's a great deal for a chocolate hazelnut product. Think of them as giant, shell-less Crispy M&Ms.
The Milka L'il Stars Crispees look completely different than anything else on the American market and fill that hole I often have for a cereal and chocolate combination. The bag is a decent deal for a buck, it holds 3.88 ounces of little spheres of wheat crisps covered in Milka chocolate coating.
The pieces are a bit rugged and uneven. The good part about that is that they don't roll around as well as a Malted Milk Ball would.
The crispy center is airy and light. It's a little crunchier and less honeycomb/foamy than a malted milk ball. The flavor is also delicate and cereal-like. It's a rice puff, made with rice malt and malted barley syrup. It's not very malty, not like a malted milk, but has the hints like Corn Flakes do.
Of course there's gluten in there and hazelnuts, dairy and soy. They're made in Slovakia.
The Milka L'il Stars Hazelnuts are a simpler product, and kind of loop me back to the first one in this list.
They're just single, whole roasted hazelnuts covered in the Milka chocolate which has hazelnut paste in it.
This bag (also made in Slovakia) also has 3.88 ounces in it, though not as much volume as the Crispees because of the density of the nuts.
They're crazily simple, but really well done. The nuts are well chosen, good quality and lightly roasted. The coating is soft and sweet, a little on the fudgy side but the dairy flavors come out more than I noticed them in the bar. The roasted hazelnuts are crunchy and satisfying.
Since chocolate covered hazelnuts are so hard to find, I can see myself picking these up again, especially if I wanted to combine them with the Crispees and some other savory items for a little bit of trail mix to create the perfect movie snack.
The touch of hazelnut paste in Milka products distinguished them from other dairy milk chocolate products like Cadbury. Though it's not great quality chocolate, it is satisfying candy.
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Friday, December 9, 2011
Kraft Jet-Puffed Marshmallows + Vanilla, Cinnamon Bun, Strawberry, Chocolate Royale, Gingerbread
The best known American marshmallows are Kraft Jet-Puffed Marshmallows which are big, airy cylinders of fluffed sugar and gelatin. Lately there's been a movement in the United States for more artisan marshmallows, flavored and in different shapes and often with less chalky corn starch on the outside. In other countries marshmallows are usually flavored (France and Japan have wonderful marshmallow offerings that are rather grown up, while the United Kingdom and Netherlands still have a large selection geared towards kids).
Kraft's Jet-Puffed brand has a large selection lately that go beyond the unflavored white version. I picked up all that I could find over the past month for comparison and review.
I'm often conflicted about whether Marshmallows are candy. Part of the confusion might be the fact that the most popular marshmallow brands in the United States are not sold in the candy and snack aisle but in the baking section. They're used to make Rice Krispie Treats and S'mores, but I rarely see people just eating them.
The marshmallows are simple and cheap. I picked up most of the bags in this review for only a dollar - this bag was 10 ounces and nearly the size of an airplane pillow ... a lot of candy for a buck.
Jet-Puffed are large, they're about an inch and a third tall and about an inch in diameter. Each is about 7.5 grams (about a quarter of an ounce). Marshmallows are pretty low in calories, as there's no fat in them - they're just sugar with a little protein (gelatin) to keep them fluffy. Only 100 calories per serving of 4 (one ounce).
They're chalky on the outside, coated with a light powdering of corn starch to keep them from sticking. They're puffed, pliable but still firm. They're a little latexy, like memory foam - squish it and it bounces back eventually.
The flavor isn't quite vanilla and not a strong as pure sugar. They're, well, marshmallows. Not much to write home about and not a candy I'd eat on its own. They toast up very well, with more of the burnt sugar flavors. The large size means that the center of mine usually cool while the outside is crunchy and the mantle is molten.
They're very soft and moist when fresh, but I don't mind a slightly stale marshmallow either. They get a little stiff and chewy on the outside, providing a little more textural interest.
What started this whole marshmallow episode was this bag of Jet-Puffed SnowmanMallows I spotted at Target. They're French Vanilla flavored, which sounded good, like a custardy version of the traditional American marshmallow.
They're called mini-marshmallows on the bag, but they're actually about the size of two of the standard mini-marshmallows.
Is there a difference between the standard and the French Vanilla? Well, not really. There's some yellow food coloring and a smidge less salt. So they did taste sweeter.
I prefer the format of the little one inch tall and half inch wide Man. He toasted up well, the smaller size meant that the center became molten as the outside crisped. Of course it was ridiculously easy to catch him on fire.
The Kraft Jet-Puffed StrawberryMallows were the only ones that I bought at the 99 Cent Only Store, which may mean that they were for an earlier season. (They expire at the end of the year.)
They're pink and remind me of the French guimauve, which often come in long ropes. The color is soft and pleasant. The scent is like Frankenberry Cereal. The flavor is a mild, floral and artificial strawberry. It was like a very watered down Strawberry Quik.
I toasted it hoping it would taste like cotton candy, but it just tasted like hot Strawberry Quik. Like many of the candies that I eat with Red #40 food coloring, I taste a weird, metallic bitterness towards the end and for a few minutes after.
The Kraft Jet-Puffed Gingerbread Mallows made all of this worth it. They were the variety that inspired me to buy them all and review them.
This was the first variety that struck me as seasonal, obviously, but also the first one that I felt like achieved its goals of being an actual good candy. I recognize that not everyone likes gingerbread, so a gingerbread flavored marshmallow will not be as popular as strawberry or vanilla.
They're shaped like little men. The get squeeze and deformed in the bag, so their little arms point in different directions. They're about an inch and a quarter tall and about a half an inch thick and an inch from fingertip to fingertip.
They smell rich and spicy. And they taste that way too. If you're fond of the gingerbread spices: ginger, cinnamon, clove and pepper, you will probably dig these. The overriding flavor is actually ginger but there's a little cinnamon and pepper warmth to them. It doesn't taste artificial at all - just like a spicy marshmallow. It's absolutely like eating a foamy cookie.
I tried toasting them and liked the result, but prefer the soft and foamy texture of them at room temperature.
I figured if Gingerbread was good, Kraft Jet-Puffed Cinnamon Bun would rate highly as well. After all, it wasn't just a pink marshmallow with a little cinnamon oil like the StrawberryMallow.
This bag was slightly smaller, for some reason, with only 8 ounces in it. The mallows were also smaller, which was fine with me as I like to pop a whole one in my mouth. (The back of the package actually has a warning that says to eat only one at a time and supervise children plus cut them up for smaller children.)
They're cute as foamy sugar buttons. They smell good, not that different from the Gingerbread, but definitely on the sugar and cinnamon side of things.
The flavor is like cinnamon the spice, not the hard candy. The corn starch coating kind of pushes that along with the slight chalky texture before it dissolves away. It doesn't taste overtly artificial, but it's also not as fun and nuanced as the Gingerbread. I expect they'd go great in hot chocolate. Toasted they were quite nice, but tasted much more sweet when hot.
The Kraft Jet-Puffed Chocolate Royale was a problematic flavor. First, it's a chocolate flavored marshmallow. There is no actual cocoa, let alone chocolate in there. The scent is ghastly. It was like wet cardboard. It was so bad that after I took a picture of the package and opened them, I had to sequester them.
The problem is that I don't remember where I put them (I admit the Candy Blog Studios are pretty messy right now) but I can still smell them even though I stuffed them inside another bag first.
Overall, I'm inclined towards the generic American marshmallow and enjoyed the different flavors. I prefer the corn starch coating to the sugar sanding of Peeps. They're a great candy to share and versatile to keep on hand as an ingredient. If you're watching your calories, they're very low stress - I can't eat that many because their airy texture makes me feel full very quickly. But they're also all sugar and the texture can be bland (but that's why folks invented Rice Krispie Treats, Rocky Road and S'mores).
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Monday, April 11, 2011
Milka L'il Scoops
Milka is a chocolate confection brand that originated in Switzerland and is now made by Kraft at several factories in Europe. Since Kraft is a global food giant, it makes sense that they're going to make as many of their brands global as well.
You might notice that I said chocolate confection brand. The reason Milka doesn't qualify as actual chocolate is a little complicated. In the United States (and many other countries), chocolate can only contain cocoa solids, cocoa butter, sugar and milk (the standards of identity). If there are any other vegetable oils or solids in there (aside from inclusions like almonds or crisped rice), then it has to be called chocolate flavored or a confection. Milka contains both hazelnut paste (that's certainly not a bad thing, but there's not enough to kick it into giauduia territory) and whey, which is a milk protein. I like Milka. As a confection alternative to pure chocolate, I prefer the addition of nut paste and a milk sugar/protein elixir instead of partially hydrogenated palm oil.
Kraft doesn't seem at all concerned about the technicalities of Milka, it's spreading the bars and candies worldwide on the strength of the milk part of the product, not the cocoa. In the past five years I've seen them in stores in the United States quite a bit more, not just at import themed stores like Cost Plus World Market, but also at big box retailers like Target. I found this little Easter treat called Milka L'il Scoops at my local grocery store, Ralph's.
The candies are described as Milk chocolate confections with creamy mousse filling.
The packaging is precious. It's a real egg carton, in the sense that it's made from recycled pulp though it's bright purple instead of a muted color. The carton has four little sections that hold the foil wrapped egg confections. At the center of the package is a little stack of two purple spoons for eating the filling. Yes, it's a lot of purple. (Kind of confusing, as many Cadbury items are also identified with purple which is also owned by Kraft.)
The eggs themselves are actually egg sized. I threw a Grade A Large Egg in there for comparison. I'd call these medium eggs, they're about 2.3 inches high and 1.2 ounces though a little lighter than an actual chicken egg which are about 1.5 ounces.
The foil is thin but not wrapped so tight that it's hard to get off, like I sometimes find with Cadbury Creme Eggs. The egg inside the wrapper is scored with a thinner shell at the top.
The eggs are to be eaten like a soft boiled egg. The top of the egg shell (chocolate confection) is removed and the little spoon is used to scoop out the filling. This actually works just as advertised. It was easy for me to either bite it off cleanly, or pinch the top gently and pull it off. (I suppose the spoon may be a useful tool as well, since the shell is quite soft and who cares if you get a little chocolate in the filling like you would with a real egg.)
The Milka chocolate confection is sweet and a little nutty, it's soft and has a good fudgy melt. The cream center is frothy and buttery, almost like a buttercream frosting or whipped topping. It's made of sugar and fractionated palm kernel oil so it's a little oily on the tongue.
Overall, I preferred breaking the chocolate up and eating it with the creamy center instead of eating the center straight. Maybe if it was flavored, like a frothy hazelnut paste cream I'd be happier to eat it straight.
I liked this far better than I thought. I was fully expecting them to be another version of Cadbury Creme Eggs. Instead I found that the quality of the shell was better and the creme was actually not so sweet.
These are super calorie & fat bombs. Each one has 190 calories (158 per ounce) which is far more than a CCE. They're really overpackaged, but at least everything is recyclable. (Well, maybe not the spoons, but I plan on reusing those for quite some time.) They're expensive, at least twice the price of most other holiday eggs, so make it special. These are also called Milka Loeffel Chocolate Filled Eggs and sell for about $8.00 online, so I was fortunate to get mine for only $4.99. For that price I'd prefer something with a little bit better quality ingredients. However, if this is a favorite of someone you love, then it's all worth it.
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Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Cadbury Wunderbar
I went all the way to Germany to buy a Canadian candy bar.
I picked up the Cadbury Wunderbar at a grocery store. I've actually seen them in the United States, heck, I've even bought them before, but they were always kind of melted and broken. This one looked lovely and in good condition. Wunderbar is a great name for a candy bar, it works on a couple of levels. First, it's unique and a bit of a play on words because it sounds like Wonder Bar. But the German word Wunderbar (pronounce that w like a v) means Marvelous!
The front of the package doesn't do much to illuminate what's inside though. It just calls it A peanut butter caramel experience. The back, in teensy print, says crispy peanut bar with caramel and cocoa containing coating. Wow, I don't think I've ever heard of a bar with a less appealing description, probably because it ends with some sort of comedic euphemism for mockolate (because of the alliteration of the K sounds).
I don't want to think too much about this bar. It's a candy bar and it's supposed to be transiently pleasing. So I'm prepared for just that.
The coating was pretty good for mockolate, a little soft but not at all waxy. Smooth enough to not be grainy but not so great at the melt in your mouth creaminess. The flavor was okay, more milky than chocolatey but mostly it tasted like peanuts.
The center of the bar was like someone had chopped up the center of Butterfinger bar and mixed it in with some Chex cereal then reformed it into a log and coated it. That's really not a bad idea and it does work. There's a bit of a softer caramel in there as well, that keeps it all soft and crumbly. There are little shards of peanut butter toffee stuff, too.
I wanted more peanut flavor, but it wasn't overly sweet and had a little hint of salt as well.
Really it just left me wanting a Clark Bar. But I admire it for not being another Clark/Butterfinger/Fifth Avenue knock-off. It's more munchable and certainly less messy. It's also huge, at 1.9 ounces and about six inches long. I wouldn't go so far as to call it marvelous, since it would be better with real chocolate. So I'll just call it Tempting (6 out of 10).
Some other views: Exquisite Candy and Jim's Chocolate Mission.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Milka NAPS Mix (Assortment)
One of the most popular chocolate brands in Europe is Milka. It's currently distributed by the international food conglomerate Kraft but began its existence as a family chocolate brand made by Suchard back in the early 20th century. I tried the version that's available in the States about four years ago.
Milka is, of course, known as milky chocolate, very similar in profile and price to Cadbury. However, instead of putting vegetable oil in the chocolate, Milka uses just a touch of hazelnut paste.
Milka is now widely available in the United States but I wanted to pick up some while I was in Europe, just in case it was a little different. I did find this assortment called Milka NAPS Mix in Germany. It features four different varieties of tiny bars: Alpenmilch, Crunchy Caramel, Erdbeer & Creme au Cacao.
The little bars are about 4.25 grams, individually wrapped and easy to identify your favorite. The bars are about 1.5 inches long.
The traditional Milka is just as I remember it. Milky, sweet, smooth and not very chocolatey. They're a good candy and at this size, and excellent little tough-covering pick me up. The hazelnut is just a light hint of roasted nuts, not like a thick gianduia. It's much creamier than I recall the American packaged bar I tried, though as someone who likes a lot of either chocolate in my chocolate or hazelnuts in my gianduia, this didn't quite fit my personal profile.
The Milka Crunchy Caramel is the same little bar with some toffee chips in it. (Not Daim chips, for some reason.) I liked the crunchy texture and light salty hint, though sometimes they tasted a bit like butterscotch and not quite like toffee. This was my favorite of the mix, now I'm sorry I didn't pick up the Daim version of Milka.
The Milka Erdbeer is the milk chocolate with dried strawberry bits in it. The strawberry bits taste real, but have a grainy quality to them that kind of ruins the texture of the chocolate at time. Still, the milk and strawberry flavor was great, it reminded me of neapolitan ice cream.
This was the only filled bar in the mix. The center was a thin little strip of chocolate creme. It really didn't taste that much different than the standard Milka Bar, mostly because of the proportions. It had more of a chocolate frosting flavor to it though. It was my least favorite of the mix.
I like that Milka comes in so many different varieties and that the European versions also come in different sizes and seasonal variations. This box of chocolate though was a bit on the expensive side, compared to the large 100 gram (3.5 ounce) tablet bars at 3 Euros (about $4). Basically, I could have bought one of each of these varieties as a full sized bar for about the same amount of money, but had more than 3 times as much candy.
I have a dark chocolate version of a Milka bar at home, I'm hoping that's a bit more to my personal liking, but mixes like this always have something to please most folks. (And I did finish most of the box without any help from anyone else.)
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Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Kraft Daim
The Daim bar is a popular crunchy toffee bar covered in chocolate that originated in Sweden.
According to Wikipedia, the development tale is rather curious. Marabou, the preeminent Swedish chocolate company, approached Heath Bar back in the early 1950s for permission to license the Heath name and recipe to be produced for the Swedish/Norwegian marketplace. Heath said they couldn't but did furnish the basic recipe so Marabou created the Daim Bar. The Daim went on to become quite a sensation, so much so that Hershey's decided it needed its own crunchy toffee bar and copied the Daim in the US and called it Skor (along with the tag line of "The Taste of Sweden" in their launch advertising). The funniest part of the whole thing about Hershey's marketing a copy of a Swedish candy that was a copy of an American candy was that Hershey's ended up buying Heath Bar when they acquired Leaf Candy Company in 1996.
Marabou, in turn, was bought out by Kraft back in 1993 which distributes the Marabou chocolate products around the world. The easiest place to find Daim bars is at IKEA.
The bar does look a lot like the American Skor. It's a smallish bar, flat and with a crisp buttery toffee center with a few bits of almonds in there. The milk chocolate coating is a little thicker on top with some attractive swirls and waves.
At only 28 grams (about .99 ounces) it's a small bar but provides a lot of crunch.
I've bought this bar at least three different times for review on Candy Blog and each time I've managed to eat it before reviewing. (The photos here are from a 2008 episode where at least the bar made it into the studio for documentation.)
While I was in Europe I was pleased to see Daim widely available. Not only does it come in the familiar bar format, the toffee chips are also used in other co-branded confections, like a version of the Milka Bar (Jim's Chocolate Mission has a review)
Since I knew I could find another bar in the States if I wanted it, I picked up this 100 gram (3.5 ounce) bag of Daim. The package says nothing else on the front - no description, no brand name ... just Daim. Not even the fact that this is not a bar but little chocolate covered nuggets. I guess the picture on the front says it all. My guess is since Daim is available in so many countries, it's just confusing to say things, why not show them? The back of the package features micro-printing to accommodate at least 8 different language versions of the ingredients and still no actual name of the product. So I'm going to call these Daim Nuggets.
The little pieces are actually better, in my opinion, than the bar. I loved them. The chocolate is certainly not of excellent quality but good enough for this purpose. It's milky and sweet and just creamy enough. It seals in the crunchy pieces of toffee to keep them from getting sticky and syrupy.
The toffee has a light burnt taste to it, plenty of milk and a touch of salt. It's crunchy and every once in a while I think I got a little bit of an almond. The toffee is cooked to perfection - it's crunchy but not too hard (having small pieces helps) and also doesn't get tacky or stick to my teeth in large clumps.
I bet this is great on ice cream or added to cookies, of course it would need to come in larger bags, because this one is empty.
Other Daim reviews: Chocablog, Jim's Chocolate Mission and Candy Addict.
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ACFAS And AMA At Odds Over Permitting Podiatrists To Head Hospital Staffs
By Brian McCurdy, Senior Editor
The American Medical Association (AMA) is opposing the Conditions of Participation of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) that would allow podiatrists to hold leadership positions at hospitals.
The AMA notified the CMS of its objection in December. "We are concerned about the precedent that this proposal sets," says the AMA statement. "Practitioners who are not medical doctors or doctors of osteopathy should not be authorized … to hold leadership positions on the medical staffs of all hospitals."
Michelle Butterworth, DPM, the President Elect of the ACFAS, disagrees. She notes an absence of data suggesting that there are safety concerns in regard to podiatric physicians heading hospital staffs.
"These are elected positions by our peers on the medical staff who know us best," says Dr. Butterworth. "If there are concerns about any member of the medical staff's competence, those should be dealt with through the medical staff bylaws."
"It is not about safety as there is no decision making regarding patient treatment," concurs Lawrence DiDomenico, DPM, FACFAS. "In my experience with hospital administration, it is more about being a leader, delegating and running the staff efficiently."
In some cases, DPMs are already heading hospital staffs, points out Dr. Butterworth. She says this is due either to confusion about the CMS' Conditions of Participation or that the medical staff had foot and ankle surgeons working in another official capacity to comply with the regulations. She was the Chief of the Medical Staff at Williamsburg Regional Hospital in Kingstree, S.C. from 2005 to 2007. She now serves as the Vice Chief of Staff of that hospital.
For Dr. DiDomenico, the Section Chief of Podiatry at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Youngstown, Ohio, the big advantage to DPMs heading medical staffs is visibility.
"Once the medical staff sees a DPM running the medical staff and hospital efficiently and well, I believe they will obviously have more respect for the individual and the profession," says Dr. DiDomenico. "When a DPM can 'get a seat at the table,' this allows for more accurate information to be communicated about the profession and a better understanding about the training and education of DPMs."
As Dr. Butterworth notes, the ACFAS and its 14 regional divisions did submit formal comments to the CMS. These comments are available at www.acfas.org .
"ACFAS has actively promoted to CMS and the Joint Commission that DPMs should be allowed to serve in the role of medical staff president or its equivalent, like their MD/DO/DDS colleagues are currently permitted," reads the ACFAS statement. "Many hospitals were simply not even aware that current regulations do not allow DPMs to serve in this capacity, thus depriving the medical staff of its right to choose one of its own members to serve as its leader."
The ACFAS also notes that no state precludes a DPM from functioning as the President of the Medical Staff.
"The CMS recommended change to allow DPMs to formally serve as the head of a medical staff is only an affirmation of modern day medical practice and the healthcare team approach the AMA also endorses," says Dr. Butterworth.
Can Radiofrequency Thermoneurolysis Abate The Pain Of Morton's Neuroma?
By Danielle Chicano
A recent study in the Journal of Foot and Ankle Surgery concludes that radiofrequency thermoneurolysis therapy can be effective in alleviating the painful symptoms of Morton's neuroma.
The study focused on 32 feet in 29 patients whose neuroma symptoms did not resolve despite receiving between four and eight weeks of conservative therapy. A surgical team then administered radiofrequency thermoneurolysis at the site of maximum pain in the affected foot at a temperature of 85ºC with impedance values between 350 and 550 for 90 seconds total.
Upon completion, 24 patients expressed complete relief one month after the therapy. The remaining five patients reported minimal to no relief and none of the patients claimed they experienced more pain. The study notes one complication of cellulitis, treated with oral antibiotics. All patients returned to normal shoe gear and activities within two days, according to the study.
Based upon their results, researchers concluded that radiofrequency thermoneurolysis is a minimally invasive alternative to open surgical intervention for patients with neuromas who do not respond to conventional treatment.
Two of the lead authors in the study, Jeffrey Cohen, DPM, FACFAS, and Ritchard Rosen, DPM, FACFAS, believe this therapy will be a beneficial addition to their treatment armamentarium. They cite numerous advantages that the treatment leaves no surgical site to heal, is less painful and that the treatment does not preclude going back to remove the neuroma surgically if radiofrequency thermoneurolysis is not effective. The possible complications include infection (the risk of which is less than with surgery) or inadvertent tissue burn or damage, note Dr. Cohen, the Chief of Podiatric Surgery at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center in Englewood, N.J., and Dr. Rosen, the Chief of Podiatric Surgery at Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck, N.J.
Dr. Cohen and Dr. Rosen often recommend this type of treatment to patients who do not respond to conservative treatment prior to initiating surgical intervention.
"Many of these patients benefit from conservative care consisting of either 4% alcohol sclerosing injections or steroid injections or shoe modifications including orthotics," say Dr. Cohen and Dr. Rosen. "If conservative therapy fails, we either try radiofrequency thermoneurolysis or surgical removal of the neuroma."
Drs. Cohen and Rosen believe their research on radiofrequency thermoneurolysis may help decrease the need for surgical interventions for the treatment of neuromas.


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A recent study by the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission, which is a non-departmental government advisory body, has shed light on the elitist character of the most influential positions in UK society.
Perhaps surprising, 59% of the British Cabinet went to the universities of Oxford or Cambridge – a staggering figure if one considers that only 1% of the UK populations studied there. Yet, top Cabinet members including the Prime Minister David Cameron, George Osborne, Nick Clegg, William Hague and Theresa May all attended one of these two universities. The percentage gets slightly lower if one looks at the UK Parliament as a whole, with "only" 24% of MPs holding Oxbridge degrees, but the Social Mobility Commission did not content itself with uncovering the background of politicians.
Oxbridge graduates seem to occupy the top positions in a variety of influential sectors. According to the study, 75% of senior judges, 57% of permanent secretaries, 50% of diplomats, 47% of newspaper columnists, 33% of BBC executives and 12% of those on the Sunday Times Rich List, all hold Oxbridge degrees. And the figures are even higher if we look at how many people in those roles attended independent (private) schools before joining the Oxbridge circus.
The Social Mobility Commission and the UK media were deeply concerned at these findings and many have levelled criticisms against the UK "elitist society" which emerges from the report. However, it is also worth pointing out that some of the most talented and intelligent people in the country have attended independent schools and then successfully passed the academically rigorous Oxbridge admission procedures. So it may not be just about social classes after all…
Both Oxford and Cambridge University are working hard to diversify their student body and give opportunities to talented students from a variety of backgrounds. It may require a lot of hard work, but getting into Oxford or Cambridge University is definitely not impossible, whichever background you come from.
So, would you like to be an Oxbridge Alumnus too? Why not start by spending a summer in one of the beautiful Oxbridge Colleges? Bucksmore Education runs English Language and Academic Summer Programmes in 5 Cambridge University Colleges and 2 Oxford University Colleges. We also have a highly specific summer programme, World University Preparation (UK), which is designed to help students successfully apply to top UK universities.
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Closely modelled on MBA courses at top universities, Enterprise & Entrepreneurs is the very first Bucksmore Summer Course designed for adult students. The programme is ideal for young adults, between 18 and 25, who are interested in becoming global leaders in business.
Following on the popularity of our International Business Management tutorial course, available for junior students on the Advanced Studies Program, we have decided to devise a highly specialised course for adults who want to develop their commercial awareness and learn about entrepreneurship and leadership skills. Over two weeks the students will be introduced to key theories in marketing, business leadership, motivation, innovation and entrepreneurship,whilst improving essential English communication skills. The programme combines Business English classes with project work, business case studies and guest lectures by successful businessmen and women, alongside a varied and exciting excursion and social programme.
The Programme is hosted by Selwyn College, Cambridge University. Selwyn was founded in 1882 and is located a short walk from the city centre, close to the Sidgwick faculty site and the University Library. The distinctive red-brick Victorian Old Court, in Tudor Gothic style, is complemented by the beautiful college garden, unusual in a Cambridge College. Besides boasting a reputation for being one of the friendliest colleges in the university, Selwyn College was also one of the first in Cambridge to go mixed, admitting women in 1976. Bucksmore students will be accommodated in the comfortable single en-suite rooms in Cripps Court, which was refurbished in 2012, and will have the privilege of spending two weeks living like an undergraduate student at Cambridge University. Consistently named as one of the top universities in the world, Cambridge University is a global centre of learning and constitutes the ideal location for a prestigious summer business course for ambitious young adults.
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"It was my first time at a summer camp abroad and I really enjoyed my time with the Bucksmore team and the other children from around the world. It was a great experience, we had a lot of fun and I learnt a lot. I'm looking forward to meeting them all again next summer"
"My week with bucksmore in Corpus Christi college was amazing . The Young Leaders course was very interesting and in the international environment I made a lot of good friends and spent some of the best weeks in my life . I would suggest Bucksmore to everybody."
The QS rankings are considered the most comprehensive of all university ranking tables and they have placed FOUR UK universities in the top SIX from all over the world.
Cambridge University is in second place above Harvard and below only MIT. Imperial College, London is joint second; ULC is sixth and Oxford University is in fifth place.
The link to the table is here: http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/ng-interactive/2014/sep/16/-sp-qs-world-university-rankings-2014 and a Guardian article summarising it can be found here: http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/sep/16/cambridge-imperial-oxford-ucl-in-top-five-worlds-universities .
So, where better to spend a summer course than in one of these leading global centres of education!? In 2015, Bucksmore will be running summer programmes in SIX Oxford and Cambridge University Colleges, and ONE in London close to Imperial and UCL.
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Telstra (Melbourne, Australia), a network carrier, on Thursday announced it would invest more than $800 million in cloud computing over the next five years to support the growing demand from Australian organizations for cloud services.
As part of the announcement, Telstra CEO David Thodey unveiled more corporate customers who use Telstra cloud computing including Australian Vintage Limited, The Salvation Army Employment Plus, Oz Minerals, Tabcorp, and Tristar Medical Group.
U.S. regulators granted Harbinger Capital-backed LightSquared (Reston, Va.) a two week extension on its report explaining GPS interference issues related to a high-speed wireless network it wants to build, the company said on Wednesday.
Before it can go ahead with its proposed network, LightSquared must show the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that it can avoid interference with GPS devices, which use wireless airwaves next to those licensed to LightSquared.
RACO Wireless (Cincinnati, Ohio), a provider of machine-to-machine (M2M) connectivity, announced on Wednesday that it will provide the M2M backbone for Securus Inc. (Cary, N.C.), a provider of GPS-based products and services, as well as provide an M2M service package for vertical market applications to Direct Communication Solutions (DCS) (Coral Spring, Fla.), a distributor of embedded modules for M2M developers.
The U.S. Congress was introduced to The Broadband Affordability Act on Tuesday, which will aim to help bridge the digital divide by making in-home broadband services more affordable for lower-income American families. The Act was introduced by Congresswoman Doris Matsui (D-CA), a member of the House of Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) estimated in 2010 that 28 million Americans do not subscribe to broadband services because of affordability barriers.
Alcatel-Lucent (Paris, France), a telecommunications vendor, on Tuesday announced that OJSC Mobile TeleSystems "MTS" (Moscow, Russia), a network operator, has selected Alcatel-Lucent's wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) networking technology for its optical transport network in metropolitan areas. The project will aim to increase MTS's network capacity to support 3G services and prepare for LTE technology.
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Telefónica (Madrid, Spain) and Orange (Paris, France), providers of communication services, have signed an agreement on Tuesday to allow customers in their respective networks to conduct telepresence sessions.
This agreement comes right after another telepresence deal made by Orange, having made an agreement with Tata Communications in April.
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SK Telecom Co. (Seoul, South Korea) requested on Wednesday that regulators sanction KT Corp (Seongnam, South Korea) and LG Uplus (Seoul, South Korea) for allegedly hurting competition with excessive handset purchase subsidies.
SK Telecom, which controls more than half of the country's mobile phone market, asked the Korea Communications Commission to probe marketing activities by KT Corp and LG Uplus, to which it lost a net 23,800 customers from the beginning of May to June 14.
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (Seoul, South Korea) will become the world's largest smartphone maker this quarter, overtaking Nokia Oyj (Espoo, Finland) which has lead the market since 1996, Nomura, a provider of investment and global market capabilities, said on Monday.
In the next quarter Nomura also predicts Apple Inc (Cupertino, Calif.) overtaking Nokia, pushing the Finnish company to No. 3 in the rankings.
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Roommate assignment and notification day is almost here! This is one of the most anticipated days of the summer. Freshmen, this means you get to find out who your roommate will be for the upcoming academic year. For students returning to on campus housing, this is a time for you to verify that your roommate is correct and your housing is the housing you chose during housing selection. If you picked a random roommate you will also be able to find out who your roommate will be.
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New and significantly larger-scale hydraulic fracturing techniques have increasingly been used in Michigan as a means of extracting oil and natural gas from the ground. The new processes have been a boon for production nationally — so much so that industry is working hard to export supply.
Most major industrial extraction processes create a host of environmental issues, and fracking is no different. The use of toxic and undocumented proprietary chemicals, rapid withdrawals of large quantities of water, the industrial footprint of drilling sites and access roads, traditional air pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions are some of the larger issues that demand serious near-term solutions.
Administrative rules, such as the rules the DEQ is proposing, are issued within and under the authority of laws that are currently in place. Therefore, these rules are a small piece of the overall fracking discussion.
In order for larger-scale regulations to be put in place — which are necessary to protect Michigan's land, water and property rights from fracking — those regulations would come from the state Legislature or federal government.
Not only are the proposed rules narrow in scope, but they don't go far enough.
The rules are designed to reinforce current regulations and support a sampling of industry best-practices. The rules, however, do not substantially improve environmental protections.
The DEQ expresses a similar sentiment in their Regulatory Impact Statement issued with the rules, saying, "Because the proposed rules largely codify existing requirements contained in SOW (Supervisor of Wells) Instruction 1-2011, there is no necessary additional cost for (DEQ) staffing needs and no appropriation is necessary."
The rules package shortchanges private property owners by allowing for permits to "be issued on a drilling unit that is not totally leased, pooled or communitized." This change essentially denies property owners the right to a hearing on whether their property is included in a "drilling unit" before drilling begins.
So, while a property owner will still get a hearing, that hearing may be after drilling has begun.
Fracking chemical disclosure requirements still have not been adequately addressed. Under the proposed rules, the public will not know what chemicals will be injected into the ground until after the fracking has occurred.
The rules say the chemicals should be disclosed within 30 days. However, even when the chemicals are disclosed, drillers do not have to disclose all the chemicals they are using due to federal trade secrets protections.
Perhaps the most significant change in the rule is a requirement that companies perform baseline water quality testing for high-volume hydraulic fracturing (greater than 100,000 gallons). This is an important addition to Michigan's regulatory regime; however, it should be required prior to and after all oil and gas exploration, completion and production, and not just high-volume fracking. Even though smaller operations use less water and chemicals, those smaller operations are in far greater numbers around the state, and citizens near these operations should also have the right to know their drinking wells and aquifers are unaffected.
In addition to protections for water quality, water quantity needs to be tightened. Michigan's Water Withdrawal Assessment Tool and permitting system aren't designed for the amount of water that is being withdrawn at such a rapid pace, as we see with fracking. Fracking operations in northern Michigan have used more than 20 million gallons for a single well in just a matter of days. The technical models and DEQ site visits need to account for these aggressive withdrawals of water.
Additionally, in the permit process, permittees are asked to estimate how much water they will use up-front, but then have a full 60 days to report the actual amount of water used after completing fracking operations. This allows significant flexibility to modify withdrawals without a re-evaluation from the WWAT or DEQ site investigator.
With this type of water withdrawal, there needs to be regulation to ensure fracking does not adversely impact the flow of our world-class trout streams, dry up drinking water wells or harm other water sources.
Government oversight is strengthened when the public engages the regulatory process. You don't have to be a lawyer, oil and gas professional, or an environmental expert to ask questions and to express legitimate concerns and fears. You have until July 31 to do your research, gather your thoughts and be heard. The DEQ can be reached at 517-284-6823 or by email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Nicholas Occhipinti is the policy director for the West Michigan Environmental Action Council.


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By Curt email@example.com Tavares Stephens, the instructional lead teacher for the Clayton County school system's Open Campus High School, used to teach literature to students, so he couldn't resist borrowing some literary phrases for his speech to about 40 graduating seniors on Wednesday. "Commencement actually means something is beginning," Stephens told the graduates. "The introduction is where you learned how joyous life can be, and how sorrowful it can be as well. Now, it's time to write the body of your life." Stephens also encouraged the graduates to work on reaching their goals in the future. He explained the graduates can do whatever they dream of doing with their lives, if they live "a life of unlimited possibilities." "You have the power to write the next stories in your life," he said. "You can choose to become the person you want to be, or you can become someone else. If you decide to use the body of your life to look at yourself, your story will be what comes out of you." He referred to the first 12 years of education as the introduction to learning, and the rest of their lives as the bodies of their individual stories. The seniors were students at the Open Campus High School, which allows students to catch up, or get ahead in their classes. One of the graduates, Ronquesha Armour, read a poem, "It's A Time to Say Goodbye," about seniors going in separate directions after graduating from Open Campus. "Graduation day is the day when our dreams come true," Armour said. "This is the day we've been waiting for, since we started our education ... it's sad to watch our friends go down other paths in life." After the speeches were given, the school's administrators handed out diplomas and ribbons to each graduate. As the ceremony progressed, the bells signaling the end of one class and the start of another periodically rang out. "I wanted to give you guys lots of bells and whistles, but that was the best I could do," joked William Greene, the principal of the Open Campus High School.
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WALLA WALLA — Walla Walla bounced back from its first defeat of the season to hammer unbeaten Tacoma 9-1 Sunday in the second game of an NWAACC baseball doubleheader at Warriors Field.
Tacoma, which came into the twin bill with a 4-0 record, won the first game 4-1 by silencing the Warriors' bats.
But after picking up just three hits in the first game, WWCC unleashed a 14-hit assault in the second game to improve its season record to 3-1.
"It was great to see how we bounced back in the second game," WWCC coach Dave Meliah said. "Nobody hung their heads. They refocused and came back and swung the bat very well. Every guy in the lineup had at least one hit."
Jared Gonzales led the way in the Walla Walla comeback win with a double, two singles and two runs driven in. Dane Crater smacked two doubles and JJ Robinson and Ryan Neal each singled and doubled, with Robinson knocking in two runs and Crater one.
Juan Munoz pitched into the sixth inning for Walla Walla, with Michael Schmidt recording the final two outs of the sixth and Clayten Ayres working the seventh.
"Juan had a great start," Meliah said of Munoz. "He worked down in the strike zone and got a lot of grounds balls."
The Warriors managed just three hits in the first game, with Trevor Jones delivering a run-scoring double in the bottom of the fourth that tied the game at a run apiece. Tacoma regained the lead with a run in the sixth and added two insurance runs in the seventh.
"We couldn't get much going offensively in the first game," Meliah said. "We needed to do a better job of executing things situational."
"Jesse threw pretty well but was behind in the count some," he added of Jesse Houser, who pitched the first six innings for Walla Walla and was touched for six hits and two earned run. "When you do that against a good hitting team, they will make you pay for it."
The Warriors will entertain Green River this coming Saturday in another NWAACC non-league doubleheader.
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Gamache, Kolwal (7) and Reece; Houser, Price (7) and Browne.
Hits — Tacoma: Cloyd, Hicks 2, Nielsen, Bontempo 2, Reece, Johnson, Hirsch; WWCC: Neal, Jones, Morris.
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White, Hartnett (5), Eldridge (5), Nielsen (6) and Hinson; Munoz, Schmidt (6), Ayres (7) and Crater.
Hits — Tacoma: Cloyd, Bontempo, Spring; WWCC: Wolfe, Gonzales 3, Robinson 2, Neal 2, Crater 2, Jones, Morris, Whitney, Price.
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