Cheap and crumbly. Not particularly smooth, not particularly flavourful – best avoided.
Waitrose describe it as ‘Perfect for baking or enjoying on its own’ – so it’s repackaged baking chocolate.
[star rating=”1/5″]
Waitrose Everyday Milk Chocolate with Hazelnuts
Perfectly competent and fairly reasonably priced. Hazelnuts aren’t broken up which is a big bonus. Very little after-taste.
How’s that for a somewhat underwhelming review?
[star rating=”3/5″]
Hammond’s milk chocolate peanut butter cup
This looks like a posh version of a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup. It’s a huge cup with a massive amount of solid but relatively flavourless chocolate wrapped completely tasteless peanut butter. It’s so solid it’s hard to bite into. And it’s not cheap. So I don’t think I liked it.
[star rating=”2/5″]
Photo: Bicycle, bicycle. Station.
Tech: Coy messaging apps aren’t just rude, they’re unsafe
Coy messaging apps aren’t just rude, they’re unsafe – LinkedIn should know better*
Few things are more annoying than the message that you’ve got a message somewhere else – and you have to go to a different app or web page to read it.
Lindt Dark Chocolate with Hazelnuts
I really thought this would be better than Lindt’s Milk Chocolate with Hazelnuts, which I really wasn’t wild about.
Unfortunately, it’s not. It’s the softest dark chocolate ever (and I thought dark chocolate was usually firm, if not brittle?) and the taste is unpleasant with a not particularly nice aftertaste that I’m struggling to describe. Give it a miss.
[star rating=”1/5″]
The official spicy snack power rankings
Tech: On Ive and Apple - or not everything is or was perfect
Jony Ive Leaves Apple, Ive’s Legacy, The Post-Ive Apple
It won’t be the end of the world now that Jony Ive’s left Apple. It feels like he left a long time ago. Hopefully at some point there will be an objective view on his role – increasingly overstated, not as impactful as advertised might be my summary.
You can’t get around the fact that while the hardware (across the line) is pretty impressive, the software’s not advancing at the same rate – and a fair amount of it is actually pretty poor – if we’re allowed to be honest with each other.
Are We Too Pessimistic About Happiness?
In every single country, the average estimate of happiness is far lower than actual reported happiness.
Dad invests in jumper that will see him through last 40 years of his life
The problem with the daily mash is that most of the satire is probably true.
Tech: What Apple knows about you
Allegedly as little as possible. See also:
Apple: Apple Arcade is poised to make Apple the ‘art house’ gaming platform
Are we allowed to say ‘meh’? The more Apple claims it’s serious about games the less I believe them.
Green and Black’s Organic White Chocolate
Far too sweet and far too soft – melts almost instantly in your mouth which I find unpleasant. Short sweet after-taste. You can buy better, but unfortunately this is really the most common “premium” white chocolate bar in the UK.
[star rating=”2/5″]
Goodbye Jay Fielden
Esquire Magazine’s Editor (US edition) forced out…
Goodbye Jay Fielden. You couldn’t hold a candle to David Granger, and Esquire went from being an interesting read to almost unreadable within a matter of months of you taking over.
Hershey’s Gold – Peanuts and Pretzels
I thought this combination of white-ish chocolate, peanuts and pretzels really wouldn’t work but I was pleasantly surprised.
Nice balance of flavours and textures.
[star rating=”3/5″]