My name is New home and I am a chocoholic. It's been three hours since my last treat.
Anyway, over to cereal. The psychology draws me in. A chance to have an entire meal (breakfast) tasting of chocolate. (In my defence I'm pregnant and constantly starving)
So i buy chocolate cereal.
And it never tastes like chocolate.
Coco pops - the Kellogg ones- taste a bit chocolateY, but just about nothing else has any vague resemblance to chocolate. Apart from being brown.
I put up with this for years and then this week bought some Sainsbury's chocolate toffee breakfast bat cereal. Mmmmm!
It doesn't taste of chocolate. Or toffee.
I won't say it tastes of cardboard because that would be hyperbole and this is a serious matter.
But it tastes of nothing.
We had been going through a chocolate pillow phase. Bite them open and out oozes what we presume is nutella (ok, technically a hazelnut spread but it tastes more like bloody chocolate than chocolate pillows do!). In reality, I think the factory just injects them with ink.
In desperation I ate a multipack of double deckers today. I hang my head in shame.
Have any of you found a cereal that actually tastes of chocolate to some degree?
Should I just give up and eat a bagel?
What is the reason for this gap between expectation and reality?
Anyone work for a cereal factory and can enlighten me?
Yabu - I disagree, chocolate cereals do taste like chocolate.
Yanbu - too true, it's all a fraud.