Showing posts with label granola bar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label granola bar. Show all posts

25 June 2010

Caramel Nut Brownie Luna Bar

What does that look like? A brownie? Cake? Bar cookie? Squished chocolate mille-feuille? Nah... it's actually a Caramel Nut Brownie Luna Bar. From a package. Factory made. Yet, if you had cut it up nicely and garnished a 2cm x 2cm chunk of it with a dollop of cream, you'd get this thing called a "gourmet" pastry. In high society [and middle/lower class, too, I suppose], plating matters so much. Which is rather stupid, since most foods end up looking pretty much the same in your mouth, and elsewhere. I've never really had a thing for plating. Plating makes food look too dead and ornamental. Food looks so fragile and I feel like I'm guiltily eating a sacred dinosaur bone. Anyway.
What a sexist wrapper. As though women don't like Clif bars... sigh. I'm sure guys like this too.
Looks delicious, tastes delicious! There are way too many Calories for a 48g bar but whatever... It is better than eating a cookie.

07 June 2010

Luna Bar...

This isn't strictly a "chocolate" but honestly, I wonder whether there is any differentiation between a Snickers and a Peanut Butter & Chocolate Luna Bar. They are essentially the "same thing", except that the Luna Bar is organic and has 10g more protein than a "regular" Snickers. In essence, the Clif Bar failed to make a wheaty-oaty-ingredient-seeable bar. They instead created a solid mush topped with thin, easily melted [a.k.a. waxy/oily] layer of "chocolate" coating.
This is essentially the same as the Snickers coating. In fact, the Luna Bar is described as being a "Decadent chocolatey covered nougat". Juxtapose that with the Snickers: peanut nougat, caramel, and chocolate covered. Pretty similar... [size included!]
In short, this Luna Bar was yummy :D, and I couldn't taste much peanut at all. The chocolate layer was blandly sweet [a.k.a not chock full of chocolate]. If on the scale of the different "bars" that are on the market today, Luna Bars definitely lean [hahaha. Lean. Get it?] to the Powerbar side. A.k.a. the homogeneous mashed up ingredients side. Check up my scale: