Hershey's Hugs

There is always a way to turn something into a party. Seriously, in our English class, we had our final project, in which we read a book and explain stuff to the class [yeah, it was vague]. I don't really want to get into the details for every person's presentation, but NC brought in Hershey's Hugs, which I can now add to my "New Chocolate" list [on the sidebar]!

The Hershey's Hugs were extremely pretty, as they were nicely striped. Although the inside was plain ol' chocolate, the outside white chocolate was surprisingly overwhelming. The whole thing had a bite of caramel [though when I checked the ingredients, I found nothing caramel related... so it could've been the taste of white chocolate that confused me. Though, my taste buds honestly felt as though they were tasting a hint of caramel]. As usual, they melted pretty fast. If you had moulded a few of these into a spherical shape, sifted some cocoa powder over it, and offered it to some person on the street, he/she would most likely state that it was a chocolate truffle.

Candy Corn Kisses.

I typed a paragraph and accidentally Ctrl+W. Oh well.

Basically, in early November I went to buy some chocolate/candy because college apps were done, and all those food items' prices were slashed in half. I got these Candy Corn Kisses from Hershey, basically because I like candy corn. Actually, the first time I'd had it it was when AZ was eating them on the bus back from an XC meet, in 2008. Anyway.

The first thing that you think of when I say "Hershey"? Chocolate, right? Nah. You're wrong. Considering that their Kissables candy has no substantial cocoa content in it [in fact, if you called those Kissables "chocolate", then your general unbranded chocolate milk is thus indisputably pure chocolate], I didn't really expect much "chocolate" taste in these. I figured it was just better to get this than get a bag of candy corn which has partially hydrogenated oils, a.k.a. trans-fat.

I know that white chocolate has no cocoa powder [or else how could it naturally be white?], but by looking at the ingredients, I can honestly say that this isn't legitimate chocolate [a mon avis].

Ingredients: Sugar, vegetable oil [cocoa butter, palm, shea, sunflower and/safflower oil], non-fat milk... blah blah...colours, emulsifiers, additives.

So it's basically sugar and fatty acids, but that's what makes it taste, uh, sweet and fatty.

In all honesty, these did not taste like candy corn, unless you whole-heartedly believe that candy corn has one taste, "sweet". Candy corn itself is initally chewy, with this poofiness and gooiness, and then this chalky taste, and has this aftertaste which is extremely sweet.

Candy corn Kisses start off sweet and creamy. Still sweet and creamy. Ends up sweet and creamy. Uh, not really chocolate. Not really candy corn.

But hey, they're pretty.

Note that the second last one that I ate [I ate the last one today.] had two plumes. Mutant! It is twice as long as the typical ones that were in the bag. Come to think of it, maybe 15% of them didn't even have plumes, and about 42% of them had the white part dripping into the orange part. Either way, they were cool to open. I have a lotta pretty wrappers now. I don't know what I'm going to do with them, though. Maybe make some art.