Candy Review: Popcorn Flavored M&M's

I love it when candy companies experiment with new flavors. I'm a chocolate snob and I eat M&M's when there is nothing else around. They are perfect to mix in with crushed graham crackers and vanilla ice cream...but I'm getting off-topic.

I love chocolate-coated popcorn so M&M's limited Halloween special popcorn-flavored M&M's caught my attention.

I probably had my expectations set a little too high and ended up being disappointed. When you open the pack you are hit with a popcorn smell! But that's all the popcorn flavor is...a popcorn smell on the outside of the M&M's. After eating a few you no longer smelled/tasted the popcorn.

Add onto that the way they look! I assume they wanted them to look like popcorn but it was not very appetizing. They look bumpy and dirty.

Inside is a crispy center with very little chocolate around it.

Anyone else try them? Or have you found a different flavor you like? I was too impressed with the brownie M&M's either.

3 "meh" Sheep

SharonS

Flock talk: Today is national chocolate with almonds day!

I missed national chocolate day yesterday...but! Today is national chocolate with almonds day...so close enough.

I want to share with you my favorite chocolate cereal...which also has almonds in it.

I'm somewhat of a cerealphile (real word? Is now!). Good chocolate cereals are hard to find. Usually, the chocolate doesn't really taste like chocolate...and has a weird aftertaste.

Then I discovered Trader Joe’s Just The Clusters Chocolate Almond Granola Cereal - 16 oz

I eat this cereal for breakfast, as a snack, and dessert. And it's cheap...$2.99

Changing gears...I found a new dark chocolate that is smooth and delicious.

92% CACAO MOONLIGHT MYSTIQUE

This is flocking good!

Got any chocolate food suggestions for me to try?

Flock Talk: Chocolate bar PSA

Just realized I had nothing planned to go up on the site today...so I decided to do a PSA on bad chocolate. Yes, it does exist and I want to save you from making the same mistake I did.

Exhibit A:

I love to try new chocolate bars 'cause...chocolate. I was at the store and saw this new chocolate bar (Exhibit A). It was at a price point between Hershey's and Ghirardelli: $2 and packaged like the expensive brands so I thought I was safe...

Exhibit B:

I should have listened to my gut when I opened the outer packaging and saw this (exhibit B)! No respectable chocolate maker does this. What? Is it a freaking granola bar? No. It should be a foil wrapper. I had to use my teeth to open it!

I broke off one square and as soon as it hit my tongue I wanted to spit it back out...but I ain't no quitter so I chewed. It tasted like the alcohol smell that hits you when you enter a hospital. I. Kid. You. Not.

Moral of my story: If you can't figure it out, then enjoy you hospital chocolate bar.

My top 2 chocolate bars are...

   

Green & Black's is the smoothest dark chocolate I have found, the Ghirardelli is my back up.

So, what is your favorite chocolate bar?