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Taste: These snack cakes looked from the picture on the box to be a lot like Twinkies, but with the addition of a wide stripe of chocolate on top, running the full length of the cake. It wasn't a full exterior chocolate coating like Chocodiles so they still closely resembled Twinkies. As a fan of Twinkies and a fan of milk chocolate, that sounded like a great combination to me! I bit in to find the expected soft Twinkies texture, with plenty of sweetness from both the cake and the creme filling, and it was nicely enhanced by the chocolate on top. Very good!Shop: Buy snacks at Amazon.comAroma: Smells like Twinkies, but with some chocolate too.
Taste: This box contained six individually wrapped candy bars, each fairly small. Each bar had a chocolate exterior with kind of a rough texture, and it appeared that the bar was a mix of crunchy things and milk chocolate. I initially thought it was maybe something like Rice Krispies, but the ingredients had various other things, including wheat and corn, that presumably constituted the crunchy elements of the bar. The taste and feel were quite good: lots of chocolate, but a light feel overall, less dense than a standard chocolate bar. It was hard to eat just one of the bars, but thankfully there were six of them, and three bars seemed to be a good serving size.Shop: Buy snacks at Amazon.comAroma: Good milk chocolate smell.
Taste: This box contained six 100-calories packs of what were described by the manufacturer as cookies, but each pack's clear wrapper revealed three cake-like slices whose cross-sections had lots of exposed cranberries and almonds. Each piece was cut thin at about an eight of an inch, about three inches wide, with a dome top maxing out at about an inch and half high. Our snackers were curious to try these, and everyone who took a slice (or even half a slice) enjoyed the taste. The feel was crunchy, though not a very hard crunch. The pieces were somewhat brittle and not at all bendable, and brittleness showed in the presentation, as many of the slices had broken apart into multiple pieces. The taste was nicely sweet, with a good hint of cinnamon, with plenty of sweetness from the cranberry pieces as well, without being anywhere near too sweet. There was also a strong hit of almond, especially in the aftertaste. We shared the 100-calorie packs around, and most of our snackers ate just one slice, or even a partial slice, and liked it. So maybe not quite "addictive" but still satisfying.Shop: Buy snacks at Amazon.comAroma: Smells like a sweet, fruity cake. Nice. 
Taste: These cookies were a lot like the Hostess Fudge Striped Shortbread Cookies, as they were round shortbread cookies with elaborate designs, fully coated on the bottom and thinly striped on the top with a fairly solid coating of caramel instead of fudge in this case. They were nicely crunchy and pretty good, with a lot of caramel taste. They were also fairly filling, as we didn't need to eat all that many cookies to be satisfied, yet they were good enough that we usually ended up returning to the package and eating a few more cookies than planned.Shop: Buy snacks at Amazon.comAroma: Good, sort of a mix of caramel and vanilla.
Taste: This milk chocolate and pistachio bar and an unusual square shape and was fairly thick, with a 3x4 section grid. Inside the outer paper wrapper was a gold foil wrap bearing the word "Golden" all over it. The shape of the bar was quite unusual as the sections were widely separated by a fairly thick chocolate, with chocolate shaped sort of like pipes rising up above the separator (but still far below the elevated sections themselves) connecting the sections together. From the top, there was no visible sign of pistachios, but the outlines of (lots and lots of) pistachios could be seen on the bottom of the bar, with most of them fully embedded in the chocolate but a few jutting out. I broke off some sections and could see lots of pistachios in the cross-sections. I but in to find varying texture of pistachios, with some fairly soft and others somewhat crunchy. They definitely didn't hold back on including lots of pistachios, and the mix of chocolate and pistachios was quite tasty.Shop: Buy snacks at Amazon.comAroma: Nice chocolate and pistachio smell.
Taste: This wide bar consisted of four wafer layers separated by three chocolate creme layers, with a dark chocolate coating over the whole exterior. I bit into the bar to find a very light feel with a whole lot of chocolate intensity. It tasted very good, quite excellent, but the internal wafer structure made it quite messy, as pieces of wafer and chocolate were flying all over the place. So if cleanliness is a priority, might want to eat this one over a plate.Shop: Buy snacks at Amazon.comAroma: Mild dark chocolate smell.
Taste: These square pastries did indeed look flaky, as they had a croissant-like exterior, with a bit of purplish and white filling spilling out of two opposite ends of the square. The whole thing felt very light in my hand, so I wasn't expected all that much filing, but when I munched in, I found there was plenty of very flavorful fruit filling. It had a nice real fruit taste with plenty of creaminess and sweetness, without being overly sweet. The pastry around the filling was very light, and the mix of tastes and textures was top-notch. Only six pastries came in the box, so not that any people got to try these, but those who did were very, very impressed.Shop: Buy snacks at Amazon.comAroma: Sweet, fruit and mild. Nice!
Taste: This tube contained fairly large cookie sandwiches, each consisting of large two round beige cookies, three inches in diameter, enclosing a chocolate filling. The texture of the cookies was surprisingly light, soft and crumbly, though still crisp and not bendable. The combination of cookies and rich chocolate filling was a big hit among our tasters as they enjoyed some beers after a run. People were eager to grab a cookie from the tube and then quite happy with the who experience once they crunched in. Beware of the crumbs, as these made lots of them!Shop: Buy snacks at Amazon.comAroma: Smells like those chocolate wafer cookies.
Taste: These potato sticks had a light yellow color, with lots of bits of dark green all over them. We crunched into a handful to find a fairly sweet taste of seaweed and potato. It was pretty tasty and not "fishy" at all. The mere presence of seaweed on the label had some potential tasters worried that eating some might be something that they would regret, but when people actually tried some, there were no major complaints, as a common these was that these were "not that bad" compared with what was expected.Shop: Buy snacks at Amazon.comAroma: Mostly like potatoes, but a mild seaweed smell too. Not bad at all.
Taste: This chocolate bar was positively huge, measuring a massive 3-1/2 inches by more than 7 inches, and with a 3x5 section grid, each section was impressively big too. It was also a bit thicker than your typical chocolate bar. Each section had a design on it similar to the New Orleans Saints logo. I bit in to find that the bar was surprisingly soft and melty in the mouth, with a different type of chocolate taste than most milk chocolate bars. It was sweet and had a slight hint of fruitiness, with a middling chocolate intensity that was countered a bit by the fact that each section was so darn big. Pretty good, especially for the combination of size/price.Shop: Buy snacks at Amazon.comAroma: Good chocolate smell, a bit on the bittersweet side.
