Dear everyone: thank you. After reading your comments on yesterday’s post, it seems that while I may not be ready to tempt fate by calling myself a Chocolate Overlord, I could possibly get away with positioning myself as a Chocolate Minion.
I’m probably more comfortable being a Minion, anyway. I reckon no one would notice if a Minion ate an entire batch of peanut butter slice in two days, whereas an Overlord might get in trouble for promoting Excessive Nut Mastication.
(Get your minds out of the gutter, people. That means chewing. And yes, Amber, I’m looking at you).
Another thing a Chocolate Minion can safely do is review the following chocolate. Because, erm, Minions can always read French. Yep. Segue brilliance, right?
Bovetti Milk Chocolate with Caramel and Fleur de Sel
So far on this blog, I’ve reviewed Bovetti’s Dark Chocolate with Espelette Peppers and White Chocolate with Raspberry Sugar. I enjoyed both of these rather disparate chocolates, and so felt it was time to see how Bovetti fared with milk chocolate. Seeing as I rather love the combination of chocolate and salt, this 38% blend with its sparkly jewel-like caramel shards and fleur de sel seemed just the ticket.
I have three words for Bovetti, first and foremost: Consistently Gorgeous Aesthetics. Visually, this chocolate was puuurty, and the aroma contributed to my positive expectations with its strong caramel and sweetened condensed milk notes threaded through with mild cocoa.
Unfortunately, this Bovetti Milk Chocolate with Caramel and Fleur de Sel didn’t live up in taste to what it promised in aroma. The chocolate did have some sweetened cream notes, but in all honesty it reminded me of little more than bog-standard Cadbury Dairy Milk (which this blog is likely see a lot of in the near future, what with my winning that Cadbury competition and all).
The caramel pieces were chewy rather than crispy and maybe, if I stretched really far and almost popped my arm out of its socket, could be said to taste like the opaque Milk Bottle lollies sold at yesteryear corner stores. I never liked those lollies, though, so I wasn’t terribly enthused by the taste memory.
The biggest disappointment in regards to this chocolate was the Fleur de Sel. Or, as I like to say, the Fleur de Nil. (Oh yes. I just made an incredibly lame pun. You know you love it.) There was absolutely no flicker of salt to be found whilst eating this chocolate, and subsequently no accentuation of the chocolate or caramel flavours.
Give me true salted caramel and I’m putty in your hands, Bovetti. Lie to me and say you’re giving me salted caramel, but instead give me rather insipid one-note sweetness?
Well, Bovetti. I think we all know what happens when you do that. I become a Cranky Chocolate Minion, and I tell everyone that I’d never willingly buy this again.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have a Chocolate Overlord’s shoes to polish.
Question Time: What’s your favourite lame-o pun?
I love the Lindt Salt Chocolate.
I don’t know if I have a lame-o-pun to share… shall have a think!
That Lindt Sea Salt is pretty good – definitely not the best of that ilk, but I was certainly happy to see Australia finally hopping on the salt bandwagon
Hrmm… nor do I!
Normally I’m a sucker for anything that contains even a brief mention of caramel and fleur de sel.. what a shame this was a let down. Maybe you could make an improved version yourself ?!
I’d be happy to help you try it, of course!
What I wouldn’t give for the know-how with which to create my own chocolates! In that dream-scenario, I’d happily share with you
No way! I guess sometimes you really can’t judge a choc by its cover…
Not everytime, but hey, at least it keeps life interesting!
You are a huge fan of oysters, and you are totally addicted to chocolate; do you think that, if you kept all nine bars to yourself, you would be considered shellfish? (sorry, even more terrible than yours)
Yep, that’s a Dad Pun alright!
Oh no, was it really that bad?? Sorry! I was going to go with ‘I couldn’t understand why the chocolate bar kept getting bigger, then it hit me!’ Don’t know if that’s better or worse, though. Hope you are well?
I am truly not a fan of those milk bottle lollies either.
Disappointing chocolate is disappointing. If I was looking for salt and didn’t get any…especially with all those pretty caramel pieces…well.
Puns? I love this guy: http://punraccoon.tumblr.com/
Hurrah, at least there’s one person on my non-milk-bottle side! And thank you for the link! I’m in a rush at the moment but can’t wait to look at it later
Oooh I always loved the milk bottle lollies and this block looks so purdy – maybe it’s destined for me, instead of you, dear Hannah. You know sent to the wrong minion and all that?
That must’ve been it!! And surely the next lot of Harry’s Rocky Road should be sent to me?
cereal killer
Wow, I have no idea what this relates to…
Careful Hannah… don’t indulge in too much nut mastication. I’ve heard it can make you go blind.
In other news, how thoroughly disappointing. While I suspect I’d *like* this bar, I’m definitely sad to hear that it didn’t live up to its potential. Which is bountiful. And delicious-sounding. Humphhh.
It’s not *bad*, and if it hadn’t had fleur de sel in the title I wouldn’t have been so disappointed. I think you’d like the sweetness
I can still see, but maybe I’ll get a hairy tongue? (Ew.)
Milk bottle lollies are awesome. I bet the Overlord likes them.
Last time I shared a pack of mixed lollies with my sister she was eating all of them to get them over and done with quickly as she doesn’t like them and thought I didn’t either. She has now been firmly corrected of this mistaken belief.
What a kind, albeit misguided and ultimately evil as a result, sister! She could eat all my milk bottles anyday.
Myyyy milk bottles bring all the boy to the yard…
oh I love the look of this!
It did look good!
But if you aren’t the chocolate overlord then who is?
And I suspect I would enjoy this chocolate because chewy caramel and milk bottle lollies appeal to me! I will swap it for a red panda cupcakes!
If only we lived in the same city, we could actually make these swaps happen! *sigh*
I love any and all lame puns. I do not love sugar that masquerades as salt. Or vice versa.
I do not like it, Sam I Am!
I have never actually tried anything like this! I am intrigued. I really do think that I need to expand my chocolate repatoire!
Everybody needs to expand their chocolate repertoire! It’s what makes life worth living
I do know someone who found these in Australia, but sadly I’ve never seen them in Canberra…
I love the combination of caramel and salt! Doesn’t salt accentuate everything?
It does indeed – isn’t it wonderful?
Nothing like some excessive nut mastication.
I saw a really terrible visual pun a while back. Not terrible as in “it’s awful but it’s a good pun”, terrible as in “that’s not even a pun”. It was a technicolour picture, Andy Warhol style, of a classic picture of a certain psychiatrist, with the caption “ONLY THE GOOD DYE JUNG”. Would’ve been funny if it was ACTUALLY PICTURE OF CARL JUNG INSTEAD OF SIGMUND FREUD. It was on a Tumblr about puns, and like 185 people had liked it or reblogged it. That’s 185 people who THOUGHT THEY GOT THE JOKE BUT DIDN’T.
I saw another terrible pun yesterday too, as the title of a journal article on caffeine consumption in school-age kids. It was… wait for it…
“MOUNTAIN DEW OR MOUNTAIN DON’T: a pilot investigation of caffeine use parameters and relations to depression and anxiety symptoms in 5th- and 10th-grade students.”
Oh my god that doesn’t even make sense. It makes slightly more sense if you pronounce dew like an American (ha ha, do vs don’t, I get it), but… mountain don’t? Reminds me of mountain goat, really.
Actually I saw a letter to the editor published in Nature once that was basically saying “please stop using stupid puns in your titles – the titles end up being uninformative and it’s difficult for a lot of people who have English as a second language to understand what the hell is going on”. Very fair comment.
I happen to know for a fact that every Ibex prefers Fanta to Mountain Dew, so that pun doesn’t work even in the vaguest sense. But *laughs and laughs and laughs* about your first story! Oh, where do these people come from? And more importantly, where are they going? I hope far away from me…
Well at least it looks pretty right?
Hmmm, lame puns…I was emailing my cousin about the stress fracture on my foot and she came back in her reply that it would be very stressful for me, and then she must have realised she’d made a joke and proceeded to explain it to me!
Haha, the only thing worse than a bad joke is when people then go on to explain them
And yes, this is one instance wherein I’ll accept that the prettiness makes up for the lack of substance
I never would have realised it was a pun, thinking instead that yes, it was actually stressful. But then again, I can be quite dense.
Tsk! Tsk! Don’t you hate those show ponies? All dressed up full of promise & perform like a donkey
Brilliant way of looking at it! Though I’ve always liked donkeys a little bit…
Hi Hannah – noticed your comment on Helen GYF’s blog about never trying pandan ice cream. Blasphemy
Couldn’t find an email to contact you on, so I thought I’d leave a comment.
Passionflower cafe does lots of Asian-inspired ice cream flavours including taro, black sesame and lychee rose – http://www.passionflower.com.au/
Chocoholics – I take it you’ve churned through your fair share of chocolate cafes =) Lovely blog by the way!
Thanks so much for taking the time to come and help my pandan quest, Margaret (particularly as I’m obsessed with black sesame too) but unfortunately I live in Canberra. That’s the whole problem, you see – nowhere in Canberra offers things like that!
And funnily enough, I don’t really like chocolate desserts, so chocolate cafes aren’t my thing. But I’d happily eat my way through their chocolate blocks, if they offer them
Two peanuts were walking down the street at night. One was assaulted.
(You have to say it for it to work…)
I’m clever enough to get it even without saying it out loud
Peanut reference FTW!
Excessive…NUT…masturbation–ER, mastication…oh god, filthy-corner-of-brain self-combusting!…
This Bovetti brand had my attention; all you’d reviewed so far sounded great…too bad this broke the chain =/
Psh, asking me to name a single favorite lame pun is like asking me to name my single favorite nut…when everyone knows that it’s not a good mouthful unless you’ve at least got TWO of ‘em.
;P
*laughs riotously* Touche, my dear, touche.
And re: Bovetti… it’s all about balance, right? You need the bad ones so that you can truly appreciate the good ones. Kinda like nuts. And what they’re attached to.
::Dissolves into a fit of giggles:: Well played, m’dear…well played.
Is Chocolate Underlord a term? I’m terrible at telling jokes and I suspect this might extend to being terrible at telling puns too
If you say it is, it is!
What would being a Chocolate Underlord entail, do you think?
But… it looks like there’s tons of salt on it! Boo, what a disappointment.
And you know I like puns. The dumber the better. Don’t get me started.
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