Peanut Smarties

Nestle

For many years now I've thought of Smarties as being above M&Ms, I find the chocolate is higher quality, I like the colours more, I just seem to enjoy them more. I've also thought they had guts just sticking to what they know best, the basic formula of chocolate covered in a candy shell, no frills needed. Even when M&Ms started to branch out with Almonds and all kinds of other combination Smarties seemed to stick with what worked, the classic combination. Well those days are no more, now Nestle is pushing Smarties to new places; I just hope that the high quality sticks.

Man are those some little peanuts. The first things I noticed when I opened the box was that the treats weren’t that big, I figured that there was probably no much chocolate. Then I bit into it and realised that they're loaded with chocolate and it's just a really small peanut. I'm not sure if it's the variety of peanut or just the amount but I found that the peanut flavour really could have been stronger. The peanut does affect the flavour of the chocolate but it could be a little stronger, it needs to be a little more peanuty.

I can't say it's a disappointment on the whole. I just find they're not at the same quality level as the basic Smartie, but that's a classic with years in the making.

All scores out of 5 (April 18 2007)