M&Ms Salted Caramel

I’ve always loved M&Ms. Especially the crunchy the ones; aren’t they just the best? Better than a full English breakfast on a Sunday morning or sleep at any point of the day (preferably all day, every day).

The TV adverts though… well, I think that they’re the most accurate visual interpretation of what I imagine hell looks like. I can’t think of a single television commercial that isn’t inconvenient, but the M&M ones are painfully unfunny Americanised tripe.

What I didn’t know was that (according to that undeniably accurate font of knowledge Wikipedia) there are five M&M characters, all originally named after the colour that they are: Red (sarcastic and cynical); Yellow (happy and gullible); Blue; Green; Orange; Ms Brown.

I feel a Buzzfeed quiz coming on.

Orange is the mascot for the Salted Caramel variety, possibly to ensure representation of the Cheshire Wags set.

On the product packaging Orange is shown to be dropping huge white crystals into a fractured M&M – so either he has incredibly high blood pressure from over indulgence in salt or he’s a raving drug addict (in the world of Twitter, which would be considered worse?) Either way, if Orange is in charge of the manufacturing process it looks like we’re all in for either a mind or artery blowing time.

I didn’t notice any side effects after wolfing down the disappointingly small and expensive packet of chocolates (that contained maybe a dozen and a half M&Ms at best), so let’s assume that my arteries will solidify in a few years’ time.

Maybe the lack of chocolates was a direct result of them being relatively big – in a large part down to the concrete shell that surrounded them.

But once the solid capsules had been crushed they unearthed milk chocolate with actual chewy caramel within (as opposed to the usual stunt of including something which tastes mildly of caramel). Plus, it was noticeable that the caramel had been salted.

With the milk chocolate, layer of icing and unusually good quality salted caramel, the chocolates stand out as a different and enjoyable snack that are a splendid edition to the already superior M&M range.

The only thing to bring it down is the lack of sweets for the price, so 4* out of 5.

Review by JAMES LEWIS
Wanderer, wonderer and editor of the Chocolate Dissection blog (which will ideally melt hearts rather than brains). Reliable with sarcasm, less so with a scalpel. Twitter: @IdeasJimbound


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