Christmas Dissection: McVitie’s Digestive White Chocolate Nibbles

McVitie’s has been flogging “nibbles” of digestive biscuits coated in white chocolate, which is perhaps one of the least festive chocolate products I have ever seen.

In fact, I think it’s one of the least festive things I’ve ever seen out of everything in the entire solar system.

Categorically, stencilling a few pathetic snowflakes onto packaging does not automatically make something worthwhile for Christmas. I don’t profess to be a weatherman, but snow is far more frequently seen outside of Christmas time as opposed to during it. In the backend and backwards areas deep into the north of Staffordshire snow is just as likely in July as it is in January.

McVitie’s has also opted for the use of my most hated phrase to describe their unimaginative chocolates: “limited edition”. They’ve been in shops since September and are still being sold now, having been relaunched since 2017. So, a limited edition product that you can only buy for the majority of every year. EBay must be crashing under the strain of rampant collectors.

But, realistically, no one’s going to eat the plastic wrapping (unless you’re from Cornwall, obviously), so what were the actual biscuits like?

Well, they were small. That was my immediate reaction. Smaller even than my current tolerance of Mariah Carey. The packaging depicts the “nibbles” as huge, dominating boulders and I reasonably presumed that they would be the size of Maltesers; actually though, they’re disappointingly smaller (a feat I didn’t even realise was possible).

At least the risk of choking is reduced. I’m convinced that health and safety was the only reason behind McVitie’s Scrooge-ness.

To eat they were sweet, which was no particular shock given that both white chocolate and digestives are sweet enough on their own. The individual balls had been dipped in a fairly healthy amount of chocolate, so a decent layer of skin surrounded the biscuit.

Perhaps because of the small size of the “nibbles” there was a large quantity filling the bag (something that my permanently cynical mind was amazed by), making them a great purchase for a cinema trip or lounging around on the sofa gradually expanding until you fill the whole house.

Despite not being very inspiring, McVitie’s white chocolate Nibbles provide a functional response to those all-to-frequent sugar cravings with a plentiful supply.

Small balls: 3* 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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