Galaxy Truffles

I like truffles. Chocolate ones, that is. Which, thinking about it, you would probably expect from a chocolate blog. But maybe I haven’t been specific enough – perhaps that explains the lack of views. It definitely can’t be anything to do with the amazing content, that’s for sure.

The other truffles I can think of are those really expensive ones that dogs smell out in woods and posh people eat with champagne.

It turns out (at least according to Google) that they’re a fungus, which to me makes it a surprisingly disgusting choice for the elite. It’s a good job they’ll never come anywhere near my work’s office – they’d start devouring it.

Truffles contain only 1% of the daily dosage of fat allowance and 280% of fibre, which basically means that they taste disgusting. I guess the gallons of champagne act as a useful countering method in that case.

Chocolate truffles on the other hand are somewhat less exclusive. Even Galaxy has dared to endanger the perfection of its creamy chocolate by dabbling in the world of truffling.

There was a lot in my box for £3.50 (perhaps twenty chocolates), which was nice for the up-market land that Galaxy appears to have aimed for. This puts its truffles in immediate competition with Lindt Lindor and other newcomers, such as Kit Kat Senses.

It’s at that point that the goodness pretty much ended, though.

The truffles were individually wrapped in an inner layer of paper and an outer layer of plastic film (bad news for little fishes) that appeared fairly impressive… until they were opened that is.

Then, out popped a tiny brown blob that looked like something a bird would leave behind after gorging on worms or sausage roll crumbs. No effort had been put into the design other than a carving of a thin “G” on top, which presumably stood for “ghastly”, “Gordon Bennett” or “God awful”.

The taste was unimpressive, too. The beloved soft, thick and milky (don’t think it) Galaxy taste had gone, completely overpowered by the inner truffle that was dry, textured like brownie and accompanied by an unwelcome dark chocolate explosion.

“Velvety” – as the chocolates are described on the packaging – they are not.

To my mind a truffle should be light and fluffy, but Galaxy’s effort was just the complete opposite.

It was a bitter and unexpected disappointment from a brand that usually effortlessly produces fantastic chocolate. Lindt Lindor certainly still leads the way.

They’re not worth sniffing out: 2* 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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