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Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Baron Milk Chocolate PB&Js
Commercial peanut butter began in the United States, where about 6-7% of the world’s peanuts are grown in any year. Peanut butter was used heavily during war years as a cheap and relatively stable protein source for soldiers. The story goes that soldiers during World War II would eat sandwiches on stale bread with peanut butter for weeks on end, and to moisten the bread they would add jelly or jam. It didn’t hurt that it also made it taste better as well. When the soldiers returned home, they introduced their families to this cheap and easy food. It seems kind of strange that for the most part candies are either jelly and chocolate or peanut butter and chocolate. There really aren’t any successful mass-manufactured chocolate, peanut butter and jelly candies. Maybe this new bar, all the way from Poland, will change that.
The bars are tiny, the box holds more than a half a dozen of them (8 to be exact), a little expensive for $1.99 but at least a unique item. Each little bar is individually wrapped in a paper foil. The recommended serving size is three sticks, each is about 60 calories.
The bars are a little on the soft side, they smell like roasted peanuts and chocolate milk. The peanut butter filling is sweet and a little sticky. On top of the peanut butter is a thin layer of jelly. In this case it’s grape and though it doesn’t have much of intensity, it’s a little pop of tangy, juicy flavor. The peanut butter isn’t so much a paste, it’s far sweeter and has less of a roasted, salty and savory punch. Think of it like peanut butter cookie dough, sweet and thick. The proportions are a little off for me. I’d like more jam, more peanut butter, but I think that’d mean a larger bar in general. The petite size makes them ideal for a small treat and I think the mild flavor set would be good for smaller kids. The two integral parts here, the peanut butter and jelly just aren’t good enough. It should be really intense peanut butter and great, all natural grape jelly, not some high fructose corn sweetener flavored like grape. These are made in Poland and have all sorts of allergen notices on the package: made with soy, dairy, peanuts plus traces of wheat, tree nuts and eggs. Related Candies
POSTED BY Cybele AT 8:47 am
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Commenting is not available in this channel entry.I seem to recall Russell Stover had a PBJ cup with either grape or raspberry jam. They were really tasty! Does anyone know if they’re still in production?
Russell Stover made raspberry pb&j cups that were so good! Unfortunately I haven’t seen them anywhere in years. They should bring them back!
I bought these at 7-Eleven a couple of weeks ago. They are great. Saw them at Walgreens too where I bought another. Unfortunately, they don’t have them at Jewel..where I shop a lot.
Lol, in fact, I’m eating some of those PB&J candies right now! I’m eating them for the first time, and out of 10 in rating, I give them a 1 million!
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