Finally, the iconic chocolcate bar of Australia has been thoroughly product tested by yours truly. Ladies and Gentemen, this is the Cherry Ripe Review:
I'm just back from a week's holiday in Tasmania with MC. It was awesome, and hopefully there'll be lots of blog posts coming in the next couple of weeks with lots of photos. Located in Hobart is the Cadbury factory, originally producing chocolates for a large area it now produces all of the slab chocolates for Australia and New Zealand, providing hundreds of jobs to Hobart and the entire state with their constant need for a hefty supply of milk. Anyway, we went for their tour which sadly is no longer a tour due to 'ealth and safety but a talk, and a video and some tasting! Obviously very glossy and brightness and lights and happy, but then the kind of people that go on chocolate factory tours (mainly old ladies on the day we went) are those who will lap it up and are willing to overlook the propoganda style talk. Isn't being part of Kraft wonderful for example. Anywhere that gives me a bar of Dairy Milk (now Fairtrade!) on entry gets my vote, and then free samples at the start of the tour! Like putty in their hands.
Named after the poem by englishman Robert Hendrick (1591-1674) (quite how I have no idea but i think it became a song, then something else, then a song again) the Cherry Ripe is Australia's oldest chocolate bar and is currently manufactured by Cadbury's. Its pretty important to the Australians, JB's kids were really suprised to learn I hadn't ever had one. Fittingly my first Cherry Ripe was a free sample, a welcome to Australia here's your Cherry Ripe moment. I went and bought another one half an hour later at the end of the tour!
A cherry ripe is basically bounty style semi-dessicated coconut, with Cherry juice to keep it moist and fruity. And its covered in dark chocolate. The result: pretty damn good. Tastier than coconut based chocolates thats for sure. Not blow my socks off this is the best thing ever, but then thats rarely the case with iconic chocolate. Certainly good, certainly will have them again. Tasty, tasty, tasty!
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