THIS PRODUCT MAY CONTAIN TRACES OF NUTS
How right the warning is. Despite this snack coming from New Zealand I actually found John’s fingerprints all over it, traces of nuts indeed. In a sterling effort to bring strange foodstuffs to my attention his recent visit to the land of Kiwis results in a package of NZ sweets delivered to my country. The first one to catch my eye is the NZ Kiwi Eggs.
I thought it might have been something of a risk John was taking when smuggling the kiwi eggs through customs, even concealed in a box of sweets, assuming there to be strict control on the export of bird eggs. But these come foil wrapped. There must be more to these than meets the eye and perhaps the chocolate coloured painting on the front of the wrapper is not just a poor reproduction of a kiwi’s egg but actually representative of a sugary treat. Nuts, and I’ve already started cooking the bacon to go with the eggs.
The foil wrapper does not defeat me! I rip the top off easily enough, as designed, noting that the top also forms a resealable bag, which should let me savour these snacks over a period of days. Of course, I’ll eat them all in one sitting but having the option to save some in a sealed bag gives a good excuse to get the snack in the first place. It’s more difficult to lie about not eating them all in one go if you know they’ll go stale otherwise.
Dammit, the outer foil wrapping gives way to an internal bag. I’ve never going to get at these sweets. Oh, wait, I just need to open a second bag. They smell good already, too. These Kiwi Eggs, or Chocolate Covered Hokey Pokey, give me a first impression of Maltesers, or indeed USA’s Whoppers. Little chunks of honeycomb surrounded by milk chocolate.
Oh, but no! The chocolate is strangely sweet again, quite unlike British chocolate, yet it tastes darker than milk chocolate generally does. It’s quite nice, though. The centre, whilst honeycomb, is nothing like Maltesers or Whoppers, it is a mini-Crunchie! The centre is rock-hard and awfully sweet, refusing to melt in the mouth and demanding to be crunched in to and chewed. If only I had kept a Violet Crumble from earlier I could have compared the NZ honeycomb to its Australian variant. As it is, I can only declare that Kiwi Eggs are bite-sized chunks of Crunchie goodness. nom nom nom
So it was with divine wonder that I opened a parcel from Philip, and it contained both Crunchies AND the idols that are bags of prawn-cocktail Skips. Now, I’d not had Skips before. They are these lovely little discs, each looks a bit like a sand dollar, actually, only about an inch in diameter. They’re made of corn or rice or something, and they positively melt in your mouth. The prawn-cocktail flavor is perfect for the amount of solid food you’re getting, and at only 89 calories (USAian kcal) per bag, MANG. I could go on a diet with these.