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General Category => New Products => Topic started by: halfajob on September 21, 2007, 05:13:16 pm

Title: Tesco's White Stawberry Crisp
Post by: halfajob on September 21, 2007, 05:13:16 pm
New product, Tesco's own brand, made in England. White chocolate with crispy (crystallised?) strawberry pieces. 200gram bar at a very reasonable 79p. Found in Havant, Hampshire.
Title: Tesco's White Stawberry Crisp
Post by: smurfboy on September 21, 2007, 05:30:38 pm
Sounds nice.
Title: Tesco's White Stawberry Crisp
Post by: halfajob on September 22, 2007, 06:03:58 pm
Oh dear, just found a mistake, they list ingredients as including 25% cocoa solids - in white chocolate!

I've informed Tesco's and awaiting reply

Title: Tesco's White Stawberry Crisp
Post by: kevvosa on September 25, 2007, 11:05:19 am
I've tried this and its nice, but too cheap tasting. Its not creamy enough. Its basically the same as Cadbury Dream with strawberries that we got a few years ago, but less tasty. The Tesco dark chocolate fruit and nut is nice though.
 

About the cocoa solids thing - I think cocoa butter counts as cocoa solids? Ive noticed many types of white chocolate that list cocoa solids as well as milk solids.  
Title: Tesco's White Stawberry Crisp
Post by: loulou on September 25, 2007, 06:27:40 pm
I don't like white choc. Nice to see you back kev.Tongue
Title: Tesco's White Stawberry Crisp
Post by: on September 25, 2007, 08:17:40 pm
[White chocolate is not actually chocolate at all. It is made from milk solids, sugar and fat, with a little cocoa butter added, and has a bland, over-sweet taste.]

http://www.deliaonline.com/ingredients/chocolate,62,IN.html

[White chocolate is a confection based on cocoa butter, milk and sugar. It has no cocoa solids and therefore it is not strictly chocolate. Cocoa butter is the fat from cocoa beans, extracted during the process of making chocolate, it has very little chocolate flavour. The cocoa solids or chocolate liquor, which is not found in white chocolate, is produced by grinding the cocoa nib to a smooth liquid state, hense the name chocolate liquor.

White chocolate has a creamy consistency and taste and should be ivory-coloured. However it lacks flavour because it contains no chocolate liquor which gives chocolate the bitter intense chocolate flavour. Therefore it is not normally used in cooking unless to complement plain chocolate. It can also be used as an alternative to dark and milk chocolate for decoration purposes.

White chocolate is a delicate chocolate and must be melted over a very low heat to prevent it from scorching.]


http://www.chocolate-source.co.uk/white_chocolate.htm
Title: Tesco's White Stawberry Crisp
Post by: loulou on September 25, 2007, 09:07:28 pm
 Tongue%20Out I don't like white confectionery.





Title: Tesco's White Stawberry Crisp
Post by: smurfboy on September 25, 2007, 09:59:05 pm
Quote from: loulou
I don't like white choc.

 

You should have said.
Title: Tesco's White Stawberry Crisp
Post by: goldencup on October 01, 2007, 09:28:25 am
Whatever it's made of and whatever its cocoa content, I tried this yesterday and thought it was delicious.  I didn't think it was cheap tasting at all - it reminded me of strawberry yogurt but much nicer.
Title: Tesco's White Stawberry Crisp
Post by: loulou on October 01, 2007, 10:08:38 am
Quote from: smurfboy
Quote from: loulou
I don't like white choc.

 

You should have said.

Did I not?
Title: Tesco's White Stawberry Crisp
Post by: Dansak on November 20, 2007, 02:30:36 am
I boycott Tesco so shall not be trying this.
Title: Tesco's White Stawberry Crisp
Post by: kevvosa on November 20, 2007, 10:47:08 am
Why?
Title: Tesco's White Stawberry Crisp
Post by: Dansak on November 20, 2007, 05:09:50 pm
Because of their huge market share and the way they are opening up shops everywhere. I just do not like them.
Title: Tesco's White Stawberry Crisp
Post by: on November 20, 2007, 06:33:57 pm
C'mon the Tesco!
There are worse things in life.
Title: Tesco's White Stawberry Crisp
Post by: on November 20, 2007, 06:34:27 pm
I mean, have you seen Morrisons?
Title: Tesco's White Stawberry Crisp
Post by: Dansak on November 20, 2007, 08:46:51 pm
Yes, I dont go there much. I tend to shop at Asda and Sainsburys. Neither are perfect but I prefer them to Tesco, with Tesco I just feel like I'd be funding another sh*tting Tesco Extra or something, and I just dont want to see any more of the buggers.
Title: Tesco's White Stawberry Crisp
Post by: smurfboy on November 21, 2007, 02:34:40 pm

Quote from: Dansak
Because of their huge market share and the way they are opening up shops everywhere. I just do not like them.


I can never understand why people see success as a bad thing. Tesco got their market share by being good at what they do. What's so wrong with that?

Title: Tesco's White Stawberry Crisp
Post by: Logger on November 21, 2007, 05:25:09 pm
I think for a lot of people the problem is that they don't want this country to turn into Tescoland LOL
If Tesco become so big that they wipe out the competition then they will be able to do pretty much whatever they want and no-one will be able to stop them.

They have also acquired their monopoly using some fairly unethical methods which a lot of people are opposed to.

I don't shop in Tesco anymore (actually, we don't have one here anyway so there's no moral dilemma LOL).