Parrs Real Chocolate Apples

Jeez, it's been a while since I last posted.  I don't really remember how to work Blogspot lol. 


Parrs Real Chocolate Apples.


I'm not really a fan of the chocolate/candy/toffee apples you get around the end of October. Usually the apple on the inside is a weird shade of brown or the chocolate is just awful. The red candy ones are usually pretty good, but under all the sugar and pretty colours there's almost always a sad looking apple underneath. But, when I wandered around Tesco on my lunch break and I spotted these awesome looking apples I couldn't help myself. It was also a total bonus that they'd been reduced from £1.25 to 25p because they were a few days away from the display date.

Pretty, right? The white one looked perfect, but the milk chocolate one's icing was a little on the lame side unfortunately. I was really apprehensive about eating these just because they looked so nice, so I decided on eating the milk chocolate one first. They looked great on the outside, but what about the inside? 

Well, it was pretty good! The apple was nice and green (not that you can really tell in this picture). The chocolate was slightly reminiscent of cooking chocolate but it was still pretty tasty, the apple inside was still crunchy as it should have been. But, it was so huge I just couldn't eat all of it. I took a few determined bites, but it just wasn't happening, regardless of how yummy it was. And trust me, it was yummy. 

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Cadbury Hot Choc Chunks

Cadbury Hot Choc Chunks - £1.50 - £3.50 

(Just a short post)

My chocolate cravings were getting the best of me and while rummaging through the cupboards I found these bad boys. Dairy Milk Hot Choc Chunks. Awww, yeahhh. Basically these are chunks of Dairy Milk chocolate filled with a chocolate fondant center. 

They're all individually wrapped and look quite cute when you open the box and they come tumbling out. 

Delicious gooey innards. I just wish my phone camera could actually pick up on that much awesomeness. I had a sneaky nibble on it and it just tasted like rich gooey chocolate. 

Drop your chunk into your hot milk and do some serious stirring, really, it takes a lot of stirring. And voila! 

Pretty damn good hot chocolate! The fact that you don't get that awful powdery lump at the bottom is great. I think my mug of milk was too big though, because it wasn't as chocolatey as when I had it before. Unfortunately there was no whipped cream or marshmallows in the house or it could have looked a lot prettier. Either way, I'm a fan of these little chunks. :} 

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31.10.10 - Halloween & Chinese Food.

May Sum, & Squares, Nottingham. 


For Halloween my friend Leah and I decided to go into Nottingham for a bite to eat and a drink, seeing as we were pretty bored and the TV was seriously lacking in the Halloween movie department. We didn't really have a plan and managed to settle on either Peachy Keens (which used to be Big Wok) or May Sum. Seeing as they're pretty much next to each other we hopped off the bus and had a peek inside both. Peachy Keens was a little busy and seeing as we'd been to May Sum before and liked it we decided to go back there. Kinda wish we'd gone to Peachy Keens now.


We got in the restaurant and stood around for a few minutes waiting for someone to come over and seat us down when a waitress greeted us with the warm words of "It's £10.95." Well hello to you to... We said that was fine and she sat us down. This is the part that irked me, she handed the drinks menu and stood there waiting. Even after Leah asked for a minute or two to choose she just stood there and after 10 seconds said "Yes please? What do you want?". So we ended up picking something random. :|


Then she tells us we have to pay there and then, which is a bit odd so I'm guessing they've had a few people run off without paying. So we pay up and head over to the buffet for some dinner. The buffet itself is pretty impressive, they've got a variety of meaty dishes. The unfortunate thing is, Leah has a meat intolerance and there wasn't really many vegetarian options (she told me to mention this). She made do with the few fishy meals though. 

I swear, I'll get a proper camera soon. :( First round at the buffet! I loaded my plate up with the crispy shredded beef which was amazing, really crispy and not too chewy. The sweet and sour chicken is usually a winner and this was no exception. In the middle is "steamed fish" which I'm guessing is cod with soy sauce, it was really nice and I didn't find any bones, Leah went back for more of it. The salt and pepper prawns were a little bland sadly and the same goes for the breaded crab claw. The smoked salmon was really weird, it didn't taste smoked at all and had a peculiar consistency which I can only describe as already been chewed. There's also some chicken wings hidden in that pile somewhere which I had to get, what with my chicken wing obsession. They were pretty good too. 

Round 2 is always the duck pancakes! I put the duck and spring onion on my plate with the pancakes and hoisin sauce on a separate plate simply to make it easier to assemble. I also got more sweet and sour chicken and some crispy beef. Oh and a couple of prawn crackers. The duck pancakes were great but as soon as I put my fork down between my second one and my third one, the waiter whisked them away while I wasn't looking :( What the hell man. They didn't even look eaten. </3

While we let all that settle before hitting the desserts, Leah and I were trying to figure out what was in our cocktails we'd ordered in a panic. I'd gotten a Skittles and Leah got a Cola Cube, but we had no idea what alcohol was in them so when a guy came over asking if our drinks were okay Leah asked him what alcohol was actually in them. None. So we paid out £4 for a glass of mixed juice. D: Call me cheap but I could have got a REAL cocktail for that price. We chose them from the cocktail list, in-between the usual mojitos and Sex on the Beach drinks, so I was a little annoyed they weren't in the Mocktails section. 

Dessert. The usual buffet selection of pieces of cake, the chocolate fountain (<3), éclairs, marshmallows and...lychees? The lychees confused Leah and she refused to try any, despite me trying to persuade her. I think I filled my plate simply for the purpose of taking a picture of it, because no way could I eat all that lol. The éclairs were okay, your regular "from frozen" ones, alright but nothing amazing. The cake was pretty dry, so I spooned a load of that wonderful melted chocolate onto it and managed to eat half. The tiny vanilla slice was hard to eat, I couldn't cut it in half with my spoon. Trust me, I tried my hardest. I had to physically stop myself from spooning out all that melted chocolate and devouring every last drop. Curse you, calories!


After I slightly fail meal, we took our leave and went off in search of cocktails with actual alcohol in them. I was gutted that Coco Tang was closed, as they do amazing cocktails and Leah hadn't tried them before, but it was Sunday after all. So, we headed on over to Squares and had a couple of their nice, fruity, 2 for £6.50 cocktails. The barman was really nice and gave us extra cherries. :)

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