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Eamonn Bermingham, Ireland's Journeyman Reviewer, back on the trail on his third Try for the hardest Graps, and the tastiest Grub to go along with it !
So it's time for the taste test as Heartbeat International has this year has graced us with not 3 BUT FOUR new Items, So let's get into it!
Actually I call them Heartbeat International, but this maybe this'll be the last time you'll see that Logo, as on the packaging for contact number is the new Blanket name for all the ice cream brands under Unilever's Banner-Magnum Ice Cream Company, whether or not the rumours of a cookie Cutter brand in every country with regional market ice-cream obliterated. We could have the return of Super split (Creamsicle) at the expense of the maxi Tub and the Hazelbrook Farm Vanilla Block? You better not!
MINECRAFT BAR
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| Please Ignore the fact Steve is in the photo used. I guess they use both Main characters for the packaging |
Packaging: Metallic Teal Sky Over Metallic Green Grass. Picture of Item Next to Minecraft's Default Female Character Alex, at the Bottom we are told of a scan Code for a Free in game item for Anyone who Actually plays.
Calorie Count: 73 calories in 46g Item
Flavour: Green Food Colouring and Vanilla Colouring "Grass" over a Layer of Chocolate "Dirt" layer, which Sits on Vanilla Ice-cream "Ore" with Blue Colour Rice ball "Diamonds" in a sliced version of Big Bite
Taste: Had to Consume Quickly Because it melts as soon as you look at it.
Despite the Third Party Money, once again like the movie, the Ice cream invocation is every bit the disappointment. Eating this Green food colouring vanilla and chocolate mishmash invokes Memories of Irish Shops who sell "Irish Cones" by spilling Goodall's Green into the machine. So eating this doesn't bring up, going to Minecraft to Slay The Enderman, no it drums up let's stand on a street, in the rain, looking at Tractors pull a trailer filled with Rugby Players in Drag!
VOLCANIX
Packaging: Black with item in centre. Cross section of Item shows item is filled with 5 different layers of flavours and textures-in keeping with the volcano theme, Caramel pieces and sauce spew like lava and volcanic debris.
Calorie Count: a Sturdy 231 calories in a 75g item.
Flavour: choc ice which Contains Biscuit pieces in outer layer with vanilla Ice-cream that hides a 3 layered core of chewy Caramel balls, Caramel sauce and chocolate Ice-cream.
Taste: First it smells amazing: if there is one thing Heartbeat International did right, it's Dark chocolate. Now to the first bite, which uncovered a layer of Caramel balls which leads to some falling to the floor like ball bearings. Second bite reveals a layer of balls held in the sauce layer. A third bite causes the ball layer to vanish, changing the flavour profile. The next and final bite are the remaining Caramel, chocolate mouse like ice cream and Signature vanilla. An adventurous ice cream that changes its flavour profile with every bite- and each experience is delicious.
It took me two days to get this out, so the following two tests are In fact made a day later.
(24 Hours And a Balanced Breakfast Later)
MAGNUM LA-PISTACHE SIGNATURE
Packaging: Item is resting on chocolate Brown, white and Clover panels with Pistachio on the Clover panels.
Calorie Count: 233 in a 70g Item
Flavour: Pistachio Ice-cream with Pistachio core covered in Pistachio chocolate shell half dipped in milk chocolate with mixed nut nibs in shell.
Taste: The chocolate Shell is so thick, one bite causes that bitten side's chocolate to fall off from the smooth Ice-cream. I'm confused to why there is a core of the exact same flavour of the Ice-cream, but the milk chocolate and Mixed nuts does give some variety. Personally I think Dubai Chocolate is overrated, and Magnum has released far more interesting flavours.
CORNETTO MAX HAZELNUT & CHOCOLATE
Packaging: Chocolate Brown with hazelnut photos, and white and gold logos
Calorie Count: The Heftiest Count this year-279 in a 82g Cone including Cones
Flavour: Exactly what it says on the tin. Chocolate and Hazelnut Ice-cream filled wafer core topped with Caramel sauce, and topped with a hazelnut and Chocolate disc.
Taste: Disc when Bitten into doesn't break like solid chocolate, but instead melt into a blob of Nutella (Which makes sense since Ferrero is also a Unilever Brand) remnants of the disc slides on a sea of Caramel, causing attempts to eat the whole disc a messy one. Polishing off the disc and sauce leaves only the icecream, which if it was still just vanilla, wouldn't be anything to write home about.
And we are not even done yet! Join me this time tomorrow, when we crawl to the surface with Pringles, as we review Pringles Fallout Mystery Flavour.
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