My post for Hugh’s challenge this week, featuring Malteasers, started a little debate between myself and PJ of Priceless Joy blog fame.
Well, debate may be a bit of a strong way to describe, but I am a firm Malteaser fan. I may go so far as to say they are my most favourite chocolate treat EVER!
So it was interesting to hear that the US had their own version, called Whoppers. PJ was sceptical that the US one would taste better than the UK one, and being a bit biased, I was inclined to agree… I have tasted American chocolate several times, and I’m sorry but I much prefer my UK chocolate thank you very much!
So when my family and I went for a day out to Lakeside Shopping centre yesterday, it wasn’t my intention to do this, but we passed a candy store which holds all manner of imported US candy. I asked out of curiosity whether they stocked these Whoppers. Alas they didn’t… but there was another store of a similar ilk that was possibly a stockist.
Right! This was great! I was so excited! I could feel a comparison post coming on, if only I could get hold of these Whoppers… and YES! They did!
So armed with my boxes of chocolates, purely for research purposes, I’ll have you know, I came home and the eating reviewing and eating photographing commenced!
Sorry, but I love my Malteasers packaging too much… so that was one point to them straight away!
Now to look at the product itself…
Note the glossy finish of the Malteaser, compared to the misshapen sphere that is the Whopper… Hmmm… another point to the Malteaser for appearance!
And then the biggie, the taste test!
A Whopper, has that different aftertaste, chocolate wise and the ‘malt’ or honeycomb inside was rather hard and dense to bite into.
A Malteaster, the chocolate was beautifylly milky, and the honeycombe centre, light, yet crisp.
Point 3 awarded to Malteasers!
I got the family to do a blind taste test too, and they were all unanimous in choosing Malteasers as the best taste!
An amendment here, Lil Princess liked the look of Malteasers but thought the Whoppers tasted better! Sheesh! I’m going to sent her to live in the US, traitor!!!
Sorry USA, but I think we won this one hands down!
And if you would like to read about more of my Malteaser adventures, click here! Malteasers apparently help with mindfulness!
itsgoodtobecrazysometimes
Apr 28, 2016 @ 04:15:18
I am from Malta, on occasion have been called maltesers, so everytime I read the word all I could of think of was me 😉
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Ritu
Apr 28, 2016 @ 06:51:18
Lol! Well then I love you already, as I am team Malteasers, and anything Malt will do!!!!
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itsgoodtobecrazysometimes
Apr 28, 2016 @ 06:51:56
whoo hooo 😉
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amommasview
Mar 28, 2016 @ 10:13:13
I go with Maltesers!
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Ritu
Mar 28, 2016 @ 10:14:15
Yay!!! Team Malteasers all the way!!!!
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Persia Karema
Mar 27, 2016 @ 15:17:52
Whoppers are gross. Ick! Malteasers all the way!
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Ritu
Mar 27, 2016 @ 15:35:57
Yay Team Malteasers! !!
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Hugh's Views and News
Mar 27, 2016 @ 12:08:32
I love the new job you got yourself, Ritu. I’ve eaten lots of chocolate and I think the British certainly have the best tasting chocolate. Those ‘Whoppers’ look uninviting being out of shape and dull looking. I wonder if they do a version of our Revels? If so, then that’s another tasting test for you. 😀
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Ritu
Mar 27, 2016 @ 12:48:13
But I would hate to get the coffee one!!!!! Lol!!!!
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walkerkaty0
Mar 27, 2016 @ 04:05:02
I love Whoppers!
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Ritu
Mar 27, 2016 @ 08:59:56
You gotta try Makteasers!!!
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Ritu
Mar 27, 2016 @ 09:00:06
Malteasers even!!!
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Ameena k.g
Mar 26, 2016 @ 22:05:32
Hahaha, I agree!! Never tasted whoppers but I’m inclined to go with Maltezers 😄I’ve got it in my fridge right now
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Ritu
Mar 26, 2016 @ 22:30:24
Another Malteaser lover like me!!!!
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Tony Burgess
Mar 26, 2016 @ 22:03:37
The Maltesers look better if you ask this American. I am not a fan of Whoppers anyway.
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Ritu
Mar 26, 2016 @ 22:29:59
Yay! I got Tony on board too!!!!
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syl65
Mar 26, 2016 @ 20:11:30
I have to see if I can find Maltesers here somewhere, I liked Whoppers when I was growing up, but they don’t have the same taste as before..
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Ritu
Mar 26, 2016 @ 20:56:26
There must be a shop where you can get British imports… I know we have shops here with the US candy…
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syl65
Mar 26, 2016 @ 23:44:14
Yes we some stores with imports…when I find them I will let you know 😊
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Ritu
Mar 27, 2016 @ 08:49:36
Or I shall have to send some over!!!
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syl65
Mar 27, 2016 @ 13:31:17
That would be splendid Sister!! I will keep you posted about my search! Happy Easter!!!
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Ritu
Mar 27, 2016 @ 13:35:57
Be sure to Brother! Happy Easter!!!!
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syl65
Mar 27, 2016 @ 13:38:24
Always appreciated Sister!!! Blessings!!!
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Ritu
Mar 27, 2016 @ 14:00:40
😇🙏😀
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syl65
Mar 27, 2016 @ 15:12:35
😇🙏🏽💛
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joey
Mar 26, 2016 @ 19:30:23
Mmm, I would like both, I’m sure. In a way, it’s not fair to taste test things you’re already fond of and accustomed to. Do you know what I mean? Like when you’re used to your mom’s ____ dish, but you eat my mom’s ____ dish, and you’re like, “Nah, I like my mom’s better.” Everyone likes their mom’s ____ dish better, lol! 😛
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Ritu
Mar 26, 2016 @ 19:37:17
True… but I can be objective… usually!
I have to say US chocolate has never appealed to me but I was willing, in the name of blogger fodder, to try it again… hoping it wasn’t as bad as I remembered!!!
Had it been better, I know which shop I would have been visiting again and again!!!!
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joey
Mar 26, 2016 @ 19:41:53
I must say, I’ve received Dairy Milk bars from the UK and South Africa, and while they do taste different, I enjoy them. They’re definitely not the same Cadbury flavor.
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Ritu
Mar 26, 2016 @ 20:53:07
Cadbury… originally a product from my hometown, Birmingham!!!! I love the real Dairy Milk! !!!
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TanGental
Mar 27, 2016 @ 23:14:10
Now while it is no competition, this US/UK chocolate taste thing, there is a hitch in the argument. Did you realise that following the Kraft acquisition of Cadbury and the duplicitous lying by the CEO of Kraft, Cadbury is now made in Poland? https://ukmade.wordpress.com/tag/cadbury/ And don’t get me started on those crooks at Kraft and their manipulation of the Fair trade rules (namely they don’t actually make their ‘fairtrade’ chocolate with fair trade beans…) Huh? Go figure
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Ritu
Mar 27, 2016 @ 23:23:06
Oh I know Geoffles, I did read about that the other day… But still… European chocolate knocks the socks of the US stuff any day!!!!!!!!
And Shhhhh!!!
Still, Malteasers are made by Mars, and that factory is still in Slough, or near there, isn’t it?!
🙂
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TanGental
Mar 28, 2016 @ 00:34:31
I tend to think that anything coming from Slough can’t be good but perhaps malteasers are the exception… http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/intuition/Slough.html
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Ritu
Mar 28, 2016 @ 10:04:21
Lol!!! I’ll say nothing, other than my best friend is from there…😂😂
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TanGental
Mar 30, 2016 @ 00:12:08
Oops!
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Ritu
Mar 30, 2016 @ 00:12:50
😂😂😂
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Linda
Mar 26, 2016 @ 19:29:55
Love me some Whoppers – but I’d be willing to try your Malteasers if you sent me some!! LOL 🙂
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Ritu
Mar 26, 2016 @ 19:34:35
I think I need to arrange a shipment over to the US so you can all see what I’m talking about lol!!!!!
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Linda
Mar 27, 2016 @ 16:55:27
Haha!! 🙂
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Ritu
Mar 27, 2016 @ 18:36:36
😂😂
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White House Red Door
Mar 26, 2016 @ 19:10:30
What a fun post! We live in the U.S., and my husband loves Whoppers. I’m going to have to hunt down some Malteasers for him!
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Ritu
Mar 26, 2016 @ 19:20:33
Oh you must… and if you do, let me know the outcome! !!!
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sheldonk2014
Mar 26, 2016 @ 18:04:45
To me chocolate is chocolate
I’ve had eaten chocolate in Paris
I’ve eaten chocolate in Quebec
It’s all the seem to me
It’s like olive oil
You got to really know the taste to appreciate
Like I said it’s all the seem to me
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Ritu
Mar 26, 2016 @ 18:39:25
But like the comments show… the US equivalent isn’t really chocolate per se. .. no wonder it tastes awful!!!
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wwwpalfitness
Mar 26, 2016 @ 17:42:06
Reblogged this on wwwpalfitness.
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Ritu
Mar 26, 2016 @ 18:37:39
Thanks Paul 😊
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wwwpalfitness
Mar 26, 2016 @ 18:48:48
You’re welcome
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Erika Kind
Mar 26, 2016 @ 16:31:55
Sis, you should become a restaurant testers! Your “review” was amazing! I tasted US chocolate for a year…. yes, they are good and I have to admit that they have the best chocolate cakes ever!!! …. but the chocolate itself is never comparable to the Swiss or Austrian chocolate. I don’t know UK chocolate but I think it might be similar. At least, one thing is for sure: Maltesers are on Top!!!
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Ritu
Mar 26, 2016 @ 16:38:04
I think we are lucky with our European chocs sis! We get real chocolate… the US gets artificial!!!
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Erika Kind
Mar 26, 2016 @ 17:21:00
LOL….!!! 😜😜😜
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Annette
Mar 26, 2016 @ 16:07:31
Lol love it and woppers are my favs of all time!! But, have not tried UKs knock off version!! Hahaha xoxo Happy Easter! Reblog
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Ritu
Mar 26, 2016 @ 16:35:22
You haven’t lived if you haven’t tried the Malteasers! !! Lol!!!
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Annette
Mar 26, 2016 @ 20:02:29
Well, I must put that in bucket list! Lol
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Ritu
Mar 26, 2016 @ 20:55:43
A definite entry lol!!!
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IamrealWood
Mar 26, 2016 @ 15:35:20
I am american, but after living in EU i would pick Malteasers. But send the princess over here, and we can turn her around LOL ❤
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Ritu
Mar 26, 2016 @ 15:57:47
Lol!!!!!!
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Writings Of A Single Girl
Mar 26, 2016 @ 15:27:13
I love Malteasers! (Biased obviously) The packaging on the Whoppers looks like a cheap knock off. I’ve heard (may not be true at all) that American chocolate isn’t nice, that’s too sweet and sugary. Apparently Cadbury’s was huge in America because it’s milk chocolate so not too sugary. But it’s now banned in America? I heard because it was doing the American companies out of business because it’s nicer but I’m sure there’s more to it than that ha.
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Ritu
Mar 26, 2016 @ 15:57:28
Oh it’s definitely nicer … I can vouch for that! !!
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trentpmcd
Mar 26, 2016 @ 14:52:37
I live in the US and hate all major US candy makers chocolate. Weird, it actually used to be better, but still substandard, but has in the last 20 or 30 years gone even farther downhill – Whoppers when I was a kid used to be perfect spheres and pretty good. Now they are awful. I only eat artisanal chocolates, usually Belgium style and at least 70% cocoa. Most large company chocolates literally make me sick to my stomach, so if I did enjoy eating them, I couldn’t enjoy them afterwards.. 😦
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Ritu
Mar 26, 2016 @ 15:18:39
Aw no! Jut I could imagine it would be easier to curb my sweet tooth in the US. ..as I can’t stomach the chocolate either! However here, I can’t help myself! !!
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BHIB and Tom
Mar 26, 2016 @ 14:47:49
YAY Malteasers!
Luckily living in Canada we have the best of both worlds as we get imports from both the U.S. and the U.K.
Sadly the difference has very little to do with cows milk and more to do with regulations in content. The limits as to how much actual chocolate or cocoa is used in a product is much lower in the U.S. Also the amount of “filler” (nothing to do with chocolate) is added to a product is much higher in the U.S.
Europeans just like higher chocolate content and less…wax, animal fats and petroleum products in their chocolate.
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Ritu
Mar 26, 2016 @ 15:16:58
So we get the better taste!!!! 😊 hope you are well Tom!
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buffalotompeabody
Mar 26, 2016 @ 14:40:38
Great post! I love malted milk balls… the problem with Whoppers is they don’t use real chocolate and just as you noted, the centers are tough. Unfortunately, here in the United States, low and Candy manufacturers used fake chocolate and it is awful. as I said, I love malted milk balls so I must buy them from candy stores that sell Quality Candy by the pound. Whoppers and most of the products made by The Leaf company give candy a bad name.
Thanks for exposing this lousy candy! It’s loaded with corn syrup and chemicals.
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Ritu
Mar 26, 2016 @ 14:42:22
It actually says artificial candy on the packaging!!!!
Malteasers forever!!!!!
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buffalotompeabody
Mar 26, 2016 @ 15:14:36
Yahoo! Count Me In! Down with artificial candy & corn syrup! 👍👍
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Ritu
Mar 26, 2016 @ 15:20:45
Lol!!!!! 👍👍👍
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The Story Reading Ape
Mar 26, 2016 @ 14:28:55
I’ve been told that the reason chocolate from the USA tastes different is because of what the dairy cows eat Ritu, so the milk used in conjunction with the Cacao has a different taste.
You can also taste the difference in Swiss chocolate for the same reason; e.g. the cows eat more wildflowers which are very abundant in the Alps, whereas British cows eat grass from fields that have been almost cleared of wildflowers.
😃🐵
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Ritu
Mar 26, 2016 @ 14:40:41
Yup, that is the reason… I remember being in India for a month, and I took lots of our UK chocolate with me, to survive. On a trip to Amritsar, I saw Cadburys chocolate on sale, and was over the moon, until I tasted it! It was made in India!
The whoppers centre is just too hard too!!!!
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Lisa A.
Mar 26, 2016 @ 14:18:03
I don’t like Whoppers at all! I’m sure Maltesers are better! I don’t know where I would get my hands on some but I’m going to agree with you, even though I’m in the U.S.
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Ritu
Mar 26, 2016 @ 14:38:00
Lol thanks Lisa! My daughter actually preferred the Whoppers… Weirdo!!!
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Lisa A.
Mar 26, 2016 @ 14:43:50
Lol. I’ve never liked them! I’ll eat them if they’re there but I’d rather have something else.
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Ritu
Mar 26, 2016 @ 15:16:07
You need to try Malteasers lol!!!
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Lisa A.
Mar 26, 2016 @ 15:19:52
One of these days! 🙂
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Ritu
Mar 26, 2016 @ 15:21:06
I need to send you some!!!
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Lisa A.
Mar 26, 2016 @ 15:30:34
🙂 Thanks!
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