So I’m sat in a tent, plonked in a
field, in Berkshire England. The first two being very unique activities for me
individually but together well readers I’m through the looking glass. As those
who have read my last post will guess this review is being written from the
Reading festival (although typed up on my return and posted who knows when).
For those who don’t know Reading
festival is named after the place not the activity and is a music event and not
an enlarged book club. It’s about midday and the sun has heated this tent up to
the point where I can barely stay awake. So here volunteering for a ticket,
this basically means for a week I’m babysitting around 90,000 drunk and stoned
music lovers. It’s been interesting so far to say the least, but hey-ho a free
pass is a free pass right? In all this madness and second hand smoke I’ve
managed time to divulge in my own personal recreational high of choice, sugar.
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| No expense spared on packaging clearly |
Last night my two tent-mates and I
went on an evening “stroll” to the local Tesco’s for supplies (local here
meaning a two hour round journey/adventure). Somehow I “accidentally” stumbled
upon the confectionary aisle, whilst there couldn’t help buying some form of
chocolate for the times ahead. Fittingly I chose a bar of Tesco’s basic milk
chocolate, partly due to a limited budget but it also fits in with the feel of
“roughing it” of camping (I’m a manly man and therefore there is none of this
“Glam-ping”. No sir!)
To be honest despite dreading the
idea of leaving my modern comforts behind and pitching what is essentially a
plastic bag as shelter, I have found it quite relaxing. At one point I was
caught lying down in the sun for quite some time content with doing nothing at
all. So it seems right that the product for this review be in the same back to
basic theme. Perhaps a bar of plain milk chocolate will refresh my palette
which has become accustomed to weird combinations and exotic flavours of late.
There is after all a large soft space in my heart for the dependable milk
chocolate, especially if it features a happy frog at a happy 20 pence apiece
price tag.
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| Simple things, simple minds |
So here I am writing and eating
chocolate together again for the first time in three days (at one point I
almost went to the Samaritan tent for help!). Long story short, it was heaven
as you can expect after the hiatus. They say your environment alters how you
perceive the food you taste and in this case it is certainly true. The heat
from the day has softened the bar in my bag to a perfect point where upon placing
on my tongue it melts immediately. It may be Tesco’s cheapest bar but it tastes
good. Very sweet, very creamy and very milky, just the way uh huh uh huh I like
it. Nothing fancy but exactly what I needed. I’ve always preferred these
cheaper milk chocs to dairy milk as they often tend to be a little too sweet
and sickly. The textures great too as it has an almost fudgy feel as some of
the cooler parts take longer to melt.
The other side to this tale comes
to you later as the British summer does its thing and turns into a torrential
downpour. My pod in the tent is like a freezer right now and I’m wrapped up and
dreading the next shift I have to work. Growing weak this chocolate has to have
enough strength to cheer me up as I’m buffeted by the breeze. Unfortunately in
a cool environment this chocolate is like a Victorian Mother cold, harsh and
reserved. Gone are smooth flavour, texture and sweetness. Somehow it has been
replaced by a slab of solid tasteless chocolate which is chewed into a lumpy
mush. It’s become very plain now and tastes quite cheap. Worse still some has
gone crumbly and been lost to the crevices of my sleeping bag. Such a dramatic
change demonstrates how delicate the simple bar of cocoa can be that the whole
flavour can be altered by the weather.
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| My tea making facilities, impressed? |
Overall though I did enjoy this
bar, I knew I would as I have had it before. I f kept well this cheap bar can
be as in flavour as the premium choices. It’s full of flavour and has a great
texture. Be warned mistreat it and it will turn on you like a bitch.
Score
5 out of 11
Found
Tesco in Reading
Final Thoughts
Drunk and stoned people are great to have a conversation with believe me.
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